Papers, Seminars & Books

The Media Art Context

Emergenza e biodiversità della forma: l'estetica dello scambio tra vita reale ed artificiale, M. Annunziato, P. Pierucci, in Proc. of the II Italian Workshop of Artificial Life, Rome, 2-5 March 2005. Also in "Sistemi Intelligenti" (Il Mulino), Anno XVIII, n. 1, April 2006.

The Emergence of Social Learning in Artificial Societies M. Annunziato, P. Pierucci. (PDF, 286 Kb). In Proc. of the EvoMUSART, 1st European Workshop on Evolutionary Music and Art, Essex, UK, April 14th-16t, 2003. Evolution and Learning in Artificial Societies.

Sensitive Painting   M. Annunziato, P. Pierucci, I. Tirelli. (PDF, 287 Kb). In Proc. of the EVA 2003 Florence, International Conference, Florence, IT, March 24-28 2003. The interactive installation Sensitive Painting and innovative proposals for fruition of the cultural heritage.

Human-Artificial Ecosystems: Searching for a Language  M. Annunziato, P. Pierucci. (PDF, 292 Kb). In Proc. of the Fifth Int. Conference on Generative Art, Milan, Dec. 2002. A backstage study for the emergence of an autonomous language in an artificial society.

The Art of Emergence e gli ambienti intelligenti M. Annunziato, (PDF, 10 Mb !!). Seminar at the "Università Cattolica", P. Gemelli, Rome, Italy, 7th November 2002. You can download the seminar slides (please take into account it is in Italian and about 9 Mb).

The E-What Project M. Annunziato, (PDF, 9 Kb). An interview from Franz Fisnhaller in the context ot the E-What Project: Net, society, demoicracy", June 2002.

Emergenza e biodiversità della forma: creazione e struttura per una nuova estetica M. Annunziato, (PDF, 1120 Kb). The concept of the Art of Emergence: self-organization and art. March 2002.

Relazioni Emergenti: Experimenting with Art of Emergence M. Annunziato, P. Pierucci. Paper published on the Leonardo Int. Journal, MIT Press, Volume 35, Issue 2, April 2002.

Learning and Contamination in Virtual Worlds M. Annunziato, P. Pierucci. (PDF, 947 Kb). In Proc. of the Fourth Int. Conference on Generative Art, Milan, Dec. 2001. A backstage study for development of creatures evolving and learning in an artificial environment.

Towards Artificial Societies M. Annunziato, P. Pierucci. (PDF, 522 Kb). In Proc. of the Third Int. Conference on Generative Art, Milan, Dec. 2000. A summary of the Plancton interactive installations up to 1999

A contribution to the Mars Millennium Project . M. Annunziato (web site). This paper is an invited contribution to the Mars Millennium Project. The goal of MMP is to prepare a selected archive for a village of 100 humans on Mars in 2030. On this link (planetary.org site related to NASA and JPL) you can find also very interesting contributions of other artists, scientists, astronauts.

Emergent Relationships. M. Annunziato, P. Pierucci. (PDF, 113 Kb). In the Proc. of the Alife VII Int. Conf., Portland, Oregon, Aug 2000. Invited paper in the workshop "Alife, Art and Design". A description of intents and technical details of the installation Relazioni Emergenti.

The Art of Emergence. M. Annunziato, P. Pierucci. (PDF, 947 Kb). In Proc. of the Second Int. Conference on Generative Art, Milan, Dec. 1999. A summary of the Plancton interactive installations up to 1999.

Emergent Structures in Artificial Societies. M. Annunziato. (HTML). Presented at the Creative Application Lab of Siggraph 99 (included in the CDROM), Los Angeles, CA, Aug. 1999. A presentation of the filament societies in very large spaces (high resolution).

