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Bruno Abrahão
is a graduate student pursuing M.Sc., and formerly received his B.Sc., in Computer Science from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. His research interests include performance modeling and analysis of large scale distributed systems, fractal theory applied in the Web analysis, and Global Community issues.
E-mail: brut at dcc.ufmg.br
URL: http://www.dcc.ufmg.br/~brut

Virgilio Almeida
is a professor and chair of the Computer Science Department at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Vanderbilt University. Almeida was formerly a visiting Professor at Boston University and a visiting researcher at Xerox PARC and  HP Research Laboratories in Palo Alto. His research interests include performance modeling and analysis of large scale distributed systems.
E-mail: virgilio at dcc.ufmg.br
URL: http://www.dcc.ufmg.br/~virgilio

Peter Barna
is a PhD candidate in the Information Systems group of the Computer Science department of the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. He obtained his MSc degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Technology University of Kosice in Slovakia, and then worked for 3 years as a software designer. His research is part of the Hera research project in Eindhoven. His research interests include user interaction specification, and methods for semi-automated generation of application models within methodologies for Web Information System design.
Email: pbarna at win.tue.nl

Wolf-Gideon Bleek
 graduated in computer science and holds a doctoral degree in computer science. He is currently an Assistant Professor of the Software Engineering Group, Department for Informatics at the University of Hamburg, Germany. His main research interests include web-application development, infrastructure development, web-based learning systems, and application service providing. He is involved in teaching object-oriented application development at the undergraduate and graduate level. He is a co-author of the book Object-Oriented Construction Handbook (Morgan Kaufman, 2004).
E-mail: bleek (at) informatik.uni-hamburg.de
URL: http://swt-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~bleek

 Marco Brambilla
graduated with full marks (cum laude) from the Politecnico di Milano in 2001. He is currently working on his Ph.D. degree in Computer and Automation Engineering. His research interests include Web modeling methodologies, Web design patterns and conceptual design of data-intensive Web applications. He has collaborated as an application analyst in several industrial projects. He is a co-author of the book Designing Data-Intensive Web Applications (Morgan Kaufmann, 2002).
E-mail: mbrambil at elet.polimi.it
URL: http://www.elet.polimi.it/people/mbrambil

Stefano Ceri
is a full professor of Database Systems at the Politecnico di Milano; he was visiting professor at the Computer Science Department of Stanford University between 1983 and 1990. His research interests are focused on extending database technology to incorporate data distribution, deductive and active rules, and object-orientation, and on semantic models and design methods for data-intensive Web sites. He is a member of: ACM-SIGMOD Steering Committee, VLDB Endowment, and EDBT Foundation. He served as an associate editor of ACM-Transactions on Database Systems, and is currently an associate editor of several international journals, including IEEE-Transactions on Software Engineering. He is the author of several articles published in International Journals and Conference Proceedings, and is the author of several books in English, including introductory-level textbooks on general computer science and database systems, as well as research-oriented books on distributed databases, logic programming and databases, conceptual database design, and active databases. He won the VLDB Ten Years Award in 2000 (VLDB in Cairo) and was the coordinating Chairman of VLDB 2001 in Roma.
E-mail: ceri at elet.polimi.it
URL: http://www.elet.polimi.it/people/ceri

Sara Comai
has earned a Ph.D. degree in Computer and Automation Engineering and is currently an Assistant Professor at the Politecnico di Milano, where she teaches Computer Graphics  and Computer Science Fundamentals. Her main research interests include active databases, graphical languages for querying and restructuring XML and semi-structured data, methodologies for Web site modelling, semantics of hypertexts, and composition of Web services, workflows and Web applications. She is a co-author of the book Designing Data-Intensive Web Applications (Morgan Kaufmann, 2002).
E-mail: comai at elet.polimi.it
URL: http://www.elet.polimi.it/people/comai

Domenico Cotroneo
is currently a Research Associate and a Teaching Assistant at the University of Naples, Italy. His research focus is on distributed computing, object-oriented programming, and  some of the fundamental aspects of computer system dependability, namely availability, reliability,  and performability. He received his MS degree and Ph.D. in Computer Science Engineering from the University of Naples.
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Cristiano di Flora
is currently a PhD candidate in Computer Engineering at the University of Naples, Italy. He  received his MS degree in Computer Engineering at the same institution in 2001, and has been a visiting researcher at Strathclyde University of Glasgow during the first months of 2001. His research interests include resource discovery and delivery in web-based and hoc-environments, as well as dependability analysis and modelling of real-time distributed systems. He is a reviewer for the ACM Online Computing Reviews service.
E-mail: diflora at unina.it
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John Eklund
is an Instructional Technologist & Usability Analyst, and he works with clients to develop sound processes to produce easy to use  and effective software, particularly for learning. Dr. Eklund is Adjunct Senior Lecturer at The University of Sydney, teaching Instructional Technology in the Masters program. John's expertise is in the design, implementation and evaluation of interactive media. Most of his work involves consulting to corporate clients on processes to built and evaluate e-learning. His work is in the area of: Human-computer interaction, Software quality, Usability analysis for interactive media, Instructional technology, User centred design. John has conducted dozens of usability studies for a range of government and corporate clients. He specialises in designing cost-effective studies that maximise the benefit to development. His interests range from requirements engineering and aspects of software quality to instructional design. He has conducted Post Implementation Reviews on large systems for The Australian Parliament. He has published widely with over forty publications in national and international peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. He acts as an editor to Australian Journal for Educational Technology and Universal Access in the Information Society.
URL: http://www.testingcentre.com/jeklund

