Nicoletta Fornara
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Publications
Key publications (4)
- Roshankish S., Fornara N. (2024) How to Formalize Different Types of Norms in Multi-agent Systems: A Methodology Focused on the T-Norm Model
- Fornara N., Roshankish S., Colombetti M. (2022) A Framework for Automatic Monitoring of Norms that Regulate Time Constrained Actions
- Fornara N., Colombetti M. (2019) Using Semantic Web Technologies and Production Rules for Reasoning on Obligations, Permissions, and Prohibitions
- Fornara N. (2011) Specifying and Monitoring Obligations in Open Multiagent Systems using Semantic Web Technology.
Journal Article (18)
- Roshankish S., Fornara N. (2024) How to Formalize Different Types of Norms in Multi-agent Systems: A Methodology Focused on the T-Norm Model, SN Computer Science, 5 (749)
- Fornara N., Colombetti M. (2019) Using Semantic Web Technologies and Production Rules for Reasoning on Obligations, Permissions, and Prohibitions, AI Communications, 32 (4)
- Fornara N., Balke-Visser T. (2018) Modeling Organizations and Institutions in Multiagent Systems, Journal of Applied Logics - IfCoLoG Journal of Logics and their Applications, 5 (2)
- Marfia F., Fornara N., Nguyen T. T. V. (2017) A Framework for Managing Data Provider and Data Consumer Semantic Obligations for Access Control, AI Communications, 30 (1)
- Nguyen T. T. V., Fornara N., Marfia F. (2015) Automatic Policy Enforcement on Semantic Social Data, Multiagent and Grid Systems – An International Journal, IOS Press, 11 (3)
- Urovi V., Carmine Olivieri A., Brugués de la Torre A., Bromuri S., Fornara N., Schumacher M. (2014) Secure P2P Cross-Community Health Record Exchange in IHE Compatible Systems, International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, 23 (1 ( February ))
- Chopra A., Artikis A., Bentahar J., Colombetti M., Dignum F., Fornara N., Jones A. I., Singh M., Yolum P. (2013) Research Directions in Agent Communication, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST), 4 (2 ( April ))
- Fornara N., Tampitsikas C. (2013) Semantic Technologies for Open Interaction Systems, Artificial Intelligence Review, Springer Netherlands, 39 (1 ( January ))
- Argente E., Boissier O., Carrascosa C., Fornara N., McBurney P., Noriega P., Ricci A., Sabater-Mir J., Schumacher M. I., Tampitsikas C., Taveter K., Vizzari G., Vouros G. (2013) The Role of the Environment in Agreement Technologies, Artificial Intelligence Review, Springer Netherlands, ISSN: 0269-2821, 39 (1 ( January ))
- Urovi V., Carmine Olivieri A., Bromuri S., Fornara N., Schumacher M. (2013) A Semantic Publish-Subscribe Coordination Framework for IHE based Cross-Community Health Record Exchange, ACM/SIGAPP Applied Computing Review, 13 (3 ( September ))
- Chopra A., Artikis A., Bentahar J., Colombetti M., Dignum F., Fornara N., Jones A. I., Singh M., Yolum P. (2013) Research Directions in Agent Communication, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST) (April)
- Tampitsikas C., Bromuri S., Fornara N., Schumacher M. I. (2012) Interdependent Artificial Institutions in Agent Environments, Applied Artificial Intelligence 26(4):398-427
- Fornara N., Colombetti M. (2010) Representation and monitoring of commitments and norms using OWL, In J. Sabater-Mir and P. Davidsson, eds., Special issue: European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems (EUMAS) 2009, AI Communications, IOS Press, Amsterdam, ISSN 0921-7126 (Print) 1875-8452, 23 (4/2010)
- Fornara N., Viganò F., Verdicchio M., Colombetti M. (2008) Artificial institutions. A model of institutional reality for open multiagent systems, Artificial Intelligence and Law, 16 (1)
- Fornara N., Viganò F., Colombetti M. (2007) Agent communication and artificial institutions, Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems, 14 (2)
- Fornara N., Colombetti M. (2004) A commitment-based approach to agent communication, Applied artificial intelligence, 18 (9)
- Colombetti M., Fornara N., Verdicchio M. (2003) Linguaggio e realtà sociale nei sistemi di agenti artificiali, Networks/1
- Rizzoli A. E., Fornara N., Gambardella L. M. (2002) A Simulation Tool for Combined Rail-Road Transport in Intermodal Terminals, Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, Elsevier Science, 59/1-3 pp. 57-71
Book (2)
