Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania INAF Eva Sciacca Short Term Researcher in Computer Science

Contact Information

Education

• Postdoc at INAF (Catania, Italy), February 2012 - now.
• Postdoc at Università di Torino, January 2010 - January 2012.
• Ph.D. in Mathematics for Technology (Università di Catania), February 2010.
• Graduate Visiting Student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. August 2007 - December 2008
• Master Degree in Computer Science (Università di Catania), October 2006.

Topics of Interests

• Web Technologies and Scientific Visualization
• Science Gateways and Workflow Management System
• Distributed Computing Infrastructures
• Systems Biology : Computational biological modeling and design
• Linguistic models in Bioinformatics
• Mathematical models for semiconductor devices
• Electronic Circuit Design

Teaching

2011/2012:

• Tutor of IUM e Technologie Web - Corso di Laurea in Informatica, Facoltà di S.M.F.N., Università di Torino.
• Tutor of Complementi di informatica Facoltà di S.M.F.N., Università di Torino.

2005/2006:

• Tutor of Web Programming - Corso di Laurea in Informatica, Facoltà di S.M.F.N., Università di Catania.

List of Publications

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Theses

• E. Sciacca
  PhD Thesis (2010). Contributions in Computational Biology, .

• E. Sciacca
  The final Thesis of Master Level Degree in Computer Science (2006): Evolutionary Multiobjective Algorithms and Possibilistic Worst-Case Distance to optimize the design of electronic circuits (Italian Version ). ).

• E. Sciacca
  The final Thesis of Master Level Degree in Computer Science (2006): Evolutionary Multiobjective Algorithms and Possibilistic Worst-Case Distance to optimize the design of electronic circuits (Italian Version ). ).

Journals

• Ugo Becciani, Eva Sciacca, Alessandro Costa, Piero Massimino, Costantino Pistagna, Simone Riggi, Fabio Vitello, Catia Petta, Marilena Bandieramonte, Mel Krokos (in press).
  Science Gateway Technologies for the Astrophysics Community
  CONCURRENCY AND COMPUTATION, ISSN: 1532-0626

• Giulia Russo, Salvatore Spinella, Eva Sciacca, Paola Bonfante, Andrea Genre (2013).
  Automated analysis of calcium spiking profiles with CaSA software: two case studies from root-microbe symbioses
  BMC PLANT BIOLOGY, vol. 13, ISSN: 1471-2229, doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-13-224

• S. Riggi, V. Antonuccio-Delogu, M. Bandieramonte, U. Becciani, A. Costa, P. La Rocca, P. Massimino, C. Petta, C. Pistagna, F. Riggi, Eva Sciacca , F. Vitello (2013)
  Muon tomography imaging algorithms for nuclear threat detection inside large volume containers with the Muon Portal detector
  NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH. SECTION A, ACCELERATORS, SPECTROMETERS, DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT, vol. 728, p. 59-68, ISSN: 0168-9002

• Eva Sciacca, Salvatore Spinella, Cristina Calcagno, Ferruccio Damiani, Mario Coppo (2013).
  Parameter Identification and Assessment of Nutrient Transporters in AM Symbiosis through Stochastic Simulations
  ELECTRONIC NOTES IN THEORETICAL COMPUTER SCIENCE, vol. 293, p. 83-96, ISSN: 1571-0661, doi: 10.1016/j.entcs.2013.02.020
  
  
• Massimino P., Bandieramonte M., Becciani U., Costa A., Krokos M., Petta C., Pistagna C., Riggi S., Eva Sciacca, and Vitello F. (2012).
  Learning Astrophysics through Mobile Gaming
  ASTRONOMICAL DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE AND SYSTEMS, ISSN: 1080-7926
  
  
• Costa A., Bandieramonte M., Becciani U., Krokos M., Massimino P., Petta C., Pistagna C., Riggi S., Eva Sciacca, Vitello F. (2012).
  VisIVO: A Web-Based, Workflow-Enabled Gateway for Astrophysical Visualization
  ASTRONOMICAL DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE AND SYSTEMS, ISSN: 1080-7926

• M. Coppo, F. Damiani, M. Drocco, E. Grassi, E. Sciacca, S. Spinella, A. Troina (2012)
  Simulation Techniques for the Calculus of Wrapped Compartments
  THEORETICAL COMPUTER SCIENCE, vol. 431, p. 75-95, ISSN: 0304-3975, doi: 10.1016/j.tcs.2011.12.063

• NICOSIA G, RINAUDO S, SCIACCA E. (2007).
  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

