Youakim Badr is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at INSA-Lyon, France. In his past research, he has worked extensively on enterprise modeling and collaborations. His current academic research interests include security and dynamic and autonomic architectures and systems in both the service sector and ICT. In particular, he studies the ecosystem of services and the multidisciplinary modeling approach to design service computing for ubiquitous and self-organized systems. Dr. Badr is heavily involved in a series of international conferences and serves on editorial boards of several international journals. He has also been Guest Editor for journal special issues and serves as a reviewer for prestigious conferences and journals. Dr. Badr can be reached at youakim.badr at insa-lyon.fr.