Angela’s PhD weekly meeting updates

Week 01 – 10 October 2025

Tasks and short-term goals

  1. Publish Field VMC journal (deadline: undefined, priority: high, waiting for editor to send further info)
  2. Study CLF-CBF-QP for period abroad (deadline: ASAP, priority: high, in progress)
  3. Implementation of time replication in Collektive—necessary for self-stabilizing Gossip validation (deadline: undefined, priority: medium, shared Clock done with tests)
  4. Period abroad iter and proposal (deadline: undefined, priority: high, call for application not published yet AFAIK)

Medium-term goals

  1. Collektive journal: venue and contribute to define yet (priority: medium-high)
  2. Paper on Self-Stabilizing Gossip, initial possible venues: SEAMS, others to define (deadline: undefined, priority: medium, current status: draft paper done for PhD course—missing evaluation due to previous point [1.3])

Long-term goals

  1. Implementation of aggregate processes in Collektive (related to [1.2])
  2. Implementation of signals and interrupts in Collektive (related to [1.2])
  3. Implementation of users and permissions in Collektive

Period abroad infos/iter

  • If I already know the period, I have to send the request form to Bartolini and then to AFORM.
  • The Marco Polo program is a separate thing — first, I need authorization from the others.
  • In Bartolini’s document, I have to summarize in about 4 lines what I will do during the period abroad, then she approves it.
  • At that point, I have to fill out the form available on the university intranet for PhD student mobility abroad and also the one that entitles me to the 50% scholarship increase; once this is authorized, everything is set.
  • When the Marco Polo call opens (usually in December), I need to write a project proposal and complete the procedure on the website to apply for the call.
  • When I come back, I have to write a final project report to attach to the Marco Polo call documents, and then fill in the return form to be sent to AFORM.

Week 2 – 15 October 2025

Tasks and short-term goals

  1. Publish Field VMC journal (deadline: undefined, priority: high, waiting for editor to send further info)
    → Still no update from them, I checked the site every day too.
  2. Study CLF-CBF-QP for period abroad (deadline: ASAP, priority: high, in progress)
    → still in progress, not bad, we have to plan the period with Ale this or next week.
  3. Implementation of time replication in Collektive—necessary for self-stabilizing Gossip validation (deadline: undefined, priority: medium, shared Clock done with tests)
    → paused due to work on point [2]

Medium-term goals

  1. Collektive journal: venue and contribute to define yet (priority: medium-high)
    → Possible venues: Journal of open research science, or JSS
  2. Paper on Self-Stabilizing Gossip, initial possible venues: SEAMS, others to define (deadline: undefined, priority: medium, current status: draft paper done for PhD course—missing evaluation due to previous point [1.3])
  3. Possible work with GCiatto for ACSOS-2026 about “distributed particle filter in AC/Collektive” (priority: medium, I did not read the original paper yet)
  4. About ACSOS-2026: possibility to showcase the NdR demo, or doing a tutorial about Collektive (if journal is out)

Long-term goals

✨ Collective Operating Systems ✨

Week 3 – 22 October 2025

Tasks and short-term goals

  1. Publish Field VMC journal (deadline: undefined, priority: high, waiting for editor to send further info)
    → Still no update from them, I checked the site every day too and emailed them.
  2. Study CLF-CBF-QP for period abroad (deadline: ASAP, priority: high, in progress)
    → at this point we should have the update from Ale thanks to the meeting we have just finished.
  3. Implementation of time replication in Collektive—necessary for self-stabilizing Gossip validation (deadline: undefined, priority: medium, completed)
    → PR opened, checks are green, waiting for review. ⁉️ Should I start working on the evaluation?

Medium-term goals

  1. Collektive journal: (priority: medium-high) venue JSS, first flow draft has been written.
  2. Paper on Self-Stabilizing Gossip, initial possible venues: SEAMS(2027..), others to define (SEWORLD?) (deadline: undefined, priority: medium, current status: draft paper done for PhD course—missing evaluation due to previous point [1.3]) → Waiting for Collektive journal to be finished to finalize this one.
  3. ACSOS-2026: defined “distributed particle filter in AC/Collektive” with GCiatto and Davide. Spoke with Nico about the possibility to showcase the NdR demo, or doing a tutorial about Collektive (if journal is out).
  4. Work for ACSOS-2026 as publicity co-chair.

