ISBN: 0-7695-2277-7

Stuart I. Feldman, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

Lutz Heuser, SAP

Ramayya Krishnan, Carnegie Mellon University

John Riedl, University of Minnesota

August-Wilhelm Scheer, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Tongji-University Shanghai and Chinese Academy of Science

S. Kameshwaran, INRIA Lorraine

L. Benyoucef, INRIA Lorraine

X. Xie, INRIA Lorraine

Arne Andersson, Uppsala University

Jim Holmström, Uppsala University

Mattias Willman, Uppsala University

Jie Zhong, North Carolina State University

Peter R. Wurman, North Carolina State University

Vidya Narayanan, University of Southampton

Nicholas R. Jennings, University of Southampton

Rema Ananthanarayanan, IBM India Research Lab

Manoj Kumar, IBM T. J. Watson Research Centre

Per Carlsson, EnerSearch and Uppsala University

Arne Andersson, Uppsala University

Po-An Chen, Academia Sinica

Tyng-Ruey Chuang, Academia Sinica

Sameer Korrapati, North Carolina State University

Peter R. Wurman, North Carolina State University

Juong-Sik Lee, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Boleslaw K. Szymanski, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Dong-Ho Kim, Rutgers University

Il Im, Yonsei University

Vijayalakshmi Atluri, Rutgers University

Alexander Felfernig, University Klagenfurt

Koung-Lung Lin, Academia Sinica Taipei and National Taiwan University

Jane Yung-jen Hsu, National Taiwan University

Han-Shen Huang, Academia Sinica Taipei

Chun-Nan Hsu, Academia Sinica Taipei

Shiow-yang Wu, National Dong Hwa University

Kuo-Chang Lin, National Information Infrastructure Enterprise Promotion Association

Martina Gerst, University of Edinburgh

Kai Jakobs, Aachen University

Amir Ronen, Technion

Rina Talisman, Technion

Andrew Boyer, Carnegie Mellon University

Bernd Bruegge, Technische Universität München

Daniel P. Siewiorek, Carnegie Mellon University

Shapiee Abd Rahman, University of Aizu

Subhash Bhalla, University of Aizu

Tetsuya Hashimoto, University of Aizu

Srijith K. Nair, Vrije Universiteit

Bogdan C. Popescu, Vrije Universiteit

Chandana Gamage, Vrije Universiteit

Bruno Crispo, Vrije Universiteit

Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Vrije Universiteit

Piero De Sabbata, ENEA

Nicola Gessa, University of Bologna

Guido Cucchiara, Gruppo SOI

Thomas Imolesi, FTI-Italy

Fabio Vitali, University of Bologna

Susanne Robra-Bissantz, University of Erlangen

Angela Zabel, University of Erlangen

Yew-Huey Liu, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

Jih-Shyr Yih, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

Florian Pinel, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

Florian Lang, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

Constantin Brunn, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

Yuriy Nevmyvaka, Carnegie Mellon University

Michael Kearns, University of Pennsylvania

Amy Papandreou, Lehman Brothers

Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University

Boaz Golany, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Oded Shmueli, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Y. Liu, Hanan Aviation Information Center

M. Liang, University of Ottawa

Thomas Friese, Siemens AG Corporate Technology and University of Marburg

Jörg P. Müller, Siemens AG Corporate Technology

Matthew Smith, University of Marburg

Bernd Freisleben, University of Marburg

Jianbin Wei, Wayne State University

Cheng-Zhong Xu, Wayne State University

Xiaobo Zhou, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

Ching Lin, Macquarie University

Vijay Varadharajan, Macquarie University

Yan Wang, Macquarie University

Vineet Pruthi, Indian Institute of Technology - Roorkee

Giovanni Maria Sacco, Universit? di Torino

Thomas Specht, Fraunhofer IAO

Jens Drawehn, Fraunhofer IAO

Maik Thr?nert, Universit?t Leipzig

Stefan K?, Universit?t Leipzig

Sheng Zhang, Dartmouth College

Weihong Wang, Dartmouth College

James Ford, Dartmouth College

Fillia Makedon, Dartmouth College

Justin Pearlman, Dartmouth Medical School

Ulrich Faisst, University of Augsburg

Oliver Prokein, University of Freiburg

Dimitri do B. DeFigueiredo, University of California at Davis

Earl T. Barr, University of California at Davis

Michal Feldman, University of California at Berkeley

John Chuang, University of California at Berkeley

Blerim Rexha, Siemens AG

Lutz Lowis, University of Freiburg

Adolf Hohl, University of Freiburg

Steven Taylor, Macquarie University

Paul A. Watters, Macquarie University

Baolin Wu, Swinburne University of Technology

Mohammed Dewan, Swinburne University of Technology

Li Li, Swinburne University of Technology

Yun Yang, Swinburne University of Technology

Koichi Hayashi, UL Systems Inc.

Reki Murakami, UL Systems Inc.

