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Journal papers

    2023

  1. PDF download S. Milanesi, F. Rosset, M. Colaneri, G. Giordano, K. Pesenti, F. Blanchini, P. Bolzern, P. Colaneri, P. Sacchi, G. De Nicolao, R. Bruno, "Early detection of variants of concern via funnel plots of regional reproduction numbers", Scientific Reports, 2023.
  2. PDF download F. Blanchini, D. Breda, G. Giordano, D. Liessi, "Michaelis-Menten networks are structurally stable", Automatica, 147(1), 110683, 2023. (*)
  3. PDF download F. Blanchini, P. Bolzern, P. Colaneri, G. De Nicolao, G. Giordano, "Optimal control of compartmental models: the exact solution", Automatica, 147(1), 110680, 2023. (*)
  4. PDF download J. Landau, C. Cuba Samaniego, G. Giordano, E. Franco, "Computational characterization of recombinase circuits for periodic behaviors", iScience, 105624, 2023.

    5. 2022

  5. B. Burlando, V. Mucci, C. J. Browne, S. Losacco, I. Indovina, L. Marinelli, F. Blanchini, G. Giordano, "Mal de Debarquement Syndrome explained by a vestibulo-cerebellar oscillator", Mathematical Medicine and Biology, dqac016, 2022.
  6. PDF download D. Breda, D. Frizzera, G. Giordano, E. Seffin, V. Zanni, D. Annoscia, C. J. Topping, F. Blanchini, F. Nazzi, "A deeper understanding of system interactions can explain contradictory field results on pesticide impact on honey bees", Nature Communications, 13:5720, 2022.
  7. PDF download Q. Zheng, C. Bao, P. Li, A. C. de Vries, G. Giordano, Q. Pan, "Projecting the impact of testing and vaccination on the transmission dynamics of the 2022 monkeypox outbreak in the United States", Journal of Travel Medicine, taac101, 2022.
  8. PDF download F. Blanchini, P. Colaneri, G. Giordano, I. Zorzan, "Vertex results for the robust analysis of uncertain biochemical systems", Journal of Mathematical Biology, 85:35, 2022. (*)
  9. PDF download C. A. Devia, G. Giordano, "A framework to analyze opinion formation models", Scientific Reports, 12:13441, 2022.
  10. PDF download I. Demori, G. Giordano, V. Mucci, S. Losacco, L. Marinelli, P. Massobrio, F. Blanchini, B. Burlando, "Thalamocortical bistable switch as a theoretical model of fibromyalgia pathogenesis inferred from a literature survey", Journal of Computational Neuroscience, 50, 471–484, 2022.
  11. PDF download F. Blanchini, G. Giordano, F. Riz, L. Zaccarian, "Solving nonlinear algebraic loops arising in input-saturated feedbacks", IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2022. (*)
  12. PDF download F. Blanchini, C. A. Devia, G. Giordano, R. Pesenti, F. Rosset, "Fair and sparse solutions in network-decentralised flow control", IEEE Control Systems Letters, 6:2984-2989, 2022. (*)
    (Also selected for presentation at the 61st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Cancún, Mexico, December 2022.)
  13. PDF download T. Krueger, K. Gogolewski, M. Bodych, A. Gambin, G. Giordano, S. Cuschieri, T. Czypionka, M. Perc, E. Petelos, M. Rosinska, E. Szczurek, "Risk assessment of COVID-19 epidemic resurgence in relation to SARS-CoV-2 variants and vaccination passes", Communications Medicine, 2:23, 2022.
  14. PDF download A. Calero Valdez, E. N. Iftekhar, M. Oliu-Barton, R. Böhm, S. Cuschieri, T. Czypionka, U. Dumpis, G. Giordano, C. Hanson, Z. Hel, A. Helova, I. Kickbusch, P. Klimek, L. Kojan, M. Kretzschmar, T. Krueger, J. Krutzinna, B. Lange, J. V. Lazarus, H. Machado, M. McKee, K. Nagel, M. Perc, E. Petelos, N. Popivanov, B. Pradelski, B. Prainsack, K. Schroeder, S. Tsiodras, P. Wilmes, G. Wolff, "Europe must come together to confront omicron", British Medical Journal (BMJ), 376:o90, 2022.
  15. PDF download T. Alamo, P. Millán, D. G. Reina, V. M. Preciado, G. Giordano, "Challenges and future directions in pandemic control", IEEE Control Systems Letters, 6, 722-727, 2022.
    (Also selected for presentation as an invited paper at the 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Austin (TX), USA, December 2021.)
  16. PDF download P. Braun, G. Giordano, C. M. Kellett, L. Zaccarian, "An asymmetric stabilizer based on scheduling shifted coordinates for single-input linear systems with asymmetric saturation", IEEE Control Systems Letters, 6, 746-751, 2022. (*)
    (Also selected for presentation at the 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Austin (TX), USA, December 2021.)
  17. PDF download F. Blanchini, G. Giordano, "Dual chemical reaction networks and implications for Lyapunov-based structural stability", IEEE Control Systems Letters, 6, 488-493, 2022. (*)
    (Also selected for presentation as an invited paper at the 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Austin (TX), USA, December 2021.)

