WOA 2026, the 27th Workshop
From Objects to Agents

Salerno, June 15-17, 2026

Keynotes

Giancarlo Fortino

Department of Informatics, Modeling, Electronics, and Systems Engineering, University of Calabria, Rende (CS), Italy

June 15, 2026

Short Bio: Giancarlo Fortino (IEEE Fellow 2022) is Full Professor of Computer Engineering at the Dept of Informatics, Modeling, Electronics, and Systems of the University of Calabria (Unical), Italy. He received a PhD in Computer Engineering from Unical in 2000. Since 2016, he is senior research fellow at the Italian ICAR-CNR Institute. Fortino is also distinguished professor and scientist of several chinese universities and research centers: Wuhan University of Technology (WUT), Huazhong Agricultural University (HZAU), Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Nanyang Institute of Technology (NYIST), East China Jiaotong University (ECJTU), Chengdu University of Information Technology (CUIT), and Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology. He was also visiting researcher at ICSI, Berkeley (USA), in 1997 and 1999 and visiting professor at Queensland University of technology in 2009. He is currently Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE SMC society. At Unical, he is the Rector’s delegate to Int’l relations, the chair of the PhD School in ICT, the director of the Postgraduate Master course in INTER-IoT, and the director of the SPEME lab as well as co-chair of Joint labs on IoT established between Unical and WUT, SMU and HZAU Chinese universities, respectively. Fortino is currently the scientific responsible of the UNICAL Digital Health group of the Italian CINI National Laboratory and of IEEE at Unical initiative. He is Highly Cited Researcher 2020-2024 in Computer Science by Clarivate. He had 25+ highly cited papers in WoS, and h-index=86 with 30000+ citations in Google Scholar. His research interests include wearable computing systems, e-Health, Internet of Things, agent-based computing, and, more recently, generative AI in Education. He is author of 750+ papers in int’l journals, conferences and books. He is (founding) series editor of IEEE Press Book Series on Human-Machine Systems and EiC of Springer Internet of Things series and AE of premier int'l journals such as IEEE TASE (senior editor), IEEE TAFFC-CS, IEEE THMS, IEEE T-AI, IEEE SJ, IEEE JBHI, Information Fusion, EAAI, etc. He chaired many int’l workshops and conferences (about 150), was involved in a huge number of int’l conferences/workshops (about 1000) as IPC member, is/was guest-editor of many special issues (about 100). He is cofounder and CEO of SenSysCal S.r.l., a Unical spinoff focused on innovative IoT systems, and recently cofounder and vice-CEO of the spin-off Bigtech S.r.l, focused on big data, AI and IoT technologies. Fortino is currently Associate VP of the Cybernetics area of the IEEE SMCS and former member of the IEEE SMCS BoG and former chair of the IEEE SMCS Italian Chapter.

Giuseppe D'Aniello

Department of Information and Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics, University of Salerno, Fisciano (SA), Italy

June 16, 2026

Short Bio: Giuseppe D’Aniello (SMIEE 2024) is an Associate Professor of Information Processing Systems at the Department of Information and Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics (DIEM) of the University of Salerno. He received a PhD in Information Engineering in 2018 from the Univrersity of Salerno. He got the scientific habilitation to Full Professor in the academic field of Information Processing Systems. His research activity focuses on the definition of cognitive models and computational and artificial intelligence approaches for Situation Awareness, applied to Human-Machine Systems and Cyber-Physical-Social Systems. In 2025, he is included among the World’s Top 2% Scientists according to the Stanford/Elsevier ranking in the field of Artificial Intelligence. He is a member of the Knowledge Management and Information Systems Lab (KnowMIS) at DIEM, where he coordinates the research group on Situation Awareness. He is a co-founder of the academic spin-off Urban MIS, dedicated to the development of artificial intelligence and situation awareness solutions for the intelligent and sustainable management of urban environments, with applications in smart cities and cultural heritage protection. He has participated in several research and development projects. In particular, from 2014 to 2018, he served as Project Manager at the Research Consortium on Agent Systems (CORISA), where he coordinated research projects within the Mar.Te. District. He is the scientific coordinator of the ConSALE project, which focuses on a new framework for designing microlearning-based training courses, and he is member of the technical-scientific committee of the Trinity R&D Project. He is member of the Board of Directors of the Interdipartimental Center SIMAS of the University of Salerno. He is an Associate Editor of the journal Cognitive Computation (Springer). He is an IEEE Senior Member, Chair of the Distinguished Lecturers Committee of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, and Vice-Chair of the Italian Chapter of IEEE SMC. He has held several prominent organizational roles in international conferences in the fields of Situation Awareness, Human-Machine Systems, and Artificial Intelligence, including General Chair of IEEE CogSIMA 2022, TPC Chair of IEEE HMS 2024, and IEEE SMC 2025.

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