- De Vos M., Fornara N., Pitt J., Vouros G. (2011) COIN 2010 International Workshops, COIN@AAMAS 2010, Toronto, Canada, May 2010, COIN@MALLOW 2010, Lyon, France, August 2010, Revised Selected Papers. LNCS/LNAI 6541/2011, Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-642-21267-3
- Noriega P., Vázquez-Salceda J., Boella G., Boissier O., Dignum V., Fornara N., Matson E. (2007) Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems II AAMAS 2006 and ECAI 2006 International Workshops, COIN 2006 Hakodate, Japan, May 9, 2006 Riva del Garda, Italy, August 28, 2006 Revised Selected Papers. LNCS/LNAI 4386/2007, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007 ISBN 978-3-540-74457-3
Book chapter (7)
- Fornara N., Lopes Cardoso H., Noriega P., Oliveira E., Tampitsikas C. (2013) Modelling Agent Institutions. Agreement Technologies, Law, Governance and Technology Series. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
- Fornara N., Ježić G., Kušec M., Lovrek I., Podobnik V., Tržec K. (2013) Semantics in Multi-Agent Systems. Agreement Technologies, Law, Governance and Technology Series. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
- Noriega P., Chopra A. K., Fornara N., Lopes Cardoso H., Singh M. (2013) Regulated MAS: Social Perspective. Normative Multi-Agent Systems, DFU: Dagstuhl Follow-Ups, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik GmbH. Dagstuhl Publishing
- Singh M., Arrott M., Balke T., Chopra A. K., Christiaanse R., Cranefield S., Dignum F., Eynard D., Farcas E., Fornara N., Gandon F., al. e. (2013) The Uses of Norms. Normative Multi-Agent Systems, DFU: Dagstuhl Follow-Ups, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik GmbH. Dagstuhl Publishing
- Fornara N. (2011) Specifying and Monitoring Obligations in Open Multiagent Systems using Semantic Web Technology.. In A. Elçi, M. Tadiou Kone, M. A. Orgun (Eds). Semantic Agent Systems: Foundations and Applications, volume 344 of Studies in Computational Intelligence, pages 25-46. Springer-Verlag, 2011. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-18308-9
- Fornara N., Colombetti M. (2009) Specifying Artificial Institutions in the Event Calculus. In V. Dignum editor, Handbook of Research on Multi-Agent Systems: Semantics and Dynamics of Organizational Models, IGI Global, pages 335-366 ISBN: 1-60566-256-9, March 2009.
- Colombetti M., Fornara N., Verdicchio M. (2003) Speech acts in artificial agent communication. In A. Giacalone Ramat, E. Rigotti, e A. Rocci, a cura di, Linguistica e nuove professioni, Franco Angeli, Milano, 70-92
Conference proceedings (1)
- Fornara N., Cheriyan J., Mertzani A., Nicoletta Fornara J. C. (2023) Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms, and Ethics for Governance of Multi-Agent Systems XVI 27th International Workshop, COINE 2023, London, UK, May 29, 2023, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Cham.. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. International Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms and Ethics for Governance of Multi-Agent Systems (COINE), co-located with AAMAS 2023 (https://coin-workshop.github.io/coine-2023-london/)
Article in conference proceedings (40)
- Guitton C., Mayer S., Tamò-Larrieux A., Garcia K., Fornara N. (2024) A Proxy for Assessing the Automatic Encodability of Regulation. In Proceedings of the Symposium on Computer Science and Law (CSLAW '24). Association for Computing Machinery. Boston. March 12-13, 2024
- Roshankish S., Fornara N. (2022) A Methodology for Formalizing Different Types of Norms. In: Baumeister, D., Rothe, J. (eds) Multi-Agent Systems. EUMAS 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13442. Springer, Cham
- Fornara N., Roshankish S., Colombetti M. (2022) A Framework for Automatic Monitoring of Norms that Regulate Time Constrained Actions. In: Theodorou, A., Nieves, J.C., De Vos, M. (eds) Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms, and Ethics for Governance of Multi-Agent Systems XIV. COINE 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13239, 9-27. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16617-4_2
- Fornara N., Roshankish S., Colombetti M. (2022) A Framework for Automatic Monitoring of Norms that Regulate Time Constrained Actions. In: Theodorou, A., Nieves, J.C., De Vos, M. (eds) Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms, and Ethics for Governance of Multi-Agent Systems XIV. COINE 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13239, 9-27. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16617-4_2
