Tarek Abdelzaher (University of Illinois, USA) Hakan Aydin (George Mason University, USA) Sanjoy Baruah (University of North Carolina, USA) Enrico Bini (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy) Alan Burns (University of York, UK) Marco Caccamo (University of Illinois, USA) Maryline Chetto (IRCCyN, Nantes, France) Alfons Crespo (Polytechnic Univ. of Valencia, Spain) Liliana Cucu-Grosjean (INRIA Nancy, Loria) Rob Davis (University of York, UK) Tullio Facchinetti (University of Pavia, Italy) Sébastien Faucou (IRCCyN, Nantes, France) Nathan Fisher (Wayne State University, USA) Laurent George (INRIA/AOSTE UPEC/LISSI, France) Steve Goddard (University of Nebraska, USA) Joel Goossens (ULB, Brussels,Belgium) Pierre-Emmanuel Hladik (LAAS, Toulouse, France) Jorg Kaiser (University of Magdeburg, Germany) Raimund Kirner (TU Vienna, Austria) Tei-Wei Kuo (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) Lucia Lo Bello (University of Catania, Italy) Zoubir Mammeri (Univ. of Toulouse / IRIT, France) Philippe Marquet (INRIA/LIFL, Lille, France) Serge Midonnet (Univ. of Paris-Est, IGM, France) Pascale Minet (INRIA-Rocquencourt, France) Daniel Mosse (University of Pittsburgh, USA) Nicolas Navet (INRIA-Loria, Nancy, France) Nimal Nissanke (London South Bank University, UK) Marc Pouzet (University of Paris Sud / LRI, France) Isabelle Puaut (University of Rennes / IRISA, France) Binoy Ravindran (Virginia Tech, USA) Pascal Richard (LISI, Poitiers, France) Christine Rochange (Univ. of Toulouse / IRIT, France) Guillermo Rodriguez-Navas (Univ. of Balearic Islands, Spain) Bruno Sadeg (University of Le Havre / LITIS, France) Daniel Simon (INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France) Francoise Simonot-Lion (LORIA-INPL, Nancy, France) Mikael Sjodin (Malardalen University, Sweden) Yves Sorel (INRIA-Rocquencourt, France) Eduardo Tovar (Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal) Francois Vernadat (LAAS, Toulouse, France) Conference aim and topics