Marian Kogler studied informatics at Klagenfurt University with a focus on distributed multimedia systems. Beside his studies he worked at the M3-Systems research lab and at BAP enterprise, developing enterprise resource planning software.  He finished his studies in April 2009 with his master’s thesis entitled “command protocols in distributed and video-supported traffic management systems“, which was written as part of a national project with ASFINAG as the industrial partner.  He joined the Distributed Multimedia Systems group in May 2009, where he is currently working on his PhD thesis within a Lakeside Labs research project called SOMA.

Oliver Lampl studied telematics/network  engineering at Carinthia University of Applied Sciences (CUAS), where he received the degree Dipl.-Ing FH in 2002. While completing his master´s thesis in the field of process automation, he worked at Hollomey Consultants GmbH. After graduation he continued to work at Hollomey as a software developer. In August 2007 he moved to Kristl, Seibt & Co GmbH, where he currently  works in the field of automotive engineering.
Within the Distributed Multimedia Systems group, his research area is in the field of programming languages, focusing on new language features to support multimedia application development.

This work covers aspects of multimedia application development currently missing in common programming languages like C#, Java, Modula-3 etc. We are trying to apply new features by adding minimal extensions to the language.
This project focuses on the aspects of simple, implicit language embedded parallelism and language embedded quality of service.

Klaus Schöffmann was born in 1979 in St. Veit/Glan, Austria. Since September 2009 he has been an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Information Technology at Klagenfurt University. He received his PhD degree in June 2009 and his master in informatics in March 2005, both from Klagenfurt University and both with distinction. His master´s thesis focused on the design and implementation of a video session migration system. In his PhD thesis he investigated possibilities for combining video browsing, video retrieval, and video summarization for immediate video exploration. In his current research he is further pursuing this field of research with additional focus on collaborative video exploration. He is the author of numerous publications on video browsing and video content analysis.

Anita Sobe finished her master´s degree in informatics at Klagenfurt University in spring 2008. She wrote her diploma thesis at the NEC Network Labs in Heidelberg about the interworking of the Generic Bootstrapping Architecture and the Liberty Alliance Identity Provider in IMS-based IPTV systems. 
Before that, she completed an internship (Praxissemester) at the IBM Zurich Research Lab. She teaches practical courses in distributed systems and programming. In her current research as a university assistant, she is concentrating on self-organizing multimedia delivery.

Martina Steinbacher graduated from  the business school Feldkirchen in 1996. In the years following she served as the front-office-manager in a hotel. During winter seasons she was responsible for the administration of a ski school and also worked as a skiing instructor. She joined the Distributed Multimedia Systems group in 2001 and since then has handled the various administrative activities of  the research group and of ITEC. In particular, she is in charge of project management, conference organization and graphic design activities.

Mario Taschwer completed his  master´s degree in mathematics and physics at Vienna University in 1996. Between 1998 and 2001 he worked as a university assistant  for the System Security research group at Klagenfurt University´s Institute of Applied Informatics. After a year of working as a free RTLinux consultant and developer for FSMLabs Inc. in Austria, he was employed by Quant-X GmbH, St. Veit/Glan, as an HPC (High Performance Computing) consultant in 2002. Since 2003 he has been responsible for managing the server systems and networking infrastructure at ITEC, where he also gives courses in computer organization and compiler construction.

Roland Tusch received both his master´s and PhD degree in applied computer science from Klagenfurt University in 1999 and 2004, respectively. In August 2004, he co-founded the M3-Systems research lab with the aim of transferring the Institute’s multimedia research know-how to industry. Over the next four years, the lab completed one translational and a number of applied research projects. In October 2008 he joined the Lakeside Labs cDrones project for three months, where he helped to develop the system architecture. Since January 2009 Roland has been a post-doc researcher in the Lakeside Labs project SOMA in the area of self-organizing multimedia data and metadata management in the traffic domain.

Stefan Wieser studied applied computer science at Klagenfurt University. After conducting independent research projects in bioinformatics during an exchange semester at the University of Northern Iowa, USA, he moved to the University of Tasmania, Australia, to perform research on video acquisition on unmanned underwater vehicles in cooperation with the Australian Maritime College. During this time, he was also responsible for tutoring computer science related classes. He completed his Master of Computing in 2008 with high distinction  and then began his current work on self-organizing networks back at Klagenfurt University. Currently, he is focusing on communication and network topologies in self-organizing systems and networks, in cooperation with the Lakeside Labs, SOMA project.