    18. 2021

  18. PDF download T. Alamo, P. Millán, D. G. Reina, V. M. Preciado, G. Giordano, "Data-driven methods for present and future pandemics: Monitoring, modelling and managing", Annual Reviews in Control, 52, 448-464, 2021.
  19. PDF download G. Giordano, M. Colaneri, A. Di Filippo, F. Blanchini, P. Bolzern, G. De Nicolao, P. Sacchi, P. Colaneri, R. Bruno, "Modeling vaccination rollouts, SARS-CoV-2 variants and the requirement for non-pharmaceutical interventions in Italy", Nature Medicine, 27, 993-998, 2021.
  20. PDF download V. Priesemann, M. Brinkmann, S. Ciesek, S. Cuschieri, T. Czypionka, G. Giordano, D. Gurdasani, C. Hanson, N. Hens, E. Iftekhar, M. Kelly-Irving, P. Klimek, M. Kretzschmar, A. Peichl, M. Perc, F. Sannino, E. Schernhammer, A. Schmidt, A. Staines, E. Szczurek, "Call for a pan-European COVID-19 response must be comprehensive – Authors' reply", The Lancet, 397(10284), 1541, 2021.
  21. PDF download A. Fochesato, G. Simoni, F. Reali, G. Giordano, E. Domenici, L. Marchetti, "A retrospective analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic evolution in Italy", Biology, 10(4), 311, 2021.
  22. PDF download F. Blanchini, G. Giordano, "Structural analysis in biology: a control-theoretic approach", Survey paper, Automatica, 126(4), 109376, 2021. (*)
  23. PDF download V. Priesemann, R. Balling, M. Brinkmann, S. Ciesek, T. Czypionka, I. Eckerle, G. Giordano, C. Hanson, Z. Hel, P. Hotulainen, P. Klimek, A. Nassehi, A. Peichl, M. Perc, E. Petelos, B. Prainsack, E. Szczurek, "An action plan for pan-European defence against new SARS-CoV-2 variants", The Lancet, 397(10273), 469-470, 2021.
  24. PDF download C. A. Devia, G. Giordano, "Topology-independent robust stability conditions for uncertain MIMO networks", IEEE Control Systems Letters, 5(1), 325-330, 2021.
    (Also selected for presentation as an invited paper at the 59th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Jeju Island, Republic of Korea, December 2020.)
  25. PDF download F. Blanchini, D. Casagrande, F. Fabiani, G. Giordano, D. Palma, R. Pesenti, "A threshold mechanism ensures minimum-path flow in lightning discharge", Scientific Reports, 11, 280, 2021. (*)
  26. PDF download V. Priesemann, M. Brinkmann, S. Ciesek, S. Cuschieri, T. Czypionka, G. Giordano, D. Gurdasani, C. Hanson, N. Hens, E. Iftekhar, M. Kelly-Irving, P. Klimek, M. Kretzschmar, A. Peichl, M. Perc, F. Sannino, E. Schernhammer, A. Schmidt, A. Staines, E. Szczurek, "Calling for pan-European commitment for rapid and sustained reduction in SARS-CoV-2 infections", The Lancet, 397(10269), 92-93, 2021.
  27. PDF download C. Drioli, G. Giordano, D. Salvati, F. Blanchini, G. L. Foresti, "Acoustic target tracking through a cluster of mobile agents", IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 51(5), 2587-2600, 2021.

    28. 2020

  28. PDF download B. Burlando, M. Milanese, G. Giordano, T. Bonifacino, S. Ravera, F. Blanchini, G. Bonanno, "A multistationary loop model of ALS unveils critical molecular interactions involving mitochondria and glucose metabolism", PLOS One, 15(12), e0244234, 2020.
  29. PDF download G. Giordano, F. Blanchini, R. Bruno, P. Colaneri, A. Di Filippo, A. Di Matteo, M. Colaneri, "Modelling the COVID-19 epidemic and implementation of population-wide interventions in Italy", Nature Medicine, 26, 855-860, 2020.
  30. PDF download V. Mucci, I. Indovina, C. J. Browne, F. Blanchini, G. Giordano, L. Marinelli, B. Burlando, "Mal de Debarquement Syndrome: a matter of loops?", Frontiers in Neurology, 11, 1387, 2020.
  31. PDF download D. Palma, F. Blanchini, G. Giordano, P. L. Montessoro, "A dynamic biometric authentication algorithm for near-infrared palm vascular patterns", IEEE Access, 8, 118978-118988, 2020.
  32. PDF download T. Rollo, F. Blanchini, G. Giordano, R. Specogna, D. Esseni, "Stabilization of negative capacitance in ferroelectric capacitors with and without a metal interlayer", Nanoscale, 12(10), 6121-6129, 2020.
    Correction, Nanoscale, 12(22), 12177–12178, 2020.
  33. PDF download C. Cuba Samaniego, G. Giordano, E. Franco, "Periodic switching in a recombinase-based molecular circuit", IEEE Control Systems Letters, 4(1), 241-246, 2020.
    (Also selected for presentation as an invited paper at the 58th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Nice, France, December 2019.)
  34. PDF download F. Blanchini, G. Chesi, P. Colaneri, G. Giordano, "Checking structural stability of BDC-decomposable systems via convex optimisation", IEEE Control Systems Letters, 4(1), 205-210, 2020. (*)
    (Also selected for presentation at the 58th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Nice, France, December 2019.)

