Most Cited Publications
- Nolfi S. & Floreano D. (2000). Evolutionary Robotics: The Biology, Intelligence, and Technology of Self-Organizing Machines. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press/Bradford Books, online-versions, citations1, citations2, citations3, citations4, citations5
- Radicchi F., Castellano C., Cecconi F., Loreto V., Parisi D. (2004). Defining and identifying communities in networks, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America, PNAS, vol. 101, no. 9, pp. 2658-2663, online-versions
- Cangelosi, A., Parisi, D. (Eds.) (2002). Simulating the evolution of language. London, Springer, online-versions
- Elman, J.L., Bates, E.A., Johnson, M.H., Karmiloff-Smith, A., Parisi, D., Plunkett, K. (1996). Rethinking innateness. A connectionist perspective on development.,Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, online-versions, citations
- Miglino O., Lund H.H. & Nolfi S. (1995). Evolving mobile robots in simulated and real environments, Artificial Life, (2) 4: 417-434, online-versions, citations
- Nolfi S., Elman J.L. & Parisi D. (1994). Learning and evolution in neural networks. Adaptive Behavior, (3) 1:5-28. online- versions, citations
- Nolfi S., Floreano D., Miglino O. & Mondada F. (1994). How to evolve autonomous robots: different approaches in evolutionary robotics, In R.Brooks and P.Maes (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference Artificial Life IV. Cambridge Mass: MIT Press, 190-197. online- versions, citations
- Cangelosi A., Parisi D. (1998), The emergence of a "Language" in an evolving population of neural networks, Connection Science, 10(2), 83:97, online-versions
- Nolfi S. & Parisi D. (1997). Learning to adapt to changing environments in evolving neural networks. Adaptive Behavior, (5) 1:75-98. online- versions, citations
- Dorigo M., Trianni V., Sahin E., Gross R., Labella T. H., Baldassarre G., Nolfi S., Deneubourg J.-L., Mondada F., Floreano D. & Gambardella L. M. (2004). Evolving self-organizing behaviors for a swarmbot. Autonomous Robots, 17(2-3): 223-245.online-versions, citations
- Nolfi S. & Floreano D. (1998 copyright 1999). Co-evolving predator and prey robots: Do 'arm races' arise in artificial evolution? Artificial Life, 4 (4): 311-335. online-versions, citations
- Mondada F., Pettinaro G., Guigrard A., Kwee I., Floreano D., Denebourg J-L, Nolfi S., Gambardella L.M. & Dorigo M. (2004). Swarm-bot: A new distributed robotic concept. Autonomous Robots, 17 (2-3):193-221. online-versions, citations
- Parisi D., Cecconi F. & Nolfi S. (1990). Econets: Neural networks that learn in an environment, Network, 1:149-168 online-versions
- Baldassarre G., Nolfi S. & Parisi D. (2003). Evolving mobile robots able to display collective behavior. Artificial Life, 9: 255-267, online-versions
- Cangelosi A., Parisi D. & Nolfi S. (1994). Cell division and migration in a 'genotype' for neural networks. Network, 5: 497-515, online-versions
- Nolfi S. & Floreano D. (1999). Learning and Evolution, Autonomous Robots, 7(1): 89-113, online-versions
- Nolfi S. (1997). Evolving non-trivial behaviors on real robots: a garbage collecting robot. Robotics and Autonomous System, 22: 187-198, online-versions
- Nolfi S. (1997). Using emergent modularity to develop control system for mobile robots. Adaptive Behavior (5) 3-4: 343-364, online-versions.
