Nicola Forti

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 709 citations indexed

About

Nicola Forti is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Ocean Engineering and Control and Systems Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicola Forti has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 709 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 14 papers in Ocean Engineering and 11 papers in Control and Systems Engineering. Recurrent topics in Nicola Forti's work include Target Tracking and Data Fusion in Sensor Networks (17 papers), Maritime Navigation and Safety (12 papers) and Fault Detection and Control Systems (9 papers). Nicola Forti is often cited by papers focused on Target Tracking and Data Fusion in Sensor Networks (17 papers), Maritime Navigation and Safety (12 papers) and Fault Detection and Control Systems (9 papers). Nicola Forti collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and Belgium. Nicola Forti's co-authors include Paolo Braca, Leonardo M. Millefiori, Peter Willett, Samuele Capobianco, Giorgio Battistelli, Luigi Chisci, Bruno Sinopoli, Sandro Carniel, Domenico Gaglione and Giovanni Soldi and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Proceedings of the IEEE and Automatica.

In The Last Decade

Nicola Forti

34 papers receiving 690 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Deep Learning Methods for Vessel Trajectory Prediction Based on Recurrent Neural Networks

2021 157 citations Samuele Capobianco, Leonardo M. Millefiori et al. CINECA IRIS Institutial research information system (University of Pisa) profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nicola Forti Italy	15	370	223	167	144	86	34	709
Leonardo M. Millefiori Belgium	19	758 2.0×	384 1.7×	126 0.8×	79 0.5×	190 2.2×	68	1.2k
Edmund Brekke Norway	21	731 2.0×	373 1.7×	72 0.4×	156 1.1×	124 1.4×	102	1.2k
B. La Scala Australia	11	206 0.6×	449 2.0×	127 0.8×	65 0.5×	35 0.4×	19	818
Man Zhu China	15	461 1.2×	87 0.4×	47 0.3×	198 1.4×	83 1.0×	54	737
David Bétaille France	14	160 0.4×	228 1.0×	66 0.4×	73 0.5×	77 0.9×	47	1.0k
Nuno Cruz Portugal	20	900 2.4×	148 0.7×	180 1.1×	179 1.2×	56 0.7×	124	1.2k
Qian Sun China	14	172 0.5×	136 0.6×	81 0.5×	63 0.4×	150 1.7×	70	755
Zhipeng Shen China	13	202 0.5×	100 0.4×	119 0.7×	443 3.1×	44 0.5×	54	753
Fangpo He Australia	15	534 1.4×	60 0.3×	103 0.6×	157 1.1×	30 0.3×	75	898

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Forti, Nicola, et al.. (2025). Adaptive Resilience Navigation Filter for Detecting and Mitigating Multispoofing Attacks in Range-Based Localization Systems Using Antenna Arrays. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems. 61(3). 6856–6872. 1 indexed citations

Jiang, Zihao, Giorgio Battistelli, Luigi Chisci, Nicola Forti, & Weidong Zhou. (2025). Outlier-Robust Centralized and Distributed Variational Bayesian Moving Horizon Estimation. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. 73. 2527–2541. 3 indexed citations

Forti, Nicola, et al.. (2024). Adaptive Resilience in Navigation: Multi-Spoofing Attacks Defence with Statistical Hypothesis Testing and Directional Receivers. Florence Research (University of Florence). 1–8. 1 indexed citations

Soldi, Giovanni, Domenico Gaglione, Simone Raponi, et al.. (2023). Monitoring of Critical Undersea Infrastructures: The Nord Stream and Other Recent Case Studies. IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine. 38(10). 4–24. 9 indexed citations

Capobianco, Samuele, Nicola Forti, Leonardo M. Millefiori, Paolo Braca, & Peter Willett. (2022). Recurrent Encoder–Decoder Networks for Vessel Trajectory Prediction With Uncertainty Estimation. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems. 59(3). 2554–2565. 34 indexed citations

