Claudio Altafini

Publications and Preprints

Preprints

C. Altafini. Stability analysis of diagonally equipotent matrices. Automatica, to appear, 2013.

G. Facchetti and C. Altafini. Partial inhibition and bilevel optimization in Flux Balance Analysis. BMC Bioinformatics, to appear, 2013.

Journal papers

2013

C. Altafini. Consensus problems on networks with antagonistic interactions. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 58(4):935-946, 2013.

G. Iacono, C. Altafini and V. Torre. Early phase of plasticity-related gene regulation and SRF dependent transcription in the hippocampus. PLoS ONE, 8(7): e68078, 2013.

G. Facchetti, G. Iacono, G. De Palo and C. Altafini. A rate-distortion theory for gene regulatory networks and its application to logic gate consistency Bioinformatics, 29(9):1166-1173, 2013.

G. De Palo, G. Facchetti, M. Mazzolini, A Menini, V. Torre and C. Altafini. Common dynamical features of sensory adaptation in photoreceptors and olfactory sensory neurons. Nature Scientific Reports, 3:1251, 2013.

F. Ticozzi, K. Nishio and C. Altafini. Stabilization of Stochastic Quantum Dynamics via Open and Closed Loop Control. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 58(1):74-85, 2013.

2012

C. Altafini, A. M. Bloch, M. R. James, A. Loria and P. Rouchon. Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Control of Quantum Mehanical Systems. Special Issue on "Quantum Control", IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 57(8):1893-1895, 2012.

C. Altafini and F. Ticozzi. Modeling and Control of Quantum Systems: An Introduction. Special Issue on "Quantum Control", IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 57(8):1898-1917, 2012.

G. Facchetti, M. Zampieri, and C. Altafini. Predicting and characterizing selective multiple drug treatments for metabolic diseases and cancer. BMC Systems Biology, 6:115, 2012.

G. Facchetti, G. Iacono, and C. Altafini. Exploring the low-energy landscape of large-scale signed social networks. Physical Review E, 86:036116, 2012.

C. Altafini. Dynamics of opinion forming in structurally balanced social networks. PLoS ONE, 7(6): e38135, 2012.

G. De Palo, A. Boccaccio, A. Miri, A. Menini and C. Altafini. A dynamical feedback model for adaptation in the olfactory transduction pathway. Biophysical Journal, 102(12): 2677-2686, 2012.

Q. K. Beg, M. Zampieri, N. Klitgord, S. B. Collins, C. Altafini, M. H. Serres, D. Segre`. Detection of transcriptional triggers in the dynamics of microbial growth: application to the respiratory-versatile bacterium Shewanella oneidensis. Nucleic Acids Research, 40(15):7132-7149, 2012.

N. Soranzo, G. Iacono, F. Ramezani and C. Altafini. Decompositions of large-scale biological systems based on dynamical properties. Bioinformatics, 28(1):76-83, 2012

2011

G. Facchetti, G. Iacono, and C. Altafini. Computing global structural balance in large-scale signed social networks. PNAS, 108(52):20953-8, 2011.

M. Zampieri, G. Legname, D. Segre' and C. Altafini. A system-level approach for deciphering the transcriptional response to prion infection., Bioinformatics, 27(24):3407-3414, 2011.

G. De Palo, F. Eduati, M. Zampieri, B. Di Camillo, G. Toffolo and C. Altafini. Adaptation as a genome-wide autoregulatory principle in the stress response of yeast. IET Systems Biology, 5(4):269-283, 2011.

2010

C. Altafini, P. Cappellaro and D. Cory. Feedback schemes for radiation damping suppression in NMR: a control-theoretical perspective. Systems and Control Letters, 59 (12):782–86, 2010.

G. Iacono, and C. Altafini. Monotonicity, frustration, and ordered response: an analysis of the energy landscape of perturbed large-scale biological networks. BMC Systems Biology, 4:83 2010

G. Iacono, F. Ramezani, N. Soranzo and C. Altafini. Determining the distance to monotonicity of a biological network: a graph-theoretical approach. IET Systems Biology, 4(3):223--235 2010

J. Coatleven and C. Altafini. A kinetic mechanism inducing oscillations in simple chemical reactions networks. Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 7(2):303--314, 2010.

