Publications

Journal Papers | Book Chapters | Conference Papers


Journal Papers

Crippa, N., M.G. Grillakis, A. Tsilimigkras, G. Yang, M. Giuliani, and A.G. Koutroulis (2023), Seasonal forecast-informed reservoir operation. Potential benefits for a water-stressed Mediterranean basin, Climate Services, 32, 100406

Salcedo-Sanz, S., J. Perez-Aracil, G. Ascenso, J. del Ser, D. Casillas-Perez, C. Kadow, D. Fister, D. Barriopedro, R. Garcia-Herrera, M. Giuliani, and A. Castelletti (2023), Analysis, characterization, prediction, and attribution of extreme atmospheric events with machine learning and deep learning techniques: a review, Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Carlino, A., M. Wildemeersch, C.J. Chawanda, M. Giuliani, S. Sterl, W. Thiery, A. van Griensven, and A. Castelletti (2023), Declining cost of renewables and climate change curb the need for African hydropower expansionScience, 381, eadf5848

Yang, G., M. Giuliani, and S. Galelli (2023), Valuing the Codesign of Streamflow Forecast and Reservoir Operation Models, Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 149(8), 04023037

Cavicchia, L., E. Scoccimarro, G. Ascenso, A. Castelletti, M. Giuliani, and S. Gualdi (2023), Tropical cyclone genesis potential indices in a new high-resolution climate models ensemble: Limitations and way forward, Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2023GL103001.

Castelletti A., A. Ficchì, A. Cominola, P. Segovia, M. Giuliani, W. Wu, S. Lucia, C. Ocampo-Martinez, B. De Schutter, and J.M. Maestre (2023), Model Predictive Control of water resources systems: A review and research agendaAnnual Reviews in Control, 55, 442-465

Arnold W., J. Zatarain Salazar, A. Carlino, M. Giuliani, and A. Castelletti (2023), Operations eclipse sequencing in multipurpose dam planningEarth’s Future, 11, e2022EF003186

Valerio, C., M. Giuliani, A. Castelletti, A. Garrido, and L. De Stefano (2023), Multi-objective optimal design of interbasin water transfers: The Tagus-Segura aqueduct (Spain), Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 46, 101339

Yang, G., M. Giuliani, and A. Castelletti (2023), Operationalizing equity in multipurpose water systems, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 27, 69–81.

Jordan, S., J. Quinn, M. Zaniolo, M. Giuliani, and A. Castelletti (2022), Advancing reservoir operations modelling in SWAT to reduce socio-ecological tradeoffsEnvironmental Modelling & Software, 157

Giuliani, M., M. Zaniolo, S. Sinclair, M. Micotti, J. van Orshoven, P. Burlando, and A. Castelletti (2022), Participatory design of robust and sustainable development pathways in the Omo-Turkana river basin, Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 41

Zatarain Salazar, J., A. Castelletti, and M. Giuliani (2022), Multi-Objective Robust Planning Tools, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science

Fletcher, S., A. Hadjimichael, J. Quinn, K. Osman, M. Giuliani, D. Gold, A.J. Figueroa, and B. Gordon (2022), Equity in Water Resources Planning: A Path Forward for Decision Support Modelers, Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 148(7)

Giuliani, M., J.R. Lamontagne, M.I. Hejazi, P.M. Reed, and A. Castelletti (2022), Unintended consequences of climate change mitigation for African river basins, Nature Climate Change, 12, 187–192

Kergus, P., S. Formentin, M. Giuliani, and A. Castelletti (2022), Learning-based hierarchical control of water reservoir systems, IFAC Journal of Systems and Control, 100185

Casale, F., F. Fuso, M. Giuliani, A. Castelletti, and D. Bocchiola (2021), Exploring future vulnerabilities of subalpine Italian regulated lakes under different climate scenarios: bottom‐up vs top-down and CMIP5 vs CMIP6Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 38

Stevanato, N., M.V. Rocco, M.Giuliani, A. Castelletti, and E. Colombo (2021), Advancing the representation of reservoir hydropower in energy systems modelling: The case of Zambezi River BasinPlosOne, 16(12), e0259876

