Publications

Preprints

• Christian Commault, Jacob van der Woude, and Paolo Frasca. Functional target controllability of networks: structural properties and efficient algorithms. March 2019 [arxiv]
• Wilbert Samuel Rossi, Jan Willem Polderman, and Paolo Frasca. The closed loop between opinion formation and personalised recommendations. September 2018 [arxiv]
• Nicolas Martin, Paolo Frasca, Takayuki Ishizaki, Jun-Ichi Imura, Carlos Canudas-de-Wit. The price of connectedness in graph partitioning problems. Accepted to appear in 2019 European Control Conference (ECC), Naples, Italy, June 2019
• Mauro Franceschelli and Paolo Frasca. Dynamic consensus in open multi-agent systems. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Miami, FL, USA, December 2018, pp. 900-905 [IEEE Xplore]
• Wilbert Samuel Rossi and Paolo Frasca. Effects of network communities and topology changes in message-passing computation of harmonic influence in social networks. (Extended abstract) IFAC Conference on Cyber-Physical & Human-Systems, Miami, FL, USA, December 2018 [arxiv]
• Wilbert Samuel Rossi and Paolo Frasca. Asynchronous opinion dynamics on the k-nearest-neighbors graph, 2018 [arxiv]
• Chiara Ravazzi, Nelson P. K. Chan, and Paolo Frasca. Distributed estimation from relative measurements of heterogeneous and uncertain quality. IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks, September 2018, In press [journal] [arxiv]
• Nicolas Martin, Paolo Frasca, and Carlos Canudas-de-Wit. Large-scale network reduction towards scale-free structure. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, September 2018, In press [journal]
• Simone Baldi, Shuai Yuan and Paolo Frasca. Output synchronization of unknown heterogeneous agents via distributed model reference adaptation. IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, June 2018, In press [journal]
• Wilbert Samuel Rossi and Paolo Frasca. On the convergence of message passing computation of harmonic influence in social networks, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, in press, 2018 [journal] [arxiv]

Journal papers

• Francesco Acciani, Paolo Frasca, Geert Heijenk, and Anton Stoorvogel. Achieving robust average consensus over lossy wireless networks. IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, 6 (1): 127-137, 2019 [journal] [preprint]
• Simone Baldi and Paolo Frasca. Adaptive synchronization of unknown heterogeneous agents: an adaptive virtual model reference approach. Journal of The Franklin Institute, 356 (2): 935-955, 2019 [journal] [preprint]
• Paolo Frasca, Sophie Tarbouriech and Luca Zaccarian. Hybrid models of opinion dynamics with limited confidence. Automatica, 100: 153-161, February 2019 [preprint]
• Francesca Ceragioli and Paolo Frasca. Consensus and disagreement: the role of quantized behaviours in opinion dynamics, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization 56 (2): 1058-1080, 2018 [arxiv]
• Wilbert Samuel Rossi, Paolo Frasca, and Fabio Fagnani. Distributed estimation from relative and absolute measurements. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 62 (12), pp. 6385-6391, 2017 [journal]
• Gianluca Bianchin, Paolo Frasca, Andrea Gasparri, and Fabio Pasqualetti. The observability radius of networks. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 62 (6), pp. 3006-3013, 2017 [journal]
• Aylin Aydogdu, Paolo Frasca, Ciro D'Apice, Rosanna Manzo, Julianne M. Thornton, Bryan Gachomo, Tevin Wilson, Brian Cheung, Umair Tariq, William Saidel, Benedetto Piccoli. Modeling birds on wires. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 415, pp. 102-112, 2017 [journal]
• Rushabh Patel, Paolo Frasca, Joseph W. Durham, Ruggero Carli, and Francesco Bullo. Dynamic partitioning and coverage control with asynchronous one-to-base-station communication. IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, 3 (1), pp. 24-33, 2016 [journal]
• Wilbert Samuel Rossi, Paolo Frasca, and Fabio Fagnani. Average resistance of toroidal graphs. SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 53 (4), pp. 2541-2557, 2015 [journal] [arxiv] [addendum]
• Paolo Frasca, Federica Garin, Balazs Gerencser, and Julien M. Hendrickx. Optimal one-dimensional coverage by unreliable sensors. SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 53 (5), pp. 3120-3140, 2015 [journal] [arxiv]
• Paolo Frasca, Hideaki Ishii, Chiara Ravazzi, and Roberto Tempo. Distributed randomized algorithms for opinion formation, centrality computation and power systems estimation: A tutorial overview. European Journal of Control, 24, pp. 2-13, July 2015 [journal]
• Chiara Ravazzi, Paolo Frasca, Roberto Tempo, and Hideaki Ishii. Ergodic randomized algorithms and dynamics over networks. IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, 2 (1), pp. 78-87, 2015 [journal] [arxiv]
• Georg S. Seyboth, Dimos V. Dimarogonas, Karl H. Johansson, Paolo Frasca, and Frank Allgower. On robust synchronization of heterogeneous linear multi-agent systems with static couplings. Automatica, 53, pp. 392-399, March 2015 [journal]
• Luca Vassio, Fabio Fagnani, Paolo Frasca, Asuman Ozdaglar. Message passing optimization of Harmonic Influence Centrality. IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, 1 (1), pp. 109-120, 2014 [journal] [arxiv]
• Rushab Patel, Paolo Frasca, and Francesco Bullo. Centroidal area-constrained partitioning for robotic networks. ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, 136 (3): 031024, 2014 [journal]
• Claudio De Persis and Paolo Frasca. Robust self-triggered coordination with ternary controllers. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 58 (12), pp. 3024-3038, 2013 [journal] [arxiv]
• Paolo Frasca and Julien M. Hendrickx. On the mean square error of randomized averaging algorithms. Automatica, 49 (8), pp. 2496-2501, 2013 [journal] [arxiv] [slides]
• Joseph W. Durham, Ruggero Carli, Paolo Frasca, and Francesco Bullo. Discrete partitioning and coverage control for gossiping robots. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 28 (2), pp. 364-378, 2012 [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, 50 (1), pp. 419-447, 2012 [journal] [arxiv] [code for simulations available upon request]
• 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] [preprint pdf] [early version on 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]

