Short description: Alfio Ferrara is assistant professor of Computer Science at the University of Milano, where he received his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2005. His research interests include database and semi- structured data integration, Web-based information systems, ontology engineering, and knowledge representation and evolution. On these topics, he works in national and international research projects, including the recent EU FP6 BOEMIE (Bootstrapping Ontology Evolution with Multimedia Information Extraction) project, the FP6 INTEROP NoE (Interoperability Research for Networked Enterprises Applications and Software) project, and the ESTEEM (Emergent Semantics and cooperaTion in multi-knowledgE EnvironMents) PRIN project funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, University, and Research. He is also author of several articles and papers in international journals and conferences about ontology management and matching.