I am pleased to introduce the inaugural members of the Editorial Board.

Liang-Jie (LJ) Zhang

Editor-in-Chief

Mikio Aoyama received the MS degree from Okayama University, Japan, in 1980. Then, he joined Fujitsu Limited, where he was involved in the development of large-scale distributed communications software and the development and practice of advanced software engineering. From 1986 to 1988, he was a visiting scholar at the University of Illinois. In 1995, he joined the Niigata Institute of Technology as a professor, then joined Nanzan University, Japan, in 2001. Currently, he is a professor in the Department of Information and Telecommunication Engineering, Nanzan University, Japan. His current research interests include service-oriented architecture, software architectures, requirements engineering, and embedded software engineering. He has published approximately 20 books and more than 100 articles. His professional services include serving as a member of the executive committee for the IEEE Technical Council on Software Engineering (TCSE) from 2006 to 2007, a member of the board for the IPSJ from 2005 to 2007, a chair of the steering committee for APSEC (Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference) from 2004 to 2007, a chair of the SIG Software Engineering of IPSJ from 2000 to 2004, and a member of the editorial board for IEEE Software from 1991 to 1994. He received a best research award from the IPSJ (Information Processing Society of Japan) in 1993 and a certificate of appreciation from the IEEE Computer Society in 1993.

Paolo Bellavista is an associate professor of computer science engineering in the Department of Electronics, Computer Science, and Systems (DEIS) of the University of Bologna. He is a founding member of the Mobile Middleware Lab at the University of Bologna, dealing with basic research and applications of all aspects of middleware supports for mobile services. In particular, the research group focuses on middleware software architectures, code/state mobility, context representation and modeling, context-dependent connectivity management, context-dependent adaptive and multimodal services, and proxy-based dynamic infrastructures for continuous multimedia in wireless environments. The Mobile Middleware Lab is involved in a variety of research projects funded by the Italian Ministry of Research and Regione Emilia-Romagna, and by grants from a number of companies. His research activities span from mobile and pervasive computing in general to mobile agent-based middlewares, from location/context-aware service supports and their dynamic composition to metadata dissemination in mobile ad hoc and vehicular sensor networks. He is the founder, together with Imrich Chlamtac, of the ICST Conference on Mobile Wireless Middleware, Operating Systems, and Applications (Mobilware). He was the technical program chair of the IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC) in 2006 and of different tracks of the IEEE Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC) in 2007 and 2008. He is a member of various editorial boards, including IEEE Communications Magazine and Elsevier’s Journal of System Architecture. He is the cochair (together with Vinton G. Cerf) of the ICST Publications Committee. He is the coeditor of the Handbook of Mobile Middleware and has authored more than 20 journal/magazine articles, 10 book chapters, and 70 conference/workshop papers. His work has appeared, among others, in the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, and the ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, as well as in Computer, IEEE Internet Computing, IEEE Pervasive Computing, and IEEE Communications. He has served and is serving in all capacities on many congress, conference, and workshop committees. Additional information can be found at http://lia.deis.unibo.it/Staff/PaoloBellavista.

M. Brian Blake received the BS degree in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the PhD degree in information and software engineering from George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia. He is an associate professor and chair of the Computer Science Department at Georgetown University. Prior to and concurrent with his appointment as part of the faculty, he has held positions, such as software architect and technical lead, for Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, and The MITRE Corporation for 14 years. Dr. Blake conducts applied research in the development of intelligent agent approaches for the sharing of information and service-based capabilities across organizational boundaries. He has published more than 80 journal articles and refereed conference papers in the areas of intelligent agents and workflow, service-oriented computing and architectures, component-based software engineering, distributed data management, and software engineering education. In 2006, Dr. Blake was the program cochair of the IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2006) and, in 2007, the program cochair for the IEEE International Conference on Enterprise Computing (EDOC 2007). Dr. Blake serves on the editorial boards of the MultiAgent and Grid Systems Journal, the Journal of E-Business Research, and the International Journal of Service-Oriented Information Systems. In 2008, he has been the track editor of IEEE Internet Computing in the area of Web-scale workflow.

Athman Bouguettaya received the PhD degree in computer science from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1992. He is a science leader at CSIRO ICT Centre, Canberra. He was previously a tenured faculty member in the Computer Science Department at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (commonly known as Virginia Tech). He is on the editorial boards of several journals, including the VLDB Journal, the Distributed and Parallel Databases Journal, and the International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems. He guest edited the IEEE Internet Computing special issue on database technology on the Web and the ACM Transactions on Internet special issue on Semantic Web services. He served as the program chair of the 2008 International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2008), the 20th Australasian Database Conference, and the IEEE RIDE Workshop on Web Services for E-Commerce and E-Government (RIDE-WS-ECEG 2004). He has published more than 100 articles in journals and conferences in the area of databases and service computing (e.g., IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, ACM Transactions on the Web, VLDB Journal, SIGMOD, ICDE, VLDB, and EDBT). His current research interests are in the foundations of Web service management systems. He is a senior member of the IEEE and the ACM.

