V.S. Subrahmanian is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland.

Jürgen Dix is Associate Professor of Computer Science at The University of Manchester, England.

Sarit Kraus is Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Bar-Ilan University, Israel, and Professor of Computer Science in the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is the coauthor of Heterogeneous Agent Systems (MIT Press, 2000).

Fatma Ozcan is a principal research staff member and manager of the IBM Almaden Research Center working in the information management department at IBM.