Here you can find a consolidated (a.k.a. slowly updated) list of my publications. A frequently updated (and possibly noisy) list of works is available on my Google Scholar profile.
Please find below a short list of highlight publications for my recent activity.
Atzeni, Daniele; Bacciu, Davide; Mazzei, Daniele; Prencipe, Giuseppe A Systematic Review of Wi-Fi and Machine Learning Integration with Topic Modeling Techniques Journal Article In: Sensors, vol. 22, no. 13, 2022, ISSN: 1424-8220. Davide, Bacciu; Maurizio, Di Rocco; Mauro, Dragone; Claudio, Gallicchio; Alessio, Micheli; Alessandro, Saffiotti An Ambient Intelligence Approach for Learning in Smart Robotic Environments Journal Article In: Computational Intelligence, 2019, (Early View (Online Version of Record before inclusion in an issue)
). Davide, Bacciu; Stefano, Chessa; Erina, Ferro; Luigi, Fortunati; Claudio, Gallicchio; Davide, La Rosa; Miguel, Llorente; Alessio, Micheli; Filippo, Palumbo; Oberdan, Parodi; Andrea, Valenti; Federico, Vozzi Detecting socialization events in ageing people: the experienze of the DOREMI project Conference Proceedings of the IEEE 12th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE 2016), , IEEE, UK, London, 2016, ISSN: 2472-7571 . Davide, Bacciu Unsupervised feature selection for sensor time-series in pervasive computing applications Journal Article In: Neural Computing and Applications, vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 1077-1091, 2016, ISSN: 1433-3058. Giuseppe, Amato; Davide, Bacciu; Stefano, Chessa; Mauro, Dragone; Claudio, Gallicchio; Claudio, Gennaro; Hector, Lozano; Alessio, Micheli; Arantxa, Renteria; Claudio, Vairo A Benchmark Dataset for Human Activity Recognition and Ambient Assisted Living Conference Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Ambient Intelligence (ISAMI'16), vol. 476, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Springer, 2016, ISBN: 978-3-319-40113-3. Mauro, Dragone; Giuseppe, Amato; Davide, Bacciu; Stefano, Chessa; Sonya, Coleman; Maurizio, Di Rocco; Claudio, Gallicchio; Claudio, Gennaro; Hector, Lozano; Liam, Maguire; Martin, McGinnity; Alessio, Micheli; M.P., O'Hare Gregory; Arantxa, Renteria; Alessandro, Saffiotti; Claudio, Vairo; Philip, Vance A Cognitive Robotic Ecology Approach to Self-configuring and Evolving AAL Systems Journal Article In: Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, vol. 45, no. C, pp. 269–280, 2015, ISSN: 0952-1976. Davide, Bacciu; Filippo, Benedetti; Alessio, Micheli ESNigma: efficient feature selection for Echo State Networks Conference Proceedings of the 23rd European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning (ESANN'15), i6doc.com publ., 2015. Giuseppe, Amato; Davide, Bacciu; Mathias, Broxvall; Stefano, Chessa; Sonya, Coleman; Maurizio, Di Rocco; Mauro, Dragone; Claudio, Gallicchio; Claudio, Gennaro; Hector, Lozano; Martin, McGinnity T; Alessio, Micheli; AK, Ray; Arantxa, Renteria; Alessandro, Saffiotti; David, Swords; Claudio, Vairo; Philip, Vance Robotic Ubiquitous Cognitive Ecology for Smart Homes Journal Article In: Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, vol. 80, no. 1, pp. 57-81, 2015, ISSN: 0921-0296. Davide, Bacciu; Stefano, Chessa; Claudio, Gallicchio; Alessio, Micheli; Erina, Ferro; Luigi, Fortunati; Filippo, Palumbo; Oberdan, Parodi; Federico, Vozzi; Sten, Hanke; Johannes, Kropf; Karl, Kreiner Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 9273, Springer Verlag, 2015. Davide, Bacciu; Paolo, Barsocchi; Stefano, Chessa; Claudio, Gallicchio; Alessio, Micheli An experimental characterization of reservoir computing in ambient assisted living applications Journal Article In: Neural Computing and Applications, vol. 24, no. 6, pp. 1451-1464, 2014, ISSN: 0941-0643. Davide, Bacciu An Iterative Feature Filter for Sensor Timeseries in Pervasive Computing Applications Conference Communications in Computer and Information Science - Engineering Applications of Neural Networks, vol. 459, Springer International Publishing, 2014. Davide, Bacciu; Claudio, Gallicchio; Alessio, Micheli; Maurizio, Di Rocco; Alessandro, Saffiotti Learning context-aware mobile robot navigation in home environments Conference Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications (IISA 2014), IEEE, 2014, ISBN: 9781479961702. Davide, Bacciu; Stefano, CHESSA; Claudio, Gallicchio; Alessio, MICHELI; Paolo, Barsocchi An Experimental Evaluation of Reservoir Computation for Ambient Assisted Living Conference Neural Nets and Surroundings - 22nd Italian Workshop on Neural Nets, vol. 19, Springer, 2013. Davide, Bacciu; Claudio, Gallicchio; Alessandro, Lenzi; Stefano, Chessa; Alessio, Micheli; Susanna, Pelagatti; Claudio, Vairo