Karl M. Göschka has been researching and teaching at the Vienna University of Technology as well as the University of Applied Sciences Campus Vienna and the University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien since 1994. For more than 25 years he has been working with distributed and reliable systems, databases and web engineering and has led national and international research and development projects in these areas for more than ten years. He is also a self-employed consultant; his clients include Ericsson, Siemens, Frequentis and the Austrian Federal Railways. From 2000-2003 he was Chief Scientist and Director of the Research Department at Frequentis. He is the author of over 120 scientific publications and a regular chair and member of program committees of scientific conferences and workshops as well as reviewer of international journals.