Publications

A list of selected journal articles is given below. A full list of publications of the research cluster is available in the publication database of the University of Klagenfurt. Last update: August 22, 2025.

Selected Journal Publications

Udo Schilcher, Marcus Schref, Christian Bettstetter. Multicircular static patterns in swarmalator systems: radii and stability. Physical Review E, 2025.

Khalil Al-rahman Youssefi Darmian, Reza Abbaszadeh Darban, Gregor Kastner, Wilfried Elmenreich. A criterion for assessing obstacle-induced environmental complexity in multi-robot coverage exploration. PLOS One, 2025.

Arke Vogell, Udo Schilcher, Jorge F. Schmidt, Christian Bettstetter. Chimera states in pulse-coupled oscillator systems. Physical Review E, 2024.

Friederike Wall, Shu-Heng Chen, Stephan Leitner. Agent-based modelling and simulation for bridging the micro-macro divide in management science: an introduction. The Oxford Handbook of Agent-based Computational Management Science, Oxford University Press, 2024.

Stephan Leitner, Friederike Wall. Agent-based technologies for research and practical use in management: integrative perspectives. The Oxford Handbook of Agent-based Computational Management Science, Oxford University Press, 2024.

Patrick Reinwald, Stephan Leitner, Friederike Wall. Performance-based pay and limited information access: an agent-based model of the hidden action problem. Journal of Economics and Statistics, 2024.

Darío Blanco-Fernández, Stephan Leitner, Alexandra Rausch. Interactions between dynamic team composition and coordination: an agent-based modeling approach. Review of Managerial Science, 2024.

Stephan Leitner. Emergent task allocation and incentives: an agent-based model. Central European Journal of Operations Research, 2024.

Ravshanbek Khodzhimatov, Stephan Leitner, Friederike Wall. Effects of modularity on the organizational performance in presence of conformity. International Journal of Organization Theory & Behavior, 2024.

Darío Blanco-Fernández,  Stephan Leitner, Alexandra Rausch. Interactions between dynamic team composition and coordination: an agent-based modeling approach. Review of Managerial Science, 2024.

Péter Forgács, András Libál, Charles Reichhardt, Nicolas Hengartner, Cynthia Reichhardt. Transient pattern formation in an active matter contact poisoning model. Communications Physics, 2023.

Jorge F. Schmidt, Udo Schilcher, Arke Vogell, Christian Bettstetter. Using randomization in self-organized synchronization for wireless networks. ACM Trans. on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, 2023.

Darío Blanco-Fernández, Stephan Leitner, Alexandra Rausch. The effects of group adaptation on task performance: An agent-based approach. PLOS One, 2023.

Darío Blanco-Fernández, Stephan Leitner, Alexandra Rausch. Interactions between the individual and the group level in organizations: The case of learning and group turnover. Central European Journal of Operations Research, 2023.

Friederike Wall. Social identity and organizational control: results of an agent-based simulation. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 2023.

Melanie Schranz, Paul Amann, Raphaela Egger, Sabrina Schifrer. ROB-E – Swarm robotics for education in circular economy. Journal on Teaching Engineering, 2022.

Stephan Leitner, Friederike Wall. Micro-level dynamics in hidden action situations with limited information. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022.

Friederike Wall. Incomplete incentive contracts in complex task environments: an agent-based simulation with minimal intelligence agents. Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination, 2022.

Bernhard Rinner, Christian Bettstetter, Hermann Hellwagner, Stephan Weiss. Multidrone systems: More than the sum of the parts. IEEE Computer, 2021.

Melanie Schranz, Gianni A. Di Caro, Thomas Schmickl, Wilfried Elmenreich, Farshad Arvin, Ahmet Şekercioğlu, Micha Sende. Swarm intelligence and cyber-physical systems: concepts, challenges and future trends. Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 2021.

Kristian Strmenik, Friederike Wall, Christian Mitsch, Gernot Mödritscher. Volume allocation in multi-sourcing: effects of the quantity–quality trade-off. Central European Journal of Operations Research, 2021.

Stephan Leitner, Bartosz Gula, Dietmar Jannach,  Ulrike Krieg-Holz, Friederike Wall. Understanding the dynamics emerging from infodemics: a call to action for interdisciplinary research. SN Business & Economics, 2021.

Stephan Leitner, Friederike Wall. Decision-facilitating information in hidden-action setups: An agent-based approach. Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination, 2021.

Friederike Wall. Modeling managerial search behavior based on Simon’s concept of satisficing. Computational and Mathematical Oganization Theory, 2021.

Friederike Wall. Compliance to “unpleasant” actions of crisis management: some remarks from a management control perspective. Mind & Society, 2021.

Friederike Wall. Workforce diversity in decision-making organizations: a perspective from agent-based computational economics. New Mathematics and Natural Computation, 2021.

Petra Maždin, Bernhard Rinner. Distributed and communication-aware coalition formation and task assignment in multi-robot systems. IEEE Access, 2021.

Arke Vogell, Udo Schilcher, Christian Bettstetter. Deadlocks in the synchronization of pulse-coupled oscillators on star graphs. Physical Review E, 2020.

Agata Barciś, Christian Bettstetter. Sandsbots: robots that sync and swarm. IEEE Access, 2020.

Melanie Schranz, Martina Umlauft, Micha Sende, Wilfried Elmenreich. Swarm robotic behaviors and current applications. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2020.

