Silvia Rossi CURRICULUM VITAE ET STUDIORUM Personal Data Date of birth : May 16, 1977 City of Birth : Caserta (Italy) Email : silvia.rossi@gmail.com Education Diploma di Maturita Scientifica, Liceo Scientifico A. Diaz, Caserta (Italy). Graduated with honors in Physics, University of Naples Federico II. Master thesis on A multi-agent system for an adaptive navigation support in the web-site of the Herculaneum Excavations. Advisors prof. G. Trautteur and prof. E. Burattini. The dissertation has been carried out at the institute of Cybernetics E. Caianiello CNR (Italian National Council of Research) - Pozzuoli (Napoli). Ph.D in Information and Communication Technologies, University of Trento, Italy. Thesis: Communication and Overhearing for Modelling and Monitoring Group Interactions. Advisor: Oliviero Stock, co-advisor: Paolo Busetta. Reseach activities has been carried aut in collaboration with the ITC-irst of Trento - Italy and the Oregon Graduate Institute - Portland OR - USA. Scientific Experiences 2000 2001 Undergraduate Research Assistant at Institute of Cybernetics E. Caianiello CNR, Naples (Italy). The areas of research were Intelligent Agents and Adaptive User Interfaces, with emphasis on BDI agents and Multi-agents systems for adaptive interfaces on web. 2001 2002 Graduate Research Assistant at Institute of Cybernetics E. Caianiello CNR, Naples (Italy). 2001 2002 Research Consultant at the University of Naples on the project Campus One for the introduction of technologies within the Campus, experimentation and management of e-learning systems. 2003 2005 Research Consultant of the Division on Cognitive and Communication Technologies at ITC-irst, Trento (Italy).
October 2004 March 2005 Visiting Researcher at the Center for Human-Computer Communication Oregon Health and Science University OHSU, Oregon USA. 2007 Research Consultant at the University of Naples on the project Neatec for the study of robotic systems for active surveillance. 2007 2008 Research Consultant at the University of Naples on the project S.Co.P.E. on Grid Computing. Local Organizing Committee for the 11th International Conference on Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery at Naples (Italy). Local Organizing Committee for 1st International Symposium on Brain, Vision and Artificial intelligence, BVAI 2005. Local Organizing Committee for 2nd International Symposium on Brain, Vision and Artificial intelligence, BVAI 2007. Review activities for IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics. Review activities for IJCAI07 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Review activities for Artificial Intelligence Journal. Review activities for the journal Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. Participation in Projects 2001 2002 project Campus One on new technologies for didactic activities within the University (funded by: MIUR Ministero dell istruzione, dell universita e della ricerca). 2001 2002 research project intelligent interface for the WEBGIS-ASP system in collaboration with CNR and the BULL-Italia company. 2003 2005 project Peach (Personal Experience with Active Cultural Heritage)(funded by the Autonomous Province of Trento). 2007 project Neatec. 2007 2008 project S.Co.P.E.. Spoken Languages Italian (mother tongue) English (fluent) Schools, Conferences and Talks Athens (Greece), July 2000: winner of a grant for a Java programming course organized by the university organization BEST (Board of European Student of Technology). Bologna (Italy), July 8/12 2002: School. participation to the 4th European Agent System Summer Naples (Italy), May 22 2003: presentation of the paper When a multi-agent paradigm meets with cultural heritage appreciation: the Herculaneum archaeological excavations web-site at the workshop Contesti virtuali e fruizione dei beni culturali. 2