- Fornara N., Roshankish S., Colombetti M. (2022) A Framework for Automatic Monitoring of Norms that Regulate Time Constrained Actions. In: Theodorou, A., Nieves, J.C., De Vos, M. (eds) Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms, and Ethics for Governance of Multi-Agent Systems XIV. COINE 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13239, 9-27. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16617-4_2
- Fornara N., Roshankish S., Colombetti M. (2021) A Framework for Automatic Monitoring of Norms that regulate Time Constrained Actions. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms and Ethics for Governance of Multi-Agent Systems (COINE2021). International Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms and Ethics for Governance of Multi-Agent Systems (COINE2021). co-located with AAMAS 2021, London, UK. 3rd May, 2021
- Fornara N., Sterpetti M. (2021) An Architecture for Monitoring Norms that combines OWL Reasoning and Forward Chaining over Rules. Proceedings of the Joint Ontology Workshops 2021 (JOWO 2021) Episode VII: The Bolzano Summer of Knowledge co-located with the 12th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2021), and the 12th International Conference on Biomedical Ontologies (ICBO 2021). Bolzano, Italy. September 11-18, 2021
- Roshankish S., Fornara N. (2021) Exploration of Norms and Policies in Digital Fashion Domain Using Semantic Web Technologies. In: Soares, M.M., Rosenzweig, E., Marcus, A. (eds) Design, User Experience, and Usability: Design for Contemporary Technological Environments. HCII 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12781. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78227-6_28. Springer, Cham
- Fornara N., Chiappa A., Colombetti M. (2019) Using Semantic Web Technologies and Production Rules for Reasoning on Obligations and Permissions. In: Lujak M. (eds) Agreement Technologies, 6th International Conference, AT 2018. Bergen, Norway, December 6-7, 2018. Revised Selected Papers, LNAI 11327, pages 49-63, Springer, Cham
- Fornara N., Colombetti M. (2018) Operational semantics of an extension of ODRL able to express obligations. Multi-Agent Systems and Agreement Technologies - 15th European Conference, EUMAS 2017, and 5th International Conference, AT 2017, Evry, France, December 14-15, 2017, Revised Selected Papers, volume 10767 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 172-186. Springer, Cham
- Fornara N., Colombetti M. (2017) Operational Semantics of an Extension of ODRL able to express Obligations. In Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems Évry, 14-15 December 2017.
- Marfia F., Fornara N., Nguyen T. T. V. (2016) Modeling and Enforcing Semantic Obligations for Access Control. . In Multi-Agent Systems and Agreement Technologies: 13th European Conference, EUMAS 2015, and Third International Conference, AT 2015, Athens, Greece, December 17-18, 2015, Revised Selected Papers, Volume 9571 of the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science pp 303-317
- Fornara N., Marfia F., Anna Fensel A. Z. (2016) Modeling and Enforcing Access Control Obligations for SPARQL-DL Queries. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Semantic Systems (SEMANTiCS 2016) Leipzig, Germany, September 12 - 15 2016, Anna Fensel, Amrapali Zaveri, Sebastian Hellmann, and Tassilo Pellegrini (Eds.). ACM, New York, NY, USA, pages145-152
- Nguyen T. T. V., Fornara N. (2014) Policy Enforcement for the Web of Data. In Proceedings of the ECAI 2014 Workshop on Intelligent Agents and Technologies for Socially Interconnected Systems (IAT4SIS '14), Ana Paula Rocha, Huib Aldewereld, Virginia Dignum, Eugénio Oliveira, and Laurent Vercouter (Eds.). ACM, New York, NY, USA
- Urovi V., Olivieri A. C., Bromuri S., Fornara N., Schumacker M. I. (2013) A Peer to Peer Agent Coordination Framework for IHE based Cross-Community Health Record Exchange. In Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC '13). Coimbra, Portugal March 18-22, 2013. ACM, New York, NY, USA, pages 1355-1362
- Okouya D., Fornara N., Colombetti M. (2013) An Infrastructure for the Design and Development of Open Interaction Systems. In: Cossentino M., El Fallah Seghrouchni A., Winikoff M. (eds) Engineering Multi-Agent Systems. EMAS 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 215-234, vol 8245. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
