4 papers
PesTwin: A modular agent-based framework for pest and vector population control
Andrea De Antoni, Giovanni Iacca, Andrea Pugliese +4
Species-specific pest and vector control strategies, including the sterile insect technique, Wolbachia-based interventions, and genetic control technologies, offer powerful alterna…
PesTwin: a biology-informed Digital Twin for enabling precision farming
Andrea De Antoni, Matteo Rucco, Alberto Maria Cattaneo +6
In a context of growing agricultural demand and new challenges related to food security and accessibility, boosting agricultural productivity is more important than ever. Reducing…
The Shape of Chocolate: A Topological Perspective on Food Microstructure
Matteo Rucco
We present a computational framework for characterizing the molecular self-organization of cocoa butter (Theobroma cacao) during dark chocolate tempering through the lens of Topolo…
Persistent Entropy as a Detector of Phase Transitions
Matteo Rucco
Persistent entropy (PE) is an information-theoretic summary statistic of persistence barcodes that has been widely used to detect regime changes in complex systems. Despite its emp…