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Name: Nicola Policella
Affiliation: ISTC-CNR [PST]
Italian National Research Council
Institute of Cognitive Science and Technology
Planning & Scheduling Team
Via San Martino della Battaglia, 44
I-00185
Rome, Italy
Phone: +39644595224
Email: [email protected]
Date of Birth: May 6, 1974
Place of Birth: Rome, Italy
Languages: Italian (mother tongue); English (good command)
Education
- March 2005. PhD degree in Computer Science Engineering
Thesis title: “Scheduling with uncertainty: A proactive approach using Partial Order Schedules”
University of Rome “La Sapienza”.
- March 2001. Laurea degree (cum laude) in Computer Science Engineering
Thesis title: “Problemi di scheduling con risorse consumabili: risoluzione con approccio a vincoli
in una architettura software orientata agli oggetti” (Project Scheduling with Inventory Constraints: a
Constraint-based Approach in an Object-Oriented Architecture) (In Italian).
University of Rome “La Sapienza”.
Current position
- Postdoctoral Fellow at the Planning and Scheduling Team, PST, Institute for Cognitive Science and
Technology of Italian National Research Council, ISTC-CNR.
Research positions
- September 2003 - present. Research Fellowship by the Institute for Cognitive Science and Technology
of Italian National Research Council, ISTC-CNR.
- March 2002 - August 2002. Six month Research Fellowship by the Institute for Cognitive Science and
Technology of Italian National Research Council, ISTC-CNR.
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Awards
- August 2003. CNR (Italian National Research Council) Scholarship to carry on research in the Information Technology Area in a foreign institution (8 months).
- September 2002. CNR (Italian National Research Council) Scholarship to carry on research in the
Information Technology Area in an Italian institution (12 months).
- 2001. AI*IA Award for the best Thesis in Artificial Intelligence by Master Graduate
(AI*IA is the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence)
Research interests
Constraint-Based Approaches to Planning and Scheduling. In particular:
- Scheduling with Uncertainty,
- Scheduling Algorithms and Heuristics,
- Temporal and Resources Reasoning,
- Integration of Planning and Scheduling.
Professional experiences
- Since 1999 participation at research activities at the Planning & Scheduling Team, PST, working at
different tasks involved in developing Planning and Scheduling Research Projects:
- O-Oscar (since 1999): an object-oriented architecture for definition, representation and solution of
scheduling problems. He has been responsible for extending the representation language to deal
with consumable resource.
- Mexar (2001 - 2002): an object-oriented architecture for definition, representation and solution
of space issue of planning and scheduling problem. Research conducted for the European Space
Agency (ESA). He has been responsible for the problem solving module.
- RoboCare (since September 2004): a distributed and heterogeneous platform, consisting of a hardware and software prototype. The goal of the RoboCare project is to build a multi-agent system
which generates user services for human assistance.
- Mexar2 (since May 2005): an object-oriented architecture for definition, representation and solution of space issue of planning and scheduling problem. Research conducted for the European
Space Agency (ESA). He has been responsible for the problem solving module.
- January – August 2003. Visiting Student Scholar at the Robotics Institute of the Carnegie Mellon University (USA)
Advisor: Dr. Stephen F. Smith.
- June – November 2004. Visiting Student Scholar at the Robotics Institute of the Carnegie Mellon University (USA)
Advisor: Dr. Stephen F. Smith.
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Other experiences
2000:
- Organization and participation at the “PLANET Workshop on Aerospace Application”, September 1819, 2000, Rome , Italy.
- Participation at the First International Summer School on AI Planning. September, 2000, Cyprus.
He received a PLANET student grant to participate at this event.
2001:
- Participation at AI*IA’01, 7th National Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence
(AI*IA), September, 2001, Bari, Italy. He presented the work “A Constraint-Based Architecture for
Flexible Support to Activity Scheduling”.
He received an AI*IA student grant to participate at this event.
2002:
- Participation at CP-AI-OR’02 Conference and School on Optimization, March 23-27, 2002, Le Croisic,
France.
- Participation at AIPS’02, Sixth International Conference on AI Planning & Scheduling, April 23-27,
2002, Toulouse, France.
He received a PLANET student grant to participate at this event.
- Participation at the Second International Summer School on AI Planning. September, 2002, Halkidiki,
Greece.
He received a PLANET student grant to participate at this event.
- Organization and Participation at the “PLANET Information Day on Industrial Application of AI Planning & Scheduling”, November 7th , 2002, Rome, Italy.
2003:
- Participation at AI*IA’03, 8th National Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence
(AI*IA), September 23-26, 2003, Pisa, Italy. He presented the work “A CSP-Based Interactive Decision
Aid for Space Mission Planning”
- Participation at CP2003, Ninth International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, 29 September - 3 October, 2003, Kinsale, Ireland.
- Participation at the Workshop Online-2003 – Online Constraint Solving: Handling Change and Uncertainty. 29 September, 2003, Kinsale, Ireland.
