Biography

Franz Achermann works as a research and teaching assistant in the Software Composition Group at the Institute for Computer Science and Applied Mathematics of the University of Berne, Switzerland. His main interests are in the field of object-oriented programming and languages and formal methods for software engineering. He completed his M.Sc. at the University of Berne in 1995. He worked in industry in the area of databases before joining the group at the beginning of 1997.

Markus Lumpe works as a research and teaching assistant in the Software Composition Group at the Institute for Computer Science and Applied Mathematics of the University of Berne, Switzerland. He is interested in the design and implementation of object-oriented and component-oriented languages using fully object-oriented compiler construction techniques. He completed his M.Sc. in 1990 at the University of Dresden. He worked in industry in the area of object-oriented system design and implementation. In fall 1994, he joined the Software Composition Group in Berne.

Oscar Nierstrasz is Professor of Computer Science at the Institute of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics of the University of Berne where he leads the Software Composition Group. He is interested in all aspects of component-oriented software technology, and particularly in the design and implementation of high-level specification languages and tools to support reusability and evolution of open applications. He completed his M.Sc. in 1981 and his Ph.D. in 1984 in the area of Office Information Systems at the University of Toronto. He worked at the Institute of Computer Science in Crete (1985), and in the Object Systems Group at the Centre Universitaire d'Informatique of the University of Geneva, Switzerland (1985-1994).

Jean-Guy Schneider works as a research assistant in the Software Composition Group at the Institute for Computer Science and Applied Mathematics of the University of Berne, Switzerland. His main interests are in object-oriented and parallel programming, scripting languages, and the definition of formal methods for component-oriented software engineering. He received his M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Berne in 1992 and has been working for the group since 1994.