A new paper has been published on the Swarm Intelligence Journal:
(2015): A quantitative micro-macro link for collective decisions: the shortest path discovery/selection example. In: Swarm Intelligence, 9 (2-3), pp. 75–102, 2015.
I just participated to the Wired Next Fest 2015, the science and innovation festival organised by the Italian branch of the Wired Magazine (http://www.wired.it).
It has been an exciting experience, where I had the occasion to describe my research and discuss with a wide and interested public. We brought to the festival demonstrations with Kilobot robots, interactive experiments with the public playing a fish school, and I also had the chance to give a keynote talk (see the video on wired.it, in Italian, but see the abstract below).
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