Ian Alexander is an independent consultant specialising in Requirements Engineering. He is an experienced instructor and has written training courses for a range of organizations. He is the author of the Scenario Plus toolkits for the DOORS requirements tool. His principal research interest is in improving the requirements engineering process by modelling business goals, processes, constraints, and scenarios. He was lead author of ‘Writing Better Requirements’ published by Addison-Wesley, 2002. He helps to run the BCS Requirements Engineering Specialist Group and the IEE Professional Network for Systems Engineering. He is a Chartered Engineer.

Kent Beck is the founder and director of TRI. He has pioneered patterns for software development, the xUnit family of testing frameworks, the HotDraw drawing editor framework, CRC cards, refactoring, and most recently Extreme Programming. He is the author of Extreme Programming Explained, Planning Extreme Programming, and The Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns. He lives on 20 acres in rural southern Oregon with his wife, five children (one sadly now gone to college), four dogs, two sheep, and a variable number of domestic fowl.

David Benyon has held the post of Professor of Human-Computer Systems at Napier University, Edinburgh since 1996. He obtained his MSc at Leicester Polytechnic, and his PhD at the Open University, where he designed and implemented courses in Human-Computer Interaction. He contributed to the 1994 book Human-Computer Interaction by Preece, J. et al. His research focus is to shift HCI to the idea of navigation of information space. He is working to replace the 1994 book Designing Interactive Systems, and is conference co-chair for the ACM conference of the same name, DIS2004. He has attracted well over €1m of funding to support his research and published over 100 conference and journal papers.

David is completing an Engineering Doctorate at University College London, as a mature student, examining the application of Goal Based Requirements approaches to large-scale industrial projects. He has significant experience in Systems Engineering and Project Management in IT, Aerospace and Defence projects, and is currently a Principal Engineer in the UK National Air Traffic Services Ltd, working in the development of Systems, Software and Safety Engineering techniques. He is Secretary to the British Computer Societies Requirements Engineering Special Interest Group, a member of the Management Committee of the UCL Centre for Systems Engineering, a Chartered Engineer and a member of the Chartered Management Institute.

John M. Carroll is Edward Frymoyer Chair Professor of Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennsylvania State University. His research interests include methods and theory in human-computer interaction, particularly as applied to networking tools for collaborative learning and problem solving. He has written or edited 14 books, including Making Use (MIT Press, 2000), HCI in the New Millennium (Addison-Wesley, 2001), Usability Engineering (Morgan-Kaufmann, 2002, with M.B. Rosson) and HCI Models, Theories, and Frameworks (Morgan-Kaufmann, 2003). He serves on 9 editorial boards for journals, handbooks, and series; he is a member of the US National Research Council’s Committee on Human Factors and Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interactions. He received the Rigo Career Achievement Award, from ACM (SIGDOC), the Silver Core Award from IFIP, and was elected to the CHI Academy. In 2003 he received the CHI Lifetime Achievement Award from ACM.

Andrew Farncombe has a first class honours degree and spent his early career in the software industry. He subsequently moved into the defence and aerospace sector where he held a number of senior technical and management positions including that of Technical Director, and led the codification of Systems Engineering knowledge and experience for one of the groups as a whole. At John Boardman Associates he has applied Systems Engineering to the aerospace and transportation industries. Andrew is Visiting Professor of Systems Engineering at Cranfield University.

Chris Fowler has a degree in Psychology and Sociology, and a Ph.D in Cognitive Psychology. From 1977 to 1990 he worked in various HE Institutes undertaking teaching and research into cross-cultural psychology, research methods, Human Computer Interaction and the use of computers in Education. In 1990, he joined the Human Factors Division of BT Labs. Whilst at BT he worked on introducing Human factors into various software design methodologies, created and managed the Education & Training Research Group, and set up BT’s Asian Research Centre in Malaysia. In April 2002, he became Professor and Director of Chimera, a new institute of socio-technical innovation and research, set up at the University of Essex with support from BT.

