Dr. Hermann Hellwagner has been a full professor of computer science (more precisely of “systems integration”) at the University Klagenfurt since late 1998. He received his M.Sc. (Dipl.-Ing.) in 1983 and his Ph.D. (Dr.techn.) in 1988 (for research on systolic arrays), both from the University Linz. His current research areas of interest are distributed multimedia systems, multimedia communications, and Internet QoS. Current projects are on digital video communication, multimedia adaptation, and multimedia bit stream description techniques within the MPEG-21 Digital Item Adaptation (DIA) standardization effort. He is the editor of several books and publishes regularly on multimedia communications and adaptation in referred journals and conference proceedings. He has organized several international conferences and workshops. He is a member of the IEEE, GI, and OCG as well as the head of the Austrian delegation to the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG - ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11). Publications can be found under http://www-itec.uni-klu.ac.at/~hellwagn/.

Dr. Christian Timmerer received his M.Sc. (Dipl.-Ing.) in January 2003 and his Ph.D. (Dr.techn.) in June 2006 (for research on the adaptation of scalable multimedia content in streaming and constraint environments) both from the Klagenfurt University. He joined the Klagenfurt University in 1999 and is currently a University Assistant (Univ.-Ass.) the Department of Information Technology (ITEC) where he also chairs the IT administration group. At the university, he has been working on coding-format agnostic resource adaptation within the MPEG-21 Multimedia Framework. Other research interests include the transport of multimedia content, multimedia adaptation in constrained and streaming environments, distributed multimedia adaptation, and Quality of Service / Quality of Experience. He has published more than 20 papers (incl. book chapters and tutorials) in these areas and participated in the work of ISO/MPEG for several years, notably as the deputy head of the Austrian delegation, coordinator of several core experiments, co-chair of several ad-hoc groups, and as editor for Parts 7 and 8 of MPEG-21, Digital Item Adaptation and Reference Software. Publications and MPEG contributions can be found under http://research.timmerer.com.

Dipl.-Ing. Michael Ransburg received his M.Sc. (Dipl.-Ing.) from the Klagenfurt University in November 2003 for his master thesis on MPEG-21 Digital Item Adaptation. He joined the Klagenfurt University in January 2004 to work as a Project Assistant for the Department of Information Technology (ITEC) in the scope of the DANAE EU IST project. At the university, he is pursuing his PHD in the scope of dynamic and distributed adaptation, with focus on the MPEG-21 Multimedia Framework. Other research interests include the storage and transport of multimedia content and its related metadata. He has published several papers, and participates in the work of ISO/MPEG as an editor of two international standards in the scope of MPEG-21 DIA and the ISO Base Media File Format. He also demonstrated the DANAE Distributed Adaptation Framework at several MPEG meetings. In 2006 he completed his work as a leader of the "Distributed Adaptation Framework" task in DANAE, which received the highest EC rating (“good to excellent project”). Consequently he is now continuing his work as a project assistant in the scope of the ENTHRONE 2 project. Publications and MPEG contributions can be found under http://work.unfolded.com.

Dipl.-Ing. Ingo Kofler received his M.Sc. (Dipl.-Ing.) from the University of Klagenfurt in March 2006. In his master thesis he investigated approaches for an efficient adaptation decision-taking within the MPEG-21 multimedia framework. Since February 2006 he is a project assistant at the department of information technology (ITEC). He investigated the use of MPEG-21 Digital Item Adaptation for cross-resource adaptation within the DANAE project (finished June 2006) and is now working on the cross-layer adaptation in ENTHRONE 2.

Dipl.-Ing. Hubert Gressl received his M.Sc. (Dipl.-Ing.) from the University of Klagenfurt in June 2007. In his master thesis he evaluated standard security mechanisms for the streaming of multimedia data. In November 2006 he started to work at the department of information technology (ITEC) at the University of Klagenfurt in the scope of the RealBiM project. In July 2007 he joined the ENTHRONE II team as project assistant. The focus of his work is the integration of metadata processing in the BiM-encoded domain in the distributed gBSD-based adaptation process in ENTHRONE II.

Michael Sablatschan is a student at Klagenfurt University since 2002 with the current research focus on multimedia communication. Currently working on master thesis about E2E QoS Management of Multimedia Services in heterogenous environments. In the context of the master thesis: development of the E2EQos-Manager and Adaptation-Manager for the ENTHRONE II project.