Awards:
- "ARCHIMEDE" award from Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Catania, for theacademic year 2003-2004, as graduated student with excellent career.
- The thesis entitled “Implementation of a compact model of semiconductor ’s bipolar devices (HICUM)”, supervised by Prof. A.M. Anile, was awarded by STmicroelectronics on 07-06-2005.
Attended Conferences and Workshops:
- MeCBIC 2010 Conference on Membrane Computing and Biologically Inspired Process Calculi Communication: Hybrid Calculus of Wrapped Compartments
- ICTCS 2010 Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science Communication: Sequence-Function Protein Analysis Using Annotated Context Free Grammars
- 2008 IEEE Conference on BioInformatics and BioEngineering. Athens, Greece, 8-10 October, 2008. Communications: “Robust Parameter Identification for Biological Circuit Calibration”; “A Web Applicationfor Biological Pathway Integration”
- 2008 SIAM Conference on Optimization. Boston, USA, May 10-13, 2008. Communication: G. Nicosia,E. Sciacca. “Pattern Search Algorithms for Circuit Design Optimization”.
- Computational Structural Bioinformatics Workshop (CSBW) on IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM 2007), November 2007, San Jose, CA, USA. Communication: G. Nicosia, E. Sciacca, L. Zammataro. "Detecting constituent sequences by means of HP pattern-based grammars to synthesize proteins: Inferring sequence-structure-function relationship".
- IFSA 2007 Theory and Applications of Fuzzy Logic and Soft Computing. Cancun, Mexico, June 18-21, 2007 Communication: E. Sciacca, S. Spinella, A. M. Anile. “Possibilistic Worst Case Distance and applications to circuit sizing”.
- Synthetic Biology 3.0, Zurich, Switzerland , June 24-26, 2007. Communication: G. Nicosia, E. Sciacca, and L. Zammataro :“Detecting Constituent Sequences by means of HP Pattern-Based Grammars to Synthesize Proteins”.
Attended Schools:
- International Summer School on Modeling and Optimization in Micro- and Nano- Electronics - MOMiNE '09. 1-11 September 2009. Cetraro, Italy. Talk: Pattern Search Algorithms and a Possibilistic Worst Case Distance Methodology for Circuit Design Optimization.
- International Summer School on Modeling and Optimization in Micro- and Nano- Electronics - MOMiNE '08. 14-28 June 2008. Ragusa, Italy. Talk: New methodologies for Circuit Design Optimization: Pattern Search Algorithms and Yield Analysis.
- International School of Functional Genomics. 5-19 July 2008. Ragusa, Italy. Poster presentation.
- Nonlinear Optimization, CIME School, Cetraro, Italy, 1-7 July, 2007.
- Bioinformatics for Systems and Synthetic Biology, 8th Bologna Winter School, Bologna, Italy, 18-23 February ,2007.
- Scientific Computing in Electrical Engineering (SCEE 2005) Capo D'Orlando, Italy, September 5-17, 2005.
Technical Report :
- G. Nicosia, E. Sciacca “ NOMAD for Circuit Design Problems”, Technical Report CT- 06-2007.
- G. Nicosia, E. Sciacca, L. Zammataro, “Modeling Sequence-Structure-Function Relationship using Linguistic Modelsand Constituent Sequences”, Technical Report CT-TO-03-2007.
Publications:
- M. COPPO, F. DAMIANI, M. DROCCO, E. GRASSI, SCIACCA E., S. SPINELLA, A. TROINA (2010). Hybrid Calculus of Wrapped Compartments. ELECTRONIC PROCEEDINGS IN THE ORETICAL COMPUTER SCIENCE, vol. 40; p. 102-120, ISSN: 2075-2180, doi: 10.4204/EPTCS.40.8-
- NICOSIA G, RINAUDO S, SCIACCA E. (2008). An Evolutionary Algorithm-Based Approach to Robust Analog Circuit Design using Constrained Multi-Objective Optimization. KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS, vol. 21; p. 175-183, ISSN: 0950-7051
- SCIACCA E., SPINELLA S (2010). Reliable Biological Circuit Design Including Uncertain Kinetic Parameters. In: W. A. LODWICK, J. KACPRZYK. Fuzzy Optimization Recent Advances and Applications. vol. 254, p. 457-477, , ISBN/ISSN: 978-3-642-13934-5, doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-13935-2_21-
- SCIACCA E., SPINELLA S, ANILE A.M (2007). Possibilistic Worst Case Distance and applications to circuit sizing. In:
- CASTILLO, O., MELIN, P., MONTIEL ROSS, O., SEPLVEDA CRUZ, R., PEDRYCZ, W., KACPRZYK, J.. Theoretical Advances and Applications of Fuzzy Logic and Soft Computing. vol. 42, p. 287-295, ISBN/ISSN: 978-3-540-72433-9-
- SPINELLA S, SCIACCA E., GIANNINI P (2010). Protein Sequence-Function Analysis Using Annotated Context-FreeGrammars. In: ICTCS2010. Camerino, Italy, September 15-17, 2010-
- NICOSIA G, SCIACCA E. (2008). Robust Parameter Identification for Biological Circuit Calibration. In: IEEE BIBE 2008Proceedings, p. 1-6-
- NICOSIA G, SCIACCA E. (2008). Pattern Search Algorithms for Circuit Design Optimization. In: SIAM Conference on Optimization (OP08). Boston MA, 10-13 Maggio, p. 58-59-
- SCIACCA E., AYYADURAI V A S, DEWEY C F (2008). Enabling a Remote Collaboration Environment for Integration of Quantitative Molecular Pathways. In: ECCB08. Cagliari, Italy, 22-26 September 2008, p. 1-
- SCIACCA E., V. A. SHIVA AYYADURAI, C. FORBES DEWEY (2008). A Web Based Tool for Integration of Molecular Pathway Models. In: IEEE BIBE 2008, p. 1-6-
- SCIACCA E., V. AYYADURAI, C. F. DEWEY (2008). A Web Based Application for the Integration of Quantitative Molecular Pathway Simulations. In: BMES 2008. St. Louis USA, 1-4 Ottobre, p. 1-
- G. NICOSIA, SCIACCA E., L. ZAMMATARO (2007). Detecting Constituent Sequences by means of HP Pattern-Based Grammars to Synthesize Proteins. In: Synthetic Biology 3.0. Zurich, Switzerland, June 24-26, 2007, p. 1-
- G. NICOSIA, SCIACCA E., L. ZAMMATARO (2007). Detecting Constituent Sequences by Means of HP Pattern-Based Grammars to Synthesize Proteins: Inferring Sequence-Structure-Function Relationship. In: IEEE BIBM 2007. Fremont, California, p. 53-59-
- SCIACCA E., S. SPINELLA, S. DRAGO (2006). Multiobjective optimization of circuit performances through solution ranking and evolutionary strategies. In: SIMAI 2006. Baia Samuele (Ragusa), 22-26 May 2006, p. 1-8-
- M. ALDINUCCI, A. TROINA, F. DAMIANI, M. COPPO, M. DROCCO, D. RISPOLI, SCIACCA E., S. SPINELLA, E. GRASSI(2010). CWC simulator (Calculus of Wrapped Compartments)