Giuliani, M., J.R. Lamontagne, P.M. Reed, and A. Castelletti (2021) Confronting conflicting human pressures and a changing world: A state-of-the-art review of optimal reservoir controlWater Resources Research, 0.1029/2021WR029927

Zaniolo, M., M. Giuliani, and A. Castelletti (2021), Policy Representation Learning for multiobjective reservoir policy design with different objective dynamicsWater Resources Research, 10.1029/2020WR029329

Carlino, A., A. De Vita, M. Giuliani, P. Zamberletti, P. Capros., F. Recanati, M. Kannavou, A. Castelletti (2021), Hydroclimatic change challenges the EU planned transition to a carbon neutral electricity systemEnvironmental Research Letters, 16 104011

Schmitt, R.J.P., M. Giuliani, S. Bizzi, G.M. Kondolf, G.C. Daily, and A. Castelletti (2021), Strategic basin and delta planning increases the resilience of the Mekong Delta under future uncertainty, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118 (36)

Zaniolo, M., M. Giuliani, S. Sinclair, P. Burlando, and A. Castelletti (2021), When timing matters—misdesigned dam filling impacts hydropower sustainabilityNature Communications 12

Cominola, A., M. Giuliani, A. Castelletti, P. Fraternali, S. L. Herrera Gonzalez, J. C. Guardiola Herrero, J. Novak, A. E. Rizzoli (2021), Long-term water conservation is fostered by smart meter-based feedback and digital user engagement, npj Clean Water, 4

Zaniolo, M., M. Giuliani, and A. Castelletti (2021), Neuro-Evolutionary Direct Policy Search for Multiobjective Optimal Control, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems

Bertoni, F., M. Giuliani, A. Castelletti, and P.M. Reed (2021), Designing with information feedbacks: Forecast informed reservoir sizing and operation, Water Resources Research, 57

Likmeta, A., A.M. Metelli, G. Ramponi, A. Tirinzoni, M. Giuliani, and M. Restelli (2021), Dealing with multiple experts and non-stationarity in inverse reinforcement learning: an application to real-life problemsMachine Learning 

Giuliani, M., L. Crochemore, I. Pechlivanidis, and A. Castelletti (2020), From skill to value: isolating the influence of end user behavior on seasonal forecast assessment, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 24

Denaro, S., A. Castelletti, M. Giuliani, and G. Characklis (2020), Insurance portfolio diversification through bundling for competing agents exposed to uncorrelated drought and flood risks, Water Resources Research, 56, 1–20

Guimarães Nobre, G., H. de Moel, M. Giuliani, K. Bischiniotis, J.C.J.H. Aerts, and P.J. Ward (2020), What will the weather do? Forecasting flood losses based on oscillation indices, Earth’s Future, 8

Giudici, F., A. Castelletti, M. Giuliani, and H.R. Maier (2020), An active learning approach for identifying the smallest subset of informative scenarios for robust planning under deep uncertainty, Environmental Modelling & Software, 127

Herman, J.D., J.D. Quinn, S. Steinschneider, M. Giuliani, and S. Fletcher (2020), Climate adaptation as a control problem: Review and perspectives on dynamic water resources planning under uncertainty, Water Resources Research, 56

Bertoni, F., M. Giuliani, and A. Castelletti (2020), Integrated Design of Dam Size and Operations via Reinforcement Learning, Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 146(4)

Bertoni, F., A. Castelletti, M. Giuliani, and P.M. Reed (2019), Discovering dependencies, trade-offs, and robustness in joint dam design and operation: An ex-post assessment of the Kariba dam, Earth’s Future, 7

Giuliani, M., M. Zaniolo, A. Castelletti, G. Davoli, and P. Block (2019), Detecting the state of the climate system via artificial intelligence to improve seasonal forecasts and inform reservoir operations, Water Resources Research, 55

Cominola, A., K. Nguyen, M. Giuliani, R.A. Stewart, H.R. Maier, and A. Castelletti (2019), Data mining to uncover heterogeneous water use behaviors from smart meter data, Water Resources Research, 55

Hunink, J., G. Simons, S. Suárez, A. Solera, J. Andreu, M. Giuliani, P. Zamberletti, M. Grillakis, A. Koutroulis, I. Tsanis, F. Schasfoort, S. Contreras, E. Ercin, and W. Bastiaanssen (2019), A simplified water accounting procedure to assess climate change impact on water resources for agriculture across different European river basins, Water, 11(10), 1976.

