Organizing Committee

Dr. Giovanna Guerrini is an assistant professor at the Department of Computer and Information Sciences of the University of Genova. She received the MS and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the University of Genova, Italy, in 1993 and 1998, respectively. Her research interests include object-oriented, active, deductive and temporal databases, semi-structured information. She was one of the organizers of the ECOOP'99 Workshop on Object-Oriented Databases and she is currently serving as ECOOP 2000 Programme Committee member.

Isabella Merlo received a MS Degree in Computer Science (with honours) at the University of Genova in 1996. Since November 1996, she is enrolled in a PhD program, under the supervision of Prof. Elisa Bertino, in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences of the University of Genova as a member of the Databases and Information Systems Group. Her current research interests include object-oriented, active and temporal databases, data models for management of semi-structured data. She was one of the organizers of the ECOOP'99 Workshop on Object-Oriented Databases.

Marta Oliva graduated in Computer Science from the Technical University of Catalonia, (Barcelona, Spain). Nowadays, she is an associate professor for Technical Studies at the Department of Computer Science and Industrial Engineering of the University of Lleida (Catalonia, Spain), where she teaches several courses related to database technology, and she also is a PhD student at the Software Department of the Technical University of Catalunya. She is a member of the Federated Database Management System Research Group (FDBMSRG) that is guided by Dr. Fèlix Saltor, where she is working on access control in federated database management systems, the BLOOM (BarceLona Object Oriented Model) model and federated architectures.

M. Elena Rodriguez graduated in Computer Science from the Technical University of Catalonia (Barcelona, Spain). Currently, she is a full time contracted professor of the Software Department (Technical University of Catalonia) where she teaches subjects related to database technology. She also collaborates as consultant in the Open University of Catalonia, a new and innovative distance-learning university in the Catalonian Countries. She is a member of the Federated Database Management System Research Group (FDBMSRG). Her research interests include the BLOOM (BarceLona Object Oriented Model) model, federated architectures and federated transactions management. She is working to get her PhD which deals with transaction management in federated database systems. In 1997, she participated as assistant of the registration chair in the organization of the 9th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'97) that was held in Barcelona.