Pietro Amenta is Associate Professor of Statistics at the Department of Law, Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods of the University of Sannio (Piazza Arechi II, 82100, Benevento, IT. His main research interests concern: Multivariate Data Analysis ; Multidimensional statistical methods for soil study and pedaphology using vis-NIR spectroscopy; Multicriterial decision making analysis. He is Member of the Advisory Board of the Journal of Applied Quantitative Methods (JAQM). He is an "Elected" Member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI). He is also full member of the scientific associations: International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC), European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics (ENBIS), Italian Statistical Society (SIS), Statistics for the Evaluation and Quality of Services - SIS Group (SVQS), Classification and Data Analysis - SIS Group (CLADAG), and Statistical Methodologies for Futures Studies and Strategic Foresight - SIS Group (FUTURESIS). He has been Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Multivariate Data Analysis (Inderscience)