Conferences and Workshops Proceedings

• Marilena Bandieramonte, Vincenzo Antonuccio Delogu, Ugo Becciani, Alessandro Costa, Paola La Rocca, Piero Massimino, Catia Petta, Costantino Pistagna, Francesco Riggi, Simone Riggi, Sciacca E, Fabio Vitello (2013).
  Automated Object Recognition and Visualization Techniques for Muon Tomography Data Analysis
  In: Proceedings of 2013 IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security (HST). Boston, 12 to 14 November 2013
  
  
• Eva Sciacca, M. Bandieramonte, U. Becciani, A. Costa, M. Krokos, P. Massimino, C. Petta, C. Pistagna, S. Riggi, F. Vitello (2013).
  VisIVO Science Gateway: a Collaborative Environment for the Astrophysics Community.
  In: International Workshop on Science Gateways (IWSG 2013). CEUR WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS, ISSN: 1613-0073, Zurich, 3 - 5 June 2013
  
  
• Sciacca E, Bandieramonte M., Becciani U., Costa A., Krokos M., Massimino P., Petta C., Pistagna C., Riggi S., Vitello F. (2013).
  VisIVO Workflow-Oriented Science Gateway for Astrophysical Visualization
  In: PDP2013. p. 164-171, ISBN: 978-0-7695-4939-2, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 27th February - 1st March 2013, doi: 10.1109/PDP.2013.31
  
  
• C. Calcagno, M. Coppo, F. Damiani, M. Drocco, E. Sciacca, S. Spinella, A. Troina
  Modelling Spatial Interactions in the Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis using the Calculus of Wrapped Compartments
  3rd International Workshop on Computational Models for Cell Processes (CompMod'11), EPTCS 67, pp. 3-18, Aachen, Germany, September 2011.

• M. Aldinucci, M. Coppo, F. Damiani, M. Drocco, E. Sciacca, S. Spinella, M. Torquati, A. Troina
  On Parallelizing On-Line Statistics for Stochastic Biological Simulations
  2nd International Workshop on High Performance Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (HiBB'11), Springer LNCS (to appear), Bordeaux, France, August 2011.

• L. Bioglio, C. Calcagno, M. Coppo, F. Damiani, E. Sciacca, S. Spinella, A. Troina
  A Spatial Calculus of Wrapped Compartments
  5th International Meeting on Membrane Computing and Biologically Inspired Process Calculi (MeCBIC'11), arXiv.org, arXiv:1108.3558v2, pp. 25-39, Paris (Fontainebleau), France, August 2011.

• M. Coppo, F. Damiani, M. Drocco, E. Grassi, E. Sciacca, S. Spinella, A. Troina
  Hybrid Calculus of Wrapped Compartments
  4th International Meeting on Membrane Computing and Biologically Inspired Process Calculi (MeCBIC'10), EPTCS 40, pp. 102-120, Jena, Germany, August 2010.

• 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

• 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
  

• NICOSIA G, SCIACCA E. (2008).
  Robust Parameter Identification for Biological Circuit Calibration.
  In: IEEE BIBE 2008 Proceedings, p. 1-6

• SCIACCA E., SPINELLA S. (2010).
  Reliable Biological Circuit Design Including Uncertain Kinetic Parameters.
  In: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, Volume 254/2010, p. 457-477, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-13935-2_21

• 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. Oral Presentation in St. Louis USA, 1-4 Ottobre, p. 1

• SCIACCA E., SPINELLA S, GENRE A, CALCAGNO C (2011).
  Analysis of Calcium Spiking in Plant Root Epidermis through CWC Modeling.
  In: CS2BIO 2011. Reykjavik, Iceland.

• G. NICOSIA, SCIACCA E., L. ZAMMATARO (2007).
  Detecting Constituent Sequences by means of HP Pattern-Based Grammars to Synthesize Proteins.
  Poster Presentation 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

• SPINELLA S, SCIACCA E., GIANNINI P (2010).
  Protein Sequence-Function Analysis Using Annotated Context-Free Grammars.
  In: ICTCS2010. Camerino, Italy, September 15-17, 2010

• SCIACCA E.,SPINELLA S, IENCO D., GIANNINI P (2011).
  Annotated Stochastic Context-Free Grammars for Analysis and Synthesis of Proteins.
  In: EVOBIO2011. Torino, Italy, 2011

Software and Tools

• VisIVO Science Gateway
• CWC Simulator
• Cytosolve

Projects

• INDIGO-DataCloud - receives funding from the European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement RIA 653549.
• SCI-BUS - SCIentific gateway Based User Support funded by European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement no 28348.
• BioBits - Developing white and green biotechnologies by converging platforms from biology and information technology towards metagenomics: Regione Piemonte (2009-2011).
• Multiobjective Optimization to design integrated circuits under the direction of Prof. A. M. Anile and Prof. G. Nicosia (Università degli studi di Catania) 2005.