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Franci Alessio

Dép. d'électric., électron. et informat. (Inst.Montefiore) > Brain-Inspired Computing

Montefiore Institute

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ORCID
0000-0002-3911-625X
Main Referenced Co-authors
Drion, Guillaume  (21)
Sepulchre, Rodolphe  (18)
Leonard, Naomi Ehrich (9)
Bizyaeva, Anastasia (7)
Chaillet, Antoine (7)
Main Referenced Keywords
Control and Systems Engineering (24); Control and Optimization (16); Modeling and Simulation (10); Neuromodulation (6); Singularity theory (6);
Main Referenced Unit & Research Centers
Giga Neurosciences - ULiège [BE] (1)
Main Referenced Disciplines
Engineering, computing & technology: Multidisciplinary, general & others (40)
Electrical & electronics engineering (4)
Human health sciences: Multidisciplinary, general & others (4)
Microbiology (4)
Physical, chemical, mathematical & earth Sciences: Multidisciplinary, general & others (3)

Publications (total 61)

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Franci, A.* , Drion, G.* , Seutin, V., & Sepulchre, R. (2013). A Balance Equation Determines a Switch in Neuronal Excitability. PLoS Computational Biology, 9, 1003040. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003040 https://hdl.handle.net/2268/147627

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O'Leary, T., Williams, A. H., Franci, A., & Marder, E. (21 May 2014). Cell types, network homeostasis, and pathological compensation from a biologically plausible ion channel expression model. Neuron, 82 (4), 809 - 821. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2014.04.002 https://hdl.handle.net/2268/303242

Mendolia, L., Franci, A., & Redouté, J.-M. (23 August 2023). Networks of low-power CMOS neuromorphic neurons with robust neuromodulation capabilities for intelligent and adaptable neuromorphic systems [Poster presentation]. SCIoI & ISAB Summer School 2023: “Embodied Intelligence – Perception and Learning in Nature and Robotics”, Berlin, Germany.

