Verzeichnis aller Autoren und Sprecher:

Holds an M.Sc. degree from the Eindhoven University of Technology and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Twente. Currently, he is working as a full professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Twente and also affiliated with the institute Centre for Telematics and Information Technology. He is the head of the Software Engineering chair and the leader of the Twente Research and Education on Software Engineering (TRESE) Group.

He was the program co-chair of the ECOOP'97 conference. He has been serving as a program committee member of various international conferences and he was the tutorial chair of the ECOOP'92 conference.
He gave more than 80 international and in-company courses in the Netherlands, and in other European countries, and at the ECOOP'91, OOPSLA'92, ECOOP'95, ICECCS'95, ECOOP'98, ECOOP'99, OOPSLA'99, SPLC1'00 and ECOOP'00 conferences.

Mehmet Aksit has been the user and developer of object-oriented systems since 1983. He is specialized in the application of object and component-oriented methods to practical software systems. He has been involved in designing architectures for several large industrial projects.

Together with the members of the TRESE group, he has introduced the Quality-Oriented Software Engineering paradigm. This paradigm is based on the following techniques:
* An aspect-oriented programming technique based on composition-filters for composing and reusing software components which employ complex behavior synchronization, real-time, constraints etc.);
* Techniques to synthesize architectures from solution domains for creating stable software systems;
* Application of fuzzy-logic for modeling and controling software development processes;
* A formalism called Design Algebra for balancing various quality factors at different stages of software development. These concepts and techniques have been published in various papers.

Moved to UMIST in 1995 after twelve years at the University of York, where I was a Reader in the Department of Electronics. Prior to York, I taught in the Physics Department at the University of Keele for five years after being in industry for several years (Pye Telecommunications and EEV). I hold degrees in electrical and electronic engineering from the Universities of Bradford and Cambridge.
At UMIST, I have presented modules on computer networking, pattern recognition and neural networks, image engineering and advanced analogue circuit design. Over the years, I seem to have given courses on all aspects of electronic engineering except electromagnetic theory (which is a small blessing, at least).

I head the Image Engineering Research Group and am Chair of the Departmental Research Committee. As for research interests, then as this is our research group web-site I will refer you to the inscription over the entrance to Sir Christopher Wren's St. Paul's Cathedral:

Thomas Biedassek arbeitet Java Architekt im Sun Java Center der Firma Sun Microsystems GmbH. Sein Schwerpunkt liegt im Architekturbereich auf der Komponententechnologie und Middleware. Neben Projekten in verschiedenen Branchen arbeitet er verstärkt im Telekommunikationsbereich. Auch in verschiedenen Esprit-, DFG-Projekten und bei diversen Lehrtätigkeiten beschäfigte er sich OO-Design und Software-Architekturen.

Born 1956, married to Jutta Haußer, two daugthers, French citizen.

Visiting Scientist at:
Università degli Studi di Roma - La Sapienza (Italy, 1991)
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland, 1992)
ICOT (Tokyo, 1992)
University of Rennes and INSA (France, 1998)
LaBRI (Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique, France, 2000)
Keio University and W3C (Tokyo, 2001)
University of Linköping (Sweden, 2002)
University of Melbourne (Australia, 2002)

Since 1994:
Research and teaching on data and knowledge modeling, databases, markup languages, logic-based programming and modelling, and automated deduction with the institute for computer science, University of Munich, as a full professor.
1985-1993:
Work on deductive databases, logic programming, and automated deduction at ECRC (European Computer-Industry Research Centre), Munich, first as a researcher latter as a project leader.
1983-1984:
Work on statistic databases at the research center IRT (now INRETS ), Paris, as a researcher.
1982-1983:
Military service with the French Air Forces at SIRPA Air as a PR officer.
1981-1982:
Work on a text processing system at Transac-Alcatel (now Alcatel), Paris, as a software engineer.
1979-1981:
PhD student in Mathematics (Graph Theory) at University Paris 6 (supervisors: Claude Berge and Michel Las Vergnas) and lecturer at ESIEA, a school of engineering, Paris.
1974-1978:
First, student in applied mathematics and economics, University Paris 9, then, student in mathematics, University Paris 6.
1974 and before:
French Baccalauréat while student at École Alsacienne in Paris 6. Formerly, Lycée Romain Rolland in Ivry-sur-Seine, École Jean Poulmarch in Paris 10, École in Vandœuvre lès Nancy, École Saint-Exupéry in Rabat, Morocco.

Christoph Bussler (http://hometown.aol.com/chbussler) is a Principal Member of Technical Staff at the Oracle Corporation's Integration Platform Architecture Group based in Redwood Shores, CA, USA. In an architecture role he is responsible for the overall architecture of Oracle's next generation integration platform technology addressing B2B, A2A as well as ASP integration. Previous to his current position he was Architect at Jamcracker, Inc. in Sunnyvale, CA, USA, responsible for Jamcracker's application service provider (ASP) integration and aggregation architecture. While at Netfish Technologies, Inc. in Santa Clara, CA, USA, he was responsible for the architecture and development of Netfish Technologies' B2B integration server in the role of Technical Director of Engineering. Christoph had the role of Advanced Computing Technologist at The Boeing Company's Applied Research and Technology group based in Seattle, WA, USA. As project manager of the Workflow Management project he was responsible for conducting workflow research, transferring workflow technology into The Boeing Company, applying workflow technology in workflow projects and representing The Boeing Company in standardization efforts. As engineer at the Digital Equipment Corporation's Activity Management Group, Mountain View, CA, USA, Christoph developed a Policy Resolution Architecture and its prototype implementation for Digital's workflow management system product.

Christoph was faculty member at the Database Chair of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, where he earned his Ph. D. degree in the area of workflow management. His research work concentrated on workflow management and organization modeling, with a focus on organizational embedding of workflow management and architectures of execution infrastructures for enterprise-wide deployment of workflow management. Research results were implemented in the workflow management system prototype MOBILE, a transaction monitor based system. While at Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, he developed a distributed reliable infrastructure for workflow execution based on persistent queuing. He holds a Master of Computer Science from the Technical University of Munich, Germany, where he contributed to the workflow management research project ProMInanD that was funded by ESPRIT.

