Table of authors and speakers

I obtained my engineering degree with honors in Information Technology from ENSIMAG school in Grenoble(France).

From 1998 to 2003, I worked as an R&D engineer at Hewlett-Packard (HP) campany in Grenoble on the HP Telecommunication platform, called OpenCall. My last project was within the architecture team on the next generation of OpenCall. The goal was to lay a bridge between the Telephony and IP worlds.

This first researrch experience convinced me to achieve a Ph.D. Therefore, I started in September 2003 a Ph.D. within SARDES project. My Ph.D. is sponsored by BULL SA (France). My mission is to investigate the architecture of the next generation of JOnAS, the J2EE open source ObjectWeb application server. I am also contributing to the development of the JOnAS management system in distributed environments.

Dr. Mercedes Amor received her M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the University of Malaga (Spain) in 1998 and the Doctor degree in 2005 from the same University. She is a faculty member at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Malaga. Her main research interests deal with software agents, aspect-oriented software engineering, component-based software development. In addition, she is involved in the several research projects.

Rossana Maria de Castro Andrade is a professor at Federal University of Ceará, Brazil,in the Computer Science Department. Her research interests include mobile computing, security, formal and semi-formal protocol and software specification techniques, grid computing, and pattern-based software reuse. Andrade earned her PhD degree in computer science from the School of Information Technology and Engineering of the University of Ottawa, Canada, in 2001. She has contributed as a reviewer to international conferences, including ICT, AICT, and PLoP, as well as brazilian conferences and workshops. In 2004 and 2005, respectively, she was a general chair of the 4th Latin American Conference of Patterns Languages of Programming and the 23rd Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks. She is the coordinator of the Group of Computer Networks, Software Engineering ans Systems (great.ufc.br).

Raphael M. Bahati is currently a student at the University of Western Ontario (London, ON, Canada) persuing a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science. He received a M.Sc. in Computer Science from the same university in 2003, an Honours B.Sc. in Computer Science and Physics from Trent University (Pereborough, ON, Canada) in 2001, and an International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma from the Red Cross Nordic United World College (Flekke, Fjaler, Norway) in 1997. His research interests include QoS provisioning and policy-driven autonomic management.

Dr. Joachim Bayer, is a senior researcher working with Fraunhofer IESE since 1997. He received a diploma in 1997, and a Ph.D. in 2004, both in computer science and from the Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. He was involved and lead tasks in a series of German and European projects, focusing on product line architectures. Currently, he is leading two projects at Fraunhofer IESE, a German (PESOA) and a European project (Adaptive Service Grids (ASG). Both projects address innovative questions in the context of service-orientation of software.

Alan Bivens, PhD., holds Masters and PhD degrees in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is currently a Research Staff Member at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Hawthorne NY where he creates autonomic workload management capabilities to allow datacenters to be self-healing and self-optimizing. His current work deals with load balancing, power management, and coordination between autonomic managers

Nelis Boucke is a PhD student at the Distrinet research group of the KULeuven university. He received his MSc. in computer science from the KULeuven University Departement of Computer Science in 2004. His research interests include multi-agent systems, software architectures and aspect orientation. His PhD is about the identification and separation of architectural concerns in multi-agent systems. You can visit his research website on www.cs.kuleuven.be/~nelis for more information.

CEO und Gründer der Synchronica plc

Carsten Brinkschulte, Jahrgang 1967, ist seit Oktober 2005 CEO der Synchronica plc (vormals DAT Group PLC). Seit der Übernahme der von ihm gegründeten Synchronica GmbH (Deutschland) durch das britische Softwareunternehmen ist er Mitglied der Geschäftsführung.
Brinkschulte blickt auf 20 Jahre Erfahrung in der IT-Branche zurück und ist einer der Pioniere der drahtlosen Synchronisation sowie des „over-the-air“ Device Managements auf Basis des SyncML-Standards (OMA). Mit seinem ausgeprägten Unternehmergeist gründete er eine Reihe von erfolgreichen Firmen im Bereich Mobile Solutions, wie etwa die Weblicon Technologies AG und Century Software.

Davor war Brinkschulte Berater bei Apple Computer EMEA und SAP, schrieb Fachbücher über MacOS Programmierung und hielt Universitätsvorträge zum Thema „Advanced Operating System Strategies“.

Volha Bryl received the 5-year-degree in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from the Belarusian State University (Minsk, Belarus) in 2003. Since September 2004 she is a PhD student at the ICT Doctorate School in Information and Communication Technologies in Trento, Italy. Her research interests are in the area of multi-agent systems and agent-oriented software engineering; in particular, goal-oriented requirements analysis and design in the light of been involved in the development of ToothAgent, a multi-agent architecture aimed at supporting virtual communities of co-located users, equipped with Bluetooth-enabled mobile devices.

