Table of authors and speakers

Jörg Ackermann studied mathematics in Dresden, Moscow and Toledo (USA). He received a Dipl.-Math. from Dresden University and a M.A. from University of Toledo.

After his studies he joined SAP AG and has now been working there for 8 years. In this time his duties included software development, development coordination and project management. Additionally he is an external employee at the Chair of Business Informatics and Systems Engineering (University of Augsburg, Germany) working on a Ph.D. thesis in the area of specification of business components.

Antonia Albani (born 1969 in Switzerland) studied Computer Science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich where she received her master degree in 1995 and her PhD in 2000. After one year in IT consulting with focus on business process modelling she was CEO and co-founder of an internet start-up in the area of business process outsourcing.

In January 2003 she started her habilitation at the Systems Engineering group of the University of Augsburg with specific focus on the research area of component based inter-organisational systems.

Since February 2005 she additionally has a part-time assistant professor position at the Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, in the Software Engineering group. Her main research interests are in modelling inter-organisational systems.

Mr. Muhammad Amir Aman currently works as a Lecturer at Faculty of Applied Sciences and Software Project Manager and Chief of the Software Development Cell, International Islamic University, Islamabad-Pakistan.

He has more than 4 years of experience in teaching, development, consultancy and Research. He has been associated with organizations like WITSpirit-USA, ITPak Consultants and World Trade Organization. He is an author of numerous national and international research papers. His areas of research include Software Architecture, Software Project Management, e-governance frameworks, Algorithms and Programming. He has been the member of organizing committees as well as the editor of the book of proceedings of numerous international and national level workshops. He is the member of the Software Engineering Research Group, Faculty of Applied Sciences, International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan. He has many industrial research collaborations, with corporate companies like NCR Corporation, Islamabad Stock Exchange, Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd., Paktel, Ufone and Telenore. His projects are implemented at International Islamic University, PTCL, Islamabad Stock Exchange and Paktel.

He holds the degrees of MS Software Engineering, M.Sc. Computer Science and B.Sc. (Hons) Computer Science. He has been teaching System Software Architecture, Algorithm Design and Analysis and Programming Languages.

In his free time he likes to swim, hiking, playing tennis and going out with his family.

Franck Barbier (PhD in computer science in 1991, University of Chambéry, French habilitation for supervising research activities, a.k.a. HDR, in 1998, University of Nantes) is Professor in software engineering at the University of Pau (France) since September 2000. He was the Director of the Computer Science Research Institute of the University of Pau (Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour or LIUPPA) from 2000 to 2004.

His main research focuses are object modeling, component modeling, UML and seamless object/component development. He was the scientific consultant of Reich Technologies, a French company among the 17 companies that built UML 1.1 at the OMG in 1997. He was also a co-author of the contribution from the DSTC consortium for the building of UML 2.0.

Alexandre Bergel is a Ph.D. student in the Software Composition Group, at the University of Bern (Switzerland). His thesis is about a new module system for object oriented languages. Classboxes allow one to confine modification made on a base system to a delimited scope. As a result, modifications such as bug fixes can be applied to an application or a library without breaking clients that rely on the original implementation.

Jean Bézivin is professor of Computer Science at the University of Nantes (LINA research Lab) and member of the INRIA/ATLAS research group recently created in Nantes by P. Valduriez. He has been very active in Europe in the Object- Oriented community, starting the ECOOP series of conference (with P. Cointe), the TOOLS series of conferences (with B. Meyer), and more recently the MoDELS/UML series of conferences (with P.-A. Muller). He also organized several workshops at OOPSLA like in 1995 on "Use Case Technology", in 1998 on "MDD with CDIF", at ECOOP in 2000 on "MDD", etc. His present research interests include product and process modeling, legacy reverse engineering, general model engineering and more especially languages and frameworks for model transformation and composition.

