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Aynur Abdurazik, George Mason Univ.

Mark Aberdour, Open Source Testing

Silvia Abrahão, Univ. Politecnica de Valencia

Michael Adams

Art Akerman, Capital One

Jonathan Aldrich, Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Ian Alexander, Scenario Plus

Roger Alexander, Washington State Univ.

Deepak Alur, Sun Microsystems

Scott Ambler, Ronin Int'l

Paul Ambrose, Univ. of Wisconsin-Whitewater

Pierre America, Philips Research Lab

David Andrews, Univ. of Arkansas

Mikio Aoyama, Nanzan Univ.

Joao Araujo, New Univ. of Lisbon

Aybuke Aurum, CAESAR

Paris Avgeriou, Univ. of Groningen

Jongmoon Baik, Information and Comm. Univ.

Arnaud Bailly, ETHZ

Elisa Baniassad, Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong

Len Bass, Software Eng. Inst.

Sarah Beecham, Open Univ.

Klaas Berg, Univ. of Twente

Lodewijk Bergmans, Univ. of Twente

Tomas Berling, IT Univ. of Göteborg

Gabor Bertalan, Triad Computer Services

Danilo Beuche, pure-systems GmbH

Jean Bezivin, Univ. of Nantes

Konstantin Beznosov, Univ. of British Columbia

Robert Biddle, Carleton Univ.

Paul Black, Nat'l Inst. of Standards and Tech.

Stephen Blanchette, Software Eng. Inst.

Maarten Boasson, Universiteit van Amsterdam

Conrad Bock, Nat'l Inst. of Standards and Tech.

Ron Bodkin, New Aspects of Software

Gary Boetticher, Univ. of Houston-Clear Lake

Terry B. Bollinger, MITRE

Egor Bondarev, Tech. Univ. of Eindhoven

Grady Booch, IBM

Jan Bosch, Univ. of Groningen

Mikhail Brikman, Salem State College

Giacomo Bucci, Università di Firenze

Shawn Butler, Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Zulema Caldwell, General Dynamics

Luiz Capretz, Univ. of Western Ontario

Collin Carbno, Saskatchewan Telecom

John M. Carroll, Virginia Tech

Lynn Carter, Carnegie Mellon West

Jeff Carver, Mississippi State Univ.

Richard Carver, George Mason Univ.

Ana Regina Cavalcanti da Rocha, Federal

Univ. of Rio de Janeiro

Alejandra Cechich, Univ. of Castilla-La Mancha

Marcos Chaim, Univ. of Sà o Paulo

Michel Chaudron, Tech. Univ. of Eindhoven

Shigeru Chiba, Inst. of Information Science and Electronics

Evan Chowdhury, Univ. of Maine

Sunita Chulani, Center for Software Eng.

Lawrence Chung, Univ. of Texas at Dallas

Bradford Clark, Software Metrics

Paul Clements, Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Yvonne Coady, Univ. of Victoria

Robert Cochran, Catalyst Software

Tal Cohen, Technion

Annie Combelles, Q-Labs

James Cooper, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Vittorio Cortellessa, Università dell'Aquila

Ivica Crnkovic, Malardalen Univ.

Bojan Cukic, West Virginia Univ.

Y.S. Dai, Purdue Univ. School of Science

Maya Daneva, Univ. of Twente

John Dean, Dean Consulting Services

Geert Deconinck, Katholieke Univ. Leuven

Fons de Lange, Philips Research

Onur Demirors, Middle East Technical Univ.

Daniel Deveaux, Université de Bretagne-Sud

Kris De Volder, Univ. of British Columbia

Maja D'Hondt, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Theo D'Hondt, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Oscar Dieste, Univ. Complutense de Madrid

Adair Dingle, Seattle Univ.

Torgeir Dingsøyr, SINTEF

Paolo Donzelli, Univ. of Maryland

Stefan Drees, Drees Consulting and Lecturing

Geoff Dromey, Software Quality Inst.

Yucong Duan, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Yael Dubinsky, Technion

Eric Dubois, Centre de Recherche Public Henri Tudor

Tore Dyba, SINTEF

Fedor Dzerjinski, Rossiyskiy Kredit Bank

Anthony Earl, Sun Microsystems

Steve Easterbrook, Univ. of Toronto

Christof Ebert, Alcatel HQ

Alexander Egyed, Teknowledge

Santiago Eibe, Univ. Politécnica de Madrid

Nancy Eickelmann, Motorola

Eric Eide, Univ. of Utah

Khaled El-Emam, Inst. for Information Technology

Islam El-Maddah, Ain Shams Univ.

