Alessandro Farinelli

Professore Ordinario (Full Professor)
Dipartimento di Informatica (University of Verona, ITALY)

Address: Ca Vignal 2, Strada le Grazie 15
37134 - Verona - ITALY

Contacts: Tel: +39 045 8027842 -- Fax: +39 045 8027068 -- E-mail: alessandro.farinelli@univr.it

Selected Publications

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This is a list of selected publications that may well be out of date. Please refer to the following links for an up-to-date list.

2021

Contini A., Farinelli A.
Coordination approaches for multi-item pickup and delivery in logistic scenarios
(2021) Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Castellini A., Marchesini E., Farinelli A.
Partially Observable Monte Carlo Planning with state variable constraints for mobile robot navigation
(2021) Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Mazzi G., Castellini A., Farinelli A.
Identification of unexpected decisions in partially observable Monte-Carlo planning: A rule-based approach
(2021) AAMAS

Bistaffa F., Chalkiadakis G., Farinelli A.
Efficient Coalition Structure Generation via Approximately Equivalent Induced Subgraph Games
(2021) IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics

Bistaffa F., Blum C., Cerquides J., Farinelli A., Rodriguez-Aguilar J.A.
A Computational Approach to Quantify the Benefits of Ridesharing for Policy Makers and Travellers
(2021) IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

2017

Lezama, F., Palominos, J., Rodríguez-González, A.Y., Farinelli, A., Munoz de Cote, E.
Agent-Based Microgrid Scheduling: An ICT Perspective
(2017) Mobile Networks and Applications, pp. 1-17. Article in Press.
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Roncalli, M., Bistaffa, F., Farinelli, A.
Decentralized Power Distribution in the Smart Grid with Ancillary Lines: An Approach Based on Distributed Constraint Optimization
(2017) Mobile Networks and Applications, pp. 1-9. Article in Press.
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Farinelli, A., Iocchi, L., Nardi, D.
Distributed on-line dynamic task assignment for multi-robot patrolling
(2017) Autonomous Robots, 41 (6), pp. 1321-1345.
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Bistaffa, F., Farinelli, A., Chalkiadakis, G., Ramchurn, S.D.
A cooperative game-theoretic approach to the social ridesharing problem
(2017) Artificial Intelligence, 246, pp. 86-117.
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Bistaffa, F., Farinelli, A., Cerquides, J., Rodŕiguez-Aguilar, J., Ramchurn, S.D.
Algorithms for graph-constrained coalition formation in the real world
(2017) ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, 8 (4), art. no. 60.
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Denitto, M., Farinelli, A., Bicego, M.
Biclustering of time series data using factor graphs
(2017) Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Part F128005, pp. 28-30.
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Bottarelli, L., Blum, J., Bicego, M., Farinelli, A.
Path efficient level set estimation for mobile sensors
(2017) Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Part F128005, pp. 265-267.
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Farinelli, A., Raeissi, M.M., Marchi, N., Brooks, N., Scerri, P.
Interacting with team oriented plans in multi-robot systems
(2017) Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 31(2), pp. 332-361.
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sharedit

Farinelli, A., Bicego, M., Bistaffa, F., Ramchurn, S.D.
A hierarchical clustering approach to large-scale near-optimal coalition formation with quality guarantees
(2017) Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 59, pp. 170-185.
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Denitto, M., Farinelli, A., Figueiredo, M.A.T., Bicego, M.
A biclustering approach based on factor graphs and the max-sum algorithm
(2017) Pattern Recognition, 62, pp. 114-124.
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Parker, J., Farinelli, A., Gini, M.
Max-sum for allocation of changing cost tasks
(2017) Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 531, pp. 629-642.
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Farinelli, A., Franco, G., Rizzi, R.
Minimal multiset grammars for recurrent dynamics
(2017) Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 10105 LNCS, pp. 177-189.
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2016