Christoph Bussler has published two technical books (one of which he co-authored) on workflow management as well as several book chapters. He has published over 50 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers in international conferences and journals.

Ekaterina Chtcherbina, a researcher at Siemens AG, describes Peer-to-Peer Systems in an Ad-hoc Mobile Environment.

Wissenschaftlicher Werdegang

1974: Promotion in Mathematik
bis 1983: Akademischer Rat an der Universität Göttingen
1978: Venia legendi für "Operations Research und Informatik/EDV und deren
betriebswirtschaftliche Anwendungen
1980 bis 1982: Lehrstuhlvertretung WIWI Universität Göttingen
1982 bis 1984: Leiter der Abteilung Wirtschaftsinformatik an der Universität Göttingen
seit WS 85/86: C4-Professur BWL - Wirtschaftsinformatik an der Universität Trier

Naci Dai is an independent mentor and an educator and one of the founders of e-teration, a company for Java and Web based solutions . He teaches object technology, Java, design patterns, and distributed computing. He leads and mentors Web development projects. Prior to that he was an educator for BEA Systems Inc., and before that the director of distributed computing with The Object People. He has a background in applied engineering and computational physics. He has received his PhD from Carleton University. He is a member of the ACM and IEEE. Contact him at nacidai@acm.org.

Dr. Jean-Marc DeBaud is President & Chief Executive Officer of TrueScope
Technologies. Prior to TrueScope, Jean-Marc was Vice-President for R&D and
Chief Scientist of PaceLine Technologies, a Lucent Technologies new venture
company. At PaceLine his main responsibilities were to create and package
PaceLine(tm), Lucent's software product line development technology.
Previously, Jean-Marc was Department Head for Innovative Software
Engineering at the Fraunhofer-IESE (Institute for Experimental Software
Engineering) in Germany.

Jean-Marc has nearly 20 years of experience in software engineering and has
worked with over 20 enterprises in the product family engineering area
(Nokia, Motorola, NASA, Maxess, Alcatel, Schlumberger, FAA, Lucent
Technologies among others). He has contributed in excess of 25 technical
publications in various ACM & IEEE forums. He received a Bachelor with
Honors in Logic & Computation from Carnegie Mellon and a PhD in Computer
Science from Georgia Institute of Technology.

Peter Doschkinow ist Java Architekt im Developer Support Center von Sun in München. Er beschäftigt sich mit Web Services, J2EE- und Integrations- Technologien für Web Services und Legacy Systeme. ER hat mehrjährige Erfahrung in großen Java Projekten und ist ein anerkannter Fachmann.

Jutta Eckstein is an independent consultant and trainer from Munich,Germany. Her experience in agile processes is based on over ten years experience in developing object-oriented applications. Besides engineering software she has been designing and teaching OT courses in industry. Having completed a course of teacher training and led many 'train the trainer' programs in industry, she focuses also on techniques, which help teach OT, and is a main lead in the
pedagogical patterns project. She has presented work in her main areas at OOPSLA, OT and EuroPLoP.
She is a member of the board of Hillside Europe e.V., the association to advance expert knowledge (in the shape of patterns) about practice-proven techniques for analysis, architecture and programming of software systems as well as for the formation of organizational and team structures for software development.
She is furthermore a member of the program committee of XP 2002, XP- and Agile Universe 2002, EuroPLoP 2002, OT2002 and OOPSLA 2002.

Dieter Fensel (http://www.cs.vu.nl/~dieter/) obtained in 1989 a Diploma
in Social Science at the Free University of Berlin and a Diploma in
Computer Science at the Technical University of Berlin. In 1993 he was
awarded a Doctor's degree in economic science (Dr. rer. pol.) at the
University of Karlsruhe. From November 1989 to July 1994 he worked as a
research scientist at the University of Karlsruhe, Institute AIFB. From
August 1994 to October 1996 he worked as a guest scientist at the
University of Amsterdam, department SWI in the group of Prof. Wielinga.
>From November 1996 to October 1999, he worked as a senior scientist at
the institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe. In December 1998 he
received his Habilitation in Applied Computer Science. Since Ocotber
1999, he works as a Associate Professor at the Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam. His current research interests include knowledge engineering,
knowledge management, intelligent information integration, electronic
commerce, ontologies, and the semantic web. He is a consultant of
companies such as ContentEurope, DaimlerChrysler, Hubwoo, and
SemanticEdge.

He published around 150 papers as books and journal, book, conference,
and workshop contributions. He co-organised around 100 scientific
workshops and conferences and has edited several special issues of
scientific journals. He is associated editor of the Knowledge and
Information Systems: An International Journal (KAIS), IEEE Intelligent
Systems, and the Electronic Transactions on Artificial Intelligence
(ETAI). He is involved in several national and internal research
projects, for example, in the IST projects H-Techsight, IBROW, Obelix,
Ontoknowledge, Ontoweb, and Wonderweb. Here he is the project
coordinator of Ontoknowledge and Ontoweb. He also received grants from
the Human Capital and Mobility programme of the EC and the Deutsche
Forschungsgesellschaft. He gave more than 40 courses at Berufsakademien,
Fachhochschulen and Universities. Topics were about: Formal
Specification Languages, Software Engineering, Data Warehouse, World
Wide Web, Electronic Commerce, and Agent-based Information Access. He
supervised around thirty master theses and Ph.Ds and won the
Carl-Adam-Petri-Award of the Faculty of Economic Sciences from the
University of Karlsruhe (2000).
Dieter Fensel is the author of the books Ontologies: Silver Bullet for
Knowledge Management and Electronic Commerce, Springer-Verlag, Berlin,
2001; Problem-Solving Methods: Understanding, Development, Description,
and Reuse, Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), no 1791,
Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2000; and The Knowledge Acquisition and
Representation Language KARL, Kluwer Academic Publisher, Boston, 1995.

Cord Giese ist seit 1996 als verantwortlicher Produktentwickler im Bereich der Realisierung von Generierungswerkzeugen im Kontext mit musterbasierter Entwicklung und aspekt-orientierter Programmierung bei Delta Software Technology GmbH. Er gehört zum Entwicklerteam des innovativen Geratorsystems ANGIE, und führt seit einigen Jahren Einsatz-begleitende Workshops und Seminare durch.

