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most citedUnfolding the innovation system for the development of countries: co-evolution of Science, Technology and Production

87 citations · 400 across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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26 papers

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

An exact and fast solution of the inverse Regularized Optimal Transport problem

Dario Mazzilli, Riccardo Piombo, Lorenzo Buffa +1

Optimal transport describes the most efficient way to move mass between two distributions, given a cost matrix for moving mass between each pair of locations. Entropic optimal tran…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Information-theoretic formulation of the Traveling Salesman Problem

Enrico Maria Fenoaltea, Riccardo Piombo, Aurelio Patelli

The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) asks for the shortest route to visit a set of cities exactly once. It combines a simple local rule - each city must be visited once - with a ha…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Statistical Mechanics of the Sub-Optimal Transport

Riccardo Piombo, Lorenzo Buffa, Dario Mazzilli +1

Statistical mechanics is a powerful framework for analyzing optimization yielding analytical results for matching, optimal transport, and other combinatorial problems. However, the…

cond-mat.stat-mech2025★ 2 cited

Maximum entropy modeling of Optimal Transport: the sub-optimality regime and the transition from dense to sparse networks

Lorenzo Buffa, Dario Mazzilli, Riccardo Piombo +3

We present a bipartite network model that captures intermediate stages of optimization by blending the Maximum Entropy approach with Optimal Transport. In this framework, the netwo…

econ.GN2025

Vulnerabilities and capabilities in the EU Automotive industry: Leveraging Input-Output Analysis and Economic Complexity

Lorenzo Cresti, Dario Mazzilli, Aurelio Patelli +2

This paper investigates the structural vulnerabilities and competitive dynamics of the EU27 automotive sector, with a focus on the complexity and the fragmentation of production pr…

econ.GN2024★ 2 cited

Follow the money: a startup-based measure of AI exposure across occupations, industries and regions

Enrico Maria Fenoaltea, Dario Mazzilli, Aurelio Patelli +5

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into the workplace is advancing rapidly, necessitating robust metrics to evaluate its tangible impact on the labour market. Existing…

econ.GN2024

Structural Change, Employment, and Inequality in Europe: an Economic Complexity Approach

Bernardo Caldarola, Dario Mazzilli, Aurelio Patelli +1

Structural change consists of industrial diversification towards more productive, knowledge intensive activities. However, changes in the productive structure bear inherent links w…

cond-mat.stat-mech2023

Ranking species in complex ecosystems through nestedness maximization

Manuel Sebastian Mariani, Dario Mazzilli, Aurelio Patelli +1

Identifying the rank of species in a social or ecological network is a difficult task, since the rank of each species is invariably determined by complex interactions stipulated wi…

econ.GN2023★ 4 cited

Economic complexity and the sustainability transition: A review of data, methods, and literature

Bernardo Caldarola, Dario Mazzilli, Lorenzo Napolitano +2

Economic Complexity (EC) methods have gained increasing popularity across fields and disciplines. In particular, the EC toolbox has proved particularly promising in the study of co…

cs.SI2023★ 6 cited

Inferring comparative advantage via entropy maximization

Matteo Bruno, Dario Mazzilli, Aurelio Patelli +2

We revise the procedure proposed by Balassa to infer comparative advantage, which is a standard tool, in Economics, to analyze specialization (of countries, regions, etc.). Balassa…

econ.GN2022★ 6 cited

Equivalence between the Fitness-Complexity and the Sinkhorn-Knopp algorithms

Dario Mazzilli, Manuel Sebastian Mariani, Flaviano Morone +1

We uncover the connection between the Fitness-Complexity algorithm, developed in the economic complexity field, and the Sinkhorn-Knopp algorithm, widely used in diverse domains ran…

econ.GN2022★ 5 cited

The Evolution of Competitiveness across Economic, Innovation and Knowledge production activities