Zoltán Fiala
is a PhD candidate at the Chair of Multimedia Technology of the Department of Computer Science at Dresden University of Technology, Germany. He obtained his MSc degree in Computer Science from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary. After that he started his PhD research as part of the Amacont project. His current research focuses on component-based Web engineering, with a special accent on the authoring process of highly adaptive, personalized, device independent Web applications.
Email: zoltan.fiala at inf.tu-dresden.de
URL: http://www-mmt.inf.tu-dresden.de/fiala

Flavius Frasincar
is a PhD candidate in the Information Systems group of the Computer Science department at the Eindhoven University of Technology, the
Netherlands. He obtained his MSc degree in Computer Science from the Department of Engineering Sciences at the "Politehnica" University of Bucharest, Romania. His research interests include methodologies for developing Web Information Systems (WIS), adaptive hypermedia, and Semantic Web technologies. A special focus is given to the presentation (navigational) aspects in WIS design, Web (meta)data transformations, query optimization for different Web query languages (XML or RDF queries), and Web (meta)data visualisation. His research is part of the Hera project at the Eindhoven University of Technology.
E-mail: flaviusf at win.tue.nl
URL: http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/~flaviusf

Piero Fraternali
is a full professor of Software Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano. His research interests are focused on active rules, object-orientation, design methods for data-intensive Web sites, CASE tools for automatic Web site production, and wireless applications. He has published several articles in International Journals and Conference Proceedings, and is  one of the two authors (with Stefano Ceri) of the book Designing Database Applications with Objects and Rules: the IDEA Methodology (Addison-Wesley, 1997) and a co-author of the book Designing Data-Intensive Web Applications (Morgan Kaufmann, 2002). He was the technical manager of the W3I3 Project "Web-Based Intelligent Information Infrastructures" (1998-2000).
E-mail: fraterna at elet.polimi.it
URL: http://www.elet.polimi.it/people/fraterna

John Garofalakis
born in 1959, obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics (CEID), University of Patras, Greece, in 1990, and his Diploma on Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, in 1983. He is currently Assistant Professor in CEID and manager of the Telematics Center Department at the Research and Academic Computer Technology Institute of Greece. His research interests include performance evaluation, distributed systems and algorithms, Internet technologies and applications. He has published over 60 papers in various journals and refereed conferences and is author of several books and lecture notes in the Greek language.
E-mail: garofala (at) cti (dot) gr

Jérôme Gensel
obtained his PhD in 1995. Since 1996, he holds a position of assistant professor in Computer Sciences at the University Pierre Mendes France in Grenoble, France. He is a member of the SIGMA team of the LSR-IMAG Laboratory since 2001.His research interests include Web-based Information Systems, Representation Models for Video Data, Knowledge Representation and Constraint Programming. More information can be found at
 http://www-lsr.imag.fr/Les.Personnes/Jerome.Gensel/
Email: Jerome.Gensel at imag.fr

Michael Hinz
is a Research Associate and Teaching Assistant at the Chair of Multimedia Technology of the Department of Computer Science at Dresden University of Technology, Germany. He obtained his MSc degree in Computer Science from the Dresden University of Technology. After that he started his research as part of the Amacont project. His current research focuses on component-based Web engineering, with a special accent on user modeling and system architectures for delivering highly adaptive, personalized Web applications for mobile end devices.
Email: michael.hinz at inf.tu-dresden.de
URL: http://www-mmt.inf.tu-dresden.de/hinz

Geert-Jan Houben
is an associate professor at the Computer Science department of the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. He leads the Architecture of Information Systems group and currently serves as the chairman of the Computer Science department in Eindhoven, and is also a guest professor at the University of Antwerp. He is the director of the Business Information Systems MSc program in Eindhoven. Previously, he has been working in the Database group at the University of Antwerp, and held positions as (business) consultant with several Dutch consultancy firms. Currently, his main research areas are Web information systems, with topics like Web technology (XML, RDF), semi-structured data, Web query and transformation languages, Web data integration, and WIS architecture, and Hypermedia and Multimedia, with topics like adaptation and authoring support for adaptation. Most of his research and his PhD-students are part of the Hera research project.
Email: g.j.houben at tue.nl
URL: http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/~houben

