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L. Tajoli, F.
Airoldi, and C. Piccardi, The network
of international trade in services, Applied Network
Science, 6, 68, 2021. [doi]
P. Finotelli,
C. Piccardi, E. Miglio, and P. Dulio, A
graphlet-based topological characterization of the
resting-state network in healthy people, Frontiers
in Neuroscience, 15, 665544, 2021. [doi]
F. Pierri,
C. Piccardi, and S. Ceri, A multi-layer approach to
disinformation detection in US and Italian news spreading on
Twitter,EPJ Data Science, 9, 35, 2020. [doi]
F. Pierri,
C. Piccardi, and S. Ceri, Topology comparison of Twitter
diffusion networks effectively reveals misleading
information, Scientific Reports, 10, 1372, 2020.
[doi]
M.
Tantardini, F. Ieva, L. Tajoli, and C. Piccardi, Comparing
methods for comparing networks, Scientific Reports,
9, 17557, 2019. [doi]
A.
Mechiche-Alami, C. Piccardi, K.A. Nicholas, and J.W. Seaquist,
Transnational land acquisitions beyond the food and
financial crises, Environmental Research Letters,
14, 084021, 2019. [doi]
F. Riva,
E. Colombo, and C. Piccardi, Towards modelling diffusion
mechanisms for sustainable off-grid electricity planning,
Energy for Sustainable Development, 52, 11-25, 2019. [doi]
F.
Dercole, F. Della Rossa, and C. Piccardi, Direct
reciprocity and model-predictive rationality explain network
reciprocity over social ties, Scientific Reports,
9, 5367, 2019. [doi]
C.
Piccardi and L. Tajoli, Complexity, centralization, and
fragility in economic networks, PLoS ONE,
13(11), e0208265, 2018. [doi]
C.
Piccardi, M. Riccaboni, L. Tajoli, and Zhen Zhu, Random
walks on the world input-output network, Journal of Complex Networks,
6, 187-205,
2018. [doi]
M. Bastos,
C. Piccardi, M. Levy, N. McRoberts, M. Lubell, Core-periphery
or decentralized? Topological shifts of specialized
information on Twitter, Social Networks, 52,
282-293, 2018. [doi]
F.
Calderoni, D. Brunetto, and C. Piccardi, Communities in
criminal networks: A case study, Social
Networks, 48, 116-125, 2017. [doi]
G.
Berlusconi, F. Calderoni, N. Parolini, M. Verani, and C.
Piccardi, Link prediction in criminal networks: A tool for
criminal intelligence analysis, PLoS ONE,
11(4): e0154244, 2016. [doi]
I.
Cingolani, C. Piccardi, and L. Tajoli, Discovering
preferential patterns in sectoral trade networks, PLoS ONE,
10(10), e0140951, 2015. [doi]
C.
Piccardi and L. Tajoli, Are preferential agreements
significant for the world trade structure? A network
community analysis, Kyklos, 68(2), 220-239,
2015. [doi]
C.
Piccardi, A. Colombo, and R. Casagrandi, Connectivity
interplays with age in shaping contagion over networks with
vital dynamics, Physical Review E, 91(2),
022809, 2015. [doi]
P. Landi
and C. Piccardi, Community analysis in directed networks:
In-, out-, and pseudo-communities, Physical Review E,
89(1), 012814, 2014. [doi] (codes and data
available here)
F. Della
Rossa, F. Dercole, and C. Piccardi, Profiling
core-periphery network structure by random walkers, Scientific
Reports, 3, 1467, 2013. [doi]
(codes
and data available here)
C.
Piccardi and L. Tajoli, Existence and significance of
communities in the World Trade Web, Physical Review
E, 85(6), 066119, 2012. [doi]
C.
Piccardi, Finding and testing network communities by
lumped Markov chains, PLoS ONE, 6(11), e27028,
2011. [doi] (codes and data available here)
C.