    35. 2019

  35. PDF download B. Burlando, F. Blanchini, G. Giordano, "Loop analysis of blood pressure/volume homeostasis", PLOS Computational Biology, 15(9): e1007346, 2019.
  36. PDF download G. Giordano, M. Segata, F. Blanchini, R. Lo Cigno, "The joint network/control design of platooning algorithms can enforce guaranteed safety constraints", Ad Hoc Networks, 94, 101962, 2019.
  37. PDF download D. Palma, P. L. Montessoro, G. Giordano, F. Blanchini, "Biometric palmprint verification: a dynamical system approach", IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, 49(12), 2676-2687, 2019.
  38. PDF download F. Blanchini, D. Casagrande, F. Fabiani, G. Giordano, R. Pesenti, "Network-decentralised optimisation and control: an explicit saturated solution", Automatica, 103, 379-389, 2019. (*)
  39. PDF download F. Blanchini, G. Giordano, "BDC-decomposition for global influence analysis", IEEE Control Systems Letters - Special Issue on Control and Network Theory for Biological Systems, 3(2), 260-265, 2019. (*)

    40. 2018

  40. PDF download G. Giordano, D. Bauso, F. Blanchini, "A robust saturated strategy for n-player Prisoner's dilemma", SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 56(5), 3478-3498, 2018.
  41. PDF download G. Giordano, "CERT-mediated ceramide transfer is a structurally tunable flow-inducing mechanism with structural feed-forward loops", Royal Society Open Science, 5(6):180494, 2018.
  42. PDF download F. Blanchini, C. Cuba Samaniego, E. Franco, G. Giordano, "Homogeneous time constants promote oscillations in negative feedback loops", ACS Synthetic Biology, 7(6), 1481-1487, 2018. (*)
  43. PDF download F. Blanchini, C. Cuba Samaniego, E. Franco, G. Giordano, "Aggregates of Monotonic Step Response systems: a structural classification", IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems - Special Issue on Approaches to Control Biological and Biologically Inspired Networks, 5(2), 782-792, 2018. (*)
  44. PDF download F. Blanchini, D. Casagrande, G. Giordano, U. Viaro, "A bounded complementary sensitivity function ensures topology-independent stability of homogeneous dynamical networks", IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 63(4), 1140-1146, 2018. (*)

    45. 2017

  45. PDF download F. Blanchini, G. Giordano, "Polyhedral Lyapunov functions structurally ensure global asymptotic stability of dynamical networks iff the Jacobian is non-singular", Automatica, 86(12), 183-191, 2017. (*)
  46. PDF download G. Giordano, C. Altafini, "Qualitative and quantitative responses to press perturbations in ecological networks", Scientific Reports, 7:11378, 2017.
  47. PDF download F. Blanchini, G. Fenu, G. Giordano, F. A. Pellegrino, "Model-free plant tuning", IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 62(6), 2623-2634, 2017. (*)
  48. PDF download G. Giordano, F. Blanchini, "Flow-inducing networks", IEEE Control Systems Letters, 1(1), 44-49, 2017.
    (Also selected for presentation at the 56th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Melbourne, Australia, December 2017.)
  49. PDF download F. Blanchini, D. Casagrande, G. Giordano, S. Miani, S. Olaru, V. Reppa, "Active fault isolation: a duality-based approach via convex programming", SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 55(3), 1619-1640, 2017. (*)
  50. PDF download F. Blanchini, G. Fenu, G. Giordano, F. A. Pellegrino, "A convex programming approach to the inverse kinematics problem for manipulators under constraints", European Journal of Control, 33, 11-23, 2017. (*)
  51. PDF download F. Blanchini, D. Casagrande, G. Giordano, P. L. Montessoro, "A robust decentralized control for channel-sharing communication", IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, 4(2), 336-346, 2017. (*)
  52. PDF download C. Cuba Samaniego, G. Giordano, F. Blanchini, E. Franco, "Stability analysis of an artificial biomolecular oscillator with non-cooperative regulatory interactions", Journal of Biological Dynamics, 11(1), 102-120, 2017.

