2013

  • F. Zambonelli, G. Castelli, M. Mamei, A. Rosi, "Programming Self-organizing Pervasive Applications with SAPERE", Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing, Prague (CZ), September 2013 (accepted). PDF
  • D. Schuster, A. Rosi, M. Mamei, T. Springer, M. Endler, F. Zambonelli, "Pervasive Social Context - Taxonomy and Survey",  ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, Vol. 4 No. 3, 2013 (in press). PDF
  • Elena Nardini, Andrea Omicini, Mirko Viroli, "Semantic Tuple Centres", Science of Computer Programming 78(5), May 2013. PDF
  • S. Mariani, A. Omicini, "MoK: Stigmergy Meets Chemistry to Exploit Social Actions for Coordination Purposes", The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour, AISB Convention 2013, University of Exeter (UK), 3-5 March 2013. PDF
  • S. Mariani, A. Omicini, "Probabilistic Embedding: Experiments with Tuple-based Probabilistic Languages", 28th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2013), Coimbra (POR), 18-22 March 2013. PDF
  • A. Molesini, A. Omicini, M. Viroli, F. Zambonelli "Engineering Pervasive Multiagent Systems in SAPERE", 1st International Workshop "Engineering Multi-Agent Systems" (EMAS 2013), Saint Paul (USA) 144-159, 6-7 May 2013. PDF
  • A. Omicini, "Nature-inspired Coordination Models: Current Status, Future Trends", ISRN Software Engineering, 2013, Hindawi Publishing Corporation. PDF


