Selected past activities
Past Activities and Conferences:
- Invited talk of Paolo Nesi at the C.A.P.I. European Federation: Invitation to the forum discussion, 23rd February 2010, European Parliament, “Piracy and file sharing: challenges and perspectives For the Digital Renaissance”.
- program cochair of DMS 2010 DMS 2010, DMS 2010: Globalization and Personalization
The Sixteenth International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems, Hyatt Lodge at McDonald's Campus, Oak Brook, Illinois, USA, October 14 - October 16, 2010, Organized by Knowledge Systems Institute, USA, University of Florence, Italy, University of Leeds. UK - member of program committe of ICSOFT 2010
- keynote Speaker for the 2nd International Symposium on Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services, IIMSS2009, Hosted by University of Milan, MOgliano Veneto, 16-17 July 2009.
- Member of the programme commitee of the ChyItaly 2009, SIGCHI Italy, ACM, CHI Italy 2009,Padova 28-30, Dipartimento di Psicologia Generale dell' Università di Padova.
- Member of the programme commitee of the IEEE ICECCS 2009, International Conference
- Member of the programme commitee of the Distributed Multimedia Systems (DMS 2009), International Conference, September 10-12, 2009 in Hotel Sofitel, Redwood City, California, USA.
- organizing committee member of the international Workshop on Digital preservation Weaving Factory for Analogue Audio Collection, Organized by Fondazione Rinascimento Digtiale and Universitiy of Florence, December 2008, Florence, Italy. Colocated with AXMEDIS 2008.
- organizing stand at IBC 2008 fair, International broadcasting conference, Amsterdam, the Nehterlands, September 2008. see for images XMF.
- Chair of round table on Enabling technologies for content business and DRM, DECOM 2008, Sestri Levante, La Spezia, Italy, September 2008. Organized by Giunti Interactive Labs.
- Chair of the workshop on Media Distribution on DMS, SEKE press proceedings, Boston, USA, September 2008.
- Panel Member at Comunicare Digitale meeting July 2008, Lucca, Italy.
- organizing stand at Festival of Creativity 2008, Florence, Italy, September 2008. see for images XMF.
- Member of the programme commitee of the IEEE ICECCS 2008 International Conference, Belfast, Nothern Ireland from March 31st to April 4, 2008.
- organizing stand at MIPTV 2008 featuring MILIA, Canne, France, April 2008.
- Member of the programme commitee of the ICSOFT 2008 International Conference, Oporto, Portugal this year, on July 5-8, 2008.
- Member of the Program Committee of PROFES 2008, the International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement, 2008, Frascati, Rome, Italy on June 23-25.
- General chair of AXMEDIS 2008, IEEE press proceedings, and Florence University press for the second volume, December 2008, Florence, Italy.
- Chair of the workshop on Media Distribution on DMS, SEKE press proceedings, Boston, USA, September 2008.
- organizing committee member of the international Workshop on Digital preservation Weaving Factory for Analogue Audio Collection, Organized by Fondazione Rinascimento Digtiale and Universitiy of Florence, December 2008, Florence, Italy. Colocated with AXMEDIS 2008.
- organizing stand at IBC 2008 fair, International broadcasting conference, Amsterdam, the Nehterlands, September 2008. see for images XMF.
- Chair of round table on Enabling technologies for content business and DRM, DECOM 2008, Sestri Levante, La Spezia, Italy, September 2008. Organized by Giunti Interactive Labs.
- Chair of the workshop on Media Distribution on DMS, SEKE press proceedings, Boston, USA, September 2008.
- organizing stand at Festival of Creativity 2008, Florence, Italy, September 2008. see for images XMF.
- Panel Member at Comunicare Digitale meeting July 2008, Lucca, Italy.
- Editor of proceedings of AXMEDIS 2007 conference, IEEE press proceedings, and Florence University press for the second volume, Barcelona, Spain, November 2007.
- Organising co-chair of Workshop on End-to-End QoS for Universal Multimedia Access, 12-15 December, 2006 in Leeds, uk, with Christian Timmerer, and Hermann Hellwagner of Klagenfurt University.
- Programme co-Chair of the IEEE ICECCS2006, the 11th IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems, Co-located with Computational Systems Bioinformatics (CSB 2006) Stanford University, CA, USA, 10-14 August 2006
- General Chair of AXMEDIS 20005 International Conference on Automated Production of Corss Media Content for Multi-Channel Distribution, Florence, 30 Nov-2 December 2005, Italy, IEEE pressed proceedings.
