His research mainly focuses on establishing novel techniques and tools for the development of modern autonomic software systems. He is known in the Software Engineering and Service Oriented Architectures research communities for his work on Self-supervising BPEL processes and the development of the Dynamo BPEL execution framework. More recently he has shifted his attention to the runtime management of Internet and Cloud-based applications. He has been a member of various program committees for international conferences and workshops, and has often provided referee services in top-class journals such as the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, the IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, and the Springer Journal on Service Oriented Computing and Applications. Research interests: Autonomic software systems, service-oriented applications, development of mobile proximity applications http://home.deib.polimi.it/guinea/