Antonio Costa is an associate professor working at the DICAR Department, University of Catania. He received the PhD degree in Structural Mechanics in 2004 defending a thesis on artificial intelligence applied to the optimization of cold extrusion processes. He currently teaches Advanced Manufacturing for the MoS degree in Mechanical Engineering, and Production planning and control for the MoS in Management Engineering at the University of Catania. The main topics of research concern computer science for designing and scheduling of manufacturing systems and processes. Up to date he is co-author of more than 40 papers in Scopus-indexed Journals.