Distributed Neural Computation over WSN in Ambient Intelligence Conference Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing - Ambient Intelligence - Software and Applications, vol. 219, Springer Verlag, 2013. Davide, Bacciu; Stefano, Chessa; Claudio, Gallicchio; Alessandro, Lenzi; Alessio, Micheli; Susanna, Pelagatti A General Purpose Distributed Learning Model for Robotic Ecologies Conference Robot Control - 10th IFAC Symposium on Robot Control, vol. 10, ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, 2012. Davide, BACCIU; Mathias, Broxvall; Sonya, Coleman; Mauro, Dragone; Claudio, Gallicchio; Claudio, Gennaro; Roberto, Guzman; Raul, Lopez; Hector, Lozano-Peiteado; AK, Ray; Arantxa, Renteria; Alessandro, Saffiotti; Claudio, Vairo Self-Sustaining Learning for Robotic Ecologies Conference Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Sensor Networks, SENSORNETS 2012, 2012. Davide, Bacciu; Claudio, Gallicchio; Alessio, Micheli; Paolo, Barsocchi; Stefano, Chessa Predicting User Movements in Heterogeneous Indoor Environments by Reservoir Computing Conference Proceedings of the IJCAI Workshop on Space, Time and Ambient Intelligence (STAMI), 2011.
@article{atzeni2022,
title = {A Systematic Review of Wi-Fi and Machine Learning Integration with Topic Modeling Techniques},
author = {Daniele Atzeni and Davide Bacciu and Daniele Mazzei and Giuseppe Prencipe},
url = {https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/22/13/4925},
doi = {10.3390/s22134925},
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year = {2022},
date = {2022-01-01},
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journal = {Sensors},
volume = {22},
number = {13},
abstract = {Wireless networks have drastically influenced our lifestyle, changing our workplaces and society. Among the variety of wireless technology, Wi-Fi surely plays a leading role, especially in local area networks. The spread of mobiles and tablets, and more recently, the advent of Internet of Things, have resulted in a multitude of Wi-Fi-enabled devices continuously sending data to the Internet and between each other. At the same time, Machine Learning has proven to be one of the most effective and versatile tools for the analysis of fast streaming data. This systematic review aims at studying the interaction between these technologies and how it has developed throughout their lifetimes. We used Scopus, Web of Science, and IEEE Xplore databases to retrieve paper abstracts and leveraged a topic modeling technique, namely, BERTopic, to analyze the resulting document corpus. After these steps, we inspected the obtained clusters and computed statistics to characterize and interpret the topics they refer to. Our results include both the applications of Wi-Fi sensing and the variety of Machine Learning algorithms used to tackle them. We also report how the Wi-Fi advances have affected sensing applications and the choice of the most suitable Machine Learning models.},
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@article{rubicon2019CI,
title = {An Ambient Intelligence Approach for Learning in Smart Robotic Environments},
author = {Bacciu Davide and Di Rocco Maurizio and Dragone Mauro and Gallicchio Claudio and Micheli Alessio and Saffiotti Alessandro},
doi = {10.1111/coin.12233},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-07-31},
journal = {Computational Intelligence},
abstract = {Smart robotic environments combine traditional (ambient) sensing devices and mobile robots. This combination extends the type of applications that can be considered, reduces their complexity, and enhances the individual values of the devices involved by enabling new services that cannot be performed by a single device. In order to reduce the amount of preparation and pre-programming required for their deployment in real world applications, it is important to make these systems self-learning, self-configuring, and self-adapting. The solution presented in this paper is based upon a type of compositional adaptation where (possibly multiple) plans of actions are created through planning and involve the activation of pre-existing capabilities. All the devices in the smart environment participate in a pervasive learning infrastructure, which is exploited to recognize which plans of actions are most suited to the current situation. The system is evaluated in experiments run in a real domestic environment, showing its ability to pro-actively and smoothly adapt to subtle changes in the environment and in the habits and preferences
of their user(s).},
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of their user(s).
