Professional Services

Chair of the IEEE Software Advisory Board, (2020-current)

General Chair of the 15th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2021), virtual.

General co-Chair of the 14th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2020), virtual.

Editorial Board Member of the Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE) journal, Springer (2011-current)

Editorial Board Member of the Software Quality Journal (SQJ), Springer (2020-current)

Member of the (IEEE Software) Advisory Board, (2018-2020)

Workshop Chair of the 6th International Workshop on Social Software Engineering (SSE'14), colocated with FSE 2014, Hong Kong , China, November 2014

Supervisor PhD Symposium at the the Empirical Software Engineering (IDoESE), Torino, Italy, October 2014

Supervisor PhD Symposium at ICSME 2014, Victoria, Canada, September 2104

General Chair of the 8th IEEE Int. Conference on Global Software Engineering (IGCSE 2013), Bari, Italy, 2013

Workshop Chair of Trust in Virtual Teams: Theory and Tools @ CSCW 2013, San Antonio, Texas, USA

Workshop Chair of SoSEA 2009, 2nd International Workshop on Social Software Engineering and Applications, August 2009, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Program Chair of ICGSE 2008, 3rd International Conference on Global Software Engineering, Bangalore, India, 2008

Guest Editor for a special issue on Global Software Development, Journal of Software Process Improvement and Practice (SPIP), November/December 2008

Workshop Chair of the 3rd Italian Workshop on Eclipse Technologies (Eclipse-IT 2008), Bari, 2008

Supervisor PhD Symposium GIIS 2009, Salerno, Italy, September 2009

Supervisor for the 3rd International Doctoral Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering (IDoESE), Kaiserslautern, Germany, October 2008

Editorial Board member of Advances in Software Engineering (ASE), Hindawi Publishing Corp. (2008: )

Member of the Steering Committee of the IEEE International Symposium on Global Software Engineering (2007: )

Member of the Steering Committee of the ACM/IEEE/TCSE International Conference on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (2006-2008)

Member of the Steering Committee of the IEEE International Symposium on Software Metrics (2005-2006)

Member of the Steering Committee of the International Workshop on Distributed Software Development (2005)

Program Chair of METRICS 2005, 11th International Symposium on Software Metrics, Como Lake, Italy, 2005.

Program Chair of IWPC 2004, 12th International Workshop on Program Comprehension, June 24-26 2004, Bari, Italy

Workshop Chair of GSD 2004, ICSE International Workshop on Global Software Development, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, May 2004.

Workshop Chair of GSD 2003, ICSE International Workshop on Global Software Development, Portland, Oregon, USA, May 9, 2003

Workshop Chair of WESS'97, IEEE Workshop on Empirical Studies of Software Maintenance, Bari, Italy, 1997

Co-organizer of the ISERN'97 meeting, Bari, Italy, 1997

Member of the Program Committee of the following conferences and workshops:

ACM/IEEE Int. Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): 2007, 2014 (Software Engineering Education and Training), 2015 (Reviewing Committee e Software Engineering In Society), 2016 (Software Engineering In Society)
ACM/IEEE Int. Conference on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM): 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2103, 2014, 2015
IEEE Int. Conference on Global Software Engineering ( ICGSE): 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2102, 2014, 2015
Int. Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE): 2013, 2014, 2015
Workshop on Social Software Engineering (SSE): 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
IEEE Int. Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM): 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2011, 2012
Joint Conference of the Int. Workshop on Software Measurement (IWSM) and the Int. Conference on Software Process and Product Measurement (Mensura): 2012, 2013.
Information Technology for Organization Development (IT4OD): 2014
International Conference on Open Source Systems (OSS): 2012
Int. Summer School on Software Engineering (ISSSE): 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
4th Software Quality Days (SWQD) conference: 2012
Int. Workshop on Multimedia Requirements Engineering - Beyond Mere Description (MeRE): 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011
Workshop on Global Software Engineering for Agile Teams (Globagile): 2011
Workshop on Project Management, Architecture, and Risk Assessment for Global Software Development Projects (PARIS): 2011
Int. Workshop on Groupware (CRIWG): 2007, 2008, 2009
Workshop on Knowledge Engineering in Global Software Development (KNOWING): 2009
Security in Model Driven Architecture workshop (SEC-MDA): 2009, 2010
IEEE Int. Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC): 2007, 2008
IEEE Int. Conference on Software Reuse (ICSR): 2006, 2008
Workshop on Community- based Evolution of Knowledge-intensive Systems (COMBEK): 2008
Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering (SBES): 2008
Brazilian Workshop on Distributed Software Development (WDDS): 2007, 2008
ACM/IEEE Int. Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): 2007
Int. Conference on Agile Processes in Software Engineering and eXtreme Programming (XP): 2007
Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA), Track on Software Process and Product Improvement: 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
Int. Workshop on Computer-Supported Distributed Requirements Engineering (CSDRE): 2007
Int. Workshop on Global Requirements Engineering (GREW): 2007
ACM/IEEE Int. Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering (ISESE): 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
Int. Workshop on Global Software Development for the Practitioner (GSD): 2006
IEEE Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE): 2004
Workshop on Cooperative Support for Distributed Software Engineering Processes (CSSE): 2004
IEEE Int. Software Metrics Symposium (METRICS): 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003
Workshop on Cooperative Supports for Distributed Software Engineering Processes (CSSE): 2002, 2003
IEEE Int. Workshop on Global Software Development (GSD): 2002
IEEE Int. Workshop on Empirical Studies of Software Maintenance (WESS): 1996, 1998, 1999, 2001
Int. Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE): 1993, 1994

Reviewer for the following international journals:

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
IEEE Transactions on Computers
IEEE Software
Communications of the ACM
Empirical Software Engineering
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Information and Software Technology
Computer Journal
The Journal of Systems and Software
Journal of Software Testing
Verification, and Reliability
The Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution
The International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

Evaluator as an indipendent expert for European Commission, Italian Government, and Local Public Administrations

Reviewer for National Science Foundation (Experimental Software Systems program)