Publications

 

Gianpiero francesca

Journal Papers


  1. -G. Francesca, M. Brambilla, A. Brutschy, V. Trianni, and M. Birattari, “AutoMoDe: A novel approach to the automatic design of control software for robot swarms”, Swarm Intelligence, vol. 8 (2), 2014, pp.89-112. [pdf][bib]



Conferences


  1. -G. Francesca, M. Brambilla, A. Brutschy, L. Garattoni, R. Miletitch, G. Podevijn, A. Reina, T. Soleymani, M. Salvaro, C. Pinciroli, V. Trianni and M. Birattari. “An Experiment in Automatic Design of Robot Swarms: AutoMoDe-Vanilla, EvoStick, and Human Experts”, In Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ANTS), LNCS, Springer, Berlin, 2014. In press. [pdf][bib]


  1. -E. Tuci, B. Mitavskiy, S. Benedettini, G. Francesca, “On the evolution of self-organised role-allocation and role-switching behaviour in swarm robotics: a case study”, Advances in Artificial Life, ECAL, 2013, vol.12, pp 379–386. [pdf][bib]


  1. -G. Francesca, M. Brambilla, V. Trianni, M. Dorigo, and M. Birattari, “Analysing an Evolved Robotic Behaviour Using a Biological Model of Collegial Decision Making,” From Animals to Animats 12, 2012, vol. 7426, pp. 381–390.[pdf][bib]


  1. -G. Pini, A. Brutschy, G.Francesca, M.Dorigo, and M. Birattari, “Multi-armed Bandit Formulation of the Task Partitioning Problem in Swarm Robotics” in Swarm Intelligence, 8th International Conference, ANTS 2012, vol. 7461, Berlin, Germany: Springer, 2012, pp. 109–120.[pdf][bib]



  1. -G. Francesca, P. Pellegrini,T. Stützle and M. Birattari, “Off-line and On-line Tuning: A Study on Operator Selection for a Memetic Algorithm Applied to the QAP”, Proceedings of the Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization - 11th European Conference (EvoCOP 2011). [pdf][bib]


  1. -G. Francesca, A. Santone, G. Vaglini, and M. L. Villani, “Ant Colony Optimization for Deadlock Detection in Concurrent Systems”, Procedings of the 35th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2011). [pdf][bib]


Technical Reports


  1. -G. Francesca, G. Pini, A. Brutschy, C. Pinciroli, M. Dorigo, and M. Birattari, “Task Partitioning in Swarm Robotics as a Multi-Armed Bandit Problem”, IRIDIA -- Technical Report Series, no. 2011-19. Brussels, Belgium: IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 2011. [pdf][bib]