    53. 2016

  53. PDF download G. Giordano, F. Blanchini, E. Franco, V. Mardanlou, P. L. Montessoro, "The smallest eigenvalue of the generalized Laplacian matrix, with application to network-decentralized estimation for homogeneous systems", IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, 3(4), 312-324, 2016.
  54. PDF download M. T. Laraba, S. Olaru, S.-I. Niculescu, F. Blanchini, G. Giordano, D. Casagrande, S. Miani, "Guide on set invariance for delay difference equations", Annual Reviews in Control, 41, 13-23, 2016.
  55. PDF download F. Blanchini, D. Casagrande, G. Giordano, U. Viaro, "Robust constrained Model Predictive Control of fast electromechanical systems", Journal of the Franklin Institute, 353 (9), 2087-2103, June 2016. (*)
  56. PDF download C. Cuba Samaniego, G. Giordano, J. Kim, F. Blanchini, E. Franco, "Molecular titration promotes oscillations and bistability in minimal network models with monomeric regulators", ACS Synthetic Biology, 5 (4), 321-333, 2016.
  57. PDF download F. Blanchini, D. Casagrande, G. Giordano, U. Viaro, "A switched system approach to dynamic race modelling", Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems, 21 (8), 37-48, 2016. (*)

    NAHS Best Paper Award 2017

  58. PDF download F. Blanchini, E. Franco, G. Giordano, V. Mardanlou, P. L. Montessoro, "Compartmental flow control: decentralization, robustness and optimality", Automatica, 64 (2), 18-28, 2016. (*)
  59. PDF download G. Giordano, C. Cuba Samaniego, E. Franco, F. Blanchini, "Computing the structural influence matrix for biological systems", Journal of Mathematical Biology, 72 (7), 1927-1958, June 2016.

    60. 2015

  60. PDF download F. Blanchini, E. Franco, G. Giordano, "Network-decentralized control strategies for stabilization", IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 60 (2), 491-496, 2015. (*)

    61. 2014

  61. PDF download F. Blanchini, G. Giordano, "Piecewise-linear Lyapunov functions for structural stability of biochemical networks", Automatica, 50 (10), 2482-2493, 2014. (*)        Errata corrige
  62. PDF download F. Blanchini, E. Franco, G. Giordano, "A structural classification of candidate oscillatory and multistationary biochemical systems", Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 76 (10), 2542-2569, 2014. (*)
  63. PDF download E. Franco, G. Giordano, P.-O. Forsberg, R. M. Murray, "Negative autoregulation matches production and demand in synthetic transcriptional networks", ACS Synthetic Biology, 3 (8), 589-599, 2014.

Book chapters

  1. PDF download G. Giordano, F. Dabbene, "Modeling of pandemics and intervention strategies: The COVID-19 outbreak". In: J. Baillieul, T. Samad (eds.), Encyclopedia of Systems and Control. Springer, London, 2020.
  2. PDF download F. Blanchini, E. Franco, G. Giordano, "Structural properties of biological and ecological systems". In: J. Baillieul, T. Samad (eds.), Encyclopedia of Systems and Control. Springer, London, 2020.
  3. PDF download F. Blanchini, D. Casagrande, G. Giordano, S. Miani, "On the LPV control design and its applications to some classes of dynamical systems". In: S. Olaru, A. Grancharova, F. Lobo Pereira (Editors), Developments in Model-Based Optimization and Control. Distributed Control and Industrial Applications, 319-338, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences 464, Springer, 2015. (*)

Conference papers (peer reviewed proceedings)

    2022

  1. PDF download E. A. Hernandez-Vargas, A. H. González, C. L. Beck, X. Bi, F. Calà Campana, G. Giordano, "Modelling and control of epidemics across scales", invited tutorial paper, Proc. 61st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Cancún, Mexico, December 2022.
  2. PDF download F. Blanchini, P. Bolzern, P. Colaneri, G. De Nicolao, G. Giordano, "Logarithmic dynamics and aggregation in epidemics", invited paper, Proc. 61st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Cancún, Mexico, December 2022.
  3. PDF download Y. Zhang, C. Cuba Samaniego, K. Carleton, Y. Qian, G. Giordano, E. Franco, "Building molecular band-pass filters via molecular sequestration", invited paper, Proc. 61st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Cancún, Mexico, December 2022.

    4. 2021

  4. PDF download F. Blanchini, P. Bolzern, P. Colaneri, G. De Nicolao, G. Giordano, "Generalized epidemiological compartmental models: guaranteed bounds via optimal control", invited paper, Proc. 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Austin (TX), USA, December 2021.
  5. PDF download C. A. Devia, G. Giordano, "MIMO networks with heterogeneous uncertainties: topology-independent robust stability and alpha-convergence", Proc. 2021 European Control Conference (ECC), Rotterdam, The Netherlands, June-July 2021.
  6. PDF download J. An, G. Giordano, C. Liu, "Flexible MPC-based conflict resolution using Online Adaptive ADMM", Proc. 2021 European Control Conference (ECC), Rotterdam, The Netherlands, June-July 2021.
  7. PDF download C. Cuba Samaniego, A. Moorman, G. Giordano, E. Franco, "Signaling-based neural networks for cellular computation", invited paper, Proc. 2021 American Control Conference (ACC), New Orleans (Louisiana), USA, May 2021.

