Corrado SANTORO
Ricercatore di INFORMATICA [INF/01]
Email: santoro@dmi.unict.it
Telefono: 095 7383017
Sito web: www.dmi.unict.it/~santoro
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Corrado Santoro (1966), laurea e PhD in Ingegneria Informatica, è professore di Informatica al DMI. E' stato research assistant al Dipartimento di Informatica e Telecomunicazioni e al Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica dell'Università di Catania. Dal Giugnio 2008 è Ricercatore al DMI dove dirige l'ARSLAB, un laboratorio didattico di ricerca sui sistemi robotici autonomi (2 membri faculty, 5 studenti di PhD). Insegna "Laboratorio di Sistemi a Microcontrollore" e "Programmazione Sistemi Robotici" nei corsi di laurea triennale e magistrale in Informatica. E' stato consulente di informatica e sviluppatore free-lance sin dal 1982. Dal 1988 al 1994 è stato CTO of Colby Video srl, un'azienda hardware/software italiana attiva nel campo dei sistemi di publishing e trasmissione del teletext.
Posizione corrente
- Docente Universitario nel ruolo di ricercatore, settore scientifico-disciplinare INF/01 (Informatica), in servizio presso il Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica dell’Unviersità di Catania
Istruzione
- 2001: Dottorato di Ricerca in Ingegneria Elettrica, Elettronica e Informatica rilasciata dall’Università di Palermo
- 1997: Laurea in Ingegneria Informatica rilasciata dall’Università di Catania
Attività lavorativa
- 2017: Conseguimento dell’abilitazione ministeriale al ruolo di Professore Associato
- 2008: Ricercatore confermato presso il Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica dell’Università di Catania
- 2005-2008: Assegnista di ricerca presso il Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica dell’Università di Catania
- 2001-2005: Assegnista di ricerca presso il Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica e delle Telecomunicazioni dell’Università di Catania
- 2001: Vincitore del concorso a cattedra nazionale per l’insegnamento nelle scuole secondarie superiori, classe A042
- 1994-2001: Sviluppatore software e consulente informatico freelance
- 1988-1994: Direttore tecnico dell’area software dell’azienda Colby Video srl
- 1984-1988: Sviluppatore software e consulente informatico freelance
Attività didattica istituzionale
- 2008-Oggi: Coordinatore del laboratorio di “Sistemi Autonomi e Robotici” del Diparimento di Matematica e Informatica dell’Università di Catania.
- 2006-Oggi: Coordinatore della delegazione studentesca che partecipato, come rappresentante dell’Università di Catania, alla competizione internazionale di robotica “Eurobot”.
- Anni Accademici 2015-2016, 2016-2017, 2017-2018: Docente titolare di “Programmazione di Sistemi Robotici” (9 CFU) del corso di laurea in Informatica Magistrale, presso l’Università di Catania.
- Anni Accademici 2013-2014, 2014-2015, 2015-2016: Docente titolare di “Laboratorio di Sistemi Dedicati” (3 CFU) del corso di laurea in Informatica Magistrale, presso l’Università di Catania.
- Anno Accademico 2017-2018: Docente titolare di “Laboratorio di Sistemi a Microcontrollore” (6 CFU) del corso di laurea in Informatica Triennale, presso l’Università di Catania.
- Anni Accademici 2012-2013, 2013-2014, 2014-2015, 2015-2016, 2016-2017: Docente titolare di “Laboratorio Avanzato di Programmazione 1” (6 CFU) del corso di laurea in Informatica Triennale, presso l’Università di Catania.
- Anni Accademici 2009-2010, 2010-2011, 2011-2012, 2012-2013, 2013-2014, 2014-2015, 2015-2016: Docente titolare di “Abilità Informatiche” e “Informatica” (3 CFU) del corso di laurea in Fisica, presso l’Università di Catania.
Attività didattica a contatto
- Anni Accademici 2004-2005, 2005-2006, 2006-2007, 2007-2008, 2008-2009: Docente a contratto per la materia “Basi di Dati” del corso di laurea di Ingegneria Informatica, presso l’Università di Catania.
- A.A. 2002-2003: Docente a contratto per la materia “Laboratorio di Informatica” del corso di laurea di Ingeneria Informatica, presso l’Università di Catania.
