Luis Moura Silva is an Associate Professor at the Department of Engenharia Informatica from the University of Coimbra. He has a degree in Computer Engineering (1990), a Msc in Computer Science (1993) and a PhD in Computer Science (1997). His main research interests include: grid-computing, fault-tolerance, autonomic computing and distributed systems. He can be reached at luis@dei.uc.pt

Miroslaw Malek received the M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1970 and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science in 1975, both from the Technical University of Wroclaw, Poland. He is professor and holder of the Chair in Computer Architecture and Communication at Humboldt University in Berlin since 1994. In 1977, he was a visiting scholar at the Department of Systems Design at the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, then Assistant, Associate and Full Professor at the University of Texas at Austin where he was also a holder of the Bettie Margaret Smith and the Southwestern Bell Professorships in Engineering, Malek's research interests focus on dependability, composability and mobility mainly in distributed systems but also on parallel architectures, real-time systems, and interconnection networks. He has participated in two pioneering parallel computer projects, contributed to the theory and practice of parallel network design, developed the comparison-based method for system diagnosis, codeveloped comprehensive WSI and networks testing techniques, proposed the consensus-based framework for responsive (fault-tolerant, real-time) computer systems design, codeveloped effective failure prediction methods and has made numerous other contributions, reflected in over 150 publications and five books including ?Parallel Computing: Theory and Comparisons? with G. J. Lipovski. He has organized, chaired and been a program committee member of numerous IEEE and ACM international conferences and workshops. Among others, he was Program and General Chairman of the Real-Time Systems Symposium in 1984 and 1985, respectively and in 1994 General Chairman of the 24th Fault-Tolerant Computing Symposium, Program Co-chairman of the 22nd Symposium on Reliable Distributed Computing in 2003, Program Chairman and General Chairman of the International Service Availability Symposium in 2004 and 2005, respectively. He served or serves on the editorial boards of various journals, among them the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing as well as Real-Time Systems journal. Malek was a Visiting Scientist at Bell Labs in Murray Hill and at IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY. He held the IBM Chair at Keio University in Japan in 1992. He was also a Visiting Professor at Stanford University (1997/1998), New York University (2001), the Italian National Research Center and University of Pisa (2002) and Chinese University of Hong Kong (2005).

Llicenciat en Informatica per la FIB (UPC) el 1991 Arquitecte de Software al "Software Lab", que es part de R&D, de la divisio d'impressio en gran format de HP a Sant Cugat. Em focalizo en el sw "embedded" que s'executa dins de les impressores, concretament a les arees seguents: - Definicio de l'electronica i el Sistema Operatiu - Connectivitat (xarxes, wireless, USB, 1394, web services) - Gestio de la Potencia (consum, temps de reaccio, motors, escalfadors)