**About the Editors**

**Michele Roccotelli** received an MScEng degree in Automation Engineering from the Polytechnic of Bari in 2010. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Information Engineering from the Polytechnic of Bari, Italy (Apr. 2016). He has been a visiting scholar (Jan. 2015-Jul. 2015) at the Ecole Normale ´ Superieure de Cachan, Paris, France. He is currently an assistant professor at Polytechnic University ´ of Bari, at the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering. His research interests include energy-efficiency systems, models and strategies for smart grids and smart buildings, and electric mobility systems and services. He has been a member of the program committees of several international conferences, such as the organizing committee of the IEEE SMC 2019. He is co-author of +40 articles published in international conferences and journals.

He has been/is involved in the following H2020 EU-funded research and innovation projects in the electromobility sector: (1) NeMo (https://nemo-emobility.eu/); (2) ELVITEN (https://www.elviten-project.eu/en/); (3) eCharge4Drivers (https://echarge4drivers.eu/).

**Agostino Marcello Mangini** received a Laurea degree in electronics engineering and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Polytechnic of Bari, Bari, Italy, in 2003 and 2008, respectively. He has been a Visiting Scholar with the University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain. He is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Polytechnic of Bari. He has authored or co-authored over 90 printed publications. His current research interests include the modeling, simulation, and control of discrete-event systems, Petri nets, supply chains and urban traffic networks, distribution and internal logistics, managemen<sup>t</sup> of hazardous materials, managemen<sup>t</sup> of drug distribution systems, and healthcare systems. Dr. Mangini was on the program committees of the 2007–2015 IEEE International SMC Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics and the 2009 IFAC Workshop on Dependable Control of Discrete Systems. He was on the Editorial Board of the 2017 IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering.
