Publications

Preprints

• Paolo Frasca and Julien M. Hendrickx. On the mean square error of randomized averaging algorithms. Submitted to Automatica, Nov. 2011 [arxiv]
• Joseph W. Durham, Ruggero Carli, Paolo Frasca, and Francesco Bullo. Discrete partitioning and coverage control for gossiping robots. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, to appear, Oct. 2011 [journal] [arxiv] [simulation movie on youtube]
• Francesco Bullo, Ruggero Carli, and Paolo Frasca. Gossip coverage control for robotic networks: dynamical systems on the space of partitions. SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, to appear, Sep. 2011 [arxiv] [simulation movie]
• Joseph W. Durham, Ruggero Carli, Paolo Frasca, and Francesco Bullo. Dynamic coverage control with asynchronous one-to-base-station communication. (Invited) IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Dec. 2011 [preprint]

Journal papers

• Francesca Ceragioli and Paolo Frasca. Continuous and discontinuous opinion dynamics with bounded confidence. Nonlinear Analysis: Real World Applications, 13 (3), pp. 1239-1251, 2012 [journal] [preprint] [related report on arxiv]
• Paolo Frasca. Continuous-time quantized consensus: convergence of Krasovskii solutions. Systems & Control Letters, 61 (2), pp. 273-278, 2012 [journal] [arxiv]
• Andrea Tosin and Paolo Frasca. Existence and approximation of probability measure solutions to models of collective behaviors. Networks and Heterogeneous Media, 6 (3), pp. 561-596, 2011 [journal] [arxiv]
• Francesca Ceragioli, Claudio De Persis, and Paolo Frasca. Discontinuities and hysteresis in quantized average consensus. Automatica, 47 (9), pp. 1916-1928, 2011 [journal] [arxiv]
• Fabio Fagnani and Paolo Frasca. Broadcast gossip averaging: interference and unbiasedness in large Abelian Cayley networks. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, 5 (4), pp. 866-875, 2011 [ieeexplore] [arxiv]
• Emiliano Cristiani, Paolo Frasca, and Benedetto Piccoli. Effects of anisotropic interactions on the structure of animal groups. Journal of Mathematical Biology, 62 (4), pp. 569-588, 2011 [journal] [arxiv]
• Ruggero Carli, Giacomo Como, Paolo Frasca, and Federica Garin. Distributed averaging on digital erasure networks. Automatica, 47 (1), pp. 115-121, 2011 [journal] [preprint]
• Ruggero Carli, Fabio Fagnani, Paolo Frasca, and Sandro Zampieri. Gossip consensus algorithms via quantized communication. Automatica, 46 (1), pp. 70-80, 2010 [journal] [arxiv]
• Paolo Frasca, Ruggero Carli, Fabio Fagnani, and Sandro Zampieri. Average consensus on networks with quantized communication. International Journal of Robust and Non-Linear Control, 19 (16), pp. 1787-1816, 2009 [journal] [preprint]
• Paolo Frasca, Paolo Mason, and Benedetto Piccoli. Detection of Gaussian signals via hexagonal sensor networks. International Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Optimisation, 1 (1-2), pp. 39-55, 2009 [journal][arxiv]
• Vincenzo Coscia, Marcello Delitala, and Paolo Frasca. On the mathematical theory of vehicular traffic flow II: Discrete velocity kinetic models. International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, 42 (3), pp. 411-421, 2007 [journal]

Proceedings of international conferences

• Francesca Ceragioli and Paolo Frasca. Continuous-time discontinuous equations in bounded confidence opinion dynamics. IFAC World Congress, pp. 1986-1990, Milan, Italy, Aug. 2011 [ifac-online] [extended version on arxiv] [slides]
• Fabio Fagnani and Paolo Frasca. The asymptotical error of broadcast gossip averaging algorithms. IFAC World Congress, pp. 10027-10031, Milan, Italy, Aug. 2011 [ifac-online] [arxiv] [slides]
• Ruggero Carli, Giacomo Como, Paolo Frasca, and Federica Garin. Distributed averaging on digital noisy networks. (Invited paper) Information Theory and Applications Workshop, San Diego, CA, Feb. 2011  [ieeexplore] [pdf]
• Francesca Ceragioli, Claudio De Persis, and Paolo Frasca. Quantized average consensus: Discontinuities and hysteresis. (Invited paper) IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems, Bologna, Italy, Sep. 2010 [ifac-online] [pdf]
• Joseph W. Durham, Ruggero Carli, Paolo Frasca, and Francesco Bullo. Discrete partitioning and coverage control with gossip communication. ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, Hollywood, CA, Oct. 2009 [pdf]
• Ruggero Carli, Giacomo Como, Paolo Frasca, and Federica Garin. Average consensus on digital noisy networks. IFAC Workshop on Estimation and Control of Networked Systems, Venice, Italy, Sept. 2009 [ifac-online] [pdf]
• Paolo Frasca, Ruggero Carli, and Francesco Bullo. Gossip coverage control: dynamical systems on the space of partitions. American Control Conference, St. Louis, MO, June 2009 [ieeexplore] [pdf]
• Paolo Frasca, Ruggero Carli, Fabio Fagnani, and Sandro Zampieri. Average consensus by gossip algorithms with quantized communication. (Invited paper) IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Cancun, Mexico, Dec. 2008 [pdf]
• Ruggero Carli, Fabio Fagnani, Paolo Frasca, and Sandro Zampieri. A probabilistic analysis of the average consensus algorithm with quantized communication. IFAC World Congress, Seoul, Korea, Aug. 2008 [ifac-online] [pdf]
• Ruggero Carli, Fabio Fagnani, Paolo Frasca, and Sandro Zampieri. The quantization error in the average consensus problem. Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, Ajaccio, France, June 2008 [pdf]
• Ruggero Carli, Fabio Fagnani, Paolo Frasca, Tom Taylor, and Sandro Zampieri. Average consensus on networks with transmission noise or quantization. European Control Conference, Kos, Greece, July 2007 [pdf] [slides]
• Ruggero Carli, Fabio Fagnani, Paolo Frasca, and Sandro Zampieri. Efficient quantized techniques for consensus algorithms. Workshop on Networked Control System: Tolerant to Faults, Nancy, France, June 2007 [pdf] [slides] (a more recent report on this topic is on arxiv)

Theses:

• Ph.D. Thesis. Distributed optimization with communication constraints. Advisors: Fabio Fagnani and Sandro Zampieri.
• M.S. Thesis. Modelli cinetici alle velocità discrete per il traffico veicolare. Modellazione - Analisi qualitativa e computazionale. Advisor: Nicola Bellomo.

A selection of presentations

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