Ivica Crnkovic received his M.Sc. in electrical engineering and in theoretical physics, and Ph.D in computer science from the University of Zagrab, Croatia. Crnkovic is a professor of software engineering at Mälardalen University, Vasteras, Sweden. A frequent contributor to the literature on component development and co-author of Building Reliable Component-Based Software Systems (Artech House, 2002), he has been co-organizer of IEEE conferences and workshops on software engineering and a program committee member of software configuration management symposia and workshops.