Samuele Burattini
PostDoc Researcher & Adjunct Professor · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna
I work on Digital Twins, Multi-Agent Systems and the Web of Things — designing the abstractions and the tooling that let autonomous agents and digital twins discover, understand and act on each other across pervasive cyber-physical environments.
What I work on
Digital Twin Ecosystems
Hypermedia and Linked Data as the interoperability layer between digital twins: self-describing twins that agents can discover and compose at runtime, across the edge-cloud continuum.
Engineering Multi-Agent Systems
BDI agent programming languages and frameworks — concurrency models, explainability, anticipatory reasoning, and the knowledge-level framing of the Agents & Artifacts model.
Web of Things & Hypermedia MAS
Agents that use the Web as their environment: affordance discovery, domain-expert configuration of industrial hypermedia MAS, and agent embodiment in hypermedia spaces.
Currently
- Urban Digital Twin of BolognaFairness-aware models for its socio-demographic extension, at the Alma Human AI Research Center
- Industry 4.0Taught in the M.Sc. in Digital Transformation Management
Recent publications
- Hypermedia-based digital twin ecosystems: A proposal for digital twin interoperabilityFuture Gener. Comput. Syst. · 2026
- Towards Agents' Embodiment in Hypermedia Multi-agent SystemsMulti-Agent Systems · 2025
- The Two Faces of Interoperability: Bridging Cyber and Physical Spaces with Digital Twins2025 21st International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things (DCOSS-IoT) · 2025
- The Gap Between BDI Agents and Semantic Hypermedia and What We Can Do About ItProceedings of the Second International Workshop on Hypermedia Multi-Agent Systems (HyperAgents 2025) co-located with 28th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2025) · 2025