Roncalli, M., Farinelli, A.
Decentralized control for power distribution with ancillary lines in the smart grid
(2016) Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, LNICST, 179 LNICST, pp. 39-50.
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Lezama, F., Palominos, J., Rodríguez-González, A.Y., Farinelli, A., de Cote, E.M.
Optimal scheduling of On/Off cycles: A decentralized IoT-microgrid approach
(2017) Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, LNICST, 179 LNICST, pp. 79-90.
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Sartea, R., Dalla Preda, M., Farinelli, A., Giacobazzi, R., Mastroeni, I.
Active Android Malware analysis: An approach based on stochastic games
(2016) ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, 05-06-December-2016
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Bottarelli, L., Bicego, M., Blum, J., Farinelli, A.
Skeleton-Based Orienteering for Level Set Estimation
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Volume 285: ECAI 2016, Pages 1256 - 1264
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Farinelli, A., Boscolo, N., Zanotto, E., Pagello, E.
Advanced approaches for multi-robot coordination in logistic scenarios
(2016) Robotics and Autonomous Systems, . Article in Press.
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Bistaffa, F., Bombieri, N., Farinelli, A.
An Efficient Approach for Accelerating Bucket Elimination on GPUs
(2016) IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, . Article in Press.
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Tamassia, M., Farinelli, A., Murino, V., Del Bue, A.
Directional Visual Descriptors and Multirobot Strategies for Large-Scale Coverage Problems
(2016) Journal of Field Robotics, 33 (4), pp. 489-511.

Denitto, M., Magri, L., Farinelli, A., Fusiello, A., Bicego, M.
Multiple structure recovery via probabilistic biclustering
(2016) Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 10029 LNCS, pp. 274-284.

Bottarelli, L., Bicego, M., Denitto, M., Di Pierro, A., Farinelli, A.
A quantum annealing approach to biclustering
(2016) Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 10071 LNCS, pp. 175-187.

2015

Bistaffa, F., Farinelli, A., Chalkiadakis, G., Ramchurn, S.D.
Recommending fair payments for large-scale social ridesharing
(2015) RecSys 2015 - Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, pp. 139-146.
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Denitto, M., Farinelli, A., Bicego, M.
Biclustering gene expressions using factor graphs and the max-sum algorithm
(2015) IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2015-January, pp. 925-931.
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Jeradi, A., Raeissi, M.M., Farinelli, A., Brooks, N., Scerri, P.
Focused exploration for cooperative robotic watercraft
(2015) CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 1544, pp. 83-93.
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Alessandro Farinelli, Nathan Brooks, Nicolò Marchi, Masoume Raeissi, Paul Scerri.
A mechanism for smoothly handling human interrupts in team oriented plans;
(2015) Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS, 1, pp. 377-385.

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Pujol-Gonzalez, M., Cerquides, J., Farinelli, A., Meseguer, P., Rodriguez-Aguilar, J.A.
Efficient inter-team task allocation in RoboCup Rescue
(2015) Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS, 1, pp. 413-421.
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Bistaffa, F., Farinelli, A., Ramchurn, S.D.
Sharing rides with friends: A coalition formation algorithm for ridesharing
(2015) Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1, pp. 608-614.
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2014

“Agent-based decentralised coordination for sensor networks using the max-sum algorithm”
by Alessandro Farinelli, Alex Rogers, Nick R. Jennings. International Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Springer US, 2014, pages 337--380.
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Related Code: sensor-coverage
This is the code used for the experiments in this paper, this is the version to use if you want to run similar experiments.

A Directional Visual Descriptor for Large-Scale Coverage Problems
by M. Tamassia, A. Del~Bue, V. Murino, A. Farinelli
In Proceedings of International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2014), (to appear), (2014)
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Behavioural biometrics using electricity load profiles
by M. Bicego, F. Recchia, A. Farinelli, S.~D. Ramchurn, E. Grosso
In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2014), (to appear)

Bistaffa, F., Farinelli, A., Cerquides, J., Rodríguez-Aguilar, J., Ramchurn, S.D.
Anytime coalition structure generation on synergy graphs
(2014) 13th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2014, 1, pp. 13-20.
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Explorative Max-sum for Teams of Mobile Sensing Agents
by H. Yedidsion, R. Zivan, A. Farinelli In Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2014). International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, (to appear) (2014)