Quinn, J.D., P.M. Reed, M. Giuliani, A. Castelletti (2019), What is controlling our control rules? Opening the black box of multireservoir operating policies using time‐varying sensitivity analysisWater Resources Research,  55

Giudici, F., A. Castelletti, E. Garofalo, M. Giuliani, H.R. Maier (2019), Dynamic, multi-objective optimal design and operation of water-energy systems for small, off-grid islands, Applied Energy, 250, 605-616

Giuliani, M. and J.D. Herman (2018), Modeling the behavior of water reservoir operators via eigenbehavior analysisAdvances in Water Resources, 122

Ros, A., M. Giuliani, G.W. Scurati, S. Graziosi, F. Ferrise, M. Bodegoni (2018), Participated Planning of Large Water Infrastructures through Virtual Prototyping Technologies, Technologies, 6(68)

Quinn, J.D., P.M. Reed, M. Giuliani, A. Castelletti, J.W. Oyler, R.E. Nicholas (2018), Exploring how changing monsoonal dynamics and human pressures challenge multireservoir management for flood protection, hydropower production, and agricultural water supply, Water Resources Research, 54

Giuliani, M., J. Quinn, J. Herman, A. Castelletti, and P. Reed (2018), Scalable multi-objective control for large scale water resources systems under uncertainty, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 26(4), 1492-1499

Denaro, S., A. Castelletti, M. Giuliani, and G.W. Characklis (2018), Fostering cooperation in power asymmetrical water systems by the use of direct release rules and index-based insurance schemes, Advances in Water Resources, 115, 301-314

Biglarbeigi, P., M. Giuliani, A. Castelletti (2018), Partitioning the Impacts of Streamflow and Evaporation Uncertainty on the Operations of Multipurpose Reservoirs in Arid Regions, Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 144(7)

Mason, E., M. Giuliani, A. Castelletti, F. Amigoni (2018), Identifying and modelling dynamic preference evolution in multipurpose water resources systems, Water Resources Research, 54, 3162-3175

Zaniolo, M., M. Giuliani, A. Castelletti, M. Pulido-Velasquez (2018), Automatic design of basin-specific drought indexes for highly regulated water systems, Hydrology and Earth Systems Science, 22, 2409-2424

Stewart, R.A., K. Nguyen, C. Beal, H. Zhang, O. Sahin, E. Bertone, A.S. Vieira, A. Castelletti, A. Cominola, M. Giuliani, D. Giurco, M. Blumenstein, A. Turner, A. Liu, S. Kenway, D.A. Savić, C. Makropoulos, P. Kossieris (2018), Integrated intelligent water-energy metering systems and informatics: Visioning a digital multi-utility service provider, Environmental Modelling & Software, 105, 94-117

McPhail, C., H.R. Maier, J.H. Kwakkel, M. Giuliani, A. Castelletti, and S. Westra (2018), Robustness metrics: How are they calculated, when should they be used and why do they give different results?Earth’s Future, 6, 169-191

Cominola, A., M. Giuliani, A. Castelletti, D.E. Rosenberg, A.M. Asdallah (2018), Implications of data sampling resolution on water use simulation, end-use disaggregation, and demand managementEnvironmental Modelling & Software, 102, 199-212

Cominola, A., E.S. Spang, M. Giuliani, A. Castelletti , J.R. Lund, F.J. Loge (2018), Segmentation analysis of residential water-electricity demand for customized demand-side management programsJournal of Cleaner Production, 172, 1607-1619

Herman, J.D. and M. Giuliani (2018), Policy tree optimization for threshold-based water resources management over multiple timescales, Environmental Modelling & Software, 99, 39-51