- A.A. 2002-2003: Docente di “Sistemi Operativi” per il master MATIT della Scuola di Eccellenza ASEIT, presso il CRES di Monreale (PA).
- A.S. 1999-2000: Docente di “Linguaggi di Programmazione per Internet” nel corso di post-qualifica I.F.T.S. “Tecnici specializzati nell’impiego delle tecnologie dell’informazione e della comunicazione”, tenuto presso l’Istituto Tecnico Industriale Statale “G. Ferraris” di Acireale (CT).
- A.A. 1998-’99: Docente di “Informatica di Base” nel corso di post-qualifica F.S.E. “Tecnico addetto agli impianti di potabilizzazione” tenuto all’Università di Catania, presso il Dipartimento di Metodologie Fisiche e Chimiche per l’Ingegneria.
- A.A. 1998-’99: Docente di “Programmazione in linguaggio Java” all’interno del corso di “Reti di Calcolatori” della la Scuola di Eccellenza ASEIT, presso il CRES di Monreale (PA).
- A.S. 1997-’98: Docente esperto nei corsi di post-qualifica F.S.E. “Esperto nell’automazione e nel telecontrollo” presso l’IPSIA “C. A. Dalla Chiesa” di Caltagirone (CT) e l’IPSIA “E. Fermi” di Catania.
Journals
- A. Faro, D. Giordano, C. Santoro. Link-based Shaping of Hypermedia Webs Assisted by a Neural Agent. Journal of Universal Computer Science. Vol. 4 N. 7, Springer Science, 1998. pp. 630-651.
- A. Di Stefano, C. Santoro. NetChaser: Agent Support for Personal Mobility. IEEE Internet Computing Magazine. Special Issue on “Agents on the Internet”, Vol. 4, No. 2, March/April 2000.
- A. Di Stefano, C. Santoro. A Java Kernel for Embedded Systems in Distributed Process Control. IEEE Concurrency, special issue on ”Operating Systems Research & Development”. Vol. 8, No. 4, Oct-Dec. 2000
- A. Di Stefano, C. Santoro. Coordinating Mobile Agents using Communicators. AI*IA Notizie - Anno XIV, n. 4, Dic. 2001.
- A. Di Stefano, C. Santoro. Locating Mobile Agents in a Wide Distributed Environment. IEEE Transaction on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 13, No. 8, August 2002.
- A. Di Stefano, C. Santoro. Integrating Agent Communication Contexts in JADE. EXP Telecom Italia Journal, September 2003.
- A. Di Stefano, G. Pappalardo, C. Santoro, E. Tramontana. The Transparent Implementation of Agent Communication Contexts. Concurrency & Computation: Practice & Experience, John Wiley & Sons, Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 387–407, April 2006.
- A. Di Stefano, G. Pappalardo, C. Santoro, E. Tramontana. A Framework for the Design and Automated Implementation of Communication Aspects in Multi-agent Systems. Journal on Networks, Computer and Applications, Elsevier Science, doi:10.1016/j.jnca.2006.04.007, Vol 30, No 3, 2007.
- A. Di Stefano, C. Santoro. A Peer-to-Peer Decentralized Strategy for Resource Management in Computational Grids. Concurrency & Computation: Practice & Experience, John Wiley & Sons, (DOI: 10.1002/cpe.1110), Vol. 19, No. 9. 2007.
- G. Novelli, G. Pappalardo, C. Santoro, E. Tramontana. Transcoding Agents for Multimedia Content Delivery in a Grid. International Transactions on Systems Science and Applications (ISSN 1751-1461), Vol. 2, No. 4, 2006.
- A. Di Stefano, C. Santoro. An Economical Model for Resource Management in a Grid-based Content Distribution Network. Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier, (DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2007.07.014), Vol. 24, No. 3, March 2008.
- A. Di Stefano, C. Santoro. A3M: an Agent Architecture for Automated Manufacturing. Software: Practice & Experience, Wiley, Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 137–162, Feb. 2009, (DOI: 10.1002/spe.894).
- F. Messina, G. Pappalardo, C. Santoro. ComplexSim: a flexible simulation platform for complex systems. International Journal of Simulation and Process Modelling, Inderscience, Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 202–211, 2013, (DOI: 10.1504/IJSPM.2013.059417).
