Antonio CORRAL received his PhD (2002) in Computer Science (European Doctorate) from the University of Almeria (Spain). Since June 2008, he has been an Associate Professor at the Department of Informatics, University of Almeria (Spain). He has participated actively in various research projects in Spain (INDALOG, vManager, etc.) and Greece (CHOROCHRONOS and ARCHIMEDES). He has published in referred scientific international journals (Data & Knowledge Engineering, The Computer Journal, GeoInformatica, Information Sciences, etc.), conferences (SIGMOD, SSD, ADBIS, DEXA, SOFSEM, PADL, etc.), and book chapters. Moreover, he has been a reviewer for national and international conferences and prestigious journals. He belongs to the research group Applied Computing Group (TIC-211) at the University of Almeria. His main research interests include access methods, query processing, algorithms, and spatial and spatio-temporal databases.