About Me
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My thesis on ACO
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ANTS 2010: 7th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence,
September 8-10, 2010, Brussels, Belgium.Deadline: February 28, 2010
EvoCOMNET 2010: 7th European Workshop on the Application
of Nature-inspired Techniques for Telecommunication Networks,
April 7-9, 2010, Instanbul, Turkey.Deadline: November 30, 2009
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About me:
I obtained a degree in Physics with full honors from the University of Bologna, Italy, in
1992. Under the supervision of Prof. Marco
Dorigo, I obtained in 2001 an MSc. and in 2004 a Ph.D. in Applied
Sciences from the
Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium.I've been awarded several prestigious fellowships from the scientific institutions of the European Community and from other governmental institutions. This gave me the opportunity to work in several institutes and universities across the globe and build up an interdisciplinary expertise covering different domains such as: parallel and distributed computing, autonomous robotics, combinatorial optimization, telecommunications, swarm intelligence, artificial intelligence, and system biology. In these domains I co-authored more than 60 peer-reviewed international publications.
Currently I'm a postdoctoral researcher at Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale (IDSIA), in Lugano, Switzerland. My current research activities focus on the study of swarm intelligence and on its application to challenging problems in communications networks, collective robotics, and combinatorial optimization.
My research activities:
Ant Colony Optimization (ACO)
metaheuristic:
I contributed to lay the very foundations
of the ACO metaheuristic, that reverse engineers the
pheromone-mediated shortest path behavior experimentally observed
in ant colonies (see my thesis and publications). ACO is indeed
a very popular metaheuristic that has been successfully applied
to a wide range of problems, mainly in the domains of
combinatorial and network optimization.
- My papers, thesis, and lectures about Ant Colony
Optimization theory
- The official Ant Colony Optimization page, maintained
by Marco Dorigo
(after launching the Kepler mission, taken from this web site)
Adaptive Routing in Telecommunications
Networks:
I'm the author of AntNet, one of
the earliest and most representative and successful applications of the ant
colony metaphor to routing problems in networks. While AntNet was meant for
adaptive routing in wired IP networks, most recently I've co-authored the
work of AntHocNet, in which we applied ACO ideas to
routing in mesh and mobile ad hoc networks considering both open space and
urban test scenarios.
- My papers, thesis, and lectures on the
application of ACO to network routing
- The AntNet page, maintained by myself
- The AntHocNet page, maintained by Frederick Ducatelle
Swarm Intelligence:
I'm actively
involved in the general process of definition and study of this novel
computational paradigm which is becoming a very popular approach for the
bottom-up design of distributed systems. Swarm Intelligence finds its roots
in the study of systems inspired by social behaviors in animal and insect
societies. Therefore, the work derived from ant colony behaviors is at the very core of it.
- My papers and lectures
focusing on Swarm Intelligence
- Swarm Intelligence Journal, edited by
Springer (I'm in the editorial board)
Autonomous Robotics:
In the past
I've been involved in exciting research projects concerning the definition of
architectures for robotic platforms and vision-based algorithms for autonomous
navigation. In most recent time, I started working on collective and swarm
robotics issues. I'm actually almost full-time involved in the activities of
the Swarmanoid project, a FET Open, EU-funded, project.
- My papers related to Autonomous Robotics
- The Swarmanoid project,
which is about swarm robotics: the goal consists in the creation and study
of a heterogeneous swarm of small robots able to copperatively act and interact in
human-made 3D environments.
Telecommunications Networks:
While my research on telecommunications networks has mainly focused on routing
problems, I'm also very interested in many other aspects of the design and use
of networks. So far, I've been involved in research activities related to the
study of the effectiveness of simulation and of different simulators in
telecommunications, content search in P2P networks, and in the definition of
software and hardware architectures for seamless handover in heterogeneous
wireless networks.
- My papers on Telecommunications Networks
(other than routing)
- The EU-funded FET
project BISON, that studied the application of ideas from biological
systems to the management and control of dynamic networks such as P2P and ad
hoc networks.
Parallel and Distributed Computing:
This was one of the earliest research domains I've been involved in. My thesis
for the "Laurea" degree in physics was about the design and implementation of a
parallel and distributed system for the online monitoring and control of a very
large detector system for particle physics. Following work concerned the design
of parallel genetic algorithms and algorithms and architectures for real-time
stereo vision.
Systems Biology:
I'm fascinated by
the complexity of biological systems and by their ability to successfully
self-organize and adapt to dynamic environments. Following this fascination, in
the past I made some work on the design and implementation of an agent-based
simulator for the immune system. This work was done in collaboration with
biologists and immunologists of the University of Bologna, Italy (and we were
among the first to follow such an approach at that time). Also part of my more
recent work on Swarm Intelligence can be also seen as related to topics of
systems biology.
- My papers related to Systems Biology
- Link to the "Centro
Interdipartimentale L. Galvani", University of Bologna
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