Publications 2023

Assessing deep learning: a work program for the humanities in the age of artificial intelligence

On the Performance of Online Adaptation of Robots Controlled by Nanowire Networks

Paolo Baldini, Andrea Roli, Michele Braccini

Published in IEEE AccessOpen Access Volume 11, 2023

Crystal structure of human serum albumin in complex with megabody reveals unique human and murine cross-reactive binding site

Sofia De Felice, Zhanna Romanyuk, Monica Chinellato, Giulia Zoia, Sara Linciano, Yoichi Kumada, Els Pardon, Jan Steyaert, Alessandro Angelini, Laura Cendron

Published in Protein Science, 2023

II. Geometrical framework for thinking about globular proteins: The power of poking

Tatjana Škrbić, Achille Giacometti, Trinh X. Hoang, Amos Maritan, Jayanth R. Banavar

Published in Proteins, Wiley - 2023

Online Adaptation of Robots Controlled by Nanowire Networks: A Preliminary Study [PDF]

Paolo Baldini, Michele Braccini & Andrea Roli

WIVACE 2022: Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation pp 171–182 Conference Paper

Moral Exercises for Human Oversight of Algorithmic Decision-Making

Scantamburlo Teresa, Crafa Silvia, Grandi Giovanni

Published in CEUR Workshop ProceedingsVolume 3537, Pages 57 - 662023 22nd International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, AIxIA 2023 DP 2023Rome6 November 2023through 9 November 2023

In vitro binding analysis of legacy-linear and new generation-cyclic perfluoro-alkyl substances on sex hormone binding globulin and albumin, suggests low impact on serum hormone kinetics of testosterone

Angela Pavan, Laura Cendron, Andrea Di Nisio, Federica Pedrucci, Iva Sabovic, Alessandro Scarso, Alberto Ferlin, Alessandro Angelini, Carlo Foresta, Luca De Toni

Published in Toxicology. 2023 Nov 4;500:153664.

Candidate composite biomarker to inform drug treatments for diabetic kidney disease

Roger D. Jones, Seyum Abebe, Veronica Distefano, Gert Mayer, Irene Poli, Claudio Silvestri, Debora Slanzi

Published in Frontiers in Medicine,Sec. Precision Medicine, Vol. 10 - 2023

The Sound of Swarm. Auditory Description of Swarm Robotic Movements

Maria Mannone, Valeria Seidita, Antonio Chella

Published in ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, Volume 12, Issue 4, Article No.: 53, pp. 1–27

Inflammatory bowel disease biomarkers revealed by the human gut microbiome network.

Hu, M., Caldarelli, G. & Gili, T.

Published in Scientific Reports 13, 19428 (2023). 

Janus helices: From fully attractive to hard helices

Laura Dal Compare, Flavio Romano, Jared A. Wood, Asaph Widmer-Cooper, Achille Giacometti

Published in J. Chem. Phys. 7 November 2023; 159 (17): 174905.

Phase behaviour of semiflexible lattice polymers in poor-solvent solution: Mean-field theory and Monte Carlo simulations

Davide Marcato, Achille Giacometti, Amos Maritan, Angelo Rosa

Published in J. Chem. Phys. 159, 154901 (2023)

Geolocation of Cultural Heritage Using Multi-view Knowledge Graph Embedding

Systemic risk measured by the resiliency of the system to initial shocks

Luka Klinčić, Vinko Zlatić, Guido Caldarelli, and Hrvoje Štefančić

Published in Physical Review E, 108(4), art. no. 044303.

A novel genetically-encoded bicyclic peptide inhibitor of human urokinase-type plasminogen activator with better cross-reactivity toward the murine orthologue.

Ylenia Mazzocato, Stefano Perin, Julia Morales-Sanfrutos, Zhanna Romanyuk, Stefano Pluda, Laura Acquasaliente, Giuseppe Borsato, Vincenzo De Filippis, Alessandro Scarso, Alessandro Angelini

Published in Bioorg Med Chem. 2023 Oct 12;95:117499.

Dimensional reduction of solvency contagion dynamics on financial networks

Gianmarco Ricciardi, Guido Montagna, Guido Caldarelli, Giulio Cimini

Published in Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Vol. 630, 129287

Microelectronic Morphogenesis: Smart Materials with Electronics Assembling into Artificial Organisms

John S. McCaskill,  Daniil Karnaushenko,  Minshen Zhu,  Oliver G. Schmidt

Published in Advanced  Materials 2023, 2306344

Investigating Semi-Automatic Assessment of Data Sets Fairness by Means of Fuzzy Logic

Chiara Gallese, Teresa Scantamburlo, Luca Manzoni, Marco S. Nobile

Published in:2023 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CIBCB)

Point-of-Care Testing for the Detection of MicroRNAs: Towards Liquid Biopsy on a Chip

Dr. Giulia Moro, Dr. Chiara Dalle Fratte, Prof. Dr. Nicola Normanno, Prof. Dr. Federico Polo, Prof. Dr. Stefano Cinti
Published in Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 2023

Modelling of Peristaltic Pumps with Respect to Viscoelastic Tube Material Properties and Fatigue Effects

Hostettler, Marco, Raphael Grüter, Simon Stingelin, Flavio De Lorenzi, Rudolf M. Fuechslin, Cyrill Jacomet, Stephan Koll, Dirk Wilhelm, and Gernot K. Boiger. 