Zatarain Salazar, J., P.M. Reed, J.D. Quinn, M. Giuliani, and A. Castelletti  (2017), Balancing exploration, uncertainty and computational demands in many objective reservoir optimization, Advances in Water Resources,  109,  196-210

Li, Y., M. Giuliani, and A. Castelletti (2017), A coupled human–natural system to assess the operational value of weather and climate services for agricultureHydrology and Earth System Sciences, 21, 4693-4709

Quinn, J., P.M. Reed, M. Giuliani, and A. Castelletti (2017), Rival Framings: A Framework for Discovering how Problem Formulation Uncertainties Shape Risk Management Tradeoffs in Water Resources Systems, Water Resources Research, 53

Denaro, S., D. Anghileri, M. Giuliani, and A. Castelletti (2017), Informing the operations of water reservoirs over multiple temporal scales by direct use of hydro-meteorological data, Advances in Water Resources, 103, 51–63

Cominola, A., M. Giuliani, D. Piga, A. Castelletti, and A.E. Rizzoli (2017), A Hybrid Signature-based Iterative Disaggregation algorithm for Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring, Applied Energy, 185, 331–344

Giuliani, M., A. Castelletti, R. Fedorov, and P. Fraternali (2016), Using crowdsourced web content for informing water systems operations in snow-dominated catchments, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 20, 5049–5062

Giuliani, M., Y. Li, A. Cominola, S. Denaro, E. Mason, and A. Castelletti (2016), A Matlab toolbox for designing Multi-Objective Optimal Operations of water reservoir systems, Environmental Modelling & Software, 85, 293–298

Giuliani, M., Y. Li, A. Castelletti, and C. Gandolfi (2016), A coupled human-natural systems analysis of irrigated agriculture under changing climate, Water Resources Research5269286947

Culley, S., S. Noble, A. Yates, M. Timbs, S. Westra, H. Maier, M. Giuliani, and A. Castelletti (2016), A bottom-up approach to identifying the maximum operational adaptive capacity of water resource systems to a changing climate, Water Resources Research5267516768

Zatarain-Salazar, J., P. Reed, J. Herman, M. Giuliani, and A. Castelletti (2016), A diagnostic assessment of evolutionary algorithms for multi-objective surface water reservoir control, Advances in Water Resources, 92, 172–185

Giuliani, M., D. Anghileri, P. Vu, A. Castelletti, and R. Soncini-Sessa (2016), Large storage operations under climate change: expanding uncertainties and evolving tradeoffs, Environmental Research Letters, 11(3),

Giuliani, M., and A. Castelletti (2016), Is robustness really robust? How different definitions of robustness impact decision-making under climate change, Climatic Change, 135, 409–424

Piga, D., A. Cominola, M. Giuliani, A. Castelletti, and A.E. Rizzoli (2016), Sparse optimization for automated energy end use disaggregation, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 24(3), 1044–1051

Giuliani, M., A. Castelletti, F. Pianosi, E. Mason, and P. Reed (2016), Curses, tradeoffs, and scalable management: advancing evolutionary multi-objective direct policy search to improve water reservoir operations, Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 142(2), 04015050

Giuliani, M., F. Pianosi, and A. Castelletti (2015), Making the most of data: an information selection and assessment framework to improve water systems operations, Water Resources Research, 51(11), 9073–9093

Cominola, A., M. Giuliani, D. Piga, A. Castelletti, and A.E. Rizzoli (2015), Benefits and challenges of using smart meters for advancing residential water demand modeling and management: A review, Environmental Modelling & Software, 72, 198–214

Giuliani, M., A. Castelletti, F. Amigoni, and X. Cai (2015), Multiagent Systems and Distributed Constraint Reasoning for Regulatory Mechanism Design in Water Management, Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 141(4), 04014068 (2016 Best Research-Oriented Paper Award)

Maier, H.R., Z. Kapelan, J. Kasprzyk, J. Kollat, L.S. Matott, M.C. Cunha, G.C. Dandy, M.S. Gibbs, E. Keedwell, A. Marchi, A. Ostfeld, D. Savic, D.P. Solomatine, J.A. Vrugt, A.C. Zecchin, B.S. Minsker, E.J. Barbour, G. Kuczera, F. Pasha, A. Castelletti, M. Giuliani, and P.M. Reed (2014), Evolutionary algorithms and other metaheuristics in water resources: Current status, research challenges and future directions, Environmental Modelling & Software, 62(0), 271–299

