Angela Fontan

Assistant Professor

PhD Thesis

A. Fontan, Collective decision-making on networked systems in presence of antagonistic interactions, Linköping Studies in Science and Technology. Dissertations, No. 2166, 2021 [DiVA]

Journal papers

  1. A. Fontan, and C. Altafini, From populations to networks: Relating diversity indices and frustration in signed graphs, PNAS Nexus, vol. 3 (2), pp. 1–11, 2024, DOI: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae046
  2. A. Fontan, and C. Altafini, Pseudoinverses of signed Laplacian matrices, SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications (SIMAX), vol. 44 (2), pp. 622--647, 2023, DOI: 10.1137/22M1493392 [pdf]
  3. A. Fontan, L. Wang, Y. Hong, G. Shi, and C. Altafini, Multi-agent consensus over time-invariant and time-varying signed digraphs via eventual positivity, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 68 (9), pp. 5429--5444, 2023, DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2022.3225472, [pdf, arXiv:2203.04215]
  4. A. Fontan and C. Altafini, The role of frustration in collective decision-making dynamical processes on multiagent signed networks, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 67 (10), pp. 5191--5206, 2022, DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2021.3123222 [pdf]
  5. A. Fontan and C. Altafini, A signed network perspective on the government formation process in parliamentary democracies, Scientific Reports, vol. 11 (5134), 2021, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-84147-3 [pdf, SI]
  6. A. Fontan, G. Shi, X. Hu and C. Altafini, Interval Consensus for Multiagent Networks, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 65 (5), pp. 1855--1869, 2019, DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2019.2924131 [pdf]
  7. A. Fontan and C. Altafini, Multiequilibria Analysis for a Class of Collective Decision-Making Networked Systems, IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, vol. 5 (4), pp. 1931--1940, 2018, DOI: 10.1109/TCNS.2017.2774014 [pdf]

Conference papers (peer-reviewed)

  1. M. Farjadnia, A. Fontan, A. Alanwar, M. Molinari, and K. H. Johansson, Robust Data-Driven Tube-Based Zonotopic Predictive Control with Closed-Loop Guarantees, 63rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Milan, Italy, December 16-19, 2024 [arXiv:/2409.14366]
  2. M. Farjadnia, A. Fontan, A. Russo, K. H. Johansson, and M. Molinari, What influences occupants' behavior in residential buildings? An experimental study on window operation in the KTH Live-In Lab, 7th IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA), Bridgetown, Barbados, August 16-18, 2023 [arXiv:2307.08090]
  3. A. Fontan, M. Farjadnia, J. Llewellyn, C. Katzeff, M. Molinari, V. Cvetkovic, and K. H. Johansson, Social interactions for a sustainable lifestyle: The design of an experimental case study, 22nd IFAC World Congress, Yokohama, Japan, July 2023 [pdf,arXiv:2309.11310]
  4. L. Wang, A. Fontan, Y. Hong, G. Shi, and Claudio Altafini, Multi-agent consensus over signed graphs with switching topology, 20th European Control Conference (ECC), London, UK, July 2022
  5. A. Fontan and C. Altafini, On the properties of Laplacian pseudoinverses, 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Austin, Texas, USA, December 2021, DOI: 10.1109/CDC45484.2021.9683525
  6. A. Fontan and C. Altafini, Describing government formation processes through collective multiagent dynamics on signed networks (extended abstract), 1st Virtual IFAC World Congress, July 2020
  7. A. Fontan and C. Altafini, Achieving a decision in antagonistic multiagent networks: frustration determined commitment strength, 57th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Miami Beach, FL, USA, December 2018, DOI: 10.1109/CDC.2018.8619615 [pdf]
  8. A. Fontan and C. Altafini, Investigating mixed-sign equilibria for nonlinear collective decision-making systems, 56th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Melbourne, Australia, December 2017, DOI: 10.1109/CDC.2017.8263755
  9. A. Fontan, G. Shi, X. Hu and C. Altafini, Interval Consensus: a novel class of constrained consensus problems for multiagent networks, 56th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Melbourne, Australia, December 2017, DOI: 10.1109/CDC.2017.8264270

Chapters in Books

  1. S. Hirche, A. Ames, T. Samad, A. Fontan, F. Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue, Cyber-physical Human Systems, Ch. 4.D, in Control for Societal-scale Challenges: Road Map 2030, Eds. A. M. Annaswamy, K. H. Johansson, and G. J. Pappas, IEEE Control Systems Society Publication, 2023, ieeecss.org/control-societal-scale-challenges-roadmap-2030