About the Organizers

Paul Clements is a senior member of the technical staff at Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute. There, he works in areas of software architecture and software product lines. He has co-authored four books in software engineering, including three in software architecture, as well as over fifty papers in architecture, documentation, software structure, and product line methodologies. He was the conference chair for the 2004 International Software Product Line Conference, and has served on the program committee for AOSD. He was a co-organizer of the Early Aspects workshops held at AOSD 2003, AOSD 2004, AOSD 2005, OOPSLA 2004, OOPSLA 2005, SPLC-Europe 2005, ICSE 2006, and AOSD 2007. He holds a Ph.D. in computer sciences from the University of Texas at Austin, and a M.Sc. in computer science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

David Emery is Chair of the US delegation to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7/WG42 Architecture, and was a contributor to the IEEE 1471 standard that was recently adopted as ISO/IEC DIS 42010. His work in architecture as a separate discipline dates to 1990, serving as an architect or architectural evaluator on a variety of systems since then. He has presented tutorials, workshops or presentations on Ada, Open Standards and Architecture.

Rich Hilliard is an independent consultant and practicing software systems architect in the private and public sectors. Previously, he was chief technology officer and co-founder of a privacy services start-up that did not survive the dot com bubble's bust! He has been a software engineer since 1978, and has been writing about architecture since 1990. From 1994 to 1998, he was a lead architect at the MITRE Corporation, where he was a founding member of the Chief Architects' Office of the Air Force's Electronic Systems Center. He was editor of IEEE Std 1471 and is project editor for the joint IEEE/ISO revision of that standard (now ISO/IEC 42010). He is a member of IFIP Working Group 2.10, Software Architecture. He was an organizer of the First Workshop on Architectural Viewpoints (2001) as a part of the 2nd Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA); on the program committee of a workshop on Software Architecture Review and Assessment (ICSE 2002); and on the program committee for 2nd, 3rd and 4th Workshops on Aspect-Oriented Modeling with UML.

Philippe Kruchten is a professor of software engineering at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, Canada, after retiring from 30+ years in industry in various countries around the globe. His current interests are software process modeling, agile processes, and software architecture, and the impact of culture on global software engineering projects. Prior to UBC, he spent 16 years at Rational Software (now IBM Software Group), where he was associated as a consultant with several large-scale defense and aerospace projects around the world, and where he developed the Rational Unified Process (RUP). Philippe has developed the "4+1 view model" of software architecture, and the architectural method embedded in RUP; he is doing research now on architecture decisions and architectural knowledge. He organized several workshops in particular a workshop on Software Architecture Review and Assessment (ICSE 2002), and a workshop ion Global Software Development (ICSE 2006).