Seattle (WA USA), October 12 2003: presentation of the paper Group Communication for Real-time Coordination and Ambient Intelligence at the Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Mobile Systems 2003 [AIMS2003] in conjunction with UbiComp. Naples (Italy), March 4 2004: Invited seminar on Group Communication via Overhearing in Smart Environments at the University of Naples. Trento (Italy), June 23 2004: talk at the final workshop on Technologies for Interactive Cognitive and Communicative Agents, TICCA on Overhearing applied to group behavior recognition: initial thoughts on group logic and computational model. Liverpool (Uk), July 5/9 2004: School. participation to the Sixth European Agent System Summer Erfurt (Germany), September 27 2004: presentation of the paper Towards Monitoring of Group Interactions and Social Roles via Overhearing at the eight international workshop on Cooperative Information Agents CIA04. Naples (Italy), May 18 2005: Invited seminar on Dealing with Group Communication: Overhearers and Teamwork in Multi-agent Protocols at the University of Naples. Edinburgh (Scotland), July 30 2005: presentation of the paper With A Little Help From A Friend: Applying Overhearing To Teamwork at the workshop on Modelling Others from Observations (MOO 2005), IJCAI05. Edinburgh (Scotland), August 4 2005: presentation of the paper Distributive and Collective Readings in Group Protocols at the nine international joint conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI05. Barcellona (Spain), March 5 2007: presentation of the paper Web Contents and Structural Adaptivity by Knowledge Tree: The Herculaneum Excavation Hypermedia at the third international conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, WEBIST07. Napoli (Italy), October 11 2007: presentation of the paper A Robotic Architecture with Innate Releasing Mechanism at the second international symposium on Brain, Vision and Artificial Intelligence, BVAI07. Napoli (Italy), May 28 2008: presentation of the paper Browsing a Website with Topographic Hints at the conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI08). Osaka (Japan), July 8 2008: presentation of the paper From Adaptive Perception to Adaptive Emergent Behavior using Rhythmic Releasers last minute results at the conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB08). Osaka (Japan), July 11 2008: presentation of the paper Periodic Activations of Behaviors and Motivational States at the workshop on The role of emotion in adaptive behavior and cognitive robotics. Technical Skills Operating Systems : Unix, Linux, basis of VAX/VMS, MS DOS, Windows98/NT/2000/XP Computer Languages : Java, Python, C, C++, Pascal, FORTRAN, Lisp and Prolog (used at University), HTML, XML. 3
Teaching Academic year 2001/2002: Teacher of the course Elements of Computer Science, Communication Technologies and Computer Graphics for the Master Teseo at the University of Naples Italy. Academic year 2003/2004: Exercise lab of the course on Informatica Umanistica, Facolta di Lettere, University of Trento Italy. Academic year 2005/2006: Exercise lab of the course on Programming Languages I, Corso di Laurea in Informatica, Facolta di Scienze MM.FF.NN., University of Naples Federico II Italy. Academic year 2005/2006: Teacher of the course of Logic, Corso di Laurea in Scienze della Comunicazione, Facolta di Lettere e Filosofia University of Salerno Italy. Academic year 2006/2007: Exercise lab of the course on Programming Languages I, Corso di Laurea in Informatica, Facolta di Scienze MM.FF.NN., University of Naples Federico II Italy. Academic year 2006/2007: Teacher of the course of Computer skills Corso di Laurea in Tecniche Psicologiche per la Persona e la Comunita, Facolta di Psicologia Second University of Naples Italy. Academic year 2007/2008: Teacher of the course of Programmazione modulo A Corso di Laurea in Informatica, Facolta di Scienze MM.FF.NN University of Naples Federico II Italy. Academic year 2008/2009: Teacher of the course of Programmazione I Corso di Laurea in Informatica, Facolta di Scienze MM.FF.NN University of Naples Federico II Italy. Publications 1. E. Burattini and S. Rossi, Periodic Adaptive Activation of Behaviors in Robotic Systems, International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (IJPRAI), vol.22(5), pp. 987-999, 2008. 2. E. Burattini, S. Rossi and M. De Gregorio, A neural network generating adaptive rhythms for controlling Behavior Based Robotic Systems, accepted at the 10th Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (SBRN), 2008. 3. E. Burattini and S. Rossi, From Adaptive Perception to Adaptive Emergent Behavior using Rhythmic Releasers, accepted as last minute result at the conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB08). 4. S. Rossi, A. Inserra and E. Burattini, Browsing a Website with Topographic Hints, Proceedings of the conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI08), in cooperation with ACM-SIGCHI, ACM-SIGMM, SIGCHI Italy, ACM Press, pp. 347 350, ISBN: 1-978-60558-141-5. 5. E. Burattini and S. Rossi, A Robotic Architecture with Innate Releasing Mechanism, Proceedings of Second International Symposium on Brain, Vision and Artificial intelligence (BVAI 2007). Springer-Verlag Berlin, printed in Germany, LNCS v.4729, 2007, pp. 576-585, ISBN: 978-3-540-75554-8. 4
