Fabio M. Costa (workshop chair) is currently an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science in the Institute of Informatics at the Federal University of Goias, Brazil. He got his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Lancaster in 2001. His research interests are in the area of adaptive and reconfigurable middleware platforms, mainly with the use of reflection and component-based technology in order to enable flexible support for dynamic applications involving distributed multimedia and mobility.

Renato Cerqueira  is an assistant professor at the Computer Science Department, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil. Since 1994, he has been a research staff member at the Computer Graphics Technology Group of PUC-Rio (Tecgraf/PUC-Rio). During 2001, he was a visiting researcher at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Renato received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from PUC-Rio in 2000. He was the treasurer and a local co-chair of ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2003, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His research interests include component-based technologies, object-oriented languages, dynamic adaptation, middleware platforms, distributed programming, and ubiquitous computing.

Geoff Coulson is profesor of distributed computing at Lancaster University, England. His research interests include distributed systems, adaptive operating systems, adaptive networking, and middleware for embedded systems. He has recently been focusing on applying component-based adaptive software principles to performance-critical and/or resource-poor environments including network processors and sensor motes. Geoff has published widely and serves on numerous PCs in the distributed systems and networking areas. He was Program Co-chair for Middleware 2000, and Workshops Chair for Middleware 2005.

Omer F. Rana is a Senior Lecturer in the Distributed Collaborative Computing group, and the Deputy Director of the Welsh eScience Centre at Cardiff University,  England. His research interests include problem solving environments for computational science and commercial computing, data analysis and management for large scale computing, and scalability in high performance agent systems.

Nalini Venkatasubramanian is an associate professor at the Department of Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine. Her research interests include distributed and parallel systems, middleware, real-time multimedia systems, mobile environments and formal reasoning of distributed systems. She is specifically interested in developing safe and flexible middleware technology for highly dynamic environments. Nalini was a member of technical staff at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Palo Alto, California for several years where she worked on large scale distributed systems and interactive multimedia applications. Nalini has also worked on various database management systems and on programming languages/compilers for high performance machines. She has an M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and is a member of the IEEE and ACM.