2.1 Key Personnel Herwig Rehatschek, Ph.D., M.Sc. Herwig Rehatschek was born in 1969 in Graz. After finishing high-school he started to study Telematics in 1987. He received his M.Sc. in 1993 from the University of Technology, Graz. After about one year working in industry designing and implementing industrial control systems he started with his Ph.D. thesis and received his Ph.D. in technical sciences in 1997 from the University of Technology, Graz. Since then he is working at the non-profit research company JOANNEUM RESEARCH with a main emphasis on digital media and digital asset management systems. Since then he participated in many international projects and also managed and co-ordinated some of them. Helmut Neuschmied, Ph.D., M.Sc. Born on 9 November 1967 in Tirol/Austria. Study of Telematik (information technology) at the University of Technology in Graz and 1995 ­ 1996 PhD study at the institute for Computer Graphics and Vision at the University of Technology in Graz and at the company AVL List GmbH. PhD thesis: "Analysis of endoscopic images of cyclical combustion processes in engines". Since 1998 Research engineer at the Institute of Information Systems & Information Management at JRS. Peter Schallauer, M.Sc. Born on 26th July 1969 in Sierning/Austria. Study of "Telematik" (information technology), branch "Image Analysis" at the Graz University of Technology. Diploma thesis on the topic "Digital Image Sequence Restoration" (in English) at the Institute of Computer Graphics and Vision (Graz University of Technology) and JRS in Graz. Degree of "Diplom-Ingenieur" (equivalent to M.Sc.). Since 1995 Research engineer at JRS, at the Institute of Information Systems & Information Management. Main fields of activity: Research and development of a semi-automatical digital film restoration system, Project co-ordination for managing the ESPRIT project FRAME (Parallel software development for SCI-clustered PC's). Walter Plaschzug born in 1966, studied TELEMATIK at the Technical University in Graz from 1985 to 1990; work on communication products as a technical product manager with Digital Data Systems - Vienna, followed by integration of automatic storage systems; in 1995 start at Joanneum Research ­ Graz, as project co-ordinator for digital multimedia activities (e.g: digital restoration); successful in managing the Esprit project 24220 FRAME as project co- ordinator; since 1998 managing director of HSA in Graz responsible for all activities in the domain of "archives going digital"; Responsible for successful market introduction of the digital film restoration software "DIAMANT", the media monitoring software "Commercial Monitor" and the brand detection tool "Brand Detector". Louis Gay Louis Gay founded DATOPS in 1995 and has served as first President and CEO since inception. Prior to founding DATOPS, Louis was a captain in the French Navy where he has served as a pilot Squadron Commander on board French Navy Aircraft Carriers. After leaving the Navy he has been acting as Business Development Vice President in a start up company specialized in simulation sofware, just before founding DATOPS. Dr Olivier Massiot Olivier Massiot has joined DATOPS after a Professor and Searcher in Nîmes ERIEE University, in the South of France. He is Phd in Artificial Intelligence and presently Chief Technical Officer of DATOPS. Marco Boero. Born in 1955 in Genoa, M. Sc. with a degree in Informatics and Electronic Engineering from the University of Genoa, Dep. of Computer, Telecommunication and Systems Science. His background includes computer, simulation and automation systems for the industry in various areas, including applications for manufacturing systems, transportation, training, resources and risk management. He is experienced in advanced information technology and modelling methods, including Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Based Systems, simulation, Cooperative Working and Decision Support Systems. He is author of more than fifty international papers. He has more than ten year experience in the field of RTD projects both at the national and European level. Enrico Morten. Born in 1953 in Bozen, Italy, M. Sc. with a degree in Informatics and Electronic Engineering from the University of Genoa. He has been working for several major electronic companies in Italy such as Ansaldo and Esaote. Since 1982, he has been working in R&D departments, where he was involved in the development of several industrial research projects in different areas. Pierpaolo Borgato: Born in 1963 in Rovigo,he graduated in Electronic Engineering at the University of Padova, Dep. of Informatics. In 1990 he graduated with an MBA at CUOA (Centro Universitario di Organizzazione Aziendale) in Altavilla, Vicenza. After experiencing in software analysis, testing and client management, he has been IT Manager in a medium size Italian company belonging to the Belgium group Arbed. He is now Production and Systems Director in Nielsen Media Research Italy. Antonio Miraglia: born on 24th April 1964 in Terranova di Pollino (PZ)/Italy. After finishing technical school received a degree in Computer Science at Milan University in 1989. He made his thesis in Olivetti: "Emulating Unix Virtual Memory on the Mach operating system of Carnegie Mellon University". He joined ACNielsen since 1990 in the Media Deveolpment Department. Since 1995 he was responsible of Media Sw development team. He had many experiences on coordination of international project. He was also involved in the implementation of project for automatic advertising recognition for TV and radio. 4.7 DEUTSCHES FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM FÜR KÜNSTLICHE INTELLIGENZ The German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) GmbH is a non-profit research company founded in 1988 by German IT companies and is the leading German research institute in the field of innovative software technology. DFKI has more than 192 full-time employees, including 145 research scientists with advanced degrees. In addition, there are around 170 part-time research assistants. DFKI is focusing on the complete cycle of innovation - from world-class basic research and technology development through leading-edge demonstrators and prototypes to product functions and commercialization. Based in Kaiserslautern and Saarbrücken, the DFKI ranks among the important Centres of Excellence worldwide. DFKI's five research departments are directed by internationally recognized research scientists, furthermore, since 2002 the Institute for Information Systems (IWi) (Director: Prof. August-Wilhelm Scheer) is part of the DFKI. The mission of the three Transfer Centers is to transfer DFKI's research results to commercial application. There are currently three Competence Centers, that bundle know-how, skills, and technologies of DFKI to tackle important questions in e-Learning, Language Technology and Semantic Web. The Multiagent Systems Group, under Prof. J.H. Siekmann, was established in 1991. It has carried out fundamental research in the field of Distributed Artificial Intelligence and has applied the resulting ideas to many areas including transportation, finance, enterprise resource planning, electronic commerce and the control of synthetic characters in virtual worlds. 4.7.1 Key Personnel Alastair Burt Alastair Burt is a researcher at the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). He studied Psychology at the University of Stirling, Scotland and Computing at Imperal College London. In 1990 he joined the Multiagent System Research Group at DFKI GmbH in Saarbrücken in the department of Deduction and Multiagent Systems headed by Prof. H. J. Siekmann. Since then he has has been involved with wide variety of research projects centred around the application of multi agent systems, including participation in several EU projects and taking responsibility for their coordination.