Mark D. Jacyntho
graduated in Computing Engineering from the Department of Informatics, PUC-Rio, in 1997, and received his MSc in Informatics from the same department in 2001. He is currently a consultant in Web-based application design and development. 
Email: mark at rio.com.br

Bernard J. Jansen
 is currently an Assistant Professor at the School of Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennsylvania State University. Jim Jansen has over 60 publications in the area of information technology and systems, with articles appearing in the Communications of the ACM, IEEE Computer, ACM Transactions on Information Systems, Information Processing and Management, and Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, among others. Dr. Jansen's coauthored paper in IEEE Computer analyzing a 4-year trend in how users search the Web generated press coverage in over 100 news organizations worldwide, including wire services, cable and network television, radio, newspapers, and commercial web sites. His 2000 article published in Information Processing and Management has received over 80 citations in Proceedings of the International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Information Processing and Management, and Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, among others conference and journals in in a variety of fields. He has received several awards and honors, including an ACM Research Award, 6 application development awards, along with other writing, publishing, research, and leadership awards. He has also recently co-authored a research book, Web Search: Public Searching of the Web.
Email: jjansen at ist.psu.edu
URL: http://ist.psu.edu/faculty_pages/jjansen/academic/academic.html

David Lowe
is an Associate Professor and the Associate Dean (Teaching and  Learning) in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Technology, Sydney.  He has active research interests in the areas of Web development and technologies, hypermedia, and software engineering. In particular he focuses on Web development processes and web project specification and scoping, and information contextualisation. He has published widely in the area, including several texts (Lowe and Hall, Hypermedia and the Web: An Engineering Approach, Wiley, 1999 and Wilde and Lowe, XPath, XLink, XPointer, and XML: A Practical Guide to Web Hyperlinking and Transclusion, Addison-Wesley, 2002).  He is on numerous Web conference committees, is the information management theme editor for the Journal of Digital Information, and is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Web Engineering and Technologies, and the Journal of Web Engineering.  He has undertaken numerous consultancies related to software evaluation, Web development (especially project planning and evaluation) and Web technologies. A/Prof Lowe can be reached at The University of Technology, Sydney; P.O. Box 123, Broadway, NSW 2007, Australia. Telephone +61-2-95142526;
Email: david.lowe at uts.edu.au
URL: http://www.eng.uts.edu.au/~dbl

Christos Makris
graduated from the University of Patras, Computer Engineering and Informatics Dept., in 1993. He obtained his PhD from the same department, in 1997. His PhD thesis is in the area of Computational Geometry and Information Retrieval. His research interests include the study of fundamental data structures, computational geometry, information retrieval, data bases and data mining. He has published numerous papers in journals and refereed conferences.
E-mail: makri(at)ceid(dot)upatras(dot)gr

Ioana Manolescu
has earned her PhD in 2001 from University of Versailles, in France. Her PhD dissertation is entitled "Optimization Techniques for Querying Heterogeneous Distributed Data Sources". Currently, Ioana is a researcher in the Gemo team, belonging to the newest INRIA Futurs centre. Ioana's topics of interest include XML query processing (indexing, algebraic optimization, compression), as well as distributed query processing in general - and in particular, distributed XML query processing in a peer-to-peer framework. In 2002, she got involved in the WebML project during a post-doctoral internship in Milano. Within the WebML project, she is particularly interested in formal aspects regarding the verification of the enforcement, by a hyptertext using Web services, of a given Web service composition schema.
E-mail: ioana.manolescu at inria.fr
URL: http://www-rocq.inria.fr/~manolesc/

Hervé Martin
is a full professor in Computer Sciences at the University Joseph Fourier in Grenoble, France. He is a senior researcher at the LSR-IMAG Laboratory in the SIGMA team. Currently, his main topic of research is Multimedia Web Information Systems. In this context he is leading a project in which a plateform for generating Web Information Systems is being developed. More information can be found at
http://www-lsr.imag.fr/Les.Personnes/Herve.Martin/
Email: Herve.Martin at imag.fr

Luis Olsina
is an associate professor in the Department of Informatics  at La Pampa National University, Argentina, and head of the Software Engineering R&D group (GIDIS). His research interests include Web Engineering, particularly Web metrics, cataloging and quantitative evaluation issues. He authored the WebQEM (Web Quality Evaluation Methodology). He has lectured in national and international conferences in the Web Engineering field as well as cochaired workshops and conferences. He received a PhD in Science, in the software engineering area, and a MSE at La Plata National University, Argentina. He is member of the IEEE Computer Society.
Email:   olsinal at ing.unlpam.edu.ar
URL: http://gidis.ing.unlpam.edu.ar/ingles/personas/olsinal/olsinal.html

