Betty H.C. Cheng is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State University . Her research and teaching interests include formal methods for software engineering, software development environments, object-oriented analysis and design, embedded systems development, assurance patterns, adaptive middleware, visualization, and distributed computing. She collaborates with industrial partners for both her class projects and research in order to facilitate technology exchange between academia and industry. Industrial partners include Siemens, Eaton, Motorola, and General Dynamics. She was awarded a NASA/JPL Faculty Fellowship to investigate the use of new software engineering techniques for portion of the shuttle software.  Her research has been funded by NSF, ONR, NASA, USDA, EPA, and numerous industrial organizations. She serves on the editorial boards for IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Requirements Engineering Journal, and Software and Systems Modeling.  Each year, she serves on numerous program and organizational committees for international conferences and workshops.

Rogério de Lemos is a Lecturer in Computing Science at the University of Kent (UK). He was the program committee co-chair of Latin American Conference on Dependable Computing 2003 (LADC 2003), and he is a member of the Steering Committee of LADC. He was the co-organizer in 2001 of the Workshop on Engineering e-Business Systems at the University of Kent at Canterbury , the ICSE 2002, 2003 and 2005 Workshops on Architecting Dependable Systems (WADS), and the Twin Workshops on the same topic at ICSE 2004 and DSN 2004.

Stephen Fickas is a Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Oregon . His interest is in personalized requirements engineering with a specific interest in the role adaptable systems can play in meeting a person's changing requirements.

David Garlan is a Professor of Computer Science and Director of Software Engineering Professional Programs at Carnegie Mellon University . His interests include software architecture, self-adaptive systems, and formal methods. He is one of the founders of the field of software architecture, and, in particular, formal representation and analysis of architectural designs. He was a co-organizer of the two successful Workshops on Self-Managed Systems at FSE in 2002 and 2004.

Marin Litoiu is a member of the Center for Advanced Studies, IBM Toronto Laboratory where he leads the research programs in Autonomic Computing, System Management and Software Engineering. He is also the Chair of the Board of CSER, a Canadian Consortium for Software Engineering Research. He was co-organizer of the ICSE workshops ACSE 2003, ACSE 2004 and DEAS 2005 and of the CASCON Workshops Self-Optimizing Systems in 2004, 2005 and 2006. Prior to joining IBM (1997), he was a faculty member with the Department of Computers and Control Systems, University Politechnica of Bucharest. 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..

Jeff Magee is Head of the Department of Computing at Imperial College London. His research is primarily concerned with the software engineering of distributed systems, including design methods, analysis techniques, operating systems, languages and program support environments for these systems. His work on Software Architecture has lead to the commercial use by Phillips of the Architecture Description language Darwin in their next generation of consumer television products. He is the author of over 80 refereed conference and journal publications and has written a book on concurrent programming entitled “Concurrency - State models and Java programs.” He was co-editor of the IEE Proceedings on Software Engineering and is currently chair of the International Conference on Software Engineering Steering Committee. He is a Chartered Engineer and a member-at-large of the ACM SIGSOFT committee. He was awarded the BCS 1999 Brendan Murphy prize for the best paper in Distributed systems and the IEE Informatics Premium prize for 1998/99 for a paper on Software Architecture.

Hausi A. Müller is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Director of the Bachelor of Software Engineering Program at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He is a Visiting Scientist with the Center for Advanced Studies at the IBM Toronto Laboratory. He is the Chair of the Technical Steering Committee of CSER, a Canadian Consortium for Software Engineering Research. Together with his research group and in collaboration with IBM he investigates methods, models, architectures, and techniques for autonomic computing applications. He also concentrates on building Adoption-Centric Software Engineering (ACSE) tools and on migrating legacy software to autonomic and network-centric platforms. He was GC for ICSE 2001 and IWPC-2003 and PC Chair for CASCON 2003. He was co-organizer of the ICSE workshops ACSE 2003, ACSE 2004, DEAS 2005 and SEAMS 2006. He serves on the Editorial Board of IEEE TSE and is Vice Chair of IEEE TCSE.

Richard N. Taylor is a Professor of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California at Irvine and a member of the Department of Informatics. His research interests are centered on design and software architectures, especially event-based and peer-to-peer systems and the way they scale across organizational boundaries. Professor Taylor is the Director of the Institute for Software Research, which is dedicated to fostering innovative basic and applied research in software and information technologies through partnerships with industry and government. He has served as chair of ACM's SIGSOFT, chair of the ICSE Steering Committee, and was GC of the 1999 International Joint Conference on Work Activities, Coordination, and Collaboration and FSE 2004. Taylor was a 1985 recipient of a Presidential Young Investigator Award and in 1998 was recognized as an ACM Fellow. In 2005 he was awarded the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award.

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Program Committee

Betty Cheng, Michigan State University, USA
Rogerio de Lemos, University of Kent, UK
Stephen Fickas, University of Oregon, USA
Cristina Gacek, University Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
David Garlan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Karl Goeschka, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Mike Godfrey, University of Waterloo, Canada
Svein Hallsteinsen, SINTEF, Norway
Mike Hinchey, NASA Goddard, USA
Arno Jacobson, University of Toronto, Canada
Gail Kaiser, Columbia University, USA
Marin Litoiu, IBM Toronto, Canada
Jeff Magee, Imperial College, UK
Pat Martin, Queen's University, Canada
Neno Medvidovic, USC, USA
Hausi Müller, University of Victoria, Canada
John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada and University of Trento, Italy
Masoud Sadjadi, Florida International University, USA
Gabby Silberman, CA, USA
Dennis Smith, SEI, USA
John Strassner, Motorola Research Labs, USA
Roy Sterritt, University of Ulster, UK
Kenny Wong, University of Alberta, Canada