Bizyaeva, A., Franci, A., & Leonard, N. E. (March 2023). Nonlinear Opinion Dynamics With Tunable Sensitivity. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 68 (3), 1415 - 1430. doi:10.1109/TAC.2022.3159527
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Fyon, A., Sacré, P., Franci, A., & Drion, G. (2023). Reliable neuromodulation from adaptive control of ion channel expression [Paper presentation]. IFAC World Congress, Yokohama, Japan.
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Fyon, A., Sacré, P., Franci, A., & Drion, G. (2023). Reliable neuromodulation from adaptive control of ion channel expression. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 56 (2), 458-463. doi:10.1016/j.ifacol.2023.10.1610
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Moreno-Morton, R., & Franci, A. (2023). Control of Multistability Through Local Sensitivity Analysis: Application to Cellular Decision-Making Networks. IEEE Control Systems Letters, 7, 373 - 378. doi:10.1109/LCSYS.2022.3189316
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Rivera-Yoshida, N., Bottagisio, M., Attanasi, D., Savadori, P., De Vecchi, E., Bidossi, A., & Franci, A. (28 February 2022). Host Environment Shapes S. aureus Social Behavior as Revealed by Microscopy Pattern Formation and Dynamic Aggregation Analysis. Microorganisms, 10 (3), 526. doi:10.3390/microorganisms10030526
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Bizyaeva, A., Amorim, G., Santos, M., Franci, A., & Leonard, N. E. (2022). Switching Transformations for Decentralized Control of Opinion Patterns in Signed Networks: Application to Dynamic Task Allocation. IEEE Control Systems Letters, 6, 3463 - 3468. doi:10.1109/LCSYS.2022.3185981
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Park, S., Bizyaeva, A., Kawakatsu, M., Franci, A., & Leonard, N. E. (2022). Tuning Cooperative Behavior in Games with Nonlinear Opinion Dynamics. IEEE Control Systems Letters, 6, 2030 - 2035. doi:10.1109/LCSYS.2021.3138725
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Leonard, N. E., Lipsitz, K., Bizyaeva, A., Franci, A., & Lelkes, Y. (14 December 2021). The nonlinear feedback dynamics of asymmetric political polarization. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118 (50). doi:10.1073/pnas.2102149118
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Ramos, C. H., Rodríguez-Sánchez, E., Del Angel, J. A. A., Arzola, A. V., Benítez, M., Escalante, A. E., Franci, A., Volpe, G., & Rivera-Yoshida, N. (August 2021). The environment topography alters the way to multicellularity in Myxococcus xanthus. Science Advances, 7 (35). doi:10.1126/sciadv.abh2278
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Franci, A., Bizyaeva, A., Park, S., & Leonard, N. E. (June 2021). Analysis and control of agreement and disagreement opinion cascades. Swarm Intelligence, 15 (1-2), 47 - 82. doi:10.1007/s11721-021-00190-w
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Bizyaeva, A., Matthews, A., Franci, A., & Leonard, N. E. (2021). Patterns of Nonlinear Opinion Formation on Networks. In 2021 American Control Conference, ACC 2021. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. doi:10.23919/ACC50511.2021.9482811
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Ratliff, J., Franci, A., Marder, E., & O'Leary, T. (20 April 2021). Neuronal oscillator robustness to multiple global perturbations. Biophysical Journal, 120 (8), 1454 - 1468. doi:10.1016/j.bpj.2021.01.038
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Guzmán-Herrera, A., Arias Del Angel, J. A., Rivera-Yoshida, N., Benítez, M., & Franci, A. (April 2021). Dynamical patterning modules and network motifs as joint determinants of development: Lessons from an aggregative bacterium. Journal of Experimental Zoology. Part B, Molecular and Developmental Evolution, 336 (3), 300 - 314. doi:10.1002/jez.b.22946
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Juarez-Alvarez, O., & Franci, A. (2021). In-phase oscillations from the cooperation of cellular and network positive feedback in synaptically-coupled oscillators. In 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2021. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. doi:10.1109/CDC45484.2021.9683708
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Bizyaeva, A., Sorochkin, T., Franci, A., & Ehrich Leonard, N. (2021). Control of Agreement and Disagreement Cascades with Distributed Inputs. In 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2021. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. doi:10.1109/CDC45484.2021.9683650
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Franci, A. (2021). Feedback design of spatially-distributed filters with tunable resolution. In 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2021. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. doi:10.1109/CDC45484.2021.9683140
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Franci, A., O'Leary, T., & Golowasch, J. (October 2020). Positive Dynamical Networks in Neuronal Regulation: How Tunable Variability Coexists with Robustness. IEEE Control Systems Letters, 4 (4), 946 - 951. doi:10.1109/LCSYS.2020.2997214
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Castaños, F., Miranda-Villatoro, F. A., & Franci, A. (2020). A notion of equivalence for linear complementarity problems Applications to the design of nonsmooth bifurcations. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 53 (2), 5435 - 5440. doi:10.1016/j.ifacol.2020.12.1543
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Franci, A., Drion, G., & Sepulchre, R. (2019). The sensitivity function of excitable feedback systems. In 2019 IEEE 58th Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2019. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. doi:10.1109/CDC40024.2019.9029676
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Sepulchre, R., O'Leary, T., Drion, G., & Franci, A. (2019). Control by neuromodulation: A tutorial. In 2019 18th European Control Conference, ECC 2019. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. doi:10.23919/ECC.2019.8795686