Hong Cai received the PhD degree from Tsinghua University in 1997. He is now a senior technical lead at the IBM China Development Laboratory (CDL). Before he joined CDL in 2008, he worked at the IBM China Research Laboratory in the field of service research for more than 10 years. During his years of research and development, he has been asked to lead or has established various innovative projects including pervasive computing, service delivery platforms, Session Initiation Protocol, enterprise portfolio management, service science, 3D virtual world enterprise services, etc. He has published more than 40 papers in journals and international conferences and has been awarded more than 10 patents. He is one of the coauthors of the book Services Computing. He has served as a program committee member, workshop chair, local arrangement chair, and student workshop chair for various IEEE international conferences. He is a member of the editorial review board of the International Journal of Web Services Research. He has been promoting services science in the greater China area since 2005, has been invited to teach service computing courses at Tsinghua University, and has been invited to talk about services science at various conferences. He was invited to join the national Expert Collaboration Group of services science (with seven leading Chinese professors) supported by the China Ministry of Education. His current areas of interest include complex networks in services, social services, services in 3D/virtual worlds, virtual learning as services, etc. He is currently the chief architect of the IBM Global Virtual Learning Center of Excellence, which leverages 3D/virtual world technologies to build virtual learning applications for enterprise users such as managers, sales people, and project managers. He is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the ACM.

Wu Chou received the MS degree in mathematics in 1986, the MS degree in electrical engineering in 1987, the MS degree in statistics in 1988, and the PhD degree in electrical engineering in 1990, all from Stanford University, California. He is currently the director and an Avaya Labs fellow at Avaya Labs Research, Avaya Inc., a leading research group on SOA, service-oriented communication, Web services, distributed services platform and middleware, multimodal interaction, communication and dialogue systems, software-as-a-service (SaaS), and communication-enabled business process (CEBP). His research activities cover a wide spectrum of areas in services computing. He has served on various technical communities, industry standard bodies, and editorial boards. He is an expert and an active contributor to industry standard development on Web services, service-oriented communication, speech and language processing, multimodal interaction, and converged communication services. He has been granted more than 20 US and international patents, authored or coauthored more than 100 journal and conference paper publications, three book chapters, and one edited book. He received Bell Laboratories President’s Gold Award in 1997 and an Avaya Leadership Award in 2005. He is a fellow of the IEEE, a member of IEEE Computer Society, the Signal Processing Society, and the Communication Society.

Ernesto Damiani is currently a professor at the University of Milan and the director of the University of Milan’s PhD program in computer science. He has held visiting positions at a number of international institutions, including George Mason University in Virginia, LaTrobe University in Melbourne, Australia, and the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia. He leads the SEcure Service ARchitecture (SESAR) lab in the University of Milan’s Department of Information Technology, dealing with basic research and applications on all aspects of services computing, including business processes representation, orchestration, and monitoring, as well as peer-to-peer, mobile, and location-based systems. The SESAR lab is involved in a variety of research projects funded by the European Commission, the Italian Ministry of Research, and by grants from a number of companies. He has also done extensive research on advanced network infrastructure and protocols, taking part in the design and deployment of secure high-performance networking environments, both as chief scientist and in management positions. His areas of interest include Web services security, processing of semi and unstructured information (e.g., XML), and semantics-aware content engineering for multimedia. Also, he is interested in models and platforms supporting open source development. He is the chair of the IEEE Conference on Digital Ecosystems (IEEE-DEST), the IFIP Working Conference on Open Source Systems, and the IFIP 2.6 WG on Data Semantics. He is a member of various editorial boards, including the Journal of System Architecture. He has published several books and about 200 papers and international patents. His work has appeared, among others, in the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, the ACM Transactions on Information and System Security, and TFS, as well as in the ACM Transactions on Information Systems and the ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. He has served and is serving in all capacities on many congress, conference, and workshop committees. He is a senior member of the IEEE and a distinguished scientist/member of the ACM. His current homepage is at http://olaf.crema.unimi.it.