    8. 2020

  8. PDF download F. Blanchini, P. Colaneri, G. Giordano, I. Zorzan, "Predicting adaptation for uncertain systems with robust real plots", invited paper, Proceedings of the 59th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Jeju Island, Republic of Korea, December 2020. (*)
  9. PDF download C. A. Devia, G. Giordano, "Topology-independent robust stability for networks of homogeneous MIMO systems", Proceedings of the 21st IFAC World Congress, Berlin, Germany, July 2020.

    10. 2019

  10. PDF download C. A. Devia, G. Giordano, "Optimal duration and planning of switching treatments taking drug toxicity into account: a convex optimisation approach", Proceedings of the 58th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Nice, France, December 2019. (*)
  11. PDF download F. Blanchini, D. Casagrande, F. Fabiani, G. Giordano, R. Pesenti, "A network-decentralised strategy for shortest-path-flow routing", Proceedings of the 58th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Nice, France, December 2019. (*)
  12. PDF download C. Cuba Samaniego, N. DeLateur, G. Giordano, E. Franco, "Biomolecular stabilisation near the unstable equilibrium of a biological system", Proceedings of the 58th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Nice, France, December 2019.
  13. PDF download T. Rollo, F. Blanchini, G. Giordano, R. Specogna, D. Esseni, "Revised analysis of negative capacitance in ferroelectric-insulator capacitors: analytical and numerical results, physical insight, comparison to experiments", Proceedings of the 65th IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), San Francisco (CA), USA, December 2019.
  14. PDF download B. Burlando, S. Martinoia, P. Massobrio, S. Palmero, F. Blanchini, G. Giordano, "Loopomics: explaining the complexity of life by conjugating physiology and control theory", Acta Physiologica, 227(S718):82, Collection: Joint Meeting of the Federation of European Physiological Societies (FEPS) and the Italian Physiological Society (SIF), Bologna, Italy, September 2019.
  15. PDF download G. Giordano, L. M. de Graaf, E. Vasilakou, S. A. Wahl, "Unraveling energy homeostasis in a dynamic model of glycolysis in Escherichia coli", invited paper, Proceedings of the European Control Conference, Napoli, Italy, June 2019.
  16. PDF download G. Giordano, A. Singh, F. Blanchini, "Analysis of coupled genetic oscillators with delayed positive feedback interconnections", invited paper, Proceedings of the European Control Conference, Napoli, Italy, June 2019.
  17. PDF download F. Blanchini, D. Casagrande, G. Giordano, U. Viaro, "A switched model for mixed cooperative-competitive social dynamics", invited paper, Proceedings of the European Control Conference, Napoli, Italy, June 2019. (*)
  18. PDF download C. Cuba Samaniego, G. Giordano, E. Franco, "Practical differentiation using ultrasensitive molecular circuits", invited paper, Proceedings of the European Control Conference, Napoli, Italy, June 2019.

    19. 2018

  19. PDF download F. Blanchini, H. El-Samad, G. Giordano, E. Sontag, "Control-theoretic methods for biological networks", tutorial paper, Proceedings of the 57th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 466-483, Fontainebleau, Miami Beach (FL), USA, December 2018. (*)
  20. PDF download C. Cuba Samaniego, G. Giordano, E. Franco, "Design and analysis of a biomolecular positive-feedback oscillator", invited paper, Proceedings of the 57th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 1083-1088, Fontainebleau, Miami Beach (FL), USA, December 2018.
  21. PDF download F. Blanchini, D. Casagrande, G. Giordano, S. Miani, S. Olaru, V. Reppa, "Fault isolation for large scale discrete-time systems based on implicit set representation", Proceedings of the European Control Conference, pp. 685-690, Limassol, Cyprus, June 2018. (*)

    22. 2017

  22. PDF download G. Giordano, C. Altafini, "Interaction sign patterns in biological networks: from qualitative to quantitative criteria", invited paper, Proceedings of the 56th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 5348-5353, Melbourne, Australia, December 2017.
  23. PDF download F. Blanchini, G. Fenu, G. Giordano, F. A. Pellegrino, "Model-free tuning of plants with parasitic dynamics", Proceedings of the 56th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 499-504, Melbourne, Australia, December 2017. (*)
  24. PDF download F. Blanchini, C. Cuba Samaniego, E. Franco, G. Giordano, "Aggregates of Positive Impulse Response systems: a decomposition approach for complex networks", invited paper, Proceedings of the 56th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 1987-1992, Melbourne, Australia, December 2017. (*)
  25. PDF download G. Giordano, M. Segata, F. Blanchini, R. Lo Cigno, "A joint network/control design for cooperative automatic driving", Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC), pp. 167-174, Torino, Italy, November 2017.
  26. PDF download F. Blanchini, G. Fenu, G. Giordano, F. A. Pellegrino, "Discrete-time trials for tuning without a model", Proceedings of the 20th World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC 2017 World Congress), pp. 1575-1580, Toulouse, France, July 2017 (IFAC-PapersOnLine 50-1, July 2017, pp. 1539-1544). (*)
  27. PDF download F. Blanchini, D. Casagrande, G. Giordano, U. Viaro, "Topology-independent robust stability of homogeneous dynamic networks", Proceedings of the 20th World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC 2017 World Congress), pp. 1772-1777, Toulouse, France, July 2017 (IFAC-PapersOnLine 50-1, July 2017, pp. 1736-1741). (*)

