About Me

About me

I am currently a Researcher at DISI, Università di Bologna. My research interestes are:

autonomous agents and multi-agent systems

computational logics, logic programming, abduction

social aspects of multi-agent systems and semantics of agent communication

interaction protocols definition languages, properties of such languages

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My personal interests, other than research, are music, mountain (summer and winter), scuba diving and reading.

 

Short curriclum vitae

Personal Information

Name and Surname: Federico Chesani

Date and place of birth: 6 June 1975, Bologna, Italy

Current position: Researcher at DISI, Università degli Studi di Bologna

Place of residence: Bologna, Italy

Citizenship: Italian

Civil status: married, with two children

Education

2002: MEng (Diploma di Laurea) in Computer Science Engineering: "Un Sistema che Integra Tecniche Basate sul Contenuto e sulla Collaborazione fra Utenti per la Generazione Automatica di Suggerimenti nellAccesso allInformazione". Supervisors: Prof. P. Mello and Dr. Y. Faihe

2007: Ph.D., with a thesis entitled "Specification, Execution and Verification of Interaction Protocols".

 

Grants

2004-2006: PhD scholarship (borsa di dottorato) in Computer Science Engineering by the University of Bologna (DEIS, Corso di dottorato in Ingegneria Elettronica ed Informatica, XVIII ciclo): " Formalizzazione ed esecuzione di protocolli di interazione ". Supervisors: Prof. P. Mello, Ing. P. Torroni.

2007: Researcher at CINI

2008-2009: post doc funding (Assegno di ricerca) at DEIS

2010: Senior Post Doc funding at DEIS

Current and past projects

2002-2005: SOCS project, funded by EU, IST, 5th framework programme, on "Societies Of ComputeeS: a computational logical model for the description, analysis and verification of global and open societies of heterogeneous computees", coordinator F. Toni.

2004-2005: MIUR PRIN project "Sviluppo e verifica di sistemi nulti-agente basati sulla logica", coordinator A. Martelli.

2009-2010: MIUR PRIN project "Studio ed applicazione di tecniche di Intelligenza Artificiale all’analisi dei flussi turistici", coordinator Prof. Bernardo Valli, (funding 2007).

 

Modern language skills

Italian, native speaker.

English, fluent.

Contact

Ing. Federico Chesani
Dipartimento di Informatica, Elettronica e Sistemistica
Laboratorio di Informatica Avanzata
Università di Bologna
V.le Risorgimento, 2
40136 BOLOGNA, Italy
office: +39 051 209 3086
FAX: +39 051 209 3073