A binary Factor Graph model for biclustering
by M. Denitto, A. Farinelli, G. Franco, and M. Bicego
In Proceedings of International Workshop on Statistical Techniques in Pattern Recognition (S+SSPR2014), accepted, (2014)
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Binary max-sum for multi-team task allocation in RoboCup Rescue
by Marc Pujol-Gonzalez, Jesus Cerquides, Alessandro Farinelli, Pedro Meseguer and Juan Antonio Rodriguez Aguilar
In International Joint Workshop on Optimisation in Multi-Agent Systems and Distributed Constraint Reasoning (OPTMAS-DCR 14), May 5, 2014, Paris, France.

Anytime Coalition Structure Generation on Scale-Free and Community Networks
by Filippo Bistaffa, Alessandro Farinelli, Jesús Cerquides, Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar and Sarvapali D. Ramchurn
In International Joint Workshop on Optimisation in Multi-Agent Systems and Distributed Constraint Reasoning (OPTMAS-DCR 14), May 5, 2014, Paris, France.

Distributed On-Line Coordination for Multi-Robot Patrolling
by Luca Iocchi, Alessandro Farinelli and Daniele Nardi
In International Workshop on Autonomous Robots and Multirobot Systems (ARMS 14) May 6, 2014, Paris, France.

2013

A Message-Passing Approach to Decentralized Parallel Machine Scheduling
by Meritxell Vinyals, Kathryn S. Macarthur, Alessandro Farinelli,
Sarvapali D. Ramchurn, Nicholas R. Jennings. The Computer Journal 2013; doi: 10.1093/comjnl/bxt140
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A Tutorial on Optimization for Multi-Agent Systems
by Jesus Cerquides; Alessandro Farinelli; Pedro Meseguer; Sarvapali D. Ramchurn The Computer Journal 2014; doi: 10.1093/comjnl/bxt146
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“Visual Coverage Using Autonomous Mobile Robots for Search and Rescue Applications”
by Alessio Del Bue, Marco Tamassia, Fabio Signorini, Vittorio Murino, and Alessandro Farinelli. IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR 2013), Linkoping, Sweden, 2013.

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“A Distributed Kinodynamic Collision Avoidance System under ROS”
by Nicolo' Boscolo, Riccardo Battisti, Matteo Munaro, Alessandro Farinelli, Enrico Pagello. Intelligent Autonomous Systems 12, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013, pages 511--521.

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“C-link: a hierarchical clustering approach to large-scale near-optimal coalition formation”
by Alessandro Farinelli, Manuele Bicego, Sarvapali Ramchurn, Mauro Zucchelli. Proceedings of the Twenty-Third international joint conference on Artificial Intelligence, Beijing, China, August 2013, pages 106--112.

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“Distributed Constraint Handling and Optimization (Chapter 12)”
by Alessandro Farinelli and Meritxell Vinyals and Alex Rogers and Nicholas R. Jennings.
MIT Press, Chapter 12, Editor Gerhard Weiss, 2013.

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“RMASBench: a benchmarking system for multi-agent coordination in urban search and rescue (demo paper)”
by Fabio Maffioletti, Riccardo Reffato, Alessandro Farinelli, Alexander Kleiner, Sarvapali Ramchurn, Bing Shi.
International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2013), Saint Paul, US, 06 - 10 May 2013, pages 1383--1384.

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Related Code: Github repository for the RMAS benchmar

“RMASBench: a benchmarking system for multi-agent coordination in urban search and rescue (extended abstract)”
by Alexander Kleiner, Alessandro Farinelli, Sarvapali Ramchurn, Bing Shi, Fabio Mafioletti, Riccardo Refatto.
International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2013), Saint Paul, US, 06 - 10 May 2013, pages 1195--1196.