Published in MDPI Fluids 8, no. 9: 254, 2023

Rinmaker: a fast, versatile and reliable tool to determine residue interaction networks in proteins

Editorial: Artificial Intelligence in Finance and Industry: volume II—highlights from the 7th European conference

Antiviral mechanisms of two broad-spectrum monoclonal antibodies for rabies prophylaxis and therapy

Maira Zorzan, Martina Castellan, Matteo Gasparotto, Guilherme Dias de Melo, Barbara Zecchin, Stefania Leopardi, Alex Chen, Antonio Rosato, Alessandro Angelini, Hervé Bourhy, Davide Corti, Laura Cendron, Paola De Benedictis

Published in Front. Immunol., Sec. Vaccines and Molecular Therapeutics

What is consciousness? Artificial intelligence, real intelligence, quantum mind and qualia

Stuart A Kauffman, Andrea Roli

Published in Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, Volume 139, Issue 4, August 2023, Pages 530–538

The Impact of Gender and Personality in Human-AI Teaming: The Case of Collaborative Question Answering

Frida Milella, Chiara Natali, Teresa Scantamburlo, Andrea Campagner & Federico Cabitza
Conference paper, Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS,vol. 14143)

A geometrical framework for thinking about proteins

Jayanth R. Banavar, Achille Giacometti, Trinh X. Hoang, Amos Maritan, Tatjana Škrbić

Published in Proteins, 2023; 1-15.

Energy and SNR-Aware Robotic Swarm Coordination for Aquatic Cleaning Operations

Maria Mannone; Valeria Seidita; Antonio Chella; Achille Giacometti; Peppino Fazio

Published in: 2023 IEEE 97th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2023-Spring)

Editorial: "Artificial Intelligence in Finance and Industry: Volume II -Highlights from the 7th European Conference"

Andreas Henrici,  Rudolf M. Füchslin, Peter Schwendner

Published in Front. Artif. Intell. Sec. Artificial Intelligence in Finance, Vol. 6 - 2023

Deep ensemble inverse model for image-based estimation of solar cell parameters

M. Battaglia; E. Comi; T. Stadelmann; R. Hiestand; B. Ruhstaller; E. Knapp

Published APL Machine Learning 1, 036108 (2023)

Zooming out the microscope on cumulative cultural evolution: ‘Trajectory B’ from animal to human culture

Claes Andersson & Claudio Tennie

Published in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications vol. 10, 402 (2023)

Recurrent neural networks in synthetic cells: a route to autonomous molecular agents?

Michele Braccini, Ethan Collinson, Andrea Roli, Harold Fellermann, Pasquale Stano

Published in Front. Bioeng. Biotechnol., Sec. Synthetic Biology

Development and characterization of a latex turbidimetric immunoassay using rabbit anti-CRP single-chain Fv antibodies

Yoichi Kumada,Reina Tanibata, Kimitaka Yamamoto, Hiroshi Noguchi, Alessandro Angelini, Jun-ichi Horiuchi
Published in Journal of Immunological Methods, Elsevier

Exploring Heterogeneity with Category and Cluster Analyses for Mixed Data

Veronica Distefano, Maria Mannone and Irene Poli

Published in MDPI Stats 2023, 6(3), 747-762

Cultural Evolution, Disinformation, and Social Division

Alexander Bentley, Benjamin Horne, Joshua Borycz, Simon Carrignon, Garriy Shteynberg, Blai Vidiella, Sergi Valverde, Michael J O’Brien

Published in Adaptive Behavior. 2023;0(0).

Quasi-CliquePool: Hierarchical Graph Pooling for Graph Classification

Waqar Ali, Sebastiano Vascon, Thilo Stadelmann, Marcello Pelillo

SAC '23: Proceedings of the 38th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied ComputingPages 544–552

Adsorbed Water Promotes Chemically Active Environments on the Surface of Sodium Chloride

Xiangrui Kong, Ivan Gladich, Nicolas Fauré, Erik S. Thomson, Jie Chen, Luca Artiglia, Markus Ammann, Thorsten Bartels-Rausch, Zamin A. Kanji, and Jan B. C. Pettersson

Published in J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2023, 14, 6151–6156

Model of ligand-triggered information transmission in G-protein coupled receptor complexes

Roger D. Jones and Alan M. Jones

Published in Frontiers in Endocrinology, Sec. Cellular Endocrinology

A third transition in science?

