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EDUCATION

• Ph.D. (Theoretical) Physics, UC Los Angeles 1974
• Laurea in Physics, Universita' di Firenze, Italy 1970

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Swarm Intelligence
  • Iterative methods of self organization
  • Synchronous/Asynchronous transitions
• 3D animation
  • Communicative gestures
  • Semantic Intensity/Semantroids
• Financial Engineering
  • Intrinsic Randomness

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Swarm Intelligence

[1] Beni, G. (2004), "From Swarm Intelligence to Swarm Robotics", Proc. of Workshop on  Swarm Robotics, 8^th Int'l Conf. on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB '04), July 13-17, Los Angeles, USA. To be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag.

[2] Beni, G. (2004), "Order by Disordered Action in Swarms", Proc. of Workshop on  Swarm Robotics, 8^th Int'l Conf. on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB '04), July 13-17, Los Angeles, USA. To be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag.

Multimedia/ Computer Animation

 [1] Adamo-Villani, N. and G. Beni (2004). "Automated Fingerspelling by Highly Realistic 3D Animation". British Journal of Educational Technology, Volume 35, No. 3, pp. 345-362

 [2] Adamo-Villani, N. and G. Beni (2003). “Keyboard Encoding of Hand Gestures”. Proceedings of HCI International - 10th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Crete. Vol. 2, pp. 571-575

[3] Adamo-Villani, N. and G. Beni (2004). "A new method of hand gesture configuration and animation". Journal of Information, Vol.7, No.3

[3] Adamo-Villani, N. and G. Beni (2003). “Design and benchmarking of Human-Computer Interface for keyboard encoding of hand gestures”. Proceedings of EPFL, IST, IEEE First International Workshop on Interactive Rich Media Content, Switzerland, pp. 149-159

[5] Adamo-Villani, N. and G. Beni, G. (2004). Grasp and Release using Keyboard User Interface. Proceedings of IMG04 – International Conference on Intelligent Manipulation and Grasping, Genova, Italy

[6] Adamo-Villani, N. and G. Beni, G. (2004). Keyboard Encoding of Facial Expressions. IEEE Proceedings of IV04 – 8th International Conference on Information Visualization-HCI Symposium, London.

[7] Adamo-Villani, N. and G. Beni, G. (2004), "Keyboard Controlled Signing Semantroid", submitted to the 8^th Int'l Conf. on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, (6-9 December), Kunming, China.