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deals with agent architectures and ERP II systems. He was previously a postdoctoral researcher at
the University of Toronto. He has been involved in the organization of international conferences
and workshops on information systems and agents. His publications include more than 50 refereed
journals or periodicals and conference proceedings as well as three books.

Richard Linger serves as manager of the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering
Institute’s CERT STAR*Lab, and the Survivable Systems Engineering group. He has developed
technologies for survivable systems analysis (SSA) to improve survivability in the presence of
intrusions and failures; function extraction (FX) for automated computation of the functional
behavior of programs; flow-service-quality (FSQ) engineering for network system development;
and Cleanroom software engineering for development and certification of high-reliability systems.
Previously at IBM, he was co-developer of Cleanroom software engineering specification, design,
verification, and certification technologies for creating high-reliability software. He has taught
software and security courses at Carnegie Mellon University, and has published three software
engineering textbooks and an extensive set of book chapters and technical papers.
Kalle Lyytinen is Iris S. Wolstein Professor at Case Western Reserve University, adjunct professor
at the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland, and visiting professor at the University of Loughborough,
UK. He currently serves on the editorial boards of several leading information systems (IS) journals
including Journal of AIS (editor-in-chief), Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Information
& Organization, Requirements Engineering Journal, Information Systems Journal, Scandinavian
Journal of Information Systems, and Information Technology and People, among others. He is AIS
fellow (2004), and former chairperson of IFIP 8.2 and a founding member of SIGSAND. He has
published over 160 scientific articles and conference papers and edited or written eleven books on
topics related to the IS discipline, system design, method engineering, organizational implemen-
tation, risk assessment, computer-supported cooperative work, standardization, and ubiquitous
computing, among others. He is currently involved in research projects that study IT-induced
radical innovation in software development, IT innovation in the architecture, engineering, and
construction industry, design and use of ubiquitous applications, and the adoption of broadband
wireless services in the UK, South Korea, and the United States.

Sabine Madsen is assistant professor in the Department of Informatics at Copenhagen Business
School, Denmark. She was employed as a project manager in the Danish information technology
industry before joining the Department of Informatics in 2001. She completed her Ph.D. research
on process and method emergence in information systems development practice in 2004. Her
research interests concern (emergent) information systems development processes, methods, and
the relationship between research and practice.

Juan Carlos Molina has a degree in computer science from the Valencia University of Technol-
ogy, Spain. He is research and development manager for CARE Technologies S.A., the company
that develops the OlivaNova Model Execution set of tools, which fully support the MDA-based,
conceptual model-centric software development approach described in this book. In this context, he
has developed a strong background in advanced technological transfer from academia to industry
that has produced both successful industrial products and relevant scientific publications.

John Mylopoulos has been professor in computer science at the University of Trento, Department
of Information and Communication Technology, since September 2005. He received his B.Eng.