Schahram Dustdar received the MSc (1990) and PhD degrees (1992) in business informatics from the University of Linz, Austria, and the Habilitation degree in computer science in 2003 from the Vienna University of Technology. He is a full professor of computer science heading the Distributed Systems Group, Institute of Information Systems, Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), where he is the director of the Vita Lab. He is also an honorary professor of information systems in the Department of Computing Science at the University of Groningen (RuG), The Netherlands. He is the chair of the IFIP Working Group 6.4 on internet applications engineering and a founding member of the Scientific Academy of Service Technology. From 1999 to 2007, he worked as the cofounder and chief scientist of Caramba Labs Software AG (CarambaLabs.com) in Vienna (acquired by Engineering NetWorld AG), a venture capital cofunded software company focused on software for collaborative processes in teams. Caramba Labs was nominated for several (international and national) awards: a World Technology Award in the category of Software (2001), Top-Startup companies in Austria (Cap Gemini Ernst & Young) (2002), and MERCUR Innovationspreis der Wirtschaftskammer (2002). Currently, Professor Dustdar is on the management board of the alumni association of TU Wien. He has published some 200 scientific papers as conference, journal, and book contributions. He has written three academic books as well as one professional book. He has published in various journals, including the ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), the ACM Transactions on the Web (TWeb), Distributed and Parallel Databases, Data and Knowledge Engineering, the Journal of Grid Computing, the WWW Journal, and IEEE Multimedia. He coorganized several scientific workshops and conferences and has been serving on more than 200 international program committees as well as on editorial boards of 10 scientific journals. His research interests include service-oriented architectures and computing, grid computing, context computing, autonomic computing, collaborative computing, Internet technologies, distributed systems, and mobile systems. He is a charter member of the Association of Information Systems (AIS) and a member of the IEEE Computer Society, the ACM, and the Austrian Computer Society. He was an invited expert evaluator for the IST Sixth Framework (FP6) of the European Commission as well as an invited expert for the Seventh Framework roadmap definitions for some working groups. He has been a regular scientific reviewer for a number of National Science Foundations (e.g., DFG (Germany), NWO (Netherlands), EPSRC (UK), SFI (Ireland), and NSERC (Canada)). More information can be found at http://www.infosys.tuwein.ac.at/Staff/sd.

Ephraim Feig received the PhD degree in mathematics from the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center. He is the president of Innovations-to-Market, a member of the Tech Coast Angels, and a partner with the San Diego Social Venture Partners. Previously, he was the senior director of services architectures at the Motorola Corporate CTO organization. Before that, he was the CTO and chief marketing officer of Kintera, a company he helped take public in 2003, and before that, spent 20 years at IBM. He was a founding member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Service Computing, the program chair of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS), the general chair of the 2007 IEEE Service Computing Conference (SCC), the program chair of the 2008 IEEE SCC, and served on the board of directors of the San Diego Symphony. He also serves on advisory boards at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), the University of San Diego, and the Graduate Center of CUNY. He holds 29 US patents, has published more than 100 technical papers, and has taught at eight universities, including Columbia University, CUNY, and UCSD. He is a fellow of the IEEE.

Michael Goul is a professor in the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. He is a faculty member in the Department of Information Systems and a research associate with the School’s Center for Services Leadership. Dr. Goul has been actively involved in the International Conferences on Web Services and Services Computing since their inception. He has worked on funded services computing research with the US Army, Intel, American Express, and Teradata. His research in services computing has or will soon appear in the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Communications of the Association for Information Systems, Information Systems Frontiers, the International Journal of Services Science, and numerous other conference proceedings, journal publications, and practitioner outlets. Beyond the engineering and business disciplines, Dr. Goul was appointed by the professional advisory board of the Clinton School of Public Service to the position of “Distinguished Professor Fellow.” He spent a funded sabbatical in residence at the Clinton School exchanging services computing perspectives with the highest level of nationally elected officials, world policy makers, philanthropic organizations, legal experts, e-government experts, etc. This experience significantly broadened his understanding of the parallels between services computing perspectives in the public and private sectors. Dr. Goul’s current work involves collaborative design of self-service technologies, dynamic e-learning service systems, and mathematics related to the integration of business process management, services architecture, and virtualized infrastructure. He has authored or coauthored more than 50 journal and refereed proceedings papers.

Patrick C.K. Hung is an associate professor with the Faculty of Business and Information Technology at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology and an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. He is currently collaborating with Boeing Phantom Works, Seattle, Washington, and Bell Canada on security and privacy-related research projects, and he has filed two US patent applications for the "Mobile Network Dynamic Workflow Exception Handling System." He is also cooperating on Web services composition research projects with Southeast University in China. Recently, he has been working on a mobile healthcare project with the Hong Kong Red Cross with the Chinese Unviersity of Hong Kong. He is an executive committee member of the IEEE Computer Society’s Technical Steering Committee for Services Computing, a steering committee member of the IEEE International EDOC Enterprise Computing Conference, and an associate editor/editorial board member/guest editor for several international journals, such as the IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, the International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR), and the International Journal of Business Process and Integration Management (IJBPIM). He has published more than 100 research and technical articles in international journals, conferences, and workshops.

