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M.Phil Thesis

Tuci E. Funzioni di economia cognitiva e ordine seriale nell'esplorazione spaziale di differenti disposizioni di siti di cibo in un primate non umano (Cebus apella). La Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy, 06-12-1996.

PhD Thesis

Tuci E. An exploration on the evolution of learning behaviour using robot based models. University of Sussex, Brighton (UK), 20-02-2004

Edited books

Vogt P., Sugita Y., Tuci E., and Nehaniv C. (Eds.). Symbol Grounding and Beyond. Proc. of the 3rd International Symposium on the Emergence and Evolution of Linguistic Communication (EELC III), LNAI 4211, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2006.

Book chapter

Trianni V., Tuci E., Ampatzis C., Dorigo M., Evolutionary Swarm Robotics: a Theoretical and Methodological Itinerary from Individual Neuro-Controllers to Collective Behaviour, to appear in The Horizons of Evolutionary Robotics, Vargas P. A., Di Paolo E., Harvey I., and Husbands P. (Eds), MIT Press.
Ampatzis C., Tuci E., Trianni V., Dorigo M., Evolution of Signaling in a Multi-Robot System: Categorization and Communication. Evolution of Communication and Language in Embodied Agents. In Nolfi S., and Mirolli M., (Eds). Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, pp 161-178, 2010.
Dorigo M., Tuci E., Trianni V., Gross R., Nouyan S., Ampatzis C., Labella T. H., O'Grady R., Bonani M., Mondada F. SWARM-BOT: Design and Implementation of Colonies of Self-assembling Robots. Computational Intelligence: Principles and Practice, Gary Y. Yen and David B. Fogel (Eds.), IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, NY, pp 103-135, 2006.

Papers in International Journals

Trianni V., Tuci E., Passino M.K., Special Issue on Swarm Cognition, special issue editorial, Swarm Intelligence, Vol 5, pp 1--2, 2011.
Trianni V., Tuci E., Passino M.K., Marshall J.A.R., Swarm Cognition: an interdisciplinary approach to the study of self-organising biological collectives. Swarm Intelligence, Vol 5, pp 3--18, 2011.
Tuci E., Ferrauto T., Zeschel A., Massera G., Nolfi S., An Experiment on the Evolution of Compositional Semantics and Behaviour Generalisation in Artificial Agents. Submitted to the Special Issue on 'Grounding Language in Action' of the IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development Journal (TAMD), August 2010.
Cangelosi A., Metta G., Sagerer G., Nolfi S., Nehaniv C., Fischer K., Tani J., Sandini G., Fadiga L., Wrede B., Rohlfing K., Tuci E., Dautenhahn K., Saunders J., Zeschel A. Integration of Action and Language Knowledge: A Roadmap for Developmental Robotics. Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development (TAMD), Vol. 2, Issue 3, pp 167-195, 2010.
Massera G., Tuci E., Ferrauto T., Nolfi S. Development of Object Manipulation Abilities in a Humanoid Robotic Arm: On the Facilitatory Role of Linguistic Instructions. IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, Vol. 14, Issue 6, 2010.
