Kurt Geihs is a full professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Kassel in Germany. His research and teaching interests include distributed systems, operating systems, networks, and software technology. Current research projects focus on self-adaptive distributed systems, QoS management in middleware, service management in service-oriented architectures, and soccer robots. He has published more than 100 refereed articles and is author / co-author / editor of several books. Before joining the University of Kassel he was professor at TU Berlin and University of Frankfurt, and a researcher at the IBM European Networking Center in Heidelberg. He holds a PhD in computer science from the Aachen University of Technology, a M.Sc. in Computer Science from UCLA and a Diplom-Informatiker degree from TU Darmstadt.