- G. Fortino, F. Rango, W. Russo, C. Santoro. Translation of statechart agents into a BDI framework for MAS engineering. Engineering Application of Artificial Intelligence,
Vol. 41, pp. 287–297, 2015, (DOI: 10.1016/j.engappai.2015.01.012). - F. Messina, G Pappalardo, D. Rosaci, C. Santoro, G.M.L. Sarné. A trust-aware, self-organizing system for large-scale federations of utility computing infrastructures, Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier, Vol. 56, pp. 77–94, 2016, (DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2015.07.013).
- F. Messina, G Pappalardo, D. Rosaci, C. Santoro, G.M.L. Sarné. A multi-agent protocol for service level agreement negotiation in cloud federations, International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing, Inderscience, Vol. 7, pp. 101–112, 2016.
- F. Messina, G Pappalardo, L. Fichera, C. Santoro. A Python framework for programming autonomous robots using a declarative approach, Science of Computer Programming, Elsevier, Vol. 139, pp. 36–55, 2017.
- M. De Benedetti, F. Messina, G Pappalardo, C. Santoro. JarvSis: a distributed scheduler for IoT applications, Cluster Computing, Springer, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 1775–1790, 2017.
- M. De Benedetti, F. Messina, G Pappalardo, C. Santoro. Web-based Simulations of Multi-agent Systems, SIMULATION, SAGE Publisher, DOI: 10.1177/0037549717706198, 2017.
- F. Costanzo, F. Messina, G. Pappalardo, C. Santoro. Flexible simulations of complex networks in OpenStack clouds, IJGUC 8(2), SAGE Publisher, pp. 133-141, 2017.
- M. De Benedetti, F. D’Urso, G. Fortino, F. Messina, G Pappalardo, C. Santoro. A fault-tolerant self-organizing flocking approach for UAV aerial survey, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Elsevier, vol. 96, pp. 14-30, 2017
Conferences and Workshops
- C. Cafarella, E. Pollara, C. Santoro. Decodificatori Speciali per Servizi di Telesoftware e Televideo Criptato. In Proc. of 37 mo Congresso Nazionale per l’elettronica. Roma Nov. 8-9, 1990.
- A. Di Stefano, L. Lo Bello, C. Santoro. Synchronous Producer-Consumer Transactions for Real-Time Distributed Process Control. In Proc. of 2 nd IEEE International Workshop on Factory Communication Systems (WFCS’97). Barcelona, Oct. 1-3, 1997.
- A. Faro, D. Giordano, C. Santoro. In Search of Web Forms: a Neural Agent for Organizing “Reusable” Notes Documents. In Proc. of World Conference of the WWW, Internet & Intranet (WebNET ’97). Toronto (Canada), Nov. 1-5, 1997 (vincitore del “Best Paper Award”).
- A. Di Stefano, L. Lo Bello, C. Santoro. A Distributed Heterogeneous Database System based on Mobile Agents. In Proc. of 7 th IEEE Intl. Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE ’98). Stanford (California), Jun. 17-19, 1998.
- A. Di Stefano, L. Lo Bello, C. Santoro. Distributed Transactions as Mobile Agents in a Distributed Heterogeneous Environment. In Proc. of VI Convegno Nazionale su Sistemi Evoluti per Basi di Dati (SEBD’98). Ancona, Jun. 25-28, 1998.
- A. Di Stefano, L. Lo Bello, C. Santoro. Naming and Locating Mobile Agents in an Internet Environment. In Proc. of 3 rd IEEE Intl. Conference on Enterprise Distributed Object Computing (EDOC’99). University of Mannheim (Germany), Sept. 27-30, 1999.
- A. Di Stefano, C. Santoro. The Coordination Infrastructure of the ARCA Framework. In Proc. of 4 th ACM Intl. Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents 2000). Barcelona (Spain), Jun. 3-7, 2000.
- A. Di Stefano, C. Santoro. Mobile Agents for Distributed Process Control. In Proc. of 4 th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Engineering Systems (INES 2000). Portoroz (Slovenia). Sept. 17-19, 2000.
- A. Di Stefano, C. Santoro. Agenti Mobili per il supporto della Mobilità Personale in Internet. In Proc. of 38 mo Congresso Annuale AICA (AICA 2000). Catania, Sept. 27-30, 2000.
- A. Di Stefano, C. Santoro. Java Devices for Distributed Process Control. In Proc. of 2000 IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE 2000). Universidad de Las Américas. Puebla (Mexico), Dec. 4-8, 2000.
