Chris Verhoef is a computer science professor at the Free University of Amsterdam. He is principal external scientific advisor of Deutsche Bank AG, New York, USA, and an executive board member of the IEEE Technical Council on Software Engineering. Dr. Verhoef has served in steering committee, general chair, and program chair positions for several important juried research conferences, including conferences on software architecture, software maintenance, reverse engineering, and reengineering. Dr. Verhoef is a distinguished speaker for IEEE Computer Society. He has acted as a scientific advisor in several software-intensive areas, notably for defense, hardware manufacturing, telecommunications companies, financial enterprises, government, leading software renovation companies, and large service providers. Dr. Verhoef can be reached at Tel: +3120444 7760; E-mail: x at cs.vu.nl.