Stefano Nolfi

Orcid: 0000-0001-5035-442X

According to our database1, Stefano Nolfi authored at least 139 papers between 1988 and 2024.

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2024
Qualitative differences between evolutionary strategies and reinforcement learning methods for control of autonomous agents.
Evol. Intell., April, 2024

The Role of Morphological Variation in Evolutionary Robotics: Maximizing Performance and Robustness.
Evol. Comput., 2024

On the Unexpected Abilities of Large Language Models.
Adapt. Behav., 2024

2023
Skeleton Timed Up and Go on MARIO Robot.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Metrology for eXtended Reality, 2023

2022
Progress and challenges in adaptive robotics.
Frontiers Robotics AI, 2022

Phenotypic complexity and evolvability in evolving robots.
Frontiers Robotics AI, 2022

The Role of Environmental Variations in Evolutionary Robotics: Maximizing Performance and Robustness.
CoRR, 2022

The dynamic of body and brain co-evolution.
Adapt. Behav., 2022

On the Impact of the Duration of Evaluation Episodes on the Evolution of Adaptive Robots.
Proceedings of the Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN XVII, 2022

Automated Categorization of Behavioral Quality Through Deep Neural Networks.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Metrology for Extended Reality, 2022

2021
Development of Multiple Behaviors in Evolving Robots.
Robotics, 2021

Enhancing Cartesian genetic programming through preferential selection of larger solutions.
Evol. Intell., 2021

Automated Curriculum Learning for Embodied Agents: A Neuroevolutionary Approach.
CoRR, 2021

2020
Efficacy of Modern Neuro-Evolutionary Strategies for Continuous Control Optimization.
Frontiers Robotics AI, 2020

Autonomous Learning of Features for Control: Experiments with Embodied and Situated Agents.
CoRR, 2020

Long-Term Progress and Behavior Complexification in Competitive Coevolution.
Artif. Life, 2020

2019
Robustness, evolvability and phenotypic complexity: insights from evolving digital circuits.
Evol. Intell., 2019

Making the Environment an Informative Place: A Conceptual Analysis of Epistemic Policies and Sensorimotor Coordination.
Entropy, 2019

Long-Term Progress and Behavior Complexification in Competitive Co-Evolution.
CoRR, 2019

2018
Scaling Up Cartesian Genetic Programming through Preferential Selection of Larger Solutions.
CoRR, 2018

Robust Optimization through Neuroevolution.
CoRR, 2018

Moderate Environmental Variation Across Generations Promotes the Evolution of Robust Solutions.
Artif. Life, 2018

Evolving Robust Solutions for Stochastically Varying Problems.
Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2018

2017
Moderate Environmental Variation Promotes Adaptation in Artificial Evolution.
CoRR, 2017

Achieving long-term progress in competitive co-evolution.
Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, 2017

Environmental variations promotes adaptation in artificial evolution.
Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, 2017

Favoring the evolution of adaptive robots through environmental differentiation.
Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, 2017

Exploiting environmental differentiation to promote evolvability in artificial evolution.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2017


2016
Evolutionary Robotics.
Proceedings of the Springer Handbook of Robotics, 2016

Behavioural plasticity in evolving robots.
Theory Biosci., 2016

Cyclic Incrementality in Competitive Coevolution: Evolvability through Pseudo-Baldwinian Switching-Genes.
Artif. Life, 2016

Affordance generation enables behavioral plasticity and cognitive offloading in evolving robots.
Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, 2016

An Ontology Design Pattern for Supporting Behaviour Arbitration in Cognitive Agents.
Proceedings of the Advances in Ontology Design and Patterns [revised and extended versions of the papers presented at the 7th edition of the Workshop on Ontology and Semantic Web Patterns, 2016

Functional Modularity Enables the Realization of Smooth and Effective Behavior Integration.
Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, 2016

