Marina Zanella is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Brescia (Italy), where she teaches two courses of Software Engineering (basics and advanced) and a course of Algorithms and Data Structures. She has acquired a 22-year experience in teaching and research at the University. Her current research interests include uncertain-knowledge modelling, reasoning under uncertainty, model-based reasoning for discrete-event systems monitoring and diagnosis, knowledge compilation. Focusing on the years from 2001 up to now, she took part for six times in the Program Committee of DX (International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis) and was co-chair of the “Planning, Learning and Monitoring with Uncertainty and Dynamic Worlds” workshop held within ECAI’06 (European Conference on Artificial Intelligence). In March 2001 she presented an invited talk at the Bridge international workshop on diagnosis methods, held in Sansicario (Italy). In 2005 she spent one month at INRIA/IRISA, Campus of Beaulieu, Rennes1 University, in Rennes (France) upon invitation of the DREAM (Diagnosing, Recommending Actions and Modelling) research group. In October 2005 she was an invited speaker at a workshop on distributed diagnosis held in Paris, organized by the IMALAIA (Integration of Model from Automatic Control and AI) group of AFIA (French Association on Artificial Intelligence).