Chapters in books

• Francesca Ceragioli and Paolo Frasca. Discontinuities, generalized solutions and (dis)agreement in opinion dynamics, 2018 [preprint]
• Claudio De Persis and Paolo Frasca. Hybrid coordination of flow networks. In Hybrid Systems with Constraints, J. Daafouz and S. Tarbouriech and M. Sigalotti, Eds., Wiley-ISTE, 2013

Proceedings of international conferences

• Francesco Acciani, Paolo Frasca, Anton Stoorvogel, Elham Semsar-Kazerooni, and Geert Heijenk. Cooperative adaptive cruise control over unreliable networks: an observer-based approach to increase robustness to packet loss, 2018 European Control Conference (ECC), Limassol, Cyprus, June 12-15, 2018, pp. 1399-1404 [preprint]
• Wilbert Samuel Rossi and Paolo Frasca. Mean-field analysis of the convergence time of message-passing computation of harmonic influence in social networks. IFAC World Congress, Toulouse, France, July 2017, pp. 2461-2466
• Paolo Frasca, Sophie Tarbouriech, and Luca Zaccarian. A hybrid model of opinion dynamics with limited confidence. IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems, Monterey, CA, USA, August 2016, pp. 351-355 [proceedings]
• Gianluca Bianchin, Paolo Frasca, Andrea Gasparri, and Fabio Pasqualetti. The observability radius of network systems. American Control Conference, Boston, MA, USA, July 2016, pp. 185-190 [ieeexplore]
• Francesco Acciani, Geert Heijenk, and Paolo Frasca. Achieving robust average consensus dynamics over wireless networks. European Control Conference, Aalborg, Denmark, June 2016, pp. 555-560
• Wilbert Samuel Rossi and Paolo Frasca. An index for the “local” influence in social networks. European Control Conference, Aalborg, Denmark, June 2016, pp. 525-530
• Martijn de Roo, Paolo Frasca, and Raffaella Carloni. Optimal event handling by multiple unmanned aerial vehicles. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Stockholm, Sweden, May 2016, pp. 1230-1236 [ieeexplore]
• Francesca Ceragioli and Paolo Frasca. Continuous-time consensus dynamics with quantized all-to-all communication, European Control Conference, Linz, Austria, 2015, pp. 1120-1125
• Paolo Frasca, Federica Garin, Balazs Gerencser, and Julien M. Hendrickx. One-dimensional coverage by unreliable sensors (Extended abstract), International Symposium on the Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, Groningen, Netherlands, July 2014 [arxiv]
• Luca Vassio, Fabio Fagnani, Paolo Frasca, and Asuman Ozdaglar. A message passing algorithm for the evaluation of social influence. European Control Conference 2014, Strasbourg, France, June 2014, pp. 190-195 [ieeexplore]
• Wilbert Samuel Rossi, Paolo Frasca, and Fabio Fagnani. Limited benefit of cooperation in distributed relative localization. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 5427-5431, Florence, Italy, Dec. 2013 [arxiv]
• Claudio De Persis, Paolo Frasca, and Julien M. Hendrickx. Self-triggered rendezvous of gossiping second-order agents. (Invited paper) IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 7403-7408, Florence, Italy, Dec. 2013 [ieeexplore]
• Chiara Ravazzi, Paolo Frasca, Roberto Tempo and Hideaki Ishii. Almost sure convergence of a randomized algorithm for relative localization in sensor networks. (Invited paper) IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 4778-4783, Florence, Italy, Dec. 2013 [arxiv]
• Rushab Patel, Paolo Frasca, and Francesco Bullo. Centroidal area-constrained partitioning. ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, Palo Alto, CA, USA, Oct. 2013 [arxiv]
• Paolo Frasca, Chiara Ravazzi, Roberto Tempo, and Hideaki Ishii. Gossips and prejudices: Ergodic randomized dynamics in social networks. IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems, pp. 212-219, Koblenz, Germany, Sep. 2013 [arxiv]
• Paolo Frasca and Federica Garin. On optimal coverage with unreliable sensors. IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems, pp. 38-42, Koblenz, Germany, Sep. 2013
• Paolo Frasca and Julien M. Hendrickx. Large network consensus is robust to packet losses and interferences. European Control Conference, pp. 1782-1787, Zurich, Switzerland, July 2013 [ieeexplore]
• Chiara Ravazzi, Paolo Frasca, Hideaki Ishii, and Roberto Tempo. A distributed randomized algorithm for relative localization in sensor networks. European Control Conference, pp. 1776-1781, Zurich, Switzerland, July 2013
• Wilbert Samuel Rossi, Paolo Frasca, and Fabio Fagnani. Transient and limit performance of distributed relative localization. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 2744-2748, Maui, HI, USA, Dec. 2012. [ieeexplore] [preprint]
• Claudio De Persis and Paolo Frasca. Self-triggered coordination with ternary controllers. IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems, pp. 43-48, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, Sep. 2012 [ifac-online] [preprint]
• 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 and European Control Conference, pp. 5589-5594, Orlando, FL, USA, Dec. 2011 [ieeexplore] [preprint]
• 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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