2015
Embodied Intelligence.
Proceedings of the Springer Handbook of Computational Intelligence, 2015

Learning to Manipulate and Categorize in Human and Artificial Agents.
Cogn. Sci., 2015

Advances in Artificial Life: Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems: Editorial.
Artif. Life, 2015

Integrating learning by experience and demonstration in autonomous robots.
Adapt. Behav., 2015

2014
The ITALK Project: A Developmental Robotics Approach to the Study of Individual, Social, and Linguistic Learning.
Top. Cogn. Sci., 2014

Communication based dynamic role allocation in a group of homogeneous robots.
Nat. Comput., 2014

Evolutionary robotics.
Evol. Intell., 2014

The role of selective attention and action selection in the development of multiple action capabilities.
Connect. Sci., 2014

Designing adaptive humanoid robots through the FARSA open-source framework.
Adapt. Behav., 2014

2013
A Robotic Model of Reaching and Grasping Development.
IEEE Trans. Auton. Ment. Dev., 2013

Swarmanoid: A Novel Concept for the Study of Heterogeneous Robotic Swarms.
IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag., 2013

Selective attention enables action selection: evidence from evolutionary robotics experiments.
Adapt. Behav., 2013

ACT-CORNER: Active corner finding for optic flow determination.
Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2013

FARSA: An Open Software Tool for Embodied Cognitive Science.
Proceedings of the Twelfth European Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems: Advances in Artificial Life, 2013

2012
Co-evolving predator and prey robots.
Adapt. Behav., 2012

Incremental Learning in a 14 DOF Simulated iCub Robot: Modeling Infant Reach/Grasp Development.
Proceedings of the Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems - First International Conference, 2012

Action Development and Integration in an Humanoid iCub Robot.
Proceedings of the Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems - First International Conference, 2012

Bottom-up learning of feedback in a categorization task.
Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics, 2012

2011
Erratum to: Evolution of a predictive internal model in an embodied and situated agent.
Theory Biosci., 2011

Evolution of a predictive internal model in an embodied and situated agent.
Theory Biosci., 2011

Emergence of Protosentences in Artificial Communicating Systems.
IEEE Trans. Auton. Ment. Dev., 2011

An Experiment on Behavior Generalization and the Emergence of Linguistic Compositionality in Evolving Robots.
IEEE Trans. Auton. Ment. Dev., 2011

Self-organised path formation in a swarm of robots.
Swarm Intell., 2011

Research on cognitive robotics at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council of Italy.
Cogn. Process., 2011

Engineering the Evolution of Self-Organizing Behaviors in Swarm Robotics: A Case Study.
Artif. Life, 2011

2010
Active Categorical Perception of Object Shapes in a Simulated Anthropomorphic Robotic Arm.
IEEE Trans. Evol. Comput., 2010

Integration of Action and Language Knowledge: A Roadmap for Developmental Robotics.
IEEE Trans. Auton. Ment. Dev., 2010

Categorisation through evidence accumulation in an active vision system.
Connect. Sci., 2010

The Facilitatory Role of Linguistic Instructions on Developing Manipulation Skills.
IEEE Comput. Intell. Mag., 2010

Co-development of Linguistic and Behavioural Skills: Compositional Semantics and Behaviour Generalisation.
Proceedings of the From Animals to Animats 11, 2010

Emergence of an Internal Model in Evolving Robots Subjected to Sensory Deprivation.
Proceedings of the From Animals to Animats 11, 2010

Evolution of Self-organised Path Formation in a Swarm of Robots.
Proceedings of the Swarm Intelligence - 7th International Conference, 2010

The Evolution of Behavioural and Linguistic Skills to Execute and Generate Two-word Instructions in Agents Controlled by Dynamical Neural Networks.
Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, 2010

Re-Engineering Evolution - A Study In Self-Organising Synchronisation.
Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, 2010

Embodied and Communicating Agents: Towards the Establishment of a Solid Theoretical and Methodological Framework.
Proceedings of the Evolution of Communication and Language in Embodied Agents, 2010

