SIB Liaison Council

The SIB Liaison Council is responsible for supporting the EAI Science for Innovation, Business and Technology Councils (SIBs) which represent EAI’s community organizational units centered on technical fields identified by EAI as the emerging challenges and most promising innovation opportunities of the ICT revolution with the largest impact on human society.

The objective of the SIBs is to provide, together with CREATE-NET support, an all-encompassing organizational framework that facilitates the collaboration among all stakeholders in the research, engineering, academic, educational, governmental, regulatory, diplomatic, industrial, corporate venture capital and media sectors, working within specific technological challenges. The SIBs aim is to support innovation, technology transfer, standardization and education in their respective technical areas through a wide array of activities such as summits, conferences, workshops and Engineering for Innovation Symposia; journals, books, magazines and other publications; on-line tools, portals and digital repositories of information; forums, reviews and other on-line channels; as well as awards and recognition programs.

The setup of a new SIB, or the closure of an existing SIB is supported by ICST based on the procedures, bylaws and regulations of a non-profit professional society and using objective and democratic tools such as the AGORA.

Participate in the SIB Council Activities through Agora.

Paolo Traverso - Vice Chair

(Assisted by Dr. Adolfo Villafiorita, Senior Researcher)

Director of the Center for Information Technology - IRST at Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy

His main research interests are in Software and Services, Artificial Intelligence, and the Automated Verification and Synthesis of software systems. He contributed to research in automated planning with a novel technique called "planning as model checking".

He was Program Chair of the International Conference on Automated Planning (ICAPS) and Area Chair for Planning and Control of the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI) in 2002, General and Program Chair of the International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC) in 2004 and 2005, Program Chair of the 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications (AIMSA), Area Chair for Distributed Systems of the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI) in 2008, Program Chair of the First Future Internet Symposium (FIS 2008) in 2008, and Program Chair of the 6th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) in 2009. He served in the Senior Program Committee for ICAPS-2010, 20th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, and  in the Advisory Board of  IJCAI'11, the 22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. In 2005, he was nominated ECCAI fellow "for pioneering work in the field of Artificial Intelligence, and outstanding service to the AI community".

He has been in the Editorial Board of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), of the Journal of Applied Logic (JAL), of the International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems (IJCIS), and of the Electronic Transaction in Artificial Intelligence (ETAI). He is a member of the Steering Committee of the International Conference on Service Oriented Computing, and a member of the European Coordinating Committee in Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI). He was also member of the Executive Council of the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), and member of the Board of Directors of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA).

Adolfo Villafiorita

Adolfo Villafiorita, Ph.D., is the Head of the ICT4G unit of Fondazione Bruno Kessler.

His main research interests are Security, Process Modeling, Project Management, and Safety and Reliability. He has lead and participated in various industrial projects related to the development of critical applications in the railways and aerospace sectors. He also lead and participated in various eGovernment projects, among which the definition of the interoperability plan for the Government of Mozambique.

He is in the program committee of various conferences, among which ICDS 2010 (the Fourth International Conference on Digital Society), CYBERLAWS 2010 (the First International Conference on Technical and Legal Aspects of the e- Society), and AFRICOMM 2010 (the 1st International ICST Conference on e-Infrastructure and e-Services for Developing Countries).