I am an Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) at the Department of International Humanities and Social Sciences, University of International Studies of Rome. My main research interests are in complex networks and social network analysis, in particular the applications in resilience analysis, combinatorial implications and application in management. In the past years, I was an adjunct professor in Complex Economics at the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and in Social Network Analysis at the LUMSA University in Rome. Actually, I am teaching Mathematics for business and finance and Mathematics of information and technological networks at University of International Studies of Rome.

I did my PhD at the Sapienza University of Rome. From 1999 to 2010 I was a research fellow at the Department of Enterprise Engineering at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, then I had a permanent position as a scientific officer at the same University.

• ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0001-8147-3747
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• Address: Department of International Humanities and Social Sciences, University of International Studies of Rome, Via Cristoforo Colombo 200, Rome, Italy
• Email: antonio.iovanella_at_unint.eu

Publications

• Ferraro, G., Iovanella, A., Ramponi, A., Rotundo, G. (2024). Promoting sustainability goals: innovation trajectories of Fintech through patent analysis, Annals of Operations Research, to appear, DOI: 10.1007/s10479-024-06258-0.
• Cerqueti, R., Iovanella, A., Mattera, R. Storani, S. (2024). Improving the explainability of autoencoder factors for commodities through forecast-based Shapely values, Scientific Reports, 14, 19622.
• Iovanella, A. (2024). Exploiting Network Science in Business Process Management: A Conceptual Framework, Chaos, Solitons and Fractals, 178, 114344.
• Cerqueti, R., Iovanella, A., Mattera, R., (2023). Clustering networked funded European research activities through rank-size laws, Annals of Operations Research, to appear, DOI: 10.1007/s10479-023-05321-6.
• Ancona, A., Cinelli, M., Ferraro, G., Iovanella, A. (2023). Network-based principles of entrepreneurial ecosystems: a case study of a start-up network, Small Business Economics, 61, pp. 1497–1514.
• Cerqueti, R., Cinelli, M., Ferraro, G., Iovanella, A. (2023). Financial interbanking networks resilience under shocks propagation, Annals of Operations Research, 330, pp. 389-409.
• Cinelli, M., Ferraro, G., Iovanella, A. (2022). Connections matter: a proxy measure for evaluating network membership with an application to the Seventh Research Framework Programme, Scientometrics, 127, pages 3959–3976.
• Aloini, D., Ferraro, G., Iovanella, A., Stefanini, A. (2022). Rethinking healthcare teams’ practices using network science: implications, challenges, and benefits, Applied Sciences, 12, 5841.
• Cinelli, M., Ferraro, G., Iovanella, A., Rotundo G. (2021). Assessing the impact of incomplete information on the resilience of financial networks, Annals of Operations Research, 299, pp. 721–745.
• Cinelli, M., Peel, L., Iovanella A., Delvenne J. C. (2020). Network constraints on the mixing patterns of binary node metadata, Physical Review E 102, 062310.
• Arpetti, J., Iovanella, A. (2020). Towards more effective consumer steering via network analysis, European Journal of Law and Economics, 50(3), pp. 359-380.
• Cinelli, M., Ferraro, G., Iovanella (2019). Evaluating relevance and redundancy to quantify how binary node metadata interplay with the network structure, Scientific Reports, 9, Article: 11404, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-47717-0.
• Cerqueti, R., Ferraro, G., Iovanella, A. (2019) Measuring network resilience through connection patterns, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 188, pp. 320-329.
• Cinelli, M., Ferraro, G., Iovanella, A. (2019). Network processes for collaborative innovation, International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 36(4), pp. 430-452.
• Cerqueti, R., Ferraro, G., Iovanella, A. (2018) A new measure for community structure through indirect social connections, Expert Systems with Applications, 114, pp. 196-209.
• Cinelli, M., Ferraro, G., Iovanella, A. (2018). Rich-club ordering and the dyadic effect: Two interrelated phenomena, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 490, pp. 808-818.
• Ferraro, G., Iovanella, A., (2018). Clairvoyant targeted attack on complex networks, International Journal of Computational Economics and Econometrics, 8 (1), pp. 41-62.
• Cinelli, M., Ferraro, G., Iovanella, A., Lucci, G., Schiraldi, M.M. (2017). A network perspective on the visualization and analysis of bill of materials, International Journal of Engineering Business Management, 9, pp. 1-11.
• Cinelli, M., Ferraro, G., Iovanella, A. (2017). Resilience of core-periphery networks in the case of rich-club, Complexity, 2017, 6548362.
• Cinelli, M., Ferraro, G., Iovanella, A. (2017). Structural bounds on the dyadic effect, Journal of Complex Networks, 5(5), cnx002, pp. 694-711.
• Ferraro, G., Iovanella, A. (2017). Technology transfer in innovation networks: An empirical study of the Enterprise Europe Network, International Journal of Engineering Business Management, 9.
• Ferraro, G., Iovanella, A., Pratesi, G. (2016). On the influence of nodes’ characteristic in inter-organisational innovation networks structure, International Journal of Computational Economics and Econometrics, 6 (3), pp. 239-257.
• Ferraro, G., Iovanella, A. (2016). Revealing correlations between structure and innovation attitude in inter-organisational innovation networks, International Journal of Computational Economics and Econometrics, 6 (1), pp. 93-113.
• Ferraro, G., Iovanella, A. (2015). Organizing collaboration in inter-organizational innovation networks, from orchestration to choreography, International Journal of Engineering Business Management, 7 (24), pp. 1-14.
• Caccavale, M.V., Iovanella, A., Lancia, C., Lulli, G., Scoppola, B. (2014). A model of inbound air traffic: The application to Heathrow airport, Journal of Air Transport Management, 34, pp. 116-122.
• M. Caramia, S. Giordani, A. Iovanella, On the selection of k routes in multi-objective hazmat route planning, IMA Journal of Management and Mathematics, 21 (3), 2010, 253-265.
• P. Dell’Olmo, A. Iovanella, G. Lulli, B. Scoppola, Exploiting incomplete information to manage multiprocessor tasks with variable arrival rates, Computers and Operations Research, 35, 2008, 1689-1600.
• A. Iovanella, B. Scoppola, E. Scoppola, Some spin glass ideas applied to the clique problem, Journal of Statistical Physics, 16 (4/5), 2007, 895-915.
• M. Caramia, P. Dell’Olmo, A. Iovanella, Lower Bound Algorithms for Multiprocessor Task Scheduling with Ready Times, International Transactions in Operational Research, 12 (5), 2005, 481-508.
• M. Caramia, S. Giordani, A. Iovanella, GRID Scheduling by multiple on-line rectangle packing, Networks, 44 (2), (2004), 106-119.
• M. Caramia, P. Dell’Olmo, A. Iovanella, On-Line Algorithms for Multiprocessor Task Scheduling with Ready Times, Foundations of Computing and Decision Sciences, 26 (3), (2001), 197-214.