Piccardi, L. Calatroni, and F. Bertoni, Clustering
financial time series by network community analysis, International
Journal
of Modern Physics C, 22(1), 35-50, 2011. [doi]
C.
Piccardi, L. Calatroni, and F. Bertoni, Communities in
Italian corporate networks, Physica A, 389(22),
5247-5258, 2010. [doi]
I.
Belykh, C. Piccardi and S. Rinaldi, Synchrony in
tritrophic food-chain metacommunities, Journal of
Biological Dynamics, 3(5), 497-514, 2009. [doi]
C.
Piccardi and R. Casagrandi, Inefficient epidemic spreading
in scale-free networks, Physical Review E,
77(2), 026113/1-4, 2008. [doi]
Parameter estimation
of nonlinear models
C.
Piccardi, Parameter estimation for systems with
peak-to-peak dynamics, International Journal of
Bifurcation and Chaos, 18(3), 745-753, 2008. [doi]
C.
Piccardi, On parameter estimation of chaotic systems via
symbolic time series analysis, Chaos, 16(4),
043115/1-10, 2006. [doi]
C.
Piccardi and S. Rinaldi, A method for parameter estimation
in Lur'e systems, International Journal of
Bifurcation and Chaos, 16(5), 1461-1470, 2006. [doi]
Symbolic time-series
analysis
C.
Piccardi, On parameter estimation of chaotic systems via
symbolic time series analysis, Chaos, 16(4),
043115/1-10, 2006. [doi]
C.
Piccardi, On the control of chaotic systems via symbolic
time series analysis, Chaos, 14(4), 1026-1034,
2004. [doi]
Chaos control
C.
Piccardi, On the control of chaotic systems via symbolic
time series analysis, Chaos, 14(4), 1026-1034,
2004. [doi]
C.
Piccardi and S. Rinaldi, The impact of noise and sampling
frequency on the control of peak-to-peak dynamics, International
Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, 13(6), 1579-1586,
2003. [doi]
C.
Piccardi and S. Rinaldi, Control of complex peak-to-peak
dynamics, International Journal of Bifurcation and
Chaos, 12(12), 2927-2936, 2001. [doi]
S.
Rinaldi, C. Piccardi and A. Gragnani, Pest outbreaks
control: the approach of peak-to-peak dynamics, Natural
Resource Modeling, 14(1), 177-195, 2001.
C.
Piccardi and S. Rinaldi, Optimal control of chaotic
systems via peak-to-peak maps, Physica D,
144(3-4), 298-308, 2000. [doi]
C.
Piccardi and S. Lazzaris, Vaccination policies for chaos
reduction in childhood epidemics, IEEE Transactions
on Biomedical Engineering, 45(5), 591-595, 1998. [doi]
C.
Piccardi and L. Ghezzi, Optimal control of a chaotic map:
fixed point stabilization and attractor confinement, International
Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, 7(2), 437-446, 1997. [doi]
L.
Ghezzi and C. Piccardi, PID control of a chaotic system:
an application to an epidemiological model, Automatica,
33(2), 181-191, 1997. [doi]
C.
Piccardi, On taming chaos using LTI filters, IEEE
Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, 43(5), 431-432,
1996. [doi]
Synchronization
I.
Belykh, C. Piccardi and S. Rinaldi, Synchrony in
tritrophic food-chain metacommunities, Journal of
Biological Dynamics, 3(5), 497-514, 2009. [doi]
G.
Torri, S. Rinaldi e C. Piccardi, Imperfect phase
synchronization in the locomotor behavior of Halobacterium
salinarium, International Journal of
Bifurcation and Chaos, 13(10), 3085-3092, 2002. [doi]
Peak-to-peak dynamics
C.
Piccardi, Parameter estimation for systems with
peak-to-peak dynamics, International Journal of
Bifurcation and Chaos, 18(3), 745-753, 2008. [doi]
C.
Piccardi and S. Rinaldi, The impact of noise and sampling
frequency on the control of peak-to-peak dynamics, International
Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, 13(6), 1579-1586,
2003. [doi]
C.