- Floreano D. & Nolfi S. (1997). God Save the red Queen! Competition in co-evolutionary robotics. In J.R.Koza, K.Deb, M.Dorigo, D.Foegel, B.Garzon, H.Iba & R.L.Riolo (Eds.) Genetic Programming 1997: Proceedings of the Second Annual Conference. San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann, 398-406, online-versions
- Nolfi S. (2002). Power and limits of reactive agents. Neurocomputing, 49:119-145, online-versions
- Mondada F., Gambardella L.M, Floreano D., Nolfi S., Deneubourg J.L. & Dorigo M. (2005).The Cooperation of Swarm-bots: Physical Interactions in Collective Robotics. IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, 12 (2):21-28, online-versions
- Schlesinger, M., & Parisi, D. (2001). The agent-based approach: A new direction for computational models of development. Developmental Review, 21:121-146, online-versions
- Parisi D., Nolfi S. & Cecconi F. (1992). Learning, Behavior and Evolution. In: Varela, F, Bourgine, P. (Eds.), Toward a pratice of autonomous systems. MIT Press, pp.207-216, citations
- Nolfi S. & Tani J. (1999). Extracting regularities in space and time through a cascade of prediction networks: The case of a mobile robot navigating in a structured environment, Connection Science, (11) 2:129-152, online-versions,
- Nolfi S. (1998). Evolutionary Robotics: Exploiting the full power of self-organization. Connection Science, (10) 3-4:167-183,online-versions
- Nolfi S., Miglino O. & Parisi D. (1994). Phenotypic plasticity in evolving neural networks, In D.P.Gaussier and J-D.Nicoud (Eds.) Proceedings of the International Conference From Perception to Action. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society Press, 146-157, online-versions,
- Floreano D., Nolfi S. & Mondada. F. (1998). Competitive Co-Evolutionary Robotics: From Theory to Practice. In R. Pfeifer, B. Blumberg, J-A. Meyer, S.W. Wilson (Eds.), From Animals to Animats V, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp 512-524, online-versions,
- Castelfranchi C., Parisi D. (1980). Linguaggio, conoscenze e scopi, Bologna, Il Mulino, citations
- Floreano D. & Nolfi S. (1997). Adaptive behavior in competing co-evolving species. In P. Husband & I. Harvey (Eds), Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Artificial Life, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 378-387, online-versions
- Nolfi S. & Floreano D. (2002). Synthesis of autonomous robots through artificial evolution, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, (6) 1: 31-37, online-versions
- Bates E., Elman J., Johnson M., Karmiloff-Smith A., Parisi D., Plunkett K. (1998). Innateness and emergentism, in W. Bechtel and G. Graham (eds), A Companion to Cognitive Science, 590:601, Oxford: Blackwell, online-versions
- Parisi, D. (1997). Artificial life and higher level cognition.,Brain and Cognition, 34, 160-184, online-versions
- Nolfi S, Parisi D. (1991). Growing Neural Networks, in M. A. Arbib (eds) The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks, 431:434, online-versions
- Miglino O., Lund H.H. & Cardaci M. (1999). Robotics as an educational tool. Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 10(1): 25-48., online-versions
- Sahin E., Labella T.H., Trianni V., Deneubourg J.-L., Rasse P, Floreano D., Gambardella L., Mondada F., Nolfi S., & Dorigo M., (in press). Swarm-bot: Pattern Formation in a Swarm of Self-Assembling Mobile Robots. Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Hammamet, Tunisia, 2002, online-versions
- Nolfi S. & Parisi D. (1999). Exploiting the power of sensory-motor coordination. In: D. Floreano, J-D. Nicoud, F. Mondada (Eds.). Advances in Artificial Life, Proceedings of Firth European Conference on Artificial Life, Berlin: Springer Verlag, pp.173-182, online-versions
- Calabretta R., Nolfi S., Parisi D. & Wagner G.P. (2000). Duplication of modules facilitates the evolution of functional specialization. Artificial Life, 6:69-84, online-versions
- Lund H.H, Miglino O., Pagliarini L., Billard A., Ijspeert A. (1996). Evolutionary Robotics - A Children Games. Proceedings of International Conference on Evolutionary Computation 1997, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 100-104, online-versions
