Current position
Gaia Nicosia is currently Associate Professor of Operations Research at the school of Engineering of University "Roma Tre".
Contact address
Gaia Nicosia
Dipartimento di Ingegneria
Università degli studi Roma Tre
Via della Vasca Navale 79
00146 Roma
Tel.: +39 06 57333455 Fax: +39 06 57333612
e-mail: nicosia " @ " ing.uniroma3.it
Education
1995: "Laurea" degree in Mathematics at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata"
1999: Ph.D. in Operations Research, University of Rome "La Sapienza".
Research Activities
Gaia Nicosia's main research interests concern combinatorial optimization models for planning and scheduling problems, with applications in manufacturing and logistics. In particular, her attention focuses on the (i) characterization of problems in terms of computational complexity, (ii) development of exact, heuristic and on-line combinatorial algorithms, and (iii) validation of the proposed approaches through computational experiments. The main application areas of her research activities are: Layout design in production systems; Logistics and Transportation; Scheduling; Multi-agent systems; Telecommunication systems.
She reviewed papers for the following journals: Operations Research, European Journal of Operational Research, Discrete Applied Mathematics, Discrete Optimization, Annals of Operations Research, International Journal of Production Research, Journal of Scheduling, Computers and Mathematics with Applications, Operational Research: An International Journal, 4OR-Quarterly Journal of Operations Research and Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, besides numerous conferences.
She supervised one Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Automation at the Università degli studi "Roma Tre".
Program committees of international conferences:
5th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems, ICORES 2016 (Rome, Italy, February 2016);
15th Haifa Workshop on Interdisciplinary Applications of Graph Theory, Combinatorics and Algorithms (Haifa, Israel, June 2015);
13th Cologne-Twente Workshop on Graphs & Combinatorial Optimization, CTW2015, (Istanbul, Turkey, May 2015);
14th Haifa Workshop on Interdisciplinary Applications of Graph Theory, Combinatorics and Algorithms (University of Haifa, Israel, June 2014);
CTW2013, 12th Cologne-Twente Workshop on Graphs & Combinatorial Optimization (Twente, The Netherlands, May 2013)
11th Cologne-Twente Workshop on Graphs & Combinatorial Optimization, CTW2012, (Munich, Germany, May 2012)
CTW2011, 10th Cologne-Twente Workshop on Graphs & Combinatorial Optimization, co-chair, (Villa Mondragone, Frascati, Italy, June 2011)
Organizing committees of international conferences:
Euro-Informs Joint Conference (Rome, July 2013).
co-chair: 10th Cologne-Twente Workshop on Graphs & Combinatorial Optimization, CTW2011 (Frascati, Italy, June 2011)
Models and Algorithms for Planning and Scheduling Problems , MAPSP'05 (Siena, June 2005).
She was guest editor of a
special issue devoted to CTW2011 of Discrete Applied Mathematics (volume
165, issue 11, 2014).
Teaching
Master and Bachelor courses
Operations
Research II: School of Engineering of University Roma Tre since
academic year '00-'01.
Combinatorial Optimization:
School of Engineering of the University Roma Tre since academic year
'03-'04.
Scheduling in Production Systems: School of of Engineering of the University Roma Tre during academic
year '12-'13.
Operations Research: school of Computer Science of
the University of Rome "Tor Vergata'' during academic year '02-'03.
Combinatorial Optimization I: School of
Computer Science of the University of l'Aquila during academic years '99-'00
and '98-'99.
Courses for Ph. D. students
2015: mini course on "Multi Agent Scheduling", School of Economics, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Austria.
2014, 2007, 2004: "Online Algorithms",
Ph.D. course in Computer Science and
Automation, University "Roma Tre" (3 ECTS credits).
2010, 2008: mini course on "Introduction to Online Algorithms", School of Economics, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Austria.
2003: "Optimization on graphs", Ph.D. course in Computer Science and Automation, University "Roma Tre" (2 ECTS credits).
Other teaching activities
2007: "Resource allocation methods and Operation Research", Master program in System engineering e Project management organized by CNR and General Directorate for Military Personnel.
2005: "Operations Research", Master program in Information System Design and Complex Systems Engineering organized by CNR and General Directorate for Military Personnel.
2005: "Operations Research", Master program in Project Management at the School of Engineering, University of Rome "Roma Tre".
2002: "Decision Theory" Master program in Technology in Information Society at the School of Business, University of Rome "Roma Tre".
2000: "Computer tools'' training course in Operations Manager organized by "Consorzio dei Parchi Scientifico-Tecnologici" Cittaducale, Rieti.
Other Activities
2003 - now: member of the board of the Ph. D. program in Engineering, "Computer Science and Automation" sect., at the University "Roma Tre".
2003-2013: member of the board Faculty Programming Commission at the School of Engineering, University of Rome "Roma Tre".
2003-2011: Erasmus departmental coordinator for Computer Science Engineering.