Giuliani, M., J. Herman, A. Castelletti, and P. Reed (2014), Many-objective reservoir policy identification and refinement to reduce policy inertia and myopia in water management, Water Resources Research, 50, 3355–3377

Giuliani, M., S. Galelli, and R. Soncini-Sessa (2014), A dimensionality reduction approach for Many-Objective Markov Decision Processes: application to a water reservoir operation problem, Environmental Modeling & Software, 57, 101–114

Castelletti, A., H. Yajima, M. Giuliani, R. Soncini-Sessa, and E. Weber (2014), Planning the Optimal Operation of a Multi–Outlet Water Reservoir with Water Quality and Quantity Targets, Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 140(4), 496-510

Giuliani, M., and A. Castelletti (2013), Assessing the value of cooperation and information exchange in large water resources systems by agent–based optimization, Water Resources Research, 49, 3912–3926


Book Chapters

Zaniolo, M., M. Giuliani, A. Bantider, and A. Castelletti (2021), Hydropower development. Economic and environmental benefits and risks, In The Omo-Turkana Basin Cooperation for Sustainable Water Management, edited by J. Lautze, M. McCartney, and J. Gibson, Routledge, London

Castelletti, A., M. Giuliani, and R. Soncini-Sessa (2020), Water Resources Planning and Management in a Changing Climate and Society, In Innovations in Land, Water and Energy for Vietnam’s Sustainable Development, edited by M. Anderle, Springer, Cham

Castelletti, A., A. Cominola, A. Facchini, M. Giuliani, P. Fraternali, S. Herrera, M. Melenhorst, I. Micheel, J. Novak, C. Pasini, A.E. Rizzoli, and C. Rottondi (2018), Gamified approaches for Water Management Systems: an Overview, In Smart Water Grids – A Cyber-Physical Approach, edited by P. Tsakalides, A. Panousopoulou, G. Tsagkatakis, and L. Montestruque, CRC Press


Conference Papers

Likmeta, A., A.M. Metelli, G. Ramponi, A. Tirinzoni, M. Giuliani, and M. Restelli (2020), Handling Non-Stationary Experts in Inverse Reinforcement Learning: A Water System Control Case Study, in Proceedings of the 34th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2020), Vancouver (Canada)

Giuliani, M., M. Zaniolo, P. Block, and A. Castelletti (2020), Data-driven control of water reservoirs using an emulator of the climate system, in Proceedings of the 21th IFAC World Congress, vol. 53, pp. 16,531–16,536, online

Carlino, A. , M. Giuliani, M. Tavoni, and A. Castelletti (2020), Multi-objective optimal control of a simple stochastic climate-economy model, in Proceedings of the 21th IFAC World Congress, vol. 53, pp. 16,593–16,598, online

Giuliani, M. and A. Castelletti (2019), Data-driven control of water reservoirs using El Niño Southern Oscillation indexes, in Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering and 2019 IEEE Industrial and Commercial Power Systems Europe (EEEIC / I CPS Europe), Genova (Italy)

Bertoni, F., M. Giuliani, and A. Castelletti (2017), Scenario-based fitted Q-iteration for adaptive control of water reservoir systems under uncertainty, in Proceedings of the 20th IFAC World Congress, Toulouse (France)

Castelletti, A., R. Fedorov, P. Fraternali, and M. Giuliani (2016), Multimedia on the mountaintop: Using public snow images to improve water systems operation, in Proceedings of the 2016 ACM on Multimedia Conference, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)

Cominola, A., A. Moro, L. Riva, M. Giuliani, and A. Castelletti (2016), Profiling residential water users’ routines by eigenbehavior modelling, in Proceedings of the 8th International Congress on Environmental Modeling and Software (iEMSs 2016), Toulouse (France)

