Nicola Epicoco is an Associate Professor in control system engineering at the LUM University, Bari, Italy. He received the master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the Polytechnic of Bari (Italy) and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and information engineering from the same university, where he was post-doctoral researcher from 2016 to 2019. He was Assistant Professor at the University of L’Aquila (Italy) from 2019 to 2022, and at the LUM University, Bari (Italy), from 2022 to 2024. In 2021 he was Visiting researcher at the l’École Centrale de Lille (France). He is also a member of the Center of Excellence on Design methodologies for Embedded controllers, Wireless interconnect and System–on–chip (DEWS), University of L’Aquila (Italy). He has authored more than 60 printed international publications. He was associate editor or member of the Program/Technical Committee of several international conferences and international journals. His research interests include modeling, simulation, optimization, management, and control of dynamic systems, particularly supply chains, manufacturing systems, traffic networks, transportation systems, energy systems, and robotics.