The Nagual Experiment. M. Annunziato. (PDF, 2.6 Mb) In Proc. of the First Int. Conference on Generative Art, Milan, Dec. 1998. The first formulation of the filament artificial society

Viaggi, naufragi e svernamenti, O. Gemma de Julio, 1994, Ediz. Abraxas. (in italian)

Dizionario fondamentale viterbese-italiano-inglese, O.Gemma de Julio, 95-96, M. Vecchi Ed. (in italian)

Dai Cimini alle Ande, O. Gemma de Julio, 1996, M. Vecchi Editore. (in italian)

Selected scientific papers on music, chaos and complexity

Artificial Life Optimization over Complex Networks. M. Annunziato, R. Huerta, M. Lucchetti., L. S. Tsimring. (pdf, 358 kb). In Proc. of the Int. Conf. EIS2004, Madeira (Spain), March 2004.

Evolving weights and transfer functions in feed forward neural networks, Annunziato M. , Bertini I., Lucchetti M., Pizzuti S.:, EUNITE2003, Oulu, Finland, July 2003.

Complexity and control of combustion processes in industry. M. Annunziato, I. Bertini, A. Pannicelli, S. Pizzuti, L. Tsimring. (PDF, 143 Kb) In Proc. of Int. Conf. Complexity and Complex Systems in Industry, Warwick, UK, Sept. 2000. An advanced application of an artificial society to control and optimize complex industrial processes.

An Artificial Life Environment for Solution Development and Process Optimization. M. Annunziato, P. Pierucci, S. Pizzuti, L. Tsimring. (HTML). Presented at the Creative Application Lab of Siggraph 2000 (included in the CDROM), New Orleans, Louisiana, Jul. 2000.The artificial life to develop evolvable information structures.

Flame dynamics characterization by chaotic analysis of image sequences. M. Annunziato, I. Bertini, M. Piacentini A. Pannicelli. (PDF, 480 Kb). In Proc. of the Int. conf. 36th HTMF, Sacramento, CA, July 1999. Analysis of the flame dynamics through the attractor morphology.

Non linear dynamics for classification of multiphase flow regimes. M. Annunziato, H. Abarbanel. (PDF, 138 Kb) In Proc. of Int. conf. on Soft Computing, Genova, IT, June 1998. A new metodology for the characterization of the dynamic systems using the attractor morphology.

Chaos, complexity and self-organization. M. Annunziato (PDF, 614 Kb) Energia, ambiente, Innovazione, Dec. 98, ENEA monthly Rewiev. In italian. The chaos and complexity paradigm. A survey of the main concepts and research institutions.

Macchine Parlanti. M.Giustiniani, P.Pierucci (Book in italian), Franco Angeli, Milano, 1990. Principles, history and technology of text to speech synthesis.

Architetture Sonore. Piero Pierucci (Book in italian), Franco Angeli, Milano, 1993. Digital sound processing: techniques and applications.

Other papers on the evolutionary context and chaos theory

• M. Annunziato, I. Bertini, M. Lucchetti, G. Orsini, A. Pannicelli, S. Pizzuti, "Ottimizzazione in linea di una rete energetica con una metodologia basata su un ambiente di vita artificiale." In Proc. of the II Italian Workshop of Artificial Life, Rome, March '05.

• Annunziato M., Avanzi P., Bertini I. ,Bruschi, R., Pizzuti S., Pannicelli A. “The Evolutionary Control Methodology: the Experience at an Italian MWSI Plant. Int. Conf. ISWA2004, Oct 2004, Rome, Italy.

• M. Annunziato, C. Bruni, M. Lucchetti, S. Pizzuti, "Artificial life approach for continuous optimisation of non stationary dynamical systems", Int. Journal Integrated Computer Aided Engineering, vol. 10, n.2 111-125, June 2003.

• Annunziato M., Bertini I., Lucchetti M., Pannicelli A., Pizzuti S, “Evolutionary feed-forward neural networks for traffic prediction”, EUROGEN2003, Barcellona, 17-20 Sett.2003.

• R. Van Kessel, and M. Annunziato,, "The ECOTHERM control technology applied to MSWC", in Proc. of the Clean Air Int. Conf., Lisbon, Portugal, July 2003.