- A. Di Stefano, C. Santoro. Coordinating Mobile Agents by means of Communicators. In Proc. of Workshop on Objects and Agents (WOA2001), Modena, Sept. 4-5,2001.
- A. Di Stefano, C. Santoro, D. Scardaci. Secure Data in Mobile Agent’s State. Proc. of 9 th Annual IEEE International Conference and Workshop on the Engineering of Computer-Based Systems (ECBS 2002). Lund (Sweden), April 8-11, 2002.
- A. Di Stefano, M. Giuffrida, C. Santoro. On-Line Load Balancing in a Multi-Agent Industrial Environment. In Proc. of 6 th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Engineering Systems (INES 2002). Opatija (Croatia). May 26-28, 2002.
- A. Di Stefano, C. Santoro. Modeling Multi-Agent Communication Contexts. In Proc. of First ACM Intl. Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2002). Bologna (Italy), Jul. 15-19, 2002.
- A. Di Stefano, G. Pappalardo, C. Santoro, E. Tramontana. Extending Applications using Reflective Assistants Agents. In Proc. of 26th IEEE Intl. Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2002), Oxford, England, Aug, 26-29, 2002.
- A. Di Stefano, G. Pappalardo, C. Santoro, E. Tramontana. A Multi-Agent Reflective Architecture for User Assistance and its Application to E-Commerce. In Proc. of Cooperative Information Agents (CIA 2002), LNAI Springer pub., Madrid, Spain, Sept. 18-20, 2002.
- A. Di Stefano, C. Santoro. A Framework for the Specification of Communication Rules in Multi-Agent Applications. In Proc. of Workshop su agenti per la rappresentazione della conoscenza ed il ragionamento, VIII Congresso AI*IA, Siena, 10-13 Set. 2002.
- A. Di Stefano, G. Pappalardo, C. Santoro, E. Tramontana. A Multi-Agent Reflective Architecture for Web Search Assistance. In Proc. of Workshop su agenti per la rappresentazione della conoscenza ed il ragionamento, VIII Congresso AI*IA, Siena, 10-13 Set. 2002.
- A. Di Stefano, C. Santoro. eXAT: an Experimental Tool for Programming Multi-Agent Systems in Erlang. In Proc. of Workshop on Objects and Agents (WOA2003), Cagliari, Sept. 10-11, 2003.
- M. Bombara, D. Cal`ı, C. Santoro. KORE: a Multi-Agent System to Assist Museum Visitors. In Proc. of Workshop on Objects and Agents (WOA2003), Cagliari, Sept. 10-11, 2003.
- A. Corsaro, C. Santoro. A C++ Native Interface for Interpreted JVMs. In Proc. of 1st Workshop on Java Technologies for Real-time and Embedded Systems (JTRES 2003), OTM’03 Federated Conferences. LNCS 2889, Springer, Nov. 2003.
- A. Di Stefano, G. Pappalardo, C. Santoro, E. Tramontana. Enforcing Agent Communication Laws by means of a Reflective Framework. In Proc. of 19th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2004), Special Track on Coordination Models, Languages and Applications, Nicosia, Cyprus, Mar. 14–17, 2004.
- A. Di Stefano, C. Santoro. Designing Collaborative Agents with eXAT. In Proc. of 13 th IEEE Intl. Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE 2004). “Best paper award”. Modena (Italy), Jun. 14-16, 2004.
- A. Corsaro, C. Santoro. Optimizing JVM Object Management Operations to Improve WCET Predictability. Proc. of the 4 rd International Workshop on worst-case execution time analysis, in conjunction with the 16 th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems, Catania, Italy, June 2004.
- A. Di Stefano, C. Santoro. eXAT: A Platform to Program Erlang Agents. In Proc. of NetObjectDays 2004. Erfurt (Germany), Sept. 27-30, 2004.
- A. Di Stefano, G. Pappalardo, C. Santoro, E. Tramontana. Engineering Constrained Agent Interactions with REFCON. In Proc. of Workshop su “Agenti a vincoli”: Modelli, tecnologie e metodi per dominare la complessit`a , IX Congresso AI*IA, Perugia, 15-17 Set. 2004.
