Paolo NesiPaolo Nesi is a full professor at the University of Florence, department of systems and informatics, and head of the distributed systems and Internet technology research group. Nesi received a PhD in electronic and informatics engineering from the Unversity of Padoa. His research interests include object-oriented technology, real-time systems, quality, system assessment, testing, formal languages, physical models, computer music, and parallel and distributed architectures. He has been the general chair of IEEE ICSM, IEEE ICECCS, WEDELMUSIC international conferences, and program chair of several others. He has been the coordinator of several R&D multipartner international R&D projects of the European Commission such as MOODS, WEDELMUSIC, AXMEDIS, VARIAZIONI, and MUSICNETWORK (The Interactive Music Network) and involved in many other projects. Currently, he is co-editor of the MPEG SMR ISO standard. (nesi@dsi.unifi.it) Read More Read Less