Publications 2021

Emergence of organisms: An exploration of the boundaries between living organisms and robots

Andrea Roli and Stuart A. Kauffman

Proceedings of the remote workshop: A quest for an interface between information and action, Gaeta, 7,9,20 April 2021 (online), Foresight

Proteins — a celebration of consilience

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

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics B (2021)

Systemic liquidity contagion in the European interbank market

Valentina Macchiati, Giuseppe Brandi, Tiziana Di Matteo, Daniela Paolotti, Guido Caldarelli & Giulio Cimini

Published in Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination, Springer (2021)

Jigsaw Puzzle Solving as a Consistent Labeling Problem

Marina Khoroshiltseva, Ben Vardi, Alessandro Torcinovich, Arianna Traviglia, Ohad Ben-Shahar, Marcello Pelillo

Conference paper, CAIP 2021: Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns pp 392-402

The World Is Not a Theorem

Stuart Kauffman and Andrea Roli

Published in MDPI Entropy 2021, 23 (11), (2021)

Why polls fail to predict elections

Zhenkun Zhou, Matteo Serafino, Luciano Cohan, Guido Caldarelli & Hernán A. Makse 

Published in Journal of Big Data, vol. 8 (2021) 

Bias, awareness, and ignorance in deep-learning-based face recognition

Samuel Wehrli, Corinna Hertweck, Mohammadreza Amirian, Stefan Glüge & Thilo Stadelmann

Published in AI and Ethics, Springer (2021)

Apprendimento automatico e decisione umana

Giovanni Grandi and Teresa Scantamburlo

Book chapter in "Automi e Persone. Introduzione all’etica dell’intelligenza artificiale e della robotica"
Collana Studi Superiori, 2021 - Fossa F., Schiaffonati V., Tamburrini G.
Carocci Editore

Modeling the emergence of affective polarization in the social media society

Petter Törnberg, Claes Andersson, Kristian Lindgren, Sven Banisch

Published in PLoS ONE (2021)

Reversing arrows: Duality

Maria Mannone

Published in Journal of Mathematics and the Arts (2021)

The social turn of artificial intelligence

Nello Cristianini, Teresa Scantamburlo & James Ladyman

Published in AI & SOCIETY - Springer (2021)

Emergent spatial patterns of coexistence in species-rich plant communities

Pablo Villegas, Tommaso Gili, and Guido Caldarelli

Published in Phys. Rev. E 104, 034305, September 2021

Machines We Trust
Perspectives on Dependable AI

Marcello Pelillo and Teresa Scantamburlo

Published by MIT press, August 2021

EEG based Major Depressive disorder and Bipolar disorder detection using Neural Networks:A review

Sana Yasin, Syed Asad Hussain, Sinem Aslan, Imran Raza, Muhammad Muzammel, Alice Othmani

Published in Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Clustering Longitudinal Data with Category Theory for Diabetic Kidney Disease

Maria Mannone, Veronica Distefano, Claudio Silvestri & Irene Poli

CLADAG 2021 conference: Book of Abstracts and Short Papers, pp. 364-367 (2021)

A musical reading of a contemporary installation and back: mathematical investigations of patterns in Qwalala

Maria Mannone
Published in Journal of Mathematics and Music
Mathematical and Computational Approaches to Music Theory, Analysis, Composition and Performance, 2021

Exploring machine learning potential for climate change risk assessment

Federica Zennaro, Elisa Furlan, Christian  Simeoni, Silvia Torresan, Sinem Aslan, Andrea Critto, Antonio Marcomini

Published in Earth-Science Reviews, 220, art. no. 103752, 2021

Peptide-Based Inhibitors of ADAM and ADAMTS Metalloproteinases

Stefano Pluda, Ylenia Mazzocato, Alessandro Angelini

Published in Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 8, art. no. 703715, 2021

Synthesis and Antimicrobial Evaluation of Bis-morpholine Triazine Quaternary Ammonium Salts

Dr. Andrea Morandini, Benedetta Leonetti, Prof. Pietro Riello, Dr. Roberto Sole, Vanessa Gatto, Isabella Caligiuri, Prof. Flavio Rizzolio, Prof. Valentina Beghetto

Published in ChemMedChem, 2021

Non-empirical problems in fair machine learning

Teresa Scantamburlo

Published in Ethics and Information Technology, 2021

Covid-19 and tracing methodologies: A lesson for the future society

Teresa Scantamburlo, Atia Cortés, Pierre Dewitte, Daphné Van der Eycken, Ralf De Wolf & Marijn Martens

Published in Health and Technology, 2021

On Randomness and Origin of Life

Roberto Serra

Published in Multiplicity and Interdisciplinarity, pp 159-166

Encoding Brain Networks Through Geodesic Clustering of Functional Connectivity for Multiple Sclerosis Classification

Muhammad Abubakar Yamin; Paola Valsasina; Michael Dayan; Sebastiano Vascon; Jacopo Tessadori; Massimo Filippi; Vittorio Murino; Maria A. Rocca; Diego Sona

Published in IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Algorithmic extraction of smartphone accelerometer-derived mechano-biological descriptors of resistance exercise is robust to changes in intensity and velocity

Did Human Culture Emerge in a Cultural Evolutionary Transition in Individuality?

