Nalini Venkatasubramanian (workshop co-chair) 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.

Geoff Coulson (workshop co-chair) 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.

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.

Nanbor Wang is a research scientist at Tech-X Corporation, Boulder, CO. where he is working on the next generation computation environment for high-performance and high-throughput computation, collaboration environment, and integration of large-scale, distributed instrument control system. His research focuses on applying component-oriented, object-oriented programming, and meta-programming techniques for high-performance and real-time distributed object computing systems. Nanbor received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Washington University, St. Louis, MO. He is a member of the IEEE and ACM.

Angelo Corsaro is currently working as a software technologies scientist  at the Strategic and Technological Planning Directorate Selex SI, where he is leading the design and development of an Enterprise Middleware for next generation Safety and Mission Critical Systems, such as, Air Traffic Control Systems, Airborne Systems, Combat Management Systems, etc. His main interests are related to Real-Time Java, Fault-Tolerance, High Performance Middleware, Reflection and Meta Object Protocols (MOP), Aspect Oriented Programming, Generative Programming, component models, design patterns, scheduling problematics in real-time distributed systems, distributed computing, and formal methods. Angelo received a Ph.D. and a M.S. in Computer Science from the Washington University in St. Louis, and a Laurea Magna cum Laude in Computer Engineering from the University of Catania.

Fabio M. Costa 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.

Richard Staehli is currently working at Northern Natural Gas in Omaha, Nebraska, USA. He was a research scientist at Simula Research Laboratory where he architected software component architecture support for multimedia and other QoS-sensitive applications. He received a Ph.D. in 1996 from The Oregon Graduate Institute of Science & Technology and has since worked on video data types for Informix Software, a CORBA application server for Oracle Corporation.