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  •  antonio.volpentesta@unical.it
  •  Cube 42C- 8th floor
  • SSD:  ING-IND/35 - BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT ENGINEERING
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VOLPENTESTA Antonio P.
He has been conducting research and studies for almost 40 years in the areas of operation research, information systems, economics and management engineering. He has published some books and over 100 papers in these areas, many of them on international referred journals. He acts as referee or associate editor for many scientifi c journals, and member of many conference program committees. He is the Director of GiudaLab (DIMEG-Unical), an information management engineering laboratory where some university spin-offs have been incubated and many regional, national and European projects have been carried out in the past 20 years. His current research interests include collaborative networks, knowledge management, learning systems, social media marketing and food information management.
Selected Publications

Antonio P. Volpentesta, Alberto M. Felicetti, and Nicola Frega, Collaboration Networks for Information Empowerment of Food Consumers, In IFIP AICT 568, L. M. Camarinha-Matos et al. (Eds.), pp. 1–10, 2019.
Antonio P. Volpentesta, Alberto M. Felicetti, and Nicola Frega, Organizational and Technological Aspects of a Platform for Collective Food Awareness, Advances in HumanComputer Interaction, vol. 2018, Article ID 8608407, 16 pages, 2018.
Volpentesta A.P., Felicetti A.M. Research Investigation on Food Information User’s Behaviour. In: Collaborative Networks of Cognitive Systems, Camarinha-Matos L., Afsarmanesh H., Rezgui Y. (eds). IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technolog

Lines of Research

Modeling user interaction with mobiquitous services in smart environments.
Knowledge management and informal learning in alternative agrifood networks.
Organizational forms and ICT tools for local food systems.
Information risk perception of enterprise managers.
Collaborative project learning and thinking styles.
Knowledge representation of research competences in a scientifi c community.
Organizational learning and innovation in collaborative networks.
Hypernetworks as combinatorial structures for Collaborative Networks.
Design and evaluation of e-commerce interfaces.
Virtual enterprise formation.

Thesis Proposals and Topics
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