Christoph Bussler (http://hometown.aol.com/chbussler) is Architect at Cisco Systems, Inc. in San Jose, CA, USA, responsible for the software-oriented architecture at Cisco Systems' Quote-to-Cash business unit. His main activity is defining and implementing a model-driven web service-oriented enterprise-class architecture encompassing enterprise application integration as well as business to business integration. Before taking this position he was Science Foundation Ireland Professor at the National University of Ireland, Galway in Ireland and Executive Director of the Digital Enterprise Research Institute(DERI). In addition to his role as Executive Director of DERI, Chris led the Semantic Web Services research group at DERI. Before DERI he was Member of Oracle’s Integration Platform Architecture Group based in Redwood Shores, CA, USA. He was responsible for the architecture of Oracle’s next generation integration product providing EAI, B2B and ASP integration. Prior to joining Oracle he was at Jamcracker, Cupertino, CA, USA, responsible for defining Jamcracker’s ASP aggregation architecture, Netfish Technologies (acquired by IONA), Santa Clara, CA, USA, responsible for Netfish’s B2B integration server, The Boeing Company, Seattle, WA, USA, leading Boeing’s workflow research and Digital Equipment Corporation (acquired by Compaq, acquired by Hewlett-Packard), Mountain View, CA, USA, defining the policy resolution component of Digital’s workflow product.He has a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Erlangen, Germany and a Master in computer science from the Technical University of Munich, Germany. Chris published a new book titled 'B2B and Integration', two books in workflow management, over 90 research papers in journals and academic conferences, gave tutorials on several topics including B2B integration and workflow management and was keynote speaker at many conferences and workshops.

Michael Cebulla obtained a diploma in computer Science in 1994 and a Ph.D. in humanities in 1992. From 1993 until 1998 he worked as a software developer and systems architect in a large software house where he was engaged in the design and development of safety-critical traffic control systems (air traffic control, urban transportation and process control in general). In 1998 he joined the group for program languages and compiler construction (head: Prof. +Pepper) at Technische Universität Berlin as a research assistant. His main research interests are formal specification and verification of complex systems, knowledge representation and reasoning, knowledge-based support for context-aware systems.

Dr. Walid Chainbi received the DEA degree in computer science from Paul Sabatier University of Toulouse, France. He received his PhD for his work on "conceptual modeling and specification of multi-agent systems" from ENSI Tunis, Tunisia in 2004. Dr. Walid Chainbi is currently a lecturer at ISSATS (Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology of Sousse -Tunisia). His previous work experience included Petri nets and their use in multi-agent systems. Dr. Chainbi's research interests are in agent technology (theories, architectures and languages) and autonomic computing as well as in the synergy between agent technology and autonomic computing. He has published over twenty five papers in international conferences and refereed journals. Dr. Chainbi is the founder and the chair the international workshop of agent technology and autonomic computing. He served as an IPC member of the international Conference on Self-organization and Adaptation of Multi-agent and Grid Systems, as an advisory board member of the international conference NetObjectDays, and as a reviewer for some journals special issues and symopsia. Dr. Chainbi is currently serving as a (Guest) Editor for a special issue of the journal International Transactions on Systems Science and Applications.

I received my PhD from the School of Mathematical Sciences, Bath University. I spent over ten years in academia as a researcher and lecturer in the area of computer science. I joined Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine in 1995 focusing my research in the area of the design and application of distributed intelligent autonomous systems. I left Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine in 2000 to join Motorola Research Labs to continue this area of research and to bring its application to a wider audience.

I have over 15 years of research experience in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Multiagent systems. This experience covers all aspects from project inception and proposal, through design and implementation, on to end user studies and field trials of the systems developed. I have been prime co-ordinator of a number of large EU projects which have led to successful completion, as well as having taken a lead role in a number of other large scale EU projects. Individual and collaborative technical contributions have led to being widely published in the area of intelligent distributed systems ( e.g. areas of Multiagent systems, design of systems to provide social communication, policy-based computing, personalisation, intelligent multimedia systems and knowledge engineering).

