Giancarlo Succi (PhD, PEng) is professor of software engineering and director of the Center for Applied Software Engineering with the Faulty of Computer Science at the Free University of Bolzano-Bozen (Italy). His research areas include agile methods, open source development, empirical software engineering, software product lines, software reuse, and software engineering over the Internet. He is the author of more than 150 papers published in international conferences and journals.