Pasquale Ardimento was born in Bari, Italy. He received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Bari. During the 2004 he collaborated as a research student at the Department of Engineering, University of Durham (U.K.). He is a member of the “Consorzio Inter- universitario Nazionale per l’Informatica” (CINI). From 2005 to 2007, he was a contract researcher with the University of Bari. Since 2008, he has been a Researcher with the Computer Science Department, University of Bari Aldo Moro. His main research interests include software engineering (maintenance, testing, data mining on software systems, software quality assurance with particular interest on internal quality metrics). He serves both as a member of the program and organizing committees of conferences, and as a reviewer of papers submitted to some of the main journals and magazines in the field of software engineering and software maintenance. He was involved in several national research projects and European projects and served as a reviewer for many international and national conferences.