Pierre Crescenzo is a Research and Teaching Assistant in Computer Science at the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis (France). He has defended his Ph.D. Thesis in December 2001. He has participated in Posters and Workshops of ECOOP 2000 and ECOOP 2001. His current research interests are focused on the OFL Model and object-oriented meta-programming.

Michael Haupt graduated with a Dipl.-Ing. in Technical Computer Sciences from the University of Siegen (Germany) in 2000 and is now working with Mira Mezini at the Technical University Darmstadt, where he is giving courses and lectures. His PhD is in the field of component software.

Miguel Angel Pérez Toledano graduated with a Dipl-Inform in Computer Sciences from the Polithecnical University of Cataluña (Spain) in 1993. Now he is working at the University of Extremadura as lecturer. He has participated in the PhD workshop of ECOOP'01. His current research interests are Semantic Description of Aspect Components and Repositories of Software Components. His PhD is focused on selection and retrieval of aspect components from repositories using semantic descriptions.

Ezz Hattab is a PhD candidate in Computer Sciences at National Technical University of Athens ( Greece ). He has participated in several software engineering conferences and workshops (e.g., UML2000 in York-UK, ECOOP2001 (PHDOOS'01) in Budapest-Hungary, Content-Studio (a Rational Rose product) Lunch Seminar in London-UK). Currently, his research of interest is focused on agent-oriented methodologies.

Cyril Ray was a student at the University of Rennes 1 where he started his research in distributed system within IRISA. He is currently a PhD student in computer science at French Naval Academy Research Lab (IRENav). He has participated to the last PhDOOS workshop at Budapest. His PhD is in the field of objects distributed system. The objective of this thesis is to study the distributed system concept in order to use them for geographic information system.