Dinah R. Davison, Claes Andersson, Richard E. Michod & Steven L. Kuhn 

Biological Theory (2021)

Building blocks of protein structures: Physics meets biology

Tatjana Škrbić, Amos Maritan, Achille Giacometti, George D. Rose, and Jayanth R. Banavar

Phys. Rev. E 104, 014402
Published in 2021

Spontaneous dimensional reduction and ground state degeneracy in a simple chain model

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

Phys. Rev. E 104, L012101
Published 2021

Flow of online misinformation during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy

Guido Caldarelli, Rocco De Nicola, Marinella Petrocchi, Manuel Pratelli & Fabio Saracco

EPJ Data Science volume 10, Article number: 34
Published in 2021

The AI-Atlas: Didactics for teaching AI and machine learning on-site, online, and hybrid

Thilo Stadelmann, Julian Keuzenkamp, Helmut Grabner and Christoph Würsch

Education Sciences 2021, 11(7), 318;
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence and Education
Published in 2021

The physics of financial networks

M. Bardoscia, P. Barucca, S. Battiston, F. Caccioli, G. Cimini, D. Garlaschelli, F. Saracco,
T. Squartini and G. Caldarelli 

Nature Reviews Physics (2021)

HELP: An LSTM-based approach to hyperparameter exploration in neural network learning

Wendi Li, Wing W.Y. Ng, Ting Wang, Marcello Pelillo, Sam Kwong

Neurocomputing, Volume 442,
28 June 2021, Pages 161-172

Local sequence-structure relationships in proteins

Tatjana Škrbić, Amos Maritan, Achille Giacometti, Jayanth R. Banavar

Protein Science, 30 (4), pp. 818-829.
Published in 2021

A Fast and Effective Method to Identify Relevant Sets of Variables in Complex Systems

Gianluca D’Addese, Martina Casari, Roberto Serra, Marco Villani

Mathematics, 9(9), art. no. 1022
Published in 2021

LiSSA: Localized Stochastic Sensitive Autoencoders

Ting Wang, Wing W. Y. Ng, Marcello Pelillo, Sam Kwong

IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 51(5), art. no. 8764568, pp. 2748-2760.
Published in 2021

MetNet: A two-level approach to reconstructing and comparing metabolic networks

Nicoletta Cocco, Mercè Llabrés, Mariana Reyes-Prieto, Marta Simeoni

In PLOS ONE
Published in 2021

Dynamical properties and path dependence in a gene-network model of cell differentiation

Michele Braccini, Andrea Roli, Marco Villani & Roberto Serra 

Soft Computing volume 25,
pages 6775–6787 (2021)

Unveiling the binding mode of perfluorooctanoic acid to human serum albumin

L. Maso, M. Trande, S.o Liberi, G. Moro, E. Daems, S.a Linciano, F. Sobott, S. Covaceuszach, A. Cassetta, S. Fasolato, L. M. Moretto, K. De Wael, L. Cendron, A. Angelini 

Protein Science, 30 (4), pp. 830-841.
Published in 2021.

Native mass spectrometry for the design and selection of protein bioreceptors for perfluorinated compounds

E. Daems, G. Moro, H. Berghmans, L.M. Moretto, S. Dewilde, A. Angelini, F. Sobott, K. De Wael

Analyst, 146 (6), pp. 2065-2073
Published in 2021

Phase behavior of hard cylinders

Joyce T. Lopes, Flavio Romano, Eric Grelet, Luís F. M. Franco and Achille Giacometti

J. Chem. Phys. 154, 104902
Published in 2021

Mesoporous zirconia nanoparticles as drug delivery systems: Drug loading, stability and release

Leonetti, B., Perin, A., Ambrosi, E.K., Sponchia, G., Sgarbossa, P., Castellin, A., Riello, P., Scarso, A.

Journal of Drug Delivery Science and Technology, 61, art. no. 102189.
Published in 2021

True scale-free networks hidden by finite size effects

Serafino, M., Cimini, G., Maritan, A., Rinaldo, A., Suweis, S., Banavar, J.R., Caldarelli, G.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118 (2),
Published in 2021

A Neural Network Model for Lead Optimization of MMP12 Inhibitors

Dagnew, T.M., Silvestri, C., Slanzi, D., Poli, I.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
(including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 12664 LNCS, pp. 323-335
Published in 2021