Book chapters

• Cerqueti, R., Cinelli, M., Ferraro, G., Iovanella, A. (2024). The Resilience of a Complex Network. Methods and Applications, in Routledge International Handbook of Complexity Economics, Ed. P. Chen, W. Elsner, A. Pyka, pp. 172-189.
• Cinelli, M., Ferraro, G., Iovanella, A., Lucci, G., Schiraldi, M.M. (2020). A network perspective for the analysis of bill of materials, Procedia CIRP 88C, pp. 19-24.
• Cinelli, M., Ferraro, G., Iovanella, A. (2016). Some insights into the relevance of nodes’ characteristics in complex network structures, in Fronzetti Colladon A. and Gloor P. (eds) Proceeding of the 6th International COINS Conference. Designing Networks for Innovation and Improvisation, Springer Proceeding in Complexity.
• Ferraro, G., Iovanella, A. (2014). A network science approach to inter-organizational innovation networks: The case study of Enterprise Europe Network, Proceeding of ICCSA, pp. 117-127.
• E. Machuca, L. Mandow, J.L. Pèrez de la Cruz, A. Iovanella, Heuristic Multiobjective Search for Hazmat Transportation Problems, in Advances in Artificial Intelligence, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 7023 (2011), 243-252.
• A. Iovanella, B. Scoppola, S. Pozzi, A. Tedeschi, The impact of 4-D trajectories on arrival delay in mixed traffic scenario, in Schaefer, Dirk (ed) Proceedings of the SESAR Innovation Days (Tolosa, 2011) EUROCONTROL. ISBN 978-2-87497-024-5.
• A. Iovanella, G. Lulli, B. Scoppola, Out-of-equilibrium effects for queueing system with pre-scheduled random arrivals, in Proceedings of the 1° ComplexWorld Annual Conference, Siviglia, 2011.
• S. Armenia, A. Iovanella, G. F. Italiano, G. Murgia, Using social network analysis for the study of asynchronous interaction in e-learning, in Proceedings of International Conference on e-Learning (ICEL 2006), Academic Conferences Limited, 2006, p 207-216.
• M. Caramia, S. Giordani, A. Iovanella, An on-line algorithm for the rectangle packing problem with rejection, in Experimental and Efficient Algorithms, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2647, (2003), 59-69.
• E. Bampis, M. Caramia, J. Fiala, A. V. Fishkin, A. Iovanella, Scheduling of independent dedicated multiprocessor tasks, in Algorithms and Computation, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2518, (2002), 391-402.
• M. Caramia, P. Carotenuto, A. Iovanella, S. Giordani, Using Rejection Methods in a DSS for Production Strategies, in Knowledge and Technology Integration in Production and Services, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, 2002, p. 419-426.
• A. Calabrese, M. Caramia, A. Iovanella, A decision support system for a turnaround process, in Beyond the Boundaries, Global Business and Technology Association, 2002, p. 152-161.