S. Pegoraro, F. D. Broccard, M. E. Ruaro, D. Bianchini, D. Avossa, G. Pastore, G. Bisson, C. Altafini and V Torre. Sequential steps underlying neuronal plasticity induced by a transient exposure to gabazine. J Cell Physiol., 222(3):713-28, 2010

2009

N. Soranzo and C. Altafini. ERNEST: a toolbox for chemical reaction network theory. Bioinformatics, 25(21), pp. 2853-2854, 2009.

M. Zampieri, G. Legname and C. Altafini. Investigating the conformational stability of prion strains through a kinetic replication model. PLoS Computational Biology, 5(7): e1000420, 2009.

N. Soranzo, M Zampieri L. Farina and C. Altafini. mRNA stability and the unfolding of gene expression in the long-period yeast metabolic cycle BMC Systems Biology, 3:18, 2009.

F. D. Broccard, S. Pegoraro, M. E. Ruaro, C. Altafini and V Torre. Characterization of the time course of changes of the evoked electrical activity in a model of a chemically-induced neuronal plasticity. BMC Research Notes, 2:13, 2009.

C. Altafini. Controllability and simultaneous controllability of isospectral bilinear control systems on complex flag manifolds. Systems and Control Letters, 58:213-16, 2009.

2008

M. Zampieri, N. Soranzo, D. Bianchini and C. Altafini. Origin of co-expression patterns in E.coli and S.cerevisiae emerging from reverse engineering algorithms. PLoS ONE, 3(8):e2981, 2008.

M. Zampieri, N. Soranzo and C. Altafini. Discerning static and causal interactions in genome-wide reverse engineering problems, Bioinformatics, 24(13):1510-1515, 2008.

2007

N. Soranzo, G. Bianconi and C. Altafini. Comparing relevance network algorithms for reverse engineering of large scale gene regulatory networks: synthetic vs real data. Bioinformatics, 23(13):1640-1647, 2007.

C. Altafini. Feedback control of spin systems. Quantum Information Processing, 6(1):9-36, 2007

C. Altafini. Feedback stabilization of quantum ensembles: a global convergence analysis on complex flag manifolds IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 52(11):2019-2028, 2007.

2006

C. Altafini. Homogeneous polynomial forms for simultaneous stabilizability of families of linear control systems: a tensor product approach IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control,51(9):1566-1571, 2006

C. Altafini and T. F. Havel Reflection symmetries for multiqubit densities Journal of Mathematical Physics , 47, 032104, 2006.

2005

C. Altafini. Commuting multiparty quantum observables and local compatibility Physical Review A, 72:012112, 2005.

C. Altafini. Explicit Wei-Norman formulae for matrix Lie groups via Putzer's method Systems and Control Letters, 54(11):1121-1130, 2005.

C. Altafini. On the exact unitary integration of time-varying quantum Liouville equations Rendiconti del Seminario Matematico dell'Universita e del Politecnico di Torino, 63(4):9-18, 2005.

2004

C. Altafini. Coherent control of open quantum dynamical systems Physical Review A, 70:062321, 2004.

C. Altafini. Representing multiqubit unitary evolutions via Stokes tensors Physical Review A, 70:032331, 2004.

C. Altafini. Tensor of coherences parameterization of multiqubit density operators for entanglement characterization Physical Review A 69:012311, 2004.

C. Altafini. Reduction by group symmetry of second order variational problems on a semidirect product of Lie groups with positive definite Riemannian metric. ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations, 10(4):526-548, 2004.

C. Altafini. Redundant robotic chains on Riemannian submersions IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, 20(2):335-340, 2004.

2003

C. Altafini. Controllability properties for finite dimensional quantum Markovian master equations Journal of Mathematical Physics 44(6):2357-2372, 2003.

C. Altafini. Parameter differentiation and quantum state decomposition for time varying Schrodinger equations Reports on Mathematical Physics, 52(3):381-400, 2003.

C. Altafini. Geometric motion control for a kinematically redundant robotic chain: application to a holonomic mobile manipulator Journal of Robotic Systems, 20(5):211-227, 2003.

C. Altafini and R. Frezza Motion on submanifolds of noninvariant holonomic constraints for a kinematic control system evolving on a matrix Lie group Systems and Control Letters, 50(3):241-250, 2003.

C. Altafini. Path following with reduced off-tracking for multibody wheeled vehicles IEEE Transaction on Control Systems Technology, 11(4):598-605, 2003.