Carlo S. Regazzoni, Lucio Marcenaro, Damian Campo, Bernhard Rinner. Multisensorial generative and descriptive self-awareness models for autonomous systems. Proceedings of the IEEE, 2020.

Friederike Wall, Stephan Leitner. Agent-based Computational Economics in Management Accounting Research: Opportunities and Difficulties. Journal of Management Accounting Research, 2020.

Friederike Wall. Adaptation of the boundary system in growing firms: An agent-based computational study on the role of complexity and search strategy. Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja, 2020.

Friederike Wall. Coordination with erroneous communication: results of an agent-based simulation. Knowledge and Information Systems, 2019.

Friederike Wall. Emergence of coordination in growing decision-making organizations. The role of complexity, search strategy, and cost of effort. Complexity, 2019.

Pasquale Grippa, Udo Schilcher, Christian Bettstetter. On access control in cabin-based transport systems. IEEE Trans. on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2019.

Florian Wodlei, Julien Sebilleau, Jaques Magnaudet, Véronique Pimienta. Marangoni-driven flower-like patterning of an evaporating drop spreading on a liquid substrate. Nature Communications, 2018.

Pasquale Grippa, Doris A. Behrens, Friederike Wall, Christian Bettstetter. Drone delivery systems: job assignment and dimensioning. Autonomous Robots, 2019.

Friedrike Wall. Emergence of task formation in organizations: Balancing units’ competence and capacity. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 2018.

James A. Preiss, Karol Hausman, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, Stephan M. Weiss. Simultaneous self-calibration and navigation using trajectory optimization. The International Journal of Robotics Research, 2018.

Asif Khan, Bernhard Rinner, Andrea Cavallaro. Cooperative robots to observe moving targets: Review. IEEE Trans. on Cybernetics, 2018.

Evşen Yanmaz, Saeed Yahyanejad, Bernhard Rinner, Hermann Hellwagner, Christian Bettstetter. Drone networks: communications, coordination, and sensing. Ad Hoc Networks, 2018.

Daniel Posch, Benjamin Rainer, Hermann Hellwagner. SAF: Stochastic adaptive forwarding in named data networking. IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking, 2017.

Wasif Masood, Jorge F. Schmidt, Günther Brandner, Christian Bettstetter. DISTY: Dynamic stochastic time synchronization for wireless sensor networks. IEEE Trans. on Industrial Informatics, 2017.

Johannes Klinglmayr, Christian Bettstetter, Marc Timme, Christoph Kirst. Convergence of self-organizing pulse coupled oscillator synchronization in dynamic networks. IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, 2017.

Friederike Wall. Learning to incentivize in different modes of coordination. Advances in Complex Systems, 2017.

Paul Schweinzer, Alex Gershkov, Jianpei Li. How to share it out: The value of information in teams. Journal of Economic Theory, 2016.

Kirsten von Elverfeldt, Christine Embleton-Hamann, Olav Slaymaker. Self-organizing change? On drivers, causes and global environmental change. Geomorphology, 2016.

Charles Antoine, Joris Irvoas, Karin Schwarzenberger, Kerstin Eckert, Florian Wodlei, Véronique Pimienta. Self-pinning on a liquid surface. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2016.

Günther Brandner, Udo Schilcher, Christian Bettstetter. Firefly synchronization with phase rate equalization and its experimental analysis in wireless systems. Computer Networks, 2016.

Claudio Piciarelli, Lukas Esterle, Asif Khan, Bernhard Rinner, Gian Luca Foresti. Dynamic reconfiguration in camera networks: a short survey. IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2015.

Asif Khan, Evsen Yanmaz, Bernhard Rinner. Information exchange and decision making in micro aerial vehicle networks for cooperative search. IEEE Trans. on Control of Network Systems, 2015.

Alexander Gogolev, Nikolaj Marchenko, Lucio Marcenaro, Christian Bettstetter. Distributed binary consensus in networks with disturbances. ACM Trans. on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, 2015.

Jean Chamberlain Chedjou, Kyandoghere Kyamakya. A universal concept based on cellular neural networks for ultrafast and flexible solving of differential equations. IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2015.

Anita Sobe, Wilfried Elmenreich, Tibor Szkaliczki, Laszlo Böszörmenyi. SEAHORSE: Generalizing an artificial hormone system algorithm to a middleware for search and delivery of information units. Computer Networks, 2015.

Stephan Leitner, Doris Behrens. On the Efficiency of Hurdle Rate Based Coordination Mechanisms. Mathematical and computer modelling of dynamical systems, 2014.

Friederike Wall. Agent-based modeling in managerial science: An illustrative survey and study. Review of Managerial Science, 2014.

Alexander Gogolev, Lucio Marcenaro. Randomized binary consensus with faulty agents. Entropy, 2014.

Johannes Klinglmayr, Christoph Kirst, Christian Bettstetter, Marc Timme. Guaranteeing global synchronization in networks with stochastic interactions. New Journal of Physics, 2012.

Johannes Klinglmayr, Christian Bettstetter. Self-organizing synchronization with inhibitory-coupled oscillators: Convergence and robustness. ACM Trans. on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, 2012.

István Fehérvári, Wilfried Elmenreich. Evolving neural network controllers for a team of self-organizing robots. Journal of Robotics, 2010.

Jürgen Zanghellini, Florian Wodlei, Hans Hennig von Grünberg. Phospholipid demixing and the birth of a lipid droplet. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2010.