- A. Di Stefano, G. Pappalardo, C. Santoro, E. Tramontana. Coordinating Multi-Agent Assistants with an Application by means of Computational Reflection. In Design of Intelligent Multi-Agent Systems * Human-Centredness, Architectures, Learning and Adaptation, Springer, Vol. 162, 10.2004, ISBN 3-540-22913-2, October 2004.
- A. Di Stefano, G. Pappalardo, C. Santoro, E. Tramontana. SHARK, A Multi-Agent System to Support Document Sharing and Promote Collaboration. In 2004 International IEEE Workshop on Hot Topics in Peer-to-Peer Systems (HOT-P2P 2004), Volendam, The Netherlands, October 2004.
- A. Corsaro, C. Santoro. Design Patterns for RTSJ Application Development. In Proc. of 2 nd Workshop on Java Technologies for Real-time and Embedded Systems (JTRES 2004), OTM’04 Federated Conferences. Springer, Oct. 2004.
- A. Di Stefano, C. Santoro. On the use of Erlang as a Promising Language to Develop Agent Systems. In Proc. of Workshop on Objects and Agents (WOA2004), Torino, Nov. 29-30, 2004.
- A. Di Stefano, C. Santoro. A Decentralized Strategy for Resource Allocation. In Proc. of 2 nd Intl. IEEE Workshop on Emerging Technologies for Next-Generation GRIDs (ETNGRID 2005), IEEE WETICE-2005, Linkoping, Sweden. Jun. 13-15, 2005.
- A. Di Stefano, C. Santoro. Supporting Agent Development in Erlang through the eXAT Platform. Whitestein series book on Agent Platforms and Applications, M. Calisti, M. Klush, R. Unland eds., 2005.
- A. Corsaro, C. Santoro. The Analysis and Evaluation of Design Patterns for Distributed Real-Time Java Software. In Proc. of 10 th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2005), Catania, Italy. Sept. 19–22, 2005.
- A. Di Stefano, C. Santoro. Using the Erlang Language for Multi-Agent Systems Implementation. In Proc. of 2005 IEE/WIC/ACM Intl. Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2005), Compiégne, France. Sept. 19–22, 2005.
- A. Di Stefano, F. Gangemi, C. Santoro. ERESYE: Artificial Intelligence in Erlang Programs. In Proc. of 4 th ACM SIGPLAN Erlang Workshop, Tallin, Estonia. Sept. 25, 2005.
- C. Santoro. eXAT: Software Agents in Erlang. In Proc. of 11 th International Erlang User Conference, EUC’2005, Stockholm, Sweden. Nov. 10, 2005.
- A. Di Stefano, C. Santoro. Building Semantic Agents in eXAT. In Proc. of Workshop on Objects and Agents (WOA2005), Camerino, Italy, Nov. 14-16, 2005.
- A. Di Stefano, C. Santoro. A Marketplace-based Economical Model for Resource Provisioning Agreement in a P2P Grid. In Proc. of HPDC Workshop on the Use of P2P, GRID
and Agents for the Development of Content Distribution Networks (UPGRADE 2005), Paris, France, Jun. 20, 2006. - G. Novelli, G. Pappalardo, C. Santoro, E. Tramontana. Transcoding Agents for Multimedia Content Delivery in a Grid. In Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Self-Organization and Autonomous Systems in Computing and Communications (SOAS2006), Erfurt, Germany, Sept. 18-20, 2006.
- V. Nicosia, C. Spampinato, C. Santoro. Software Agents for Autonomous Robots: the Eurobot 2006 Experience. In Proc. of Workshop on Objects and Agents (WOA2006), “Best Paper Award”, CEUR-WS Publisher, ISSN 1613-0073, Vol. 204, Catania, Italy, Oct. 26-27, 2006.
- F. Messina, G. Novelli, G. Pappalardo, C. Santoro, E. Tramontana. A QoS-Aware Architecture for Multimedia Content Provisioning in a GRID Environment. In Proc. of Workshop on Objects and Agents (WOA2006), CEUR-WS Publisher, ISSN 1613-0073, Vol. 204, Catania, Italy, Oct. 26-27, 2006.
- G. Di Giore, A. Di Stefano, G. Morana, C. Santoro. JIT Compiler Optimizations for Stack-based Processors in Embedded Platforms. In Proc. of 4 th Workshop on Java Technologies for Real-time and Embedded Systems (JTRES 2006). ACM Publisher. Paris, France, Oct. 11-13, 2006.
