Silvana Castano is full professor of Computer Science at the University of Milano, where previously she has been associate professor (1998-2001) and assistant professor (1993-1998), respectively. She received her Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Politecnico di Milano, in 1993.

Her main research interests include database and semistructured data integration, ontologies for information sharing and exchange, database and XML security, Web-based information systems and XML, process analysis and reengineering, workflow design, reuse of conceptual components. On these topics, she has published several papers in refereed international journals and conferences and she has been working within several national and international research projects.

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