Evolving Communication in Embodied Agents: Assessment and Open Challenges.
Proceedings of the Evolution of Communication and Language in Embodied Agents, 2010

A Synthetic Approach to the Study of the Evolution of Communication and Language.
Proceedings of the Evolution of Communication and Language in Embodied Agents, 2010

Evorobot* - A Tool for Running Experiments on the Evolution of Communication.
Proceedings of the Evolution of Communication and Language in Embodied Agents, 2010

Evolving Communication in Embodied Agents: Theory, Methods, and Evaluation.
Proceedings of the Evolution of Communication and Language in Embodied Agents, 2010

Evolution of Implicit and Explicit Communication in Mobile Robots.
Proceedings of the Evolution of Communication and Language in Embodied Agents, 2010

2009
Embodied and Situated Agents, Adaptive Behavior in.
Proceedings of the Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science, 2009

Self-Organizing Sync in a Robotic Swarm: A Dynamical System View.
IEEE Trans. Evol. Comput., 2009

Strengths and synergies of evolved and designed controllers: A study within collective robotics.
Artif. Intell., 2009

Two examples of active categorisation processes distributed over time.
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics (EpiRob 2009), 2009

On the Dynamics of Active Categorisation of Different Objects Shape through Tactile Sensors.
Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life. Darwin Meets von Neumann, 2009

Development of Abstract Categories in Embodied Agents.
Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life. Darwin Meets von Neumann, 2009

Active categorical perception in an evolved anthropomorphic robotic arm.
Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2009

Evolving morphology and control: A distributed approach.
Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2009

2008
Evolution, Self-organization and Swarm Robotics.
Proceedings of the Swarm Intelligence: Introduction and Applications, 2008

Evolutionary Robotics.
Proceedings of the Springer Handbook of Robotics, 2008

Evolving coordinated group behaviours through maximisation of mean mutual information.
Swarm Intell., 2008

Breedbot: an evolutionary robotics application in digital content.
Electron. Libr., 2008

Editorial: Behavior and Mind as a Complex Adaptive System.
Adapt. Behav., 2008

On the Coupling Between Agent Internal and Agent/ Environmental Dynamics: Development of Spatial Representations in Evolving Autonomous Robots.
Adapt. Behav., 2008

Emergence of Interaction among Adaptive Agents.
Proceedings of the From Animals to Animats 10, 2008

Self-organising synchronisation in a robotic swarm.
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, 2008

2007
Self-Organized Coordinated Motion in Groups of Physically Connected Robots.
IEEE Trans. Syst. Man Cybern. Part B, 2007

Emergence of communication in embodied agents evolved for the ability to solve a collective navigation problem.
Connect. Sci., 2007

Breedbot: An Edutainment Robotics System to Link Digital and Real World.
Proceedings of the Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, 2007

Minimal Communication Strategies for Self-Organising Synchronisation Behaviours.
Proceedings of the First IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life, 2007

Formation of spatial representations in evolving autonomous robots.
Proceedings of the First IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life, 2007

Social learning and cultural evolution in embodied and situated agents.
Proceedings of the First IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life, 2007

From Solitary to Collective Behaviours: Decision Making and Cooperation.
Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life, 9th European Conference, 2007

Social Facilitation on the Development of Foraging Behaviors in a Population of Autonomous Robots.
Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life, 9th European Conference, 2007

2006
Cooperative hole avoidance in a <i>swarm-bot</i>.
Robotics Auton. Syst., 2006

Distributed Coordination of Simulated Robots Based on Self-Organization.
Artif. Life, 2006

A Testbed for Neural-Network Models Capable of Integrating Information in Time.
Proceedings of the Anticipatory Behavior in Adaptive Learning Systems, 2006

Synchronization and Gait Adaptation in Evolving Hexapod Robots.
Proceedings of the From Animals to Animats 9, 2006

