https://sites.google.com/view/woa2025

After the first successful 25 editions in Parma, Modena, Milano, Villasimius, Torino, Camerino, Catania, Genova, Palermo, Parma, Rimini, Rende, Milano, Torino, Catania, Napoli, Catania, Scilla, Palermo, Parma, Bologna (online) and Bologna, Genova, Roma, and Bard, the 26th edition of the Workshop “From Objects to Agents” (WOA) will be hosted by the University of Trento from July 2 to 5, 2025, in the city of Trento (TN).

The topic of this year edition will be:

New challenges on autonomous Agents and Decision-Making

Autonomous agents are changing the way decisions are made by acting on their own and learning from experience. They are used in areas like finance, healthcare, and robotics to handle tasks without constant human input. In some cases, multiple agents work together or compete to solve problems more efficiently. With AI and large language models, they are getting better to adapt to new situations.   However, it’s important to keep a balance between efficiency and human oversight. While they offer many benefits, they also raise new challenges that we would like to define and address.

WOA 2025 will bring together researchers in the intersection of Multi-Agent Systems, Human-Agent Interaction, Decision Making to discuss these issues and to suggest solutions and future research questions that could help to shape the autonomous agents of the future

Topics of Interest

Multi-Agent Systems, agent theory and technology related to AI, Human-Agent Interaction, Software Engineering techniques for agents and Business Process, Collaborative Business Processes, and Process Mining, Socio-Technical Systems.

The following topics are also more than welcome:

• Adaptive, animated, and personality-driven agents
• Agent-oriented software engineering
• Agent-based languages and platforms
• Agent-oriented methods and development tools
• Agents and objects
• Agents and Generative AI
• Agents and Large Language Models
• Agents and eXtended Reality
• Agents and sensor networks
• Agent-based modeling and simulation
• Business process management
• Compliance
• Coordination, cooperation and communication for agents
• Interaction protocols
• Commitments
• Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
• Formal models for agents and MAS
• Hardware and software infrastructures for agents and multi-agent systems
• Industrial applications of agents and MAS
• Learning, planning and reasoning for agents
• Monitoring
• Security, trust and responsibility in MAS
• Next generation socio-technical systems
• Software agents and the Web
• Standards and interoperability for agents and MAS
• Theoretical, conceptual and ontological basis of agents and MAS along with any other MAS-related topic
• Agent-based enabling technologies
• Intelligent tools and devices for smart collaboration

Non-original papers on these topics that have already been published elsewhere are also welcome. They will be an opportunity for authors to disseminate their work at WOA and they will be presented at the conference, but will not be included in the WOA proceedings.

Submissions

Contributions (max 16 pages excluding references) should follow the CEURART paper style

Non-original papers published elsewhere do not need to be formatted using the CEURART paper style. They should clearly state that they are not original by adding "[Already published in ...]" to the title.

All papers (original and non-original) can be submitted in PDF format via a conference platform that will be announced soon on the WOA website

Proceedings

The original papers accepted for presentation at WOA will be published in the CEUR AIxIA series

Journal Special Issue

We will organize a Special Issue on some high quality journal with the best-selected and revised WOA 2025 original papers

Important Dates

Submission deadline: May 10, 2025
Notification of acceptance: May 25, 2025
Camera Ready due: July 20, 2025 (post workshop)
Workshop: July 2-5, 2025
Post-proceedings on CEUR: September 1, 2025 (tentative)

Organizing Committee

General Chairs
Enrico Blanzieri, Università degli Studi di Trento
Viviana Mascardi, Università degli Studi di Genova

Program Chairs
Enrico Blanzieri, Università degli Studi di Trento
Giovanni Ciatto, Università degli Studi di Bologna

Local Organization Chair
Sara Chinellato, Università degli Studi di Trento
 

Trento at a Glance

The city of Trento: the unique charm of a Renaissance alpine city, where history is art.

Trento is a city rooted in art and history, where the Italian and Mitteleuropean cultures meet. Unique amongst the alpine cities, the City of the Council (1545 - 1563) still keeps its precious monuments as tokens of its rich artistic and historic heritage. Built in the elegant Renaissance style, they have been enhanced by recent refurbishing works.

Special mention goes to the Castello del Buonconsiglio, the Castle for several centuries residence of the Prince-Bishops of Trento; the Duomo, the Cathedral of Trento dedicated to San Vigilio, its gorgeous piazza and fountain dedicated to Neptune, the frescoed houses and Council churches as well as the museums and exhibitions which make the city of Trento a true landmark of alpine arts, culture and traditions.

Historical and Architectural tips

Concilio di Trento (Concilium Tridentinum)

The Council of Trento, held between 1545 and 1563 in Trento and Bologna, was one of the Roman Catholic Church’s most important ecumenical councils. Prompted by the Protestant Reformation, it has been described as the embodiment of the Counter-Reformation.

Castello del Buonconsiglio (Buonconsiglio Castle)

The Castello del Buonconsiglio is the largest and most important monumental complex of the Trentino Alto Adige region.

It was the residence of the Principi Vescovi (Prince-Bishops) of Trentofrom the 13^th century to the end of the 18^th Century, and is composed of a series of buildings of different eras, enclosed by walls and positioned slightly higher than the city

• the Castelvecchio is the oldest part, dominated by an imposing cylindrical tower
• the Magno Palazzo is the 16^th century expansion in the Italian Renaissance-style as commissioned by the Prince-Bishop and Cardinal Bernardo Clesio (1485-1539)
• the Baroque-style Giunta Albertiana dates from the end of the 17^thcentury
• at the extreme south of the complex is the Torre Aquila, within which is conserved the famous Cycle of the Months, one of the most fascinating secular pictorial cycles of the late Middle Ages.

Also of exceptional interest are the extensive cycle of frescoes commissioned by the bishops to decorate the interior walls of the Castle, mainly in the late Middle Ages to the Renaissance period. After the end of the Episcopal principality (1803) the castle was used as a barracks; following its restoration in 1924, it became the National Museum, and since 1973 it belongs to the Autonomous Province of Trento.

Duomo di Trento (Cathedral of Trento)

Trento’s Cathedral is dedicated to Saint Vigil and has ancient origins.

Some records indicate that the first church was built on the burial ground of this saint, martyred in the fifth century. It was then enlarged, whilst its present appearance is owed to Bishop Federico Vanga, who entrusted the redesigning of the cathedral to Adam d’Argogno in 1212. The position of the church is the result of his plan.

The construction, continued over the centuries by d’Arogno’s descendants, underwent various changes respectful of the original project. 
The contrast between the Romanesque style and the height of the vaults recalling Gothic cathedrals is extraordinary. 
 

MUSE, Museo delle Scienze (MUSE, Science Museum)

MUSE is a place of constant change, from the main exhibitions, up to date with the latest developments, to special projects, with prestigious national and international collaborations, and finally to MUSE Lab, where the most advanced experiments in the field of new technologies take place.

The exhibition of Muse uses the metaphor of the mountain to describe life on Earth.

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