Analytics for the Sharing Economy: Mathematics, Engineering and Business Perspectives

 Introduction.- Optimisation.-  Networking.-  Game Theory.- Queuing Theory.-  IoT and Cloud Computing.-  Blockchain .-  New Business Models.

Emanuele Crisostomi received the Bachelor's degree in computer science engineering, the Master's degree in automatic control, and the Ph.D. degree in automatics, robotics, and bioengineering, from the University of Pisa, Italy, in 2002, 2005, and 2009, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor of Electrotechnics with the Department of Energy, Systems, Territory and Constructions Engineering, University of Pisa. His research interests include control and optimization of large-scale systems, with applications to smart grids and green mobility networks. He is a co-author of the recently published book: "Electric and Plug-in Hybrid Vehicle Networks: Optimization and Control" (Crisostomi, Shorten, Stüdli, Wirth), CRC Press, Series: Automation and Control Engineering, 2017. He is currently an Associate Editor for IEEE Access and for Frontiers in Sustainable Cities.

Bissan Ghaddar is an Assistant Professor of Management Science at the Ivey Business School workingon problems at the intersection of smart cities, machine learning, and optimization models. Prior to joining Ivey Business School, she was as an Assistant Professor in Data analytics at the Department of Management Sciences at the University of Waterloo. In addition to her academic experience, Prof. Ghaddar has extensive industrial experience. She was a research scientist at IBM Research where she worked on optimization problems for smart cities, mainly in the area of energy, water, and transportation networks and she also worked at the Department of National Defence Canada on developing new models and solution approaches for the integrated repair network planning and spare parts inventory management problems. She was invited for extended research visits at the Universität zu Köln in Germany and the University of Avignon in France. Her work has been published in prestigious journals such as Mathematical Programming, SIAM Journal on Optimization, Transportation Research, among others.