We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Paolino Di Felice has joined Software as an Editorial Board Member.

Prof. Dr. Paolino Di Felice has been a Professor of Computer Science at the Department of Industrial and Information Engineering and Economics of the University of L'Aquila, Italy, since 1999.

He has (co-)authored about 120 articles appearing in (IEEE, ACM, and Elsevier) journals, books, and international conference proceedings. The main research topics investigated concerned geographical databases and software engineering. A relevant research topic belonging to the domain of geographical databases concerned the study of 2D spatial relations between spatial objects. Spatial relations constitute the kernel of spatial SQL running on top of the currently available DataBase Management Systems (e.g., Oracle, IBM-DB2, and PostgreSQL/PostGIS). His research work has been included in the Open Geospatial Consortium standards for the definition of 2D vector data types and topological operators.

His research in the domain of software engineering started in the mid 1980s. Topics studied concerned mathematical software, programming methodologies, code reusability, software indexing, and class library for geographic applications. More recently, his research focus has moved to code generation of MVC web applications using the model-driven architecture and the assessment of the quality of the generated code. Currently, his group is developing a software tool supporting the automatic feeding of the Metadata Repository about UML Class Diagrams.

Prof. Dr. Di Felice has carried out a consistent activity of technological transfer in collaboration with several Italian IT firms. His research has been funded by national and international institutions and carried out in collaboration with researchers of several countries (Italy, Holland, Germany, Canada, and the USA). He has served regularly within national and international committees.

Prof. Dr. Di-Felice’s research and publications have received many citations in the research community. His Scopus data are the following: h-index 16, number of citations 1720 (https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=35613348600); while the Google Scholar citation results are above 4000 (https://scholar.google.it/citations?&user=GP6_bRUAAAAJ).