Corrado Grappiolo
From Center for Computer Games Research
Presentation
Corrado joined the Centre for Computer Games Research as Ph.D. student on 1st September 2010.
He received a Research Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence with a major in Gaming at Universiteit van Amsterdam, Nederlands, in 2008 with thesis "Integrating Reinforcement Learning and Distributed Perception Networks for Mobile Sensor Control". He also got a Master's Degree in Computer Science with a major in Natural Computing at University of Milano Bicocca, Italy, in 2004 with thesis "An Artificial Ant Colony Model using P-Systems: Life, Evolution and Learning". Finally, he got a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, still at University of Milano Bicocca, in 2002, with thesis "An Online Adventure Game using SOAP and Web Services in C# in Microsoft .NET Framework". He also got valuable experience in the video game industry (developer of Nintendo Wii and iPhone titles).
Research at ITU
His main research area at ITU regards the study of how global pattern behaviours, such as group identities and norms, arise from the local interactions of the of social agents (emergence) and how it would be possible to intervene at the global level in order to provide changes in the behaviours of the single agents at the local level (feed back).
His research covers topics of Artificial Societies, Artificial Life, Complex Adaptive Systems, Multi-Agent Systems, Multiplayer Games, Group Dynamics, Collective Behaviours, Player Profiling, Procedural Content Generation, Experience-Driven Procedural Content Generation.
Together to this, and as one of the outcomes of his research, Corrado contributes to SIREN, an EU-funded project which aims to create a multiplayer serious game for teaching conflict resolution skills to children (9-12 years of age) of different countries (England, Portugal and Greece).
Research Interests
- Artificial Societies, Artificial Life, Complex Adaptive Systems and Self Organisation;
- Group and Collective Behaviour, Group Dynamics, Multiplayer and Collaborative Games;
- Multi-Agent Systems, Agent-Based Modelling and Player Profiling;
- Unsupervised and Online Learning, Reinforcement and Competitive Learning;
- Evolutionary Computation and Search-Based and Experience-Driven Procedural Content Generation;
- Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning;
Publications List
- Corrado Grappiolo, Georgios N. Yannakakis, "Towards Detecting Group Identities in Complex Artificial Societies", in Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Adaptive Behaviour, August 2012 (to appear).
- Corrado Grappiolo, Yun Gyung Cheong, Rilla Khaled, Georgios N. Yannakakis, "Modelling Global Pattern Formations for Collaborative Learning Environments", in Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, July 2012 (to appear) (PDF).
- Corrado Grappiolo, Georgios N. Yannakakis, Stylianos Asteriadis, Kostas Karpouzis, "Towards Multimodal Player Adaptivity in a Serious Game for Fair Resource Distribution", in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, July 2011 (PDF).
- Yun Gyung Cheong, Rilla Khaled, Corrado Grappiolo, Joana Campos, Carlos Martinho, Gordon P. D. Ingram, Ana Paiva, Georgios N. Yannakakis. "A Computational Approach Towards Conflict and Conflict Resolution for Serious Games", in Proceedings of the International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, June 2011 (PDF)
- Corrado Grappiolo, Georgios N. Yannakakis, Julian Togelius, Rilla Khaled, and Yun Gyung Cheong, “Towards Player Adaptivity in a Serious Game for Conflict Resolution”, in Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference in Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications, May 2011 (PDF)
- Corrado Grappiolo, Shimon Whiteson, Gregor Pavlin, and Bram Bakker. "Integrating Distributed Bayesian Inference and Reinforcement Learning for Sensor Management". In Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Information Fusion, pp. 93–101, July 2009 (PDF)
Contact info
Room 3B11
IT University of Copenhagen
Rued Langgaards Vej 7,
2300 Copenhagen S
cogr (at) itu (dot) dk
+45 7218 5116