- V. Nicosia, C. Santoro. Experiences from Using Erlang for Autonomous Robots. In Proc. of 12 th International Erlang User Conference, EUC’2006, Stockholm, Sweden. Nov. 9-10, 2006.
- A. Di Stefano, F. Messina, G. Pappalardo, C. Santoro, L. Toscano. Evaluating Strategies for Resource Finding in a Peer-to-Peer Grid. In Proc. of 4 th Intl. IEEE Workshop on Emerging Technologies for Next-Generation GRIDs (ETNGRID 2007), IEEE WETICE-2007, Evry, Paris, France. Jun. 18-20, 2007.
- C. Santoro. An erlang framework for autonomous mobile robots, Erlang ’07: Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGPLAN workshop on Erlang Workshop, ACM Press, Freiburg, Germany, Oct. 05, 2007.
- F. Cesarini, V. Pappalardo, C. Santoro. A Comparative Evaluation of Imperative and Functional Implementations of IMAP Protocol, Erlang ’08: Proceedings of the 2008 ACM SIGPLAN workshop on Erlang Workshop, ACM Press, Victoria, Canada, Sep. 27, 2008.
- D. Buscema, M. Ignaccolo, G. Inturri, A. Pluchino, A. Rapisarda, C. Santoro, S. Tudisco. The Impact of Real Time Information on Transport Network Routing through Intelligent Agent-based Simulation, IEEE Toronto International Conference on Science and Technology for Humanity (TIC-STH 2009), IEEE, 26-27 Sept. 2009. DOI: 10.1109/TIC-STH.2009.5444404.
- C. Santoro. Towards an Agent Programming Language. In Proc. of Workshop on Objects and Agents (WOA2009), CEUR-WS Publisher, ISSN 1613-0073, Parma, Italy, Jul. 9-10, 2009.
- F. Messina, G. Pappalardo, C. Santoro. HYGRA: A Decentralized Protocol for Resource Discovery and Job Allocation in Large Computational Grids. In Proc. of IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC2010), Riccione, Italy, Jun. 22-25, 2010.
- L. Fichera, D. Marletta, V. Nicosia, C. Santoro. Flexible Robot Strategy Design using Belief-Desire-Intention Model. In Proc. of International Conference on Research and Education in Robotics (EUROBOT 2010), Spriger CCIS Series, Rappreswille, Swizerland), May 27-30, 2010.
- F. Messina, G. Pappalardo, C. Santoro. A Self-Organising System for Resource Finding in Large-Scale Computational Grids. In Proc. of Workshop on Objects and Agents (WOA2010), CEUR-WS Publisher, ISSN 1613-0073, Rimini, Italy, Sept. 5-7, 2010.
- L. Fichera, D. Marletta, V. Nicosia, C. Santoro. A Methodology to Extend Imperative Languages with AgentSpeak Declarative Constructs. In Proc. of Workshop on Objects and Agents (WOA2010), CEUR-WS Publisher, ISSN 1613-0073, Rimini, Italy, Sept. 5-7, 2010.
- R. Massari, V. Nicosia, C. Santoro. Path Planning of a Mobile Robot in a Tight Constrained Environment: the “Eurobot 2010” UNICT-TEAM Experience. In Proc. of 28 th Workshop of the UK Special Interest Group on Planning and Scheduling (PlanSIG2010). ISSN 1368-5708. Brescia, Italy, Dec. 1-2, 2010.
- F. Messina, G. Pappalardo, C. Santoro. Exploiting the Small-World Effect for Resource Finding in P2P Grids/Clouds. In proc. of 20 th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises, WETICE 2011. Paris, France, 27-29 June 2011.
- F. Messina, G. Pappalardo, C. Santoro. Decentralised Resource Finding in Cloud/Grid Computing Environments: A Performance Evaluation. In proc. of 21 st IEEE International Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, WETICE 2012. Toulouse, France, June 25-27, 2012.
- F. Messina, G. Pappalardo, C. Santoro. ComplexSim: An SMP-Aware Complex Network Simulation Framework. In proc. of 6 th International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems, CISIS 2012. Palermo, Italy, July 4-6, 2012.
