**About the Editors**

#### **Gloria Bordogna**

Gloria Bordogna is a Director of research at the National Research Council of Italy within the Institute of Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment (CNR-IREA). She has been with CNR since 1986. From 2003 to 2010 she was contract professor of Information Retrieval and GIS at the Information Engineering Department of Bergamo University. Her research activity concerns uncertainty and imprecision modeling in information retrieval systems, database and geographic information systems with soft computing. She has defined methods for textual contents' representation, for flexible querying and mining textual information, geographic information and social networks by fuzzy clustering, and for knowledge and data-driven fusion of multidimensional multisource data. Among the main organization activities since 2022 she is in the steering committee of the Int. Conf. on Flexible Query Answering Systems—FQAS, and since 2008 she has organized the special track entitled "Information Access and Retrieval" at the "ACM Symposium on Applied Computing".

She is a member of the editorial board of "MDPI *ISPRS Int. Journal of Geo-information*", of "*Geomatics*", and of the "Newsletter of SIGAPP, ACR, Applied Computing Review". She serves as a reviewer of journals and research agencies (ESF—European Science Foundation, FCT (Portugal), ANR (France); FWO (Belgium), ERCEA, "ERC Starting Grants" program) and participates in the program committee of several international conferences such as ACM SIGIR, ECIR, ACM CIKM, FUZZIEEE, IPMU. As main recognition of her research activity, in 2017 she was elected fellow of the International Fuzzy System Association. Since 2021, she is ranked in the Stanford University list of the top 2% most widely cited researchers in the world.

#### **Cristiano Fugazza**

Cristiano Fugazza is a researcher by the Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR-IREA), focusing on semantic interoperability, Artificial Intelligence, and distributed metadata management in the context of Spatial Data Infrastructures. He is currently seconded to the Joint Research Centre, European Commission, for the FAIRification of patient registries in the context of the EC/JRC rare disease strategy. He did his post-doc by the Spatial Data Infrastructure Unit of the JRC-IES on the creation, harmonization, and exploitation of multilingual thesauri in the SKOS format for the purpose of annotation and discovery of spatial resources. He supported the development of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) and the European spatial data infrastructure established by the INSPIRE directive by managing a comprehensive repository of harmonized reference and thematic thesauri. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science by the Dept. of Information Technologies, University of Milan, focusing on Knowledge Management and Semantic Web technologies. He has contributed to, and published in international journals, conferences, and workshops in the domains of spatial data infrastructures, supply chain management, business modeling, digital rights management, personal information protection, and persistent identifiers.