- General Chair of the 5th Open Workshop of the MUSICNETWORK, Vienna, Austria, 4-5 July 2005.
- Workshop on Assessment Model for Symbolic Music Representation, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, with MPEG AHG on SMR, October 2004.
- General Chair, 4th Open Workshop of the MUSICNETWORK, Barcelona, September 2004.
- General co-Chair (with A. Fantechi) of the ICECCS 2004, IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems, Florence, Italy, 14-16 April, 2004.
- Program Co-Chair of WEDELMUSIC2002, the International Conference on Web Delivering of Music, Darmstad, December 2002, Germany
- General Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM'2001, taking place on 5-10, November 2001 in Florence, Italy.
- General Chair of the International Conference on Web Delivering of Music, Florence, WEDELMUSIC2001, IEEE Pressed, 23-24 November 2001, Italy.
- Organizing Member of the 7th IEEE Workshop on Empirical Studies of Software Maintenance, http://serg.ing.unisannio.it/~wess2001/ taking place on November 2001 in Florence, Italy.
- Program co-Chair of CSMR'99, 3rd EUROMICRO Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands -- March 3-5, 1999. Sponsored by Euromicro, TechForce/COSMOS Group, CWI, ID Research, Mass Maintenance, TriLoc Software Engineering Europe BV, University of Amsterdam.
- Program Chair of CSMR'98, 2nd EUROMICRO Conference On Software Maintenance and Reengineering held in Florence, 8-11 March 1998. Sponsored by Euromicro, Reegineering Forum, IEEE Computer Society, Task Force on Information Technology, Technical Council on Software Engineering.
- General Chairman Objective Quality 1995 International Symposium on Software Quality Techniques and Acquisition Criteria which held in Florence, May 1995, proceedings in LNCS N.926, Springer Verlag.
- General organizer of meeting "Tecnologie ad Oggetti per l'Industria", (Object-Oriented Technology for the Industry), of the Italian association on Object-Oriented, TABOO, with the support of Infomedia, Palazzo degli Affari, Firenze, 13 Dicembre 1997 (meeting location). With sponsors: CESVIT, IBM, Sligos, Software Products Italia; and patroned by: Agape, EDOR Metodi Qantitativi, Mondadori, etc.
- Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Real-Time Image Processing, springer
- 2000-2004 -- Chair of Steering Committee of WEB Delivering of Music Conference
- 1994-2005, a Member of the Editorial board of the Journal of Real-Time Imaging, Academic Press.
- 2000 -- Vice Chair of IEEE Technical Committee on Complex Computer Systems. Click here for conference and committee history.
- 2000 -- Member of the Stering Committee of the IEEE International Conference on Complex Computer Systems, 2000.
- 1994 to 2000, the Scientific Responsible of Object-Oriented and HPCN Technologies for CESVIT (Agency for the Technology Transfer in the Florentine area, Italy. Click hear to go to HPCN page -- (Presentation with SLIDEs). In this regard, he hes been involved in several ESPRIT HPCN projects: MOODS, ICCOC, MUPAAC and IMEASY and other kinds of projects, see Projects
- 1998-2000 -- Member of the Steering Committee of the CSMR, Conference On Software Maintenance and Reengineering. together with Lutz Richter (Chair), Franz Lehner, Harry Sneed, Elliot Chikofsky, and Chris Verhoef.
- 1994-1999 -- Member of the Scientific Committee of the Italian association on Object-Oriented Technologies, TABOO (Tecnologie Avanzate Basate sul paradigma Orientato agli Oggetti).
- 1994-1997 -- Member of the Scientific Committee of the Image Science and Technology Research Center at the University of Florence.
He served IEEE ICSE, IEEE ICECCS, IEEE ICSM, IEEE METRICS, SEKE, CSMR, PROFES, REF, SPIE, JRTI, SPIE, CIM, MAXIS, .....as:
- Member of the programme commitee of the ChyItaly 2009, SIGCHI Italy, ACM, CHI Italy 2009,Padova 28-30, Dipartimento di Psicologia Generale dell' Università di Padova.
- Member of the programme commitee of the IEEE ICECCS 2009,
- Member of the programme commitee of the Distributed Multimedia Systems (DMS 2009), September 10-12, 2009 in Hotel Sofitel, Redwood City, California, USA.
- Member of the programme commitee of the IEEE ICECCS 2008, Belfast, Nothern Ireland from March 31st to April 4, 2008.
- Member of the programme commitee of the ICSOFT 2008, Oporto, Portugal this year, on July 5-8, 2008.
- Member of the Program Committee of PROFES 2008, the International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement, 2008, Frascati, Rome, Italy on June 23-25.
