Serafino Cicerone

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Serafino Cicerone is a prominent researcher in distributed computing and autonomous mobile robotics, with a particular focus on coordination problems involving swarms of robots operating in geometric and graph-based environments. His work centers on fundamental challenges such as Pattern Formation and Gathering — two canonical problems that explore how robots with limited capabilities can self-organize without centralized control. Cicerone has made significant contributions to understanding how factors like synchronicity, chirality, and asynchrony affect the feasibility and efficiency of distributed robot algorithms. His rigorous theoretical frameworks have advanced the field considerably, as evidenced by his most-cited work, "Asynchronous Arbitrary Pattern Formation: the effects of a rigorous approach" (2018, 54 citations), which demonstrated how careful formalism can resolve previously open questions. His 2017 paper on gathering robots on meeting points (43 citations) introduced optimal resolution algorithms that remain widely referenced. Notably, Cicerone has expanded these investigations beyond the Euclidean plane to infinite regular tessellation graphs, broadening the applicability of coordination theory. Across his body of work, accumulating over 260 citations, he has established himself as a key figure shaping the theoretical foundations of multi-robot systems and distributed algorithm design.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Asynchronous Arbitrary Pattern Formation: the effects of a rigorous approach

   54 citations · 2018
2. 2
   Gathering of robots on meeting-points: feasibility and optimal resolution algorithms

   43 citations · 2017
3. 3
   Embedded pattern formation by asynchronous robots without chirality

   40 citations · 2018
4. 4
   Arbitrary pattern formation on infinite regular tessellation graphs

   21 citations · 2022
5. 5
   Solving the Pattern Formation by Mobile Robots With Chirality

   21 citations · 2021
6. 6
   Gathering robots in graphs: The central role of synchronicity

   21 citations · 2020
7. 7
   Arbitrary Pattern Formation on Infinite Regular Tessellation Graphs

   18 citations · 2020
8. 8
   Minimum-Traveled-Distance Gathering of Oblivious Robots over Given Meeting Points

   18 citations · 2015
9. 9
   Asynchronous Robots on Graphs: Gathering

   17 citations · 2019
10. 10
    MinMax-Distance Gathering on Given Meeting Points

    14 citations · 2015

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