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2012

“Decentralized Bayesian reinforcement learning for online agent collaboration”
by W. T. Luke Teacy, Georgios Chalkiadakis, Alessandro Farinelli, Alex Rogers, Nick R. Jennings, Sally I. McClean, and Gerard Parr.
In AAMAS, 2012, pp. 417-424.
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“Decentralised stable coalition formation among energy consumers in the smart grid (demonstration)”
by Filippo Bistaffa, Alessandro Farinelli, Meritxell Vinyals, and Alex Rogers.
In AAMAS (Demos), 2012, pp. 1461-1462.
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“Cooperative situation assessment in a maritime scenario”
by Alessandro Farinelli, Daniele Nardi, Roberta Pigliacampo, Mirco Rossi, and Giuseppe Paolo Settembre.
Int. J. Intell. Syst., vol. 27, no. 5, 2012, pp. 477-501.
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“A Methodology for Deploying the Max-Sum Algorithm and a Case Study on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles”
by Francesco Maria Delle Fave, Alessandro Farinelli, Alex Rogers, and Nick R. Jennings.
In IAAI, 2012.
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“Coalitional energy purchasing in the smart grid”
by M. Vinyals, F. Bistaffa, A. Farinelli, and A. Rogers.
In Energy Conference and Exhibition (ENERGYCON), 2012 IEEE International, Sep. 2012, pp. 848 -853.
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2011

“Resource-aware junction trees for efficient multi-agent coordination”
by Nicolas Stefanovitch, Alessandro Farinelli, Alex Rogers, and Nicholas R. Jennings.
In AAMAS, 2011, pp. 363-370.
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“Bounded approximate decentralised coordination via the max-sum algorithm”
by Alex Rogers, Alessandro Farinelli, Ruben Stranders, and Nicholas R. Jennings.
Artif. Intell., vol. 175, no. 2, 2011, pp. 730-759.
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Related Code: bounded-max-sum
This is the code used for the experiments in this paper, this is the version to use if you want to run similar experiments.
Related Code: jmaxsum
Java library for the max-sum algorithm based on the factor graph representation. This code includes an implementation of bounded max-sum. This version is easier to extend if you want to significantly modify the bounded max-sum code.

“Biclustering of Expression Microarray Data Using Affinity Propagation”
by Alessandro Farinelli, Matteo Denitto, and Manuele Bicego.
In PRIB, 2011, pp. 13-24.
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2010

“Worst-case bounds on the quality of max-product fixed-points”
by Meritxell Vinyals, Jesús Cerquides, Alessandro Farinelli, and Juan A. Rodr\'ıguez-Aguilar.
In NIPS, 2010, pp. 2325-2333.
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“Efficient multi-agent coordination using resource-aware junction trees (extended abstract)”
by Nicolas Stefanovitch, Alessandro Farinelli, Alex Rogers, and Nicholas R. Jennings.
In AAMAS, 2010, pp. 1413-1414.
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“Decentralized Coordination in RoboCup Rescue”
by Sarvapali D. Ramchurn, Alessandro Farinelli, Kathryn S. Macarthur, and Nicholas R. Jennings.
Comput. J., vol. 53, no. 9, 2010, pp. 1447-1461.
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“Cooperative control through objective achievement”
by Alessandro Farinelli, Hikari Fujii, Nanase Tomoyasu, Masaki Takahashi, Antonio D'Angelo, and Enrico Pagello.
Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 58, no. 7, 2010, pp. 910-920.
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“Coalition formation with spatial and temporal constraints”
by Sarvapali D. Ramchurn, Maria Polukarov, Alessandro Farinelli, Cuong Truong, and Nicholas R. Jennings.
In AAMAS, 2010, pp. 1181-1188.
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“A Distributed Algorithm for Optimising over Pure Strategy Nash Equilibria”
by Archie C. Chapman, Alessandro Farinelli, Enrique Munoz de Cote, Alex Rogers, and Nicholas R. Jennings.
In AAAI, 2010.
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2009

