2008-03-04-mensa-no-food-for-blackcat.html

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title: 'Mensa: no food for BlackCat?'
date: '2008-03-04T08:15:00.000+01:00'
author: Luca Ferrari
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- università
- research
modified_time: '2008-12-12T08:24:45.924+01:00'
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I'm listed as a collaborator for the <a href="http://www.mensa-project.org/news.php">MENSA</a> project, a project that aims at studying and proposing methodologies for the engineering of complex agent-based systems.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yhEX77VFKnM/R8z30eb-gJI/AAAAAAAAACc/DgOjT-sr0Ak/s1600-h/mensa.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 423px; height: 93px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yhEX77VFKnM/R8z30eb-gJI/AAAAAAAAACc/DgOjT-sr0Ak/s320/mensa.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5173782552837521554" border="0" /></a><br />I was having a look at the <a href="http://www.mensa-project.org/page.php?16">links</a> page, that interestingly does not show any reference to RoleX, even if at least one <a href="http://www.mensa-project.org/page.php?32">pubblication</a> is related to RoleX (see Methodologies and infrastructures for Agent Society Simulation: Mapping PASSI and Rolex). It seems the BlackCat (aka RoleX) cannot eat at the Mensa table!<br /><br />Another interesting thing is that the <a href="http://www.mensa-project.org/page.php?16">links</a> page references this <a href="http://www.agentgroup.unimo.it/MOON/MARS/index.html">very old MARS page</a>, that refers to very old technologies (even JDK 1.1!).<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_yhEX77VFKnM/R8z6Kub-gKI/AAAAAAAAACk/ovrndi2LiNY/s1600-h/mars.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 522px; height: 183px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_yhEX77VFKnM/R8z6Kub-gKI/AAAAAAAAACk/ovrndi2LiNY/s320/mars.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5173785134112866466" border="0" /></a><br /><br />I hope I'll have time to understand the above and the reasons behind that.