Pasqualina Potena

Key expertise and experience of combing state-of the art solutions and the “standard practice” adopted by industrial context. Technical background from optimal decision making, software quality trade-offs (reliability, performance, costs, etc.), Search Based Software Engineering (SBSE), and software testing of large-scale industrial software systems. She has expertise in project management, e.g., project leader within strategic Innovation programs, InfraSweden (for innovation in transport infrastructure) and PiiA (Process industrial IT and automation). Skilled in closely work with large-scale and SMEs companies (from different domains, e.g., transportation and telecommunication) and academic parties.

Experienced researcher (published several papers on high-impact international journals (e.g., IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation journal and the Elsevier journal Computers & Operations Research) and conferences). She is a reviewer for important international journals and conferences (e.g., ICSE (SEET track) and ICSME). She has expertise in her research areas, as demonstrated by her Journal of Systems and Software (Elsevier) publication (Potena, P.: “Optimization of adaptation plans for a service-oriented architecture with cost, reliability, availability and performance tradeoff”, Journal of System and Software, Vol. 86, Issue 3, 2013).