Hans-Ludwig Hausen holds degrees on Electrical Engineering and on Computer Science from the technical University of Berlin and is currently a Senior Researcher and Manager at GMD German National Research Center for Information Technology. In the last 20 years he got experience as project manager, consultant and lecturer on CASE, Quality
Engineering, Software Process Programming, and on Conformance Testing in national and international projects. Based on that experience he has written more than 60 publications on software engineering environments, software quality engineering, software process engineering, as well as on CSCW for software projects. H. is a member of programme committees of IEEE and ACM special interests groups, a contributor to international standardization bodies, including ISO and IEEE, and an expert advisor to national and European government.