Massimiliano Caramia received his Laurea Degree in Management Engineering at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata," Italy in 1996, and his Ph.D. in Operations Research at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" in 2000. From 2000 to 2001 he was a research associate at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata," since then he has been a researcher at the Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo "M. Picone" of the Italian National Research Council. His primary research interests include: combinatorial optimization, manufacturing, real life scheduling problems and logistics. He has published many papers in...