2012

  • G. Di Marzo Serugendo, R. Frei, J.L. Fernandez-Marquez, "Chemically Inspired Rules for Self-Healing Assembly Systems", International Conference on Through-life Engineering Services (TESConf), Shrivenham (UK), 5-6 November 2012. PDF
  • G.Castelli, M.Mamei, A.Rosi, F. Zambonelli, "Behavior Predictability Despite Non-Determinism in the SAPERE Ecosystem -- Preliminary Ideas", in Italian Workshop from Objects to Agents (WOA), Milan (Italy), 19 September 2012. PDF
  • G.Castelli, M.Mamei, A.Rosi, F. Zambonelli, "Behavior Predictability Despite Non-Determinism in the SAPERE Ecosystem", in 1st International Workshop on Adaptive Service Ecosystems: Natural and Socially Inspired Solutions (ASENSIS 2012), pp. 53-58, 10 September 2012. PDF
  • G. Stevenson, J.L. Fernandez-Marquez, S.Montagna, A.Rosi, J. Ye, G.Di Marzo Serugendo, M.Viroli, S. Dobson, A.E. Tchao, "Towards Situated Awareness in Urban Networks: A Bio-inspired Approach" in 1st International Workshop on Adaptive Service Ecosystems: Natural and Socially Inspired Solutions (ASENSIS 2012), pp. 53-58, 10 September 2012. PDF
  • G.Stevenson, M.Viroli, J.Ye, S.Montagna, S.Dobson, "Self-organising Semantic Resource Discovery for Pervasive Systems" in 1st International Workshop on Adaptive Service Ecosystems: Natural and Socially Inspired Solutions (ASENSIS 2012), pp. 47-52, 10 September 2012. PDF
  • M. Casadei, M. Viroli, "Toward Approximate Stochastic Model Checking of Computational Fields for Pervasive Computing Systems" in 1st International Workshop on Adaptive Service Ecosystems: Natural and Socially Inspired Solutions (ASENSIS 2012), pp. 59-64, 10 September 2012. PDF
  • S. Mariani, A. Omicini, "Self-Organising News Management: The Molecules of Knowledge Approach", 1st International Workshop on Adaptive Service Ecosystems: Natural and Socially Inspired Solutions (ASENSIS 2012), pages 11-16, 10 September 2012. PDF
  • M. Alberti, A.Omicini, "Towards the Analysis & Prediction of Complex System Behaviour in SAPERE", in 1st International Workshop on Adaptive Service Ecosystems: Natural and Socially Inspired Solutions (ASENSIS 2012), pages 5-10, 10 September 2012. PDF
  • S.Montagna, M. Viroli, D. Pianini, J.L. Fernandez-Marquez, "Towards a comprehensive approach to spontaneous self-composition in pervasive ecosystems", in Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on Objects and Agents, 12 September 2012.
  • J.L. Fernandez-Marquez, G. Di Marzo Serugendo, S.Montagna, BIO-CORE: "Bio-inspired Self-organising Mechanisms Core", in Bio-Inspired Models of Networks, Information, and Computing Systems, Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering 103, pages 59-72, 2012.
  • S. Montagna, D. Pianini, M. Viroli, "Gradient-based Self-organisation Patterns of Anticipative Adaptation", in the 6th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2012), Lyon (France), 10–14 September 2012.
  • A.E. Tchao, G. Di Marzo Serugendo, "SmartContent: A self-protecting and context-aware active content" in  2nd Awareness Workshop on Challenges for achieving Self-awareness in Autonomic Systems. IEEE International Conferences on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems 2012, Lyon (France), Sept 10-14, 2012. PDF
  • S. Montagna, M. Viroli, J.L. Fernandez-Marquez, G. Di Marzo Serugendo, F. Zambonelli, "Injecting Self-organisation into Pervasive Service Ecosystems", in Mobile Networks and Applications, September 2012. PDF
  • P. L. Snyder, G. Valetto, J.L. Fernandez-Marquez, G. Di Marzo Serugendo, "Augmenting the Repertoire of Design Patterns for Self-Organized Software by Reverse Engineering a Bio-Inspired P2P System", in the 6th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2012), Lyon (France), 10–14 September 2012. PDF
  • S. Mariani, A. Omicini, "Molecules of Knowledge: Self-Organisation in Knowledge-Intensive Environments" in Intelligent Distributed Computing VI, Studies in Computational Intelligence 446, pages 17-22, 24-26 September 2012. PDF
  • A. Omicini, "Nature-inspired Coordination for Complex Distributed Systems" in Intelligent Distributed Computing VI, Ch. 1, Studies in Computational Intelligence 446, pages 1-6, 24-26 September 2012. PDF 
  • F. Zambonelli, "Toward Sociotechnical Urban Superorganisms" in IEEE Computer, pages 76-78, August 2012. PDF
  • M. Viroli, G. Stevenson, "On the Space-time Situation of Pervasive Service Ecosystems" in Workshop on Spatial Computing, Valencia (Spain), June 2012. PDF
  • M. Viroli, D. Pianini, J. Beal, "Linda in space-time: an adaptive coordination model for mobile ad-hoc environments", in 14th Conference of Coordination Models and Languages (Coordination 2012),Stockholm (Sweden), 14-15 June. PDF
  • J. L. Fernandez-Marquez, G. Di Marzo Serugendo, S. Montagna, M. Viroli, J. Lluis Arcos, "Description and composition of bio-inspired design patterns: a complete overview" in Natural Computing Journal (ISI), Springer Netherlands, pages 1-25, May 2012. PDF
  • F. Zambonelli, "Keynote: Mobility in socio-technical urban organisms: from sensing to steering" in PerCom Workshops 2012:1st International Workshop on the Impact of Human Mobility in Pervasive Computing Services, Lugano (CH), March 2012, PDF
  • R. Menezes, A. Omicini, M. Viroli, "Dynamic Composition of Coordination Abstractions for Pervasive Systems: The Case of LogOp" in 27th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2012), Riva del Garda (Italy), 26-30 March 2012. PDF
  • G. Castelli, A. Rosi, F. Zambonelli, "Design and Implementation of a Socially-enhanced Pervasive Middleware", 3rd PERCOM Workshop on Pervasive Collaboration and Social Networking (PERCOL 2012), Lugano (CH), March 2012. PDF
  • M. Viroli, D. Pianini, S. Montagna, and G. Stevenson. "Pervasive ecosystems: a coordination model based on semantic chemistry", in 27th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2012), Riva del Garda (Italy), 26-30 March 2012.  PDF
  • A. Ferscha, "20 Years Past Weiser: What Next?", IEEE Pervasive Computing, Volume 11 Issue 1, pages 52-61 ,January 2012. PDF
  • J. L. Fernandez-Marquez, G. Di Marzo Serugendo, "Privacy Embedded in the Design: A Self-protecting Content Approach" in Awareness Newsletter 5, pages 6-7, Summer 2012. PDF
  • J. L. Fernandez-Marquez, G. Di Marzo Serugendo, "Modular Design and Implementation of Bio-inspired Self-organising Systems", in Awareness Newsletter 5, pages 6-7, Autumn 2012. PDF
  • M. Viroli, F. Zambonelli, G. Stevenson, S. Dobson, "From SOA to Pervasive Service Ecosystems: an approach based on Semantic Web technologies", in Javier Cubo, Guadalupe Ortiz (eds.), Adaptive Web Services for Modular and Reusable Software Development: Tactics and Solution, Ch. 8, pages 207--237, 2012. PDF
  • A. Ferscha, "Implicit Interaction", in J. Pitt (edt.), This Pervasive Day, World Scientific, 2011. PDF

