Austin Tate Austin Tate is Director of the Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute (AIAI) and holds the Personal Chair of Knowledge-Based Systems at the University of Edinburgh. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (Scotland's National Academy), Fellow of AAAI, and a member of the senior advisory board for IEEE Intelligent Systems. His research is focused on emergency response using advanced knowledge and planning technologies, and collaborative systems especially using virtual worlds. Address: AIAI, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Appleton Tower, Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9LE, UK E-mail: a.tate@ed.ac.uk Tel: +44 131 650 2732 Fax: +44 131 650 6513 -------------------------------------------------------------- Yun-Heh Chen-Burger Dr. Chen-Burger received her PhD at the Univ. of Edinburgh, UK. She is a research fellow at Informatics, Univ. of Edinburgh. She has worked on topics in business, process and conceptual modelling and workflow automation incorporating inter-disciplinary theories and practices for 15 years. She has published a book and over 50 scientific articles. Address: AIAI, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Appleton Tower, Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9LE, UK E-mail: j.chen-burger@ed.ac.uk Tel: +44 131 650 2732 Fax: +44 131 650 6513 -------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Dalton Jeff Dalton is a research scientist at the University of Edinburgh's Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute. He is the software architect for the I-X system of planning-related software and was the chief developer of the earlier O-Plan system for a number of years. His research interests include planning, simulation, Web-based software, and programming language design and implementation. Address: AIAI, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Appleton Tower, Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9LE, UK E-mail: j.dalton@ed.ac.uk Tel: +44 131 650 2732 Fax: +44 131 650 6513 -------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen Potter Stephen Potter is a member of AIAI at the University of Edinburgh. He holds a PhD in mechanical engineering from the University of Bath, UK. His current research interests lie in the areas of knowledge-based systems and semantic web technologies, with a particular focus on their application in emergency response contexts. Address: AIAI, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Appleton Tower, Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9LE, UK E-mail: s.potter@ed.ac.uk Tel: +44 131 650 2732 Fax: +44 131 650 6513 -------------------------------------------------------------- David Richardson David Richardson is a Senior Business Development Executive in the School of Informatics and a member of AIAI. He holds an MSc by Research in Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh. He previously worked in the technology and security practice of a leading management consultancy and accountancy. In his current position, he is engaged in a number of commercialization projects involving artificial intelligence and computer science. Address: AIAI, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Appleton Tower, Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9LE, UK Tel: +44 131 651 3259 Fax: +44 131 650 6513 -------------------------------------------------------------- Jussi Stader Jussi Stader was a senior researcher at AIAI at the University of Edinburgh. She is now a crofter in North Scotland. Address: AIAI, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Appleton Tower, Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9LE, UK E-mail: jstader@gmail.com Tel: +44 131 650 2732 Fax: +44 131 650 6513 -------------------------------------------------------------- Gerhard Wickler Gerhard Wickler is a senior researcher at AIAI at the University of Edinburgh. He regularly publishes in AI-related conferences and journals, reporting on his research in planning and intelligent agents applied to emergency response. He has been a member of the programme committees for various workshops and conferences, including the Intelligent Systems track at ISCRAM. Address: AIAI, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Appleton Tower, Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9LE, UK E-mail: g.wickler@ed.ac.uk Tel: +44 131 650 2732 Fax: +44 131 650 6513 -------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Bankier Ian Bankier is Chairman of Glenkeir Whiskies and owner of The Scotch Whisky retail chain. Address: Glenkeir Whiskies Limited, PO Box 16808, Glasgow G11 7YF, Scotland E-mail: ian@whiskyshop.com Tel: +44 141 440 0600 Fax: 0141 440 0644 -------------------------------------------------------------- Christopher Walton Christopher Walton is the lead researcher at Metaforic Ltd., a software security company. His research interests include reasoning about software security, knowledge dissemination using Web technologies, and the implementation of secure Web-based computation. He received his PhD degree in 2001, and his BSc Computer Science degree in 1996, from the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. E-mail: chris.walton@metaforic.com Address: Metaforic, Regent Court, 70 West Regent Street, Glasgow, G2 2QZ, Scotland Tel: +44 141 333 6580 Fax: +44 141 333 1116 -------------------------------------------------------------- Patrick Geoffrey Williams Geoff Williams is the EADS Innovation Works UK Research Team Leader responsible for Homeland Security, Critical National Infrastructure Protection and Cyberwarfare research projects. Geoff is an Intelligence & Security Professional, with extensive operational experience in mission planning, multi-source intelligence data analysis and briefing to the highest level customers. He is currently driving the EADS IW effort on development of Virtual World applications for Homeland Security Command and Control uses. Geoff is also an accomplished linguist qualified to conference level Interpreter standard in Russian and Turkish, and colloquial level in the German language. Addresss: EADS Innovation Works UK, Celtic Springs, Coedkernew, Newport, NP10 8FZ South Wales E-mail: patrick.williams@eads.com Tel: +44 1633 714770