“Self-organising Sensors for Wide Area Surveillance Using the Max-sum Algorithm”
by Alex Rogers, Alessandro Farinelli, and Nicholas R. Jennings.
In SOAR, 2009, pp. 84-100.
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“Decentralised coordination of continuously valued control parameters using the max-sum algorithm”
by Ruben Stranders, Alessandro Farinelli, Alex Rogers, and Nick R. Jennings.
In AAMAS, 2009, pp. 601-608.
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“Decentralised Coordination of Mobile Sensors Using the Max-Sum Algorithm”
by Ruben Stranders, Alessandro Farinelli, Alex Rogers, and Nicholas R. Jennings.
In IJCAI, 2009, pp. 299-304.
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“Solving disagreements in a Multi-Agent System performing Situation Assessment”
by Giuseppe Paolo Settembre, Alessandro Farinelli, Daniele Nardi, Roberta Pigliacampo, and Mirco Rossi.
In Proc. of 12th Int. Conf. on Information Fusion (IF-09), (Seattle, WA, USA), July 2009, pp. 717-724.
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2008

“Semi-autonomous Coordinated Exploration in Rescue Scenarios”
by S. Cesa, A. Farinelli, L. Iocchi, D. Nardi, M. Sbarigia, and M. Zaratti.
In RoboCup 2007: Robot Soccer World Cup XI, vol. 5001 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, (Ubbo Visser, Fernando Ribeiro, Takeshi Ohashi, and Frank Dellaert, eds.), 2008, pp. 286-293.
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“Max-sum decentralised coordination for sensor systems”
by W. T. Luke Teacy, Alessandro Farinelli, N. J. Grabham, Paritosh Padhy, Alex Rogers, and Nicholas R. Jennings.
In AAMAS (Demos), 2008, pp. 1697-1698.
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“Decentralised coordination of low-power embedded devices using the max-sum algorithm”
by Alessandro Farinelli, Alex Rogers, Adrian Petcu, and Nicholas R. Jennings.
In AAMAS, 2008, pp. 639-646.
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“Agent-based coordination technologies in disaster management (Demonstration)”
by Sarvapali D. Ramchurn, Alex Rogers, Kathryn S. Macarthur, Alessandro Farinelli, Perukrishnen Vytelingum, Ioannis A. Vetsikas, and Nicholas R. Jennings.
In AAMAS (Demos), 2008, pp. 1651-1652.
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“A decentralized approach to cooperative situation assessment in multi-robot systems”
by Giuseppe Paolo Settembre, Paul Scerri, Alessandro Farinelli, Katia P. Sycara, and Daniele Nardi.
In AAMAS, 2008, pp. 31-38.
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2007

“Uses of Contextual Knowledge in Mobile Robots”
by Daniele Calisi, Alessandro Farinelli, Giorgio Grisetti, Luca Iocchi, Daniele Nardi, S. Pellegrini, D. Tipaldi, and Vittorio A. Ziparo.
In AI*IA 2007: Artificial Intelligence and Human-Oriented Computing, 2007, pp. 543-554.
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“Team Programming in Golog under Partial Observability”
by A. Farinelli, A. Finzi, and T. Lukasiewicz.
In Proc. of the Joint Int. Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-07), (Hyderabad, India), 2007, pp. 2097-2102.
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“Multi-objective Robotic Search and Exploration in Rescue Missions”
by Daniele Calisi, Alessandro Farinelli, Luca Iocchi, and Daniele Nardi.
In Proc. of Fourth Intl. Workshop on Synthetic Simulation and Robotics to Mitigate Earthquake Disasters (SRMED), 2007, pp. 27-32. electronic proceedings only.
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“Heterogeneous Feature State Estimation with Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filters”
by Gian Diego Tipaldi, Alessandro Farinelli, Luca Iocchi, and Daniele Nardi.
In Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2007, pp. 3850-3855.
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“Development of an Autonomous Rescue Robot Within the USARSim 3D Virtual Environment”
by Giuliano Polverari, Daniele Calisi, Alessando Farinelli, and Daniele Nardi.
In RoboCup 2006: Robot Soccer World Cup X, (Gerhard Lakemeyer, Elizabeth Sklar, Domenico G. Sorrenti, and Tomoichi Takahashi, eds.), (Berlin, Heidelberg), 2007, pp. 491-498.
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“Dealing with Perception Errors in Multi-Robot System Coordination”
by A. Farinelli, P. Scerri, A. Ingenito, and D. Nardi.
In Proc. of the Joint Int. Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-07), (Hyderabad, India), 2007, pp. 2091-2096.
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“Cooperative Exploration for USAR Robots with Indirect Communication”
by V.A. Ziparo, A. Kleiner, L. Marchetti, A. Farinelli, and D. Nardi.
In 6th IFAC Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles (2007), Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles, Volume 6, Part 1, 2007.
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“Autonomous Exploration for Search and Rescue Robots”
by D. Calisi, A. Farinelli, L. Iocchi, and D. Nardi.
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Safety and Security Engineering (SAFE), 2007, pp. 305-314.
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“Multi-objective Exploration and Search for Autonomous Rescue Robots”
by D. Calisi, A. Farinelli, L. Iocchi, and D. Nardi.
Journal of Field Robotics, Special Issue on Quantitative Performance Evaluation of Robotic and Intelligent Systems, vol. 24, August - September 2007, pp. 763-777.
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2006

