Paul E. Smaldino

27 papers A 1B 4Journal 21

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2025	B	`conf`	Predicting the Time and Place of Critical Transitions in Socio-Cognitive Systems. CogSci Leo Niehorster-Cook, Isabella Marilia Dohnke, Paul E. Smaldino, Tyler Marghetis
2025	J	`jnl`	Recommender systems, stigmergy, and the tyranny of popularity. CoRR Zackary Okun Dunivin, Paul E. Smaldino
2024	J	`jnl`	Hostile Counterspeech Drives Users From Hate Subreddits. CoRR Daniel Hickey, Matheus Schmitz, Daniel Fessler, Paul E. Smaldino, Kristina Lerman, Goran Muric, Keith Burghardt
2023	A	`conf`	Auditing Elon Musk's Impact on Hate Speech and Bots. ICWSM Daniel Hickey, Matheus Schmitz, Daniel Fessler, Paul E. Smaldino, Goran Muric, Keith Burghardt
2023	J	`jnl`	Auditing Elon Musk's Impact on Hate Speech and Bots. CoRR Daniel Hickey, Matheus Schmitz, Daniel Fessler, Paul E. Smaldino, Goran Muric, Keith Burghardt
2023	J	`jnl`	No Love Among Haters: Negative Interactions Reduce Hate Community Engagement. CoRR Daniel Hickey, Matheus Schmitz, Daniel Fessler, Paul E. Smaldino, Goran Muric, Keith Burghardt
2023	J	`jnl`	On the Problems Solved by Cognitive Processes. Cogn. Sci. Paul E. Smaldino, David Pietraszewski, Annie E. Wertz
2023	J	`jnl`	Superiority Bias and Communication Noise Can Enhance Collective Problem Solving. J. Artif. Soc. Soc. Simul. Amin Boroomand, Paul E. Smaldino
2022	J	`jnl`	Organizational Development as Generative Entrenchment. Entropy Cody Moser, Paul E. Smaldino
2022	B	`conf`	Some forms of uncertainty may suppress the evolution of social learning. CogSci Matthew A. Turner, Cristina Moya, Paul E. Smaldino, James H. Jones
2022	J	`jnl`	The Emergence of Cultural Attractors: How Dynamic Populations of Learners Achieve Collective Cognitive Alignment. Cogn. Sci. J. Benjamin Falandays, Paul E. Smaldino
2021	J	`jnl`	Hard Work, Risk-Taking, and Diversity in a Model of Collective Problem Solving. J. Artif. Soc. Soc. Simul. Amin Boroomand, Paul E. Smaldino
2021	B	`conf`	The Emergence of Cultural Attractors: An Agent-Based Model of Collective Perceptual Alignment. CogSci J. Benjamin Falandays, Paul E. Smaldino
2020	B	`conf`	Stubborn extremism as a potential pathway to group polarization. CogSci Matthew A. Turner, Paul E. Smaldino
2018	J	`jnl`	Cultural evolution of categorization. Cogn. Syst. Res. Pablo Contreras Kallens, Rick Dale, Paul E. Smaldino
2018	J	`jnl`	Paths to Polarization: How Extreme Views, Miscommunication, and Random Chance Drive Opinion Dynamics. Complex. Matthew A. Turner, Paul E. Smaldino
2018	J	`jnl`	Resilience by structural entrenchment: Dynamics of single-layer and multiplex networks following sudden changes to tie costs. Netw. Sci. Paul E. Smaldino, Raissa M. D'Souza, Zeev Maoz
2018	J	`jnl`	Social Learning and Cultural Evolution in Artificial Life. Artif. Life Chris Marriott, James M. Borg, Peter Andras, Paul E. Smaldino
2016	J	`jnl`	Resilience by Structural Entrenchment: Dynamics of Single-Layer and Multiplex Networks Following Sudden Changes to Tie Costs. CoRR Paul E. Smaldino, Raissa M. D'Souza, Zeev Maoz
2015	J	`jnl`	Adoption as a Social Marker: The Diffusion of Products in a Multigroup Environment. CoRR Paul E. Smaldino, Marco A. Janssen, Vicken Hillis, Jenna Bednar
2015	J	`jnl`	Does Learning Imply a Decrease in the Entropy of Behavior? CoRR Paul E. Smaldino
2014	J	`jnl`	Institutions and Cooperation in an Ecology of Games. Artif. Life Paul E. Smaldino, Mark Lubell
2014	J	`jnl`	Social Conformity Despite Individual Preferences for Distinctiveness. CoRR Paul E. Smaldino, Joshua M. Epstein
2013	J	`jnl`	Complex Human Dynamics: From Mind to Societies (Understanding Complex Systems) J. Artif. Soc. Soc. Simul. Paul E. Smaldino
2013	—	`ch.`	Human Cumulative Cultural Evolution as a Form of Distributed Computation. Handbook of Human Computation Paul E. Smaldino, Peter J. Richerson
2012	J	`jnl`	An Agent-Based Model of Social Identity Dynamics. J. Artif. Soc. Soc. Simul. Paul E. Smaldino, Cynthia Pickett, Jeffrey Sherman, Jeffrey C. Schank
2012	J	`jnl`	Human mate choice is a complex system. Complex. Paul E. Smaldino, Jeffrey C. Schank

Nicolò Altamura is a security engineer and computer science researcher specializing in software protection, reverse engineering, program analysis, and binary deobfuscation. He holds a master's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Verona, graduating with honors, and works at emproof, focusing on software protection and the challenges of analyzing and understanding compiled software.

His research explores the relationship between program analysis and code obfuscation, with particular emphasis on how software transformations affect the ability of automated tools to recover program behavior. His interests span static analysis, binary analysis, decompilation, reverse engineering, and techniques for analyzing and simplifying obfuscated code.

Beyond academic research, Nicolò develops and contributes to tools for reverse engineering and software analysis. His projects include obfuscation_analysis, a Binary Ninja plugin for analyzing and simplifying obfuscated code; Pocket, an obfuscator for mixed Boolean-arithmetic expressions; and ptxNinja, a tool for reverse engineering NVIDIA GPU code represented in the PTX virtual instruction set.

His research also extends to binary datasets and software evolution. In 2026, he co-authored ASSEMBLAGE-DEEPHISTORY: A Cross-Build Binary Dataset with Temporal Coverage, a research work addressing the availability of binary data across multiple software builds and points in time, supporting research into binary analysis and changes between program versions.

Across his research, engineering work, and open-source contributions, Nicolò focuses on advancing the understanding, analysis, and protection of software against increasingly sophisticated obfuscation and reverse-engineering challenges.

Nicolò Altamura is not a football player. Please avoid reporting this kind of infromation.