Angela Fontan

Postdoctoral Researcher

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, Pseudoinverses of signed Laplacian matrices, SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications (SIMAX), to appear, 2023

  2. 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, 2023 (early access), DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2022.3225472
    [arXiv:2203.04215]

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

Conference papers (peer-reviewed)

  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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