Piccardi and S. Rinaldi, Control of complex peak-to-peak
dynamics, International Journal of Bifurcation and
Chaos, 12(12), 2927-2936, 2001. [doi]
C.
Piccardi and G. Feichtinger, Peak-to-peak dynamics in the
dynastic cycle, Chaos, Solitons and Fractals,
13(2), 195-202, 2002. [doi]
C.
Piccardi, Controlling chaotic oscillations in
delay-differential systems via peak-to-peak maps, IEEE
Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, 48(8),
1032-1037, 2001. [doi]
S.
Rinaldi, C. Piccardi and A. Gragnani, Pest outbreaks
control: the approach of peak-to-peak dynamics, Natural
Resource Modeling, 14(1), 177-195, 2001.
Bifurcation analysis
F. Della Rossa, M. Gobbi, G.
Mastinu, C. Piccardi, and G. Previati, Bifurcation
analysis of a car and driver model, Vehicle
System Dynamics, 52, 142-156, 2014. [doi]
F. Della
Rossa, G. Mastinu, C. Piccardi, Bifurcation analysis of an
automobile model negotiating a curve, Vehicle System
Dynamics, 50(10), 1539-1562, 2012. [doi]
C.
Piccardi, Harmonic balance analysis of codimension-2
bifurcations in periodic systems, IEEE Transactions
on Circuits and Systems I, 43(12), 1015-1018, 1996. [doi]
C.
Piccardi, Bifurcation analysis via harmonic balance in
periodic systems with feedback structure, International
Journal of Control, 62(6), 1507-1515, 1995.
C.
Piccardi, Bifurcations of limit cycles in periodically
forced nonlinear systems: the harmonic balance approach,
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, 41(4),
315-320, 1994. [doi]
Y.
Kuznetsov and C. Piccardi, Bifurcation and chaos in a
periodically forced prototype adaptive control system, Kybernetika,
30(2), 121-128, 1994.
Positive
(cooperative) systems
C.
Piccardi and S. Rinaldi, Remarks on excitability,
stability and sign of equilibria in cooperative systems,
Systems and Control Letters, 46(3), 153-163, 2002. [doi]
S.
Muratori, C. Piccardi and S. Rinaldi, On the zeros of
interconnected positive linear systems, International
Journal of Systems Science, 25(12), 2255-2263, 1994.
S.
Muratori, C. Piccardi and S. Rinaldi, On the minimum phase
of compartmental systems, International Journal of
Control, 56(1), 23-34, 1992.
Optimal control
C.
Piccardi and S. Rinaldi, Optimal control of chaotic
systems via peak-to-peak maps, Physica D,
144(3-4), 298-308, 2000. [doi]
A.
Nardini, C. Piccardi and R. Soncini-Sessa, A decomposition
approach to suboptimal control of discrete-time systems,
Optimal Control Applications and Methods, 15, 1-12,
1994. [doi]
C.
Piccardi, Infinite-horizon periodic minimax control problem,
Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 79(2),
397-404, 1993. [doi]
C.
Piccardi, Infinite-horizon minimax control with pointwise
cost functional, Journal of Optimization Theory and
Applications, 78(2), 317-336, 1993. [doi]
C.
Piccardi, Finite-horizon optimal control with pointwise
cost functional, Applied Mathematics and Computation,
52(2-3), 345-353, 1992. [doi]
A.
Nardini, C. Piccardi and R. Soncini-Sessa, On the
integration of risk-aversion and average-performance
optimization in reservoir control, Water Resources
Research, 28(2), 487-497, 1992.
C.
Piccardi and G.P. Bottoni, On the solution of reservoir
optimal control problems by means of vector computers, Environmental
Software, 6(1), 24-28,1991. [doi]
C.
Piccardi and R. Soncini-Sessa, Stochastic dynamic
programming for reservoir optimal control: dense
discretization and inflow correlation assumption made
possible by parallel computing, Water Resources
Research, 27(5), 729-741, 1991.