Tuci E., Massera G., Nolfi S., Active categorical perception of object shapes in a simulated anthropomorphic robotic arm. Transaction on Evolutionary Computation Journal, Vol. 14, Issue 6, pp 885--899, 2010.
Tuci E., An investigation of the evolutionary origin of reciprocal communication using simulated autonomous agents. Biological Cybernetics Journal, Vol. 101, No 3, pp 183-199, 2009. Supplementary Materials
Ampatzis C., Tuci E., Trianni V., Christensen A. L., Dorigo M., Evolving Self-Assembly in Autonomous Homogeneous Robots: Experiments with Two Physical Robots. Artificial Life Journal, Vol. 15, No 4, pp 465-484, 2009.
Gutiérrez A., Tuci E., Campo A., Evolution of Neuro-Controllers for Robots' Alignment using Local Communication. International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp 25-34, 2009.
Pini G., Tuci E. On the Design of Neuro-controllers for Individual and Social Learning Behaviour in Autonomous Robots: An Evolutionary Approach. Connection Science Journal, Vol. 20, No 2-3, pp 211-230, 2008.
Tuci E., Ampatzis C., Vicentini F., Dorigo M. Evolving homogeneous neuro-controllers for a group of heterogeneous robots: coordinated motion, cooperation, and acoustic communication. Artificial Life, Vol. 14, No. 2, 2008.
Ampatzis C., Tuci E., Trianni V., Dorigo M. Evolution of Signaling in a Multi-Robot System: Categorization and Communication. Adaptive Behavior, Vol. 16, No 1, pp. 5-26, 2008.
Tuci E., Gross R., Trianni V., Mondada F., Bonani M., Dorigo M. Cooperation through self-assembly in multi-robot systems. ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, Vol. 1, No 2, pp 115-150, 2006.
Dorigo M., Tuci E., Mondada F., Nolfi S., Deneubourg J.-L. , Floreano D., Gambardella L. M. The SWARM-BOTS Project. KI - Zeitschrift Knstliche Intelligenz, Vol. 4-05, pp 32-35, 2005.
Tuci E., Trianni V., Dorigo M. Feeling the Flow of Time through Sensory-Motor Coordination. Connection Science, Vol. 16, No 4, pp. 301-324, 2004. The look-up table for the light sensors values used in these experiments can be download here
Harvey I., Di Paolo E.A., Wood R. Quinn M., Tuci E. Evolutionary Robotics: A new scientific tool for studying cognition. Artificial Life, Vol. 11, No 1-2, pp 79-98, 2004.
Tuci E., Quinn M., Harvey I. An Evolutionary Ecological Approach to the Study of Learning Behaviour Using a Robot-Based Model. Adaptive Behavior, Vol. 10, No 3-4, pp. 201-221, 2003.
Noble J., Todd P.M., Tuci E. Explaining social learning of food preferences without aversions: an evolutionary simulation model of Norway rats. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, Vol. 268, No 1463, pp. 141-149, 2001.
De Lillo C., Aversano M., Tuci E., Visalberghi E. Spatial Constraints and Regulatory Functions in Monkeys' (Cebus apella) Search. Journal of Comparative Psychology, Vol. 112, No. 4, pp. 353-362, 1998.

