The Authors

Ivan Cibrario Bertolotti received the Laurea degree (summa cum laude) in computer science from the University of Torino, Turin, Italy, in 1996. Since then, he has been a researcher with the National Research Council of Italy (CNR). Currently, he is with the Istituto di Elettronica e di Ingegneria dell’Informazione e delle Telecomunicazioni (IEIIT), Turin, Italy.

His research interests include real-time operating system design and implementation, industrial communication systems and protocols, and formal methods for vulnerability and dependability analysis of distributed systems. His contributions in this area comprise both theoretical work and practical applications, carried out in cooperation with leading Italian and international companies.

He has taught several courses on real-time operating systems at Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy, starting in 2003, as well as a PhD degree course at the University of Padova in 2009. He regularly serves as a technical referee for the main international conferences and journals on industrial informatics, factory automation, and communication. He has been an IEEE member since 2006.

Gabriele Manduchi received the Laurea degree (summa cum laude) in electronic engineering from the University of Padova, Padua, Italy, in 1987. Since 1998 he has been a researcher with the National Research Council of Italy (CNR), and currently he is senior researcher at the Istituto Gas Ionizzati (IGI), Padua, Italy, where he leads the control and data acquisition group of the RFX nuclear fusion experiment.

His research interests include data acquisition and real-time control in large physics experiments. He is a coauthor of a software framework for data acquisition widely used in many nuclear fusion experiments around the world, and he is involved in several international projects for the management of computer infrastructures in fusion research.

He has taught several courses on computer architectures and software engineering at the University of Padova, Padua, Italy, starting in 1996, as well as PhD degree courses at the University of Padova in 2008–2010.