Tzilla Elrad, Illinois Inst. of Technology

Robert Erbacher, Utah State Univ.

Fernando Fernandez, Univ. Carlos III Madrid

Luis Ferreira, Polithecnical Inst. of Porto

Robert Filman, Nasa Ames Research Center

Francesco Flammini, Univ. Federico II of Naples

Xavier Franch, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya

Bernd Freisleben, Univ. of Marburg

Lidia Fuentes, Universidad de Malaga

Owen Funkhouser, Dynetics

Tsuneo Furuyama, Tokai Univ.

Alexander Fyukov, Philips Research Lab

Rose Gamble, Univ. of Tulsa

David Garlan, Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Donald Gause, Binghamton Univ.

Morven Gentleman, Dalhousie Univ.

Birgit Geppert, Avaya Labs

Zeno Geradts, Netherlands Forensic Inst.

Vincenzo Gervasi, Univ. of Pisa

Carlo Ghezzi, Politecnico di Milano

Robert Glass, Computing Trends

Patrice Godefroid, Bell Laboratories

Michael Goedicke, Univ. Duisburg-Essen

Aniruddha Gokhale, Vanderbilt Univ.

Dennis Goldenson, Software Eng. Inst.

Ian Gorton, Univ. of New South Wales

Ian Graham, Trireme

Jeffrey G. Gray, Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham

Sol Greenspan, GTE Laboratories

Des Greer, Queen's Univ. Belfast

Janet Gregory, DragonFire and BrightSpot Consulting

William Griswold, Univ. of California, San Diego

Paul Gruenbacher, Johannes Kepler Univ. Linz

John Grundy, Univ. of Auckland

Jan Gulliksen, Uppsala Univ.

Kris Gybels, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Arno Haase, Arno Haase Consulting

Charles Haley, Open Univ.

Dave Hall, SandKasel

Dirk Hamann, Fraunhofer Inst. for Experimental Software Eng.

Robert Hammell II, Towson Univ.

Qi Han, Colorado School of Mines

Jan Hannemann, Univ. of British Columbia

Rachel Harrison, Univ. of Reading

Matthew Heath, Intel

Rick Hefner, Northrop Grumman

Brian Henderson-Sellers, Univ. of Technology, Sydney

Thomas Hilburn, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ.

Richard F. Hilliard

Norman Hines, Jacobs Sverdrup Naval System Group

Daniel Hoffman, Univ. of Victoria

Christine Hofmeister, Lehigh Univ.

John Hubbard, Philips Medical Systems

William Hudson, Syntagm

Gwo-Jen Hwang, Nat'l Chi Nan Univ.

Paola Inverardi, Università dell'Aquila

Michael Jablonski, NR Systems

Alice Jacob, Network Systems and Technologies

Hans-Arno Jacobsen, Univ. of Toronto

Anton Jansen, Univ. of Groningen

Talha Javed, Nat'l Univ. of Computer and Emerging Sciences

Mario Jino, State Univ. of Campinas

Janis Johnson, IBM

Philip Johnson, Univ. of Hawaii

Ralph E. Johnson, Univ. of Illinois-Urbana

Viviane Jonckers, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Wouter Joosen, Katholieke Univ. Leuven

Magne Jorgensen, Simula Research Lab

Ho-Won Jung, Korea Univ.

Randy Kalmeta, IBM

Donna Karlek-Watts, TYBRIN

Rick Kazman, Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Gerold Keefer, AVOCA GmbH

Diane Kelly, Royal Military College of Canada

Mik Kersten, Univ. of British Columbia

Michael Kircher, Siemens

Guenter Kniesel, Univ. of Bonn

Dwayne Knirk, Sandia Nat'l Laboratories

Jonathan Kohl, Kohl Concepts

Panu Korpipàà, VTT Electronics

Rene Krikhaar, Free Univ. Amsterdam and Philips Medical Systems

Philippe Kruchten, Univ. of British Columbia

Nir Kshetri, Univ. of North Carolina-Greensboro

Uirá Kulesza, Pontifícia Univ. Católica do Rio de Janeiro

Andrew Kusiak, Univ. of Iowa

Ramnivas Laddad, Aspectivity

Patricia Lago, Vrije Universiteit

Christian Lange, Tech. Univ. of Eindhoven

Marc Lankhorst, Telematics Inst.

Soren Lauesen, IT Univ. of Copenhagen

Gwanhoo Lee, American Univ.

Jae Nam Lee, Kookmin Univ.

Michel Lemoine, ONERA

Gunther Lenz, Siemens Corporate Research

Patricio Letelier, Univ. Politecncia de Valencia

Grace Lewis, Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Ming Li, Univ. of Maryland

Dennis Linscomb, Computer Sciences Corp.