He presented the work “Steps toward Computing flexible Schedules”.
2004:
- Participation at CP-AI-OR’04 Conference and Master Class in Graph Theory and Constraint Programming, April 19-22, 2004, Nice, France.
- Organization of IWPSS’04, the 4th International Workshop on Planning and Scheduling for Space. June
23-25, 2004, Darmstadt, Germany.
- Participation at ICAPS’04, the 14th International Conference on Automated Planning & Scheduling.
June 3-7, 2004, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada.
He received a AAAI student grant to participate at this event.
- Participation at CP2004, 10th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming. September 27 - October 1, 2004, Toronto, Canada.
He presented the work “Generating Robust Partial Order Schedules”.
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Reviewing
- AIPS’02, Sixth International Conference on AI Planning & Scheduling, April 23-27, 2002, Toulouse,
France.
- ICAPS’03, 13th International Conference on Automated Planning & Scheduling, June 9-13, 2003,
Trento, Italy.
- AI*IA’03, 8th national conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA), September 23-26, 2003, Pisa, Italy.
- ICAPS’04, 14th International Conference on Automated Planning & Scheduling, June 3-7, 2004, Whistler,
Canada.
- AAMAS’04, 3rd International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multi Agent Systems, July
19-23, 2004, New York, USA.
- ICAPS’05, 15th International Conference on Automated Planning & Scheduling, June 5-10, 2005, Monterey, CA, USA.
- IJCAI’05, 19th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, July 30 - August 5, 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland.
- CP2005, 11th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, October
1 - 5, 2005, Sitges, Spain.
Programming Languages and Tools
- Languages: C/C++, Java.
- Development Environments: Visual C++, JDK.
- Experience with Windows and Linux development.
Publications
- N. Policella “Problemi di scheduling con risorse consumabili: risoluzione con approccio a vincoli”
(Project Scheduling with Inventory Constraints: a Constraint-based Approach)(in italian), in AI*IA Notizie, Year XIV (2001) volume 4, pp. 6-11.
- A. Cesta, G. Cortellessa, A. Oddi, N. Policella, F. Severoni, and A. Susi “A Constraint-Based Architecture for Continuous Support in Mission Planning”, in ESA workshop On-Board Autonomy, pp. 219-226.
ESA-ESTEC, Nordwijk, The Nederland, 2001.
- A. Cesta, G. Cortellessa, A. Oddi, N. Policella, and A. Susi “A Constraint-Based Architecture for Flexible Support to Activity Scheduling”, in Proceedings AI*IA 01, 7th national conference of the Italian
Association for Artificial Intelligence, LNAI n. 2175, pp.369-381. Bari, Italy, September 25-28, 2001
- A. Cesta, G. Cortellessa, A. Oddi, N. Policella, and F. Severoni “A Software Tool for End-to-End Support
of Users in Solving the Mars-Express Memory Dumping Problem” in Proceedings of PLANET/ECP
Workshop on “Automated Planning and Scheduling Technologies in New Methods of Electronic, Mobile
and Collaborative Work”, Toledo, Spain, September, 2001.
- A. Cesta, G. Cortellessa, A. Oddi, and N. Policella. “MEXAR: An Intelligent Support for Space Mission
Planning”, in Proceedings of the Workshop on AI Planning and Scheduling for Autonomy in Space
Applications, Manchester, July 6, 2002.
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- A. Oddi, A. Cesta, N. Policella, and G. Cortellessa. “Scheduling Downlink Operations in MARS EXPRESS”, in Proceedings of the 3rd International NASA Workshop on Planning and Scheduling for Space,
Houston, Texas, October 27-29, 2002.
- A. Cesta, G. Cortellessa, A. Oddi, and N. Policella. “Interaction Services for Mission Planning in MARS
EXPRESS”, in Proceedings of the 3rd International NASA Workshop on Planning and Scheduling for
Space, Houston, Texas, October 27-29, 2002.
- A. Cesta, G. Cortellessa, A. Oddi, and N. Policella, “An Interactive Problem Solving Tool for Mission
Planning”, in Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and
Automation in Space, i-SAIRAS ’03, Nara, Japan, May 19-23, 2003.
- A. Oddi, N. Policella, A. Cesta, and G. Cortellessa, “Constraint-Based Random Search for Solving
Spacecraft Downlink Scheduling Problems”, in Proceedings of MISTA-03, The 1st Multidisciplinary
International Conference on Scheduling : Theory and Applications, Nottingham, UK, August 13-16,
2003.
- A. Cesta, G. Cortellessa, A. Oddi, and N. Policella, “A CSP-Based Interactive Decision Aid for Space
Mission Planning”, in Proceedings of AI*IA 2003, 8th national conference of the Italian Association for
Artificial Intelligence, LNAI 2829, pp. 511-522. Pisa, Italy, September 23-26, 2003
- A. Cesta, G. Cortellessa, A. Oddi, and N. Policella, “CSPs at Work - Relevance of interaction modules
to deploy applications”, in 3th International Workshop on User Interaction in Constraint Satisfaction,
Kinsale, Ireland, 29 September, 2003.