    28. 2016

  28. PDF download G. Giordano, A. Rantzer, V. Jonsson, "A convex optimization approach to cancer treatment to address tumor heterogeneity and imperfect drug penetration in physiological compartments", invited paper, Proceedings of the 55th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 2494-2500, Las Vegas (NV), USA, December 2016.
  29. PDF download G. Giordano, D. Bauso, F. Blanchini, "A saturated strategy robustly ensures stability of the cooperative equilibrium for Prisoner's dilemma", invited paper, Proceedings of the 55th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 4427-4432, Las Vegas (NV), USA, December 2016.
  30. PDF download G. Giordano, E. Franco, "Negative feedback enables structurally signed steady-state influences in artificial biomolecular networks", Proceedings of the 55th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 3369-3374, Las Vegas (NV), USA, December 2016.

    31. 2015

  31. PDF download F. Blanchini, G. Giordano, "Polyhedral Lyapunov functions for structural stability of biochemical systems in concentration and reaction coordinates", Proceedings of the 54th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 3110-3115, Osaka, Japan, December 2015. (*)
  32. PDF download F. Blanchini, G. Fenu, G. Giordano, F. A. Pellegrino, "Plant tuning: a robust Lyapunov approach", Proceedings of the 54th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 1142-1147, Osaka, Japan, December 2015. (*)
  33. PDF download F. Blanchini, E. Franco, G. Giordano, "Structural conditions for oscillations and multistationarity in aggregate monotone systems", invited paper, Proceedings of the 54th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 609-614, Osaka, Japan, December 2015. (*)
  34. PDF download D. Palma, P. L. Montessoro, G. Giordano, F. Blanchini, "A dynamic algorithm for palmprint recognition", Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (IEEE CNS 2015), 1st IEEE Workshop on Security and Privacy in Cybermatics (SPiCy 2015), pp. 659-662, Firenze, Italy, September 2015.
  35. PDF download F. Blanchini, G. Fenu, G. Giordano, F. A. Pellegrino, "Inverse kinematics by means of convex programming: some developments", Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE 2015), pp. 515-520, Gothenburg, Sweden, August 2015. (*)
  36. PDF download F. Blanchini, D. Casagrande, G. Giordano, U. Viaro, "Properties of switching–dynamics race models", Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Control (ECC15), pp. 2907-2912, Linz, Austria, July 2015. (*)
  37. PDF download F. Blanchini, G. Giordano, "Structural stability of biochemical networks: quadratic vs. polyhedral Lyapunov functions", 8th IFAC Symposium on Robust Control Design (ROCOND'15), pp. 277-282, Bratislava, Slovakia, July 2015 (IFAC-PapersOnLine 48-14, 2015, pp. 278–283). (*)
  38. PDF download M. T. Laraba, S. Olaru, S.-I. Niculescu, F. Blanchini, G. Giordano, D. Casagrande, S. Miani, "Set invariance for delay difference equations", 12th IFAC Workshop on Time Delay Systems, Ann Arbor (MI), USA, June 2015 (IFAC-PapersOnLine 48-12, 2015, pp. 215-220).

    39. 2014

  39. PDF download F. Blanchini, G. Giordano, P. L. Montessoro, "Network–decentralized robust congestion control with node traffic splitting", Proceedings of the 53rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 2901-2906, Los Angeles (CA), USA, December 2014. (*)
  40. PDF download F. Blanchini, C. Cuba Samaniego, E. Franco, G. Giordano, "Design of a molecular clock with RNA–mediated regulation", Proceedings of the 53rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 4611-4616, Los Angeles (CA), USA, December 2014. (*)

    41. 2013

  41. PDF download F. Blanchini, E. Franco, G. Giordano, "Structured-LMI conditions for stabilizing network-decentralized control", Proceedings of the 52nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 6880-6885, Firenze, Italy, December 2013. (*)
  42. PDF download G. Giordano, E. Franco, R. M. Murray, "Feedback architectures to regulate flux of components in artificial gene networks", Proceedings of the American Control Conference (ACC), pp. 4747-4752, Washington (DC), USA, June 2013.

    43. 2012

  43. PDF download F. Blanchini, E. Franco, G. Giordano, "Determining the structural properties of a class of biological models", invited paper, Proceedings of the 51st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 5505-5510, Maui (HI), USA, December 2012. (*)

Editorials

  1. PDF download E. A. Hernandez-Vargas, G. Giordano, E. Sontag, J. G. Chase, H. Chang, A. Astolfi, "Third special section on systems and control research efforts against COVID-19 and future pandemics", Annual Reviews in Control, 52, 446-447 2021.
  2. PDF download E. A. Hernandez-Vargas, G. Giordano, E. Sontag, J. G. Chase, H. Chang, A. Astolfi, "Second special section on systems and control research efforts against COVID-19 and future pandemics", Annual Reviews in Control, 51, 424-425, 2021.
  3. PDF download E. A. Hernandez-Vargas, G. Giordano, E. Sontag, J. G. Chase, H. Chang, A. Astolfi, "First special section on systems and control research efforts against COVID-19 and future pandemics", Annual Reviews in Control, 50, 343-344, 2020.
  4. PDF download G. Giordano, "Foreword to the 15th IFAC Symposium on Large Scale Complex Systems LSS 2019; Delft, The Netherlands; 26-28 May 2016". IFAC-PapersOnLine, 52(3), i-viii, 2019.

