作者: Valeria Seidita

Massimo Cossentino has been a research scientist at the Italian National Research Council since 2001. His research focuses on agent-oriented software engineering, specifically on the composition of design processes, agent meta-models, and agent patterns. Currently, he chairs the IEEE FIPA Design Process Documentation and Fragmentation Technical Committee, the AOSE Technical Forum Group and other scientific committees/events. Vincent Hilaire is a full professor at the University of Technology of Belfort Montbéliard. His main areas of research are: multi-agent and holonic systems, languages for formal specification and proofs of multi-agent systems, and agent-mediated knowledge management. Ambra Molesini has a research grant at the University of Bologna. She is currently doing research on design methodologies, multi-agent systems infrastructures, meta-models, software architectures, and model-driven software development. Valeria Seidita is an assistant professor at the University of Palermo, where she primarily works on the creation and application of software engineering techniques, method and tools for engineering and developing complex systems.