Special Session Organizers

• Ardimento Pasquale (University of Bari Aldo Moro, Department of Informatics, Bari, Italy) received his degree with full marks and honors in Computer Science in 2001 from the University of Bari (Italy). He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the Department of Informatics at the University of Bari in 2005. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Department of Informatics of the University of Bari. His main research interests include software engineering (maintenance, testing, data mining on software systems, software quality assurance with a particular interest in internal quality metrics). He serves both as a member of the program and organizing committees of conferences, and as a reviewer of papers submitted to some of the main journals and magazines in the field of software engineering and software maintenance.

• Bernardi Mario Luca (University of Sannio, Benevento, Italy) is currently an Associate Professor of Computer Engineering at the University of Sannio, Italy where he received his PhD in Computer Engineering. His main research interests include software engineering (maintenance, testing, business process management, reverse engineering and data mining on software systems, software quality assurance with a particular interest in internal quality metrics, model-driven development), and computational intelligence applied to several domains (healthcare, security, software, cloud, process management or mining and pervasive computing) authoring more than 120 papers in international conferences and journals. He serves both as a member of the program and organizing committees of conferences, and as associate editor or reviewer of some of the most recognized journals and magazines in the field of artificial intelligence, cloud and pervasive computing, software engineering, software maintenance, and program comprehension. He has been the leading organizer of the special session CISE "Computational Intelligence for Software Engineering" held within IJCNN since 2020, and AISE "Artificial Intelligence and SEcurity" held within IJCNN 2019 as well as the last editions of PeRConAI, co-located with PerCom 2022 and 2023.

• Marta Cimitile  (UnitelmaSapienza University of Rome, Italy). Prof. Marta Cimitile is a Full Professor in Computer Science Engineering at the University Unitelma Sapienza of Rome. Her main research regards Artificial Intelligence and Process Mining. Moreover, she is interested in distributed artificial intelligence, deep learning, innovative human-computer interactions, software, and communication security as well as inWeb science. She was involved in several industrial projects based on the application of Artificial Intelligence and Data Mining models in different domains. She is also a co-founder of the SER&Practices spin-off company of the University of Bari and Sybilla start-up. She is affiliated with the CERICT Research Centre. She is the author of more than 150 papers published in International Conference and Journals. She serves both as a member of the program and organizing committees of several international conferences and she is on the Editorial Board of Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence Review journals.