Aurelio Patelli, Lorenzo Napolitano, Giulio Cimini +2

The evolution of economic and innovation systems at the national scale is shaped by a complex dynamics, the footprint of which is the nested structure of the activities in which di…

cs.DL2021★ 23 cited

Geography of Science: Competitiveness and Inequality

Aurelio Patelli, Lorenzo Napolitano, Giulio Cimini +1

Using ideas and tools of complexity science we design a holistic measure of \textit{Scientific Fitness}, encompassing the scientific knowledge, capabilities and competitiveness of…

econ.GN2021★ 8 cited

Universal Database for Economic Complexity

Aurelio Patelli, Andrea Zaccaria, Luciano Pietronero

We present an integrated database suitable for the investigations of the Economic development of countries by using the Economic Fitness and Complexity framework. Firstly, we imple…

cond-mat.soft2020★ 5 cited

Landau kinetic equation for dry aligning active models

Aurelio Patelli

The Landau equation is a kinetic equation based on the weak coupling approximation of the interaction between the particles. In the framework of dry active matter this new kinetic…

cond-mat.soft2019★ 46 cited

Understanding dense active nematics from microscopic models

Aurelio Patelli, Ilyas Djafer-Cherif, Igor S. Aranson +2

We study dry, dense active nematics at both particle and continuous levels. Specifically, extending the Boltzmann-Ginzburg-Landau approach, we derive well-behaved hydrodynamic equa…

physics.soc-ph2019★ 7 cited

Generalized Markov stability of network communities

Aurelio Patelli, Andrea Gabrielli, Giulio Cimini

We address the problem of community detection in networks by introducing a general definition of Markov stability, based on the difference between the probability fluxes of a Marko…

cond-mat.soft2018★ 9 cited

Deriving hydrodynamic equations from dry active matter models in three dimensions

Benoît Mahault, Aurelio Patelli, Hugues Chaté

We derive hydrodynamic equations from Vicsek-style dry active matter models in three dimensions (3D), building on our experience on the 2D case using the Boltzmann-Ginzburg-Landau…

cond-mat.soft2018★ 39 cited

Active Matter Class with Second-Order Transition to Quasi-Long-Range Polar Order

B. Mahault, X. -c. Jiang, E. Bertin +4

We introduce and study in two dimensions a new class of dry, aligning, active matter that exhibits a direct transition to orientational order, without the phase-separation phenomen…

cond-mat.soft2017★ 28 cited

Fore-aft asymmetric flocking

Qiu-shi Chen, Aurelio Patelli, Hugues Chaté +2

We show that fore-aft asymmetry, a generic feature of living organisms and some active matter systems, can have a strong influence on the collective properties of even the simplest…

econ.GN2017★ 87 cited

Unfolding the innovation system for the development of countries: co-evolution of Science, Technology and Production

Emanuele Pugliese, Giulio Cimini, Aurelio Patelli +3

We show that the space in which scientific, technological and economic developments interplay with each other can be mathematically shaped using pioneering multilayer network and c…

physics.soc-ph2017★ 30 cited

The scientific influence of nations on global scientific and technological development

Aurelio Patelli, Giulio Cimini, Emanuele Pugliese +1

Determining how scientific achievements influence the subsequent process of knowledge creation is a fundamental step in order to build a unified ecosystem for studying the dynamics…

cond-mat.stat-mech2014★ 6 cited

General linear response formula for non integrable systems obeying the Vlasov equation

Aurelio Patelli, Stefano Ruffo

Long-range interacting N-particle systems get trapped into long-living out-of-equilibrium stationary states called quasi-stationary states (QSS). We study here the response to a sm…

cond-mat.stat-mech2013★ 15 cited

Non-mean-field Critical Exponent in a Mean-field Model : Dynamics versus Statistical Mechanics

Shun Ogawa, Aurelio Patelli, Yoshiyuki Y. Yamaguchi

The mean-field theory tells that the classical critical exponent of susceptibility is the twice of that of magnetization. However, the linear response theory based on the Vlasov eq…