Papers in Proceedings of International Conferences

2010

Morlino G., Trianni V., Tuci E. Collective Perception in a Swarm of Autonomous Robots. Submitted to the International Conference on Evolutionary Computation (ICEC), Valencia, Spain, October 2010, In Press.
Tuci E., Ferrauto T., Massera G., Nolfi S. The Evolution of Behavioural and Linguistic Skills to Execute and Generate Two-word Instructions in Agents Controlled by Dynamical Neural Networks. Proceedings of the 12th Int. Conf. on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (Alife XII), Fellermann H., Dorr M., Hanczyc M., Laursen L.L., Maurer S., Merkle D., Monnard P-A., Stoy K., Rasmussen S., The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp 591-598, 2010.
Tuci E., Ferrauto T., Massera G., Nolfi S. Co-development of linguistic and behavioural skills: compositional semantics and behaviour generalisation. Proceedings of the 11th Int. Conf. on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB2010), Doncieux S., Girard B., Guillot A., Hallam J., Meyer J-A., Mouret J-B., (Eds), LNCS, Springer Heidelberg, pp. 523-532, 2010.

2009

Ferrauto T., Tuci E., Mirolli M., Massera G., Nolfi S. Two Examples of Active Categorisation Processes Distributed Over Time. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics (EPIROB 2009), Canamero L., Oudeyer P.-Y., and Balkenius C., (Eds), Lund University Cognitive Studies, pp. 49-56, 2009.
Tuci E., Massera G., Nolfi S. On the dynamics of active categorisation of different objects shape through tactile sensors. Proceedings of the 10th European Conference of Artificial Life (ECAL 2009), Vol. LNCS/LNAI 5777, 5778, Springer Verlag, 2010.
Ampatzis C., Santos F.C., Trianni V., Tuci E. To grip, or not to grip: Evolving coordination in autonomous robots. Proceedings of the 10th European Conference of Artificial Life (ECAL 2009), Vol. LNCS/LNAI 5777, 5778, Springer Verlag, 2010.
Trianni V., Tuci E. Swarm Cognition and Artificial Life. Proceedings of the 10th European Conference of Artificial Life (ECAL 2009), Vol. LNCS/LNAI 5777, 5778, Springer Verlag, 2010.
Tuci E., Massera G., Nolfi S. Active categorical perception in an evolved anthropomorphic robotic arm. Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), special session on Evolutionary Robotics, CD, ISBN: 978-1-4244-2959-2, Trondheim, Norway, 18th-21st May2009.

2008

Pinciroli C., Birattari M., Tuci E., Dorigo M., Del Rey Zapatero M., Vinko T., Izzo D. Lattice Formation in Space for a Swarm of Pico Satellites. Sixth International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2008), LNCS 5217/2008, pp. 347-354, M. Dorigo et al. (Eds.), Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2008.
Tuci E., Ampatzis C., Trianni V., Christensen A. L., Dorigo M., Self-Assembly in Physical Autonomous Robots: the Evolutionary Robotics Approach. Proc. of the 11th International Conference on Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (ALifeXI), pp 616-623, S. Bullock, J. Noble, R. Watson, M. Bedau (Eds), MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusset, USA, 2008.
Pinciroli C., Birattari M., Tuci E., Dorigo M., Del Rey Zapatero M., Vinko T., Izzo D.. Self-Organizing and Scalable Shape Formation for a Swarm of Pico Satellites. Proc. of the NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS-2008), pp 57-61, June 2008. IEEE-CS Press, Washington, DC, USA.

2007

Tuci E., Ampatzis C. The Evolution of Acoustic Communication Between Two Cooperating Robots. Proc. of the 9th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2007), LNAI 4648, pp. 395-404, F. Almeida e Costa, L.M. Rocha, E. Costa, I. Harvey, A. Coutinho (Eds.), Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2007.
Trianni V., Ampatzis C., Christensen A. L., Tuci E., Dorigo M., Nolfi S. From Solitary to Collective Bhevaiours: Decision Making and Cooperation. Proc. of the 9th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2007), LNAI 4648, pp. 575-584, F. Almeida e Costa, L.M. Rocha, E. Costa, I. Harvey, A. Coutinho (Eds.), Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2007.
Pini G., Tuci E., Dorigo M. Evolution of Social and Individual learning in autonomous robots. Proc. of the 1st Workshop on Social Learning in Embodied Agents (SLEA), CD-ROM, 2007.

2006

Vicentini F., Tuci E. Scalability in Evolved Neurocontrollers that Guide a Swarm of Robots in a Navigation Task. Proc. of the 2nd International Workshop on Swarm robotics. LNCS 4433, pp. 206-220, E. Sahin, W.M. Spears, and A.F.T. Winfield (Eds.), Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2006.
Ampatzis C., Tuci E., Trianni V., Dorigo M. Evolution of Signalling in a Group of Robots Controlled by Dynamic Neural Networks. Proc. of the 2nd International Workshop on Swarm robotics. LNCS 4433, pp. 173-188, E. Sahin, W.M. Spears, and A.F.T. Winfield (Eds.), Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2006.
Tuci E., Ampatzis C., Vicentini F., Dorigo M. Operational aspects of the evolved signalling behaviour in a group of cooperating and communicating robots. Proc. of the 3rd International Symposium on the Emergence and Evolution of Linguistic Communication (EELC III), LNAI 4211, pp. 113-127, Vogt P., Sugita Y., Tuci E., and Nehaniv C. (Eds.), Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2006.
Tuci E., Ampatzis C., Vicentini F., Dorigo M. Evolved homogeneous neuro-controllers for robots with different sensory capabilities: coordinated motion and cooperation. Proc. of the 9th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB 2006), LNAI 4095, pp. 679-690, S. Nolfi, G. Baldassarre, R. Calabretta, J.C.T. Hallam, D. Marocco, J-A. Meyer, O. Miglino, D. Parisi, (Eds.), Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2006.
Gross R., Tuci E., Dorigo M., Bonani M., Mondada F. Object Transport by Modular Robots that Self-assemble. Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2006). pp. 2558-2564, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, 2006.

