Main Research Interests
- Scheduling and Timetabling Problems (my timetabling seminar)
- Local Search & Metaheuristics for Combinatorial Problems
- Problem Specification Languages and Tools
- Optimization Software Tools
Industrial Collaborations
Conference Program Chair
- 11th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT 2016), Udine (Italy), August 23-26 2016
- 9th Metaheuristic International Conference (MIC 2011), Udine (Italy), July 25-28 2011
- 6th International Workshop on Hybrid Metaheuristics (HM-2009), Udine (Italy), October 16-17 2009
Editorial Boards
Recent Invited Talks
- Plenary Speaker at the 13th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT-2022), Leuven, Belgium, Tue 30 Aug 2022 - Fri 2 Sep 2022.
- Speaker at the 1st International Metaheuristics Summer School (MESS-2018), Acireale Italy, 21 - 25 July, 2018.
- Invited Speaker at the 27th Annual Conference of the Belgian Operations Research Society (ORBEL 27), Kortrijk Belgium, 7 - 8 February, 2013.
- Invited Speaker at the 12-esimo Workshop Nazionale "Dagli Oggetti agli Agenti" (WOA-2011), Rende (CS), Italia, 4 - 6 Luglio 2011
Recent Conference Program Committees
- IJCAI-ECAI 2022: 31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
- PATAT 2022: 13th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling
- PPSN2022: Parallel Problem Solving from Nature
- LOD 2022: 8th International Conference on machine Learning, Optimization & Data science - LOD 2022
- MIC 2022: 14th Metaheuristics International Conference
- IJCAI 2021: 30st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
- AIxIA2021: 20th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence
- ai4i 2021: International Conference on AI for Industries
- LOD 2021:The Seventh International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science - An Interdisciplinary Conference: Machine Learning, Optimization, Big Data & Artificial Intelligence without Borders
- ai4i 2020: Artificial Intelligence for Industries 2020
- LOD 2020: 6th International Conference on machine Learning, Optimization and Data science
- CPAIOR 2020: Seventeenth International Conference on the Integration of Constraint Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Operations Research
- PPSN2020: Parallel Problem Solving from Nature
- LION 14: 14th Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN Conference
- MISTA 2019: 9th Multidisciplinary International Scheduling Conference: Theory & Applications
- IPS 2019: 7th Italian Workshop on Planning and Scheduling
- ai4i 2019: The Second International Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Industries
- LOD 2019: The Fifth International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science
- SLS2019: SLS2019 : International Workshop on Stochastic Local Search Algorithms
- MIC2019: 13th Metaheuristics International Conference
- PATAT 2018: 12th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling
- HM 2019:hybrid Metaheuristics 2019
- IEEE AI4I 2018: First IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Industries
- SEBD 2018: 26th Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems
- SoCPaR 2018: 10th International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition
- HIS 2018: 18th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems
- LOD 2018: 4th International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization and Data Science
- PPSN 2018: The Fifteenth International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature
- MH2018: Matheuristics 2018