- Member of the programme commitee of the IEEE ICECCS 2007, University of Auckland, New Zealand, July 11 - 14, 2007.
- Member of the programme commitee of the ChyItaly 2007, SIGCHI Italy, ACM, CHI Italy 2007,Padova 28-30, Dipartimento di Psicologia Generale dell' Università di Padova.
- Member of the Program Committee of PROFES 2006, the 6th International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement, June 12-14, 2006 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
- Member of the Program Committee of 30th Annual IEEE/NASA Software Engineering Workshop (SEW) Loyola College Graduate Center, Columbia, MD, USA, 24-28 April 2006, http://sel.gsfc.nasa.gov/
- member of AXMEDIS 20006 International Conference on Automated Production of Corss Media Content for Multi-Channel Distribution, Leeds, 13-15 December 2006, UK, IEEE pressed proceedings.
- Member of the Program Committee of the ICSOFT 2006, International Conference on Software and Data Technologies, 11-14 September 2006, Portugal Organized by OMG, and proceedings press by Springer.
- Member of the Program Committee of Virtual Good 2006, 4rd International Workshop for Technology, Economy, Social and Legal Aspects of Virtual Goods, Leeds, 13-15 December 2006, UK.
- Member of the Program Committee of CSMR2005, the 9th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, March 21-23, 2005, The Mancester Conference Center, UK
- Member of the Program Committee of ICECCS2005, the 10th IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems, Regal International East Asia Hotel, Shanghai, China, 16-20 June 2005.
- Member of the Program Committee of Virtual Good 2005, 3rd International Workshop for Technology, Economy, Social and Legal Aspects of Virtual Goods, including the new Virtual Goods Tutorial June 2 - 4 2005 in Ilmenau, Germany.http://VirtualGoods.tu-ilmenau.de
- Member of the "Program Committee"/review board of ICMC2005, International Computer Music Conference, Barcelona, September 5-9, 2005
- Member of the Program Committee of ITA 2005, International Conference on Internet Technologies and Applications, September 2005
- Member of the Program Committee of CSMR2004, the 8th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, March 24-26, 2004, Tampere, Finland.
- Member of the Program Committee of the Virtual Goods 2004, International Workshop for Technology, Economy, Social and Legal Aspects of Virtual Goods, May 27 - 29 2003 in Ilmenau, Germany, http://virtualgoods.tu-ilmenau.de/2004/
- Member of the Program Committee of SEKE2004, the International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, ACM Press, June 20 to 24, 2004, Banff, Canada..
- Member of the Program Committee of PROFES 2004, the 5th International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement, Keihanna-Plaza, Kansai Science City, Japan, April 5 - 8, 2004
- Member of the Program Committee of WEDELMUSIC2004, the International Conference on Web Delivering of Music, Barcelona, September 2004.
More older activities in opposite order:
- Guest Editor of a Special Issue on Real Time Motion Analysis, Journal of Real-Time Imaging, Academic Press, 1997/98.
- Member of the Program Committee of AQUIS96, the 3rd International Conference on Achieving Quality in Software, 1996.
- Member of the Program Committee of Workshop ``Quantitative Methods for Object-Oriented System Development -- Ongoing Research and Results Achieved'' of European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, ECOOP'95, Aarhust, Daminarca, 7-11 August, 1995.
- Member of the Program Committee of Conference ``EI96 Real-Time Imaging'' held with IS&T/SPIE 1996 International Symposium on Electronic Imaging Science & Technology'', San Francisco, USA, January 28 - February 2, 1996.
- Member of the Program Committee of ICECCS'96, the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems, held jointly with 6th CSESAW, 4th IEEE RTAW, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, October 21-25, 1996.
- Member of the Program Committee of CSMR'97, First EUROMICRO Working Conference On Software Maintenance and Reengineering, Berlin, Germany, March 17-19, 1997.
- Member of the Program Committee of ICECCS'97, the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems, held jointly with 5th IEEE RTAW, Como, Italy, September 8-12, 1997.
- Member of the Program Committee of REF'98 , the 6th Reengineering Forum, held in Florence, jointly with the 2nd EUROMICRO Conference On Software Maintenance and Reengineering, 8-11 March 1998.
- Member of the Program Committee of ICECCS'98 , of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems, Monterey, California, USA, August 1998.
- Guest co-Editor with Prof. M. Trucco of a Special Issue on Real-Time Detection of Texture Defects, Journal of Real-Time Imaging, Academic Press.