Long-term goals

✨ Collective Operating Systems ✨

Week 4 – 31 October 2025

Tasks and short-term goals

  1. Publish Field VMC journal (deadline: undefined, priority: high) – Status: we have to pay, Sara should contact us.
  2. Collektive Journal (target: JSS, status doing)
  3. Study CLF-CBF-QP for period abroad – Next step: preparing presentation for aggregate reading group.
  4. Implementation of time replication – Done, missing review.

Medium-term goals

  1. Paper on Self-Stabilizing Gossip (deadline: undefined, status paused) → Waiting for Collektive journal to be finished to finalize this one.
  2. ACSOS-2026: defined “distributed particle filter in AC/Collektive” with GCiatto and Davide.

Long-term goals

✨ Collective Operating Systems ✨ featuring:

  1. control barriers;
  2. processes;
  3. signals and interrupts;
  4. users and permissions.

Week 5 – 6 November 2025

Tasks and short-term goals

  1. Publish Field VMC journal (deadline: undefined, priority: high) – Status: we have to pay, Springer is filling our form.
  2. Collektive Journal (target: JSS, status doing)
  3. Study CLF-CBF-QP for period abroad – Next step: preparing presentation for aggregate reading group (if possible).
  4. Implementation of time replication – Done, missing review.

Medium-term goals

  1. Paper on Self-Stabilizing Gossip (deadline: undefined, status blocked) → Waiting for Collektive journal to be finished to finalize this one.
  2. ACSOS-2026: defined “distributed particle filter in AC/Collektive” with GCiatto and Davide.

Long-term goals

✨ Collective Operating Systems ✨ featuring:

  1. control barriers;
  2. processes;
  3. signals and interrupts;
  4. users and permissions.

Week 6 – 13 November

Tasks and short-term goals

  1. Publish Field VMC journal (deadline: undefined, priority: high) – Status: we have to pay, Springer has filled our form, need info from Sara.
  2. Collektive Journal (target: JSS, status doing)
  3. Study CLF-CBF-QP for period abroad – Next step: preparing presentation for aggregate reading group.
  4. Implementation of time replication – Done, missing review.

Medium-term goals

  1. Paper on Self-Stabilizing Gossip (deadline: undefined, status blocked) → Waiting for Collektive journal to be finished to finalize this one.
  2. ACSOS-2026: defined “distributed particle filter in AC/Collektive” with GCiatto, Davide and Roby.

Long-term goals

✨ Collective Operating Systems ✨ featuring:

  1. control barriers;
  2. processes;
  3. signals and interrupts;
  4. users and permissions.

Week 7 – 20 November

Tasks and short-term goals

  1. Publish Field VMC journal (deadline: undefined, priority: high) – Status: we have to pay, Springer has filled our form, we should ping Sara.
  2. Collektive Journal (target: JSS, status doing)
  3. Study CLF-CBF-QP for period abroad – Next step: preparing presentation for aggregate reading group.
  4. Implementation of time replication – Done, missing review.
  5. FormaliSE26 artifact evaluation (deadline 21 December) – status to do.

Medium-term goals

  1. Paper on Self-Stabilizing Gossip (target: Coordination, deadline: 6 February, status TBD) → short intro to Gossip with no demonstration (keep that for journal).
  2. ACSOS-2026: defined “distributed particle filter in AC/Collektive” with GCiatto, Davide, Roby, and Mirko. → If we find some preliminary results, there’s the possibility to submit to Coordination.

[Note that we kept track of AEiC 2026 deadlines just in case.]

Long-term goals

✨ Collective Operating Systems ✨ featuring:

  1. control barriers;
  2. processes;
  3. signals and interrupts;
  4. users and permissions.

Week 8 – 27 November

Tasks and short-term goals

  1. Publish Field VMC journal (deadline: undefined, priority: high) – Status: we have to pay, Springer has filled our form, already pinged Sara.
  2. Collektive Journal (target: JSS, status doing)
  3. Study CLF-CBF-QP for period abroad – Prepared presentation for aggregate reading group (5 december), should check it.
  4. Marco Polo period abroad proposal – status done, should check it.
  5. FormaliSE26 artifact evaluation (deadline 21 December) – status doing?.