- Fornara N., Colombetti M. (2012) Specifying and Enforcing Norms in Artificial Institutions: Retrospective Review. . In Chiaki Sakama, Sebastian Sardina, Wamberto Vasconcelos, and Michael Winikoff, editors, International Workshop on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies (DALT 2011), volume LNAI 7169, pp. 117–119 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Fornara N., Tampitsikas C. (2012) Using OWL Artificial Institutions for dynamically creating Open Spaces of Interaction. Proceedings of the AT 2012 First International Conference on Agreement Technologies, October 15 - 16, 2012 in Dubrovnik, Croatia, pages 281-295, Vol-918 urn:nbn:de:0074-918-8, CEUR Workshop Proceedings,
- Okouya D., Fornara N., Colombetti M. (2012) An Infrastructure for Open Interaction Systems (Position paper). Proceedings of the AT 2012 First International Conference on Agreement Technologies, October 15 - 16, 2012 in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Pages 442-443, Vol-918 urn:nbn:de:0074-918-8, CEUR Workshop Proceedings
- Argente E., Boissier O., Carrascosa C., Fornara N. (2012) Environment and Agreement Technologies (Position paper). Proceedings of the AT 2012 First International Conference on Agreement Technologies, October 15 - 16, 2012 in Dubrovnik, Croatia, pages 260-261, Vol-918 urn:nbn:de:0074-918-8, CEUR Workshop Proceedings
- Fornara N., Okouya D., Colombetti M. (2012) Using OWL 2 DL for expressing ACL Content and Semantics. Multi-Agent Systems 9th European Workshop, EUMAS 2011, Maastricht, The Netherlands, November 14-15, 2011. Revised Selected Papers, Massimo Cossentino, Michael Kaisers, Karl Tuyls, Gerhard Weiss editors, LNAI 7541, pp. 97-113, Springer, Heidelberg.
- Urovi V., Olivieri A. C., Bromuri S., Fornara N., Schumacker M. I. (2012) An Agent Coordination Framework for IHE based Cross-Community Health Record Exchange. Proceedings of the VII Workshop on Agents Applied in Health Care, A2HC 2012, co-located with AAMAS 2012, 4th June 2012 Valencia, Spain, pages 29-39
- Fornara N., Colombetti M., Okouya D. (2011) A Framework of Open Interactions based on Web Services and Semantic Web Technologies. Proceedings. 9th European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems EUMAS 2011. Maastricht, NL. 14th-15th November 2011
- Fornara N., Colombetti M. (2010) Ontology and Time Evolution of Obligations and Prohibitions using Semantic Web Technology. In M. Baldoni, J. Bentahar, and M. v. R. J. Lloyd, editors, Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies VII 7th International Workshop, DALT 2009, Budapest, Hungary, May 11, 2009. Revised Selected and Invited Papers, volume 5948/2010 of LNCS, pages 101–118. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2010.
- Fornara N., Colombetti M. (2009) Specifying and Enforcing Norms in Artificial Institutions. In M. Baldoni, T. Son, B. van Riemsdijk, M. Winikoff editors, Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies VI: 6th International Workshop, DALT 2008 Estoril, Portugal, May 2008 Revised Selected and Invited Papers, volume 5397 of LNCS, pages 1-17. Springer Berlin/Heidelberg
- Fornara N. (2009) Open Interaction System Specification and Monitoring Using Semantic Web Technology. in Proceedings. in Proceedings of the MALLOW (Multi-Agent Logics, Languages, and Organisations Federated Workshops) Workshop on Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms in Agent systems in On-line Communities (COIN@MALLOW09) (http://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/coin-at-mallow-2009/) Work in Progress, Torino, Italy, 7th-12th September, 2009. MALLOW (Multi-Agent Logics, Languages, and Organisations Federated Workshops) Workshop on Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms in Agent systems in On-line Communities (COIN@MALLOW09) (http://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/coin-at-mallow-2009/) Work in Progress. Torino, Italy,. 7th-12th September, 2009
- Fornara N. (2009) Open Interaction System Specification and Monitoring Using Semantic Web Technology. MALLOW (Multi-Agent Logics, Languages, and Organisations Federated Workshops) Workshop on Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms in Agent systems in On-line Communities (COIN@MALLOW09) (http://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/coin-at-mallow-2009/) Work in Progress. Torino, Italy,. 7th-12th September, 2009