2011

  • F. Zambonelli, "Towards Social-ICT Organisms", Pervasive Adaptation. The Next Generation Pervasive Computing Research Agenda, Ch. 8, pp. 86-87, May 2011. PDF
  • A. Omicini, "Self-organising Knowledge-intensive Workspaces", Pervasive Adaptation. The Next Generation Pervasive Computing Research Agenda, Ch. 7, pp. 71-72, May 2011. PDF
  • A. Omicini, M. Viroli, "Coordination models and languages: From parallel computing to self-organisation", The Knowledge Engineering Review, 26(1):53-59, 2011. PDF
  • M. Viroli, M. Casadei, S. Montagna, F. Zambonelli, "Spatial Coordination of Pervasive Services through Chemical-inspired Tuple Spaces", ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, 6(2), 2011. PDF
  • S. Montagna, M. Viroli, M. Risoldi, D. Pianini, G.Di Marzo Serugendo, "Self-organising Pervasive Ecosystems: A Crowd Evacuation Example", Third International Workshop, SERENE 2011, Geneva, Switzerland, September 29-30, 2011. PDF
  • D. Pianini, S. Montagna, M. Viroli, "A Chemical Inspired Simulation Framework for Pervasive Services Ecosystems", in Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS 2011), pp. 675-682, Szczecin, Poland, 18-21 September, 2011. PDF
  • F. Zambonelli, M. Viroli, "A Survey on Nature-inspired Methaphors for Pervasive Service Ecosystems", Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communication", Vol. 7(3), pp.186-204. PDF
  • L. Ferrari, A. Rosi, M. Mamei, F. Zambonelli, "Extracting Urban Patterns from Location-based Social Networks" , ACM SIGSPATIAL 2011 International Workshop on Location-Based Social Networks, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 2011. PDF
  • J. L. Fernandez-Marquez, J. Lluis Arcos, G. Di Marzo Serugendo, M. Casadei, "Description and Composition of Bio-Inspired Design Patterns: the Gossip Case", Eighth IEEE International Conference and Workshops on Engineering of Autonomic and Autonomous Systems, Las Vegas, USA, 27-29 April 2011 PDF
  • J. L. Fernandez-Marquez, J. Lluis Arcos, G. Di Marzo Serugendo, M. Viroli, S. Montagna, "Description and Composition of Bio-Inspired Design Patterns: the Gradient Case",in the 3rd Workshop on Bio-Inspired and Self-* Algorithms for Distributed Systems, Karlsruhe, Germany, 14 June 2011 PDF
  • F. Zambonelli, G. Castelli, M. Mamei, A. Rosi, "Integrating Pervasive Middleware with Social Networks in SAPERE", Int'l Conf. on Selected Topics in Mobile & Wireless Networking, Shanghai, China,  IEEE CS Press, 10-12 October 2011. PDF
  • G. Castelli, M. Mamei, A. Rosi, F. Zambonelli, "Pervasive Middleware Goes Social: the SAPERE Approach", First International Workshop on Socio-Aware Networked Computing Systems, Ann Arbor, MI, USA,  IEEE CS Press, October 3rd, 2011. PDF
  • A.-E. Tchao, M. Risoldi and G. Di Marzo Serugendo, "Modeling Self-* Systems using Chemically-Inspired Composable Patterns", The 5th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2011), pages 109–118. IEEE CS Press, 3–8 October 2011. PDF
  • D. Pianini, M. Viroli, S. Montagna, "A Simulation Framework for Pervasive Services Ecosystems",  WOA 2011 - XII Workshop Nazionale "Dagli Oggetti agli Agenti", CEUR Workshop Proceedings 741, 4-6 July 2011. PDF
  • M. Viroli, E. Nardini, G. Castelli, M. Mamei, F. Zambonelli, "A Coordination Approach to Spatially-Situated Pervasive Service Ecosystems", WOA 2011 - XII Workshop Nazionale "Dagli Oggetti agli Agenti", CEUR Workshop Proceedings 741, 4-6 July 2011. PDF
  • F. Zambonelli, G. Castelli, L. Ferrari, M. Mamei, A. Rosi, G. Di Marzo, M. Risoldi, A.-E. Tchao, S. Dobson, G. Stevenson, J. Ye, E. Nardini, A. Omicini, S. Montagna, M. Viroli, A. Ferscha, S. Maschek, B. Wally, "Self-aware Pervasive Service Ecosystems", The European Future Technologies Conference and Exhibition 2011, Procedia Computer Science,  7: 197-199, 2011. PDF
  • L. Ferrari, M. Mamei, F. Zambonelli, "The Rise of “All-about” Digital Diaries: Opportunities, Technologies and Challenges", IEEE IT Professional, 13(5):37-43, 2011. PDF
  • L. Ferrari, M. Mamei, F. Zambonelli, "All-about Diaries: Concepts and Experiences", International Conference on COMmunication System softWAre and middlewaRE, Verona, Italy, 2011. PDF
  • L. Ferrari, M. Mamei, "Identifying and Understanding Urban Sport Areas using Nokia Sports Tracker", Workshop on Pervasive Urban Applications, San Francisco (CA), USA, 2011 PDF
  • L. Ferrari, M. Mamei, "Where are your Sport Pals? Discovering city dynamics through sports tracking applications", Computer, IEEE computer Society Digital Library, vol. 99, no. PrePrints, 2011. PDF
  • J. Ye, S. Dobson, and S. McKeever, "Situation identification techniques in pervasive computing: a review", Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Vol. 8, No. 1. (February 2012), pp. 36-66,r. PDF
  • J. Ye, G. Stevenson and S. Dobson, "A top-level ontology for smart environments", Pervasive and Mobile Computing, vol. 7(3), pp.359-378.  PDF
  • L. Ferrari, M, Mamei, "Discovering Daily Routines from Google Latitude with Topic Models", IEEE Workshop on Context Modeling and Reasoning, pp.432-437, 21-25 March 2011. PDF
  • F. Zambonelli, "Pervasive Urban Crowsourcing: Visions and Challenges", The 7th IEEE Workshop on PervasivE Learning, Life, and Leisure (PerEl 2011), pp.578-583, 21-25 March 2011. PDF
  • G. Castelli, M. Mamei and F. Zambonelli, "The Changing Role of Pervasive Middleware: from Discovery and Orchestration to Recommendation and Planning", The 8th IEEE Workshop on Middleware and System Support for Pervasive Computing (PerWare 2011), pp.214-219, 21-25 March 2011. PDF
  • A. Rosi, S. Dobson, M. Mamei, G. Stevenson, J. Ye and F. Zambonelli, "Social Sensors and Pervasive Services: Approaches and Perspectives", Second IEEE Workshop on Pervasive Collaboration and Social Networking (PerCol 2011),  pp.525-530, 21-25 March 2011. PDF
  • C. Villalba and F. Zambonelli, "Towards Nature-Inspired Pervasive Service Ecosystems: Concepts and Simulation Experiences", Journal of Network Computers and Applications, vol. 34(2),  pp.589-602. PDF
  • M. Viroli, E. Nardini, G. Castelli, M. Mamei, F. Zambonelli, "A Coordination Approach to Adaptive Pervasive Service Ecosystems", The 1st Awareness Workshop "Challenges in achieving self-awareness in autonomous systems'' (AWARE 2011), SASO 2011, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, IEEE CS Press, 7 October 2011 PDF
  • M. Viroli, E. Nardini, G. Castelli, M. Mamei, F. Zambonelli, "Towards a Coordination Approach to Adaptive Pervasive Service Ecosystems", IEEE International Conferences on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems 2011, Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) -- October 3-7, 2011. Poster. PDF


