Jana Koehler  IBM Research Division, Zurich Research Laboratory, Säumerstrasse 4, 8803 Rüschlikon, Switzerland (koe@zurich.ibm.com). Dr. Koehler is a research staff member and project leader in the Computer Science department at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory. She received an M.S. degree in computer science and the science of science from Humboldt University Berlin, Germany, in 1988, a Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Saarbrücken, Germany in 1994, and her habilitation in computer science from the University of Freiburg, Germany, in 1999. She joined IBM at the Zurich Research Laboratory in 2001 after being an assistant professor from 1996–1999 and a project leader in technology management for Schindler AG, Switzerland, from 1999–2001. She is the winner of several scientific and best paper awards. Dr. Koehler is a member of the German Informatics Society and the American Association of Artificial Intelligence.

Rainer Hauser  IBM Research Division, Zurich Research Laboratory, Säumerstrasse 4, 8803 Rüschlikon, Switzerland (rfh@zurich.ibm.com). Dr. Hauser is a research staff member in the Computer Science department at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory. He received a diploma in mathematics in 1977 and a Ph.D. degree in computer science in 1984 from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH). He joined IBM at the Zurich Research Laboratory in 1980, initially as a Ph.D. student working on image processing, and after completion of the Ph.D. degree, joined a team working on communication systems.

Shane Sendall  IBM Research Division, Zurich Research Laboratory, Säumerstrasse 4, 8803 Rüschlikon, Switzerland (sse@zurich.ibm.com). Dr. Sendall is a post-doctoral researcher in the Computer Science department at the IBM Zurich Research Labs (ZRL). He received B.S. and B.S. (Honors) degrees in computer science from University of Queensland in 1996 and 1997 and a Ph.D. degree in software engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in 2002. Dr. Sendall was subsequently a member of the Software Modeling and Verification Laboratory at the University of Geneva until 2004. Thereafter, he joined IBM at ZRL, where he is working on model transformation in the context of software development tools and practice. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Association for Computing Machinery.

Michael Wahler  IBM Research Division, Zurich Research Laboratory, Säumerstrasse 4, 8803 Rüschlikon, Switzerland (wah@zurich.ibm.com). Mr. Wahler is a doctoral student in the e-Business Solutions department at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory. He received a diploma in computer science from Technische Universität München in 2003. He subsequently joined the Business Process Integration and Automation (BPIA) project, where he is working on formalizations of model transformation approaches.