Prof. Restivo has coordinated several national and EU-funded projects, has numerous publications in international journals, and served as member of the organizing committee of several national and international conferences. His research interests include digital signal processing, intelligent production systems, service computing, complexity management and e-learning. Dr. Restivo holds a DPhil. degree by the University of Sussex (1981) and he has been awarded the Third Millenium Medal by the IEEE in 2000. (More information is available at: http://www.fe.up.pt/~fjr/)