@conference{ie2016,
title = { Detecting socialization events in ageing people: the experienze of the DOREMI project},
author = {Bacciu Davide and Chessa Stefano and Ferro Erina and Fortunati Luigi and Gallicchio Claudio and La Rosa Davide and Llorente Miguel and Micheli Alessio and Palumbo Filippo and Parodi Oberdan and Valenti Andrea and Vozzi Federico},
doi = {10.1109/IE.2016.28},
issn = {2472-7571 },
year = {2016},
date = {2016-10-27},
urldate = {2016-10-27},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE 12th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE 2016), },
pages = {132-135},
publisher = {IEEE},
address = {UK, London},
abstract = {The detection of socialization events is useful to build indicators about social isolation of people, which is an important indicator in e-health applications. On the other hand, it is rather difficult to achieve with non-invasive solutions. This paper reports about the currently work-in-progress on the technological solution for the detection of socialization events adopted in the DOREMI project.},
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@article{icfNca15,
title = {Unsupervised feature selection for sensor time-series in pervasive computing applications},
author = {Bacciu Davide},
url = {https://pages.di.unipi.it/bacciu/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/nca2015.pdf},
doi = {10.1007/s00521-015-1924-x},
issn = {1433-3058},
year = {2016},
date = {2016-07-01},
urldate = {2016-07-01},
journal = {Neural Computing and Applications},
volume = {27},
number = {5},
pages = {1077-1091},
publisher = {Springer London},
abstract = {The paper introduces an efficient feature selection approach for multivariate time-series of heterogeneous sensor data within a pervasive computing scenario. An iterative filtering procedure is devised to reduce information redundancy measured in terms of time-series cross-correlation. The algorithm is capable of identifying nonredundant sensor sources in an unsupervised fashion even in presence of a large proportion of noisy features. In particular, the proposed feature selection process does not require expert intervention to determine the number of selected features, which is a key advancement with respect to time-series filters in the literature. The characteristic of the prosed algorithm allows enriching learning systems, in pervasive computing applications, with a fully automatized feature selection mechanism which can be triggered and performed at run time during system operation. A comparative experimental analysis on real-world data from three pervasive computing applications is provided, showing that the algorithm addresses major limitations of unsupervised filters in the literature when dealing with sensor time-series. Specifically, it is presented an assessment both in terms of reduction of time-series redundancy and in terms of preservation of informative features with respect to associated supervised learning tasks.},
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@conference{Amato2016,
title = {A Benchmark Dataset for Human Activity Recognition and Ambient Assisted Living},
author = {Amato Giuseppe and Bacciu Davide and Chessa Stefano and Dragone Mauro and Gallicchio Claudio and Gennaro Claudio and Lozano Hector and Micheli Alessio and Renteria Arantxa
and Vairo Claudio},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-40114-0_1},
isbn = {978-3-319-40113-3},
year = {2016},
date = {2016-06-03},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Ambient Intelligence (ISAMI'16)},
volume = {476},
pages = {1-9},
publisher = {Springer},
series = {Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing},
abstract = {We present a data benchmark for the assessment of human activity recognition solutions, collected as part of the EU FP7 RUBICON project, and available to the scientific community. The dataset provides fully annotated data pertaining to numerous user activities and comprises synchronized data streams collected from a highly sensor-rich home environment. A baseline activity recognition performance obtained through an Echo State Network approach is provided along with the dataset.},
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@article{Dragone:2015:CRE:2827370.2827596,
title = {A Cognitive Robotic Ecology Approach to Self-configuring and Evolving AAL Systems},
author = {Dragone Mauro and Amato Giuseppe and Bacciu Davide and Chessa Stefano and Coleman Sonya and Di Rocco Maurizio and Gallicchio Claudio and Gennaro Claudio and Lozano Hector and Maguire Liam and McGinnity Martin and Micheli Alessio and O'Hare Gregory M.P. and Renteria Arantxa and Saffiotti Alessandro and Vairo Claudio and Vance Philip},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.engappai.2015.07.004},
doi = {10.1016/j.engappai.2015.07.004},
