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The Discovery of the Learning Process by Means of Machine Learning Techniques

Prof. Ernesto Damiani
Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy

Dr. Gabriele Gianini
University of Milan, Italy

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Biographies of the Keynote Speakers

Ernesto Damiani holds a M.Sc. degree from the University of Pavia, Italy, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Milan. He is now a Full Professor in the Department of Information Technology, University of Milan, where he leads the Software Architectures Lab. Prof. Damiani holds/has held visiting positions at several international institutions, including George Mason University (Fairfax, VA, US), LaTrobe University (Melbourne, Australia), and Sydney University of Technology (Australia). He has co-authored several books, international patents, as well as approximately two hundred research papers on advanced secure service-oriented architectures, open source software and business process design, software reuse, and Web data semantics. Prof. Damiani coordinates several research projects funded by the Italian Ministry of Research and by private companies including Siemens Mobile, ST Microelectronics, BT Exact, and others.

Gabriele Gianini holds a M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Pavia, Italy. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Technology, University of Milan, Campus of Crema, where he teaches Probability and Statistics, and is a Lecturer of Computer Networks at the Computer Science Faculty of the University of Bolzano-Bozen. His research interests focus on quantitative methods for Software Engineering and include the application of inferential statistics and of data mining to the study of process data. Between 1990 and 2000 he has been working within the High Energy Physics community at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Chicago and at the CERN in Geneva and in 1998 has been visiting researcher at the CBPF in Brazil. He has co-authored approximately one hundred scientific papers and a few informatics books. Currently he is conducting research activities within the research project MAPS (Agile Methodologies for Software Production), and in the research project KIWI, both funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research, investigating the subject of automatic information extraction from process logs and of semantic aware knowledge discovery from process data.