Forti, Nicola, et al.. (2022). Next-Gen Intelligent Situational Awareness Systems for Maritime Surveillance and Autonomous Navigation [Point of View]. Proceedings of the IEEE. 110(10). 1532–1537. 25 indexed citations

Capobianco, Samuele, Leonardo M. Millefiori, Nicola Forti, Paolo Braca, & Peter Willett. (2021). Deep Learning Methods for Vessel Trajectory Prediction Based on Recurrent Neural Networks. CINECA IRIS Institutial research information system (University of Pisa). 157 indexed citations breakdown →

Soldi, Giovanni, Nicola Forti, Domenico Gaglione, et al.. (2021). Quickest Detection and Forecast of Pandemic Outbreaks: Analysis of COVID-19 Waves. CINECA IRIS Institutial research information system (University of Pisa). 11 indexed citations

Capobianco, Samuele, Nicola Forti, Leonardo M. Millefiori, Paolo Braca, & Peter Willett. (2021). Uncertainty-Aware Recurrent Encoder-Decoder Networks for Vessel Trajectory Prediction. CINECA IRIS Institutial research information system (University of Pisa). 1–5. 10 indexed citations

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Soldi, Giovanni, Domenico Gaglione, Nicola Forti, et al.. (2021). Space-Based Global Maritime Surveillance. Part II: Artificial Intelligence and Data Fusion Techniques. CINECA IRIS Institutial research information system (University of Pisa). 26 indexed citations

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Forti, Nicola, Leonardo M. Millefiori, Paolo Braca, & Peter Willett. (2020). Prediction oof Vessel Trajectories From AIS Data Via Sequence-To-Sequence Recurrent Neural Networks. CINECA IRIS Institutial research information system (University of Pisa). 8936–8940. 61 indexed citations

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Gaglione, Domenico, Paolo Braca, Leonardo M. Millefiori, et al.. (2020). Adaptive Bayesian Learning and Forecasting of Epidemic Evolution—Data Analysis of the COVID-19 Outbreak. IEEE Access. 8. 175244–175264. 27 indexed citations

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Forti, Nicola, Leonardo M. Millefiori, Paolo Braca, & Peter Willett. (2020). Random Finite Set Tracking for Anomaly Detection in the Presence of Clutter. CINECA IRIS Institutial research information system (University of Pisa). 1–6. 9 indexed citations

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Battistelli, Giorgio, Luigi Chisci, Nicola Forti, & Stefano Gherardini. (2019). MAP moving horizon estimation for threshold measurements with application to field monitoring. International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing. 34(6). 796–811. 9 indexed citations

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Forti, Nicola, Leonardo M. Millefiori, Paolo Braca, & Peter Willett. (2019). Anomaly Detection and Tracking Based on Mean–Reverting Processes with Unknown Parameters. CINECA IRIS Institutial research information system (University of Pisa). 20 indexed citations

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Forti, Nicola, Giorgio Battistelli, Luigi Chisci, et al.. (2017). Distributed Joint Attack Detection and Secure State Estimation. IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks. 4(1). 96–110. 55 indexed citations

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Bou‐Harb, Elias, Walter Lúcia, Nicola Forti, et al.. (2017). Cyber Meets Control: A Novel Federated Approach for Resilient CPS Leveraging Real Cyber Threat Intelligence. IEEE Communications Magazine. 55(5). 198–204. 29 indexed citations

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Forti, Nicola, Giorgio Battistelli, Luigi Chisci, & Bruno Sinopoli. (2017). Worst-case analysis of joint attack detection and resilient state estimation. Florence Research (University of Florence). 182–188. 8 indexed citations

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Forti, Nicola, Giorgio Battistelli, Luigi Chisci, & Bruno Sinopoli. (2017). Secure State Estimation of Cyber-Physical Systems Under Switching Attacks. IFAC-PapersOnLine. 50(1). 4979–4986. 11 indexed citations

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Battistelli, Giorgio, Luigi Chisci, Claudio Fantacci, et al.. (2014). Distributed peer-to-peer multitarget tracking with association-based track fusion. Florence Research (University of Florence). 1–7. 7 indexed citations

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