Luca Sabatucci

Research Interests

Research Journey

Throughout my career, I have explored the synergies between Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence, focusing on developing socio-technical systems. These complex systems integrate technological, human, and physical components, where interactions between people, technology, and the environment are fundamental to system functioning and performance.

My research journey has evolved through several key phases:

Multi-Agent Systems and Design Patterns: Early work focused on developing methods for complex system design using the multi-agent paradigm and design pattern reuse, leading to the development of tools and frameworks for pattern-based design.
Requirements Engineering for Socio-Technical Systems: Research on advanced methods for analyzing requirements in socio-technical systems, where requirements are often fuzzy, incomplete, personal, and dynamic. This work led to innovative approaches combining formal requirement gathering with user-centered design.
Self-Adaptive Systems: Development of a novel model for implementing self-adaptive systems where cognitive software agents reason about system requirements to organize execution plans. This work earned recognition through the SEAMS'15 Best Paper Award and led to multiple successful research projects.

Current Research Interests

Ambient Assisted Living for the Elderly: Current focus on developing highly personalized services for elderly care, balancing system autonomy with user control and understanding. The research aims to integrate technology into elderly lives considering cultural, social, and aesthetic factors. This work involves collaboration with Karol srl, a healthcare facility serving as a test site for personalized assistance solutions.

Large Language Models in Requirements Engineering: Exploring the potential of Generative AI in requirements engineering, particularly in developing tools that can analyze textual documents, transcribe interviews, identify discrepancies between stakeholders, highlight areas needing clarity, and suggest questions to fill knowledge gaps. This research combines qualitative user-centered design approaches with advanced NLP capabilities.

Active Projects

ELOQUENCE (Ongoing)

A project focused on developing explainable, safe, knowledge-grounded, trustworthy, and bias-controlled language models. The project aims to create technology that can learn independently from limited data to support most European Union languages. Built on a sustainable computational framework, ELOQUENCE will serve as a guide for European citizens while reflecting European values and supporting safety-critical applications through human-in-the-loop approaches.

SMASH (Ongoing)

Development of a decision support technology platform based on analytical techniques and big data, aimed at improving the design, production, and distribution processes in the Fashion supply chain. The platform focuses on predictive-collaboration and risk-based management, incorporating forecasting capabilities to handle predictive errors and various risk factors. SMASH offers a modular approach allowing companies to configure their own instance based on specific requirements.

Awards

SEAMS'15 Best Paper Award for "From Means-End Analysis to Proactive Means-End Reasoning"
WOA 2006 Best Paper Award for "Building Agents with Agents and Patterns"

Selected Publications

Sabatucci, L., Cossentino, M., Di Napoli, C., Susi. "A model for automatic selection of IoT services in ambient assisted living for the elderly." Pervasive and Mobile Computing 95 (2023): 101845.
Cossentino, Massimo, Luca Sabatucci, and John Mylopoulos. "Consciousness as a Trigger to Adaptation." Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness 10.01 (2023): 27-47.
Sabatucci L, Cossentino M. Supporting dynamic workflows with automatic extraction of goals from BPMN. ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS). 2019 Oct 17;14(2):1-38.
Sabatucci L, Lopes S, Cossentino M. Self-configuring cloud application mashup with goals and capabilities. Cluster Computing. 2017 Sep;20(3):2047-63.
Sabatucci L, Ceccato M, Marchetto A, Susi A. Ahab's legs in scenario-based requirements validation: An experiment to study communication mistakes. Journal of Systems and Software. 2015 Nov 1;109:124-36.
Sabatucci L, Cossentino M, Susi A. A goal-oriented approach for representing and using design patterns. Journal of Systems and Software. 2015 Dec 1;110:136-54.

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