**About the Editors**

**Alberto Belussi** received his master's degree in Electronic Engineering in 1992 and PhD degree in Computer Engineering in 1996, both from the Politecnico di Milano. Since 1998, he has been based at University of Verona (Italy), where he has served as Associate Professor since his appointment in 2004. His main research interests include conceptual modeling of spatial databases, geographical information systems, spatial data integration, and spatial query optimization.

**Sara Migliorini** received her master's and PhD degree in Computer Science in 2007 and 2012, respectively, both from the University of Verona. Since 2012, she has been working at University of Verona (Italy), where she was appointed as Postdoctoral Research Associate from 2012 to 2019 and is currently serving as Assistant Professor. Her main research interests include geographic information systems, scientific workflow systems, and collaborative and distributed architectures.

**Damiano Carra** received his Laurea in Telecommunication Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, and his PhD in Computer Science from University of Trento. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at University of Verona. His research interests include modeling and performance evaluation of large-scale distributed systems.

**Eliseo Clementini** is Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Department of Industrial and Information Engineering and Economics of the University of L'Aquila (Italy). He received his M.Eng. in Electronics Engineering from University of L'Aquila in 1990 and his PhD in Computer Science from University of Lyon in 2009. His research interests are mainly in the fields of spatial databases and geographical information science.
