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  1. FieldVMC: an asynchronous model and platform for self-organising morphogenesis of artificial structures

    Article • Complex & Intelligent Systems, December 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Roberto Casadei

  2. Preface for the special issue on selected software artifacts from DisCoTec 2024 – The 19th international federated conference on distributed computing techniques

    Article • Science of Computer Programming, December 2025, Elsevier

    Roberto Casadei

  3. Programming IoT systems: A focused conceptual framework and survey of approaches

    Article • Internet of Things, May 2025, Elsevier

    Roberto Casadei

  4. Software Engineering for Collective Cyber-Physical Ecosystems

    Article • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, January 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Roberto Casadei, Danilo Pianini, Prof Mirko Viroli

  5. System-wide IoT design and programming: Patterns for decentralised collective processes

    Article • Internet of Things, January 2025, Elsevier

    Roberto Casadei

  6. A Demonstrator for Self-organizing Robot Teams

    Article • January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Roberto Casadei

  7. Declarative Deployment Planning for Green Pulverised Collective Computational Systems

    Article • January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Roberto Casadei

  8. Dynamic IoT deployment reconfiguration: A global-level self-organisation approach

    Article • Internet of Things, December 2024, Elsevier

    Roberto Casadei

  9. Scalability through Pulverisation: Declarative deployment reconfiguration at runtime

    Article • Future Generation Computer Systems, December 2024, Elsevier

    Roberto Casadei

  10. Declarative Macro-Programming of Collective Systems with Aggregate Computing: An Experience Report

    Article • September 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Roberto Casadei, Prof Mirko Viroli

  11. A general framework and decentralised algorithms for collective computational processes

    Article • Future Generation Computer Systems, September 2024, Elsevier

    Roberto Casadei

  12. The eXchange Calculus (XC): A functional programming language design for distributed collective systems

    Article • Journal of Systems and Software, April 2024, Elsevier

    Roberto Casadei

  13. Actor-Based Designs for Distributed Self-organisation Programming

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Roberto Casadei

  14. Dynamic Iot Deployment Reconfiguration: A Global-Level Self-Organisation Approach

    Article • January 2024, Elsevier

    Roberto Casadei

  15. ScaFi-Blocks: A Visual Aggregate Programming Environment for Low-Code Swarm Design

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Roberto Casadei

  16. Programming (and Learning) Self-Adaptive & Self-Organising Behaviour with ScaFi: for Swarms, Edge-Cloud Ecosystems, and More

    Article • September 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Roberto Casadei

  17. Self-Organisation Programming: A Functional Reactive Macro Approach

    Article • September 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Roberto Casadei

  18. Macroprogramming: Concepts, State of the Art, and Opportunities of Macroscopic Behaviour Modelling

    Article • ACM Computing Surveys, July 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Roberto Casadei

  19. Towards Collective Sentiment Analysis in IoT-Enabled Scenarios

    Article • June 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Roberto Casadei

  20. Computation Against a Neighbour: Addressing Large-Scale Distribution and Adaptivity with Functional Programming and Scala

    Article • Logical Methods in Computer Science, January 2023, Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe (CCSD)

    Roberto Casadei

  21. A General Framework and Decentralised Algorithms for Collective Computational Processes

    Article • January 2023, Elsevier

    Roberto Casadei

  22. Artificial Collective Intelligence Engineering: A Survey of Concepts and Perspectives

    Article • Artificial Life, January 2023, The MIT Press

    Roberto Casadei

  23. MacroSwarm: A Field-Based Compositional Framework for Swarm Programming

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Roberto Casadei

  24. Programming Distributed Collective Processes for Dynamic Ensembles and Collective Tasks

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Roberto Casadei

  25. The Exchange Calculus (Xc): A Functional Programming Language Design for Distributed Collective Systems

    Article • January 2023, Elsevier

    Roberto Casadei

  26. ScaFi: A Scala DSL and Toolkit for Aggregate Programming

    Article • SoftwareX, December 2022, Elsevier

    Roberto Casadei

  27. Dynamic Decentralization Domains for the Internet of Things

    Article • IEEE Internet Computing, November 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Roberto Casadei

  28. A Methodology and Simulation-Based Toolchain for Estimating Deployment Performance of Smart Collective Services at the Edge

    Article • IEEE Internet of Things Journal, October 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Roberto Casadei

  29. A field-based computing approach to sensing-driven clustering in robot swarms

    Article • Swarm Intelligence, September 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Roberto Casadei

  30. Towards Automated Engineering for Collective Adaptive Systems: Vision and Research Directions

    Article • September 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Roberto Casadei

  31. Addressing Collective Computations Efficiency: Towards a Platform-level Reinforcement Learning Approach

    Article • September 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Roberto Casadei

  32. On the Dynamic Evolution of Distributed Computational Aggregates

    Article • September 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Roberto Casadei

  33. Self-stabilising Priority-Based Multi-Leader Election and Network Partitioning

    Article • September 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Roberto Casadei

  34. Machine Learning for Aggregate Computing: a Research Roadmap

    Article • July 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Roberto Casadei

