Franco Zambonelli is a full professor in Computer Science at the

University of Modena and Reggio Emilia The University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (), located in Modena and Reggio Emilia, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, is one of the oldest universities in Europe, founded in 1175, with a population of 20,000 students. The medieval university disappeared by ...

, Italy, since 2010.

Education and career

He received the PhD in Electronics and Computer Science from the

University of Bologna The University of Bologna (, abbreviated Unibo) is a Public university, public research university in Bologna, Italy. Teaching began around 1088, with the university becoming organised as guilds of students () by the late 12th century. It is the ...

in 1997, and started his activity at the

in 1997. His research interests include

ubiquitous computing Ubiquitous computing (or "ubicomp") is a concept in software engineering, hardware engineering and computer science where computing is made to appear seamlessly anytime and everywhere. In contrast to desktop computing, ubiquitous computing imp ...

and

internet of things Internet of things (IoT) describes devices with sensors, processing ability, software and other technologies that connect and exchange data with other devices and systems over the Internet or other communication networks. The IoT encompasse ...

, self-organizing and self-adaptive systems, and

distributed artificial intelligence Distributed artificial intelligence (DAI) also called Decentralized Artificial IntelligenceDemazeau, Yves, and J-P. Müller, eds. Decentralized Ai. Vol. 2. Elsevier, 1990. is a subfield of artificial intelligence research dedicated to the devel ...

. His nearly full list of publications can be found at

DBLP DBLP is a computer science bibliography website. Starting in 1993 at Universität Trier in Germany, it grew from a small collection of HTML files and became an organization hosting a database and logic programming bibliography site. Since Novem ...

. He was named

Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers , the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) public charity professional organization for electrical engineering, electronics engineering, and ot ...

(IEEE) in 2014 "for contributions to software engineering for self-adaptive and self-organizing systems". He is also Distinguished of the

Association for Computing Machinery The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is a US-based international learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 and is the world's largest scientific and educational computing society. The ACM is a non-profit professional membe ...

(ACM) Scientist and Member of the

Academia Europaea The Academia Europaea is a pan-European Academy of humanities, letters, law, and sciences. The Academia was founded in 1988 as a functioning Europe-wide Academy that encompasses all fields of scholarly inquiry. It acts as co-ordinator of Europe ...

. In 2018, he received the IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award for the article "Developing Multiagent Systems: the Gaia Methodology".

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* 20th-century births Living people Italian computer scientists University of Bologna alumni Academic staff of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia Fellows of the IEEE Members of Academia Europaea Year of birth missing (living people) {{Italy-engineer-stub