Alessandro Giua

Publications

Alessandro Giua is professor of Automatic Control at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of the University of Cagliari, Italy.

He received the Laurea degree in electric engineering from the University of Cagliari, Italy in 1988, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer and systems engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, in 1990 and 1992. He joined the University of Cagliari in 1994 as assistant professor, becoming associate professor in 1998 and full professor in 2005.

His research interests include discrete event systems, hybrid systems, networked control systems, automated manufacturing, Petri nets, control of mechanical systems, failure diagnosis. He maintains a web page on hybrid Petri nets. He co-authored, with Angela Di Febbraro, the book Sistemi ad eventi discreti, McGraw-Hill Italia, 2002, and co-authored with Carla Seatzu the book Analisi dei sistemi dinamici, Springer-Verlag Italia, II edition, 2009.

He has been a visiting researcher at: Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain), INRIA Rocquencourt e Lorraine (France), Université d'Angers (France), Université de Metz (France), CINVESTAV  Guadalajara (Mexico), Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon (France), Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan (France), Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (France), Otto-von-Guericke Universität Magdeburg (Germany), Ecole Centrale de Lille (France), Université Paul Cézanne - Aix-Marseille III (France), Zhejiang University (China).

He teaches the courses:

• Systems Analysis. 6 credits. Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
• Automata and Petri Nets. 5 credits. Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
• Hybrid Systems. 3 credits. Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

He is the director of the PhD School in Information Engineering and coordinator of the PhD Program in Electronic and Computer Engineering of the University of Cagliari.

[Recent graduate students]

He is a member of the editorial board of the journals:

• Discrete Event Dynamic Systems: Theory and Applications;
• IEEE Trans. on Control Systems Technology;
• Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems;
• IEEE Trans. on Industrial Informatics;
• e-STA, e-revue des Sciences et Technologies de l’Automatique.

He is Chapter Activities chair of the Member Activities Board of the IEEE Control Systems Society, chair of the IFAC Technical Committee 1.3 on Discrete Event and Hybrid Systems, member of IFAC Technical Committee 6.4 SAFEPROCESS. He was a member of the WODES Steering Committe (1998-2006).

Current activities:

• Coordinator of the European project DISC: Distributed Supervisory Control of Large Plants , Project FP7-ICT-2007.3.7.(c), Grant Agrement n. INFSO-ICT-224498, 1 Sep 2008-31 Aug 2011.
• Program committee co-chair for WODES'10: 10th Int. Workshop on Discrete Event Systems (Berlin, Germany). 30 Aug-1 Sep 2010.
• Program committee chair for IEEE CASE 2011: IEEE 7th Int. Conf. on Automation Science and Engineering (Trieste, Italy). 24-27 Aug 2011.
• Program committee co-chair for MOSIM'12: 9th International Conference of Modeling, Optimisation and SIMulation (Bordeaux, France). 2012.
• Member of the program committee for these incoming conferences:
  • ICINCO'10: 7th Int. Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (Funchal, Madeira, Portugal), 15-18 Jun 2010.
  • CASE'10: 6th IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (Toronto, Ontario, Canada). 21-24 Aug 2010.
  • MMAR'10: 15th Int. Conference on Methods and Models in Automation and Robotics (Miedzyzdroje, Poland). 23-26 Aug 2010.
  • DCDS'11: 3rd Int. Work. on Dependable Control of Discrete Systems (Saarbrücken, Germany). 15-17 Jun 2011.
  • Petri Nets 2011: 32nd Int. Conf. on Application and Theory of Petri Nets and Concurrency (Kanazawa, Japan). 20-24 Jun 2011.
  • HAS'11: Hybrid Autonomous Systems (Saarbrücken, Germany). 23-26 Aug 2011. A satellite workshop of ETAPS 2011.
  • IFAC'11: 18th IFAC World Congress (Milano, Italy). 28 Aug - 2 Sep 2011.
  • SAFEPROCESS 2012: 7th IFAC Symposium on Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety of Technical Processes (Mexico City, Mexico). 29-31 Aug 2012.

Dr. Giua is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of SIDRA: Società Italiana Docenti e Ricercatori in Automatica.