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Rosaria Conte is head of the LABSS (Laboratory of Agent Based Social Simulation) at the ISTC (Institute for Cognitive Science and Technology) of CNR.
She is member of the Scientific Council of CNR and head of the CNR Project “Society, Culture, Globalization” (ICP08).
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 has been coordinator of both European and Italian research projects. She is currently involved in the FP7 FuturICT Flagship Project. She was President of the European Society of Social Simulation (ESSA), coordinating the section on Special Interest Groups, and of the Italian Cognitive Science Association (AISC).
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.
The following are her major records as a social scientist:
- promoting computational social sciences and launching a new interdisciplinary social scientific field, Agent-Based Social Simulation (by leading international social interest groups, organizing scientific events, participating in international consortiums and committees, etc.);
- publishing in major social scientific journals (Journal of Mathematical Sociology, Social Science Computer Review, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, etc.);
- invited talks at international and national social scientific events (to cite a few, 6th Conf. On Social Dileammas, Waassenar Netherlands Institue of Advanced Studies, ICCS&SS -International Conference on Computer Simulation and the Social Sciences; SocioPhysics, ZIF Bielefeld; Dagstuhl Seminar on Microsimulation and the Social Sciences; The Micro-Macro Link, Vienna Institute of Demography; Conferenza AIS – Associazione Italiana di Sociologia; How Institutions evolve, European Univ. Institute, Fiesole, etc) and at prestigious social scientific institutions (Dept. Of Political Science, Univ. Of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Dept. of Legal Studies, EUI; Dept. Of Anthropology, King’s College, Cambridge, UK; Dept. of Anthropology, UCLA, USA; etc.);
- international courses and tutorials in Social Cognition and Computational Social Sciences,
- leading and participating in research projects
- participating in international social scientific projects (eg., Vigoni project on the Evolution of Morals)
- coordinating international projects in the area of Social Sciences and Humanities (eREP: Social Knowledge for Governance)
- participating in national projects in the area of social and economic sciences (L’Italia in Europa, CNR strategic project)
- coordinating national projects in the are of social and economic sciences (SOCRATE SOcietà artificiali per la Competizione e la collaborazione: Reti di conoscenza, reputazione orgAnizzativa e clusTEr di medie e piccole imprese. Costruzione di un simulatore user-enabling.)
participating in social scientific research evaluation boards (eg., ERSC Board of Priority)
Mario Paolucci, PhD in “Telematics and Information Society” (2005), is a researcher at LABSS (Laboratory of Agent Based Social Simulation, http://labss.istc.cnr.it), ISTC/CNR (Institute for Cognitive Science and Technology), Rome, where he collaborates since 1999. He had been Technology Expert at the National Statistics Institute of Italy from 1996 to 2003.
He is studying and applying multiagent-based social simulation and agent theory to understand social artefacts, in particular Reputation, Norms, Responsibility, and the cultural evolutionary mechanisms that support them. His publications include a book on reputation with Rosaria Conte and articles on JASSS and Adaptive Behavior, the International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems, the International Journal of Approximated Reasoning.
He is the coordinator of the CNR workgroup on “Artificial Societes and Social Simulation”.
He has been the scientific coordinator of the eRep “Social Knowledge for e-Governance” FP6 project, managing four international partners and a budget of 1.7MEuro.
He has organized the first International Conference on Reputation, ICORE’09; the First International Workshop on Agent-Based Social Simulation and Autonomic Systems, (ABSS@Autonomics 2009), held at Autonomics 2009 – the Third International ICST Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communication Systems; the EEG 06 workshop on Emergence Evolution and Generation, co-located with ECCS’06 (European Conference in Complex Systems), Oxford
He has chaired the RASTA ’02 and ’03 workshops, the RAS ’04 workshop, and the MABS 2007 workshop. He has been senior program committee member for the AAMAS conference in 2009 and 2010, and he participated in the program committee of more than 25 conferences and workshops, including the MABS series.
He has been invited speaker to the WOA 2009 National Workshop “From Objects to Agents” and at the University of Luxembourg in the series of the ILIAS Seminars (2007).
He is member of the editorial board for the International Journal of Agent Technologies and Systems, An Official Publication of the Information Resources Management Association, IGI Global (2009). He is a reviewer for the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation (JASSS), the Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (JAAMAS), the International Journal of Agent Technologies and Systems (IJATS), the Journal of Computational and Mathematical Organisation Theory (CMOT), the International Journal of Human-Computer studies – IJHC, the Journal of Computer Science and Technology.
He is teaching a course on Social Simulation at the University of Bologna. He has been teaching Java language at the University Of Perugia and Data Bases at the University of Rome 1.
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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
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Marco Campennì received his PhD in Philosophy with a Thesis in Cognitive Science from the University of Rome Tor Vergata. He works on AI applications and Agent-Based Modelling in social simulations and A-Life. In cognitive science his interest is on theoretical and computational models of social phenomena and behaviours in animals (human and non-human). His current research aims at understanding how new social artefacts and structures 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 interests 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 now studying the factors that can promote cooperation in on-line reputation systems.
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Francesca Giardini received her PhD in Cognitive Science (Major: Cognitive Psychology; Minor: Economics) from the University of Siena in 2006. 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 reputation and gossip, in an attempt to unravel the complex interplay between individual motivations and emergent social behaviours. She is interested in advancing current understanding on human social cognition and abilities enabling phenomena like gossip and altruism. Within this perspective, she uses cognitive modelling to explain how explicit representations, i.e. goals and beliefs, in humans’ minds can account for complex individual and social behaviours, like altruism and cooperation.
In particular, she is interested in developing cross-methodological research, using both theoretical analyses and artificial (Agent-Based Social Simulations) and natural (with human subjects) experiments.
She is also interested in social network analysis and in the transmission of information.
Francesca is the Secretary of the Italian Cognitive Science Association (AISC).
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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 Language Mediation Science. 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.
