He started CEFRIEL’s Semantic Web Activities in 2001 and he coordinated the Semantic Web group until June 2008. He is co-author of the first Italian book on Semantic Web. He is leading the “Urban Computing” use case and the stream related track of the European Project LarKC. He was Project and Scientific Manager of the European Project Service-Finder. His major research interest is in understanding business strategy and in translating theoretical results into applications. He performs research that is justified and guided by business opportunities. He leaded and participated into several consulting activities related to strategic evolution of distributed information systems, integration of different back-end systems and various feasibility studies for Web portal and document management systems.