Daniel Bauer  IBM Research Division, Zurich Research Laboratory, Säumerstrasse 4, CH-8803 Rüschlikon, Switzerland (dnbzurich.ibm.com). Dr. Bauer received a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1997. From 1997 to 1998, he was a network engineer for a financial institute, where he was responsible for the architecture of the corporate backbone network. In November 1998, he joined the IBM Research Laboratory in Zurich, where he has been working on routing protocols, overlay networks, and architectures for event-based distributed systems such as sensor networks or massive multiplayer games. His current research interests include parallel programming and concurrency control mechanisms for multi-core and multiprocessor environments.

Luis Garcés-Erice  IBM Research Division, Zurich Research Laboratory, Säumerstrasse 4, CH-8803 Rüschlikon, Switzerland (lgazurich.ibm.com). Dr. Garcés-Erice obtained his M.Sc. degree in telecommunication engineering (electrical engineering and computer science) from the Public University of Navarra (Spain) in 2001. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in 2004 from Télécom Paris University (France) while working at Institut EURECOM. Currently he is at the IBM Research Laboratory in Zurich (Switzerland) as a post-doctoral researcher. His research interests are mainly in peer-to-peer and distributed systems, network protocols, and more recently middleware and sensor networks. He is a professional member of the IEEE Communications Society, the IEEE Computer Society, and the ACM.

Sean Rooney  IBM Research Division, Zurich Research Laboratory, Säumerstrasse 4, CH-8803 Rüschlikon, Switzerland (srozurich.ibm.com). Dr. Rooney obtained his Ph.D. degree in 1998 from the University of Cambridge in the field of network control. Since then he has been working at the IBM Research Laboratory in Zurich. Topics on which he has worked and published include dynamic configuration of virtual servers, architectures for large distributed games, edge computation, and sensor networks. His current research interests include self-configuring systems, predictive models for system calibration, and algorithms for multi-core systems.

Paolo Scotton  IBM Research Division, Zurich Research Laboratory, Säumerstrasse 4, CH-8803 Rüschlikon, Switzerland (psczurich.ibm.com). Dr. Scotton graduated from Ecole Supérieure en Sciences Informatiques in Sophia Antipolis, France, in 1990, and received the Diplôme d'Études Approfondies and Ph.D. degree from the University of Nice, France, in 1990 and 1993, respectively. In 1994, he joined the IBM Laboratory in La Gaude, France, where he worked on ATM control point software design and development. Since 1997, he has been at the IBM Research Laboratory in Zurich, Switzerland. He has been involved in various projects on routing protocols, distributed systems, and more recently on real-time publish/subscribe systems. He is a member of the IEEE and he has served as a technical program committee member and paper reviewer for various IEEE conferences.