issn = {0952-1976},
year = {2015},
date = {2015-01-01},
urldate = {2015-01-01},
journal = {Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence},
volume = {45},
number = {C},
pages = {269--280},
publisher = {Pergamon Press, Inc.},
address = {Tarrytown, NY, USA},
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@conference{11568_774434,
title = {ESNigma: efficient feature selection for Echo State Networks},
author = {Bacciu Davide and Benedetti Filippo and Micheli Alessio},
url = {https://www.elen.ucl.ac.be/Proceedings/esann/esannpdf/es2015-104.pdf},
year = {2015},
date = {2015-01-01},
urldate = {2015-01-01},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 23rd European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning (ESANN'15)},
pages = {189--194},
publisher = {i6doc.com publ.},
abstract = {The paper introduces a feature selection wrapper designed specifically for Echo State Networks. It defines a feature scoring heuristics, applicable to generic subset search algorithms, which allows to reduce the need for model retraining with respect to wrappers in literature. The experimental assessment on real-word noisy sequential data shows that the proposed method can identify a compact set of relevant, highly predictive features with as little as $60%$ of the time required by the original wrapper.},
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@article{bacciuJirs15,
title = {Robotic Ubiquitous Cognitive Ecology for Smart Homes},
author = {Amato Giuseppe and Bacciu Davide and Broxvall Mathias and Chessa Stefano and Coleman Sonya and Di Rocco Maurizio and Dragone Mauro and Gallicchio Claudio and Gennaro Claudio and Lozano Hector and McGinnity T Martin and Micheli Alessio and Ray AK and Renteria Arantxa and Saffiotti Alessandro and Swords David and Vairo Claudio and Vance Philip},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10846-015-0178-2},
doi = {10.1007/s10846-015-0178-2},
issn = {0921-0296},
year = {2015},
date = {2015-01-01},
journal = {Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems},
volume = {80},
number = {1},
pages = {57-81},
publisher = {Springer Netherlands},
abstract = {Robotic ecologies are networks of heterogeneous robotic devices pervasively embedded in everyday environments, where they cooperate to perform complex tasks. While their potential makes them increasingly popular, one fundamental problem is how to make them both autonomous and adaptive, so as to reduce the amount of preparation, pre-programming and human supervision that they require in real world applications. The project RUBICON develops learning solutions which yield cheaper, adaptive and efficient coordination of robotic ecologies. The approach we pursue builds upon a unique combination of methods from cognitive robotics, machine learning, planning and agent-based control, and wireless sensor networks. This paper illustrates the innovations advanced by RUBICON in each of these fronts before describing how the resulting techniques have been integrated and applied to a proof of concept smart home scenario. The resulting system is able to provide useful services and pro-actively assist the users in their activities. RUBICON learns through an incremental and progressive approach driven by the feedback received from its own activities and from the user, while also self-organizing the manner in which it uses available sensors, actuators and other functional components in the process. This paper summarises some of the lessons learned by adopting such an approach and outlines promising directions for future work.},
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@conference{11568_775269,
title = {Smart environments and context-awareness for lifestyle management in a healthy active ageing framework},
author = {Bacciu Davide and Chessa Stefano and Gallicchio Claudio and Micheli Alessio and Ferro Erina and Fortunati Luigi and Palumbo Filippo and Parodi Oberdan and Vozzi Federico and Hanke Sten and Kropf Johannes and Kreiner Karl},
url = {http://springerlink.com/content/0302-9743/copyright/2005/},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-23485-4_6},
year = {2015},
date = {2015-01-01},
booktitle = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)},
volume = {9273},
pages = {54--66},
publisher = {Springer Verlag},
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@article{nca2014,
title = {An experimental characterization of reservoir computing in ambient assisted living applications},
author = {Bacciu Davide and Barsocchi Paolo and Chessa Stefano and Gallicchio Claudio and Micheli Alessio},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00521-013-1364-4, Publisher version
https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Indoor+User+Movement+Prediction+from+RSS+data, Dataset @ UCI},