Dr. Huhns received the B.S.E.E. degree in 1969 from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering in 1971 and 1975, respectively, from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
He is a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of South Carolina, where he also directs the Center for Information Technology. Prior to this, he conducted research on the Argo, Antares, RAD, Carnot, and InfoSleuth projects at the Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation as a Senior Member of the Research Division. He was also an adjunct professor in computer sciences at the University of Texas. Before joining MCC, he was an associate professor at the University of South Carolina, a research assistant in image processing at the University of Southern California, and a radar systems engineer at Hughes Aircraft Company.

Dr. Huhns is a member of Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, ACM, IEEE (Senior Member), and AAAI. He is the author of over 180 technical papers in machine intelligence and an editor of the books Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Volumes I and II and Readings in Agents. Dr. Huhns is an associate editor for IEEE Intelligent Systems, the Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, and IEEE Internet Computing. He is on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems, the Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, and the Journal of Emerging Mechanical Engineering Technology. He is a founder and board member for the International Foundation for Cooperative Information Systems and the International Foundation for Multiagent Systems, for which he is also the Treasurer. He has chaired and served on the advisory boards and program committees for numerous international conferences and workshops

Mario Jeckle (www.jeckle.de) leitet am DaimlerChrysler
Forschungszentrum in Ulm, im Bereich IT für Engineering, eine
Arbeitsgruppe die sich mit XML und Internetstandards beschäftigt,
und lehrt an der Fachhochschule Augsburg. Als Mitglied des
Advisory-Committees vertritt er die DaimlerChrysler Forschung im
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

Seine Arbeitsschwerpunkte liegen im Bereich der Entwicklung und
Anwendung von Standards aus dem Umfeld der Informations- und
Datenmodellierung (z.B. UML) sowie der Metasprache XML. Er ist
Koautor des OMG-standardiserten "XML Metadata Interchange" Formats
XMI zum Austausch objektorientierter Modelldaten. Durch die
Mitgliedschaft in der W3C-Arbeitsgruppe "XML Protocols" wirkt er
an Erarbeitung des standardisierten Nachfolgers des SOAP-Ansatzes
mit.

Keith Jeffery is currently Director, IT of CLRC, based at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in UK.   His Business and Information Technology Department provides services to CLRC, national services to the UK academic community and undertakes research and development projects funded by the UK Research Councils, government departments, the European Commission and commerce and industry internationally.  
Keith holds a BSc in Geology, a PhD in Geology (with a very large computing content!) and is a Fellow of both the Geological Society of London and the British Computer Society.  He is a Chartered Engineer.  He is an Honorary Fellow of the Irish Computer Society.  He is a trustee emeritus (past secretary and vice-president) of the Endowment Board of the VLDB (Very Large Database) Conference, and is a member of the boards controlling the EDBT (Extending Database Technology) conference, CAiSE (Conference on Advanced Systems Engineering) conference and OOIS (Object-Oriented Information Systems) conference.  He is a member of the SOFSEM Steering Committee.  He is president of EuroCRIS and a director of ERCIM.  He serves on several programme committees for international and national conferences, he reviews material for journals and books and reviews research proposals for several countries.  He has numerous publications in refereed journals, books and conference proceedings.  He holds the positions of Honorary Professor of Computer Science at Heriot-Watt University, Honorary Professor of Computer Science at University College of Wales, Cardiff, Honorary Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic and Senior Visiting Fellow in Computer Science at the University of Birmingham. 

Nick Jennings is Professor of Computer Science in the Department of Electronics and Computer Science (one of only 6 computer science departments in the country to get the top rating of 5* for its research) at Southampton University where he carries out basic and applied research in agent-based computing. He is head of the Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group (which consists of some 100 research staff and postgraduate students) and is also the Chief Scientific Officer for lost wax.

Professor Jennings helped pioneer the use of agent-based techniques for real-world applications; developing systems in the domains of: process control, business process management (agent-enabled workflow), e-commerce, telecommunications network management, virtual laboratories, and scientific data interpretation. The early systems represent some of the first real-world applications of multiagent technology. This application-oriented experience highlighted the need to focus research attention on the field of agent-based software engineering where he developed the Gaia methodology. On the theoretical side, he has made contributions to the areas of automated negotiation and auctions, cooperative problem solving, and socially rational decision making.

Professor Jennings has been an invited speaker at numerous national and international conferences (including: IJCAI, OOPSLA, ICMAS, PRICAI), he initiated two major international conferences (The Practical Application of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (PAAM) and Autonomous Agents), and initiated the Agent Theories, Architectures and Languages (ATAL) workshop series. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, a member of the scientific advisory boards of Frictionless Commerce, ISheads! and the German AI Institute (DFKI), a steering committee member of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents, the ATAL workshop, and the UK Multi-Agent Systems Workshop (UKMAS), a series editor for Springer-Verlag's Agent Technology series, a member of the management committee of AgentLink (the European network of excellence in agent-based computing), and a founding director of the International Foundation for Multi-Agent Systems. He has published some 150 articles on various facets of agent-based computing, holds 2 patents (3 more pending), written one monograph, and co-edited five books. He is in the top 175 most cited computer scientists (out of 600,000) according to the citeseer digital library.

He was the recipient of the Computers and Thought Award (the premier award for a young AI scientist) in 1999 for his contributions to practical agent architectures and applications of multi-agent systems (this is the first time in the Award's 30 year history that it has been given to someone based in Europe) and the receipient of an IEE Achievement Medal in 2000 for his work on agent-based computing.

