Francesco Merlo Curriculum Vitæ CONTACT Address: Phone: Fax: E-mail: Politecnico di Milano Department of Electronics and Information Via Ponzio 34/5 I-20133 Milano (Italy) +39 02 2399 3474 +39 02 2399 3411 merlo@elet.polimi.it APPOINTMENT January 2010 Today Politecnico di Milano Post doctorate on the topic Methodologies for computer systems architectural design funded by the Department of Electronics and Information. EDUCATION 2007 2009 Politecnico di Milano Ph.D. in Information Engineering Dissertation: An empirical analysis of the impact of social network structure on the economics of software projects Advisor: Prof. Chiara Francalanci August December 2008 Georgia Institute of Technology Visiting scholar at the College of Management, under the supervision of prof. Sandra A. Slaughter. 2003 2006 Politecnico di Milano Master of Science in Informatics Engineering Thesis: A cost-oriented model for the optimization of software reuse policies Advisor: Prof. Chiara Francalanci Graduation mark: 110/110 Magna cum laude 2000 2003 Politecnico di Milano Bachelor of Science in Informatics Engineering Thesis: A multi-channel architecture for a flexible messaging system Advisor: Prof. Barbara Pernici Graduation mark: 102/110 1995 2000 Liceo Scientifico Tecnologico Sperimentale Q.Sella Biella Scientific Diploma Graduation mark: 100/100
WORK EXPERIENCE RESEARCH ASSISTANT Politecnico di Milano, Department of Electronics and Information Technical manager in the project Energ IT Modelli e strumenti per la riduzione dei consumi energetici nei data center, nell'ambito dei meta-distretti industriali della Regione Lombardia, Area tematica Meta- Industriale ICT (2008-2010). Research project with Pirelli Ambiente S.p.A., A methodology for the assessment of potential power consumption reduction in the distributed IT (2009). Research project with SKY Italia S.p.A., Measurement and analysis of set top boxes power consumption (2009). OMAT Milano, invited talk: The Energ-IT project: Models and methodologies for data center power consumption reduction (2009). Worked in the Tekne FIRB project on the topic Process modeling and software functional requirements analysis (2006). TEACHING ASSISTANT Politecnico di Milano, Department of Electronics and Information Hired for the following courses (140 hours total): Information Systems Management, Prof. Giampio Bracchi (2009). Enterprise Information Systems, Prof. Chiara Francalanci (2006, 2007, 2009). Management of Information Technology, Prof. Chiara Francalanci (2006, 2007, 2008). Worked as lab tutor in the following courses (120 hours total): Software Engineering (2005, 2006). Information Systems (2004, 2005). Informatics 1 (2005). FREELANCE IT CONSULTANT Centro Ricerca BTO S.r.l. Project with UBI Banca Sistemi e Servizi, Printing Strategic Sourcing Assessment for the analysis and the definition of the printing sourcing requirements (2009). Cestec S.p.A. Technical reviewer in the project Contributi alle micro, piccole e medie imprese per il sostegno dell'innovazione e dell'imprenditorialità nel settore dei servizi alle imprese (2009). Technical reviewer in the project Contributi alle micro, piccole e medie imprese per il sostegno dell'innovazione e dell'imprenditorialità nel settore dei servizi alle imprese (2008). Fondazione Politecnico di Milano Project with SIA-SSB S.p.A., Payment Systems Processes, technological infrastructures and innovation (2007). Participated in the project UtilTec Tecnologie innovative per i servizi di pubblica utilità, nell'ambito dei meta-distretti industriali della Regione Lombardia, Area tematica Meta-Industriale ICT (2006).
