RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Network design and management, Green networking and cloud computing
• Global optimization methods
• Combinatorial and Euclidean Packing (Winner with M.Locatelli and F. Schoen of Circle packing contest)
• Large scale optimization algorithms
• Optimization and modeling applied:
  health care problems, space mission analysis, molecular problems

PUBLICATIONS

Working papers available online

1. B. Addis, A. Capone, G. Carello, L. G. Gianoli, B. Sansò: "Energy management in communication networks: a journey through modelling and optimization glasses", ArXiv link, (2015)

International journals

2. B. Addis, G. Carello, A. Grosso, E. Tànfani: "Operating room scheduling and rescheduling: a rolling horizon approach",
   Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal, (2015).


3. B. Addis, G. Carello, A. Grosso, E. Lanzarone, S. Mattia, E. Tànfani: "Handling Uncertainty in Health Care Management using the Cardinality-Constrained Approach: Advantages and Remarks",
   Operations Research For Health Care, 4, pp 1-4 (2015).


4. B. Addis, A. Capone, G. Carello, L. G. Gianoli, B. Sansò: "On the Energy Cost of Robustness and Resiliency in IP Networks",
   Computer Networks, 75 (A), pp 239-259 (2014).


5. B. Addis, D. Ardagna, A. Capone, G. Carello: "Energy-aware joint management of network and cloud infrastructures",
   Computer Networks, 70, pp 75-95 (2014).


6. D. Izzo, L. F. Simões, C. H. Yama, F. Biscani, D. Di Lorenzo, B. Addis, A. Cassioli: " GTOC5: Results from the European Space Agency's Advanced Concepts Team and University of Florence Global Optimization Laboratory",
   Acta Futura, 8 pp. 45-55 (2014).


7. B. Addis, A. Capone, G. Carello, L. G. Gianoli, B. Sansò: "Dynamic and Coordinated Energy Management through Optimized Routing and Device Powering for Greener Communication Networks",
   IEEE Transactions on Networking, 22 (1), pp 313-325, (2014).


8. B. Addis, D. Ardagna, B. Panicucci , M. Squillante, L. Zhang: "A Hierarchical Approach for the Resource Management of Very Large Cloud Platforms",
   IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 10 (5), pp 253-272, (2013).


9. B. Addis, M. Di Summa, A. Grosso: "Removing critical nodes from a graph: complexity results and polynomial algorithms for the case of bounded treewidth",
   Discrete and Applied Mathematics, 161 (16-17), pp 2349-2360, (2013).


10. B. Addis, A. Ceselli and G. Carello: "Combining Very Large Scale and ILP based neighborhoods for a Two-level Location Problem",
    European Journal of Operational Research, 231 (3), pp 535-546, (2013).


11. B. Addis, A. Ceselli and G. Carello: "Exactly solving a Two-level Hierarchical Location Problem with modular node capacities",
    Networks, Volume 59, Issue 1, pp 161-180, (2012).


12. B. Addis, A. Cassioli, M. Locatelli and F. Schoen: "A Global Optimization method for Design of Space Trajectories",
    Computational Optimization and Applications, 48, pp 635-652, (2011).


13. B. Addis and W. Schachinger: "Morse potential energy minimization: Improved bounds for optimal configurations" ,
    Computational Optimization and Applications, 47 (1), pp 129-131 (2010).


14. B. Addis and W. Schachinger: "Improved bounds for interatomic distance in Morse clusters",
    Operations Research Letters, 37, pp 290-294, (2009).


15. B. Addis, A. Capone, G. Carello, F. Malucelli, M. Fumagalli and E. Pedrinelli: "Designing Two-layer Optical Networks with Statistical Multiplexing" ,
    Fiber and Integrated Optics, 27 (4), pp 249-255 (2008).


16. B. Addis, M. Locatelli and F. Schoen: "Efficiently packing unequal disks in a circle" ,
    Operations Research Letters, 36, pp 37-42, (2008).


17. B. Addis, M. Locatelli and F. Schoen: "Disk Packing in a Square: A New Global Optimization Approach",
    INFORMS Journal of Computing, 20, pp 516-524, (2008).