  35. A Collective Adaptive Approach to Decentralised k-Coverage in Multi-robot Systems

    Article • ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, June 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Danilo Pianini, Roberto Casadei, Lukas Esterle

  36. Space-Fluid Adaptive Sampling: A Field-Based, Self-organising Approach

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Roberto Casadei

  37. Towards Reinforcement Learning-based Aggregate Computing

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Roberto Casadei

  38. Digital Twins, Virtual Devices, and Augmentations for Self-Organising Cyber-Physical Collectives

    Article • Applied Sciences, December 2021, MDPI AG

    Roberto Casadei

  39. Optimal resilient distributed data collection in mobile edge environments

    Article • Computers & Electrical Engineering, December 2021, Elsevier

    Roberto Casadei

  40. Time-Fluid Field-Based Coordination through Programmable Distributed Schedulers

    Article • Logical Methods in Computer Science, November 2021, Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe (CCSD)

    Roberto Casadei

  41. Fostering resilient execution of multi-agent plans through self-organisation

    Article • September 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Roberto Casadei

  42. Towards Integration of Multi-Agent Planning with Self-Organising Collective Processes

    Article • September 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Roberto Casadei

  43. Augmented Collective Digital Twins for Self-Organising Cyber-Physical Systems

    Article • September 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Roberto Casadei

  44. Towards Pulverised Architectures for Collective Adaptive Systems through Multi-Tier Programming

    Article • September 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Roberto Casadei

  45. Adaptive distributed monitors of spatial properties for cyber–physical systems

    Article • Journal of Systems and Software, May 2021, Elsevier

    Roberto Casadei

  46. A Programming Approach to Collective Autonomy

    Article • Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks, April 2021, MDPI AG

    Roberto Casadei

  47. Partitioned integration and coordination via the self-organising coordination regions pattern

    Article • Future Generation Computer Systems, January 2021, Elsevier

    Roberto Casadei

  48. Engineering collective intelligence at the edge with aggregate processes

    Article • Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, January 2021, Elsevier

    Roberto Casadei

  49. ScaFi-Web: A Web-Based Application for Field-Based Coordination Programming

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Roberto Casadei

  50. Tuple-Based Coordination in Large-Scale Situated Systems

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Roberto Casadei

  51. Pulverization in Cyber-Physical Systems: Engineering the Self-Organizing Logic Separated from Deployment

    Article • Future Internet, November 2020, MDPI AG

    Roberto Casadei

  52. On the Social Implications of Collective Adaptive Systems

    Article • IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, September 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Roberto Casadei

  53. Collective Adaptive Systems as Coordination Media: The Case of Tuples in Space-Time

    Article • August 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Roberto Casadei

  54. FScaFi : A Core Calculus for Collective Adaptive Systems Programming

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Roberto Casadei

  55. From distributed coordination to field calculus and aggregate computing

    Article • Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming, December 2019, Elsevier

    Roberto Casadei

  56. A development approach for collective opportunistic Edge-of-Things services

    Article • Information Sciences, September 2019, Elsevier

    Roberto Casadei, Danilo Pianini

  57. Engineering Resilient Collaborative Edge-Enabled IoT

    Article • July 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Roberto Casadei

  58. Coordinating Computation at the Edge: a Decentralized, Self-Organizing, Spatial Approach

    Article • June 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Roberto Casadei

  59. On Context-Orientation in Aggregate Programming

    Article • June 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Roberto Casadei, Danilo Pianini

  60. Security in Collective Adaptive Systems: A Roadmap

    Article • June 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Roberto Casadei, Danilo Pianini

  61. Modelling and simulation of Opportunistic IoT Services with Aggregate Computing

    Article • Future Generation Computer Systems, February 2019, Elsevier

    Roberto Casadei, Danilo Pianini

  62. Aggregate Processes in Field Calculus

    Article • January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Roberto Casadei, Danilo Pianini

  63. A coordination design pattern for self-organizing systems, applicable in edge computing scenarios

    Article • January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Roberto Casadei

  64. Towards attack-resistant Aggregate Computing using trust mechanisms

    Article • Science of Computer Programming, December 2018, Elsevier

    Roberto Casadei

  65. Collective Abstractions and Platforms for Large-Scale Self-Adaptive IoT

    Article • September 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Roberto Casadei

  66. Combining Trust and Aggregate Computing

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Roberto Casadei

  67. From Field-Based Coordination to Aggregate Computing

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Roberto Casadei, Danilo Pianini

  68. Programming Actor-Based Collective Adaptive Systems

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Roberto Casadei

  69. Transparent Protection of Aggregate Computations from Byzantine Behaviours via Blockchain

    Article • January 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Roberto Casadei

  70. Compositional Blocks for Optimal Self-Healing Gradients

    Article • September 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Roberto Casadei

  71. Simulating Large-scale Aggregate MASs with Alchemist and Scala

    Article • October 2016, Polish Information Processing Society PTI

    Roberto Casadei, Danilo Pianini

  72. On execution platforms for large-scale aggregate computing

    Article • September 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Roberto Casadei, Danilo Pianini, Prof Mirko Viroli

  73. Run-Time Management of Computation Domains in Field Calculus

    Article • September 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Roberto Casadei