“Point to Point Vs Broadcast Communication for Conflict Resolution”
by A. Farinelli, L. Iocchi, and D. Nardi.
In Proc. of Agent Technology for Disaster Management ATDM06 (AAMAS Workshop), (Hakodate, Japan), 2006, pp. 32-40.
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“Ontology-based Coalition Formation in Heterogeneous MRS”
by L. Fanelli, A. Farinelli, L. Iocchi, D. Nardi, and G. P. Settembre.
In Proceedings of International Symposium on Practical Cognitive Agents and Robots, (Perth, Australia), 2006, pp. 105-116.
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“Multi-Objective Autonomous Exploration in a Rescue Environment”
by D. Calisi, A. Farinelli, L. Iocchi, D. Nardi, and F. Pucci.
In Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), (Gaithersburg, MD, USA), 2006.
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“Conflict Resolution with Minimal Communication Bandwidth”
by A. Farinelli, L. Iocchi, and D. Nardi.
In Proc. of IEEE Workshop on Distributed Intelligent Systems, (Los Alamitos CA, USA), 2006, pp. 7-12.
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“Assignment of Dynamically Perceived Tasks by Token Passing in Multi-Robot Systems”
by A. Farinelli, L. Iocchi, D. Nardi, and V. A. Ziparo.
Proceedings of the IEEE, Special issue on Multi-Robot Systems, vol. 94, no. 7, 2006, pp. 1271-1288. ISSN:0018-9219.
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“Design and implementation of modular software for programming mobile robots”
by A. Farinelli, G. Grisetti, and L. Iocchi.
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, vol. 3, no. 1, Mar. 2006, pp. 37-42. ISSN 1729-8806.
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2005

“SPQR-RDK: a modular framework for programming mobile robots”
by A. Farinelli, G. Grisetti, and L. Iocchi.
In Proc. of Int. RoboCup Symposium 2004, (D. Nardi and others, eds.), (Heidelberg), 2005, pp. 653-660.
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“Task Assignment with Dynamic Token Generation”
by A. Farinelli, L. Iocchi, D. Nardi, and F. Patrizi.
In Int. Workshop on Monitoring, Security, and Rescue Techniques in Multiagent Systems, (B. Dunin-Keplicz, A. Jankowski, A. Skowron, and M. Szczuka, eds.), (Heidelberg), 2005, pp. 467-478.
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“Task Assignment with Dynamic Perception and Constrained Tasks in a Multi-Robot System”
by A. Farinelli, L. Iocchi, D. Nardi, and V. A. Ziparo.
In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), (Barcelona, Spain), 2005, pp. 1535-1540.
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“Monitoring Search and Rescue Operations in Large-Scale Disasters”
by A. Farinelli, L. Iocchi, and D. Nardi.
In Data Fusion for Situation Monitoring Incident Detection Alert and Response Management, (Ragova G. Valin P. Shahbazian E., ed.), (Amsterdam (Netherland)), 2005, pp. 659-670.
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“Allocating Tasks in Extreme Teams”
by P. Scerri, A. Farinelli, S. Okamoto, and M. Tambe.
In Proc. of AAMAS 05, (Utrecht, Netherland), 2005, pp. 727-734.
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“A Multi Agent System Approach for Emergency Intervention: Experimental Analisys and Evaluation”
by A. Farinelli, L. Iocchi, D. Nardi, and F. Patrizi.
Intelligenza Artificiale, vol. 2, no. 1, 2005, pp. 47-53.
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“Autonomous Navigation and Exploration in a Rescue Environment”
by D. Calisi, A. Farinelli, L. Iocchi, and D. Nardi.
In Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), (Kobe, Japan), June 2005, pp. 54-59.
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2004