Outreach publications (peer reviewed)

  1. E. Petelos, G. Giordano, T. Czypionka, "Vaccination passes: Chariot to freedom or a Trojan horse?", Blog Post Behind the Paper for [J51]. In: Nature Portfolio Health Community, 3 March 2022.
  2. PDF download G. Giordano, L. Mangoni, M. Pistilli, "Modelli matematici per comprendere, prevedere, controllare le epidemie. Il caso COVID-19 in Italia" (Mathematical models to understand, predict, control epidemics. The COVID-19 case in Italy). Book chapter, in M. Malvicini, T. Portaluri, A. Martinengo (Eds.), "Le parole della crisi, le politiche dopo la pandemia: Guida non emergenziale al post-Covid-19", 2020. (*)
  3. PDF download G. Giordano, "The importance of being tested". Invited journal paper, The Science Breaker, 6(3), 2020. DOI: 10.25250/thescbr.brk366

Conference contributions (peer reviewed, without proceedings)

  1. I. Demori, G. Giordano, V. Mucci, S. Losacco, L. Marinelli, P. Massobrio, F. Blanchini, B. Burlando, "New model of fibromyalgia pathogenesis based on a thalamocortical loop network", Fibromyalgia 2021, June 2021; abstract also appeared in Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology, 39(3), S209.
  2. G. De Nicolao, G. Giordano, M. Colaneri, A. Di Filippo, F. Blanchini, P. Bolzern, P. Colaneri, P. Sacchi, R. Bruno, "The toll of procrastination in epidemic control: a pre-emptive periodic strategy saves lives without increasing socio-economic costs", invited talk, 29th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED), Bari, Italy, 2021.
  3. G. Giordano, F. Blanchini, P. Colaneri, "A SIDARTHE compartmental model for the COVID-19 epidemic and the implementation of population-wide interventions", invited talk, 59th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), December 2020.
  4. G. Giordano, F. Blanchini, P. Colaneri, "COVID-19 modelling: SIDARTHE and beyond", invited talk, SIDRA Congress Automatica.it, September 2020.
  5. PDF download F. Blanchini, P. Colaneri, G. Giordano, I. Zorzan, "Robust sensitivity analysis for uncertain biochemical networks: some vertex results", 21st IFAC World Congress, Berlin, Germany, July 2020. (*)
  6. G. van Furth, G. Giordano, Z. Perkó, "Optimal control of combined chemo-radiation therapy treatments for improving cancer care", TU Delft BioDay 2019, Delft, The Netherlands, July 2019. (*)
  7. L. M. de Graaf, E. Vasilakou, G. Giordano, S. A. Wahl, "Metabolic stability under highly dynamic conditions - An experimental and theoretical analysis of the energy homeostasis in E. coli", TU Delft BioDay 2019, Delft, The Netherlands, July 2019.
  8. G. van Furth, G. Giordano, Z. Perkó, "Optimal control of combined chemo-radiation therapy treatments for improving cancer care", NWO Life Congress, Utrecht Bunnik, The Netherlands, May 2019. (*)
  9. L. M. de Graaf, E. Vasilakou, G. Giordano, S. A. Wahl, "Analysis of the energy homeostasis by modeling substrate dynamics in E. coli", BioSB 2019 Conference, Lunteren, The Netherlands, April 2019.
  10. F. Blanchini, G. Giordano, "Understanding biological phenomena with control-theoretic tools", in the tutorial session "Control-theoretic methods for biological networks", 57th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Fontainebleau, Miami Beach (FL), USA, December 2018. (*)
  11. C. Altafini, G. Giordano, "Sign patterns of steady state influence matrices of biological and ecological networks: from qualitative to quantitative criteria", Workshop: Mathematics in Biology and Medicine, Linköping, Sweden, 2017. (*)
  12. PDF download G. Giordano, F. Blanchini, "Structural analysis of dynamical networks: BDC-decomposition and influence matrix", Reglermöte 2016, Gothenburg, Sweden, June 2016. Poster
  13. F. Blanchini, G. Giordano, "Structural properties and robustness in biochemical networks", Workshop on Uncertain Dynamical Systems 2014 (WUDS'14), Amsterdam, the Netherlands, August 2014. (*)
  14. G. Giordano, E. Franco, R. M. Murray, "Feedback architectures to regulate flux of components in artificial gene networks", 1st FVG PhD Symposium, Grado (GO), Italy, October 2013.

