Roberto Casadei

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1. 
   Crowd Digital Twins: Motivation, Architecture, and Roadmap

   Article • Future Generation Computer Systems, March 2026, Elsevier

   Roberto Casadei

2. 
   Self-organisation with Aggregate Computing: A Reflection Under the Lenses of Multi-agent Systems Engineering

   Article • January 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

   Roberto Casadei

3. 
   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

4. 
   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

5. 
   Programming Distributed Collective Processes in the eXchange Calculus

   Article • Logical Methods in Computer Science, October 2025, Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe (CCSD)

   Roberto Casadei

6. 
   MacroSwarm: A Field-based Compositional Framework for Swarm Programming

   Article • Logical Methods in Computer Science, August 2025, Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe (CCSD)

   Roberto Casadei

7. 
   Preface for the special issue on selected software artifacts from DisCoTec 2023 – the 18th International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques

   Article • Science of Computer Programming, July 2025, Elsevier

   Roberto Casadei

8. 
   Integrating Collective Computing and the Social Internet of Things for Smart Cities: A Vision

   Article • June 2025, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

   Roberto Casadei

9. 
   Programming IoT systems: A focused conceptual framework and survey of approaches

   Article • Internet of Things, May 2025, Elsevier

   Roberto Casadei

10. 
    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

11. 
    Crowd Digital Twins: High-Level Requirements and Architecture

    Article • January 2025, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Roberto Casadei

12. 
    Experiments of Crowd Detection for Crowd Digital Twins

    Article • January 2025, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Roberto Casadei

13. 
    System-wide IoT design and programming: Patterns for decentralised collective processes

    Article • Internet of Things, January 2025, Elsevier

    Roberto Casadei

14. 
    A Demonstrator for Self-organizing Robot Teams

    Article • January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Roberto Casadei

15. 
    Declarative Deployment Planning for Green Pulverised Collective Computational Systems

    Article • January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Roberto Casadei

16. 
    Dynamic IoT deployment reconfiguration: A global-level self-organisation approach

    Article • Internet of Things, December 2024, Elsevier

    Roberto Casadei

17. 
    Scalability through Pulverisation: Declarative deployment reconfiguration at runtime

    Article • Future Generation Computer Systems, December 2024, Elsevier

    Roberto Casadei

18. 
    An Aggregate Vascular Morphogenesis Controller for Engineered Self-Organising Spatial Structures

    Article • September 2024, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Roberto Casadei

19. 
    Flexible Self-organisation for the Cloud-Edge Continuum: a Macro-programming Approach

    Article • September 2024, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Roberto Casadei

20. 
    Message from the Artifacts Chairs

    Article • September 2024, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Roberto Casadei

21. 
    Message from the Artifacts Chairs: ACSOS-C 2024

    Article • September 2024, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Roberto Casadei

22. 
    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

23. 
    A general framework and decentralised algorithms for collective computational processes

    Article • Future Generation Computer Systems, September 2024, Elsevier

    Roberto Casadei

24. 
    Modelling Groups of Humans: Towards Crowd Digital Twins

    Article • June 2024, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Roberto Casadei