Marin Litoiu, IBM Toronto Laboratory

Todd Little, Landmark Graphics

Yan Liu, West Virginia Univ.

Ricardo Llamosa-Villalba, Industrial Univ. of Santander

Christopher Lott, Telcordia Technologies

Karen Lum, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Eve MacGregor, Univ. of British Columbia

Ricardo Machado, Universidade do Minho

Ray Madachy, Univ. of Southern California

Samuel Madden, MIT

Henrique Madeira, Univ. de Coimbra

Neil Maiden, City Univ., London

Rajib Mall, Indian Inst. of Technology

Enricos Manassis, softclarITy

Tomi Mànnistö, Helsinki Univ. of Technology

Eda Marchetti, Inst. of Information Science and Technologies

Esperanza Marcos, Univ. Rey Juan Carlos

Eliane Martins, State Univ. of Campinas

Bart Massey, Portland State Univ.

Hidehiko Masuhara, Univ. of Tokyo

Aditya P. Mathur, Purdue Univ.

Chris Mattmann, Univ. of Southern California

Anders Mattsson, Combitech Systems AB

Michael Mattsson, Blekinge Inst. of Technology

Deborah Mayhew, Deborah J. Mayhew & Assoc.

Fergal McCaffery, Univ. of Ulster

Paul McKenney, IBM

Karen McRitchie, Galorath

Nancy Mead, Software Eng. Inst.

Nenad Medvidovic, Univ. of Southern California

Stephen J. Mellor, Project Technology

Grigori Melnik, Univ. of Calgary

Juri Memmert, JPMDesign

Manoel Mendonàa, Salvador Univ.

Kim Mens, Université Catholique de Louvain

Tim Menzies, Portland State Univ.

Mira Mezini, Darmstadt Univ. of Technology

Chris Michael, RST Research

Jean-Christophe Mielnik, Thales

Joaquin Miller, Lovelace Computing

Arlene Minkiewicz, Price Systems

Brian Mitchell, Drexel Univ.

Christine Miyachi, Xerox

Deependra Moitra, Infosys Technologies

Kjetil Moløkken-Østvold, Simula Research Lab

Ana Moreno, Univ. Politecnica de Madrid

Raimund Moser, Free Univ. of Bolzano-Bozen

Robert Muller, Stanford Univ.

Gail Murphy, Univ. of British Columbia

John Mylopoulos, Univ. of Toronto

Sundara Nagarajan, Hewlett Packard India

Siva Namasivayam, Perot Systems

Vivek Nanda, Ulticom

Cornelius Ncube, City Univ., London

Mirabelle Nebut, Laboratoire D'Informatique Fondamentale de Lille àquipe

Christian Neumann, Vienna Univ. of Economics and Business Administration

Kenneth Nidiffer, Software Productivity Consortium

Eila Niemela, VTT Tech Research Centre

Robert L. Nord, Software Eng. Inst.

Nur Nurmuliani, Univ. of Technology, Sydney

Henk Obbink, Philips Research

Antoni Olive, Univ. Politecnica Catalunya

Flavio Oquendo, Univ. of South Brittany

Klaus Ostermann, Darmstadt Univ. of Tech

David Papa, Univ. of Michigan

Constantinos Papadopoulos, Univ. of Manchester

Amit Paradkar, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Jeffrey Parsons, Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland

Daniel Paulish, Siemens Corporate Research

Mark C. Paulk, Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Sean Peisert, Univ. of California, San Diego

Stephen Perelgut, IBM Canada

Mauro Pezze, Univ. of Milan Bicocca

Dietmar Pfahl, Univ. of Calgary

Monica Pinto, Univ. of Malaga

Janet Ply, Acxiom

Klaus Pohl, Univ. of Essen

Peter Popov, City Univ., London

Adam A. Porter, Univ. of Maryland

Douglass Post, DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program

Lawrence H. Putnam, Quantitative Software Management

Hridesh Rajan, Iowa State Univ.

Guus Ramackers, Oracle

Subburaj Ramasamy, Electronics Test & Development Centre

Jeremy Rand, Alcatel

Anand Ranganathan, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Awais Rashid, Lancaster Univ.

Bjorn Regnell, Lund Univ.

Donald Reifer, Reifer Consultants

Ralf Reussner, Univ. of Oldenburg/Offis

Bill Riddle, Software Deployment Affiliates

Stan Rifkin, Master Systems

Suzanne Robertson, Atlantic Systems Guild

Martin Robillard, McGill Univ.

