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The Italian National Research Council (CNR) is the main public research body of Italy. Constituted in 2002 as a merger between the two internationally renowned former Institutes CNUCE and IEI, [ISTI|http://www.isti.cnr.it/] is the largest institute of the CNR ICT Department and is committed to scientific excellence in research and technology transfer over Networking, Knowledge Science and Technologies, Software Science and Technologies, Visual and High Performance Computing.  In CHOReOS CNR-ISTI also involves as a third-party entity researchers from the University of Camerino. The Software Engineering Laboratory (SELab), led by Antonia Bertolino, brings in a solid expertise and a long outstanding research curriculum in software V&V, testing and analysis. Currently research is strongly focused in the development of methodologies and tools for functional and non-functional testing of component-based systems and Service-oriented Architectures
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