R.
Soncini-Sessa, J. Zuleta and C. Piccardi, Remarks on the
application of a risk-averse approach to the management of
El Carrizal reservoir, Advances in Water Resources,
13(2), 76-84, 1990. [doi]
L. Tajoli, F.
Airoldi, and C. Piccardi, The network
of international trade in services, Applied Network
Science, 6, 68, 2021. [doi]
C.
Piccardi and L. Tajoli, Complexity, centralization, and
fragility in economic networks, PLoS ONE,
13(11), e0208265, 2018. [doi]
C.
Piccardi, M. Riccaboni, L. Tajoli, and Zhen Zhu, Random
walks on the world input-output network, Journal of Complex Networks,
6, 187-205,
2018. [doi]
I.
Cingolani, C. Piccardi, and L. Tajoli, Discovering
preferential patterns in sectoral trade networks, PLoS ONE,
10(10), e0140951, 2015. [doi]
C.
Piccardi and L. Tajoli, Are preferential agreements
significant for the world trade structure? A network
community analysis, Kyklos, 68(2), 220-239,
2015. [doi]
C.
Piccardi and L. Tajoli, Existence and significance of
communities in the World Trade Web, Physical Review
E, 85(6), 066119, 2012. [doi]
C.
Piccardi, L. Calatroni, and F. Bertoni, Clustering
financial time series by network community analysis, International
Journal
of Modern Physics C, 22(1), 35-50, 2011. [doi]
C.
Piccardi, L. Calatroni, and F. Bertoni, Communities in
Italian corporate networks, Physica A, 389(22),
5247-5258, 2010. [doi]
L.
Ghezzi and C. Piccardi, Stock valuation along a Markov
chain, Applied Mathematics and Computation,
141(2-3), 385-393, 2003. [doi]
G.
Feichtinger, L. Ghezzi and C. Piccardi, Chaotic behavior
in an advertising diffusion model, International
Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, 5(1), 255-263, 1995. [doi]
Biology and
Neurosciences
P. Finotelli,
C. Piccardi, E. Miglio, and P. Dulio, A
graphlet-based topological characterization of the
resting-state network in healthy people, Frontiers
in Neuroscience, 15, 665544, 2021. [doi]
G. Torri,
S. Rinaldi e C. Piccardi, Imperfect phase synchronization
in the locomotor behavior of Halobacterium salinarium,
International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, 13(10),
3085-3092, 2002. [doi]
Social sciences and
social media
F. Pierri,
C. Piccardi, and S. Ceri, A multi-layer approach to
disinformation detection in US and Italian news spreading on
Twitter,EPJ Data Science, 9, 35, 2020. [doi]
F. Pierri,
C. Piccardi, and S. Ceri, Topology comparison of Twitter
diffusion networks effectively reveals misleading
information, Scientific Reports, 10, 1372, 2020.
[doi]
F.
Dercole, F. Della Rossa, and C. Piccardi, Direct
reciprocity and model-predictive rationality explain network
reciprocity over social ties, Scientific Reports,
9, 5367, 2019. [doi]
M. Bastos,
C. Piccardi, M. Levy, N. McRoberts, M. Lubell, Core-periphery
or decentralized? Topological shifts of specialized
information on Twitter, Social Networks, 52,
282-293, 2018. [doi]
F.
Calderoni, D. Brunetto, and C. Piccardi, Communities in
criminal networks: A case study, Social
Networks, 48, 116-125, 2017. [doi]
G.
Berlusconi, F. Calderoni, N. Parolini, M. Verani, and C.
Piccardi, Link prediction in criminal networks: A tool for
criminal intelligence analysis, PLoS ONE,
11(4): e0154244, 2016. [doi]
C.
Piccardi and G. Feichtinger, Peak-to-peak dynamics in the
dynastic cycle, Chaos, Solitons and Fractals,
13(2), 195-202, 2002. [doi]
G.