Nicolai Josuttis beschäftigt sich seit vielen Jahren mit der Konzeption und Realisierung von mittleren bis großen Software-Systemen.
1990 hat er für seine erste objektorientierte Entwicklung den deutschen Hochschul-Software-Preis erhalten. Seitdem arbeitet er als Systemarchitekt, Systementwickler, technischer Projektleiter, Berater und Ausbilder für namhafte deutsche Firmen in Bereichen wie Kommunikation, Finanzwesen, Verkehrstechnik und Maschinenbau. Dabei liegt ihm vor allem die Machbarkeit und konkrete Umsetzung großer Systeme am Herzen.
Nicolai Josuttis ist Autor mehrerer deutsch- und englischsprachiger Bücher und Buchbeiträge zu den Themen "Objektorientierte Softwareentwicklung", "C++" und "Graphische Bedienoberflächen". Er veröffentlicht regelmäßig Artikel zur objektorientierten Softwareentwicklung in Zeitschriften wie OBJEKTspektrum und iX und hält regelmäßig Vorträge auf nationalen und internationalen Konferenzen sowie für die Gesellschaft für Informatik.
Als Mitglied des C++-DIN-Arbeitskreises war er als offizieller deutscher Vertreter an der internationalen Standardisierung von C++ aktiv beteiligt.
Nicolai Josuttis ist Partner des System Bauhaus, einer Gruppe international bekannter, im deutschsprachigen Raum tätiger unabhängiger Fachleute auf dem Gebiet der objektorientierten Systementwicklung.

I am currently pursuing a Master's Degree in Computer Science leading to a specialization in Software Engineering in the Department of Computer Science, University of Waterloo. I am a member of the Computer Systems Group under supervision of Prof. Don Cowan and Prof. Paulo Alencar. I completed my Bachelor's degree in Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Concordia. Later, I worked at Nuance Telecommunication and Nortel Networks for two years.

I am interested in research topics that abstract real world challenges and Software Engineering nature of computer science such as:

Software Development of Distributed Systems
Web Services Management
Object-Oriented Engineering of Web Services
Software Architecture
Design and Implementation of Object-Oriented Systems

Wolfgang Keller is currently a manager of reusable software components (Plattform Manager) for Generali Office Service & Consulting AG in Vienna, Austria. His responsibilities include the technical base for Generali's Phoenix line of insurance applications, technical and domain architecture and international project coordination for Generali's distributed development in Austria, Germany, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic. Before that, he worked as a senior software architect and project manager for sd&m, a Munich based consulting firm. He was a member of VAAs architecture team from 1995 to 1997. VAA is a public domain insurance reference model initiated by GDV, the German Insurance Association . Mister Keller holds a Diplom (M.S. degree) in computer science from Technical University of Munich, Germany.

Gregor Kiczales is Professor of Computer Science and the Natural
Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), Xerox Canada,
Sierra Systems Chair of Software Design at the University of British
Columbia.  He is also a Principal Scientist at the Palo Alto Research
Center (PARC).
 
His work is directed at enabling programmers to write programs that,
as much as possible, look like their design.  Over the last fifteen
years he has pursued this goal in a number of projects, including CLOS
and its metaobject protocol, open implementations of system software
and middleware, and most recently aspect-oriented programming. He is
author, with Danny Bobrow and Jim des Rivieres of "The Art of the
Metaobject Protocol".
 
At PARC, he leads the group that has developed aspect-oriented
programming and AspectJ.

Dr.-Ing. Meike Klettke studierte Informatik an der Universität Rostock und promovierte dort 1997 im Bereich Datenbanken.
Seit 1992 ist sie wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin an der Universität Rostock/TU Cottbus und arbeitete auf den Gebieten Datenbank-Entwurf, Reverse-Engineering von Datenbanken, sowie Datenbankentwicklung für Suchmaschinen. Aktueller Forschungsgegenstand sind Technologien im Bereich XML und Datenbanken.

Matthias Klusch is a Senior Researcher at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence Ltd. (DFKI GmbH) in the Deduction and Multiagent Systems Lab, and Assistant Professor at the Department for Artificial Intelligence of the Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Formerly, he was Assistant Professor at the Technical University Chemnitz, Germany, at the Department for Data Management, and a visiting research scientist at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, USA, in 1998. He studied Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Kiel, Germany, from which he received his MSc (1992) and PhD (1997) in Computer Science. Dr. Klusch is co-coordinator of the Special Interest Group on Intelligent Information Agents as part of the European Network of Excellence for Agent-Based Computing (AgentLink) since 1998, and on the management committee boards of other funded projects in the domain of agent-based computing. Dr. Klusch is member of the editorial board of the international journal of Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS), Springer Verlag; the Electronic Transactions on AI (ETAI, Semantic Web); the international journal of Cooperative Information Systems (CIS), World Scientific Publisher; and Web Intelligence and Agents, IOS Press. He is general chair of the international workshop series on Cooperative Information Agents (CIA) since 1997, program co-chair of the international conference on intelligent agent technology (IAT 2003), and was local co-chair of the second European Agent Systems Summer School (EASSS 2000). He is a co/editor of numerous books and has published widely in the area of agent technology and intelligent information systems. In addition, he is extensively involved in reviewing activities within the community, for publishers, and science funding organisations, as well as program committee member of major conferences in the field of information agent technology, AI, databases and information systems. His current research interests are in particular theory and application of (1) middle-agents and methods for intelligent service mediation on the Internet and Web, (2) distributed and rational decision-making, and (3) agent-based distributed knowledge discovery.

Alan Knight works on Smalltalk web tools for Cincom Systems. Prior to
that he was chief architect of the TOPLink family of object-relational
mapping products with The Object People and WebGain. He has spoken
extensively at conferences including OOPSLA, Smalltalk Solutions and Java
One, and is co-author of the book "Mastering ENVY/Developer". He can be
reached as knight@acm.org.

DR. Arne Koschel works world-wide as Technical Product Manager and Product Specialist for IONA's Orbix E2A Application Server Platform (ASP). Previously he worked as independent Senior Object Technology Consultant and Enterprise Software-Architect with assignments throughout Europe and the United States. One of his major involvements (system architecture) for an Online Brokerage Application was selected as the major JavaOne 2001 J2EE customer success story. Beside this he cooperates with Universities, were he teaches his own specialized lectures in the middleware and active database area.

His current focus is business integration using Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE), CORBA/Java, and XML/Web-Services.

I'm a member of High Performance Extensible Systems Group (HiPeX) , at City University in London, which was formerly known as Systems Architecture Research Centre (SARC).
Recently I finished my PhD research. Yuuuuppiiii!.

