Yudith Cardinale has been a Full Professor in Computer Science Department at Universidad Simón Bolívar (USB), Venezuela since 1996. Currently, she is an associate researcher at Universidad Católica San Pablo, Arequipa, Perú. She graduated with honors in Computer Engineering in 1990 at Universidad Centro-Occidental Lisandro Alvarado, Venezuela. She received her M.Sc. degree and Ph.D. in Computer Science from USB, Venezuela, in 1993 and 2004, respectively. Her research interests include parallel processing, distributed object processing, operating systems, digital ecosystems, high performance on grid and cloud platforms, collaborative frameworks, social robotics, and web service composition, including semantic web. She has written a range of scientific articles published in international journals and books and at conferences and has participated as a member of the program committees of several international conferences and journals.