- A. Oddi, N. Policella, A. Cesta, and G. Cortellessa, “Generating High Quality Schedules for a Spacecraft
Memory Downlink Problem”, in Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, 9th International
Conference, CP 2003, LNCS 2833, pp. 570-584. Kinsale, Ireland, September 29 - October 3, 2003.
- N. Policella, S.F. Smith, A. Cesta, and A. Oddi, “Steps toward Computing flexible Schedules”, in
Online-2003 – Online Constraint Solving: Handling Change and Uncertainty, Kinsale, Ireland, 29
September, 2003.
- A. Cesta, G. Cortellessa, A. Oddi, and N. Policella, “User Interaction with an Automated Solver. The
Case of a Mission Planner”, in HCITALY 2003, Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction, Torino,
Italy, November 4-5, 2003.
- G. Cortellessa, A. Cesta, A. Oddi, and N. Policella, “User Interaction with an Automated Solver. The
Case of a Mission Planner”, in PsychNology, On-line journal, http://www.psychnology.org/,
vol. 2(1), 2004.
- A. Oddi, N. Policella, A. Cesta, and G. Cortellessa, “Constraint-Based Random Search for Solving
Spacecraft Downlink Scheduling Problems”, in Post-conference selected volume of MISTA 2003 The 1st
Multidisciplinary International Conference on Scheduling : Theory and Applications, Kluwer, 2004. To
appear.
- N. Policella, S.F. Smith, A. Cesta, and A. Oddi, “Generating Robust Schedules through Temporal
Flexibility”, in Proceedings of 14th International Conference on Automated Planning & Scheduling ,
Whistler, Canada, June 3-7, 2004.
- A. Cesta, G. Cortellessa, A. Oddi, and N. Policella, “Studying Decision Support for Mars Express Planning Tasks: A Report from the Mexar Experience”, in Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop
on Planning and Scheduling for Space, IWPSS’04. June 23-25, 2004, Darmstadt, Germany.
- A. Oddi and N. Policella, “A Max-Flow Approach for Improving Robustness in a Spacecraft Downlink
Schedule”, in Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Planning and Scheduling for Space,
IWPSS’04. June 23-25, 2004, Darmstadt, Germany.
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- N. Policella, A. Oddi, S.F. Smith and A. Cesta, “Generating Robust Partial Order Schedules”, in Proceedings of CP2004, 10th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming.
September 27 - October 1, 2004, Toronto, Canada.
- N. Policella and R. Rasconi, “Testsets Generation for Reactive Scheduling” In Atti della Giornata di
Lavoro: Analisi sperimentale e benchmark di algoritmi per l’Intelligenza Artificiale, June 10, 2005,
Ferrara, Italy.
- N. Policella, A. Cesta, A. Oddi, and S.F. Smith “Schedule robustness through Solve-and-Robustify:
generating flexible schedules from different fixed-time solutions”, in Proceedings of Workshop on Constraint Programming for Planning and Scheduling, June 6, 2005, Monterey, California, USA.
- N. Policella, X. Wang, S.F. Smith, and A. Oddi, “Exploiting Temporal Flexibility to Obtain High Quality
Schedules”, in Proceedings of the Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI-05,
July 9-13, 2005, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Short Papers
- A. Cesta, G. Cortellessa, A. Oddi, N. Policella, and R. Rasconi “Approaching the Schedule Execution
Problem with O-Oscar”, International Workshop on Planning and real-time monitoring of rescue operations, October, 2002.
- G. Cortellessa, N. Policella, A. Cesta, and A. Oddi “MEXAR: Integrated AI Technologies to Support
Mars Express Mission Planning”, PLANET News, Newsletter of the European Network of Excellence
in AI Planning, No. 5, December, 2002.
- N. Policella, “Scheduling with uncertainty: A proactive approach using Partial Order Schedules”, in
AICOM, European Journal of Artificial Intelligence, 2005. To appear.
Unpublished Manuscripts
- N. Policella, “Scheduling with uncertainty: A proactive approach using Partial Order Schedules”, PhD
Thesis, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, March 2005.
- Nicola Policella “Problemi di scheduling con risorse consumabili: risoluzione con approccio a vincoli
in una architettura software orientata agli oggetti” (In Italian, Project Scheduling with Inventory Constraints: a Constraint-based Approach in an Object-Oriented Architecture) Laurea Thesis, University of
Rome “La Sapienza”, March 2001.
- A. Cesta, A. Oddi, G. Cortellessa, and N. Policella, ”Automating the Generation of Downlink Spacecraft
Operations in MARS EXPRESS: Analysis, Algorithms and an Interactive Solution Aid” Final Report
ESA-ESOC. July 2002.
June 14, 2005
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