POGGI Agostino

Agostino Poggi is full professor of Computer Engineering at the Department of Engineering and Architecture of the University of Parma. Agostino Poggi received a Laurea degree cum laude in Electronics Engineering in 1987 and a Ph.D. in Computers and Electronics Engineering in 1992, both from the University of Genoa. From 1993 to 1998, he was assistant professor at the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Parma and from 1998 to 2001 he was associate professor at the same department.

His research focuses on agent, Web and object-oriented technologies and their use to develop distributed and complex systems. In these research areas, he has been and is involved both in national and international projects, coordinating the research of his Department inside different projects funded by public and private organizations. In particular, he coordinated the research unit of the University of Parma in different EU funded research projects and he was one of the authors of JADE, an "open source" software development framework for realizing multi-agent systems that is become the international reference software to develop multi-agent applications.

He is author of more than two hundreds of technical papers in international scientific journals, books and refereed conference proceedings, and his scientific contribution has been recognized through the "System Research Foundation Outstanding Scholarly Contribution Award" in 1988 and through the "Innovation System Award" in 2001. Moreover, he was the coordinator of the multi-agent working group of Italian Association on Artificial Intelligence (1998-2002) and member of the editorial board of IEEE Internet Computing (1998-2002). He is currently editor of the Software Practice & Experience Journal and in the editorial board of the following scientific journals: International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, International Journal on Advances in Intelligent Systems, International Journal of Hybrid Intelligent Systems and International Journal of Multiagent and Grid Systems.