Publications

The collection of works that I contributed to produce, ordered by the type of the venue and by the date of publication.

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Unraveling creativity through variability: A comparison of LLMs and humans in an educational Q&A scenario
Michele Braccini, Gianluca Aguzzi, Paolo Baldini  —  Technology, Knowledge and Learning
February 2026
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Fault Recovery through Online Adaptation of Boolean Network robots
Paolo Baldini, Michele Braccini, Andrea Roli  —  Sensors
September 2025
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Cell–Cell interactions: how coupled Boolean Networks tend to criticality
Michele Braccini, Paolo Baldini, Andrea Roli  —  Artificial Life
February 2025
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On the performance of Online Adaptation of robots controlled by Nanowire Networks
Paolo Baldini, Andrea Roli, Michele Braccini  —  IEEE Access
December 2023
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Macro-to-micro behavioural mappings in distributed systems: a characterisation on event structures
Roberto Casadei, Paolo Baldini, Niccolò Castronuovo  —  Fourth International Workshop on Sustainability and Scalability of Self-Organisation (SaSSO), Cesena, Italy
July 2026
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On the LLM Robustness in a Simulated Conversational XR Scenario: A Preliminary Semantic Analysis
Michele Braccini, Gianluca Aguzzi, Paolo Baldini, Andrea Roli  —  ICIAP 2025 — 23rd International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing / HUARL 2025 — The 1st International Workshop on Humans in the eXtended Artificial Intelligence Loop, Rome, Italy
January 2026
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Impact of LLM—assisted coding in creativity and robustness of robot controllers
Paolo Baldini, Michele Braccini, Andrea Roli  —  HAIC 2025 — First International Workshop on Human-AI Collaborative Systems, Bologna, Italy
October 2025
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Emergent dynamics in heterogeneous life-like Cellular Automata
Aarati Shrestha, Felix Reimers, Sanyam Jain, Paolo Baldini, Michele Braccini, Andrea Roli, Stefano Nichele  —  XVIII International Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation (WIVACE), Namur, Belgium
July 2025
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Cooperation in evolved modular soft robots
Paolo Baldini, Michele Braccini, Filippo Benvenuti, Eric Medvet, Andrea Roli, Francesco Rusin  —  XVIII International Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation (WIVACE), Namur, Belgium
July 2025
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An investigation of graceful degradation in Boolean Network robots subject to Online Adaptation
Michele Braccini, Paolo Baldini, Andrea Roli  —  XVII International Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation (WIVACE), Venice, Italy
March 2024
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Online Adaptation of robots controlled by Nanowire Networks: a preliminary study
Paolo Baldini, Michele Braccini, Andrea Roli  —  XVI International Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation (WIVACE), Gaeta, Italy
April 2023
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Reservoir Computing in robotics: a review
Paolo Baldini  —  arXiv
June 2022
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Instinct and reflex inspired safety mechanisms for adaptive robots
Eleonora Bertoni. Supervisor: Andrea Roli, Co-Supervisor: Paolo Baldini, Michele Braccini  —  Università di Bologna — Alma Mater Studiorum
July 2026
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Online adaptation of autonomous robots
Paolo Baldini. Supervisor: Andrea Roli  —  Università di Bologna — Alma Mater Studiorum
March 2026
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Adattamento Online di sistemi robotici
Paolo Baldini  —  Università di Bologna — Alma Mater Studiorum
September 2025
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Mechanisms for Online Adaptation in robots: a comparative study
Benedetta Pacilli. Supervisor: Andrea Roli, Co-Supervisor: Paolo Baldini  —  Università di Bologna — Alma Mater Studiorum
July 2025
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Evolution in materia: esperimenti con le Nanowire Networks
Noemi Valentini. Supervisor: Andrea Roli, Co-Supervisor: Eric Medvet, Michele Braccini, Paolo Baldini  —  Università di Bologna — Alma Mater Studiorum
July 2024
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Self-assembly in voxel-based robots
Filippo Benvenuti. Supervisor: Andrea Roli, Co-Supervisor: Eric Medvet, Michele Braccini, Paolo Baldini  —  Università di Bologna — Alma Mater Studiorum
March 2024
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Online adaptation of robots controlled by nanowire networks
Paolo Baldini. Supervisor: Andrea Roli, Co-Supervisor: Michele Braccini  —  Università di Bologna — Alma Mater Studiorum
March 2022
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Progettazione e sviluppo di un modulo sensoristico e di comunicazione per la piattaforma robotica AlpaBot
Paolo Baldini. Supervisor: Andrea Roli  —  Università di Bologna — Alma Mater Studiorum
October 2019
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