CHAIRS: Ingolf Krüger (University of California, San Diego) and Willem Visser (University of Stellenbosch)
Experiences in Initiating Concurrency Software Research Efforts, K. Eric Harper, Jiang Zheng and Shakeel Mahate (ABB Inc., US Corporate Research, USA)
A Cost-Benefit Framework for Making Architectural Decisions in a Business Context, Jeromy Carriere (Vistaprint Corporation, USA), Rick Kazman (U. of Hawaii and SEI/CMU, USA), and Ipek Ozkaya (SEI/CMU, USA)