Medium-term goals

  1. ACSOS-2026: defined “distributed particle filter in AC/Collektive” with GCiatto, Davide, Roby, and Mirko. (deadline: 26 april, status doing)
  2. Paper on Self-Stabilizing Gossip (target: Coordination, deadline: 6 February, status will start soon) → short intro to Gossip with no demonstration (keep that for journal).

Long-term goals

✨ Collective Operating Systems ✨ featuring:

  1. control barriers;
  2. processes;
  3. signals and interrupts;
  4. users and permissions.

Week 9 – 4 December

Tasks and short-term goals

  1. Publish Field VMC journal (deadline: undefined, priority: high) – Sara still has to pay.
  2. Collektive Journal (target: JSS, status doing)
  3. Study CLF-CBF-QP for period abroad – Presentation for aggregate reading group ready (tomorrow).
  4. FormaliSE26 artifact evaluation (deadline 21 December) – status doing.
  5. ACSOS2026 Publicity Chair tasks – status doing.

Medium-term goals

  1. ACSOS-2026: defined “distributed particle filter in AC/Collektive” with GCiatto, Davide, Roby, and Mirko. (deadline: 26 april, status doing)
  2. Paper on Self-Stabilizing Gossip (target: Coordination, deadline: 6 February, status will start soon) → short intro to Gossip with no demonstration (keep that for journal).

Long-term goals

✨ Collective Operating Systems ✨ featuring:

  1. control barriers;
  2. processes;
  3. signals and interrupts;
  4. users and permissions.

Week 10 – 15 December

Tasks and short-term goals

  1. Publish Field VMC journal: DONE🎉 – Sara paid the fee, sent to me the receipt, and I sent it to Springer.
  2. Collektive Journal (target: JSS, status doing)
  3. FormaliSE26 artifact evaluation (deadline 21 December) – status doing.
  4. ACSOS2026 Publicity Chair tasks – status doing.

Medium-term goals

  1. ACSOS-2026: defined “distributed particle filter in AC/Collektive” with GCiatto, Davide, Roby, and Mirko. (deadline: 26 april, status doing)
  2. Paper on Self-Stabilizing Gossip (target: Coordination, deadline: 6 February, status working on evaluation) → short intro to Gossip with no demonstration (keep that for journal).

Long-term goals

✨ Collective Operating Systems ✨ featuring:

  1. control barriers;
  2. processes;
  3. signals and interrupts;
  4. users and permissions.

Week 11 – 15 January

Important: Collektive release is still broken.

Tasks and short-term goals

  1. Collektive Journal (target: JSS, status doing)
  2. Paper on Self-Stabilizing Gossip (target: Coordination, deadline: 6 February, status working on evaluation) → short intro to Gossip with demonstration.
  3. DCOSS IoT-2026: defined “distributed particle filter in AC/Collektive” with GCiatto, Davide, Roby, and Mirko. (deadline: 26 april, status doing)
  4. FIELD BASED CLF-CBF-QP.

Medium-term goals

  1. ACSOS-2026: defined “distributed particle filter in AC/Collektive” with GCiatto, Davide, Roby, and Mirko. (deadline: 26 april, status none)

Long-term goals

✨ Collective Operating Systems ✨ featuring:

  1. control barriers;
  2. processes;
  3. signals and interrupts;
  4. users and permissions.

Week 13 - 29 January

Tasks and short-term goals

  1. Thesis title.
  2. Collektive Journal (target: JSS, status paused)
  3. Paper on Self-Stabilizing Gossip (target: Coordination, deadline: 6 February, status done evaluation)
  4. DCOSS IoT-2026: defined “distributed particle filter in AC/Collektive” (deadline: 8 Feb, status doing)
  5. CAROL: Coordinated Aggregate Robotics with Online control Lyapunov and barrier functions.
  6. Collektive release is still broken, after the deadlines I will focus on fixing it.
  7. Same for global election.

Medium-term goals

  1. ACSOS-2026: defined “distributed particle filter in AC/Collektive” with GCiatto, Davide, Roby, and Mirko. (deadline: 26 april, status none)

Long-term goals

✨ Collective Operating Systems ✨ featuring:

  1. control barriers;
  2. processes;
  3. signals and interrupts;
  4. users and permissions.

