Labss

Rosaria Conte is head of the LABSS (Laboratory of Agent Based Social Simulation) at the ISTC (Institute for Cognitive Science and Technology), and teaches Social Psychology at the University of Siena.
She is a cognitive and social scientist, with a special interest for the study of positive social action (altruism, cooperation and social norms), and reputation-based social regulation. Quite active in the MAS field, she contributed to launch the field of social simulation in Europe. She is coordinator of both European and Italian research projects. She is President of the European Society of Social Simulation (ESSA), coordinating the section on Special Interest Groups, and of the Italian Association of Cognitive Science.
Rosaria has published about 120 among scientific articles and books on cognitive social agents, norms representation and reasoning, and agent-based simulation. Her research interests range from Agent Theory to Multi Agent Systems, from Agent-Based Social Simulation and Cultural Evolution to Info-societies and Virtual Markets.

Mario Paolucci is Technology Expert at LABSS (Laboratory of Agent Based Social Simulation) in the ISTC/CNR (Institute for Cognitive Science and Technology), Rome. He has been teaching Fundamentals of Computer Science II at University Of Perugia and Data Bases at the University of Rome 1; he is currently teaching Social Simulatio at the University of Bologna.
His research interests include Social Artefacts, Norms, Reputation, Responsibility, and the Cultural Evolutionary Mechanisms that support them. He has been studying and applying Agent Theory and Multiagent-based Social Simulation to understand Social Artefacts.
He has chaired the RASTA ’02 and ’03 workshops, the RAS ’04 workshop, and has participated in the program committee of conferences and worshops, including the MABS series. He chaired the ICORE ’09 conference.
His publications include a book on Reputation with Rosaria Conte and articles on JASSS and Adaptive Behavior.

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Scientific diffusion (in italian)

• L’altruismo? Arma vincente contro parassiti e truffaldini
• Dal pipistrello all’uomo. La rivincita dell’altruismo
• http://www.encanta.it/scienza36.html

Software
Repage project: https://sourceforge.net/projects/repage

Researcher at Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies and associate professor at LUMSA, www.lumsa.it. Its research interests are in the field of dynamics of cellular automata and complex networks, neural networks and cognitive modeling, microeconomic modeling by agent based simulation.
Associate professor at Libera Università Maria Ss. Assunta – LUMSA (Informatics, Numerical methods in microeconomic frameworks);
Lecturer without tenure at University La Sapienza, ROMA. [Artificial neural networks]
Member of IASTED (International Association of Science And Technology for Development)
Reviewer for JASSS
Reviewer for Simulation (Transactions of The Society for Modeling and Simulation International)
Software development manager for ISTC in European Project EMIL

Marco Campennì is PhD student in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. He works on AI applications in proteomics, social simulations and A-Life. In cognitive science his interest is on theoretical and computational models. His current research aims at understanding how new conventions and norms emerge, innovate, and spread in social systems with autonomous agents.

Giulia Andrighetto received her Ph.D in Philosophy at the University of Rome «La Sapienza» in 2007. She is currently a post doc at the Laboratory on Agent Based Social Simulation, within the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies at the Italian National Research Council (ISTC-CNR). Her reserch activity aims to develop interdisciplinary studies in the cognitive and social fields. She is interested in applying multiagent-based social simulation and agent theory to understand social norms, their emergence, evolution and innovation in social systems with autonomous agents. She has published several scientific articles on norms representation and reasoning, and agent-based simulation.

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Gennaro Di Tosto received his PhD in cognitive science from the University of Padua and is associate researcher at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC) of the italian National Research Council (CNR).
His main research interest are social behaviors, e.g. cooperation and altruism, their evolutionary basis and their cognitive prerequisites. He has been applying agent-based models to the study of altruistic behavior. He is finally studying the factors that can promote cooperation in on-line reputation systems.

Francesca Giardini studied Cognitive Science and Communication Science at the University of Siena. In 2006 she received a PhD in Cognitive Science (Major: Cognitive Psychology; Minor: Economics) also from the University of Siena. In her thesis she proposed a theoretical and experimental account of expectations and confidence, explaining overconfidence in predictions in terms of a specific “desirability bias”. This bias leads people to feel more confident about the occurrence of a possible desirable event, compared with neutral ones. Her current research aims at understanding the cognitive underpinnings of social evaluations (i.e., reputation) and their dynamics (i.e., gossip). In particular, she is interested in developing a cross-methodological research, using both theoretical analyses and artificial (Agent-Based Social Simulations) and natural (with human subjects) experiments.

Walter Quattrociocchi obtained the degree In Computer Science at the University of Siena. He is currently working at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) at Laboratory of Agent Based Social Simulation on the field of Reputation, Cognitive and Social Dynamics. His research interests include simulation, and classification of complex systems, massive networks dynamics, decision theory and complexity, machine learning, datamining. He was the technology coordinator of different national projects among which Cnipa Projects servicomuni.it and intema2000.it.
He is collaborating with the KDDLab at Cnr of Pisa on the field of Spatio-Temporal series classification and on interaction classification (Emergent Interaction Pattern).
He is also collaborating with the Bioinformatics Group at the University of Siena with Elena Lodi.
He serves as teacher and/or collaborator in courses of datamining, statistics, decision theory, markov modelling and multi agent systems for graduate and undergraduate students.
He is in the program committee at ICONS 09 (International Conference on Systems) as Techincal Board Director and Coordinator of the Complex Systems track.
He is a member of the International Work-group of IARIA on Advances in Systems, member of the AI*IA, member of Centro Studi Sistemi Complessi at the University of Siena.

Federica Mattei studied Translation and Interpretation at the High school of Modern Languages for Translators and Interpreters in Rome, obtaining the diploma in 2004 and, later, the degree in Sciences of Linguistic Mediation. From 1999 she works as freelance translator, collaborating with different magazines and organizations. In 2005 she had the opportunity to carry out a traineeship at the European Parliament in Luxembourg. In 2007 she joined the LABSS at ISTC –CNR in Rome.