Francesco Merlo Curriculum Vitæ

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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 [email protected]

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.

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

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

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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).

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PUBLICATIONS A. JOURNAL PAPERS [A.1] C. Francalanci, F. Merlo

“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). [A.2] E. Capra, C. Francalanci, F. Merlo

“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] F. Merlo, 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.

[B.2] E. Capra, F. Merlo

“Green IT: Everything Starts from the Software”

European Conference on Information Systems, Verona, 2009.

[B.3] E. Capra, C. Francalanci, F. Merlo, C. Rossi Lamastra

“A Survey on Firms’ Participation in Open Source Community Projects”

International Conference on Open Source Systems, Skovde, 2009.

[B.4] D. Barbagallo, C. Francalanci, F. Merlo

“The Impact of Social Networking on Software Design Quality and Development Effort in Open Source Projects”

International Conference on Information Systems, Paris, 2008.

[B.5] E. Capra, C. Francalanci, D. Lorenzi, F. Merlo, C. Rossi Lamastra “Firms’ involvement in Open Source projects: a controversial role”

Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems, Hammamet, 2008.

[B.6] C. Francalanci, F. Merlo

“Empirical Analysis of the Bugfixing Process in Open Source Projects”

International Conference on Open Source Systems, Milano, 2008.

[B.7] C. Francalanci, F. Merlo

“The Impact of Complexity on Software Design Quality and Costs”

European Conference in Information Systems, Galway, 2008.

[B.8] E. Capra, F. Merlo

“The Impact of Functional Complexity on Open Source Maintenance Costs – An Exploratory Empirical Analysis”

Italian Conference of the Italian Chapter of AIS, Venezia, 2007.

[B.9] E. Capra, C. Francalanci, F. Merlo

“The Economics of Open Source Software – An empirical analysis of maintenance costs”

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[B.11] E. Capra, C. Francalanci, F. Merlo, M. Tosetti

“Cost Implications of Open Source Software Commonality and Reuse”

European Conference on Information Systems, Goteborg, 2006.

C. BOOK CHAPTERS [C.1] F. Merlo

“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] F. Merlo

“Green IT: Efficienza nei consumi energetici dei data center – Il Caso SeeWeb”

Mondo Digitale, vol.8, no. 31, pp. 72-78, 2009.

[D.2] F. Merlo

“Product Lifecycle Management – Il Caso Faital (Fabbrica Italiana Altoparlanti)”

Mondo Digitale, vol.8, no. 30, pp. 74-80, 2009.

[D.3] E. Capra, C. Francalanci, F. Merlo, C. Rossi Lamastra

“Firms’ Participation in Open Source Projects: Which Impact on Software Quality and Success?”

The DRUID Summer Conference, Copenhagen, 2009.

[D.4] E. Capra, F. Merlo

“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] E. Capra, C. Francalanci, F. Merlo, 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.

[F.2] E. Capra, C. Francalanci and F. Merlo

“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.

[F.3] F. Merlo, 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] F. Merlo

“A Graph-Based Framework for querying and Modelling Integrated Sources”

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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: Italian.

English: Fluent.