MELCHIORI Michele

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, he earned 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, web data
intensive applications and databases. 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). 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 several program committees
for national and international conferences, and in the organization of international
conferences. He has been member of the steering committee of two international conferences and he is in the editorial board of the Big Data and Cognitive Computing journal.