Before I came to London, I had received the Mgr degree (equiv. MSc) in Distributed Operating Systems from Faculty of Mathematics and Physics , Charles University , Prague in 1995. My Master thesis "Processor Allocation in Tightly Coupled Multiprocessors" (available in postscript) proposed algorithms for dynamic load balancing in tightly coupled multiprocessors.

Over the last three years, I was involved in the following projects: MAGNET, a dynamic resource manager (which was actually my PhD) and BITS, a component-based operating system.

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My PhD --- MAGNET: A Dynamic Resource Management Architecture
My thesis "MAGNET: A Dynamic Resource Management Architecture" (available in postscript and compressed postscript) proposed an extensible tuplespace-based framework, called MAGNET, based on dynamic trading requests for services against applications' demands. One of the key feature of the architecture is to enable services to be requested indirectly by a type of service they provide, rather then directly by their name. In addition, MAGNET supports user-customization, QoS-based resource definition and negotiation, runtime adaptation (dynamic rebinding to more suitable services) , information monitoring and scalability of the architecture.
More information can be found on MAGNET's web page or check my papers on MAGNET.

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BITS: A Component-based Operating System
Also, at the early stage of my research I invertigated BITS, a component-based operating system, overcoming drawbacks of traditional kernels, and providing a unified, fine-grained environment where requirements on dynamic resource management can be met.
Have a look at BITS' web page or our papers on BITS.

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My Research Interests
Resource management in dynamically changing adaptive systems
Mobile computing
Dynamic trading of components, information matching and retrieval
QoS-based resource definition and negotiation
Support for adaptivity in systems with frequently-changing characteristics (mobile, time and location aware etc.)

Dr Ryszard Kowalczyk has several years of R&D experience in Intelligent Systems and Agent Technology, and their applications in decision support, decision optimisation and decision automation in collaborative and adaptive enterprise, business and industrial solutions. These include diagnosis and control, planning and scheduling, supply networks, e-Commerce, e-Business and e-Services. He has led and participated in a number of successful strategic and applied R&D projects in those areas that resulted in novel intelligent software systems and technology solutions delivered to industrial and government clients.

Dr Kowalczyk joined CSIRO Division of Information Technology (now CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences - CMIS) in 1996 where he is currently a Principal Research Scientist focusing his research on Agent Technologies for Adaptive Supply Networks. Recently he spent a year outside CSIRO collaborating with a corporate R&D Lab of a global e-business software provider leading R&D on agent-based e-business solutions. Before going overseas he was responsible for leading CMIS Applied Artificial Intelligence R&D Group that carried out research on agent-based collaborative and competitive decision-making in e-commerce, e-business and e-service delivery. Before joining CSIRO Dr Kowalczyk was involved for several years in industrial research and consulting work on knowledge-based systems with a corporate R&D organisation for a major Australian company.

Dr Kowalczyk has published more than 70 peer-reviewed scientific publications including 5 edited books and manuscripts and 15 journal articles and book chapters, and co-authored 4 international patents in the area of intelligent agents. He has been an organiser, programme committee member, session chairman and invited paper presenter at a number of national and international conferences. Dr Kowalczyk has served as a technical book review editor in Soft Computing for Kluwer Academic Publisher Group, a member of IASTED Technical Committee on Computational Intelligence, a member of International Editorial Review Board of Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations and a regular reviewer for International Journal on Information Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetic, International Journal on Knowledge and Information Systems, ACS Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology, Journal of Applied Systems Studies and Computational Intelligence Journal.

Quotes from Industry Thought Leaders
_(Craig is) a great teacher, a brilliant methodologist, and an _OO guru_._
_Philippe Kruchten, author, The RUP: An Introduction, and Rational Fellow.
_Too few people have a knack for explaining things. Fewer still have a handle on software analysis and design. Craig Larman has both._
_John Vlissides, author, Design Patterns and Pattern Hatching.
_Craig is articulate, moves people, is caring, is visionary and very perceptive about what works and what does not._
_Peter Coad, CEO, TogetherSoft, and author, Java Modeling in Color with UML.
_People often ask me which is the best book to introduce them to the world of OO design. Ever since I came across it Applying UML and Patterns has been my unreserved choice._
_Martin Fowler, Chief Scientist, ThoughtWorks, and author, UML Distilled.
Introduction Craig Larman is the author of Applying UML and Patterns_An Introduction to OOA/D and the Unified Process, the world_s best-selling text on OOA/D, iterative development, and the UML, translated to many languages and used worldwide in industry and colleges. He also co-authored the Java 2 Performance and Idiom Guide, and is currently writing Agile and Iterative Development: A Manager_s Guide. He is known throughout the international software community as an expert and coach in object technologies, OOA/D, patterns, the UML, modeling, the Unified Process (UP), combining the UP with XP and Scrum practices, and iterative agile development methods.
Craig is a popular speaker at public and private industry conferences, and presents both keynotes and tutorials . Please see www.craiglarman.com for an updated description of current activities.
He travels worldwide to fulfill his passion to serve people through coaching, speaking, and education, helping software organizations succeed with high-impact best practices such as iterative and agile methods, design patterns, automated continuous integration, and test-first
design and programming.
Background
In conjunction with writing and speaking, Craig serves clients globally as an independent consultant, helping people and organizations adopt modern development processes, and object design skills. He also serves as Chief Scientist at Valtech USA, an advanced technology consulting and skills transfer organization. Previously, Craig served as Technical Director at ObjectSpace, a creative group that built products such as Voyager, the agent-based distributed
computing platform.
Since the mid-80s, Craig has assisted thousands in Canada, the USA, India, and Europe in adopting skillful development processes, developing object systems, or in learning to apply OOA/D, architectural analysis, requirements analysis, analysis and design patterns, the UML, C++, Java technologies, and Smalltalk.
He started developing software in 1977, working in high-power languages such as APL. In the early 1980s, he started to focus on artificial intelligence and knowledge systems , and worked as a Lisp, Prolog, Smalltalk, and 4GL
developer and consultant, while also coaching people in object technologies. He_s helped build applications ranging from a knowledge system for the interpretation of cytogenetic defects, to investment management from payments
for future funeral services (you should see the domain model), to high-performance simulation systems.
Craig holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in computer science from beautiful SFU in Vancouver, BC, with research emphasis in artificial intelligence, OO knowledge representations, and case-based reasoning.