18. B. Addis and M. Locatelli: "A new class of test functions for global optimization",
    Journal of Global Optimization, 38 (3), pp 479-501, (2007).


19. W. Schachinger, B. Addis, I. M. Bomze and F. Schoen: "New results for molecular formation under pairwise potential minimization",
    Computational Optimization and Applications, 38 (3), pp 329-349, (2007).


20. B. Addis and S. Leyffer: "A Trust-Region Algorithm for Global Optimization",
    Computational Optimization and Applications, 35, pp 287-304, (2006).


21. B. Addis, M. Locatelli and F. Schoen: "Local optima smoothing for global optimization",
    Optimization Methods and Software, 20 (4-5), pp 417-437, (2005).


22. B. Addis and F. Schoen: "Docking of atomic clusters through nonlinear optimization",
    J. of Global Optimization, 30 (1), pp 1-21, (2004).

International Conferences with review and LNCS

23. B. Addis, D. Belabed, M. Bouet, S. Secci: "Virtual Network Functions Placement and Routing Optimization",
    2015 IEEE Cloud Networking Conference (CLOUDNET 2015), Oct. 5-7, 2015, Niagara Falls, Canada.


24. B. Addis, G. Carello, S. Mattia: "Energy-aware survivable networks",
    INOC 2015, April 2015, Warsaw, Poland.


25. B. Addis, A. Capone, G. Carello, L. Gianoli, B. Sansò: "A robust optimization approach for energy-aware routing in MPLS networks",
    IEEE ICNC 2013, San Diego, USA, 2013.


26. B. Addis, G. Carello, E. Tànfani: "A robust optimization approach for the Operating Room Planning Problem with uncertain surgery durations",
    International Conference on HCSE, Milan, Italy, 2013.


27. B. Addis, A. Capone, G. Carello, L. Gianoli, B. Sansò: "Energy aware management of resilient networks with shared protection",
    IEEE SustainIT 2012, pp 1-9. Pisa, Italy, 2012.


28. B. Addis, A. Capone, G. Carello, L. Gianoli, B. Sansò: "Multi-period Traffic Engineering of Resilient Networks for Energy efficiency",
    IEEE GreenCom 2012, Online, 2012.


29. B. Addis, A. Capone, G. Carello, L. Gianoli, B. Sansò: "Energy-Aware Multiperiod Traffc Engineering with Flow-based Routing",
    IEEE ICC 2012 (workshop on Green Communications and Networking - GCN), pp 5957-5961. Ottawa, Canada, 2012.


30. B. Addis, G. Carello, F. Malucelli: "SRG-disjoint design with dedicated and shared protection",
    INOC 2011, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp 18-23.


31. B. Addis, D. Ardagna, B. Panicucci, L. Zhang: "Autonomic Management of Cloud Service Centers with Availability Guarantees",
    IEEE Cloud 2010, pp 220-227. Miami, Florida, USA.


32. B. Addis, G. Carello, A. Ceselli: "A branch-and-cut-and-price approach for a Two-level Hierarchical Location Problem",
    INOC 2009, Pisa, Italy, 2009.


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Book chapters

• B. Addis, R. Aringhieri, G. Carello, A. Grosso and F. Maffioli "Workforce Management based on forecast demand"
  in E. Tanfani, A. Test, editors, Advanced Decision Making Methods Applied to Health Care, Springer, pp. 1-11, 2012.
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Other conference proceedings

• B. Addis, G. Carello, S. Mattia: " Energy-aware operation management in telecommunication network with shared protection mechanism",
  INOC 2013.


• B. Addis, G. Carello, E. Tànfani: "A robust optimization approach for the Operating Room Planning Problem with uncertain surgery durations",
  Proceedings ROADEF 2013.


• B. Addis, R. Aringhieri, E. Tànfani, A. Testi: "Clinical pathways: Insights from a multidisciplinary literature survey",
  Proceedings ORAHS 2012.


