PhDSupervision:Gabriele Valentini

• Research lines:
  • Design and modeling of collective decision-making (DMCDM): main research line for the PhD
  • Network-based analysis of collective decision-making (NACDM): main research line for the PhD
  • Urn models and positive feedback processes (URN): Heiko's research line
  • Various collaborations (COLL)

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• Published journal papers:
  • Spatially Targeted Communication in Decentralized Multirobot Systems, N. Mathews, G. Valentini, A.L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, A. Brutschy, M. Dorigo. Autonomous Robots (Research line: COLL + marginally NACDM)
  • Self-organizing Temporary Lock-ins in Collective Decision-Making Systems: Influence and Effect of Dynamic Neighborhood Sizes, G. Valentini, H. Hamann. Swarm Intelligence, ANTS special issue (Research line: URN;)

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• Published conference papers:
  • Majority Rule with Differential Latency: An Absorbing Markov Chain to Model Consensus, G. Valentini, M. Birattari, M. Dorigo. ECCS 2012 (Research line: DMCDM)
  • Self-Organized Collective Decision Making: The Weighted Voter Model, G. Valentini, H. Hamann, M. Dorigo. AAMAS 2014 (Research line: DMCDM)
  • Derivation of a Micro-Macro Link for Collective Decision-Making Systems: Uncover Network Features Based on Drift Measurements, H. Hamann, G. Valentini, Y. Khaluf, M. Dorigo, PPSN 2014 (Research line: NACDM)
  • Swarm in a Fly Bottle: Feedback-Based Analysis of Self-Organizing Temporary Lock-Ins, H. Hamann, G. Valentini. ANTS 2014 (Research line: URN)
  • Self-Organized Collective Decision-Making in a 100-Robot Swarm, G. Valentini, H. Hamann, M. Dorigo. AAAI 2015 Student Abstract (Research line: DMCDM)
  • Efficient Decision-Making in a Self-Organizing Robot Swarm: On the Speed Versus Accuracy Trade-Off, G. Valentini, H. Hamann, M. Dorigo. AAMAS 2015 (Research line: DMCDM;)

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• Published videos:
  • Self-Organized Collective Decisions in a Robot Swarm, G. Valentini, H. Hamann, M. Dorigo. AAAI 2015 Video Competition, BEST STUDENT VIDEO AWARD (Research line: DMCDM)

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• Published/accepted papers that are worth nothing:
  • Self-Organized Collective Decision-Making in Swarms of Autonomous Robots, G. Valentini. AAMAS Doctoral Consortium 2014 (Research line: DMCDM)
  • Micro-Macro Links for Self-Organizing Collective Systems: From Local State Transition Rules to Global Transition Probabilities and Back, H. Hamann, G. Valentini. GSO 2014 (Research line: Heiko's branch of NACDM; without archival publication)
  • A Design Pattern for best-of-n Collective Decisions, A. Reina, G. Valentini, C. Fernandez-Oto, M. Dorigo, V. Trianni. BDA15, 3rd Workshop on Biological Distributed Algorithms (Research line: COLL, without archival publication)

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• Papers submitted:
  • Global-to-Local Design for Self-Organized Task Allocation in Swarms, G. Valentini, H. Hamann, M. Dorigo. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence [AAAI-2016] (Research line: DMCDM, in preparation)
  • The Impact of Agent Density on Scalability in Collective Systems: Noise-Induced vs Majority-Based Bistability, Y. Khaluf, G. Valentini, H. Hamann. Swarm Intelligence (Research line: NACDM, in preparation)
  • A Design Pattern for Decentralized Decision Making, A. Reina, G. Valentini, C. Fernandez-Oto, M. Dorigo, V. Trianni. Plos One [Minor revision due] (Research line: COLL)

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• Papers in preparation:
  • Collective Decision with 100 Kilobots Speed vs Accuracy in Binary Discrimination Problems', G. Valentini, E. Ferrante, H. Hamann, M. Dorigo. JAAMAS journal, invited paper [Minor revision due] (Research line: DMCDM)
  • Self-Organized Collective Decisions for the Spatially Symmetric Best-of-n Problem: Design, Modeling, and Experiments, G. Valentini, H. Hamann, M. Dorigo. International Journal of Robotics Research [IJRR] (Research line: DMCDM, in preparation)

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• Papers to prepare:
  • On the Design of Self-Organized Collective Decisions for the Best-of-n Problem, G. Valentini, E. Ferrante, H. Hamann, M. Dorigo. Journal to be defined (Research line: DMCDM, in preparation)
  • Task Allocation by Population Coding, G. Valentini, H. Hamann, M. Dorigo, Journal to be defined (Research line: DMCDM and NACDM)
  • Environment Classification by Robot Swarms as a Collective Decision, G. Valentini, A. Reina, H. Hamann, M. Dorigo, International Conference on Robotics and Automation [ICRA-2016] (Research line: DMCDM)
  • A Smart Arena for the Kilobot Robot, A. Antoun, G. Valentini, M. Dorigo, International Conference on Robotics and Automation [ICRA-2016] (Research line: COLL)