Akmal B. Chaudhri has a wonderful job with IBM, travelling the world, resenting technical briefings and giving away free software. He has been working with atabase systems since 1988. He has published and presented widely on Java, XML and Database-related topics at many international conferences, including Object World, Object Technology and OOPSLA. He has also served on the program committees for a number of major conferences and workshops and has edited or co-edited four books and four workshop proceedings, including: XML Data Management Addison-Wesley, 2003), Java and Databases (Hermes Penton Science, 2002), Succeeding with Object Databases (John Wiley and Sons, 2000), and Object Databases in Practice (Prentice-Hall, 1998). Previously, he has worked in a variety of roles, covering development, consultancy and product strategy with Reuters, Logica, Computer Associates and Informix. He holds a BSc (1st Class Hons) in Computing and Information Systems, MSc in Business Systems Analysis and Design and a PhD in Computer Science. He is also a Member of the British Computer Society (MBCS).

Hans Czap had been born in 1945, he studied Mathematics at Univ. Wuerzburg(Germany), SUNY (Oneonta, NY, USA), Dundee (Scotland). 1974 he graduated with the Ph-D degree at Univ. of Wuerzburg. 1983 he became professor for Business Information Systems at University of Goettingen. 1985 he accepted the chair for Business Information Systems at University of Trier (Germany). He is founding president and during 1986 – 1990 he had been president of Int. Assoc. for Terminology and Knowledge Transfer. 1993 – 1998 he was member of the board of executives of International Society for Knowledge Organisation (ISKO). 1997 he became first CEO of Center of Health Care Management at Univ. of Trier (until 2003). For a two year period starting in 2000 he had been chair of Scientific Commission „Public Management“ of Assoc. of Univ.-Professors for Business Administration. In the period 2000 –2004 he was managing director of newly founded Competence Centre for E-Business at University of Trier.
His scientific interests cover a broad range: systems theory, cost accounting, information systems, neural networks and multi-agent systems. He is author, editor or co-editor of 15 monographs and has published more than 100 papers.

Dr Peter H. Deussen studied computer science at the Technical University at Berlin and received his PhD on automatic verification of distributed systems in 2001 from the Technical University at Cottbus. After joining the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS) in the same year, he worked in and lead various projects e.g. on test system validation, policy based management, performance testing and QoS validation for next generation networks, and auditing and supervision approaches for distributed software systems and networks. Currently, he leads work packages in the IST FET projects CASCADAS and ANA. He leads the Autonomic System Engineering research group at FOKUS which is concerned with the definition and evaluation of principles and methodologies for the development and operation of self-organized and self-managed autonomic systems.

Antonio obtained his MSc from University of Bologna, Italy, in 2002, after a research experience in BTExact Technologies, Adastral Park, Ipswich, UK. From 2002 to early 2006 he was in the Distributed Systems Research Group of the School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK, where he is also completing his PhD. He joined the Intelligent Systems and Network group at Imperial College London, UK, in May 2006 and is conducting research in the area of autonomic communication in the context of the CASCADAS EU-IST project.

F. Dignum got his PhD from the Free University of Amsterdam in 1989. After working two years in Swaziland, setting up a CS department he moved to Portugal where he stayed one year as assistance professor in the AI group at IST.
In 1993 he moved to Eindhoven where he started working on formal models of e-commerce, agent communication and norms. He is an associate professor at UU since 2000 working on agent technology and artificial institutions. He is also involved in the development of 3APL, an agent programming language. He has published more than a 100 papers in the area of agents, institutions and norms.
He is a member of the program committee of many workshops and conferences in the area of agent research. He has also co-organized several workshops in the area of agents and e-commerce. Together with Virginia he organized AAMAS 2005 in Utrecht. He was coordinating a working group on agent mediated e-commerce in the AgentLink Network of Excellence.He has been a visiting professor for PhD courses at UPC (Barcelona) for several years, has been visiting professor of the University of Melbourne several times and was an adjunct professor at the Union Institute of Ohio. He has also taught the agent communication course at the European Summer School on Agent Systems in 2002, 2003 and 2005 as well as in the Agent Systems School in Melbourne in 2003 and the AAMAS tutorial on this topic in 2004. In several years he has also taught the agent mediated commerce course in these summer schools.

Hesam Chiniforooshan Esfahani is a MS. student, Software discipline, at the CE department, Sharif University of Technology, Iran. His interests are Agent Oriented Software Engineering, Pervasive computing, Semantic web, Business Process Engineering, Distributed Systems and Wireless Sensor Networks.

Hind Fadil is a Ph.D. student in computer science at the Grenoble Institute of Technology (INP-Grenoble). She obtained her Master's Degree in Information Systems from the Grenoble University of Science (Joseph Fourier Univ.), and the European Diploma in "Management and Technology of Information Systems" from the University of Geneva. During her master's degree she worked on automatic expression of Object Constraint Language (OCL) from UML2.0 models. Her Ph.D. thesis deals with the development of an efficient tool to systematically translate multi-agent systems' interactions to some formal B specifications. The aim of this mapping process is to formally check the correctness of particular multi-agent systems regarding their interactions and organization using a B theorem prover.