Cominola, A., M. Giuliani, A. Castelletti, A. Abdallah, and D. Rosenberg (2016), Developing a stochastic simulation model for the generation of residential water end-use demand time series, in Proceedings of the 8th International Congress on Environmental Modeling and Software (iEMSs 2016), Toulouse (France)

Giuliani, M., and J. Mossina (2016), Reducing the Intrusiveness of Energy and Water End-Use Disaggregation via Social Media and Users Interactions, in Proceedings of the workshops of the Tenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media Social Web for Environmental and Ecological Monitoring, Cologne (Germany)

Amigoni, F., A. Castelletti, P. Gazzotti, M. Giuliani, and E. Mason (2016), Using Multiagent Negotiation to Model Water Resources Systems Operations, in Proceedings of the international workshop of the 2016 Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems International Conference on Issues with Deployment of Emerging Agent-based Systems, Singapore (IDEAS/AAMAS 2016 Best Paper Award)

Cominola, A., M. Giuliani, D. Piga, A. Castelletti, A.E. Rizzoli, and M. Anda (2015), Modelling residential water consumers’ behaviors by feature selection and feature weighting, in Proceedings of the 36th IAHR World Congress, The Hague (the Netherlands)

Piga, D., A. Cominola, M. Giuliani, A. Castelletti, and A.E. Rizzoli (2015), A convex optimization approach for automated water and energy end use disaggregation, in Proceedings of the 36th IAHR World Congress, The Hague (the Netherlands)

Amigoni, F., A. Castelletti, and M. Giuliani (2015), Modeling the Management of Water Resources Systems Using Multi-Objective DCOPs, in Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2015), Istanbul (Turkey)

Giuliani, M., E. Mason, A. Castelletti, F. Pianosi, and R. Soncini-Sessa (2014), Universal approximators for direct policy search in multi-purpose water reservoir management: A comparative analysis, in Proceedings of the 19th IFAC World Congress, Cape Town (South Africa)

Giuliani, M., A. Castelletti, and P.M. Reed(2014), Improving the protection of aquatic ecosystems by dynamically constraining reservoir operation via direct policy conditioning, in Proceedings of the 19th IFAC World Congress, Cape Town (South Africa)

Beltrame, L., D. Carbonin, S. Galelli, A. Castelletti, and M. Giuliani (2014), Quantifying ENSO impacts at the basin scale using the Iterative Input variable Selection algorithm, in Proceedings of the 7th International Congress on Environmental Modeling and Software (iEMSs 2014), San Diego (CA)

Arias, C., M. Brovelli, and M. Giuliani (2014), A FOSS based web geo-service architecture for data management in complex water resources contexts, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Hydroinformatics (HIC2014), New York (NY)

Biglarbeigi, P., M. Giuliani, and A. Castelletti (2014), Many-objective direct policy search in the Dez and Karoun multireservoir system, Iran, in Proceedings of the World Environmental & Water Resources Congress (ASCE EWRI 2014), Portland (Oregon)

Giuliani, M., A. Castelletti, S. Galelli, R. Soncini-Sessa, and E. Weber (2013), Many-objective operation of selective withdrawal reservoirs including water quality targets, in Proceedings of the World Environmental & Water Resources Congress (ASCE EWRI 2013), Cincinnati (Ohio)

Giuliani, M., A. Castelletti, F. Amigoni, and X. Cai (2012), Multi-Agent Systems optimization for distributed watershed management, in Proceedings of the 6th International Congress on Environmental Modeling and Software (iEMSs 2012), Leipzig (Germany)

Giuliani, M., A. Castelletti, and R. Soncini-Sessa (2012), Multi-Agent Water Resources Management: centralized vs decentralized approach, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Hydroinformatics (HIC2012), Hamburg (Germany)

Anand, A., S. Galelli, M. Giuliani, L. Samavedham, and D. Schwanenberg (2011), Coordinating multiple model predictive controllers for water reservoir networks operation, in Proceedings of the International Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM2011), Perth (Australia)

Galelli, S., M. Giuliani, and R. Soncini-Sessa (2011), Dealing with many-objectives problems in water resources planning and management, in Proceedings of the 18th IFAC World Congress, Milan (Italy)