• Annunziato M. , Pizzuti S. : “Adaptive Parameterization of Evolutionary Algorithms and Chaotic Population Dynamics”, International Journal of Knowledge-Based Intelligent Engineering Systems, vol. 6, no 4, 170-177, ISSN: 1327-2314, Oct. 2002

• Annunziato M. , Lucchetti M. , Pizzuti S. : "Adaptive Systems and Evolutionary Neural Networks : a Survey", EUNITE2002, Albufeira, Portugal, Sept. 2002

• Annunziato M. , Bertini I. , Elisei G. , Pannicelli A., Pizzuti S. : "Neural networks and chaos analysis for pollutant estimation of waste incinerators", EMCSR2002, Vienna, Austria, Apr. 2002

• Annunziato, S. Pizzuti. "Artificial evolution trough dynamic population, cooperation and competition", Evolutionary Computation, 2002.

• Annunziato M., Bertini I., Elisei G., Pannicelli A., Pizzuti S. “Adaptive Parameterization of Evolutionary Algorithms and Chaotic Artificial Populations” ”, 4th Intelligent Systems for Industry, ISFI, Paisley UK, (June 2001).
  
• M. Annunziato, I. Bertini, A. Pannicelli,S. Pizzuti, L. Tsmiring, “Evolutionary control optimisation of combustion processs in industry ", EUROGEN 2001, Athens, (September 2001).
  
• M. Annunziato, I. Bertini, R. Bruschi, M. Presaghi. "Control of combustion processes and instabilities through non linear dynamics and evolutionary methodologies", IFRF Conference, Eindhoven, May 2001.
  
• M. Annunziato, S. Pizzuti, "Adaptive Parameterization of Evolutionary Algorithms Driven by Reproduction and Competition", In Computational Intelligence and Learning: Methods and Applications, Zimmermann, H-J., Tselentis G., van Someren M., Dounias G. Editors, 2001.
  
• Annunziato, S. Pizzuti. "Artificial evolution trough dynamic population, cooperation and competition", Int. J. of Evolutionary Computation, 2001.

• Annunziato M. , Pizzuti S. : “Adaptive Evolutionary Algorithms”, atti di ESIT2000 European Symposium on Intelligent Techniques , Aachen (Germania), Settembre 2000.
  
• Annunziato M. , Pizzuti S. , Tsimring L. : “Analysis and prediction of spatio-temporal flame dynamics ”, atti di Nonlinear Dynamics and Electronic Systems NDES2000, Catania, Maggio 2000.
  
• M. Annunziato, I. Bertini, A. Pannicelli, S. Pizzuti, L. Tsmiring,"Artificial Brother: simulatore di controllo di fiamme artificiali", SMAU 2000, (October 2000).
  
• M. Annunziato, I. Bertini, A. Pannicelli, S. Pizzuti, "Il fratello artificiale per i processi produttivi", Energia, Ambiente, Innovazione, Bim. ENEA, anno 46, Dic. 2000.

• Annunziato M., Bertini I., Pizzuti S., Tsimring L., Pannicelli A. "The Evolutionary Control for Optimization of Combustion Processes". Int. Flame Days Conf., Rome, Italy, Nov. 1999.

• L. Tsimring, M. Annunziato, "Analysis and prediction of spatio-temporal dynamics", . Int. Flame Days Conf., Rome, Italy, Nov. 1999.

• M. Annunziato, I. Bertini, A. Pannicelli. "The flame dynamics analysis for the working conditions classification in combustion plants", . Int. Flame Days Conf., Rome, Italy, Nov. 1999.
  
• Annunziato M. , Pizzuti S. : “Fuzzy fusion between fluidodynamic and neural models for monitoring multiphase flows”, International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, vol.21, issue 3, 249-267, Jul.1999.
  
• S. Pizzuti, "Evolutionary and Adaptive Control strategies for industrial burners", International Summer School on “Fuzzy Logic Control : Advances in Applications”, Delft, April 1999.