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Gianpiero Monaco

Senior Researcher

Computer Science INF/01 - Informatica Theory and Applications of Algorithms
Blocco Zero, Room 217
gianpiero.monaco@univaq.it
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About Me 

Studies

July 2006: Master Degree cum Laude in Computer Science achieved at the faculty of Mathematical Physical and Natural Science of the University of L'Aquila. 

April 2010: European Ph.D. in Computer Science at the Department of Computer Science, University of L'Aquila. 

Experience

1st November 2006 - 31st October 2009: Ph.D. Student in Computer Science at the Department of Computer Science of the University of L'Aquila (supervisor Prof. Michele Flammini). I have been assigned a three year lasting fellowship. 

November 2007 and May-August 2008: Visitor at the Department of Computer Engineering & Informatics of the University of Patras, hosted by Prof. Christos Kaklamanis and by Prof. Ioannis Caragiannis, for an overall period of four months. 

November 2009 - October 2010: Research fellow (PostDoc) at, Project team Mascotte, common project of INRIA Sophia Antipolis and I3S (CNRS/UNS). 

November 2010 - February 2011: Research fellow Department of Science, University of Chieti-Pescara. 

May 2011: Visitor at the Department of Computer Science of Technion, Technion, Haifa, hosted by Prof. Shmuel Zaks. 

November 2011 - January 2012: Visitor at the Division of Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, hosted by Prof. Edith Elkind. 

March 2011 - February 2012: Research fellow (PostDoc) at, Department of Computer Science, University of L'Aquila. 

March 2012 - October 2012: Visitor at the Institute of Informatics, University of Warsaw, hosted by Prof. Piotr Sankowski. 




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Research

Research Interests

  • Design and analysis of algorithms
  • Approximation algorithms
  • Algorithmic aspects of communication networks (optical, wireless, p2p, mobile ad-hoc network, ecc.)
  • Algorithmic game theory
Teaching web pages:
http://gianpieromonaco.com/
Office hours:
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Journal publications

  • M.Flammini, G.Monaco, L.Moscardelli, M.Shalom, S.Zaks: On the Complexity of the Regenerator Cost Problem in General Networks with Traffic Grooming. Algorithmica. To appear. 
  • I. Caragiannis, G. Monaco: A 6/5-approximation algorithm for the maximum 3-cover problem. Journal of Combinatorial Optimization. DOI: 10.1007/s10878-011-9417-z 
  • V. Bilò, I. Caragiannis, A. Fanelli, G. Monaco: Improved lower bounds on the price of stability of undirected network design games. Theory of Computing System. To appear. 
  • M.Flammini, G.Monaco, L.Moscardelli, M.Shalom, S.Zaks: Optimizing Regenerator Cost in Traffic Grooming. Theoretical Computer Science. 412(52):7109-7121, 2011. 
  • M. Flammini, A. Marchetti Spaccamela, G. Monaco, L. Moscardelli, S. Zaks: On the Complexity of the Regenerator Placement Problem in Optical Networks. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 19(2):498-511, 2011. 
  • V. Bilò, M. Flammini, G. Monaco, L. Moscardelli: On the performances of Nash Equilibria in Isolation Games. Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, 22(3):378-391, 2011. 
  • M. Flammini, G. Monaco, L. Moscardelli, H. Shachnai, M. Shalom, T. Tamir, S. Zaks: Minimizing total busy time in parallel scheduling with application to optical networks,Theoretical Computer Science, 411(40-42):3553-3562, 2010. 
  • M.Flammini, G.Monaco, L.Moscardelli, M.Shalom, S.Zaks: Selfishness, Collusion and Power of Local Search for the ADMs Minimization Problem. Computer Networks, 52(9):1721-1731, 2008. 
  • M.Flammini, G.Monaco, L.Moscardelli, M.Shalom, S.Zaks: Approximating the traffic grooming problem in tree and star networks. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 68(7):939-948, 2008. 

Book chapters

  • V. Bilò, I. Caragiannis, A. Fanelli, M. Flammini, C. Kaklamanis, G. Monaco, L. Moscardelli: Game-Theoretic Approaches to Optimization Problems in Communication Networks. Chapter in Graphs and Algorithms in Communication Networks, Springer-Verlag, 2009. 
  • T. Cinkler, D. Coudert, M. Flammini, G. Monaco, L. Moscardelli, X. Muñoz, I. Sau Valls, M. Shalom, S. Zaks: Traffic Grooming: Combinatorial Results and Practical Resolutions. Chapter in Graphs and Algorithms in Communication Networks, Springer-Verlag, 2009. 

Conference publications

  • A. Fanelli, D. Leniowski, G. Monaco, P. Sankowski: The ring design game with fair cost allocation. In Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop On Internet And Network Economics (WINE 2012). To appear.
  • V. Bilò, M.Flammini, G.Monaco, L.Moscardelli: Some Anomalies of Farsighted Strategic Behavior. In Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Approximation and Online Algorithms (WAOA 2012).
  • M. Flammini, V. Gallotti, G. Melideo, G. Monaco, L. Moscardelli: Mobile Network Creation Games. In Proceedings of the 19th International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity (SIROCCO 2012).
  • M.Flammini, G.Monaco, L.Moscardelli, M.Shalom, S.Zaks: On the Complexity of the Regenerator Cost Problem in General Networks with Traffic Grooming. In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference On Principles Of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2011). 
  • M.Flammini, G.Monaco, L.Moscardelli, M.Shalom, S.Zaks: Optimizing Regenerator Cost in Traffic Grooming. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference On Principles Of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2010). 
  • V. Bilò, I. Caragiannis, A. Fanelli, G. Monaco: Improved lower bounds on the price of stability of undirected network design games. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory (SAGT 10). 
  • M. Flammini, A. Marchetti Spaccamela, G. Monaco, L. Moscardelli, S. Zaks: On the Complexity of the Regenerator Placement Problem in Optical Networks. In Proceedings of the 21st ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA 2009). 
  • V. Bilò, M. Flammini, G. Monaco, L. Moscardelli: On the performances of Nash Equilibria in Isolation Games. In Proceedings of the 15th International Computing and Combinatorics Conference (COCOON 2009). 
  • M.Flammini, G.Monaco, L.Moscardelli, H. Shachnai, M.Shalom, T. Tamir, S.Zaks: Minimizing Total Busy Time in Parallel Scheduling with Application to Optical Networks. In Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2009). 
  • M.Flammini, G.Monaco, L.Moscardelli, M.Shalom, S.Zaks: Approximating the Traffic Grooming Problem with Respect to ADMs and OADMs. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (EuroPar 2008). 
  • I. Caragiannis, G. Monaco: A 6/5-approximation algorithm for the maximum 3-cover problem. In Proceedings of the 33rd International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2008). 
  • S. Di Giannantonio, M.Flammini, G.Monaco, L.Moscardelli, M.Shalom, S.Zaks: Selfishness, Collusion and Power of Local Search for the ADMs Minimization Problem. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop On Internet And Network Economics (WINE 2007). 
  • M.Flammini, G.Monaco, L.Moscardelli, M.Shalom, S.Zaks: Approximating the Traffic Grooming Problem in Tree and Star Networks. In Proceedings of the 32st International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science (WG 2006). 
  • M.Flammini, G.Monaco, L.Moscardelli, M.Shalom, S.Zaks: Minimizing the number of ADMs with and without traffic grooming: complexity and approximability. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON 2006). 

Working papers

PhD Thesis

G.Monaco: Optimization and Non-Cooperative Issues in Communication Networks. Supervisor Prof. Michele Flammini