Walter Binder received his PhD in computer science from the Vienna University of Technology in 2001. Since 2003 he is a senior researcher at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. His current research interests are program transformations, profiling, resource management, middleware, and service-oriented computing (in particular service discovery and automated service composition).

Dr. Lynne Blair has a background in the formal specification and verification of distributed multimedia systems and is currently working on both aspect-oriented software development and problems of (feature) interaction that occur in such complex systems.

Laurens Blankers started the 5 year master program Computer Science and Engineering at Technische Universiteit Eindhoven in the Netherlands in September 2000. During his study he became interested in Software Engineering and specifically Software Architecture. As of March 1st 2005 he will be spending 12 months at Mälardalen University to write his master thesis. Subject of the thesis is research into architectural patterns for integration of software intensive systems.

1998-2003
Studies Dipl.-Informatik (compareable to a master degree in computer science) at Darmstadt University of Technology

1999-2003
Student assistant supporting courses and research at the groups "Practical Computer Science" and "Software Technology"

2003-
Research assistant and Ph.D. student at the Software Technology Group, Prof. Dr. Mira Mezini

T. Y. Chen obtained his BSc and MPhil. from the University of Hong Kong, MSc and DIC from the Imperial College of Science and Technology, and PhD from the University of Melbourne. He is currently a Professor of Software Engineering at the Swinburne University of Technology, Australia.
Prior to joining Swinburne,he has taught at the University of Hong Kong and University of Melbourne. He is also a Member of the Australian Research Council's College of Experts. His research interests cover software testing, debugging and software maintenance. He has been enlisted as one of the most publishable scholar in the field of Systems and Software Engineering for several times.

Henrik Bærbak Christensen is Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus. He received his Ph.D. in 1999 from the same department. His main research areas are software architecture, software engineering, pervasive computing, and teaching. My main interests are architectural prototyping techniques, activity based computing architectures, and principles and techniques for highly flexible software systems like product-line architectures.

Mr. Aleksandar Dimov, is PhD student in Software Engineering at Sofia University, Bulgaria. His main research interests comprise the areas of software architecture, software reliability, formal methods and embedded and real-time software systems.

Stéphane Ducasse obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis and his habilitation at the University of Paris 6. He was assistant Professor at the University of Berne in the Software Composition Group. He is full Professor at the University of Savoie where he leads the Language and Software Evolution group. His fields of interests are: design of reflective systems, object-oriented languages design, web development and reengineering and evolution of object-oriented applications. He is one of the main developer of the Moose reengineering environment. He loves programming in Smalltalk and is the co-president of the European Smalltalk User Group. He wrote several books in french and english: La programmation: une approche fonctionnelle et recursive en Scheme (Eyrolles 96), Squeak (Eyrolles 2001), Object-Oriented Reengineering Patterns (MKP 2002), and Learning Programming with Robots (APress 2005).

Jeff Eastman is a software architect and manager at CollabNet, a leading provider of on demand distributed software development solutions. Prior to joining CollabNet, he was a consultant in the area of distributed computing and object database technologies and also a long term employee of Hewlett-Packard. Dr. Eastman is probably best known for his roles in SmalltalkBroker and HP Distributed Smalltalk object request brokers as well as the OMG and ODMG standards organizations.

Erik Ernst is an associate professor in computer science at the University of Aarhus in Denmark who is working with object-oriented programming languages, both from an experimental and implementation oriented point of view, from a point of view that emphasizes the conceptual framework and "philosophy" behind language design, and from a formal calculus and proof oriented point of view. In particular, he created the language gbeta which embodies such concepts as family polymorphism and higher-order hierarchies, and he participated in the project that added wildcards to the Java programming language.

Leire Etxeberria is Computing Science Engineer from the University of Mondragon, Spain (2004). Between 1999 and 2001 she worked as an assistant at Ikerlan (a technological center). During 2002-2004 she participated in several research projects in the computer science department of the university of Mondragon. At the moment, she is a Ph. D. student in Software Engineering at the University of Mondragon. She is working on product line architecture evaluation techniques and methods. She enjoys a doctoral grant of the researchers formation program of the Basque Government, department of education, universities and research. Her research interests include software engineering, reuse, architecture, product lines and architecture evaluation.