2005

Ampatzis C., Tuci E., Trianni V., Dorigo M. Evolving communicating agents that integrate information over time: a real robot experiment. Proc. of the 7th International Conference on Artificial Evolution (EA 2005), Lille France, CD-ROM, paper ART03, 2005.
Tuci E., Ampatzis C., Dorigo M. Evolving neural mechanisms for an iterated discrimination task: a robot based model. Proc. of the 8th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2005), LNAI 3630, pp 231-240, M. S. Capcarrere, A. A. Freitas, P. J. Bentley, C. G. Johnson, and J. Timmis (Eds.), Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2005.

2004

Dorigo M., Tuci E., Gross R., Trianni V., Labella T.H., Nouyan S., Deneubourg J-L, BaldassarreG., Nolfi S., Mondada F., Floreano D., Gambardella L.M. The SWARM-BOTS project. Proc. of the 1st international Workshop on Swarm Robotics, LNCS 3342, pp. 31-44, E. Sahin, W.M. Spears (Eds.), Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2004.
Tuci E., Trianni V., Dorigo M. Evolving the "feeling" of time through sensory-motor coordination: a robot based model. Proc. of the 8th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN VIII), LNCS 3242, pp. 1001-1010, X. Yao, E. Burke, J.A. Lozano, J. Smith, J.J. Merelo-Guervós, J.A. Bullinaria, J. Rowe, P. Tino, A. Kabán, H-P. Schwefel (Eds.), Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2004.
Trianni V., Tuci E., Dorigo. M., Evolving Functional Self-Assembling in a Swarm of Autonomous Robots. Proc. of the 8th International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB 2004), pp. 405-414. S. Schaal, A. Ijspeert, A. Billard, S. Vijayakamur, J. Hallam, J-A. Meyer (Eds), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2004.

2003

Tuci E., Quinn M. Behavioural Plasticity in autonomous agents: a comparison between two types of controller. Proc. of the 2nd European Workshop on Evolutionary Robotics (EvoROB 2003), LNCS 2611, pp. 661-672, G. Raidl, S. Cagnoni, M. Middendorf, J-A. Meyer, J.J. Romero Cardalda, J. Gottlieb (Eds.), Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2003.

2002

Tuci E., Harvey I., and Todd P.M. Using a net to catch a mate: Evolving CTRNNs for the Dowry Problem. Proc. of the 7th International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB 2002), pp. 292-302, B. Hallam, D. Floreano, J. Hallam, G. Hayes, J-A. Meyer (Eds.), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2002.
Tuci E., Harvey I., and Quinn M. Evolving integrated controllers for autonomous learning robots using dynamic neural networks. Proc. of the 7th International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB 2002), pp. 282-291, B. Hallam, D. Floreano, J. Hallam, G. Hayes, J-A. Meyer (Eds.), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2002.
Tuci E., Quinn M., and Harvey I. Evolving fixed-weight networks for learning robots. Proc. of the Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2002), Honolulu, Hawaii, May 12-17, 2002.

1999

Noble J., Tuci E., and Todd P.M. Social learning and information sharing: An evolutionary simulation model of foraging in Norway rats. Proc. of 5th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 1999), LNCS 1674, pp. 524-534, D. Floreano, J-D. Nicoud, F. Mondada (Eds.), Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 1999.
Tuci E., Noble J., and Todd P.M. I'll have what she's having: A simulation analysis of the copying of food preferences in Norway rats. Proc. of the AISB'99 Symposium on Imitation in Animals and Artifacts, pp 74-79, K. Dautenhahn, C. Nehaniv (Eds.), published by The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour, ISBN 1902956052, 1999.

September 2010 Elio Tuci