Semantic Resource Management in MAS (2009)
Nicola Cannata, Flavio Corradini, Francesca Piersigilli, Emanuela Merelli, Leonardo Vito
Abstract—In highly dynamic environments like academy and industry it is becoming essential the need of efficient systems for resources organization and discovery. In this paper we describe a...
Cell-MAS: ATP production from carbohydrate oxydation (2008)
Flavio Corradini, Emanuela Merelli, Marco Vita
Abstract. A cell is a biological complex system. Due to his complexity the design of a simulation system is still a challenge for the scientific community. Agent oriented software engineering offers...
Emanuela Merelli, Michael Luck
The scope of the Technical Forum Group (TFG) on Agents in Bioinformatics (BIOAGENTS) was to inspire collaboration between the agent and bioinformatics communities with the aim of creating an...
Ezio Bartocci, Diletta Cacciagrano, Nicola Cannata, Flavio Corradini, Emanuela Merelli, Luciano Milanesi, ...
multilayer architecture to support bioinformaticians
A DAS view of agent-based workflows (2008)
Ezio Bartocci, Emanuela Merelli, Steffen Möller
The continuous technological advancement in DNA sequencing led to an avalanche of data on biological sequences and their variants. Today, even several large mammalian genomes are fully sequenced and...
Abstract BioAgent: A Mobile Agent System for Bioscientists (2008)
Emanuela Merelli, Rosario Culmone, Leonardo Mariani
The postgenomic era is characterized by the large amount of data available from sequencing experiments. Each scientific institute works on different projects; therefore, data increases rapidly as do...
Model driven design and implementation of (2008)
Ezio Bartocci, Flavio Corradini, Emanuela Merelli, Leonardo Vito
Hermes is an agent-based middleware structured as a component-based and 3-layered software architecture. Hermes provides an integrated, flexible programming environment for design and execution of...
Agent Reactive Component for SMART (2008)
Leonardo Mariani And, Leonardo Mariani, Emanuela Merelli
The rapid growth of agent-based systems has given rise to a situation where software testing and validation of agents and multi-agent systems are dicult. The need to de ne an engineering methodology...
A Successive Overrelaxation Back Propagation Algorithm for Neural Network Training (2007)
Renato De Leone, Emanuela Merelli
Abstract--- A variation of the classical Back--Propagation algorithm for neural network training is proposed and convergence is established using the perturbation results of Mangasarian and Solodov...
Diploma Universitario in Informatica (2007)
Renato De Leone, Emanuela Merelli, Sara Buti
Abstract: Two massively parallel algorithms for large scale linear and convex quadratic network flow problems are proposed and studied. The methods are based on the alternating step method for...
Abstract An ontology similarity algorithm for BioAgent (2007)
Rosario Culmone, Gloria Rossi, Emanuela Merelli
In the last years, the Web has been evolving, transforming itself in a semantic Web [1]. The new Web aims at guaranteeing almost completely automatic access to information sources, by introducing...
BioWMS: a web-based Workflow Management System for bioinformatics (2007)
Bartocci, Ezio, Corradini, Flavio, Merelli, Emanuela, Scortichini, Lorenzo
Abstract Background An in-silico experiment can be naturally specified as a workflow of activities implementing, in a standardized environment, the process of data and control analysis. A workflow...
Biowep: a workflow enactment portal for bioinformatics applications (2007)
Romano, Paolo, Bartocci, Ezio, Bertolini, Guglielmo, De Paoli, Flavio, Marra, Domenico, Mauri, Giancarlo, ...
Abstract Background The huge amount of biological information, its distribution over the Internet and the heterogeneity of available software tools makes the adoption of new data integration and...
BioMed Central Open Access (2007)
Bmc Bioinformatics, Paolo Romano, Ezio Bartocci, Guglielmo Bertolini, Flavio De Paoli, Domenico Marra, ...
Biowep: a workflow enactment portal for bioinformatics applications
BMC Bioinformatics BioMed Central (2007)
Ezio Bartocci, Flavio Corradini, Emanuela Merelli, Lorenzo Scortichini, Emanuela Merelli, Lorenzo Scortichini
Background: An in-silico experiment can be naturally specified as a workflow of activities implementing, in a standardized environment, the process of data and control analysis. A workflow has the...
Agents in bioinformatics, computational and systems biology (2007)
Merelli, Emanuela, Armano, Giuliano, Cannata, Nicola, Corradini, Flavio, D'Inverno, Mark, Doms, Andreas, ...
The adoption of agent technologies and multi-agent systems constitutes an emerging area in bioinformatics. In this article, we report on the activity of the Working Group on Agents in Bioinformatics...
Mauro Angeletti, Arianna Baldoncini, Nicola Cannata, Flavio Corradini, Rosario Culmone, Claudio Forcato, ...
Computational models that reproduce and predict the detailed behavior of cellular systems form the Holy Grail of systems biology [1]. Molecular Dynamics represents the most accurate and fundamental...