Frank Fischer is working as the manager of Developer Evangelism at Microsoft Deutschland GmbH. His team is responsible for introducing Microsoft's vision and future technologies to the developer community in Germany. He was working several years as a Developer Evangelist himself and therefore has a profound background on the current and future technology stack. He studied physics at the University of Karlsruhe and IT at the University of Liverpool. Before joining Microsoft he was a consultant working on embedded projects, infrastructure and CRM systems. He published several articles in German magazines and speaks regularly at local and international developer related conferences. With his wife and his two children he is living near Munich.

Wasif Gilani is a PhD student at the "Distributed systems and Operating systems" department at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. He is doing research in the field of aspect-oriented programming and mainly focussed in the development of family-based dynamic aspect weavers for adaptable systems in the C++ domain.

Dr. Marc Gille is President and CEO of CARNOT AG, a leading provider for entirely J2EE-based Business Process Management Technology.

In the last ten years, Marc Gille has been involved as a manager and/or architect with many architectural software projects in Germany, Europe and the US. He is a well-known member of the European Software Community and has constributed to magazines and conferences. As a member of the Object Database Management Group, he has conceived and specified parts of the ODMG 2 Standard. His current fields of interest are Service-oriented Architectures, Business Activity Monitoring and Corporate Performance Management.

Marc Gille graduated and took his doctor's degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Ruhr-Universität Bochum.

Professor Ian Gorton is a Senior Researcher at National ICT Australia. Until Match 2004 he was Chief Architect in Information Sciences and Engineering at the US Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Previously he has worked at Microsoft and IBM, as well as in other research positions. His interests include software architectures, particularly those for large-scale, high-performance information systems that use commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) middleware technologies. He received a PhD in Computer Science from Sheffield Hallam University.

Miguel Goulão was born in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1972. He is a PhD student at Universidade Nova de Lisboa (UNL). He is currently working on the development of a quantitative approach to component-based software engineering (CBSE). His goal is to provide automated quality assessment mechanisms to CBSE and to integrate such assessment mechanisms with current development environments. Miguel has been working with experimental software engineering and software metrics since 1994. Before focusing on CBSE, he worked on the quantitative assessment of object-oriented design, using software metrics, and, during his MSc. project, on software process improvement. In 1999, he was one of the co-authors of a paper which received the János Szentes award for the best paper on software metrics presented in the 6th European Conference on Software Quality. Miguel has published over 20 research papers in peer-reviewed journals, conferences and workshops. He is a co-founder and member of UNL's QUASAR Group (http://ctp.di.fct.unl.pt/QUASAR/), a research team dedicated to the development and evaluation of quantitative approaches to software engineering and reengineering.

Vincenzo Grassi is currently full professor at the Department of Computer Engineering, Systems and Industrial Engineering, University of Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy. His general research interests are in the field of methods and tools for the validation of extra-functional quality indexes (in particular, performance and dependability indexes) for computing and communication systems. Within this general framework, he has recently focused his research activity on methodologies for the design and analysis of adaptable applications for mobile computing systems and geographically distributed service-oriented systems. In the past, he has been interested in the definition of methodologies for the performance and dependability analysis of fault-tolerant systems (in particular, "performability" analysis), and for the performance analysis of wireless communication protocols.

Phil Greenwood is a PhD candidate in the Computing Department, Lancaster University. His work is generally focussing on using dynamic AOP to implement auto-adaptive systems. He is particularly interested in using the properties of AOP to implement Self-Configuring and Self-Healing behaviour.

