Stefano Nolfi

Research Director
Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, CNR
E-mail: stefano.nolfi@istc.cnr.it

Fields of interest:

Adaptive Behaviours,
Autonomous Robots,
Embodied Cognition,
Collective and Swarm Intelligence,
Evolutionary Robotics,
Artificial Life,
Evolution of Language,
Complex Systems.

Recent publications:

Nolfi S. , Mirolli M. :

Evolution of Communication and Language in Embodied Agents.
Berlin: Springer Verlag. (in press).

Sperati V., Trianni V., and Nolfi S.:
Evolving coordinated group behaviour thorugh maximization of mean mutual information. Swarm Intelligence Journal,
Special Issue on Swarm Robotics, Vol. 2(2-4), (2008), pp. 73-95.

Gigliotta O., Nolfi S.:
On the Coupling Between Agent Internal and Agent/Environmental Dynamics: Development of Spatial Representations in Evolving Autonomous Robots,
Adaptive Behavior, Vol.16, (2008), pp. 148-165

Baldassarre G., Trianni V., Bonani M., Mondada F., Dorigo M. & Nolfi S.:
Self-organised coordinated motion in groups of physically connected robots.
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Vol. 37(1), (2007),
pp. 224-239.

Massera G., A. Cangelosi, S. Nolfi:
Evolution of Prehension Ability in an Anthropomorphic Neurorobotic Arm,
Frontiers in Neurobotics, Vol. 1(4), (2007), pp. 1-9.

Nolfi S., Floreano D.:
Synthesis of autonomous robots through artificial evolution,
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Vol. 6(1), (2002), pp. 31-37.

Nolfi S., Floreano D.:
Evolutionary Robotics: The Biology, Intelligence, and Technology of Self-Organizing Machines.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press/Bradford Books, 2000

Tani J., Nolfi S.:
Learning to perceive the world as articulated: An approach for hierarchical learning in sensory-motor systems,
Neural Networks, Vol. 12, (1999), pp. 1131-1141

Nolfi S., Elman J.L., Parisi D.:
Learning and evolution in neural networks.
Adaptive Behavior, Vol. 3(1), (1994), pp. 5-28

Parisi D., Cecconi F., Nolfi S.:
Econets: Neural networks that learn in an environment.
Network, Vol. 1, (1990), pp. 149-168.