• R. Aringhieri, B. Addis, G. Carello, M. Gribaudo, and A. Grosso: "Advanced workforce management in healthcare",
  Proceedings ORAHS 2011


• B. Addis, R. Aringhieri, M. Gribaudo, and A. Grosso: "Combining petri nets and metaheuristics for the optimal composition of medical teams",
  Proceedings MIC 2011.


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PROJECTS

Industrial Research Projects and Technological Trasfer

• May 2007-December 2010 Industrial Research Project
  Optimization Models and Algorithms for design and management of multiservice networks
  Collaboration between Alcatel-Lucent and Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione (Politecnico di Milano)


• June 2006-June 2008 External consulting for Giunti Multimedia S.r.l.
  Software and management division of Giunti (important Italian publishing house).
  Study and implementation of algorithms for managing Giunti's warehouse (Automatic algorithms for optimal book packing)



Partecipation in Academic Research Projects

• FIRB giovani 2008 (Italian Ministry funded project)
  Percorsi di cura: nuovi modelli organizzativi e di gestione centrati sul paziente,
  (Clinical pathways: new organizational and management models focused on patient)
  Dipartimento di Informatica (Universita degli Studi di Torino)
  


• PRIN 2005 (Italian Ministry funded project)
  Ottimizzazione globale per problemi con un elevato numero di ottimi locali,
  (Global optimization for problems with a very large number of local optima)
  Dipartimento di Sistemi e Informatica (Universit`a degli Studi di Firenze)


• FIRB 2001 (Italian Ministry funded project)
  Ottimizzazione Nonlineare su Larga Scala,
  (Large scale Non Linear Optimization)
  Dipartimento di Sistemi e Informatica (Universit`a degli Studi di Firenze)


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Teaching

University

• Université de Lorraine - Ecole des Mines de Nancy
  • 2013/2014-2015/2016 Optimization Discrete (Discrete Optimization).
    
  • 2013/2014-2014/2015 Optimization et Gestion de la Production (Production Optimization and Management).
    
  • 2015/2016 Recherche operationelle (Operations research).
    
  • 2013/2014-2014/2015 Exercise session for Recherche operationelle (Operations research).
    
    
• Università degli Studi di Torino
  • 2011/2012-2012/2013 Exercise session for Ricerca Operativa (Operations Research - proff. R. Aringhieri, A. Grosso) for Scuola Universitaria Interfacoltà in Scienze Strategiche.
    
    
• Politecnico di Milano
  • 2007/2008 Exercise session for Fondamenti di Ricerca Operativa D/E (Operations Research)
    
  • 2007/2008-2008/2009 Exercise session for Fondamenti di Ricerca Operativa D (Operations Research)
    
  • 2007/2008 Exercise session for Complementi di Ricerca Operativa (Operations Research)
    
  • 2008/2009 Laboratorio di Complementi di Ricerca Operativa (Operations Research Workshop)
  • 2008/2009-2009/2010 Lab session for Fondamenti di Ricerca Operativa D (Operations Research)
  • 2009/2010 Exercise session for Fondamenti di Ricerca Operativa - Ing. Mat. (Operations Research)
  • 2009/2010 Lab Session for Modelli e Metodi per l'Ottimizzazione Discreta (Models and Methods for Discrete Optimization)
    
  • 2009/2010 Lab Session for Operations Research - Como
    
  • 2010/2011 Lab session for Fondamenti di Ricerca Operativa D (Operations Research)
    
  • 2010/2011 Exercise session for Fondamenti di Ricerca Operativa B (Operations Research)
    
    
• Università degli Studi di Firenze
  • 2001/2002 Lab session (with P. Frosini) for Operations Research courses
    
  • 2002/2003 Graph lectures for the Operations Research course for Environmental Engineering
    
  • 2005/06-2006/07 Lab session for Operations Research courses
    
  • 2005/06-2006/07 Combinatorial Optimization course for Management Science Engineering
    
    
• Università degli Studi di Siena
• 2006/2007 Exercise session for Operations Research course
  

Others

• 2001 "Java and OOP" in the Active Server Manager Course (S.Giovanni Valdarno)
• 2002 "Dreamweaver" in the Active Server Manager Course (S.Giovanni Valdarno)
• 2002 "MS Word" (C.S.I.A.F.)
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