“Token Approach for Role Allocation in Extreme Teams: analysis and experimental evaluation”
by P. Scerri, A. Farinelli, S. Okamoto, and M. Tambe.
In 13th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE-2004)., (Los Alamitos California (USA)), 2004, pp. 397-402. ISBN: 0-7695-2183-5.
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“RoboCup Rescue Simulation: Methodologies, Tools and Evaluation for Practical Applications”
by A. Farinelli, G. Grisetti, L. Iocchi, S. Lo Cascio, and D. Nardi.
In Proc. of International RoboCup Symposium 2003, (Heidelberg), 2004, pp. 645-652. ISBN: 978-3-540-22443-3.
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“Planning trajectories in dynamic environments using a gradient method”
by A. Farinelli and L. Iocchi.
In Proc. of the International RoboCup Symposium 2003, (Heidelberg), 2004, pp. 320-331. ISBN: 978-3-540-22443-3.
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“Dynamic token generation for constrained tasks in a Multi-Robot System”
by F. Cottefoglie, A. Farinelli, L. Iocchi, and D. Nardi.
In International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, (The Hague, The Netherlands), 2004, pp. 911-917. ISBN: 0-7803-8567-5.
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“Allocating Roles in Extreme Team (extended abstract)”
by P. Scerri, A. Farinelli, S. Okamoto, and M. Tambe.
In Proc. of AAMAS 2004, (New York, USA), 2004, pp. 1500-1501.
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“Multi Robot Systems: A Classification Focused on Coordination”
by A. Farinelli, L. Iocchi, and D. Nardi.
IEEE Transactions on System Man and Cybernetics, part B, vol. 34, no. 5, Oct. 2004, pp. 2015-2028. New York, (USA), ISSN:1083-4419.
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“Experiments with the RoboCup Rescue Simulator in a Post Earthquake Emergency Italian Scenario”
by A. Biagetti, A. Farinelli, L. Iocchi, D. Nardi, and F. Patrizi.
In Proc. of IEEE International Workshop on Safety, Security and Rescue Robots (SSRR), (Bonn, Germany), May 2004. ISBN 3-8167-6556-4.
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2003

“Design and evaluation of multi agent systems for rescue operations”
by A. Farinelli, G. Grisetti, L. Iocchi, S. Lo Cascio, and D. Nardi.
In Proc. of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'03), (Las Vegas, Nevada (USA)), 2003, pp. 3138-3143. ISBN:0-7803-7861-X.
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“Cognitive Soccer Robots”
by A. Farinelli, G. Grisetti, L. Iocchi, and D. Nardi.
ERCIM News, vol. 53, 2003, pp. 26-27.
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“An Analysis of Coordination in Multi-Robot Systems”
by A. Farinelli, L. Iocchi, and D. Nardi.
In Proc. of IEEE Int. Conf. on Systems, Man & Cybernetics, (Washington D. C., (USA)), 2003, pp. 1487-1492. ISBN:0-7803-7953-5.
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2002

“Monitoring and Information Fusion for Search and Rescue Operations in Large-Scale Disasters”
by F. D'Agostino, A. Farinelli, G. Grisetti, L. Iocchi, and D. Nardi.
In IEEE Int. Conf. Information Fusion, (AnnaPolis, Maryland (USA)), July 2002, pp. 672-679. ISBN:0-9721844-0-6.
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