Publications:

Journal Papers:

Published:

• [J1]- Roee M. Francos and Alfred M. Bruckstein, “Spiral Sweeping Search for Smart Evaders”, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems, 2025 - (IF: 8.7)
• [J2]- Moshe Guershon, Roee M. Francos, Amir Ayali and Tali Hatuka, “Locust Behavior and City Topology: A Biodynamic Approach for Assessing Urban Flows”, iScience, 2024 - (IF: 4.6)
• [J3]- Roee M. Francos and Alfred M. Bruckstein, "Defense Against Smart Invaders with Swarms of Sweeping Agents, Robotics and Autonomous Systems", 2023 - (IF: 4.3)
• [J4]- Roee M. Francos and Alfred M. Bruckstein, “On the Role and Opportunities in Teamwork Cooperation for Advancing Futuristic Multi-Robot Searching Systems”, invited paper, special issue on “The Future of Multi-Robot Systems: An Early Career Scientists’ Perspective”, Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2023 - (IF: 3.4)
• [J5]- Roee M. Francos and Alfred M. Bruckstein, "Search for Smart Evaders with Swarms of Sweeping Agents- a Resource Allocation Perspective", Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, vol. 106, no. 4, pp.1-34, 2022 - (IF: 3.3)
• [J6]- Roee M. Francos and Alfred M. Bruckstein, "Search for Smart Evaders with Swarms of Sweeping Agents", IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 1080-1100, 2021 - (IF: 7.8)
• [J7]- Roee M. Francos and Alfred M. Bruckstein, "Search for Smart Evaders with Sweeping Agents", Robotica, vol. 39, no.12, pp. 2210-2245, 2021 - (IF: 2.7)

Conference Papers:

Published:

• [C1]- Roee M. Francos*, Daniel Garces*, Stephanie Gil, "Stable Multi-Agent Routing with Bounded-Delay Adversaries in the Decision Loop", IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Brazil, December 2025.
• [C2]- Roee M. Francos, Moshe Guershon, Amir Ayali, Tali Hatuka and Alfred M. Bruckstein, “LocusTracker: Markerless Multi-Agent Tracking In Various Environments”, International Symposium on Swarm Behavior and Bio-Inspired Robotics, Japan, September 2024
• [C3]- Roee M. Francos,“Safety Risk Prediction and Traffic Control for Autonomous Vehicle Interactions Using Graph Neural Networks”,Towards Safe Autonomy Workshop, Robotics: Science and Systems, Netherlands, July 2024
• [C4]- Roee M. Francos and Alfred M. Bruckstein, “Defense Against Smart Invaders with Teams of Searching Agents”, IEEE International Symposium on Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent Systems (MRS) 2023 , USA, December 2023
• [C5]- Roee M. Francos, “ Provably Safe and Efficient Multi-Agent Team Cooperation Under Uncertainties”, RSS Pioneers Workshop, Robotics: Science and Systems, South Korea, July 2023
• [C6]- Roee M. Francos and Alfred M. Bruckstein, “Sweeping Line Formations for Detection of Smart Evaders”, Towards Autonomous Robotics Systems (TAROS) 2023, UK, September 2023
• [C7]- Roee M. Francos and Alfred M. Bruckstein, “ Pincer Movements are Always Better Than Same-Direction Search”, International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots, USA, June 2023
• [C8]- Roee M. Francos and Alfred M. Bruckstein, “Pincer Trajectories for Smart Opponent Detection by Multi-Agent Teams”, Israel Conference on Robotics, March 2023