A. Cesta

Amedeo Cesta has been a research scientist for the Italian National Research Council (CNR) since September 1991. He obtained a degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Rome in 1983. After working as a consultant in different artificial intelligence projects he joined the Doctorate Program in Computer Science at the University of Rome in 1988 and he obtained the "Dottorato di Ricerca" in 1992 defending a thesis on the integration of planning and scheduling in a problem solving architecture. During 1990 he was a visiting scholar at the Robotics Institute of the Carnegie Mellon University. Since 1988 Dr.Cesta has being cooperating with the Project for the Simulation of Social Behavior at the Institute of Psychology of the CNR carrying out research on multi-agent systems with particular attention to the formalization of the cognitive aspects of dependence. He is also involved in the Italian Special Project on Planning in connection with the Department of Computer Science of the University of Rome "La Sapienza". Dr.Cesta is member of the Italian Association for AI, AAAI, ACM and IEEE Computer Society. His current interests include planning, scheduling, multi-agent interaction and man-machine interfaces.

Selected publications

1. Castelfranchi, C., Miceli, M., Cesta, A., Dependence Relations among Autonomous Agents, in E.Werner, Y.Demazeau (Eds), Decentralized A.I. - 3 (Proceedings of the Third European Workshop on Modeling Autonomous Agents in a Multi Agent World, August 5-7, 1991, Kaiserslautern, Germany), Elsevier (North Holland), 1992.
2. Castelfranchi, C., Conte, R., Cesta, A., The Organization as a Structure of Negotiated and Non Negotiated Binds, in G.C. van der Veer, M.J.Tauber, S.Bagnara, M.Antalovits (Eds.), Human Computer Interaction: Tasks and Organization. Proceedings of the Sixth European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics (ECCE6), Balatonfured, Hungary, September 6-11, 1992.
3. Miceli, M., Cesta, A., Strategic Social Planning: Looking for Willingness in Multi-Agent Domains, Proc. of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Boulder, CO, June, 1993.
4. Cesta, A., Romano, G., Using Abstraction-Based Similarity to Retrieve Reuse Candidates, in J.Hendler (Ed), Artificial Intelligence Planning Systems: Proceedings of the First International Conference (AIPS92), Morgan Kaufmann, San Mateo, CA, 1992.
5. Muscettola, N., Smith, S.F., Cesta, A., D'Aloisi, D., Coordinating Space Telescope Operations in an Integrated Planning and Scheduling Architecture, IEEE Control Systems Magazine, February 1992, Vol.12, N.1.
6. Cesta, A., Conte, R., Miceli, M. (Eds.), Pre-Proceedings of the 4th European Workshop on Modeling Autonomous Agents in a Multi-Agent World (MAAMAW '92), S.Martino al Cimino (VT), July 29-31, 1992, IP-CNR, Roma.