Biography:  Domenico Talia is a full professor of computer engineering at the University of Calabria and the director of ICAR-CNR. He received the Laurea degree in Physics at University of Calabria. His research interests include Grid services, distributed knowledge discovery, parallel and distributed data mining algorithms, cloud computing, and peer-to-peer systems.

Talia published five books and more than 250 papers in international journals such as Communications of the ACM, Computer, IEEE TKDE, IEEE TSE, IEEE TSMC-B, IEEE Micro, ACM Computing Surveys, FGCS, Parallel Computing, IEEE Internet Computing and conference proceedings. He is a member of the editorial boards of the Future Generation Computer Systems journal, the International Journal on Web and Grid Services, the Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience journal, MultiAgent and Grid Systems: An International Journal, International Journal of Web and Grid Services, and the Web Intelligence and Agent Systems International journal. He was a member of the Executive Committee of the CoreGRID Network of Excellence. He gave several invited talks in conferences and workshops and served as a program chair and program committee member of several conferences. He is a member of the ACM and the IEEE Computer Society.