A GRID-based multilayer architecture for bioinformatics (2006)
Ezio Bartocci, Diletta Cacciagrano, Nicola Cannata, Flavio Corradini, Emanuela Merelli, Luciano Milanesi, ...
Abstract. The volume and complexity of biological data and informations available today need a significant computational data and processes analysis. A huge amount of bioinformatics databases and...
Hermes: agent-based middleware for mobile computing (2005)
Corradini, Flavio, Merelli, Emanuela
Hermes is a middleware system for design and execution of activity-based applications in distributed environments. It supports mobile computation as an application implementation strategy. While...
A Multi-Agent System for Modelling Carbohydrate Oxidation in Cell (2005)
Corradini, Flavio, Merelli, Emanuela, Vita, Marco
A cell consists of a large number of components interacting in a dynamic environment. The complexity of interaction among cell components and functions makes design of cell simulations a challenging...
Hermes: agent-based middleware for mobile computing (2005)
Flavio Corradini, Emanuela Merelli
Abstract. Hermes is a middleware system for design and execution of activity-based applications in distributed environments. It supports mobile computation as an application implementation strategy....
Validating MAS Models with Mutation (2005)
Emanuela Merelli And, Emanuela Merelli, Michal Young
A key reason for choosing agent-based simulation of a biological system over other kinds of simulation model is the potential for structural as well as behavioral correspondence between the...
Computational Biology, Emanuela Merelli, Simon Miles, Huaglory Tianfield
There is nearly no country in the world not suffering from the ever increasing impacts and costs for its health care system. These are not the least boosted by the steadily increasing number of...
An agent-based conceptual framework for biological systems simulation (2005)
Nicola Cannata, Flavio Corradini, Emanuela Merelli, Andrea Omicini, Alessandro Ricci
Abstract. Recently, a collective effort from multiple research areas has been made to understand biological systems at the system level. On the one hand, researchers working on Systems Biology aim at...
An agent-based layered middleware as tool integration (2004)
Corradini, Flavio, Mariani, Leonardo, Merelli, Emanuela
Tool integration is a very difficult challenge. Problems may rise at different abstraction levels and from several sources such as heterogeneity of manipulated data, incompatible interfaces or...
Based on invited talks by (2004)
Emanuela Merelli, Michael Luck, Giuliano Armano, Andrea Doms, Nicola Cannata, Flavio Corradini, ...
The first Technical Forum Group (TFG) on Agents in Bioinformatics (BIOAGENTS) was held on the 2nd of July, 2004, in Rome, Italy. The scope of the TFG was to inspire collaboration between the agent...
A process algebra view of coordination models with a case study in computational biology (2004)
Roberta Amici, Diletta R. Cacciagrano, Flavio Corradini, Emanuela Merelli
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An Agent-Based Approach To Tool Integration (2004)
Flavio Corradini, Leonardo Mariani, Emanuela Merelli
Tool integration is a very di#cult challenge. Problems may arise at di#erent abstraction levels and from several sources such as heterogeneity of manipulated data, incompatible interfaces, or...
Designing Modular Agent Systems (2003)
Bonura, Diego, Mariani, Leonardo, Merelli, Emanuela
The paper contributes to research on component and multi- agent systems by presenting a practical approach to the development of a modular and reusable middleware. In particular, we address the...
An XML view of the “world (2003)
Ezio Bartocci, Emanuela Merelli, Leonardo Mariani
Abstract: The paper presents ”Any Input XML Output ” (AIXO), a general and flexible software architecture for wrappers. The architecture has been designed to present data sources as collections...
Designing modular agent systems (2003)
Diego Bonura, Leonardo Mariani, Emanuela Merelli
Abstract. The paper contributes to research on component and multiagent systems by presenting a practical approach to the development of a modular and reusable middleware. In particular, we address...
Bioagent: A mobile agent system for bioscientists (2002)
Emanuela Merelli, Rosario Culmone, Leonardo Mariani
The postgenomic era is characterized by the large amount of data available from sequencing experiments. Each scientific institute works on di#erent projects; therefore, data increases rapidly as do...
A Tabu Search Method Guided By Shifting Bottleneck for the Job Shop Scheduling Problem (2000)
Ferdinando Pezzella And, O Pezzella, Emanuela Merelli
A computationally e#ective heuristic method for solving the minimum makespan problem of job shop scheduling is presented. The proposed local search method is based on a tabu search technique and on...
A modified backpropagation algorithm for neural network training (1995)
Renato De Leone, Emanuela Merelli
Abstract--- A variation of the classical Back--Propagation algorithm for neural network training is proposed and convergence is established using the perturbation results of Mangasarian and Solodov...
Biowep: a workflow enactment portal for bioinformatics applications
Romano, Paolo, Bartocci, Ezio, Bertolini, Guglielmo, De Paoli, Flavio, Marra, Domenico, Mauri, Giancarlo, ...