• Instantaneous Mental Workload Recognition Using Wavelet-Packet Decomposition and Semi-Supervised Learning 

      Zhang, Jianhua; Li, Jianrong; Nichele, Stefano (IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI);2019 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI), Conference object, 2020-02-20)
      The real-time monitoring of human operator's mental workload (MWL) is crucial for development of adaptive/intelligent human-machine cooperative systems in various safety/mission-critical application fields. Although ...
    • Introducing IoT Competencies to First-Year University Students With The Tiles Toolkit 

      Mora, Simone; Gianni, Francesco Valerio; Nichele, Stefano; Divitini, Monica (Proceedings of the 7th Computer Science Education Research Conference;, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Advances in the field of Internet of Things (IoT) are introducing innovations in multiple domains including smart cities, healthcare and transportation. An increasing number of jobs today require IoT competences that ...
    • Investigating Rules and Parameters of Reservoir Computing with Elementary Cellular Automata, with a Criticism of Rule 90 and the Five-Bit Memory Benchmark 

      Glover, Tom Eivind; Lind, Pedro; Yazidi, Anis; Osipov, Evgeny; Nichele, Stefano (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Reservoir computing with cellular automata (ReCAs) is a promising concept by virtue of its potential for effective hardware implementation. In this paper, we explore elementary cellular automata rules in the context of ...
    • Minimum Equivalence in Random Boolean Networks, Elementary Cellular Automata, and Beyond 

      Glover, Tom Eivind; Jahren, Christian Ruben; Huse Ramstad, Ola; Nichele, Stefano (Peer reviewed; Conference object, 2023)
      Random Boolean networks (RBN) and Cellular Automata (CA) operate in a very similar way. They update their state with simple deterministic functions called Boolean function or Transition Table (TT), both being essentially ...
    • A neuro-inspired general framework for the evolution of stochastic dynamical systems: Cellular automata, random Boolean networks and echo state networks towards criticality 

      Pontes-Filho, Sidney; Lind, Pedro; Yazidi, Anis; Zhang, Jianhua; Hammer, Hugo Lewi; Mello, Gustavo; Sandvig, Ioanna; Tufte, Gunnar; Nichele, Stefano (Cognitive Neurodynamics;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-06-11)
      Although deep learning has recently increased in popularity, it suffers from various problems including high computational complexity, energy greedy computation, and lack of scalability, to mention a few. In this paper, ...
    • Reservoir Computing Using Nonuniform Binary Cellular Automata 

      Nichele, Stefano; Gundersen, Magnus Skogstrøm (Complex Systems;Volume 26, Issue 3, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      The reservoir computing (RC) paradigm utilizes a dynamical system (a reservoir) and a linear classifier (a readout layer) to process data from sequential classification tasks. In this paper, the usage of cellular automata ...
    • A single neural cellular automaton for body-brain co-evolution 

      Pontes Filho, Sidney; Walker, Kathryn; Najarro, Elias; Nichele, Stefano; Risi, Sebastian (Chapter; Peer reviewed; Conference object, 2022)
      The discovery of complex multicellular organism development took millions of years of evolution. The genome of such a multicellular organism guides the development of its body from a single cell, including its control ...
    • Structural and functional alterations associated with the LRRK2 G2019S mutation revealed in structured human neural networks 

      Valderhaug, Vibeke Devold; Huse Ramstad, Ola; van de Wijdeven, Rosanne Francisca; Heiney, Kristine; Nichele, Stefano; Sandvig, Axel; Sandvig, Ioanna (bioRxiv;, Journal article, 2020-05-02)
      Mutations in the LRRK2 gene have been widely linked to Parkinson ́s disease. The G2019S variant has been shown to contribute uniquely to both familial and sporadic forms of the disease. LRRK2-related mutations have been ...
    • Towards a Plant Bio-Machine 

      Nichele, Stefano; Risi, Sebastian; Tufte, Gunnar; Beloff, Laura (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Plants are very efficient computing machines. They are able to sense diverse environmental conditions and quickly react through chemical and electrical signaling. In this paper, we present an interface between plants and ...
    • Towards Making a Cyborg: A Closed-Loop Reservoir-Neuro System 

      Aaser, Peter; Knudsen, Martinius; Huse Ramstad, Ola; van de Wijdeven, Rosanne; Nichele, Stefano; Sandvig, Ioanna; Tufte, Gunnar; Bauer, Ulrich Stefan; Halaas, Øyvind; Hendseth, Sverre; Sandvig, Axel; Valderhaug, Vibeke Devold (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      The human brain is a remarkable computing machine, i.e. vastly parallel, self-organizing, robust, and energy efficient. To gain a better understanding into how the brain works, a cyborg (cybernetic organism, a combination ...
    • Translating Emotions from EEG to Visual Arts 

      Riccio, Piera; Galati, Francesco; Zuluaga, Maria; De Martin, Juan Carlos; Nichele, Stefano (Lecture Notes in Computer Science;, Chapter; Peer reviewed; Conference object; Journal article, 2022)
      Exploring the potentialities of artificial intelligence (AI) in the world of arts is fundamental to understand and define how this technology is shaping our creativity. We propose a system that generates emotionally ...
    • Universality of Evolved Cellular Automata in-Materio 

      Nichele, Stefano; Farstad, Sigve Sebastian; Tufte, Gunnar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Evolution-in-Materio (EIM) is a method of using artificial evolution to exploit physical properties of materials for computation. It has previously been successfully used to evolve a multitude of different computational ...