Giuseppe De PietroGiuseppe De Pietro received the degree in electronic engineering at the University “Federico II” of Naples in the 1988. He is a senior researcher at the Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking (ICAR) of the Italian National Research Cuncil (CNR). He is grant professor of Information Systems at the Second University of Naples. He is a member of the international editorial board for the Journal of Smart Home and the Journal of Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering. He is also involved in the organization of several international conferences on pervasive computing. His research interests are in the field of pervasive computing, graphics and virtual reality environments, middleware and component-based architectures, software engineering. He is a member of the IEEE. Read More Read Less