Relevant Background Publications from the Consortium

  • A. Ferscha, S. Vogl, "Wearable Displays for Everyone!", IEEE Pervasive Computing, pp. 7-10, January-March, 2010.
  • Clemens Holzmann, Alois Ferscha, "A framework for utilizing qualitative spatial relations between networked embedded systems", Journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Volume 6 Issue 3, June, 2010.
  • G. Di Marzo Serugendo, J. S. Fitzgerald, A. Romanovsky, "MetaSelf: an architecture and a development method for dependable self-* systems", ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Sierre, Switzerland, 2010.
  • S. Dobson, R. Sterritt, P. Nixon and M. Hinchey, "Fulfilling the vision of autonomic computing". IEEE Computer 43(1):35–41, 2010.
  • M. Viroli, M. Casadei, E. Nardini, A. Omicini, "Towards a chemical-inspired infrastructure for self-* pervasive applications", Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 6090:152–176, Jul 2010.
  • Danny Weyns, Sam Malek, Rogério de Lemos, Jesper Andersson, "Self-Organizing Architectures", First International Workshop, SOAR 2009, Cambridge, UK, September 14, 2009, Revised Selected and Invited Papers Springer 2010
  • M. Viroli, F. Zambonelli,  "A biochemical approach to adaptive service ecosystems", Information Sciences, 180(10):1876-1892, 2010.
  • G. Castelli, M. Mamei, A. Rosi, F. Zambonelli, "Extracting High-Level Information from Location Data: The W4 Diary Example", MONET 14(1): 107-119, 2009.
  • A. Di Ferdinando, A. Rosi, R. Lent, A. Manzalini, F. Zambonelli, "MyAds: a System for Adaptive Pervasive Advertisement", Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 5(5):385-401, 2009.

Technical Reports

  • A. Molesini, A. Omicini, "Early Methodology". Technical Report TR.WP1.2012.6, SAPERE, October 2012. PDF
  • J. L. Fernandez-Marquez, "Analisys of propagation algorithms in SAPERE". Technical Report  TR.WP2.2013.2, SAPERE, May 2013. PDF
     

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