Week 14 - 5 February

Tasks and short-term goals

  1. Thesis title → “Advances in Collective Robotics through macro-programming” (no updates yet)
  2. Collektive Journal (target: JSS, status paused)
  3. DCOSS IoT-2026: defined “distributed particle filter in AC/Collektive” (deadline: 8 Feb, status doing)
  4. Paper on Self-Stabilizing Gossip (target: Coordination, deadline: 20 February)
  5. Artifact paper Gossip (target: Coordination, deadline: 27 February)
  6. CAROL: Coordinated Aggregate Robotics with Online control Lyapunov and barrier functions.
  7. Read Turin’s thesis about Collektive (deadline: end of February)
  8. Coordination CollektiveXUnity ❓ (deadline: 20 February)
  9. Collektive release is still broken, after the deadlines I will focus on fixing it.
  10. Same for global election.

Medium-term goals

  1. ACSOS-2026: defined “distributed particle filter in AC/Collektive” (deadline: 26 april, status none)

Long-term goals

❓✨ Collective Operating Systems ✨❓ featuring:

  1. control barriers;
  2. processes;
  3. signals and interrupts;
  4. users and permissions.

Week 15 - 19 February

Tasks and short-term goals

  1. Collektive Journal (target: JSS, status paused)
  2. Paper on Self-Stabilizing Gossip (target: Coordination, deadline: 20 February)
  3. Artifact paper Gossip (target: Coordination, deadline: 27 February)
  4. CAROL: Coordinated Aggregate Robotics with Online control Lyapunov and barrier functions.
  5. ACSOS 2026: defined “distributed particle filter in AC/Collektive” (deadline: 26 Feb, status doing)
  6. Coordination CollektiveXUnity ❓ (deadline: 20 February)
  7. Read Turin’s thesis about Collektive (deadline: end of February)
  8. Collektive release is still broken, after the deadlines I will focus on fixing it.
  9. Same for global election.

Medium-term goals

  1. ACSOS Publicity Chair tasks

Thesis students

  • UniTo x Collektive
  • Collektive x Unity
  • Collektive x VMC x CBF

Long-term goals

❓✨ Collective Operating Systems ✨❓ featuring:

  1. control barriers;
  2. processes;
  3. signals and interrupts;
  4. users and permissions.

Week 16 - 26 February

Tasks and short-term goals

  1. Collektive Journal (target: JSS, status paused)
  2. CAROL: Coordinated Aggregate Robotics with Online control Lyapunov and barrier functions.
  3. ACSOS 2026: defined “distributed particle filter in AC/Collektive” (deadline: 21 Apr, status doing)
  4. Collektive global election is broken, I will focus on fixing it.

Medium-term goals

  1. ACSOS Publicity Chair tasks
  2. DCOSS IoT-2026 (waiting for notification: 28 march)
  3. Paper on Self-Stabilizing Gossip + Artifact (waiting for notification: 23 March)
  4. Coordination CollektiveXUnity + Artifact (waiting for notification: 23 March)

Thesis students

  • UniTo x Collektive (read thesis done)
  • Collektive x Unity
  • Collektive x VMC x CBF

Long-term goals

❓✨ Collective Operating Systems ✨❓ featuring: control barriers - processes - signals and interrupts - users and permissions.

Week 17 - 11 March

Tasks and short-term goals

  1. Collektive Journal (target: JSS, status paused)
  2. CAROL: Coordinated Aggregate Robotics with Online control Lyapunov and barrier functions.
  3. ACSOS 2026: defined “distributed particle filter in AC/Collektive” (deadline: 17 Apr, status doing)
  4. Fix Echo App (deadline 20 March) I have some questions

Medium-term goals

  1. ACSOS Publicity Chair tasks
  2. DCOSS IoT-2026 (waiting for notification: 28 march)
  3. Coordination: Self-Stabilizing Gossip + Artifact & CollektiveXUnity + Artifact (waiting for notification: 23 March)
  4. Collektive global election is broken, I will focus on fixing it.

Thesis students

  • UniTo x Collektive (read thesis done)
  • Collektive x Unity (read thesis done)
  • Collektive x VMC x CBF

Long-term goals

❓✨ Collective Operating Systems ✨❓ featuring: control barriers - processes - signals and interrupts - users and permissions.