Phd in MODELS FOR ECONOMICS AND FINANCE

email: federica.ricca@uniroma1.it
phone: 0649766310

room: 148

ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Associate professor in Applied Mathematics, University of Rome La Sapienza (from October 2015).
Assistant Professor in Operations Research, University of Rome La Sapienza (from December 2008 to September 2015).
BIBLIOMETRIC INDICES
Source: Scopus
Number if products: 35
Number of citations: 279
h-index: 9

Source: Google Scholar
Number if products: 68
Number of citations: 821
h-index: 13

CURRICULUM STUDIORUM
1998 Ph.D in “Operations Research” with a thesis on “Combinatorial methods for aggregation and partition problems with multiple criteria”, University of Rome La Sapienza
1994 Master Degree in “Statistics” with a thesis on “Local search algorithms for political districting”, University of Rome La Sapienza

INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS
In 2004 she established a research collaboration with Prof. Justo Puerto, Dept. "Estadistica e Investigation Operativa", Universidad de Sevilla on network optimization problems: location and partition.
She was visiting professor at University of Seville several times, and she cooperates with Justo Puerto in the Ph.D. Program in the same university.
In 2007 she was one of the reviewers of the Ph.D. thesis of Federico Perea on "Cooperative analysis on supply chains" (Department of Statistics and Operations Research, Faculty of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Seville).
She has other collaborations with Prof. Endre Boros, Rutgers University (USA), Prof. Victoriano Ramirez University of Granada (Spain), Prof. Friedrich Pukelsheim, University of Augsburg (Germany), Prof. Michel Balinski Ecole Polytecnique (Francia), Prof. Fuad Aleskerov, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Mosca (Russia).
GRANTS FOR VISITING PROFESSOR (last 5 years)
2018 – Grant from Sapienza, University of Rome for a one-month visiting period. Invited Professor: Elena Fernandez, University of Cadiz, Spain.
2016 – Grant from Sapienza, University of Rome for a one-month visiting period. Invited Professor: Justo Puerto, University of Seville.
GRANTS FOR RESEARCH PROJECTS - COORDINATOR (last 5 years)
2016 – Grant from Sapienza, University of Rome for a research on ‘Quantitative models for the design of electoral systems and efficient algorithms for voting procedure’.
2015 – Research collaboration with the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) on ‘The evaluation of economic research and its consequences in Italy’.
2014 – Research collaboration with the Italian ‘Servizio Studi della Camera dei Deputati’ on ‘Evaluation and design of Electoral Systems’.
2014 - MC Member (Management Committee Member) for Italy European COST Action IC1205 (2012-2016) on "Computational Social Choice".
She is participant in several national and international research projects, coordinated by colleagues from University La Sapienza, or from other Italian universities, or from international universities.
In particular, she is a participant in the following research programs issued by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Education Research, and coordinated by prof. Justo Puerto (Univ. of Seville):
- (2016-2019) ‘New Mathematical challenges of logistics and integrated transport problems on complex networks: design and optimization’ (grant number MTM2016-74983).
- (2013-2015) ‘Desafios Matematicos en el Diseno y Optimizacion de Redes Complejas: Aplicaciones’ (grant number MTM2013-46962-C2-01).

EDITOR AND REVIEWER
Editor of the special volume of Annals of Operations Research on “Mathematical Modeling of Electoral Systems – Analysis, Evaluation, Optimization, in Memory of Bruno Simeone (1945-2010)”.
Reviewer and Editor Assistant for the publication of the volume “Mathematics and Democracy: Recent Advances in Voting Systems and Collective Choice”, B. Simeone and F. Pukelsheim (Eds.), Springer 2006.
She is reviewer for several international scientific journals in Applied Mathematcs and Operations Research.

