Dr. Robert Balzer, Teknowledge Corporation, USA Homepage

After several years at the Rand Corporation, Dr. Balzer left to help form the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute (USC-ISI) where he served as Director of ISI's Software Sciences Division and Professor of Computer Science at USC. In 2000 he joined Teknowledge Corporation as their CTO and Director of their Distributed Systems Unit, which combines AI, DB, and SE techniques to automate the software development process. His current research includes wrapping COTS products to provide safe and secure execution environments, extend their functionality, and integrate them together; instrumenting software architectures; and generating systems from domain specific specifications.

Dr. Marin Litoiu, IBM Canada Ltd., Canada Homepage

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 A. Müller, University of Victoria, Canada Homepage

Dr. Müller is a Professor at the University of Victoria, Canada. He is a Visiting Scientist with the Centre for Advanced Studies at the IBM Toronto Laboratory and the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute. He is a principal investigator of CSER. Together with his research group he investigates technologies to build adoption-centric software engineering tools and to migrate legacy software to object-oriented and network-centric platforms. Dr. Müller's research interests include software engineering, software evolution, reverse engineering, software reengineering, program understanding, software engineering tool evaluation, software architecture, and the generation of software engineering tools using Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) technology. He was GC for ICSE 2001 & IWPC-2003 and PC Chair for CASCON 2003.

Dr. Dennis B. Smith, Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute, USA Homepage

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.

Dr. Margaret-Anne Storey, University of Victoria, Canada Homepage

Dr. Storey is an Associate Professor at the University of Victoria. Her main research interests involve understanding how people solve complex tasks, and designing technologies to facilitate navigating and understanding large information spaces. With her students and she is working on a variety of projects within the areas of software engineering, human-computer interaction, information visualization, social informatics and knowledge management. Dr. Storey is a fellow of the ASI and as such collaborates with the IBM PDC on HCI issues for eCommerce and distributed learning applications, and with ACD systems. She is a principal investigator for CSER developing and evaluating software migration technology and a visiting researcher at the IBM Centre for Advanced Studies.

Dr. Scott R. Tilley, Florida Institute of Technology, USA Homepage

Scott Tilley is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Sciences at the Florida Institute of Technology, and Principal of S.R. Tilley & Associates, an information technology consultancy based on Florida's Space Coast. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Victoria. He is Chair of the Steering Committee for the IEEE Web Site Evolution (WSE) series of events, and the current President of the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on the Design of Communication (ACM SIGDOC).

Dr. Kenny Wong, University of Alberta, Canada Homepage

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, and exploring collaborative program understanding of heterogeneous systems. Current industrial collaborations include IBM and klocwork Inc. He is a principal investigator of CSER and ASERC. He co-manages a Canadian Foundation for Innovation facility to study collaborative software development and issues of system diversity. Dr. Wong was also PC Chair for IWPC 2003 and WSE 2003.