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Antonio De Nicola

Since 2010 Antonio serves as a research scientist at ENEA, the Italian national agency for new technologies, energy and sustainable economic development. At ENEA he is member of the Laboratory for the Analysis and Protection of Critical Infrastructures. Previously, from 2002 to 2010, he had been working as researcher in the Laboratory of Enterprise Knowledge and Systems of the Italian National Research Council (CNR). He holds a master degree in Physics from Sapienza University of Rome and a PhD in Computer Science from University of Rome Tor Vergata. His principal areas of research activity include knowledge representation, ontologies, emergency management, semantic technologies and their applications in industrial contexts. His work experience includes over 15 projects on the above-mentioned topics. He authored about 50 scientific papers published in international peer reviewed journals such as Information Systems, Communications of the ACM, Physica A, Natural Hazards and Environmental Modelling & Software, and conference proceedings. He is expert reviewer for the Horizon 2020 EU projects, the Cost EU programme, and other scientific journals. He is also the co-chair of the enterprise interoperability for crisis management thematic group of INTEROP-VLab, the European Virtual Laboratory for Enterprise Interoperability.

Michele Melchiori

Michele Melchiori is associate professor at the Department of Information Engineering of the Università degli Studi di Brescia (Italy) where he has been doing research and teaching activities since 1998. He earned a Ph.D in Information Engineering from the University of Brescia in the 2001 and, previously, a Master Degree in Computer Science from the University of Milan (Italy). His main research interests are in the area of models and tools for the design of information systems and specifically on: semantic resources discovery, semantic-based recommendation systems for web services and mashups, semantic interoperability, ontologies for interoperability, semantic web service discovery in distributed environments, semantic/social technologies, and integration of semi-structured data. On these topics he has worked on in the context of various projects. International project: INTEROP (network of excellence, INTEROPerability of enterprise applications and software). National projects: VISPO (Virtual District Internet-based Service Platform, research activity with strategic character, co-funded by the Italian the Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR); MAIS (Multichannel Adaptive Information Systems, MIUR FIRB project); ESTEEM (Emergent Semantics and cooperaTion in multi-knowledgE EnvironMents - Advanced methods and tools for semantic cooperation in Web virtual communities, MIUR FIRB project). He has been scientific coordinator of operational unit in a project with government funding (FEARS projects), Title of the project: “Portal and collaborative tools design for traceability of the supply chain and openness of food-farming products.” Previous national projects: D2I (From Data to Information, MIUR scientific research programs with relevant national interest); INTERDATA (Methodologies and technologies for data and process management on Internet and intranets, co-funded by MIUR). He has participated in various program committees, more than 60, for international and national conferences, and in the organization of international conferences. He is member of the Steering/Advisory Committee of two international conferences on data mining and on data semantics. A partial list of publications can be found here http://tinyurl.com/mm-publications.

Maria Luisa Villani

Since 2009 Maria Luisa serves as a research scientist at ENEA, the Italian national agency for new technologies, energy and sustainable economic development. At ENEA, currently she is member of the Laboratory for the Analysis and Protection of Critical Infrastructures. Before joining ENEA, she had been working for several years as research associate at the Computer Engineering Department of the University of Sannio, Italy, where she participated in various research activities and national and EU projects in the fields of software engineering and formal methods. She holds a PhD degree in Mathematics from the University of Warwick, England, and a 2nd level Master degree in Software Technology from the University of Sannio. Her current research interests include formal methods and software architectures for decision support systems in domains such as emergency management/risk assessment, sustainable innovation and other industrial contexts. Her recent work experience includes some specific projects on the above-mentioned topics. She authored about 50 scientific papers published in international peer reviewed journals such as Natural Hazards, Environmental Modelling & Software, Journal of Systems and Software, Information and Computation, in conference proceedings and book chapters. She participated in program committees for international conferences and workshops on computer science.