2002

C. Altafini. On the generation of sequential unitary gates from continuous time Schrodinger equations driven by external fields Quantum Information Processing, 1(3):207-224, 2002.

C. Altafini. Controllability of quantum mechanical systems by root space decomposition of su (N) Journal of Mathematical Physics, 43(5):2051-2062, May 2002.

C. Altafini. The reachable set of a linear endogenous switching system. Systems and Control Letters, 47(4):343-353, 2002.

C. Altafini. Following a path of varying curvature as an output regulation problem IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 47(9):1551-1556, 2002.

2001

C. Altafini, A. Speranzon and B. Wahlberg A feedback control scheme for reversing a truck and trailer vehicle IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, 17(6):915-922, December 2001.

C. Altafini. Some properties of the general n-trailer International Journal of Control, vol. 74, n. 4, p. 409-424, March 2001.

1999

C. Altafini. A path tracking criterion for an LHD articulated vehicle International Journal of Robotics Research, vol. 18, n. 5, p. 435-441, May 1999

Book chapters

C. Altafini. Positivity for matrix systems: a case study from quantum mechanics L. Benvenuti, A. De Santis and L. Farina (eds) Positive Systems . LNCS vol. 294, Springer-Verlag, 2003.

C. Altafini, A. Speranzon and K. H. Johansson. Hybrid control of a truck and trailer vehicle Hybrid Systems V: Computation and Control. LNCS, Springer-Verlag, 2002.

C. Altafini. The De Casteljau algorithm on SE(3) A. Isidori, F. Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue and W. Respondek (eds.) Nonlinear Control in Year 2000, Springer-Verlag, 2000.

C. Altafini. A matrix Lie group of Carnot type for filiform sub-Riemannian structures and its application to control systems in chained form A.M. d'Azevedo Breda, F.J. Craveiro de Carvalho, J.M. Nunes da Costa and B. Wegner (eds.) Summer school on Differential Geometry , 1999.

Conference papers

C. Altafini. Achieving consensus on networks with antagonistic interactions. Proc. 51st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Maui, Hawaii, December 2012.

C. Altafini. Dynamics of opinion forming in structurally balanced social networks. Proc. 51st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Maui, Hawaii, December 2012.

F. Ticozzi, K. Nishio and C. Altafini. Environment-assisted and feedback-assisted stabilization of quantum stochastic evolutions. Proc. 51st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Maui, Hawaii, December 2012.

G. Facchetti and C. Altafini. Dose-dependent drug synergisms in flux balance analysis. 9th International Workshop on Computational Systems Biology, Ulm, June 2012.

G. Iacono and C. Altafini. Average frustration and phase transition in large-scale biological networks: a statistical physics approach. 8th IFAC Symposium ``Nonlinear Control Systems'', Bologna, 2010.

G. De Palo, A. Boccaccio, A. Menini and C. Altafini. Short- and long-term adaptation in olfactory transduction as a leaky integral feedback. Proc. 48th Conf. Dec. Contr., Shanghai, China, 2009

C. Altafini, P. Cappellaro and D. Cory. Feedback schemes for radiation damping suppression in NMR: a control-theoretical perspective. Proc. 48th Conf. Dec. Contr., Shanghai, China, 2009

F. Ramezani, G. Iacono, N. Soranzo and C. Altafini. On the distance to monotonicity of a biological network: a graph-theoretical approach. Proc. of European Control Conf. , Budapest, 2009, to appear.

M. Zampieri G. Legname and C. Altafini. Prion kinetic replication models and strain-dependent stability (to denaturation). Proc. of European Control Conf. , Budapest, 2009, to appear.

M. Zampieri, N. Soranzo and C. Altafini. Modeling the genome-wide transient response to stimuli in yeast: adaptation through integral feedback. Proc. of the 47th IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control, Cancun, Mexico, December 2008

J. Coatleven and C. Altafini. kinetic mechanism inducing oscillations in simple chemical reactions networks Proc. of the 47th IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control, Cancun, Mexico, December 2008

N. Soranzo, M. Zampieri, D. Bianchini and C. Altafini. Network inference from gene expression profiles: what ''physical'' network are we seeing? Proceedings of FOSBE 2007.

N. Soranzo, G. Bianconi, C. Altafini. Linear and nonlinear methods for gene regulatory network inference. 7th IFAC Symposium ``Nonlinear Control Systems'', Pretoria, South Africa, 2007.