25. 
    Editorial: Understanding and engineering cyber-physical collectives

    Article • Frontiers in Robotics and AI, May 2024, Frontiers

    Roberto Casadei

26. 
    The eXchange Calculus (XC): A functional programming language design for distributed collective systems

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

    Roberto Casadei

27. 
    Actor-Based Designs for Distributed Self-organisation Programming

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Roberto Casadei

28. 
    Dynamic Iot Deployment Reconfiguration: A Global-Level Self-Organisation Approach

    Article • January 2024, Elsevier

    Roberto Casadei

29. 
    ScaFi-Blocks: A Visual Aggregate Programming Environment for Low-Code Swarm Design

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Roberto Casadei

30. 
    Fluidware Meets Digital Twins

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Roberto Casadei

31. 
    Learning Opportunities in Collective Adaptive Systems

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Roberto Casadei

32. 
    Middleware Architectures for Fluid Computing

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Roberto Casadei

33. 
    Programming Approaches for Large-Scale IoT System Development: State of the Art

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Roberto Casadei

34. 
    Space-Fluid and Time-Fluid Programming

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Roberto Casadei

35. 
    Space-Fluid Adaptive Sampling by Self-Organisation

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

    Roberto Casadei

36. 
    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

37. 
    Self-Organisation Programming: A Functional Reactive Macro Approach

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

    Roberto Casadei

38. 
    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

39. 
    Towards Collective Sentiment Analysis in IoT-Enabled Scenarios

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

    Roberto Casadei

40. 
    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

41. 
    A General Framework and Decentralised Algorithms for Collective Computational Processes

    Article • January 2023, Elsevier

    Roberto Casadei

42. 
    Artificial Collective Intelligence Engineering: A Survey of Concepts and Perspectives

    Article • Artificial Life, January 2023, The MIT Press

    Roberto Casadei

43. 
    MacroSwarm: A Field-Based Compositional Framework for Swarm Programming

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Roberto Casadei

44. 
    Programming Distributed Collective Processes for Dynamic Ensembles and Collective Tasks

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Roberto Casadei

45. 
    The Exchange Calculus (Xc): A Functional Programming Language Design for Distributed Collective Systems

    Article • January 2023, Elsevier

    Roberto Casadei

46. 
    ScaFi: A Scala DSL and Toolkit for Aggregate Programming

    Article • SoftwareX, December 2022, Elsevier

    Roberto Casadei

47. 
    Dynamic Decentralization Domains for the Internet of Things

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

    Roberto Casadei

48. 
    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

49. 
    A field-based computing approach to sensing-driven clustering in robot swarms

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

    Roberto Casadei

50. 
    Towards Automated Engineering for Collective Adaptive Systems: Vision and Research Directions

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

    Roberto Casadei

51. 
    Addressing Collective Computations Efficiency: Towards a Platform-level Reinforcement Learning Approach

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

    Roberto Casadei

52. 
    On the Dynamic Evolution of Distributed Computational Aggregates

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

    Roberto Casadei

53. 
    Self-stabilising Priority-Based Multi-Leader Election and Network Partitioning

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

    Roberto Casadei

54. 
    Machine Learning for Aggregate Computing: a Research Roadmap

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

    Roberto Casadei

55. 
    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

56. 
    Space-Fluid Adaptive Sampling: A Field-Based, Self-organising Approach

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Roberto Casadei

57. 
    Towards Reinforcement Learning-based Aggregate Computing

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Roberto Casadei

58. 
    Digital Twins, Virtual Devices, and Augmentations for Self-Organising Cyber-Physical Collectives

    Article • Applied Sciences, December 2021, MDPI AG

    Roberto Casadei

59. 
    Optimal resilient distributed data collection in mobile edge environments

    Article • Computers & Electrical Engineering, December 2021, Elsevier

    Roberto Casadei

60. 
    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

61. 
    Fostering resilient execution of multi-agent plans through self-organisation

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

    Roberto Casadei

62. 
    Towards Integration of Multi-Agent Planning with Self-Organising Collective Processes

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

    Roberto Casadei

63. 
    Augmented Collective Digital Twins for Self-Organising Cyber-Physical Systems

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

    Roberto Casadei

64. 
    Towards Pulverised Architectures for Collective Adaptive Systems through Multi-Tier Programming

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

    Roberto Casadei

65. 
    Adaptive distributed monitors of spatial properties for cyber–physical systems

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

    Roberto Casadei

66. 
    A Programming Approach to Collective Autonomy

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

    Roberto Casadei

67. 
    Partitioned integration and coordination via the self-organising coordination regions pattern

    Article • Future Generation Computer Systems, January 2021, Elsevier

    Roberto Casadei

68. 
    Engineering collective intelligence at the edge with aggregate processes

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

    Roberto Casadei

69. 
    ScaFi-Web: A Web-Based Application for Field-Based Coordination Programming

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Roberto Casadei

70. 
    Tuple-Based Coordination in Large-Scale Situated Systems

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Roberto Casadei

71. 
    Pulverization in Cyber-Physical Systems: Engineering the Self-Organizing Logic Separated from Deployment

    Article • Future Internet, November 2020, MDPI AG

    Roberto Casadei

72. 
    On the Social Implications of Collective Adaptive Systems

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

    Roberto Casadei

73. 
    Collective Adaptive Systems as Coordination Media: The Case of Tuples in Space-Time

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

    Roberto Casadei

74. 
    FScaFi : A Core Calculus for Collective Adaptive Systems Programming

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Roberto Casadei

75. 
    From distributed coordination to field calculus and aggregate computing

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

    Roberto Casadei

76. 
    A development approach for collective opportunistic Edge-of-Things services

    Article • Information Sciences, September 2019, Elsevier

    Roberto Casadei, Danilo Pianini

77. 
    Engineering Resilient Collaborative Edge-Enabled IoT

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

    Roberto Casadei

78. 
    Coordinating Computation at the Edge: a Decentralized, Self-Organizing, Spatial Approach

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

    Roberto Casadei

79. 
    On Context-Orientation in Aggregate Programming

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

    Roberto Casadei, Danilo Pianini

80. 
    Security in Collective Adaptive Systems: A Roadmap

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

    Roberto Casadei, Danilo Pianini

81. 
    Modelling and simulation of Opportunistic IoT Services with Aggregate Computing

    Article • Future Generation Computer Systems, February 2019, Elsevier

    Roberto Casadei, Danilo Pianini

82. 
    Aggregate Processes in Field Calculus

    Article • January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Roberto Casadei, Danilo Pianini

83. 
    A coordination design pattern for self-organizing systems, applicable in edge computing scenarios

    Article • January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Roberto Casadei

84. 
    Towards attack-resistant Aggregate Computing using trust mechanisms

    Article • Science of Computer Programming, December 2018, Elsevier

    Roberto Casadei

85. 
    Collective Abstractions and Platforms for Large-Scale Self-Adaptive IoT

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

    Roberto Casadei

86. 
    Combining Trust and Aggregate Computing

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Roberto Casadei

87. 
    From Field-Based Coordination to Aggregate Computing

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Roberto Casadei, Danilo Pianini

88. 
    Programming Actor-Based Collective Adaptive Systems

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Roberto Casadei

89. 
    Transparent Protection of Aggregate Computations from Byzantine Behaviours via Blockchain

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

    Roberto Casadei

90. 
    Compositional Blocks for Optimal Self-Healing Gradients

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

    Roberto Casadei

91. 
    Simulating Large-scale Aggregate MASs with Alchemist and Scala

    Article • October 2016, Polish Information Processing Society PTI

    Roberto Casadei, Danilo Pianini

92. 
    On execution platforms for large-scale aggregate computing

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

    Roberto Casadei, Danilo Pianini, Prof Mirko Viroli

93. 
    Run-Time Management of Computation Domains in Field Calculus

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

    Roberto Casadei

94. 
    Towards Aggregate Programming in Scala

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

    Roberto Casadei

95. 
    Macro-Programming Multi-Agent Systems: A Framework for Artificial Collective Intelligence

    Article • International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems

    Roberto Casadei

96. 
    Leveraging Context-Oriented Programming to Implement Normative Rules in Autonomous Systems

    Article • International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems

    Roberto Casadei