Prof. John Mylopoulos received his BEng degree from Brown University in 1966 and his PhD degree from Princeton in 1970, the year he joined the faculty of the University of Toronto. His research interests include information modelling techniques, covering notations, implementation techniques and applications, knowledge based systems, semantic data models, information system design and requirements engineering. He is the recipient of the first Outstanding Services Award given by the Canadian AI Society (CSCSI), a co-recipient of the best-paper award of the 1994 International Conference on Software Engineering, a fellow of the American Association for AI (AAAI) and an elected member of the VLDB Endowment Board. He has served on the editorial board of several international journals and contributed to the organisation of major international conferences. He is currently Principal Investigator of the ERC Advanced Grant LUCRETIUS and he contributed and is contributing to a number of EU projects (SecureChange, Papyrus, Aniketos, and KAP). He was also principal investigator of national research projects (Italy and Canada).

Prof. Paolo Giorgini is an Associate Professor at the University of Trento and he leads the Software Engineering, Formal Methods and Security group at the Department of Engineering and Computer Science. He has worked on the development of languages for software and security requirements engineering. He is one of the founder of the Socio-Technical Security Requirements Engineering Methodology (STS) and related techniques and tools. His publication list includes more than 200-refereed journal and conference proceedings papers and twelve edited books. He has worked and coordinated a number of provincial, national and international research projects (e.g., PAT-Stamps, PAT- Mostro, MIUR-Mensa, EU-IP- Serenity, EU-STREP-Compas, EU-IP-Aniketos).

Fatma Başak Aydemir is a PhD candidate in the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Trento, Italy. She obtained her MSc degree from the Department of Computer Engineering of Boğaziçi University, Turkey. Her main research interests are conceptual modeling, multi-agent systems, and requirements engineering. Her current research is concerned with the development of methods for requirements engineering for software evolution and supported by the ERC advanced grant 267856 ‘Lucretius: Foundations for Software Evolution’.

Dagmawi Neway Mekuria : is a research minded software engineer specialized on Eclipse based rich client application development. He obtained his MSc degree from University of Trento, and works as a research collaborator in Software Engineering, Formal Methods and Security group of University of Trento. His research interests include software engineering, formal methods, system modeling and automated reasoning, and safety and security requirements of STSs.