Publications

Books

Floreano, D. and Mattiussi, C. (2008) Bio-Inspired Artificial Intelligence: Theories, Methods, and Technologies. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (also available in the Eastern Economy Editions from PHI Learning, India). Amazon preview - Book companion site
Floreano, D. and Mattiussi, C. (2002) Manuale sulle Reti Neurali. Bologna: Il Mulino. - Indice (pdf)

Technical Reports

Mattiussi, C. and Floreano, D. (2003) Viability Evolution: Elimination and Extinction in Evolutionary Computation.
Technical report, Laboratory of Intelligent Systems, EPFL, Switzerland. (pdf)

Journals

Mattiussi, C., Dürr, P., Marbach, D. and Floreano, D. (2011) Beyond Graphs: A New Synthesis. Journal of Computational Science, 2 (2), pp. 165-177. (pdf)

Dürr, P., Mattiussi, C. and Floreano, D. (2010) Genetic representation and evolvability of modular neural controllers. IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, 5 (3), pp. 10-19. (pdf)

Marbach D., Prill R.J., Schaffter T., Mattiussi C., Floreano D. and Stolovitzky G. (2010) Revealing strengths and weaknesses of methods for gene network inference. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 107 (14) pp. 6286-6291. (pdf)

Dürr, P., Karlen, W., Guignard, J., Mattiussi, C. and Floreano, D. (2009) Evolutionary Selection of Features for Neural Sleep/Wake Discrimination. Journal of Artificial Evolution and Applications. Article ID 179680, doi:10.1155/2009/179680. (pdf)
Marbach, D., Schaffter, T., Mattiussi, C. and Floreano, D. (2009) Generating Realistic in silico Gene Networks for Performance Assessment of Reverse Engineering Methods. Journal of Computational Biology. 16 (2) pp. 229-239. (pdf)
Marbach, D., Mattiussi, C. and Floreano, D. (2009) Combining Multiple Results of a Reverse Engineering Algorithm: Application to the DREAM Five Gene Network Challenge. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1158, pp. 102-113. (pdf)
Karlen, W., Mattiussi, C. and Floreano, D. (2009) Sleep and Wake Classification With ECG and Respiratory Effort Signals. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems. 3 (2), pp. 71-78. (pdf)
Marbach, D., Mattiussi, C. and Floreano, D. (2009) Replaying the Evolutionary Tape: Biomimetic Reverse Engineering of Gene Networks. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1158, pp. 234-245. (pdf)
Mattiussi, C., Marbach, D., Dürr, P. and Floreano, D. (2008) The Age of Analog Networks. AI Magazine, 29 (3) pp. 63-76. (pdf)
Floreano, D., Dürr, P. and Mattiussi, C. (2008) Neuroevolution: from architectures to learning. Evolutionary Intelligence, 1 (1) pp. 47-62. (pdf)
Mattiussi, C. and Floreano, D. (2007) Analog Genetic Encoding for the Evolution of Circuits and Networks. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 11 (5) pp. 596--607. (pdf)
Floreano, D., Epars, Y., Zufferey, J.-C. and Mattiussi, C. (2006) Evolution of Spiking Neural Circuits in Autonomous Mobile Robots. International Journal of Intelligent Systems, 21 (9) pp. 1005-1024. (pdf)
Floreano, D., Suzuki, M. and Mattiussi, C. (2005) Active Vision and Receptive Field Development in Evolutionary Robots. Evolutionary Computation, 13 (4) pp. 527--544. (pdf)
Mattiussi, C., Waibel, M. and Floreano, D. (2004) Measures of Diversity for Populations and Distances Between Individuals with Highly Reorganizable Genomes. Evolutionary Computation, 12(4) pp. 495--515. (pdf)

Mattiussi, C. (2002) Review of: "Digital Biology: The Creation of Life Inside Computers and How It Will Affect Us" by Peter J. Bentley. Artificial Life, 8 pp. 379-382. (pdf)
Mattiussi, C. (2002) A Reference Discretization Strategy for the Numerical Solution of Physical Field Problems. Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics, 121 pp. 143-279. (pdf)
Mattiussi, C. (2001) The Geometry of Time-Stepping. Progress in Electromagnetics Research, 32 pp. 123-149. (pdf)
Mattiussi, C. (2000) The Finite Volume, Finite Difference, and Finite Elements Methods as Numerical Methods for Physical Field Problems. Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics, 113 pp. 1-146. (pdf) (See A Reference Discretization Strategy for the Numerical Solution of Physical Field Problems for an updated version of this paper)
Mattiussi, C. (1997) An Analysis of Finite Volume, Finite Element, and Finite Difference Methods Using Some Concepts from Algebraic Topology. Journal of Computational Physics, 133 (2) pp. 289-309. (pdf)