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Sepulchre, R., Drion, G., & Franci, A. (03 May 2019). Control Across Scales by Positive and Negative Feedback. Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems, 2 (1), 89 - 113. doi:10.1146/annurev-control-053018-023708
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Rivera-Yoshida, N., Arzola, A. V., Arias Del Angel, J. A., Franci, A., Travisano, M., Escalante, A. E., & Benítez, M. (March 2019). Plastic multicellular development of Myxococcus xanthus: genotype-environment interactions in a physical gradient. Royal Society Open Science, 6 (3), 181730. doi:10.1098/rsos.181730
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Tang, Y., Franci, A., & Postoyan, R. (February 2019). On-line detection of qualitative dynamical changes in nonlinear systems: The resting-oscillation case. Automatica, 100, 17 - 28. doi:10.1016/j.automatica.2018.10.058
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Özcimder, K., Dey, B., Franci, A., Lazier, R., Trueman, D., & Leonard, N. E. (02 January 2019). Social decision-making driven by artistic explore–exploit tension. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 44 (1), 55 - 81. doi:10.1080/03080188.2018.1544806
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Franci, A., Herrera-Valdez, M. A., Lara-Aparicio, M., & Padilla-Longoria, P. (08 November 2018). Synchronization, Oscillator Death, and Frequency Modulation in a Class of Biologically Inspired Coupled Oscillators. Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics, 4. doi:10.3389/fams.2018.00051
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Dey, B., Franci, A., Ozcimder, K., & Leonard, N. E. (2018). Feedback Controlled Bifurcation of Evolutionary Dynamics with Generalized Fitness. In 2018 Annual American Control Conference, ACC 2018. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. doi:10.23919/ACC.2018.8431851
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Gray, R., Franci, A., Srivastava, V., & Leonard, N. E. (June 2018). Multiagent Decision-Making Dynamics Inspired by Honeybees. IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, 5 (2), 793 - 806. doi:10.1109/TCNS.2018.2796301
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Drion, G., Dethier, J., Franci, A., & Sepulchre, R. (23 April 2018). Switchable slow cellular conductances determine robustness and tunability of network states. PLoS Computational Biology, 14, 1006125. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006125
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Franci, A.* , Drion, G.* , & Sepulchre, R.*. (01 March 2018). Robust and tunable bursting requires slow positive feedback. Journal of Neurophysiology, 119, 1222-1234. doi:10.1152/jn.00804.2017
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Gray, R., Franci, A., Srivastava, V., & Ehrich Leonard, N. (July 2017). An agent-based framework for bio-inspired, value-sensitive decision-making. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 50 (1), 8238 - 8243. doi:10.1016/j.ifacol.2017.08.1392
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Tang, Y., Franci, A., & Postoyan, R. (July 2017). Qualitative parameter estimation for a class of relaxation oscillators. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 50 (1), 2929 - 2934. doi:10.1016/j.ifacol.2017.08.651
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Castaños, F., & Franci, A. (12 April 2017). Implementing robust neuromodulation in neuromorphic circuits. Neurocomputing, 233, 3 - 13. doi:10.1016/j.neucom.2016.08.099
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Sacré, P., & Franci, A. (2016). Singularly perturbed phase response curves for relaxation oscillators. In Proceedings of the 55th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC). IEEE. doi:10.1109/CDC.2016.7798982
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Franci, A., & Sepulchre, R. (2016). A three-scale model of spatio-temporal bursting. SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems, 15 (4), 2143 - 2175. doi:10.1137/15M1046101
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Drion, G., Franci, A., Dethier, J., & Sepulchre, R. (2015). Dynamic Input Conductances Shape Neuronal Spiking. eNeuro. doi:10.1523/ENEURO.0031-14.2015
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Drion, G., O'Leary, T., Dethier, J., Franci, A., & Sepulchre, R. (2015). Neuronal behaviors: A control perspective. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 54, 1923-1944. doi:10.1109/CDC.2015.7402491
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Dethier, J.* , Drion, G.* , Franci, A., & Sepulchre, R. (2015). A positive feedback at the cellular level promotes robustness and modulation at the circuit level. Journal of Neurophysiology. doi:10.1152/jn.00471.2015
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O'Leary, T., Williams, A. H., Franci, A., & Marder, E. (21 May 2014). Cell types, network homeostasis, and pathological compensation from a biologically plausible ion channel expression model. Neuron, 82 (4), 809 - 821. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2014.04.002
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Franci, A., & Sepulchre, R. (2014). Realization of nonlinear behaviors from organizing centers. In 53rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control,CDC 2014. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. doi:10.1109/CDC.2014.7039359
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Franci, A., Drion, G., & Sepulchre, R. (2014). Modeling the Modulation of Neuronal Bursting: A Singularity Theory Approach. SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems, 13 (2), 798-829. doi:10.1137/13092263X
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Dethier, J., Drion, G., Franci, A., & Sepulchre, R. (10 November 2013). Modulation of beta oscillations during movement initiation: modeling the ionic basis of a functional switch [Poster presentation]. 43rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.

