BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

Wilfried Lemahieu is a post-doctoral researcher at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. He holds a Ph D in Applied Economic Sciences from K.U. Leuven (1999). His teaching includes Database Management and Data Storage Architectures. His research interests comprise hypermedia systems, object-relational and object-oriented database systems, distributed object architectures and web services.

Monique Snoeck obtained her PhD in May 1995 from the Computer Science Department of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, with a thesis that lays the formal foundations of MERODE. Since then she has done further research in the area of formal methods for object-oriented conceptual modelling. She now is an associate professor with the Management Information Systems Group of the Department of Applied Economic Sciences at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. In addition, she is an invited lecturer at the Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve since 1997. She has also been involved in several industrial conceptual modeling projects. Her research interest are object oriented modelling, software architecture and gender aspects of ICT.

Cindy Michiels is a PhD student at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL), Belgium. She holds a bachelors degree in Applied Economics and a master's degree in Management Informatics (2000). Since 2001 she has worked for the Management Information Systems Group of the department of Applied Economics of the KUL as a doctoral researcher. Her research interests are related to domain modelling, software analysis and design, and automatic code generation.