Author: Roberto Zicari

Roberto V. Zicari Roberto V. Zicari, born 1955 in Milan, since 1992 is full professor of computer science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main, Germany. Roberto V. Zicari represents the Object Management Group (OMG) in Europe: http://www.omg.org/news/about/europe.htm He is the Editor of the ODBMS.ORG portal,the most up-to-date collection of free materials on object database technology on the Internet: http://www.odbms.org/ He is Co-founder and Vice-President of the Association for the Scientific and Industrial Cooperation between Italy and Germany (ACIS): http://www.acis-online.org/ >From 1991 till September 2004, he was President and Co-founder of LogOn Technology Transfer GmbH, a firm specialized in creating and running IT events in Europe. Previously he was associated professor at Politecnico di Milano, Italy; visiting scientist at IBM Almaden Research Center, USA, and University of California at Berkeley, US; visiting professor at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland and the National University of Mexico City. Mexico. Roberto Zicari is an internationally recognized expert in the fields of object technology, databases, e-commerce and Web2.0. He has consulted and lectured in Europe, US and Japan. He is author of the books \"XML Data Management\" (Addison Wesley, 2003), \"Succeeding with Object Databases\" (John Wiley & Sons, 2000), \"Advanced Database Systems\" (Morgan Kaufmann, 1997) and \"Conceptual Modeling, Databases and Case (John Wiley & Sons, 1992). He combines a multi-years solid scientific background with practical experience in enterprise strategy, marketing, and sales. Roberto Zicari holds a doctor of engineering degree from Politecnico di Milano. ##