Ellen Gottesdiener is Principal Consultant of EBG Consulting, Inc. She works with project teams to help them explore requirements, shape their development processes, and collaboratively plan their work. Before becoming a consultant, Ellen had a 13-year career with CIGNA Corp. as a developer, analyst, trainer, and project manager. She is a Certified Professional Facilitator and an expert in using facilitated workshops in software development projects for developing project charters, defining requirements, and conducting retrospectives. She also presents seminars and advises on industry conferences. Ellen has written numerous articles on requirements, facilitated workshops, methods, and modeling. She is author of Requirements by Collaboration: Workshops for Defining Needs (Addison-Wesley, 2002).

Dr. Peter Haumer works as a Senior Professional Services Consultant for IBM’s Rational Software Brand. He assists and coaches customers to be successful with Rational processes, methodologies, and tools performing on-site consulting and providing training courses. His areas of work include requirements management, object-oriented analysis and design for enterprise application architectures, as well as Software process implementation. He is also member of Rational’s steering committees for Model-Driven Development, Software Process Adoption, as well as Business Modelling, Requirements Management, and Rational XDE education. Before joining Rational he worked in basic research in the areas of requirements engineering and flexible CASE tool architectures.

Dr. Karen Holtzblatt, President and CEO of InContext Enterprises, is the co-developer of the customer-centered process Contextual Design. She originated this approach to field data collection and pioneered its introduction into working product design and engineering teams. In 1992 Karen Holtzblatt and Hugh Beyer founded InContext to provide design and consulting services to clients backed by the Contextual Design method. Their book Contextual Design: Defining Customer Centered Systems published by Morgan Kaufmann is a key reference for anyone doing or teaching customer-centered design. InContext works with leaders in the technology industry, including SAP, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Novell, Motorola, Nokia, Thomson Corporation, and others.

Frank Houdek is a senior researcher and project leader at the DaimlerChrysler research centre in Ulm, Germany. After finishing his Ph.D. in the field of systematic process improvement and empirical software engineering he is working in different requirements engineering research projects and he is involved in technology transfer activities to passenger car and commercial vehicles development. His research interests are requirements engineering processes and requirements recycling. He is an IEEE CS member and part of the steering group of the Requirements Engineering Group of the German Computer Science Society.

Pericles Loucopoulos holds the chair of Information Systems Engineering at the University of Manchester Institute of Science & Technology (UMIST), in Manchester, U.K., where has worked since January 1984 following a period of many years in industry. His research interests focus on the provision of Information Processing systems that support large, complex and dynamic organisational systems. To this end, his research addresses both systems engineering issues and issues relating to organisational objectives, strategy and business processes. He is co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Requirements Engineering and also serves on editorial boards of four other international journals. He is the co-author of 5 books, the co-editor of 1 book and the author or co-author of over 100 journal, and conference papers.

Dr Catriona Macaulay's two sons sometimes let her go for long enough to play at being Programme Leader of the new BSc Honours programme in Interactive Media Design at Dundee University/Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design. Her research interests are in the areas of experience design/human-computer interaction, design ethnography and interactive soundscape design. She also works as a user experience design consultant in industry. Mostly though she builds pirate ships out of Lego, many of which have met tragic ends due to the large number of crocodiles, witches and dragons they encounter.

Neil Maiden is Professor of Systems Engineering and Head of the Centre for Human-Computer Interface Design, an independent research department in City University's School of Informatics. He has been directing interdisciplinary research in requirements engineering for 15 years and has worked on numerous EPSRC- and EU-funded research projects. He has over 80 journal and conference publications. His details are available at http://wwwhcid.soi.city.ac.uk/pNeilmaiden.html.

Alistair Mavin is a requirements engineer with Praxis Critical Systems Limited, a UK based company specialising in requirements, systems, software and safety engineering. He has undertaken requirements engineering projects in a range of industries including defence, aerospace, rail, automotive and local government. He has been involved in a number of capability enhancement projects, which have the aim of improving engineering capability within the client organisation. He previously worked in the Centre for HCI Design at City University in London, where he was involved in research and consultancy in requirements engineering.