Preprints

  1. C. A. Devia, G. Giordano, "Classification-Based Opinion Formation Model Embedding Agents' Psychological Traits", April-December 2022.
  2. C. A. Devia, G. Giordano, "A framework to analyze opinion formation models", May 2022.
    Peer-reviewed version: [J57].
  3. S. Milanesi, F. Rosset, M. Colaneri, G. Giordano, K. Pesenti, F. Blanchini, P. Bolzern, P. Colaneri, P. Sacchi, G. De Nicolao, R. Bruno, "Early detection of variants of concern via funnel plots of regional reproduction numbers", April 2022.
    Peer-reviewed version: [J63].
  4. P. Braun, G. Giordano, C. M. Kellett, I. Shames, L. Zaccarian, "Optimizing shifted stabilizers with asymmetric input saturation", February 2022. (*)
  5. Y. Zhang, C. Cuba Samaniego, K. Carleton, Y. Qian, G. Giordano, E. Franco, "Building molecular band-pass filters via molecular sequestration", bioRxiv, https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.04.02.486709, January 2022.
    Peer-reviewed version: [CP41].
  6. PDF download J. Landau, C. Cuba Samaniego, G. Giordano, E. Franco, "Computational characterization of recombinase circuits for periodic behaviors", bioRxiv, https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.11.06.467548, November 2021.
    Peer-reviewed version: [J59].
  7. PDF download F. Blanchini, C. A. Devia, G. Giordano, "Structural polyhedral stability of a biochemical network is equivalent to finiteness of the associated generalised Petri net", arXiv:2109.01709, September 2021. (*)
  8. PDF download T. Krueger, K. Gogolewski, M. Bodych, A. Gambin, G. Giordano, S. Cuschieri, T. Czypionka, M. Perc, E. Petelos, M. Rosińska, E. Szczurek, "Assessing the risk of COVID-19 epidemic resurgence in relation to the delta variant and to vaccination passes", medRxiv, https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.05.07.21256847, July 2021.
    Peer-reviewed version: [J51].
  9. PDF download G. De Nicolao, M. Colaneri, A. Di Filippo, F. Blanchini, P. Bolzern, P. Colaneri, G. Giordano, R. Bruno, "Preemptive periodic epidemic control reduces life and healthcare system costs without aggravation of social and economic losses", arXiv:2104.05597, April 2021.
    Peer-reviewed version: [CC13].
  10. PDF download J. An, G. Giordano, C. Liu, "Flexible MPC-based Conflict Resolution Using Online Adaptive ADMM", arXiv:2103.14118, March 2021. (*)
    Peer-reviewed version: [CP38].
  11. PDF download T. Alamo, D. G. Reina, P. Millán Gata, V. M. Preciado, G. Giordano, "Data-Driven Methods for Present and Future Pandemics: Monitoring, Modelling and Managing", arXiv:2102.13130, February 2021.
    Peer-reviewed version: [J46].
  12. PDF download G. Giordano, M. Colaneri, A. Di Filippo, F. Blanchini, P. Bolzern, G. De Nicolao, P. Sacchi, R. Bruno, P. Colaneri, "Vaccination and SARS-CoV-2 variants: how much containment is still needed? A quantitative assessment", arXiv:2102.08704, February 2021.
    Peer-reviewed version: [J45].
  13. PDF download C. Cuba Samaniego, A. Moorman, G. Giordano, E. Franco, "Signaling-based neural networks for cellular computation", bioRxiv, https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.11.10.377077, November 2020.
    Peer-reviewed version: [CP37].
  14. PDF download F. Blanchini, D. Casagrande, F. Fabiani, G. Giordano, D. Palma, R. Pesenti, "Lightning optimizes: a threshold mechanism ensures minimum-path flow", arXiv:2007.08980, July 2020. (*)
    Peer-reviewed version: [J39].
  15. PDF download G. Simoni, A. Fochesato, F. Reali, G. Giordano, E. Domenici, L. Marchetti, "Short-term analysis and long-term predictions for the COVID-19 epidemic in a seasonality regime: the Italian case", medRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.07.15.20154500, July 2020.
    Peer-reviewed version: [J43].
  16. PDF download G. Giordano, F. Blanchini, R. Bruno, P. Colaneri, A. Di Filippo, A. Di Matteo, M. Colaneri, "A SIDARTHE model of COVID-19 epidemic in Italy", arXiv:2003.09861, March 2020.
    Peer-reviewed version: [J35].

Theses and technical reports

  1. PDF download G. Giordano, "Structural Analysis and Control of Dynamical Networks", Ph.D. Thesis, defended at the University of Udine, April 2016.

    EECI PhD Award 2016: best PhD thesis in Europe in the field of Control for Complex and Heterogeneous Systems

  2. G. Giordano, "Structural Properties of Biochemical Systems", M.Sc. Thesis, defended at the University of Udine, October 2012.
  3. G. Giordano, "Biomolecular Rate-Regulator Circuits", Technical Report for the SURF Project at the California Institute of Technology, August 2012.
  4. G. Giordano, "Equalized Filtering of Discrete-Time Processes", B.Sc. Thesis, defended at the University of Udine, November 2010.
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