Origins of Communication in Evolving Robots.
Proceedings of the From Animals to Animats 9, 2006

2005
The cooperation of swarm-bots: physical interactions in collective robotics.
IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag., 2005

Emergence of communication in embodied agents: co-adapting communicative and non-communicative behaviours.
Connect. Sci., 2005

Emergence of communication in competitive multi-agent systems: a pareto multi-objective approach.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2005

2004
Editorial: Evolutionary robotics: looking forward.
Connect. Sci., 2004

Toward open-ended evolutionary robotics: evolving elementary robotic units able to self-assemble and self-reproduce.
Connect. Sci., 2004

Swarm-Bot: A New Distributed Robotic Concept.
Auton. Robots, 2004

Evolving Self-Organizing Behaviors for a <i>Swarm-Bot</i>.
Auton. Robots, 2004

Evolving the Neural Controller for a Robotic Arm Able to Grasp Objects on the Basis of Tactile Sensors.
Adapt. Behav., 2004


2003
Evolving Mobile Robots Able to Display Collective Behaviors.
Artif. Life, 2003

Evolution of Collective Behavior in a Team of Physically Linked Robots.
Proceedings of the Applications of Evolutionary Computing, 2003

2002
Power and the limits of reactive agents.
Neurocomputing, 2002

2001
Evolving robots able to integrate sensory-motor information over time.
Theory Biosci., 2001

2000
Duplication of Modules Facilitates the Evolution of Functional Specialization.
Artif. Life, 2000

1999
Learning to perceive the world as articulated: an approach for hierarchical learning in sensory-motor systems.
Neural Networks, 1999

Extracting Regularities in Space and Time Through a Cascade of Prediction Networks: The Case of a Mobile Robot Navigating in a Structured Environment.
Connect. Sci., 1999

Learning and Evolution.
Auton. Robots, 1999

How Learning and Evolution Interact: The Case of a Learning Task which Differs from the Evolutionary Task.
Adapt. Behav., 1999

Exploiting the Power of Sensory-Motor Coordination.
Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life, 5th European Conference, 1999

1998
Evolutionary Robotics: Exploiting the Full Power of Self-organization.
Connect. Sci., 1998

Coevolving Predator and Prey Robots: Do "Arms Races" Arise in Artificial Evolution?
Artif. Life, 1998

How Co-Evolution can Enhance the Adaptive Power of Artificial Evolution: Implications for Evolutionary Robotics.
Proceedings of the Evolutionary Robotics, First European Workshop, 1998

1997
Evolving non-trivial behaviors on real robots: A garbage collecting robot.
Robotics Auton. Syst., 1997

Using Emergent Modularity to Develop Control Systems for Mobile Robots.
Adapt. Behav., 1997

Neural Networks in an Artificial Life Perspective.
Proceedings of the Artificial Neural Networks, 1997

1996
Two Is Better Than One: A Diploid Genotype for Neural Networks.
Neural Process. Lett., 1996

Learning to Adapt to Changing Environments in Evolving Neural Networks.
Adapt. Behav., 1996

1995
Evolving Mobile Robots in Simulated and Real Environments.
Artif. Life, 1995

Evolving Artificial Neural Networks that Develop in Time.
Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life, 1995

An Artificial Life Model for Predicting the Tertiary Structure of Unknown Proteins that Emulates the Folding Process.
Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life, 1995

Evolving non-Trivial Behaviors on Real Robots: an Autonomous Robot that Picks up Objects.
Proceedings of the Topics in Artificial Intelligence, 1995

1994
Good teaching inputs do not correspond to desired responses in ecological neural networks.
Neural Process. Lett., 1994

Learning and Evolution in Neural Networks.
Adapt. Behav., 1994

1988
One trial learning of stimulus sequences in a connectionist network.
Neural Networks, 1988

Learning to understand sentences in a connectionist network.
Proceedings of International Conference on Neural Networks (ICNN'88), 1988


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