- Marocco D., Cangelosi A. & Nolfi S. (2003), The emergence of communication in evolutionary robots. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London - A, 361: 2397-2421, online-versions
- Nolfi S. & Parisi D. (1995). Genotypes for neural networks. In M. A.Arbib (Ed.), Handbook of brain theory and neural networks. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 431-434, online-versions
- Nolfi S. (2002). Evolving robots able to self-localize in the environment: The importance of viewing cognition as the result of processes occurring at different time scales,Connection Science (14) 3:231-244, online-versions
- Parisi, D. (1989). Intervista sulle reti neurali. Bologna, Il Mulino, online-version, citations
- Parisi D. (2001) Simulazioni. La realtà rifatta nel computer, Mulino, Bologna. online-versions, citations
- Parisi D. (2004). Internal Robotics, Connection Science, vol. 16 (4), pp. 325-338, online-versions
- Trianni V., Nolfi S. & Dorigo M. (2006). Cooperative hole-avoidance in a swarm-bot, Robotics & Autonomous Systems, 54 (2): 97-103, online-versions
- Dorigo M., Tuci E., Groß R., Halva Labella T., Nouyan S., Ampatzis C.,Debebourg J-L., Baldassarre G., Nolfi S., Mondada F., Floreano D. & Gambardella L. (2005). The SWARM-BOTS Project. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3342:31-44, online-versions
- Nolfi S. & Parisi D. (1995). Evolving non-trivial behaviors on real robots: an autonomous robot that pick up objects,In M.Gori and G.Soda (Eds.), Topics in Artificial Intelligence. Proceedings of the 4th Congress of the Italian Association of Artificial Intelligence. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, pp. 243-254, online-versions
- Denaro D., Parisi D. (1996), Cultural Evolution in a Population of Neural Networks, in Marinaro M., Tagliaferri R. (eds), Neural nets: Wirn96, Springer, New York., online-versions
- Nolfi S. & Marocco D. (2002). Active perception: A sensorimotor account of object categorization. In From Animals to Animats 7. In B. Hallam, D. Floreano, J. Hallam, G. Hayes, J-A. Meyer (eds.)Proceedings of the VII International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 266-271, online-versions
- Nolfi S. (2005). Emergence of Communication in Embodied Agents: Co-Adapting Communicative and Non-Communicative Behaviours, Connection Science, 17 (3-4): 231-248, online-versions
- Nolfi S. & Parisi D. (1993). Auto-teaching: networks that develop their own teaching input. In J.L.Deneubourg, H.Bersini, S.Goss, G.Nicolis & R.Dagonnier (Eds.), Proceedings of the Second European Conference on Artificial Life, Brussels: Université Libre de Bruxelles, pp. 845-862, online-versions, citations
- Cangelosi, A. & Parisi, D. (2002). Computer simulation: A new scientific approachto the study of language evolution. In A.Cangelosi & D.Parisi (Eds.),Simulating the evolution of language. London: Springer Verlag Ltd, pp.3-28 ,online-versions
- Nolfi S. & Parisi D. (1995). Evolving artificial neural networks that develop in time, In F.Moràn, A.Moreno, J.J.Merelo, and P.Chacòn (Eds.), Advances in Artificial Life. Proceedings of the Third European Conference on Artificial Life. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, pp. 353-367, online-versions
- Parisi, D. (1997). An artificial life approach to language.,Brain and Language, 59, 121-146, online versions
- Floreano D., Nolfi S. & Mondada F. (2001). Co-evolution and ontogenetic change in competing robots,In J.P.Mukesh, V.Honavar & K. Balakrishan (Eds.), Advances in Evolutionary Synthesis of Neural Networks. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 273-306, online-versions
- Nolfi S. (2006). Behaviour as a complex adaptive system: on the role of self-organization in the development of individual and collective behaviour. ComplexUs, 2 (3-4): 195-203, online-versions
- Nolfi S. & Marocco D. (2001). Evolving robots able to integrate sensory-motor information over time, Theory in Biosciences, 120:287-310, online-versions

