Interaction with the environment is a key factor affecting the development of plants and plant ecosystems. In this paper we introduce a modeling framework that makes it possible t...
Voting rules map collections of preference orderings over a set of candidates (one for each voter) to candidates. Now, in many contexts, we have to consider the case where either t...
Adaptor grammars extend probabilistic context-free grammars to define prior distributions over trees with "rich get richer" dynamics. Inference for adaptor grammars seek...
A key challenge in recommender system research is how to effectively profile new users, a problem generally known as cold-start recommendation. Recently the idea of progressivel...
Bigraphs are emerging as a (meta-)model for concurrent calculi, like CCS, ambients, πcalculus, and Petri nets. They are built orthogonally on two structures: a hierarchical place...
Giovanni Conforti, Damiano Macedonio, Vladimiro Sa...