- Member of the Program Committee of Conference on Polarization and Colour in Industrial Inspection, of the Inter-Society, International Symposiium on Industrial Inspection, which will be held in Munich, 14-18 June 1999. Organized by EUROPTO: a joint venture between the EOS - The European Optical Society and SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering founded in 1991 to ensure international collaboration organising optics and optoelectronics events in Europe.
- Member of the Program Committee of the 6th IEEE international Symposium on Software metrics (METRICS) taking place on November 5-6 1999 in Palm Beach, Florida, USA. October 1999, Co-located with IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering ISSRE'99): http://www.rstcorp.com/conferences/issre99...http://www.software.org/metrics99
- Member of the Program Committee of ICECCS'99 , the 5th IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems, Las Vegas, USA...ICECCS main WEB page: http://www2.elet.polimi.it/people/baresi/ICECCS99/
- Member of the Program Committee of IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM'99, 30th August-3rd September 1999 in Oxford, England, http://www.cms.dmu.ac.uk/ICSM99
- Member of the Program Committee of the 4th CONFERENCE on SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE AND REENGINEERING, University of Zuerich, Zuerich, Switzerland -- Feb 29 - March 3, 2000, http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~ist/CSMR2000.
- Member of the Program Committee of the 2nd International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement, Oulu, Finland, June 20 - 22, 2000 (at Midsummer Night), 2000. http://www.ele.vtt.fi/profes2000/
- Member of the Program Committee of ICECCS2000, the 6th IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems, Boissonade Tower, Ichigaya Campus, Hosei University, Tokyo (Japan) September 11-15, 2000.
- Member of the Program Committee of IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM2000, ICSM '2000 SV, Doubletree Hotel, San Jose, California, USA, 11th October - 14th October 2000.
- Member of the Program Committee of Conference ``Real-Time Imaging V (EI13)'' which will be held with IS&T/SPIE 2001, 13th International Symposium on Electronic Imaging 2001: Science & Technology'', San Jose, CA, USA, 21-26 January, 2001. www.spie.org/info/ei/
- Member of the Program Committee of the 5th Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, CSMR2001, Estoril Coast (Lisbon area), Portugal, March 2001, http://www.esw.inesc.pt/csmr2001
- Member of the Program Committee of the 3rd International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2001, University premises in Kaiserslautern, Germany, September 10-13, 2001. http://www.ele.vtt.fi/profes2001/
- Member of the Program Committee of ICECCS2001, the 7th IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems, Skovde, Sweden, in the week of June 11, 2001. see also http://www.ise.gmu.edu/iceccs2001/
- Member of the Program Committee of SEKE2002, the International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, July 15-18, 2002, Ischia, Italy
- Member of the Program Committee of ICSM2002, the IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, Montreal, Canada, 3-6 October 2002, http://www.icsm2002.org
- Member of the Program Committee of the 7th European Conference on SoftwareQuality (ECSQ-2002) to be held in 2002, Marina Congress Center, Helsinki, Finland, www.qualityconnection.org
- Member of the Program Committee of Conference ``Real-Time Imaging V (EI12)'' which will be held with IS&T/SPIE 2002, 14th International Symposium on Electronic Imaging 2002: Science & Technology'', San Jose, CA, USA, 20-25 January, 2002. www.spie.org/info/ei/
- Member of the Program Committee of the 6th Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, CSMR2002, Budapest, March 2002.
- Member of the Program Committee of ICECCS2002, the 8th IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems, http://ise.gmu.edu/iceccs2002/, Greenbelt, Maryland, December, 2002, U.S.A.
- Member of the Program Committee of the 7th Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, CSMR2003, 26-28 March, Benevento, 2003.
- Member of the Program Committee of MAXIS 2003, International Festival / Symposium of Sound and Experimental Music, 10th - 13th April 2003, Leeds, UK.
- Member of the Program Committee of IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering 2003'', ICSE 2003, which will be held May 3-10, 2003 in Portland, Oregon, USA, at the Hilton Portland Hotel.
- Member of the XIV CIM 2003, Computer Music: Past and Future, Workshop, Firenze 8-9-10 May 2003
- Member of the Program Committee of Virtual Goods 2003, International Workshop for Technology, Economy, Social and Legal Aspects of Virtual Goods, May 22 - 24 2003 in Ilmenau, Germany, http://VirtualGoods.tu-ilmenau.de
- Member of the Program Committee of SEKE2003, the International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, ACM, San Francisco Bay, July 1-3, 2003, USA
- Member of the Program Committee of WEDELMUSIC2003, the International Conference on Web Delivering of Music, Leeds, September 2003, UK