D. Garg, Indian Institute of Science - Bangalore

Y. Narahari, Indian Institute of Science - Bangalore

Earnest Foster, General Motors Research and Development

Devadatta Kulkarni, General Motors Research and Development

Jeffrey D. Tew, General Motors Research and Development

Martin Bernhardt, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt

Oliver Hinz, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt

Denilson Sell, Stela Group and INE, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina and The Open University

Liliana Cabral, The Open University

Enrico Motta, The Open University

John Domingue, The Open University

Farshad Hakimpour, The Open University

Roberto Pacheco, Stela Group and INE, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Liangzhao Zeng, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Hui Lei, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Jun-jang Jeng, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Jen-Yao Chung, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Boualem Benatallah, University of New South Wales

Henner Gimpel, University of Karlsruhe

Juho Mäkiö, University of Karlsruhe

Christof Weinhardt, University of Karlsruhe

Werner Streitberger, University of Bayreuth

Hung-Wen Tung, Institute for Information Industry

Raymund J. Lin, Institute for Information Industry

Jung-Ching Chen, University of Manchester

Nicolas E. Gold, King's College London

Nikolay Mehandjiev, University of Manchester

Paul J. Layzell, University of Manchester

Marisa Masvoula, University of Athens

George Kontolemakis, University of Athens

Panagiotis Kanellis, University of Athens

Drakoulis Martakos, University of Athens

S?ren Preibusch, German Institute for Economic Research

Michael Schwind, Frankfurt University

Aida Jertila, RWTH Aachen

Mareike Schoop, University of Hohenheim

Samia Nefti, University of Salford

Farid Meziane, University of Salford

Khairudin Kasiran, University of Salford

Sudhir Agarwal, University of Karlsruhe

Steffen Lamparter, University of Karlsruhe

Mao Chen, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

Jakka Sairamesh, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

Manos Dramitinos, Athens University of Economics and Business

George D. Stamoulis, Athens University of Economics and Business

Costas Courcoubetis, Athens University of Economics and Business

Dalu Zhang, Tongji University

Liqiang Jing, Tongji University

Uddam Chukmol, Institut de Technologie du Cambodge

Rami Rifaieh, National Institute of Applied Science of Lyon

Nabila Aicha Benharkat, National Institute of Applied Science of Lyon

L?via Kacsukn? Bruckner, International Business School - Budapest

J?zsef Csel?nyi, University of Miskolc

Vijayakrishnan Pasupathinathan, Macquarie University

Josef Pieprzyk, Macquarie University

Huaxiong Wang, Macquarie University

Sultan Almuhammadi, University of Southern California

Clifford Neuman, University of Southern California

Martin Schmucker, Fraunhofer Institut für Graphische Datenverarbeitung

Peter Ebinger, Fraunhofer Institut für Graphische Datenverarbeitung

Kathrin Lehmann, Technische Universitaet Muenchen

Florian Matthes, Technische Universitaet Muenchen

Changjie Wang, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Dickson K. W. Chiu, Dickson Computer Systems

Ho-fung Leung, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Shaobin Wang, Huazhong University of Science & Technology

Fan Hong, Huazhong University of Science & Technology

Guohua Cui, Huazhong University of Science & Technology

Byung kwan Lee, Kwandong University

Tai-Chi Lee, Saginaw Valley State University

Seung Hae Yang, Kwandong University

M. Weiss, Carleton University

D. Amyot, University of Ottawa

Wei-Lun Chang, National Chengchi University

Soe-Tsyer Yuan, National Chengchi University

Jo?o Eduardo Ferreira, University of S?o Paulo

Osvaldo Kotaro Takai, University of S?o Paulo

Calton Pu, Georgia Institute of Technology

Florian Rosenberg, Vienna University of Technology

Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology

Vivying S. Y. Cheng, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Patrick C. K. Hung, University of Ontario Institute of Technology

Farshad Hakimpour, The Open University

Denilson Sell, The Open University and Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Liliana Cabral, The Open University

John Domingue, The Open University

Enrico Motta, The Open University

Moritz Strasser, Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg

Shuhua Liu, ?bo Akademi University

Thomas Kwok, Thomas J. Watson Research Center

Thao Nguyen, Thomas J. Watson Research Center

Petar Djekic, University of Cologne

Claudia Loebbecke, University of Cologne

Ulrich Greveler, Ruhr University Bochum

Vural Ünlü, Munich School of Management

Thomas Hess, Munich School of Management

Jaime Delgado, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Jose Prados, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Eva Rodr?guez, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Stephen J. H. Yang, National Central University

Norman W. Y. Shao, National Kaohsiung First University of Science & Technology

Addison Y. S. Sue, National Central University

Jen-Yao Chung, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

Theodore K. Apostolopoulos, Athens University of Economics & Business

Ilias S. Kapetanakis, Athens University of Economics & Business

George Oikonomou, Athens University of Economics & Business

Katrin Ga?ner, Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering

Guy Vollmer, Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering

Mirko Prehn, Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering

Martin Fiedler, Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering

Sebastian Ssmoller, Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering

Yuan-Chu Hwang, National Chengchi University and Dahan Institute of Technology

Soe-Tsyr Yuan, National Chengchi University

Odorico von Susani, University of Geneva

Philippe Dugerdil, Haute Ecole de Gestion

Martin Bierbaumer, University of Klagenfurt

Johann Eder, University of Klagenfurt

Horst Pichler, University of Klagenfurt

Yehia Thabet Kotb, University of Mannheim

Essameddin Badreddin, University of Mannheim

Juho Tikkala, DEM Solutions

Paavo Kotinurmi, Helsinki University of Technology

Timo Soininen, Helsinki University of Technology

Ulf T. Mattsson, Protegrity

Yutao Guo, Siemens AG

Jörg P. Müller, Siemens AG

Beat Liver, Credit Suisse

Jeannette Braun, M?hlestr

Beatrix Rentsch, Ascom AG

Peter Roth, OMEGA IT-Consulting