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Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4917

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VI Preface<br />

The plann<strong>in</strong>g of a conference starts way ahead of the actual event. If it were<br />

not for the unselfish and hard work of a large number of devoted <strong>in</strong>dividuals,<br />

this conference would not have been as successful as it was. Let us first thank<br />

the authors for their great contributions which constitute the core of the conference.<br />

We were very fortunate to collect a great team to power this event<br />

and would like to thank all of them: Mats Brorsson (KTH) for putt<strong>in</strong>g together<br />

an attractive pre-conference program; Ewa Wä<strong>in</strong>gel<strong>in</strong> (Chalmers) for the enormous<br />

effort she <strong>in</strong>vested <strong>in</strong> the local arrangement; Per Waborg (Chalmers) for<br />

a fantastic job <strong>in</strong> keep<strong>in</strong>g the costs with<strong>in</strong> budget and runn<strong>in</strong>g the books; Mike<br />

O’Boyle (Ed<strong>in</strong>burgh) for timely publicity campaigns; Jörg Mische and Theo Ungerer<br />

(Augsburg) for the hard work <strong>in</strong> putt<strong>in</strong>g together the proceed<strong>in</strong>gs; Michiel<br />

Ronsee (Ghent) for adm<strong>in</strong>ister<strong>in</strong>g the submission and review system; and f<strong>in</strong>ally<br />

Sylvie Detournay (Ghent) for adm<strong>in</strong>ister<strong>in</strong>g the web. Thanks to all of you!<br />

F<strong>in</strong>ally, we would also like to mention the support from the Sixth Framework<br />

Programme of the European Union, represented by project officers Mercè Griera<br />

i Fisa and Panagiotis Tsarchopoulos, for sponsor<strong>in</strong>g the event and for the travel<br />

grants.<br />

October 2007 Per Stenström<br />

Michel Dubois<br />

Manolis Katevenis<br />

Rajiv Gupta

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