Bettina Kemme is associate professor at the School of Computer Science of McGill University, Montreal, Canada. She received her undergraduate degree at the Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen, Germany, and her Ph.D. at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ). Her research focus lies in the design and development of distributed information systems, in particular, in data consistency aspects and the interplay between communication and data management. Her work on data replication is well known in the database and distributed systems communities. She has been PC member of many database and distributed systems conferences, such as VLDB, SIGMOD, ICDE, EDBT, Middleware, ICDCS, Eurosys, and P2P. She has been on the Editorial Board for the Encyclopedia of Database Systems, Springer, and track co-chair of ICDE 2009. She is area editor of Information Systems, Elsevier. Ricardo Jiménez Peris is associate professor at Universidad Politecnica de Madrid and co-director of the Distributed Systems Lab (LSD). He received his master and PhD degrees from Universidad Politecnica de Madrid. He was a visiting postdoc researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ). His research interests have been around scalable and fault tolerant distributed systems and currently focusing on cloud computing. His research on scalable data replication during the last decade has obtained well-known results in the distributed systems and database communities. He is coordinator of the Stream European project on data stream cloud sys[1]tems. He has served as General chair at SRDS, Programme committee chair at EDCC, workshop chair at ICDCS, and tutorial chair at LADC, as well as Programme committee member at ICDCS, DSN, DISC, SRDS, EDCC among others. He has also been member of the expert group on cloud computing appointed by the European Commission. Marta Patiño-Martínez is associate professor at the Computer Science School of Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain. She received her master degree from Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain and her PhD degree from Universidad Politecnica de Madrid. She was a visiting postdoc researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ). Her research has focused on distributed systems with special emphasis on scalability and high availability. Her research on scalable data replication during the last 10 years has attracted the attention of many researchers from the distributed systems and database community. She is coordinator of the CumuloNimbo European project on cloud transactional systems. She has served in the Programme Committee of several distributed and database conferences such as VLDB, ICDCS, ICDE, SRDS, Middleware, and EDCC.