Oscar Pastor
is a Professor and Head of Computation and Information Systems Department, Valencia University of Technology (Spain). He received is PhD in 1992, and was a former researcher in HP Labs. Pastor has authored over 100 research papers published in conference proceedings, journals and books, and has received numerous research grants from public institutions and private industry. Research interests and activities include web engineering, object-oriented conceptual modelling, requirements engineering, information systems and model-based software production. Pastor is the leader of the project, undertaken since 1996 by the Valencia University of Technology and CONSOFT S.A., that has originated an advanced CARE (Computer-Aided Requirements Engineering) tool that produces a final software product starting from a Conceptual Schema where the system requirements are captured. Within the CARE tool scope, he is responsible of the research team working from the University on the improvement of the underlying framework, focusing on Business Process Modeling, Web Technologies and how to use properly Software and Arquitectural Patterns to go from the problem space to the solution space in an automated way.
Email: opastor at dsic.upv.es
URL: http://www.dsic.upv.es/users/oo-method/Anonymous/member/opastor/contInfo.html

Flavia Pellegrinelli Ribeiro
is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFG), Brazil. She has an MS in Computer Science from the same institution. Ribeiro was a summer intern at HP Labs, Palo Alto in 2001. Her current interests include web workload modeling and characterization, web data mining, capacity planing and performance analysis.
Email: flavia at dcc.ufmg.br
URL: http://www.dcc.ufmg.br/~flavia

Gustavo Rossi
is a full professor at La Plata University in Argentina  and is the head of LIFIA, (Laboratory for Education and Research in Advanced Informatics) a computer science research lab in Argentina. His research interests include Web design patterns and frameworks. He is one of the OOHDM methodology authors and he is working on design structures for personalization and on the application of design patterns in the Web field. He earned a PhD in Informatics in 1996 at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC), Brazil.
Email: gustavo at sol.info.unlp.edu.ar

Stefano Russo
is currently a Professor at the University of Naples "Federico II". He graduated in Electronic Engineering in 1988 and received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science in 1993 from the same university. His research interests include software engineering for dependable and parallel computing, object oriented and middleware-based methodologies and technologies, and distance learning environments.

 

Daniel Schwabe
is an associate professor in the Department of Informatics at Catholic University in Rio de Janeiro (PUC), Brazil. He has been working on hypermedia design methods for the past 10 years. He is one of the authors of HDM, the first authoring method for hypermedia, and of OOHDM, one of the mature methods in use by academia and industry for Web applications design. His current research interests include authoring methods and techniques for Web applications in various domains such as e-commerce and education, and integration with Knowledge Management environments. He earned a PhD in computer science in 1981 at the University of California, Los Angeles, and is a member of ACM. 
Email: schwabe at inf.puc-rio.br
URL: http://www.oohdm.telemidia.puc-rio.br/oohdm.html

Mitsuhisa Taguchi
is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. He earned his M.Eng. degree in Computer Science from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2003. His research interests include methodologies for developing Web-based software applications, automatic code generation, component-based software development, and large-scale distributed systems.
Email: mtaguchi at tt.cs.titech.ac.jp
URL: http://www.tt.cs.titech.ac.jp/~mtaguchi

Takehiro Tokuda
is Professor of Computer Science at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan. He received his D.Sci. from Tokyo Institute of Technology. He was formerly a visiting scientist of Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pisa. His current research interests include software generators for Web applications and Web services functions, and automatic retrieval of large-scale knowledge resources on the Web. His published books include "My First Adventures in Computer Science" available in three different languages. He received WWCA97 Best Presentation Award and ICWE2004 Best Paper Award.
Email: schwabe at inf.puc-rio.br
URL: http://www.tt.cs.titech.ac.jp/~tokuda

Richard Vdovjak
is a PhD candidate in the Information Systems group of the Computer Science department at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. He obtained his MSc degree in Informatics from the University of Zilina, Slovakia. He graduated a postmaster program in Software Technology at the Eindhoven University of Technology There he also subsequently started his PhD research as part of the Hera project. His current research interests include methodologies for engineering Web information systems, information integration, RDF(S) query optimization, and
RDF(S) visualization.
Email: richardv at win.tue.nl
URL: http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/~rvdovjak

Marlčne Villanova-Oliver
received her PhD in 2002. She is an assistant professor in Computer Sciences at the University Pierre Mendes France in Grenoble, France since 2003. She is also a member of the SIGMA team of the LSR-IMAG Laboratory. Her research interests especially focus on the engineering of Web-based Information Systems and on Adaptability to users. More information can be found at
 http://www-lsr.imag.fr/Les.Personnes/Marlene.Villanova/
Email: Marlene.Villanova at imag.fr