- Fornara N., Colombetti M. (2008) Specifying and Enforcing Norms in Artificial Institutions (Short paper). Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems - Volume 3 (AAMAS '08), May, 12th-16th, 2008, Estoril, Portugal. Vol. 3. Pages 1481-1484. International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
- Fornara N., Colombetti M. (2007) Specifying and Enforcing Norms in Artificial Institutions. In G. Boella, L. van der Torre, and H. Verhagen, editors, Normative Multi-agent Systems, number 07122 in Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings. Internationales Begegnungs- und Forschungszentrum fuer Informatik (IBFI), Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany
- Fornara N., Colombetti M., A. Omicini B. K. (2006) Specifying and Enforcing Norms in Artificial Institutions. Proceedings. 4th European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems (EUMAS 06),. Lisbona, Portugal,. 14th-15th December 2006
- Viganò F., Fornara N., Colombetti M. (2006) An Event Driven Approach to Norms in Artificial Institutions. In O. Boissier, J. Padget, V. Dignum, G. Lindemann, E. Matson, S. Ossowski, J. Simão Sichman, J. Vázquez-Salceda editors, Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Multi-Agent Systems: AAMAS 2005 International Workshops on Agents, Norms and Institutions for Regulated Multi-Agent Systems, ANIREM 2005, and Organizations in Multi-Agent Systems, OOOP 2005, Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 25-26, 2005, Revised Selected Papers. LNCS, Volume 3913, pages 142-154, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
- Fornara N., Viganò F., Colombetti M. (2005) Agent Communication and Institutional Reality. In R. M. van Eijk, M. P. Huget, and F. Dignum, editors, Agent Communication: International Workshop on Agent Communication, AC 2004, New York, NY, USA, July 19, 2004, Revised Selected and Invited Papers, volume 3396 of LNAI, pages 1–17. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg. Springer
- Viganò F., Fornara N., Colombetti M. (2005) An Operational Approach to Norms in Artificial Institutions. Proceedings. Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems AAMAS 2005. Utrecht, The Netherlands. 25-29 July 2005
- Colombetti M., Fornara N., Verdicchio M. (2004) A Social Approach to Communication in Multiagent Systems. In J. A. Leite, A. Omicini, L. Sterling, P. Torroni, (Eds.): Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies, First International Workshop, DALT 2003, Melbourne, Australia, July 15, 2003, Revised Selected and Invited Papers. LNCS 2990, page 191-220, Springer
- Fornara N., Viganò F., Colombetti M. (2004) A Communicative Act Library in the context of Artificial Institutions. . In C. Ghidini, P. Giorgini, and W. van der Hoek, editors, Proceedings of the 2nd European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems (EUMAS 04), pages 223–235, 16th - 17th December 2004, Barcelona, Spain
- Fornara N., Colombetti M. (2003) Defining Interaction Protocols using a Commitment-based Agent Communication Language. In J. S. Rosenschein, T. Sandholm, M. Wooldrige, M. Yokoo editors, Proceedings of the Second international Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (Melbourne, Australia, July 14 - 18, 2003) AAMAS '03. ACM Press, New York, NY, pages:520-527
- Fornara N., Colombetti M. (2003) A Commitment based Agent Communication Language. Proceedings of the First European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems EUMAS
- Colombetti M., Fornara N., Verdicchio M. (2002) The role of institutions in multiagent systems. Ottavo Convegno Associazione Italiana per l\'Intelligenza Artificiale AI*IA 2002. Siena, Italia. 10-13 Settembre 2002
- Fornara N., Colombetti M. (2002) Operational Specification of a Commitment-Based Agent Communication Language. In C. Castelfranchi and W. L. Johnson editors, Proceedings of the First international Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems: Part 2 (Bologna, Italy, July 15 - 19, 2002) AAMAS '02. ACM Press, New York, NY, pages: 536-542
- Fornara N., Colombetti M. (2001) An Autonomous Bidding Agent for Simultaneous Auctions. In Klusch, M; Zambonelli F. editors. In Cooperative Information Agents V 5th International Workshop, CIA 2001 Modena, Italy, September 6–8, 2001 LNCS 2182, pages 130-141. Springer-Verlag, 2001.. Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents (CIA-2001) Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence LNAI 2182, pp. 130-141, Modena, Italy
