Biographical sketches of authors

Arjan de Mes IBM Global Services, P.O. Box 9999, 1006 CE Amsterdam, The Netherlands (mes@nl.ibm.com). Mr. De Mes is an application architect and application development trend watcher in the Application Management Services organization of IBM Global Services. He joined IBM in 1995 as an application developer. In 1997 he started work as an application and infrastructure architect, working for customers in banking and finance as well as for IBM's internal account. In 2001 he joined the Architecture and Technology Innovation group where he had the opportunity to study, test and evaluate several recent technological advancements. His current interests include: service-oriented architecture, application performance, and the future of application development. Mr. De Mes received his M.Sc. degree in computer science from the University of Amsterdam in 1994.

Erik Rongen IBM Global Services, P.O. Box 9999, 1006 CE Amsterdam, The Netherlands (erik@nl.ibm.com). Dr. Rongen joined IBM in 1995 and since then has worked on various projects in the fields of e-business application development and the adaptation of legacy systems. He is interested in the impact of new technologies on software systems and the application development process. Currently, he monitors trends in application development for the Application Management Services organization and assesses emerging technologies for use in knowledge management systems. His interests include unstructured information management and the application of machine intelligence to custom application development. Dr. Rongen received his Ph.D. degree in physics at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.