6. E. Burattini, S. Rossi and M. Staffa, Adaptive Periodic Control Systems in Robotics: a Case Study, accettato al workshop Verso la Robotica Intenzionale accepted at the tenth meeting of the Italian Association of Artificial Intelligence AI*IA, 2008. 7. E. Burattini and S. Rossi, Periodic Activations of Behaviors and Motivational States, accepted at the workshop on The role of emotion in adaptive behavior and cognitive robotics, 2008. 8. S. Rossi, V. Scognamiglio and E. Burattini, Web Contents and Structural Adaptivity by Knowledge Tree: The Herculaneum Excavation Hypermedia, Accepted at the third International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies WEBIST07. Barcellona, Spain, 3-6 Marzo 2007. 9. P. Busetta, P. Bresciani, L. Penserini, S. Rossi and T. Kuflik, Delivering services in active museums via group communication. O. Stock, M. Zancanaro (eds.) PEACH: Intelligent Interfaces for Museum Visits. Cognitive Technologies Series, Springer, Berlin, in press (March, 2007) ISBN-10: 3-540-68754-8 ISBN-13: 978-3-540-68754-2. 10. S. Rossi, S. Kumar and P.R. Cohen, Distributive and Collective Readings in Group Protocols, Accepted at the Nineteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI05. Edinburgh, Scotland, 30 July - 5 August 2005. ISBN:0-938075-94-2. 11. S. Rossi, and P. Busetta, With A Little Help From A Friend: Applying Overhearing To Teamwork, Accepted at the workshop on Modeling Others from Observations (MOO 2005) at IJCAI05. Edinburgh, Scotland, 30 July 2005. 12. S. Rossi, and P. Busetta, Towards Monitoring of Group Interactions and Social Roles via Overhearing, Accepted at the eight international workshop on Cooperative Information Agents, LNCS 3191 pp. 47-61, September 27 29, 2004 Erfurt, Germany. ISBN: 3-540-23170-6. 13. P. Busetta, T. Kuflik, M. Merzi, and S. Rossi, Service Delivery in Smart Environments by Implicit Organizations. Accepted at The First Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking and Services (MobiQuitous 2004), August 22-25, 2004 - Boston, Massachusetts, USA. IEEE Computer Society ISBN: 0-7695-2208-4. 14. P. Busetta, M. Merzi, S. Rossi, and F. Legras, Intra-role Coordination Using Group Communication: A Preliminary Report. In Advanced in Agent Communication, volume LNAI 2922, pages 231-253, Springer, 2004. ISBN: 3-540-20769-4. 15. P. Busetta, M. Merzi, S. Rossi, and M. Zancanaro, Group Communication for Real-time Coordination and Ambient Intelligence. Published in Kruger, Antonio and Malaka, Rainer (eds.), Proceedings of the Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Mobile Systems 2003 [AIMS2003] in conjunction with UbiComp, Seattle (WA), USA, Universitaet des Saarlandes-Saarbrucken 2003, pp. 9-16. ISSN: 0944-7822. 16. P. Busetta, M. Merzi, S. Rossi, and F. Legras, Realtime Role Coordination For Ambient Intelligence. Accepted at the Workshop on Resources, role and task allocation in multi-agent systems at AAMAS03, Melbourne, Australia, 2003. 17. P. Busetta, M. Merzi, S. Rossi, and F. Legras, Intra-role Coordination Using Group Communication: A Preliminary Report. Accepted at the Workshop on Agent communication languages and conversation policies at AAMAS03, Melbourne, Australia, 2003. 18. S. Rossi and L. Serino, When a multi-agent paradigm meets with cultural heritage appreciation: the Herculaneum archaeological excavations web-site Extended abstract accepted at Contesti virtuali e fruizione dei beni culturali 22,23 May 2003, Napoli, Italy. 5
19. P. Busetta, M. Merzi, S. Rossi, and F. Legras, Intra-role coordination using channeled multicast. Technical Report 0303-02, ITC-IRST, Trento, Italy, 2003. 20. S. Rossi and E. Burattini, A Multi-Agent System for an Adaptive Navigation Support in the web-site of the Herculaneum Excavation. Technical Report R.I. 154/02, Luglio 2002, Istituto di Cibernetica E. Caianiello - CNR, Napoli. 6