Drion, G., Franci, A., Scuvée-Moreau, J., Seutin, V., & Sepulchre, R. (November 2013). Modulation and Robustness of Neuronal Spiking in Two-Parameter Charts [Poster presentation]. Society for Neuroscience annual meeting 2013, San Diego, CA, United States.

Franci, A., O'Leary, T., Drion, G., Williams, A., Marder, E., & Sepulchre, R. (November 2013). Homeostatic principles are consistent with sensitivity analysis of neuronal rhythmicity [Poster presentation]. Society for Neuroscience annual meeting 2013, San Diego, CA, United States.

Trotta, L., Franci, A., & Sepulchre, R. (08 July 2013). First spike latency sensitivity of spiking neuron models [Poster presentation]. Twenty Second Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting: CNS2013. doi:10.1186/1471-2202-14-S1-P354

Dethier, J., Drion, G., Franci, A., & Sepulchre, R. (June 2013). Oscillations in the basal ganglia: illustration of a cellular effect at the network level [Poster presentation]. Interdisciplinary Symposium on Signals and Systems for Medical Applications, Paris, France.

Sacré, P., Franci, A., & Sepulchre, R. (26 March 2013). Singularly perturbed phase response curves [Paper presentation]. 32nd Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Houffalize, Belgium.
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Dethier, J., Drion, G., Franci, A., & Sepulchre, R. (26 March 2013). Impacts of a unicellular mechanism on network behaviors [Paper presentation]. 32nd Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Houffalize, Belgium.
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Franci, A.* , Drion, G.* , Seutin, V., & Sepulchre, R. (2013). A Balance Equation Determines a Switch in Neuronal Excitability. PLoS Computational Biology, 9, 1003040. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003040
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Franci, A., Drion, G., Massotte, L., Scuvée-Moreau, J., Seutin, V., & Sepulchre, R. (October 2012). A balance between competitive and cooperative ion channels regulates neuronal excitability [Poster presentation]. Society for Neuroscience annual meeting 2012, New Orleans, LA, United States.

Drion, G.* , Franci, A.* , Seutin, V., & Sepulchre, R. (August 2012). A novel phase portrait for neuronal excitability. PLoS ONE, 7 (8). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0041806
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Franci, A., Chaillet, A., Panteley, E., & Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue, F. (April 2012). Desynchronization and inhibition of Kuramoto oscillators by scalar mean-field feedback. Mathematics of Control, Signals and Systems, 24 (1-2), 169 - 217. doi:10.1007/s00498-011-0072-9
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Drion, G., Franci, A., Seutin, V., & Sepulchre, R. (March 2012). A Novel Phase Portrait to Understand Neuronal Excitability [Paper presentation]. 31st Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Heijden, Netherlands.

Franci, A.* , Drion, G.* , & Sepulchre, R. (2012). An Organizing Center in a Planar Model of Neuronal Excitability. SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems, 11 (4), 1698-1722. doi:10.1137/120875016
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Franci, A., Pasillas-Lepine, W., & Chaillet, A. (2012). Validity of the phase approximation for coupled nonlinear oscillators: A case study. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2316 - 2321. doi:10.1109/CDC.2012.6426756
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Franci, A., Chaillet, A., & Pasillas-Lpine, W. (June 2011). Existence and robustness of phase-locking in coupled Kuramoto oscillators under mean-field feedback. Automatica, 47 (6), 1193 - 1202. doi:10.1016/j.automatica.2011.03.003
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Franci, A., Chaillet, A., & Bezzaoucha, S. (2011). Toward oscillations inhibition by mean-field feedback in Kuramoto oscillators. In Proceedings of the 18th IFAC World Congress. IFAC Secretariat. doi:10.3182/20110828-6-IT-1002.02170
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Franci, A., Panteley, E., Chaillet, A., & Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue, F. (2011). Desynchronization of coupled phase oscillators, with application to the Kuramoto system under mean-field feedback. In 2011 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference, CDC-ECC 2011. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. doi:10.1109/CDC.2011.6161377
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Franci, A., Scardovi, L., & Chaillet, A. (2011). An input-output approach to the robust synchronization of dynamical systems with an application to the Hindmarsh-Rose neuronal model. In 2011 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference, CDC-ECC 2011. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. doi:10.1109/CDC.2011.6161356
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Franci, A., & Chaillet, A. (December 2010). Quantised control of nonlinear systems: Analysis of robustness to parameter uncertainty, measurement errors, and exogenous disturbances. International Journal of Control, 83 (12), 2453 - 2462. doi:10.1080/00207179.2010.529464
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Franci, A., Chaillet, A., & Pasillas-Lépine, W. (2010). Phase-locking between Kuramoto oscillators: Robustness to time-varying natural frequencies. In 2010 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2010. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. doi:10.1109/CDC.2010.5717876
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