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Acknowledgments

We acknowledge Laura Tarantino, former student, colleague and friend of Sandro, for helping us in tracing the path of his scholar contribution. We also offer our sincere appreciation to the members of the editorial board for this book both for promoting the initial submissions and for their countless hours spent in reviewing and improving the chapters.

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Appendix

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Alessandro D’Atri’s selected publications

Disciplinary area

Co-author

Computational complexity

Ausiello et al. (1977)

Ausiello et al. (1980)

Ausiello et al. (1981)

Graph theory

Ausiello et al. (1985)

Ausiello et al. (1986)

Ausiello et al. (1986)

Moscarini (1988)

Graph theory and database theory

Ausiello et al. (1983)

Batini (1980)

Moscarini (1986)

Ausiello et al. (1986)

Databases

Moscarini et al. (1983)

Saccà (1984)

Ricci (1988)

Di Felice et al. (1989)

Databases and humancomputer interaction

Tarantino (1989)

Laenens et al. (1991)

Clementini (1991)

Motro (1999)

Telemedicine and e-health

Tarantino et al. (1993)

Di Stefano et al. (1995)

Currò et al. (2000)

Casalino et al. (2005)

Currò et al. (2007)

Spagnoletti et al. (2011)

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Spagnoletti, P., Baskerville, R., De Marco, M. (2013). The Contributions of Alessandro D’Atri to Organization and Information Systems Studies. In: Baskerville, R., De Marco, M., Spagnoletti, P. (eds) Designing Organizational Systems. Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33371-2_1

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