David Garlan is an Associate Professor of Computer Science in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, where he works in the areas of software architecture, formal methods, self-healing systems, and pervasive computing.  His research group has developed a number of languages and tools for design of software architectures.  He has written numerous articles on software architecture and co-authored the book Software Architecture: Perspectives on an Emerging Discipline, and Documenting Software Architectures: Views and Beyond.

Dr. Litoiu is member of the Centre for Advanced Studies at the IBM Toronto Laboratory where he initiates and manages joint research projects between IBM and Universities across the globe in the area of Application Development Tools. Prior to joining IBM (1997), he was a faculty member with the Department of Computers and Control Systems at the University Politechnica of Bucharest and held research visiting positions with Polytechnic of Turin, Italy, (1994 and 1995) and Polytechnic University of Catalunia (Spain), and the European Center for Parallelism (1995). Dr. Litoiu’s other research interests include distributed objects; high performance software design; performance modeling, performance evaluation and capacity planning for distributed and real time systems.

Dr. Hausi Müller is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Director of Software Engineering Programs at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He is a Visiting Scientist with the Center for Advanced Studies at the IBM Toronto Laboratory and the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute. He is a principal investigator and Chair of the Technical Steering Committee of CSER, a Canadian Consortium for Software Engineering Research. Together with his research group and in collaboration with IBM he investigates methods, models, architectures, and techniques for autonomic computing applications. He also concentrates on building Adoption-Centric Software Engineering (ACSE) tools and on migrating legacy software to autonomic and network-centric platforms. He was GC for ICSE 2001 & IWPC-2003 and PC Chair for CASCON 2003.

Dr. Mylopoulos is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto, Canada. His research interests include information modelling techniques, covering notations, implementation techniques and applications, knowledge based systems, semantic data models, information system design and requirements engineering. Mylopoulos is the recipient of the first Outstanding Services Award given by the Canadian AI Society (CSCSI), a co-recipient of the best-paper award of the 1994 International Conference on Software Engineering, a fellow of the American Association for AI (AAAI) and the elected president of the VLDB Endowment (1998-01, re-elected for the period 2002-05). He is co-editor of the Requirements Engineering Journal, published by Springer-Verlag. He has also contributed to the organization of major international conferences, including program co-chair of the International Joint Conference of AI (1991), general chair of the Entity-Relationship conference (1994), program chair of the International IEEE Symposium of Requirements Engineering (1997), and general chair of the 30th VLDB Conference (2004). He has served on the editorial board of several international journals. He is currently leading a number of research projects and is principal investigator of both a national and a provincial Centre of Excellence. In particular, he leads a project on software reengineering (funded by NSERC, IBM Canada and Bell University Laboratories), a project on Knowledge Management (funded by Bell University Laboratories, PRECARN and Techne Knowledge Systems) , as well as a project on Peer-to-Peer Data Management (funded by CITO, NSERC, and Bell University Laboratories.)

Dr. Dennis B. Smith is the Lead for the SEI Initiative on the Integration of Software Intensive Systems. This initiative focuses on addressing issues of interoperability and integration in large scale systems and systems of systems. Earlier, he was the technical lead in the effort for migrating legacy systems to product lines. In this role he developed the method Options Analysis for Reengineering (OAR) to support reuse decision-making. Dr. Smith has also been the project leader for the CASE environments project. This project examined the underlying issues of CASE integration, process support for environments and the adoption of technology. Dr. Smith has been the lead in a variety of engagements with external clients. He led a widely publicized audit of the FAA's troubled ISSS system. This report produced a set of recommendations for change, resulting in major changes to the development process, and the development of an eventual successful follow-on system. Dr. Smith is a co-author of the book, Principles of CASE Tool Integration, Oxford University Press, 1994. He has published a wide variety of articles and technical reports, and has given talks and keynotes at a number of conferences and workshops. He is also a co-editor of the IEEE recommended practice on CASE Adoption. He has been general chair of two international conferences, IWPC '99 and STEP '99.

Ken Wong is an Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta. His main areas of research are software architecture, integration, evolution, and visualization.  This research includes conducting case studies, building and using integrated environments for reverse engineering, exploring a framework for continuous, collaborative program understanding, and devising strategies to understand and evolve diverse software systems. He co-manages a Canadian Foundation for Innovation facility to study distributed software development, with connected, experimental laboratories at the University of Calgary and University of Alberta. Dr. Wong was also PC Chair for IWPC 2003 and WSE 2003.

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