My research interests lie in; systems architecture and performance. In particular I am interested in operating systems and database management systems as well as next-generation information provision. RAE Publications can be found here!

I am currently affiliated to the Distributed and Intelligent Systems group. I am currently principal investigator for the new Patia Project looking at distributed adaptive web servers. I was principal investigator for the Kendra project investigating how component-based systems can improve Internet performance through self-adapting systems and caching. My current interests lie in component-based operating systems and how this affects other systems architectures (e.g. DBMS).

I was group leader for the former Systems Architecture Research Centre and its successor HiPeX where I was project leader on projects concerned with interoperability and high-performance database systems (see Iriss and Prima). The PRIMA project investigated performance issues in the use of multicomputer architectures for relational database management systems. At my previous university I also looked at the use of hybrid simulation modelling as a means to obtain quick accurate performance predictions in database processing.

Currently within the School of Informatics I am the Chair of the Research Student Committee and Systems Architecture Teaching Domain leader. In the Department of Computing I look after research related aspects and am Senior Tutor for Research. I am part of the University's Course Review Committee. Finally, I am a member of the British Computer Society and the IEEE, and am a Chartered Engineer .

In July 2001 I joined Imperial College's Department of Computing as a Senior Lecturer.

Background
Duncan McFarlane has been involved in the design and operation of manufacturing and control systems for fifteen years. He completed a PhD in the design of robust control systems at the University of Cambridge in 1988. In 1985 and from 1989 to 1994 he was with the research division of BHP - Australia's largest company, with interests in steel, petroleum and minerals. He has worked with model-based control systems, fault diagnostics and architectures for advanced control and manufacturing and coordinated research and development activities in the areas of automation systems, control and maintenance systems. In 1993 -1994 he led a research activity in a feasibility study into the application of Holonic Manufacturing Systems within steel mill environments. Dr McFarlane joined the Institute for Manufacturing at Cambridge as a lecturer in Automation and Control Systems in 1995, and has been involved in UK, EU and international research grants investigating the responsiveness of manufacturing production systems and the development of distributed, reconfigurable ("holonic") manufacturing control systems, and has led two overseas missions in the same areas.

Current Position
Dr McFarlane is currently a senior lecturer in Automation and Control Systems, and heads the Manufacturing Automation and Control Group. He is an editor of Springer Verlag's Industrial Control series and in 1999 was co-editor of a Special Issue in International Journal of Production Management on Manufacturing Responsiveness. He is a member of several EU ESPRIT Networks in Intelligent Control and Integrated Manufacturing Systems, Intelligent Manufacturing Systems Working Group, and Multi-Agent Systems and is a committee member of the IEE (UK) Professional Group on Next Generation Manufacturing Systems. In 2000 he was invited to become Chairman of the Subcommittee on Manufacturing for the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Technical Committee on Robotics and Manufacturing Systems. In 2001 he will become the Research Director of the Cambridge Auto-ID Centre

Research Interests
Response and agility strategies for manufacturing businesses, next generation models for machine and factory automation and control, and integration of manufacturing information systems, multi agent based manufacturing control, internet based manufacturing, intelligent devices, model based monitoring and diagnosis.

Dr.-Ing. Holger Meyer studierte Automatisierungstechnik und Technische Kybernetik an der Universität Rostock. 1990 promovierte er auf dem Gebiet der Computertechnik mit einer Arbeit zu Echtzeit-Datenbanksystemen. Seit 1992 ist er wissenschaftlicher Oberrat am Fachbereich Informatik der Universität Rostock.
Dr. Meyer lehrt und forscht in den Gebieten Datenbanken, Anfrageoptimierung, Verteilte Datenbanken und WWW. Er hat ein DFG-Projekt zur Anfrageoptimierung und Lastverteilung in Verteilten Datenbanken geleitet und an zahlreichen Grundlagen- und Anwendungsprojekten mitgearbeitet. Sein aktueller Forschungsgegenstand ist die Verwaltung und Verarbeitung von semistrukturierten Dokumenten, speziell XML-Dokumenten, für Digitale Bibliotheken.

Guido Moerkotte studied Computer Science at the Universities of
Dortmund, Karlsruhe and Massachusetts. He received his doctoral degree
and habilitation from the University of Karlsruhe.
After a short interplay at the RWTH Aachen he became a full professor at
the University of Mannheim.

Lin Padgham is Associate Professor of Artificial Intelligence in the
School of Computer Science and Information Technology at RMIT,
Melbourne Australia. She is leader of the Intelligent Systems group
and has been working in the area of Intelligent Multi-Agent Systems
for nine years. She has worked closely with Dr Michael Georgeff and Dr
Anand Rao when they were at the Australian Artificial Intelligence
Institute, and more recently with Dr Andrew Lucas and other staff at
Agent Oriented Software Pty Ltd. She has several national competitive
grants working with industry partners on Intelligent Agent
research. She is also one of the founding members of the Agentcities
Task Force and has been involved in this large European based agent
project from its early days.

Lin teaches courses in Agent Oriented Programming and Design and in
intelligent Multi-Agent Systems. She has developed course materials
in this area for use in industry and has run a number of workshops and
tutorials on Agent Design and Agent programming.

Joseph Pelrine is C*O of MetaProg, a company devoted to increasing the quality of software and its development process. He has had a successful career as software developer, project manager and consultant, and has spoken about it at such diverse places as IBM, OOPSLA and the Chaos Computer Club. Having survived working with Kent Beck, he currently works with Dave Simmons on and in SmallScript when he's not helping his clients solve their problems.

Prof. Rahm is full professor for Computer Science at the University of Leipzig and heads the database department. He is spokesman of the GI working group
"Web & Databases" and co-organizer of the corresponding NOD2002 workshop.