C. Altafini. Controllability of isospectral bilinear control systems on complex flag manifolds. 7th IFAC Symposium ``Nonlinear Control Systems'', Pretoria, South Africa, 2007.

C. Altafini. Feedback stabilization of quantum ensembles: a global convergence analysis on complex flag manifolds. Proc. 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, S. Diego, CA, December 2006.

C. Altafini. Homogeneous Polynomial Forms for Simultaneous Stabilizability of Families of Linear Control Systems: a Tensor Product Approach. Proc. 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, S. Diego, CA, December 2006.

C. Altafini. Feedback control of spin systems. Proc. 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Seville, Spain, December 2005.

C. Altafini. Open quantum dynamical systems driven by coherent controls: structure of the sets of reachable states. MTNS Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems,Leuven, Belgium, July, 2004.

C. Altafini. Quantum Markovian master equation driven by coherent controls: a controllability analysis. Proc. 42nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Maui, Hawaii, December 2003.

C. Altafini. Controllability of open quantum systems: the two level case. Proc. PHYSCON03, St. Petersburg, Russia, August 2003.

C. Altafini. On the generation of elementary quantum gates from continuous time forced Schrodinger equation. Proc. 41st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Las Vegas, December 2002.

C. Altafini. Explicit Wei-Norman formulae for matrix Lie groups. Proc. 41st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Las Vegas, December 2002.

C. Altafini. Redundant robotic chains on Riemannian manifolds. Proc. 41st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Las Vegas, December 2002.

C. Altafini. Sufficient conditions for controllability of finite level quantum systems via structure theory of semisimple Lie algebras. MTNS Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, Notre Dame (IN), August 2002.

C. Altafini. Use of Wei-Norman formulae and parameter differentiation in quantum computing. MTNS Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, Notre Dame (IN), August 2002.

C. Altafini and R. Frezza. Motion on constrained submanifolds for a kinematic control system evolving on a matrix Lie group. NOLCOS 2001, St. Petersburg, Russia.

C. Altafini. Inverse kinematic along a geometric spline for a holonomic mobile manipulator. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Seoul 2001.

C. Altafini and A. Speranzon. Backward line tracking control of a radio-controlled truck and trailer. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Seoul 2001.

R. Frezza and C. Altafini. Autonomous landing by computer vision: an application of path following on SE(3). Proc. 39th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control , December 2000.

C. Altafini. On the Lie-algebraic properties of control systems in chained form. MTNS Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, Perpignan, France June 2000.

C. Altafini. Switching systems and scalar polysystems on matrix Lie groups. MTNS Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, Perpignan, France June 2000.

C. Altafini, R. Frezza and J. Galic. Observing the Load Dynamic of an Overhead Crane with Minimal Sensor Equipment. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation , San Francisco, May 2000.

C. Altafini. Zero dynamics and off-tracking bounds for the path following problem of wheeled vehicles. Proc. 38th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, December 1999.

C. Altafini. General n-trailer, differential flatness and equivalence. Proc. 38th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, December 1999.

C. Altafini. Controllability and singularities in the n-trailer system with kingpin hitching. IFAC World Congress 1999, Beijing, China, July 1999.

C. Altafini. Curve negotiating using polar polynomials for nonholonomic vehicles. IFAC World Congress 1999, Beijing, China, July 1999.

C. Altafini. Following a path of varying curvature as an output regulation problem. 1999 IEEE Mediterranean Control Conference . Haifa, Israel, June 1999.

C. Altafini. Why to use an articulate vehicle in underground mining operations? 1999 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Detroit, May 1999.

C. Altafini. The general n-trailer problem: conversion into chained form. Proc. 37th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Tampa FL, Decemebr 1998.

C. Altafini and P.O. Gutman. Path following with reduced off-tracking for the n-trailer system. Proc. 37th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Tampa FL, Decemebr 1998.

C. Altafini and P.O. Gutman. Path following with reduced off-tracking for car-like nonholonomic vehicles. MTNS Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, Padova, July 1998.

C. Altafini and M. Furini. Robust Control of a Flash Dryer Plant. Proc. 1997 IEEE Conference on Control Applications, Hartford, CN, USA, Ottober 1997.

PhD Thesis

Geometric control methods for nonlinear systems and robotic applications (pdf file)
Division of Optimization and Systems Theory, Department of Mathematics, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, May 2001.

Last updated: December 27th, 2003.