Vittorio Loreto

Sapienza University, Rome & CSH External Faculty

Vittorio Loreto is full professor of physics of complex systems at Sapienza University of Rome. Presently Vittorio is Director of the SONY Computer Science Laboratories in Paris where he heads the team on “Innovation, Creativity and Artificial Intelligence”.

 

Vittorio’s scientific activity is focused on the statistical physics of complex systems and its interdisciplinary applications. He coordinated several projects at EU level and he recently coordinated the KREYON project devoted to unfolding the dynamics of innovation and creativity. Vittorio has published over 180 papers in internationally refereed journals and conference proceedings and chaired several workshops and conferences.

Mail: vittorio.loreto@roma1.infn.it

Publications

2023

D.R. Lo Sardo, P. Gravino, C. Cuskley, V. Loreto

Exploitation and exploration in text evolution. Quantifying planning and translation flows during writing

PLOS ONE (2023) 0283628

2022

W. Schueller, J. Wachs, V. D. P. Servedio, S. Thurner, V. Loreto

Evolving collaboration, dependencies, and use in the Rust Open Source Software ecosystem

Scientific Data 9 (2022) 703

P. Gravino, G. Prevedello, M. Galletti, V. Loreto

The supply and demand of news during COVID-19 and assessment of questionable sources production

Nature Human Behaviour (2022)

N. Reisz, V. Servedio, V. Loreto, W. Schueller, M. Ferreira, S. Thurner

Loss of sustainability in scientific work

New Journal of Physics 24 (2022) 053041

2021

B. Monechi, E. Ubaldi, P. Gravino, I. Chabay, V. Loreto

Finding successful strategies in a complex urban sustainability game

Scientific Reports 11 (2021) 15765

E. Ubaldi, R. Burioni, V. Loreto, F. Tria

Emergence and evolution of social networks through exploration of the adjacent possible space

Communication Physics 4 (2021) 28

2020

I. Iacopini, G. Di Bona, E. Ubaldi, V. Loreto, V. Latora

Interacting Discovery Processes on Complex Networks

Physical Review Letters 125 (2020) 248301

N. Haug, [...] P. Klimek

Ranking the effectiveness of worldwide COVID-19 government interventions

Nature Human Behaviour 4 (2020) 1303–1312

M. Ibanez-Berganza, A. Amico, G. Lancia, F. Maggiore, B. Monechi, V. Loreto

Unsupervised inference approach to facial attractiveness

PeerJ 8 (2020) e10210

B. Monechi, M. Ibanez-Berganza, V. Loreto.

Hamiltonian modelling of macro-economic urban dynamics

Royal Society Open Science 7 (9) (2020) 200667

M. Ferreira, et al.

Quantifying exaptation in scientific evolution

in: C. La Porta, et al. (eds), Understanding Innovation Through Exaptation, The Frontiers Collection, (2020)

M. Ferreira, et al.

Quantifying exaptation in scientific evolution

in: C. La Porta, et al. (eds.), Understanding Innovation Through Exaptation (2020) Springer 55–68

2019

B. Monechi, G. Pullano, V. Loreto

Efficient team structures in an open-ended cooperative creativity experiment

PNAS 116 (44) (2019) 22088–22093

I. Biazzo, B. Monechi, V. Loreto

General scores for accessibility and inequality measures in urban areas

R. Soc. open sci. 6(8) (2019) 190979

M. Ibáñez-Berganza, A. Amico, V. Loreto

Subjectivity and complexity of facial attractiveness

Sci Rep 9 (2019) 8364 

B. Monechi, P. Gravino, V. Loreto

Towards novelty-driven recommender systems

Comptes Rendus Physique 20(4) (2019) 371–379

2018

F. Tria, V. Loreto, V.D.P Servedio,

Zipf’s, Heaps’ and Taylor’s Laws are Determined by the Expansion into the Adjacent Possible

Entropy 20(10) (2018) 752

S. Pompei, V. Loreto, F. Tria

Copystree: Gaming artificial phylogenies

Language Dynamics and Change 8(1) (2018) 55-77

W. Schueller, V. Loreto, P.Y. Oudeyer

Complexity Reduction in the Negotiation of New Lexical Conventions

In 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2018), Madison, WI, United States. ffhal-01891762 (2018)

2017

J. Sakellariou, F. Tria, V. Loreto, F. Pachet

Maximum entropy models capture melodic styles

Sci Rep 7 (2017) 9172

B. Monechi, P. Gravino, V.D.P. Servedio, F. Tria, V. Loreto

Significance and popularity in music production

R. Soc. open sci. 4 (2017) 170433

S. Thurner (Ed.)

43 Visions for Complexity

Exploring Complexity – Vol. 3, World Scientific Publishing Co. (2017)

Talks

2021

Talk

Vittorio Loreto: “Scenari ipotetici per la rigenerazione urbana” [Italian]

Dec 02, 2021 | 18:30—19:30

Meet Digital Culture Center

2016

Talk

“Gaming, innovation and learning: New tools to face societal challenges”

Feb 26, 2016—Feb 27, 2016

IIASA

Press

2022

PRESS

Torino e Genova città da 15 minuti? Cosa racconta davvero la classifica Citychrone [Italian] [feat. Vittorio Loreto]

La Repubblica, Jun 30, 2022

2021

PRESS

Meet the Media Guru Around Mobility: incontro con Vittorio Loreto [Italian]

Mente Locale, Nov 22, 2021

2019

PRESS

Cooperative creativity experiment reveals most efficient team structures

Phys.org, Oct 15, 2019

PRESS

Woraus konstruktive Teams bestehen

Wiener Zeitung, Oct 14, 2019

PRESS

Forscher ermittelten optimale Zusammensetzung für konstruktive Teams

APA Science, Oct 14, 2019

2018

PRESS

Vittorio Loreto: Need a new idea? Start at the edge of what is known.

TED Talk, Oct 4, 2017