1955 geboren in Częstochowa (Polen)

1974 Abitur in Częstochowa

1974-78 Studium an der Technischen Universität Ilmenau
(Technische und Biomedizinische Kybernetik)

1978 Abschluss als Dipl.-Ing.

1983 Dr. oec. auf dem Gebiet der Betriebswirtschaft an der Technischen Universität Ilmenau

1978-91 wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter im Institut für Management und Verwaltung der Technischen Hochschule in Zielona Góra

1991-94 Geschäftsführer einer polnischen Handelsgesellschaft (Treibstoffhandel und Tankstellennetz)

ab 1994 Vorstandsvorsitzender der Deutsch-Polnischen Wirtschaftsförderungsgesellschaft AG

Dr Ruhe studied Mathematics at Leipzig University from 1970 to 1975. He received a Dr. rer. nat. degree in Mathematics with emphasis on Operations Research from Freiberg University, Germany and a Dr. habil. nat. degree from the Technical University of Leipzig, Germany. He had a visiting professorship at University of Bayreuth in 1991/92 and got an Alexander von Humboldt research fellowship at University of Kaiserslautern. Ruhe was visiting scientist at the IBM Research Centre in Heidelberg in 1993. From 1996 until 2001 he was deputy director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering Fh IESE. Since July 2001 he is an iCORE Professor and Industrial Research Chair in Software Engineering at the University of Calgary. This is a joint position of Department of Computer Science and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Dr. Ruhe has over 90 journal and conference publications in computer science, software engineering, operations research, and related areas He gave over 120 presentations at conferences, workshops, and industrial seminars. His research approach is characterized to be interdisciplinary on the one hand and to be a combination of in-depth fundamental research with broad and applied research on the other hand.

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Name: Sebastian Schaffert
Academic Degree: Dipl. Inform. (Univ.) (eq. Master in Computer Sciences)
Occupation: Research- and Teaching Assistant
Family Status: married, one daugther

Education
June 1996 High School Graduation (Abitur), focal points Mathematics, Physics, English and History
Jul 1995 - Jun 1996 Military Service at the 232nd German Alpine Batallion, Berchtesgaden
Oct 1996 - Apr 2001 Student of Computer Sciences (Major) and Educational Sciences (Minor) at the University of Munich
Oct 2000 - Apr 2001 Diploma Thesis on "Grouping Constructs for Semistructured Data"
Apr 2001 Diploma with Honors (Grade: 1.0) in Computer Sciences (eq. to Master)
since Apr 2001 PhD student at the Munich University

Skills
Generic
Languages German (native), English (fluent), French (4 years school), Spanish (2 years university), Swedish (reading and understanding)
Computer-Related
Languages Experience in (among others) Java, C/C++, Perl, Prolog, Haskell, PHP, XML, XSL, Unix Shell, SQL
Techniques OO-programming, (constraint) logic programming, etc
Current Focus Querying and Transforming Data in the Semantic Web (see xcerpt-project)
Unix Administration Experience in the administration of Linux, *BSD and Solaris, and various other flavours of Unix
Networking Integration of heterogeneous Unix/Windows/Novell networks, administration of various kinds of inter-/intranet servers
Databases Administration and programming of various database systems (Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL)

Experience
Munich University
Nov 1998 - Dec 2000 Linux-, HP-UX and Solaris Workstation/Server (WWW, News, Mail, etc) administration and installation, user helpdesk, tool programming
May 2001 - now Research- and Teaching Assistant at the LFE Programmier- und Modellierungssprachen
Freelance Activities
1997 - 1998 Giving lectures on various network-related topics (at BIMS and BTZ Traunstein)
1998 - now Main developer and maintainer of the very successful OpenSource project JWebMail (see "Projects" and the WebMail homepage for details).
Mar 2000 - Oct 2000 Siemens AG, ICN: Working on OpenSource projects, mainly integrating mailservers and WebMail on Linux/Solaris machines
2000 - now Linux system administration for various clients.

Hobbies
Sports
Karate In my spare time (which is very rare lately) I am participating at the KC Wadokan Traunstein. At the moment I have the 4th Kyu (purple girdle).
Mountaineering As I come from the Bavarian Alpes, I am very fond of the mountains. In summer and autumn, I like it very much to stay some days in the mountains together with some friends. In winter and spring, I used to go skiing, but I didn't have the time for that lately and also there is not as much snow now as it used to be.
Sailing/Windsurfing When we are visiting my grandparents in my holidays, I go sailing very often. However, it is not resticted to sailing alone; windsurfing is also very much fun.:-)
Computer-Related
Linux I am a strong advocate of the Linux Operating System and Open Source in general. For this reason, most of my projects are available as Open Source. I am also a member of the Linux User Group Traunstein.
XML One of my latest "hobbies" is the XML markup language and semi-structured data in general. I have already used much of its capabilities in the JWebMail Project. Currently, I am working on a unification based language for declaratively querying XML data (see Projects for detail).

Dr. Torsten Schmale, inubit AG, ist einer von zwei Gründern der inubit AG und war von 1999 bis 2001 zunächst Geschäftsführer dann Vorstand verantwortlich für die Ressorts Strategie, Entwicklung und Professional Services. Anfang 2002 übernahm er als CEO die Gesamtverantwortung für den erfolgreichen Berliner Software Hersteller.

Von 1993 bis 1999 war Dr. Schmale leitender System Architekt im Bereich Software Engineering der Siemens AG in München, später Berlin, und verantwortlich für die Entwicklung einer neuen Softwaregeneration für das Management kontinentaler Telekommunikationsnetzwerke. Während dieser Zeit unterstützte er als aktives Mitglied der internationalen und europäischen Standardisierungsgremien ITU-T und ETSI die Definition weltweiter Telekommunikationstandards.

Zuvor studierte Dr. Schmale Elektrotechnik und Technische Informatik an der Universität Wuppertal und promovierte an der Universität Duisburg im Jahr 1998 über das Thema 'Object-Oriented Network and Systems Management in a Distributed Environment'.

Als anerkannter IT-Experte veröffentlichte er bekannte Artikel in den Bereichen elektronischer Handel, Optimierung von Geschäftsprozessen sowie Steigerung der Wettbewerbsvorteile von Unternehmen durch Prozessintegration.

