Services to the community
Scientific committees
- Member of the Sistemi Evoluti di Basi di Dati (SEBD) Steering Committee (since 2005)
- Member of the ER Fellow Award Committee 2018
- Chair of the Alberto Mendelzon ACM PODS Test-of-Time Awards Committee 2018
- Chair of the AI*IA Somalvico Award (Premio Somalvico) Committee 2017
- Member of the ACM SIGMOD Awards Committee from 2013 to 2017
- Chair of the ACM SIGMOD Awards Committee 2016
- Member of the Executive Committee of the ACM Principles of Database Systems (PODS) from 2006 to 2016
- Chair of the Executive Committee of the ACM Principles of Database Systems (PODS) from 2010 to 2012
- Chair of the Selection Committee, 2013 International Conference on Database Theory Test-of-Time Award
- Member of the Executive Committee of the ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD) (from 2010 to 2012)
- Member of the IFIP Working Group 2.6 on Databases (from 2003 to 2011)
- Member the International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT) Council (from 2001 to 2009)
- Member of the Description Logics (DL) Steering Committee (from 2000 to 2002)
Conferences and events
- Program Co-Chair of the 29th Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems, SEBD 2021
- Program Co-Chair of the The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Engineering, IEEE AIKE 2019
- Member of the 2019 Committee for "Premio Giovani Talenti", Università di Milano Bicocca"
- Member of the 2018 Committee for "Premio Giovani Talenti", Università di Milano Bicocca"
- Member of the 2017 "Lombardia è ricerca" Prize Committee. "Lombardia è ricerca" is a new annual scientific prize of one million Euros to be assigned for outstanding research in life science
- Program co-Chair of the 29th International Workshop on Description Logics, DL 2016
- Area Chair (Data integration, metadata management, and interoperability) for the
30th International Conference on Data Engineering, IEEE ICDE 2014 - Program Co-Chair of the 7th Alberto Mendelzon International Workshop on Foundations of Data Management, AMW 2013
- Co-organizer (with Piero Poccianti e Francesco Mele) of the 2nd AI*IA Workshop on Corporate Experiences using Semantic Technology, September 15, 2011
- Co-organizer (with Phokion G. Kolaitis, and Nicole Schweikardt) of the Advanced School on Data Exchange, Integration, and Streams, DEIS'10, Schloss Dagstuhl, Gesellschaft fur Informatik, GI-Dagstuhl Seminar 10452, Nov. 7-12, 2010,
- Co-organizer of the Bertinoro Workshop on Data and Service Integration, INFINT 2009
- Area Chair of the 21st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-09
- Program Chair of the 27th ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGART Symposium on Principles of Database Systems, PODS 2008
- Co-organizer of the Bertinoro Workshop on Information Integration, INFINT 2007
- Organizer of the Bertinoro PhD School on Data and Service Integration, DASI 2006
- Program Co-Chair of the The 5th International Conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics, ODBASE 2006
- Conference Chair of the 13th Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems, SEBD 2005
- Organizer and Program Chair of the 9th International Conference on Database Theory, ICDT 2003
- Organizer and Program Chair of the 8th International Workshop on Knowledge Representation meets Databases, KRDB 2001
- Program Co-Chair of the Fourth International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems, COOPIS 1999
- Conference Chair of the 18th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 1999
- Organizer and Program Chair of the Fifth Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, AI*IA 1997
- Organizer and Program Chair of the 1995 International Workshop on Description Logics, DL 1995
- Co-Organizer of the 1994 International Workshop on Description Logics, DL 1994
- Organizer of the 1990 Workshop of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, AI*IA 1990
- Co-Organizer of the International Workshop on Inheritance Hierarchies in Knowledge Representation and Programming Languages, 1989
Other services
- I was a member of the ISTAT (the Italian National Institute of Statistics) Advisory Committee on Statistical Methods from 2017 to 2022.
- I am currently a member of the International Advisory Panel of the Johann Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Groningen since 2014.
- I am currently in the Scientific Committee of the Fondazione Ateneo Impresa
- I was a Visiting Professor at the IBM Center for Advanced Study in Roma (Italy) from 2005 to 2012
- I have been a member of the evaluation committee of INRIA (the French National Institute for computer science and applied mathematics).
- I have been a member of the Advisory Board of the European Research Institute in Service Science (ERISS)
- I have been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of BiCi - Bertinoro international Center for informatics
- I have worked for the Associazione Senso Comune
- I have worked for the Gruppo di lavoro CNIPA sulla semantica in SPCoop
- I have been a member of several evaluation committees for industrial and academic projects, as well as research Institutes worldwide, in particular in Austria, Canada, France, Germany, UK, Israel, The Netherlands, Spain, USA, Sweden and Swiss.
- I have collaborated with several international and national companies in technology transfer projects in the areas of software development, data management and information systems. He has participated in several evaluation committee in the context of national competitions for the design and development of Public Administration Information Systems. He has acted as arbitrator in numerous disputes regarding legal issues related to software systems.