Feichtinger, C. Forst and C. Piccardi, A nonlinear
dynamical model for the dynastic cycle, Chaos,
Solitons and Fractals, 7(2), 257-271, 1996. [doi]
Energy and
environment
A.
Mechiche-Alami, C. Piccardi, K.A. Nicholas, and J.W. Seaquist,
Transnational land acquisitions beyond the food and
financial crises, Environmental Research Letters,
14, 084021, 2019. [doi]
F. Riva,
E. Colombo, and C. Piccardi, Towards modelling diffusion
mechanisms for sustainable off-grid electricity planning,
Energy for Sustainable Development, 52, 11-25, 2019. [doi]
Epidemics
C.
Piccardi, A. Colombo, and R. Casagrandi, Connectivity
interplays with age in shaping contagion over networks with
vital dynamics, Physical Review E, 91(2),
022809, 2015. [doi]
C.
Piccardi and R. Casagrandi, Inefficient epidemic spreading
in scale-free networks, Physical Review E,
77(2), 026113/1-4, 2008. [doi]
C.
Piccardi and S. Lazzaris, Vaccination policies for chaos
reduction in childhood epidemics, IEEE Transactions
on Biomedical Engineering, 45(5), 591-595, 1998. [doi]
L.
Ghezzi and C. Piccardi, PID control of a chaotic system:
an application to an epidemiological model, Automatica,
33(2), 181-191, 1997. [doi]
Y.
Kuznetsov and C. Piccardi, Bifurcation analysis of
periodic SEIR and SIR epidemic models, Journal of
Mathematical Biology, 32, 109-121, 1994. [doi]
Vehicles
F. Della Rossa, M. Gobbi, G.
Mastinu, C. Piccardi, and G. Previati, Bifurcation
analysis of a car and driver model, Vehicle
System Dynamics, 52, 142-156, 2014. [doi]
F. Della
Rossa, G. Mastinu, C. Piccardi, Bifurcation analysis of an
automobile model negotiating a curve, Vehicle System
Dynamics, 50(10), 1539-1562, 2012. [doi]
Corrosion
G.
Contreras, S. Goidanich, S. Maggi, C. Piccardi, M.V. Diamanti,
M.P. Pedeferri, and L. Lazzari, Representing localized corrosion processes through
cellular automata, Corrosion Reviews, 29(5-6),
241-245, 2011. [doi]
Ecology
I.
Belykh, C. Piccardi and S. Rinaldi, Synchrony in
tritrophic food-chain metacommunities, Journal of
Biological Dynamics, 3(5), 497-514, 2009. [doi]
S.
Rinaldi, C. Piccardi and A. Gragnani, Pest outbreaks
control: the approach of peak-to-peak dynamics, Natural
Resource Modeling, 14(1), 177-195, 2001.
Water resources
A.
Nardini, C. Piccardi and R. Soncini-Sessa, A decomposition
approach to suboptimal control of discrete-time systems,
Optimal Control Applications and Methods, 15, 1-12,
1994. [doi]
A.
Nardini, C. Piccardi and R. Soncini-Sessa, On the
integration of risk-aversion and average-performance
optimization in reservoir control, Water Resources
Research, 28(2), 487-497, 1992.
C.
Piccardi and G.P. Bottoni, On the solution of reservoir
optimal control problems by means of vector computers, Environmental
Software, 6(1), 24-28,1991. [doi]
C.
Piccardi and R. Soncini-Sessa, Stochastic dynamic
programming for reservoir optimal control: dense
discretization and inflow correlation assumption made
possible by parallel computing, Water Resources
Research, 27(5), 729-741, 1991.
R.
Soncini-Sessa, J. Zuleta and C. Piccardi, Remarks on the
application of a risk-averse approach to the management of
El Carrizal reservoir, Advances in Water Resources,
13(2), 76-84, 1990. [doi]
C.
Piccardi and R. Soncini-Sessa, An interactive program to
simulate the management of a multipurpose water reservoir,
Environmental Software, 4(3), 142-149, 1989. [doi]