Andrea Omicini is Full Professor at DISI, the Department of
Computer Science and Engineering of the Alma Mater Studiorum –
Università di Bologna. He received his Laurea degree in Electronic
Engineering in February 1991, and his PhD in Computer &
Electronic Engineering in November 1995, both from the Alma Mater.
From 2010 to 2014 he was the Programme Director of the 2nd cycle
Degree Programme in Computer Engineering, and of the 1st cycle
Degree Programme in Electronics, Informatics and Telecommunications
Engineering at the Alma Mater Campus in Cesena.
He wrote over 280 articles on coordination, programming languages,
software engineering, Internet technologies, multiagent systems,
simulation, and self-organisation, published in international
journals, books, conferences and workshops. On the same topics, he
edited 11 international books and guest-edited 15 international
journal's special issues (see also
publications).
He held several invited talks and tutorials at international
conferences and schools (see also
talks,
tutorials).
He supervised and evaluated many PhD theses, both national and
international. Since 2006 he is Member of the Board of the
Doctorate Program in Law & New Technologies of the Alma Mater
(see also
PhD).
He organised and chaired several international conferences and
workshops; he was a member of the Program and Scientific Committees
of over 300 international conferences, workshops, and symposia (see
also
conferences).
He was the Chair of the SIG on Agents and Multi-Agent Systems of
the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA), and is
currently the ACM Representative in the IFIP Technical Committee 12
"Artificial Intelligence" (see also
associations).
Since 1991, he participated to many national and international
projects. Within the FP6 Coordination Action "AgentLink III", he
worked as the Chair of Workpackage 12 "Technical Forum", and also
as a member of the Managenemt Committee. He was member of the
Steering Committee of the FP7 Coordination Action "AWARENESS", and
member of the Management Committee of the STREP FP7 Project
"Self-aware Pervasive Service Ecosystems (SAPERE)". He worked as
the Coordinator of the project PRIN 2006 "MEnSA - Methodologies for
the Engineering of complex Software systems: Agent-based approach"
(see also
projects).
