The University of Bari Aldo Moro (UNIBA) is the second largest university of South Italy with 1,500 faculty people and 60,000 students. It is presently constituted by 24 Departments, covering all fields of research from basic to R&D, and offers various courses for undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate students, including Sciences and Technology, Economics, Medicine, Law and Humanities.

Within UNIBA, the Department of Computer Science (Dipartimento di Informatica - www.di.uniba.it) is composed of 50 Faculty personnel. Currently the Department provides three tracks of undergraduate courses (about 400 students per year), a Master of Science course (80 students per year), and a postgraduate course in computer science. Research areas include software engineering, machine learning, data mining, natural language processing, human-computer interaction, e-learning, and social computing.

Within the Department, the Collaborative Development Group (COLLAB - collab.di.uniba.it) investigates topics at the intersection of Software Engineering and Social Computing, including social software engineering, global software development, agile development, collaborative development environments, and computer-mediated communication.