Guus Schreiber is Dean of the Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences and of the Faculty of Sciences and is Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Vrije University Amsterdam.

Hans Akkermans is a Professor of Business Informatics at Vrije University Amsterdam.

Anjo Anjewierden is a computer scientist at the University of Twente.

Nigel Shadbolt is Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Head of the Web and Internet Science (WAIS) research group in the Electronics and Computer Science Department at the University of Southampton.

Walter Van de Velde is Research Assistant in the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the Vrije Universiteit, Brussels, Belgium.