- F. Messina, G. Pappalardo, D. Rosaci, C. Santoro, G. M. L. Sarn`e. A Trust-Based Approach for a Competitive Cloud/Grid Computing Scenario. In proc. of 6 th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing, IDC 2012. September 24-26, 2012, Calabria, Italy.
- F. Messina, G. Pappalardo, D. Rosaci, C. Santoro, G.M.L. Sarn`e, HySoN: A Distributed Agent-Based Protocol for Group Formation in Online Social Networks. In proc. of MATES 2013, Springer, Koblenz, Germany, September 16-20, 2013, pp. 320-333.
- G. Fortino, W. Russo, C. Santoro, Translating Statecharts-Based into BDI Agents: The DSC/PROFETA Case. In proc. of MATES 2013, Springer, Koblenz, Germany, September 16-20, 2013, pp. 264–277.
- F. Messina, G. Pappalardo, C. Santoro, Integrating Cloud Services in Behaviour Programming for Autonomous Robots, In proc. of International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing, track on Cloud-assisted Smart Cyber-Physical Systems, Vietri sul Mare, Italy, 2013. pp. 295–302.
- F. Messina, G. Pappalardo, C. Santoro, Exploiting GPUs to Simulate Complex Systems, In proc. of Second International Workshop on Intelligent Computing In Large-Scale Systems (ICLS 2013), CISIS Conference, Taichung, Taiwan, pp. 535–540.
- F. Messina, G. Pappalardo, D. Rosaci, C. Santoro, G.M.L. Sarn`e, A Distributed Agent-Based Approach for Supporting Group Formation in P2P e-Learning, In proc. of AI*IA Congress, Torino, December 4-6, 2013, pp. 312–323
- F. Messina, G. Pappalardo, C. Santoro, Designing Autonomous Robots Using GOLEM, In Proc. of Workshop on Objects and Agents (WOA2014), CEUR-WS Publisher, Vol.-1260, ISSN 1613-0073, Catania, Italy, Sept. 25-26, 2014.
- F. Messina, G. Pappalardo, C. Santoro, A Goal-centric Framework for Behaviour Programming in Autonomous Robotic Systems, In proc. of IEEE/ASME International Conference on Mechatronics and Embedded Systems and Applications, September 10-12, Senigallia, Italy, 2014.
- F. Messina, G. Pappalardo, D. Rosaci, C. Santoro, G.M.L. Sarn`e, An Agent Based Negotiation Protocol for Cloud Service Level Agreements, In proc. of 23 rd IEEE International Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, WETICE 2014. Parma, Italy, June 23-25, 2014, pp. 161–166.
- F. Messina, G. Pappalardo, C. Santoro, Decentralised Resource Finding and Allocation in Cloud Federations, In proc. of International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems, Salerno, Italy, September 10-12, 2014, pp. 26–33.
- F. Messina, G. Pappalardo, D. Rosaci, C. Santoro, G.M.L. Sarn`e, A Trust Model for Competitive Cloud Federations, In proc. of Eighth International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems, CISIS 2014, Birmingham, UK, July 2-4, 2014, pp. 469–474.
- M. De Benedetti, F. D’Urso, F. Messina, G. Pappalardo, C. Santoro, UAV-based Aerial Monitoring: A Performance Evaluation of a Self-Organising Flocking Algorithm, In proc. of 2015 IEEE International Conference on P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing (3PGCIC), 2015.
- M. De Benedetti, F. D’Urso, F. Messina, G. Pappalardo, C. Santoro, A hybrid model for ranking cloud services, In proc. of 2015 IEEE International Conference on P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing (3PGCIC), 2015.
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Attività di Ricerca
- Piattaforme intelligenti per velivoli autonomi (UAV, droni)
- Sciami di velivoli autonomi
- Sistemi intelligenti robotici
- Linguaggi e piattaforme per la pianificazione ed il comportamento di robot
- Piattaforme, sistemi, protocolli e applicazioni per agenti intelligenti
- Piattaforme, sistemi, protocolli e applicazioni per agenti mobili
- Sistemi P2P
- Sistemi GRID/Cloud e protocolli di resource discovery e resource sharing
- Sistemi Java real-time
LABORATORIO DI SISTEMI A MICROCONTROLLORE
Si avvisano gli studenti che la lezione di oggi, 20/11/2019, non si terrà per indisponibilità del docente.