Dr Steve Neely currently holds an SFI funded Post-Doctoral Fellowship at University College Dublin. His current research involves programming models for global computation and querying large scale, distributed information systems. In particular: pervasive and ubiquitous computing, persistence, code/process migration, CORBA middleware, Web Services, Internet technologies, semistructured data, XML datasets, data fusion, and informatics.

Dr Neely has served on organising and program committees for internationally renowned conferences and workshops including Mobile HCI 2004, ECOOP 2005, Pervasive 2006/07, Middleware for Pervasive and Ad-Hoc Computing 2006/07 (co-organiser), and Workshop on the Issues of Designing and Evaluating Ambient Information Systems 2007. Dr Neely a member of the ACM and an elected Chartered Member of the BCS.

Mr Graeme Stevenson joined the Systems Research Group at University College Dublin in April 2005 as a Research Assistant. He holds a bachelors degree in Computer Science from the University of Strathclyde. Graeme's interests include ubiquitous computing, mobile object systems, semantic web technologies, and programming language support and middleware for smart spaces. He is heavily involved in developing the Construct middleware platform for context collection and dissemination in ad hoc environments (http://construct-infrastructure.org).

Dr Sotirios Terzis holds and Ph.D. from Trinity College Dublin, and an M.Sc. and B.Sc. from the University of Crete. He is currently a lecturer at the Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde. His research interest include middleware architecture for context management and situation awareness, and trust management in ubiquitous computing systems. He is a member of the BCS, the ACM and IEEE Computer Society, a Chareter Information Technology Professional and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Dr Terzis was the chair of the 2005 and 2006 Workshop on Middleware for Pervasive and Ad-hoc Computing, and the 2006 Workshop on Combining Theory and Systems Building in Pervasive Computing. He was also a publicity co-chair for PerCom 2004, and served in the organising committee of ECOOP 2005. He is currently a member of the program committee for the IFIP Conference on Trust Management, and the PerSys, SIPE and ADAMUS workshops.