Education: PhD: University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France In Progress
Master Research: University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France 2004-2005
Bachelor of Engineering: University of Engg. & Tech. Lahore, Pakistan 1998-2002
Professional
Activities:
Design and Research Engineer in SPACE Research Department of Pakistan
(SUPARCO) and in Nishat Textile Group 2002-2004
Publications: 2 Publications: 1st in 21 ACM SAC 2006 & 2nd in IEEE SOAS 2006

Joaquim B. Filipe is a Coordinator Professor in the Department of Systems and Informatics of the School of Technology of the Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal (EST-Setúbal), currently Head of Department and also the President of the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communications (INSTICC – http://www.insticc.org).
He holds an M.Sc. degree awarded by the Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, in 1984, an MBA degree, awarded by the New University of Lisbon in 1995, and a PhD degree, awarded by the School of Computing of Staffordshire University, UK, in 2001.
His main areas of research are situated in the Informatics field, especially in Artificial Intelligence and Multi-Agent System applications with an emphasis on the study of social issues in activity coordination, especially in agent-based organizational modeling and simulation, where he has been actively involved in several national and international R&D projects. Professor Filipe has also participated in several projects for developing e-learning systems and web-based information systems.
He has published over 50 technical papers in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Agents and Organizational Modeling. He has edited 18 books and he is a member of the editorial board of 7 journals. He has also served as a member of the program committee, or as a member of the organizing committee, in more than 30 conferences.

Klaus Fischer is Research Fellow and Head of the Multiagent Systems research group at DFKI GmbH. He studied computer science at Technische Universität (TU) München and finished his doctoral degree at TU München with a thesis on Distributed and Cooperative Planning in a Flexible Manufacturing System in 1992. He then joined the Multiagent Systems Research Group at DFKI GmbH in Saarbrücken in the department of Deduction and Multiagent Systems headed by Prof. H. J. Siekmann and assumed the responsibility of group leader in November 1993. Since then he has managed a significant number of projects (basic as well as applied industrial research), organized workshops and conferences, and published some 70 scientific papers. For his achievements in research and for DFKI he was awarded DFKI Research Fellow in 2003. He serves in the program committees of several international conferences (e.g. AAMAS) and in the editorial board of international journals (e.g JAAMAS) and has a strong record in teaching lectures and tutorials at universities and international conferences. He was a member of the steering committee of the German Special Interest Group on Distributed AI from 1993 to 2000 and spokesman of this group from 1995 to 2000. He was a visiting research scientist at Yale University (1995), the Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute (1996), Melbourne University (2000), and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT, 2001).

BS degree in Electrical and Industrial Electronics Engineering from University Rovira i Virgili since 1995. MS degree in Automation and Industrial Electronics Engineering from University Rovira i Virgili since 2001. The author is urrently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in the field of Electronics Technology in the Department of Electronic, Electrical and Automation Control Engineering of University Rovira i Virgili.

Ph.D. degrees in 1998 from University of Science and Technology of Lille(France) in Computer Science. He is currently Professor of Computational Sciences and Computer Engineering at the University of Technology of Belfort-ontbéliard UTBM (France). Prior to joining UTBM, he was a research scientist at the Institute of Computational Sciences and Informatics (CSI) in George Mason University in Fairfax (Virginia, USA). His research interests include ubiquitous and pervasive computing, multi-agent systems, distributed data mining, Biocomputing, Distributed algorithms and mobile computing, computer networks and communications. He has led European research and development projects (IST, EESD) and he has served on numerous conference and technical program committees.

Wolfgang Gentzsch is currently leading the D-Grid initiative which aims at developing a nation-wide infrastructure for ‘Services for Scientists’ in Germany. As a member of the grid standards GGF Steering Committee, he is Area Director of Major Grid Projects. He is also a member of the European Commission’s e-IRG Infrastructure Research Group, and of the US President’s Council of Advisors for Science and Technology (PCAST).
Before, Wolfgang Gentzsch was managing director of MCNC Grid & Datacenter Services; Sun’s senior director of grid computing; founder, president, CEO and CTO involved in Gridware (acquired by Sun) and Genias Software; he was a professor of computer science at the University of Applied Sciences in Regensburg, Germany, and is currently adjunct professor at Duke and UNC Charlotte, and a visiting scientist at the RENCI Renaissance Computing Institute at UNC Chapel Hill. Wolfgang is a widely published author on papers in computational and computer sciences, especially distributed computing.