Suzanne Robertson is a principal and founder of the Atlantic Systems Guild. Suzanne is co-author of Mastering the Requirements Process (Addison-Wesley 1999). Current work includes research and consulting on stakeholders and all aspects of requirements. The product of this research is Volere, a complete requirements process and template for assessing requirements quality, and for specifying requirements. She is editor of the Requirements column in IEEE Software magazine.

Con Rodi retired from the United States Air Force after a 30-year career as a fighter pilot and communications officer. He is now a graduate student at Virginia Tech pursuing a doctorate in Computer Science. He has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Computer Science from University of Utah and Stanford University, respectively. Con’s research interests include collaborative systems, case studies supporting scenario-based design, and weblogs as they relate to community computing.

Parm is a systems engineer with Praxis Critical Systems. He has experience of carrying out requirements engineering work in the transport and aerospace domain. He has specific skills in: requirements elicitation; analysis and management; use case and scenario modelling; dependency modelling and object oriented analysis and design. Parm holds a degree in Computer Science from City University, where he specialised in requirements engineering and object oriented analysis and design.

Mary Beth Rosson is Professor of Information Sciences and Technology at Pennsylvania State University. Her research interests include scenario-based design and evaluation, the use of network technology to support collaboration, especially in learning contexts, and the psychological issues associated with use of high-level programming languages and tools. She is co-author of Usability Engineering: Scenario-Based Development of Human-Computer Interaction (Morgan Kaufmann, 2002), author of Instructor’s Guide to Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Application (Benjamin Cummings, 1994), as well as numerous articles, book chapters, and tutorials. Dr. Rosson is active in both ACM SIGCHI and ACM SIGPLAN, serving in numerous technical program as well as conference organization roles for the CHI and OOPSLA annual conferences.

Dr. Camille Salinesi is a senior lecturer of Computer Science in the department of Mathematics and Informatics at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne. He makes research in Information Systems Engineering, Process Engineering, and Requirements Engineering, and has published more than 20 referred papers on Use Case & Scenario elicitation and authoring, and about Information System evolution. Dr Salinesi is an active animator of the RE community: he was involved in fundamental research projects such as NATURE and CREWS; he has organized a number of conferences and has been guest editor of several Journals. He belongs to the RE discussion group of AFIS (French Association of Systems Engineering). He used to be a project leader and RE consultant in projects with French companies.

Juha Savolainen is a researcher and project manager at the Nokia Research Center (NRC) in Helsinki, Finland. He assists Nokia’s business units to create innovative products and solutions to complex problems. His current work involves research and consulting in requirements engineering, product line development, and software architecture. He loves cooking, inventing new mobile applications while traveling, and watching Finnish ice hockey.

Ramin Tavakoli Kolagari is writing his PhD about requirements engineering and product lines at the DaimlerChrysler Research Centre in Ulm, Germany. Furthermore he is engaged in requirements engineering projects and in the technology transfer activities to commercial vehicles development. His research interests are – in addition to the topics covered by his PhD – software engineering for embedded systems, agile software development, and category theory.

Joy van Helvert joined BT in 1995 after an IT career in Government, and in the last seven years has worked at a senior professional level in a socio-technical research group specializing in E-learning. In April 2002 the research group transferred to The University of Essex to become Chimera – Institute for socio-technical innovation and research. Her work within the group has included formal and organizational learning research and the development of scenario based methodologies that have been used successfully as a consultancy product and on European collaborative projects (5^th Framework and EURESCOM). She is an experienced facilitator and is currently researching cross-cultural communication using ICT.

David West is a Professor at New Mexico Highlands University (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1988). He teaches systems analysis and design, introduction to business and informational systems, informational modeling and databases, website authoring and management, and enterprise information modeling and databases. He has had more than 23 refereed articles and/or invited appearances at academic and professional conferences, and multiple presentations at national and international conferences. West has worked as a consultant to more than fifty corporate clients (many of them Fortune 100 companies), as well as international clients in India.

Thomas Zink was with DaimlerChrysler research for two years helping projects applying new requirements engineering approaches. His research focus was on use cases and stories for requirements recycling in a product family context. Thomas recently joined Nokia at the product creation site Ulm/Germany.