Rob Rodgers, Northrop Grumman IT

Eelco Rommes, Philips Research

David Rosenblum, Univ. College, London

Mark Roth, Science Applications Int'l

Gregg Rothermel, Oregon State Univ.

Terence Rout, Griffith Univ.

Walker Royce, IBM

Ioana Rus, Univ. of Maryland

Hossein Saiedian, Univ. of Kansas

Julio Cesar Sampaio do Prado Leite, Pontifícia Univ. Católica do Rio de Janeiro

Arno Schmidmeier, AspectSoft

Robert Schwanke, Siemens

Sahra Sedighsarvestani, Univ. of Missouri-Rolla

Ed Seidewitz, Data Access Technologies

Bran Selic, IBM Software Group

Bikram Sengupta, IBM India Research Lab

Johanneke Siljee, Univ. of Groningen

Alberto Sillitti, Free Univ. of Bozen

Nivedita Singhvi, IBM

Dennis Smith, Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Harold Smith III, Penn State Univ. New Kensington

Angela Sodan, Univ. of Windsor

Martin Solari, Universidad ORT Uruguay

Rini Solingen, LogicaCMG

Diomidis Spinellis, Athens Univ. of

Economics and Business

Judith Stafford, Tufts Univ.

Michael Stal, Siemens

Bernhard Steffen, Universitàt Dortmund

Dominik Stein, Univ. of Duisberg-Essen

Magdin Stoica, EngPath

Wolfgang Strigel, QA Labs

Christoph Strnadl, Atos Origin IT

Paul Strooper, Univ. of Queensland

Eleni Stroulia, Univ. of Alberta

Giancarlo Succi, Free Univ. of Bolzano-Bozen

Mario Sudholt, EMN/Inria

Kevin Sullivan, Univ. of Virginia

Hà×kan Sundell, Chalmers Univ. of Tech

Alistair Sutcliffe, Centre for HCI Design

Stanley Sutton, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Clemens Szyperski, Microsoft

Mini TT, Philips Software Centre

Nejmeddine Tagoug, United Arab Emirates Univ.

Mehdi Baradaran Tahoori, Northeastern Univ.

Bedir Tekinerdogan, Bilkent Univ.

Thomas Thelin, Lund Univ.

Steffen Thiel, Robert Bosch Corporation

Martyn Thomas, Martyn Thomas Associates

Stuart Thomason, Keele Univ.

Ciprian Ticea, QA Labs

Scott Tilley, Florida Inst. of Technology

Steve Tockey, Construx Software

Paolo Tonella, Istituto per la Ricerca

Scientifica e Tecnologica

Marco Torchiano, Politecnico di Torino

Kal Toth, Portland State Univ.

Will Tracz, Lockheed Martin

Laurence Tratt, King's College London

Richard Turner, Systems and Software Consortium

Virpi Tuunainen, Helsinki School of Economics

Jeffrey Tyree, Capital One Financial

Naoyasu Ubayashi, Kyushu Inst. of Technology

Sebastian Uchitel, Imperial College London

Ricardo Valerdi, Univ. of Southern California

Klaas van den Berg, Univ. of Twente

Frank van der Linden, Philips Medical

Wim Vanderperren, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

William van der Sterren, Philips Medical

Jan van der Ven, Univ. of Groningen

Arie van Deursen, CWI and Delft Univ. of Tech

Pascal Van Eck, Univ. of Twente

Rob Van Ommering, Philips Research

Hans van Vliet, Free Univ.

Tathagat Varma, Network Associates India

Alexandre Vasseur, BEA Systems

Sira Vegas, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid

Belen Vela Sanchez, Univ. Rey Juan Carlos

Jeffrey Voas, SAIC

Markus Voelter

Robert Walker, Univ. of Calgary

Dean Wampler, Rational Software

Julie Waterhouse, IBM

Matthew Webster, IBM UK

Elaine Weyuker, AT&T Laboratories Research

David Whitlock, Portland State Univ.

James Whittaker, Florida Tech

David Wile, Teknowledge

Eric Wohlstadter, Univ. of British Columbia

Alexander L. Wolf, Univ. of Colorado

Eric Wong, Univ. of Texas at Dallas

Kenny Wong, Univ. of Alberta

Eoin Woods, UBS Investment Bank

Simon Wright, Integrated Chipware

Tao Xie, North Carolina State Univ.

Alec Yasinsac, Florida State Univ.

Michal Young, Univ. of Oregon

Trevor Young, Univ. of British Columbia

Yuen Tak Yu, City Univ. of Hong Kong

Marvin V. Zelkowitz, Univ. of Maryland

Peter Zimmerer, Siemens