doi = {10.1007/s00521-013-1364-4},
issn = {0941-0643},
year = {2014},
date = {2014-01-01},
urldate = {2014-01-01},
journal = {Neural Computing and Applications},
volume = {24},
number = {6},
pages = {1451-1464},
publisher = {Springer London},
abstract = {In this paper, we present an introduction and critical experimental evaluation of a reservoir computing (RC) approach for ambient assisted living (AAL) applications. Such an empirical analysis jointly addresses the issues of efficiency, by analyzing different system configurations toward the embedding into computationally constrained wireless sensor devices, and of efficacy, by analyzing the predictive performance on real-world applications. First, the approach is assessed on a validation scheme where training, validation and test data are sampled in homogeneous ambient conditions, i.e., from the same set of rooms. Then, it is introduced an external test set involving a new setting, i.e., a novel ambient, which was not available in the first phase of model training and validation. The specific test-bed considered in the paper allows us to investigate the capability of the RC approach to discriminate among user movement trajectories from received signal strength indicator sensor signals. This capability can be exploited in various AAL applications targeted at learning user indoor habits, such as in the proposed indoor movement forecasting task. Such a joint analysis of the efficiency/efficacy trade-off provides novel insight in the concrete successful exploitation of RC for AAL tasks and for their distributed implementation into wireless sensor networks.},
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@conference{icfEann14,
title = {An Iterative Feature Filter for Sensor Timeseries in Pervasive Computing Applications},
author = {Bacciu Davide},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-11071-4_4},
year = {2014},
date = {2014-01-01},
urldate = {2014-01-01},
booktitle = {Communications in Computer and Information Science - Engineering Applications of Neural Networks},
journal = {COMMUNICATIONS IN COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE},
volume = {459},
pages = {39--48},
publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
abstract = {The paper discusses an efficient feature selection approach for multivariate timeseries of heterogeneous sensor data within a pervasive computing scenario. An iterative filtering procedure is devised
to reduce information redundancy measured in terms of timeseries cross-correlation. The algorithm is capable of identifying non-redundant sensor sources in an unsupervised fashion even in presence of a large proportion of noisy features. A comparative experimental analysis on real-world data
from pervasive computing applications is provided, showing that the algorithm addresses major limitations of unsupervised filters in literature when dealing with sensor timeseries.},
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to reduce information redundancy measured in terms of timeseries cross-correlation. The algorithm is capable of identifying non-redundant sensor sources in an unsupervised fashion even in presence of a large proportion of noisy features. A comparative experimental analysis on real-world data
from pervasive computing applications is provided, showing that the algorithm addresses major limitations of unsupervised filters in literature when dealing with sensor timeseries.@conference{11568_588269,
title = {Learning context-aware mobile robot navigation in home environments},
author = {Bacciu Davide and Gallicchio Claudio and Micheli Alessio and Di Rocco Maurizio and Saffiotti Alessandro},
doi = {10.1109/IISA.2014.6878733},
isbn = {9781479961702},
year = {2014},
date = {2014-01-01},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications (IISA 2014)},
pages = {57--62},
publisher = {IEEE},
abstract = {We present an approach to make planning adaptive in order to enable context-aware mobile robot navigation. We integrate a model-based planner with a distributed learning system based on reservoir computing, to yield personalized planning and resource allocations that account for user preferences and environmental changes. We demonstrate our approach in a real robot ecology, and show that the learning system can effectively exploit historical data about navigation performance to modify the models in the planner, without any prior information oncerning the phenomenon being modeled. The plans produced by the adapted CL fail more rarely than the ones generated by a non-adaptive planner. The distributed learning system handles the new learning task autonomously, and is able to automatically identify the sensorial information most relevant for the task, thus reducing the communication and computational overhead of the predictive task},
