Filippo Lanubile is an Associate Professor at the University of Bari, Italy. While at University of Maryland (1995-1997) he was a recipient of the NASA Group Achievement Award (1996). In 2003 he was the co- organizer of the Workshop on Global Software Development and acted as a member of the program committees for the Int’l. Conf. on Empirical Software Engineering, the Int’l Symposium on Software Metrics, and the Workshop on Cooperative Support for Distributed Software Engineering Processes. Currently he is the Program Co-Chair of the Int’l Workshop on Program Comprehension 2004 and Program Co-Chair of the Int’l Symposium on Software Metrics 2005.