Marc Hagener, Jahrgang 1967, studierte Technische Informatik an der Berufsakademie Stuttgart in Zusammenarbeit mit der IBM Deutschland. Als einer von 18 Gründungsmitarbeitern arbeitete er im Bereich der objektorientierten Technologien von 1992 bis 1994 für die SerCon GmbH in Böblingen. Danach war er als Senior Consultant bis 1997 bei einem der führenden Smalltalk-Hersteller beschäftigt. Im Jahr 1997 gründete er die Marc Hagener Unternehmensberatung, deren Geschäftstätigkeit im Jahr 2000 komplett von der Tricept Informationssysteme AG übernommen wurde.

Er trägt als Vorstand "Vertrieb, Marketing und Personal" die Verantwortung für die Personalentwicklung, die Akquise neuer Kunden und die Erstellung von Marketingstrategien. Für die Niederlassung Stuttgart ist er der zuständige Leiter.

Stefan Hanenberg studied business information systems at the University of Essen. Since 1999 he works for the chair of database management systems and knowledge presentation of Prof. Dr. Rainer Unland. His main scientific interest is directed to the field of aspect-oriented software development (AOSD), to which he contributed a number of conference and workshop articles. Stefan Hanenberg co-organized a number of workshops in the area of aspect-oriented software development, he is a program committee member of various AOSD-events, and reviewer for aspect-oriented (and related) articles for international journals.

Currently, Jens Happe is a PhD student at the Graduate School "Trustsoft" of the University of Oldenburg. He received a three-year scholarship to do his PhD. His thesis will be about the impact of concurrency on the Quality of Service (QoS) attributes of component-based software architectures.
In January 2005, Jens Happe graduated from the University of Oldenburg with a German diploma in computer science. He received a scholarship to write his diploma thesis at the Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. Within the scope of his thesis he worked in the area of reliability prediction of component based software architectures focussing on the influence of the deployment context on system reliability.
During his studies, he worked as a student research assistant in the Palladio project of the University of Oldenburg. In this period, he implemented large parts of the Palladio component model including the algorithms for parametric contacts. Furthermore, he worked in the context of the ODAWA project at the OFFIS research institute in Oldenburg. The project was concerned with the development of a tool for the specification of data warehouses using UML class diagrams.
In the summer of 2002, he did an internship at the IBM development and research labs in Böblingen. There, he worked in the department "Intelligent Miner for Data" and implemented a prototype based on the results of a diploma thesis about cluster sequences.

Hans Hartmann is Chief Software Architect (formerly Test Director of Software Testing) at Generali, Austria (http://www.generali.at), one of the world's leading insurance companies. Having studied industrial electronics at the Technical University of Vienna, Mr. Hartmann has 30 years of experience in system and application computer programming. His engagement in image analysis and micro-spectral photometry resulted in several patents in the field of microphotometry. Other programming fields include radar systems for aviation and security applications. His international work experience in both technical development and sales, covers Europe, the former Soviet Union, China, Japan and other Asian countries. He lectures about Architecture and Software engineering of large scale IT systems at the Technical University of Leipzig and has taught information systems at a Viennese college (Fachhochschule für Hotellerie und Tourismus-Management). He has been a technical trainer in France, Great Britain, the former Soviet Union, China and Japan. Besides his architectural work Mr. Hartmann considers testing one of the biggest challenges of today's computer development, not only because successful testing requires the overcoming of an array of technical difficulties, but also because the tester must possess ever more psychological, technical and interpersonal capabilities - heretofore underestimated in the computer programming profession - to do his or her job well. Besides loving his work, he enjoys playing the piano, good literature and fine food.

1994-2000
Studies in Technical Computer Science (CS as an engineering discipline), University of Siegen, Germany, graduated with diploma

2001-
Ph.D. work at Darmstadt University of Technology, in the group of Prof. Dr. Mira Mezini

Christian Heinlein received a Ph. D. in Computer Science from the University of Ulm in 2000. Currently, he works as a Scientific Assistant in the Department of Computer Structures at the University of Ulm. His research interests include (programming) language design in general and in particular support for unanticipated software evolution.