PUBLICATIONS A. JOURNAL PAPERS [A.1] [A.2] C. Francalanci, Empirical Analysis of the Bug Fixing Process in Open Source Projects International Journal of Computer System Science and Engineering, Invited Paper, Special Issue on Open Source Certification, 2010 (forthcoming). E. Capra, C. Francalanci, An empirical study on the relationship among software design quality, development effort, and governance in Open Source projects IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 34, no. 6, pp. 765-782, 2008. B. NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE PAPERS [B.1] [B.2] [B.3] [B.4] [B.5] [B.6] [B.7] [B.8] [B.9], S. A. Slaughter, C. Francalanci The Co-Evolution Of Social Networks And Software Structures In Open- And Closed-Source Projects Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Chicago, 2009. Selected for publication in the Best Paper Proceedings of the Organizational Communication and Information Systems (OCIS) Division. E. Capra, Green IT: Everything Starts from the Software European Conference on Information Systems, Verona, 2009. E. Capra, C. Francalanci,, C. Rossi Lamastra A Survey on Firms Participation in Open Source Community Projects International Conference on Open Source Systems, Skovde, 2009. D. Barbagallo, C. Francalanci, The Impact of Social Networking on Software Design Quality and Development Effort in Open Source Projects International Conference on Information Systems, Paris, 2008. E. Capra, C. Francalanci, D. Lorenzi,, C. Rossi Lamastra Firms involvement in Open Source projects: a controversial role Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems, Hammamet, 2008. C. Francalanci, Empirical Analysis of the Bugfixing Process in Open Source Projects International Conference on Open Source Systems, Milano, 2008. C. Francalanci, The Impact of Complexity on Software Design Quality and Costs European Conference in Information Systems, Galway, 2008. E. Capra, The Impact of Functional Complexity on Open Source Maintenance Costs An Exploratory Empirical Analysis Italian Conference of the Italian Chapter of AIS, Venezia, 2007. E. Capra, C. Francalanci, The Economics of Open Source Software An empirical analysis of maintenance costs International Conference on Software Maintenance, Paris, 2007. [B.10] E. Capra, C. Francalanci, A Cost Model for the Optimization of Software Evolution Policies European and Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems, Valencia, 2007.
[B.11] E. Capra, C. Francalanci,, M. Tosetti Cost Implications of Open Source Software Commonality and Reuse European Conference on Information Systems, Goteborg, 2006. C. BOOK CHAPTERS [C.1] Analisi costi e benefici delle tecnologie dell'informazione In Sistemi Informativi d Impresa, G. Bracchi, C. Francalanci, G. M. Motta (eds.), McGraw-Hill, 2009. D. OTHER PUBLICATIONS [D.1] [D.2] [D.3] [D.4] Green IT: Efficienza nei consumi energetici dei data center Il Caso SeeWeb Mondo Digitale, vol.8, no. 31, pp. 72-78, 2009. Product Lifecycle Management Il Caso Faital (Fabbrica Italiana Altoparlanti) Mondo Digitale, vol.8, no. 30, pp. 74-80, 2009. E. Capra, C. Francalanci,, C. Rossi Lamastra Firms Participation in Open Source Projects: Which Impact on Software Quality and Success? The DRUID Summer Conference, Copenhagen, 2009. E. Capra, The Impact of Functional Complexity on Open Source Maintenance Costs In Interdisciplinary Aspects of Information Systems Studies, M. DeMarco (ed.), Springer Verlag, 2008. F. PUBLICATIONS UNDER REVIEW [F.1] [F.2] [F.3] E. Capra, C. Francalanci,, C. Rossi Lamastra Firms Involvement in Open Source projects: a Trade-Off Between Software Quality and Popularity Submitted to the Journal of Systems and Software, November 2009. E. Capra, C. Francalanci and The Economics of Open Source Software: An Empirical Analysis of Maintenance Effort Submitted to Advances in Software Engineering, special issue on New Generation of Software Metrics, November 2009., S. A. Slaughter, C. Francalanci The Co-Evolution of Organizational Structures and Software Structures in Open Source and Closed Source Projects Submitted to Information Systems Research, December 2009. G. TECHNICAL REPORTS [G.1] A Graph-Based Framework for querying and Modelling Integrated Sources Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Technical Report n. 15/2008.
Miscellanea Served as a reviewer for the following conferences and journals: Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS), Special Issue on Empirical Research on Free/Libre Open Source Software, K. Krowston and M. Wade (eds.), 2009. 30th International Conference on Information Systems, Phoenix, 2009. 73rd Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Chicago, 2009. 6th Conference of the Italian Chapter of the AIS, Costa Smeralda, 2009. 17th European Conference on Information Systems, Verona, 2009. 29th International Conference on Information Systems, Paris, 2008. FOREIGN LANGUAGES Mother tongue: English: French: Italian. Fluent. Proficient.