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@conference{11568_159900,
title = {An Experimental Evaluation of Reservoir Computation for Ambient Assisted Living},
author = {Bacciu Davide and CHESSA Stefano and Gallicchio Claudio and MICHELI Alessio and Barsocchi Paolo},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-35467-0_5},
year = {2013},
date = {2013-01-01},
booktitle = {Neural Nets and Surroundings - 22nd Italian Workshop on Neural Nets},
journal = {SMART INNOVATION, SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES},
volume = {19},
pages = {41--50},
publisher = {Springer},
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tppubtype = {conference}
}
@conference{11568_238038,
title = {Distributed Neural Computation over WSN in Ambient Intelligence},
author = {Bacciu Davide and Gallicchio Claudio and Lenzi Alessandro and Chessa Stefano and Micheli Alessio and Pelagatti Susanna and Vairo Claudio },
doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-00566-9_19},
year = {2013},
date = {2013-01-01},
booktitle = {Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing - Ambient Intelligence - Software and Applications},
journal = {ADVANCES IN INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS AND COMPUTING},
volume = {219},
pages = {147--154},
publisher = {Springer Verlag},
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@conference{11568_193770,
title = {A General Purpose Distributed Learning Model for Robotic Ecologies},
author = {Bacciu Davide and Chessa Stefano and Gallicchio Claudio and Lenzi Alessandro and Micheli Alessio and Pelagatti Susanna},
url = {http://www.ifac-papersonline.net/Detailed/55807.html},
doi = {10.3182/20120905-3-HR-2030.00178},
year = {2012},
date = {2012-01-01},
booktitle = {Robot Control - 10th IFAC Symposium on Robot Control},
journal = {IFAC PROCEEDINGS VOLUMES},
volume = {10},
pages = {435--440},
publisher = {ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV},
abstract = {The design of a learning system for robotic ecologies need to account for some key aspects of the ecology model such as distributivity, heterogeneity of the computational, sensory and actuator capabilities, as well as self-configurability. The paper proposes general guiding principles for learning systems' design that ensue from key ecology properties, and presents a distributed learning system for the Rubicon ecology that draws inspiration from such guidelines. The proposed learning system provides the Rubicon ecology with a set of general-purpose learning services which can be used to learn generic computational tasks that involve predicting information of interest based on dynamic sensorial input streams.},
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@conference{11568_466867,
title = {Self-Sustaining Learning for Robotic Ecologies},
author = {BACCIU Davide and Broxvall Mathias and Coleman Sonya and Dragone Mauro and Gallicchio Claudio and Gennaro Claudio and Guzman Roberto and Lopez Raul and Lozano-Peiteado Hector and Ray AK and Renteria Arantxa and Saffiotti Alessandro and Vairo Claudio},
year = {2012},
date = {2012-01-01},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Sensor Networks, SENSORNETS 2012},
pages = {99--103},
abstract = {The most common use of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is to collect environmental data from a specific area, and to channel it to a central processing node for on-line or off-line analysis. The WSN technology, however, can be used for much more ambitious goals. We claim that merging the concepts and technology of WSN with the concepts and technology of distributed robotics and multi-agent systems can open new ways to design systems able to provide intelligent services in our homes and working places. We also claim that endowing these systems with learning capabilities can greatly increase their viability and acceptability, by simplifying design, customization and adaptation to changing user needs. To support these claims, we illustrate our architecture for an adaptive robotic ecology, named RUBICON, consisting of a network of sensors, effectors and mobile robots.},
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@conference{11568_202140,
title = {Predicting User Movements in Heterogeneous Indoor Environments by Reservoir Computing},
author = {Bacciu Davide and Gallicchio Claudio and Micheli Alessio and Barsocchi Paolo and Chessa Stefano},
url = {http://ijcai-11.iiia.csic.es/files/proceedings/Space,%20Time%20and%20Ambient%20Intelligence%20Proceeding.pdf},
year = {2011},
date = {2011-01-01},
urldate = {2011-01-01},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the IJCAI Workshop on Space, Time and Ambient Intelligence (STAMI)},
pages = {1--6},
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