Paolo Paolini has a degree in Physics from the University
of Milan, a Master and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University
of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). He is presently full professor
at Politecnico di Milano. He is also Lecturer at the School of Communication
Sciences at the University of Italian Switzerland (USI)-Lugano. He is
the scientific coordinator of HOC - Hypermedia Open Center - a team
of Politecnico di Milano devoted to research and development projects
concerning methods and tools for multimedia and web applications. He
has more than 70 published papers on the following subjects: relational
Data Bases, Data Modeling, Abstract Data Types and Data Bases, Views
for Data Bases, Automatic generation of documents, Hypermedia and WWW
modeling and design, Multimedia implementation, Hypermedia evaluation,
Design patterns, Design and Generation of Web Applications, collaborative
access to WWW, use of new technologies for cultural applications, use
of advanced technologies for education and training. He has been co-instructor
of nearly 20 tutorials, in several international events, in the above
field. At the University of Italian Switzerland (Communication Science)
he is developing a research activity on the communication based upon
advanced technology. At the University of Lecce he has developed the
Telemedia Lab, active in advanced multimedia technologies and application.
The Telemedia Lab currently employs nearly 15 people, and Paolini has
kept strong scientific ties with it. He has been Program Committee member
of several conferences, and chairman of important scientific events,
including the ACM conference on Hypertext (1992-Milan). He is currently
Associated editor of TOIS (Transactions on Information Systems), an
ACM journal. He has been involved in 10 different European funded projects,
and for several of them he has been scientific coordinator. He has been
professional active in the areas of Software Engineering, Information
Systems analysis and design, Office Automation, Multimedia design and
development, WWW design and development, tools for WWW and electronic
commerce. He has also managed small companies in the IT area (up to
50 people), and coordinated several multidisciplinary working teams.