Biographical note

Stefania Montani (PhD in Bioengineering and Medical Informatics 2001, University of Pavia, Italy) is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science, at the Computer Science Department of the University of Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria, Italy. Her research interests include Case-Based Reasoning, Decision Support Systems, Temporal Databases, Temporal Reasoning, and Dependability Analysis. She is author of more than 100 publications, all in international journals, books, or international refereed conferences. She is member of more than 10 program committees of international conferences in 2009/2010, and belongs to the reviewing boards of 3 international journals. In 2010 she will be the program chair of the International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, further testifying her very active role in the Case-Based Reasoning research community. Professor Lakhmi C. Jain is a Director/Founder of the Knowledge-Based Intelligent Engineering Systems (KES) Centre, located in the University of South Australia. He is a fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia. His interests focus on the artificial intelligence paradigms and their applications in complex systems, art-science fusion, virtual systems, e-education, e-healthcare, unmanned air vehicles and intelligent agents.