Conference Proceedings & Book Chapters

Dürr, P., Mattiussi, C., Soltoggio, A. and Floreano, D. (2008) Evolvability of Neuromodulated Learning for Robots. Proceedings of the 2008 ECSIS Symposium on Learning and Adaptive Behavior in Robotic Systems, pp. 41-46. (pdf)
Karlen, W., Mattiussi, C. and Floreano, D. (2008) Improving Actigraph Sleep/Wake Classification with Cardio-Respiratory Signals. Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2008. EMBS 2008. 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE, pp. 5262 - 5265. (pdf)
Soltoggio, A., Bullinaria, J.A., Mattiussi, C., Dürr, P. and Floreano, D. (2008) Evolutionary Advantages of Neuromodulated Plasticity in Dynamic, Reward-based Scenarios. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Artificial Life (Alife XI), pp. 569--576. (pdf)
Karlen, W., Mattiussi, C. and Floreano, D. (2007) Adaptive Sleep/Wake Classification Based on Cardiorespiratory Signals for Wearable Devices. Proceedings of the IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, BioCAS 2007, pp. 203-206. (pdf)
Marbach, D., Mattiussi, C. and Floreano, D. (2007) Bio-mimetic Evolutionary Reverse Engineering of Genetic Regulatory Networks. Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Data Mining in Bioinformatics, Proceedings, 4447 pp. 155-165. (pdf)
Mattiussi, C., Dürr, P. and Floreano, D. (2007) Center of Mass Encoding: A self-adaptive representation with adjustable redundancy for real-valued parameters. Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutional Computation Conference, GECCO2007, University College, London, pp. 1304--1311. (pdf)
Soltoggio, A., Dürr, P., Mattiussi, C. and Floreano, D. (2007) Evolving Neuromodulatory Topologies for Reinforcement Learning-like Problems. Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, pp. 2471-2478. (pdf)
Beyeler, A., Mattiussi, C., Zufferey, J.-C. and Floreano, D. (2006) Vision-based Altitude and Pitch Estimation for Ultra-light Indoor Aircraft. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'06), pp. 2836-2841. (pdf)
Dürr, P., Mattiussi, C. and Floreano, D. (2006) Neuroevolution with Analog Genetic Encoding. Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN iX), 9 pp. 671--680. (pdf)
Mattiussi, C. and Floreano, D. (2004) Evolution of Analog Networks using Local String Alignment on Highly Reorganizable Genomes. Proceedings of the NASA/DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware (EH'2004), pp. 30-37. (pdf)
Mattiussi, C. and Floreano, D. (2004) Connecting Transistors and Proteins. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Artificial Life (Alife9), pp. 9-14. (pdf)
Floreano, D., Zufferey, J.-C. and Mattiussi, C. (2003) Evolving Spiking Neurons from Wheels to Wings. Dynamic Systems Approach for Embodiment and Sociality, 6 pp. 65-70. (pdf)
Roggen, D., Floreano, D. and Mattiussi, C. (2003) A Morphogenetic Evolutionary System: Phylogenesis of the POEtic Circuit. 5th International Conference on Evolvable Systems (ICES'2003), pp. 153-164. (pdf)
Floreano, D. and Mattiussi, C. (2001) Evolution of Spiking Neural Controllers for Autonomous Vision-based Robots. in Evolutionary Robotics IV, Berlin : Springer-Verlag, 2001. (pdf)
Mattiussi, C. (1998) Edge Elements and Cochain-Based Field Function Approximation. Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Electric and Magnetic Fields, EMF 1998 (Marseille, France, May 12-15, 1988), pp. 301-306. (pdf)

PhD Thesis

Mattiussi, C. (2005) Evolutionary synthesis of analog networks. Ph.D. Thesis n. 3199, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland. (pdf)

Patents

Mattiussi, C. and Floreano, D. (2007) Method and device for the genetic representation and evolution of networks. Patent Application # US 2007/0011111 Al. (pdf)