AWARDS
2013 Publication of the survey “F. Ricca, A. Scozzari, B. Simeone, Political Districting: from classical models to recent approaches (4OR, 2011) in the special volume of Annals of Operations Research “Surveys in Operations Research III (Invited Surveys from 4OR, 2009-2011)”.
2004 Best Poster Award, EURO XX Conference, Rodi, 4-7 Luglio 2004, titolo del poster: "A Weighted Voronoi Diagram Approach to Political Districting".
1998 "Premio Giuseppe Pompilj", III edition.

WORKSHOPS AND CONFERENCES ORGANIZATION (last 5 years)
2017 Program Committee Member of the International Annual Conference on “Management of Large-scale Systems Development” (MLSD 2017), Moscow, October 2017.
2016 Program Committee Member of the Fifth International Conference on Algorithmic Decision Theory (ADT 2017), Luxembourg, fall 2017.
2014 Program Committee Member of the XIII International Symposium On Locational Decision (ISOLDE) Naples and Capri (Italy), June 16th-20th, 2014.

PUBBLICATIONS (last 5 years)
F. Ricca (2018). Practical Decision Aid for Complex Decision Processes: why Strategic Analysis with STAN is not a black box, Italian Journal of Planning Practice, 8, pp. 61-85.
F. Ricca (2018). Uniform and most uniform partitions of trees, Discrete Optimization, 30, pp. 96-107 (doi 10.1016/j.disopt.2018.06.003) [coauth.: I. Lari, J. Puerto, A. Scozzari].
F. Ricca (2018). Rejoinder of Extensive facility location problems on networks: an updated review, TOP, The Official Journal of the Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research, 26, pp.236-238 (doi 10.1007/s11750-018-0477-4) [coauth.: J. Puerto, A. Scozzari].
F. Ricca (2018). Extensive facility location problems on networks: an updated review (invited paper), TOP, The Official Journal of the Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research, 26, pp.187-226 (doi 10.1007/s11750-018-0477-4) [coauth.: J. Puerto, A. Scozzari].
F. Ricca (2018). Mathematical Programming formulations for the efficient solution of the k-sum approval voting problem, Computers & Operations Research, 98, pp. 127-136 (doi: 10.1016/j.cor.2018.05.014) [coauth.: D. Ponce, J. Puerto, A. Scozzari].
F. Ricca (2017). A Mixed Integer Linear Programming Approach to Markov Chain Bootstrapping, Annals of Operations Research, 248, pp. 163-187 (doi 10.1007/s10479-016-2181-9) [coauth.: R. Cerqueti, P. Falbo, C. Pelizzari, A. Scozzari].
F. Ricca (2016). Algorithms for uniform centered partitions of trees Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics, 55, pp. 37-40 (doi 10.1016/j.endm.2016.10.009) [coauth.: I. Lari, J. Puerto, A. Scozzari].
F. Ricca (2016). Partitioning a graph into connected components with fixed centers and optimizing different criteria, Networks, 67, pp. 69-81 (doi 10.1002/net) [coauth.: I. Lari, J. Puerto, A. Scozzari].
F. Ricca (2015). Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Automatic Classification: Electromyography vs. Ultrasound imaging, TOP, The Official Journal of the Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research, 23, pp. 100-123 [coauth.: M. Maravalle, B. Simeone, V. Spinelli]
F. Ricca (2014). Reliability problems in multiple path-shaped facility location on networks, Discrete Optimization, 12, pp. 61-72 [coauth.: J. Puerto, A. Scozzari].
F. Ricca (2014). Prefazione al volume “Mathematical Modeling of Electoral Systems: Analysis, Evaluation, Optimization. In Memory of Bruno Simeone (1945-2010)”, Annals of Operations Research, 215, pp. 1-14 [coauth.: I. Lari, F.Pukelsheim]
F. Ricca (2014). Bidimensional allocation of seats via zero-one matrices with given line sums, Annals of Operations Research, 215, pp. 165-181 [coauth.: I. Lari, A. Scozzari]
F. Ricca (2014). Unreliable point facility location problems on networks, Discrete Applied Mathematics, 166, pp. 188-203 [coauth.: J. Puerto, A. Scozzari]