Ernesto DamianiErnesto Damiani is a full professor at the department of information technology of the university of Milan, Italy. He has held visiting positions at several international institutions, including George Mason University (USA), and is an adjunct profesor at the University of Technology, (Australia). Prof. Damiani coordinates several research projects funded by the Italian ministry of research, the European commission and by a number of private companies including cisco, st microelectronics, siemens mobile and bt exact. His research interests include knowledge extraction and metadata design, advanced software architectures and soft computing. On these topics he has filed international patents and published more than 200 refereed papers in international journals and conferences. Ernesto Damiani is the vice-chair of the ifip wg on web semantics (wg 2.12) and the secretary of the ifip wg on open source systems (wg 2.13). He is the author, together with W. Grosky and R. Khosla, of the book “Human-Centered e-Business” (Kluwer 2003). In 2000, he was the recipient of acm sigapp outstanding service award. Read More Read Less