Michael Stal arbeitet als Senior Principal Engineer bei der Siemens
Corporate Technology. Dort ist er für das Team verantwortlich, das sich
mit Middleware und Anwendungsintegration beschäftigt. Er ist Mitglied
der OMG, früheres Mitglied der ANSI X3J16 Arbeitsgruppe zur C++
Standardisierung und Chefredakteur von JavaSpektrum. Seine
Hauptarbeitsgebiete umfassen OO, Java, vernetzte Systeme und Software
Architekturen. Michael Stal ist Mitautor der POSA Buchreihe
(Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture). Er hat des Weiteren viele
Artikel publiziert und Vorträge auf zahlreichen internationalen
Veranstaltungen gegeben, weshalb er auch Mitglied in zahlreichen
Vielfligerprogrammen ist.

Christof Strack arbeitet als Java Architekt im Sun Java Center der Firma Sun Microsystems GmbH. In zahlreichen Projekten aus verschiedenen Branchen (Automobil, Finanzen, Logistik/ Transportwesen und Telekommunikation) beschäftigte er sich mit Komponeten basierten Applikationen unter Java. Ein Schwerpunkt seiner Tätigkeit liegt auf der Konzeption von Web-Applikationen im Telekommunikationsbereich. Zuvor arbeitete Herr Strack bei einem Dienstleister im Finanzbereich und übernahm dort Architekturaufgaben.

Dr. Kurt Sundermeyer studied physics in Hamburg and received his PhD with a
thesis in theoretical particle physics. He spent one year at the theory group
at MIT, working already at that time on the nowadays fashionable string
theories (this as a hint to insiders). After an assistantship at the Univ.
Wuppertal he took the position of an assistant professor at the Freie
Universität Berlin, where he switched to mathematical physics. He is still
Privatdozent at FU Berlin.
1986 Kurt Sundermeyer left the university and started a second career in
industrial research. (This was just at the peak of excitement in Artificial
Intelligence.) He worked in the knowledge based systems group on diagnosis,
uncertainty reasoning and distributed problem solving. The latter was the germ
for his curiosity in agents. Gradually in the last 10 years an agent team was
formed, which is a group of 20 people by now. Since one year this group
concentrates on research in manufacturing planning&control and in supply chain
management.

Roland Tritsch is a Principal Sales Engineer with IONA Technologies. Currently he works as the Practice Leader Total Business Integration in Central Europe. He has over 10 years experience with the A&D of large software systems. Before joining IONA he worked as a Consultant for EDS, Object Design and Versant.

Dr. Mihaela Ulieru, Semior Member IEEE, is Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She is also President and CEO of Qualyntel Consulting, Founding Leader of The Canadian GAIN (Global Agents Integration Network) consisting of 17 Universities, several research institutes and over 30 industrial organizations, and Leader of several International R&D Initiatives, among which: BISC-SIG (Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing – Special Interest Group) in Intelligent Manufacturing and Fault Diagnosis; The Holonic Enterprise Project within FIPA (Federation of Intelligent Physical Agents) of the and the Neuro-Fuzzy Group within IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control) - SAFEPROCESS. She acts as FIPA-HMS Liaison, Chairs the FIPA Technical Committee on Supply Chain Management and is Canadian Coordinator of the International Intelligent Manufacturing Systems PABADIS (Plant Automation Based on Distributed Systems) Consortium.
A graduate of Polytehnica University Bucharest, Romania, Mihaela was known as awarded poet and artistic critic in her native country through her extensive broadcasting of cultural programs on Romanian radio and TV during her teenage years. Her interdisciplinary work goes back to her the PhD at Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany, with a Thesis on Artificial Intelligence in Systems Diagnostics integrating concepts from engineering, logic, medicine, psychology, and sociology.
Dr. Ulieru is an active member of the Holonic Manufacturing Systems Consortium and acts as Academic Technical Advisor within the BISC-SIG on Fuzzy Logic and the Internet. Recently she was nominated for IEEE Senior Membership. She was on the Faculty in Computer Science at London University (Brunel), U.K. and Visiting Scholar in the School of Engineering Science at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.
Dr. Ulieru has authored over 70 journal and conference publications and one book on various topics integrating engineering, computer science, economics, sociology, psychology, medicine and philosophy. Among the topics: distributed intelligence/multi-agent systems, emergent virtual organizations, neuro-fuzzy diagnosis and prediction systems, and medical expert systems. She was elected on several technical committees (IFAC - Safeprocess, IEEE/SMC – Soft Computing, NAFIPS (North-American Fuzzy Information processing Society), American Association for the Advancement of Science, New York Academy of Science, the Romanian Academy; IEEE/Neural Networks Council) and is on the Technical Boards of several prestigious international granting agencies (e.g. The Council of Physical Science of The Netherlands.
In addition to several awards received for her research (among which: NSERC International Opportunity Fund – for her work on the cutting edge technological development merging the results of several international Consortia into the Holonic Enterprise Global Collaborative Paradigm; NSERC Collaborative Health Research Project – for an interdisciplinary research on medical informatics applied to the diagnosis and prediction of glaucoma, on which she collaborates with distinguished medical researchers and practitioners and international companies from Germany and the U.S.) Dr. Ulieru was given the “World Lifetime Achievement Award” in 1999 from the American Biographical Institute, was included in the repository of “Outstanding People of the 20th Century“ by the International Biographical Center, Cambridge, England and is quoted in Who is Who in The World (since 1995) and Who is Who in North America (since 1997). Dr. Ulieru is recipient of the ‘Outstanding Research Award’ from the International Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics, August 2000. In recognition for the impact of her contributions on the international research and development in electrical and electronics engineering, Dr. Ulieru was elevated to the Senior Member s

Markus Völter ist als freiberuflicher Berater für Softwaretechnologie und -engineering tätig. Sein Schwerpunkt liegt im Bereich der Architektur grosser, verteilter Systeme. Markus ist Autor zahlreicher Fachartikel und Patterns, regelmässiger Sprecher auf den einschlägigen Fachkonferenzen sowie Co-Autor von Wiley's "Server Component Patterns - Component Infrastructures illustrated with EJB". Er ist zu erreichen unter voelter@acm.org oder www.voelter.de.