Stuart A. Kauffman and Andrea Roli

Published in Interface Focus, Volume 13, Issue 3

Video object detection for privacy-preserving patient monitoring in intensive care

Proceedings of the 10th IEEE Swiss Conference on Data Science
Emberger R., Boss, J. M., Baumann D., Seric M., Huo S.Tuggener L., Keller E., Stadelmann Thilo

An Impedimetric Biosensing Strategy Based on BicyclicPeptides as Bioreceptors for Monitoring h-uPA Cancer Biomarkers

Giulia Moro, Leonardo Ferrari, Alessandro Angelini, and Federico Polo

Published in Chemosensors 2023, Vol. 11(4), 234.

From concept to implementation: the data-centric development process for AI in industry

Modeling and designing a robotic swarm: A quantum computing approach

Composition, structure and robustness of Lichen guilds.

Salva Duran-Nebreda & Sergi Valverde

Published in Scientific Reports vol. 13, Article number: 3295 (2023)

Locality-aware subgraphs for inductive link prediction in knowledge graphs

Hebatallah A. Mohamed, Diego Pilutti, Stuart James, Alessio Del Bue, Marcello Pelillo, Sebastiano Vascon

Published in Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 167, March 2023

Exploring the expressiveness of abstract metabolic networks.

Irene García, Bessem Chouaia, Mercè Llabrés, Marta Simeoni

Published in PLoS ONE 18(2): e0281047.

Unexpected Behavior of Chloride and Sulfate Ions upon Surface Solvation of Martian Salt Analogue

Nicolas Fauré, Jie Chen, Luca Artiglia, Markus Ammann, Thorsten Bartels-Rausch, Jun Li, Wanyu Liu, Sen Wang, Zamin A. Kanji, Jan B. C. Pettersson, Ivan Gladich, Erik S. Thomson, and Xiangrui Kong

Published by American Chemical Society, ACS Earth Space Chem. 2023

The transition from animal to human culture—simulating the social protocell hypothesis

Claes Andersson and Tamás Czárán

Published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Vol. 378, Issue 1872, 2023

Obstacles on the Pathway Towards Chemical Programmability Using Agglomerations of Droplets.

J.J. Schneider, A. Faggian, H.G. Matuttis, D. A. Barrow, J. Li, S. Holler, F. Casiraghi, L. Cebolla Sanahuja, Martin M. Hanczyc, P. Eschle, M. S. Weyland, D. Flumini, P. E. Hotz & Rudolf Marcel Füchslin 

Conference Paper: Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation. WIVACE 2021.
Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1722. Springer, Cham.

Dynamical Criticality in Growing Networks

Cappelletti, G., D’Addese, G., Serra, R., Villani, M.

Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation. WIVACE 2021.Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1722. Springer, Cham.In: Schneider, J.J., Weyland, M.S., Flumini, D., Füchslin, R.M. (eds)

A Novel Online Adaptation Mechanism in Artificial Systems Provides Phenotypic Plasticity

Braccini, M., Roli, A., Kauffman, S.

Conference Paper: Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation. WIVACE 2021.Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1722. Springer, Cham.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Droplet Recognition by a “Shootout”-Heuristics

Hans-Georg Matuttis, Silvia Holler, Federica Casiraghi, Johannes Josef Schneider, Alessia Faggian, Rudolf M. Füchslin & Martin M. Hanczyc

Conference Paper: Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation. WIVACE 2021.Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1722. Springer, Cham.

Geometric Restrictions to the Agglomeration of Spherical Particles

Johannes Josef Schneider, David Anthony Barrow, Jin Li, Mathias Sebastian Weyland, Dandolo Flumini, Peter Eggenberger Hotz & Rudolf M. Füchslin

Conference Paper: Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation. WIVACE 2021.Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1722. Springer, Cham.

Ethical Aspects of Computational Modelling in Science, Decision Support and Communication

Rudolf M. Füchslin, Jacques Ambühl, Alessia Faggian, Harold M. Fellermann, Dandolo Flumini, Armando Geller, Martin M. Hanczyc, Andreas Klinkert, Pius Krütli, Hans-Georg Matuttis, Thomas Ott, Stephan Scheidegger, Gary Bruno Schmid, Timo Smieszek, Johannes J. Schneider, Albert Steiner & Mathias S. Weyland

Conference Paper: Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation. WIVACE 2021.Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1722. Springer, Cham.

Investigation of the Ramsey-Pierce-Bowman Model

Schneider, J.J., Lang, A., Hirtreiter, C., Morgenstern, I., Füchslin, R.M.

Conference Paper: Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation. WIVACE 2021.Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1722. Springer, Cham.

Solvent Quality and Solvent Polarity in Polypeptides

Cedrix J. Dongmo Foumthuim and Achille Giacometti

Published in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2023.

Super-Exponential Growth in Models of a Binary String World

Marco Villani and Roberto Serra

Published in MDPI Entropy 2023, 25(1), 168.

Quantum planning for swarm robotics

Antonio Chella, Salvatore Gaglio, Maria Mannone, Giovanni Pilato, Valeria Seidita, Filippo Vella, Salvatore Zammuto

Published in Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 161, 2023

Laplacian renormalization group for heterogeneous networks

Pablo Villegas, Tommaso Gili, Guido Caldarelli & Andrea Gabrielli

Published in Nature Physics, 2023