Kazuo Iwano is the vice president of the Yamato Software Laboratory of IBM Corporation and he also serves as an affiliate professor at Kyusyu University, Tsukuba University, and the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. Prior to holding these positions, he was in charge of various responsibilities, including being director of the Tokyo Research Laboratory at IBM research, director of autonomic computing at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, and director of emerging business at IBM Asia Pacific in charge of grid and autonomic computing. He has been serving as a program committee member of various international conferences, such as Service Computing and Autonomic Computing. He has authored more than 10 books and book chapters, and more than 50 academic papers for journals and international conferences about algorithms, combinatorial optimization, and autonomic computing. His current interests include autonomic computing, dependable computing, and service-oriented architecture. He is an active member of a number of professional services boards and committees. He is currently a fellow of the Information Professing Society of Japan and an associate member of the Science Council of Japan.

Hemant Jain is the Wisconsin Distinguished & Tata Consultancy Services Professor of Management Information Systems. He has published more than 50 articles in leading journals like Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, the Journal of MIS, the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Navel Research Quarterly, Decision Sciences, Decision Support Systems, Communications of ACM, and Information & Management. Additionally, he has published more than 40 papers in referred conference proceedings. Professor Jain is the associate editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Services Computing. He also serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Association of Information Systems, Information Technology & Management, the International Journal of Web Services Research, and the International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making. He is on the board and a member of the steering committee of the IEEE Technical Community for Services Computing and is a member of the Service, Systems, and Organizations Technical Committee of the IEEE SMC Society. He was a general cochair of the IEEE International Conference on Web Services 2008. He was the program committee cochair of 2004 IEEE Conference on Web Services.

Pankaj Jalote received the BTech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur), the MS degree from Pennsylvania State University, and the PhD degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is currently the Microsoft Chair Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. Earlier, he was a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Kanpur, where he was also the head of the Computer Science and Engineering Department from 1998 to 2002. From 1985 to 1989, he was an assistant professor at the University of Maryland at College Park. From 1996 to 1998, he was the vice president (quality) at Infosys Technologies Ltd., a large Bangalore-based software house, and from 2003 to 2004, was a visiting researcher at Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington. He is the author of four books, including the highly acclaimed CMM in Practice (Addison Wesley, 1999) , which has been translated in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc. , and the best selling text book, An Integrated Approach to Software Engineering (Springer, 3rd Edition 2006). He is an advisor to many companies and is on the Technical Advisor Board of Microsoft Research India (Bangalore). His main area of interest is software engineering. He was on the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering and the International Journal on Empirical Software Engineering. He is a fellow of the IEEE.

Akhil Kumar received the PhD degree from the University of California, Berkeley, was previously on the faculties at Cornell University and the University of Colorado, and has also spent a sabbatical year as a member of the technical staff at Bell Labs, Murray Hill, New Jersey. Currently, he is a professor of information systems at the Smeal College of Business at Pennsylvania State University. His research interests are in business process management, e-services, distributed information systems, and intelligent systems. He has done pioneering work on XML-based workflows and has published more than 70 papers in international journals and conferences. His scholarly work appeared in various IEEE transactions, the ACM Transactions on Database Management, Information Systems, Information Systems Research, the Journal of MIS, Management Science, Decision Support Systems, and the INFORMS Journal on Computing. He has served on many editorial boards and also as a US National Science Foundation panelist, an invited speaker, and, recently, the cochair of the 17th Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems. He is a member of the ACM and the IEEE.

Anup Kumar received the PhD degree from North Carolina State University and is currently a professor of the Computer Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Louisville, Kentucky. He is also the director of the Mobile Information Network and Distributed Systems (MINDS) Lab (www.cs.louisville.edu/minds). His research interests include Web services, wireless networks, distributed system modeling, and simulation. He is also the associate editor of the Internal Journal of Web Services Research and the International Society of Computers and Their Application Journal. He is a member of the IEEE Distinguished Visitor Program (2006-2008). He is currently serving on the organizing/program committees of many IEEE-sponsored international conferences, including MASS 2008, SCC 2008, and ICWS 2008. He was the chair of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Simulation (TCSIM) (2004-2007). He has published and presented more than 150 papers. Some of his papers have appeared in the ACM Multimedia Systems Journal, the IEEE Transactions on Computers, the IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing, the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, etc. He was the associate editor of the International Journal of Engineering Design and Automation from 1995 to 1998. He has served on many conference program and organizing committees, such as IEEE ISCC 2007, IEEE ICSW 2006, IEEE MASS 2005, IEEE SCC 2005, IEEE ICWS 2005, CIT 2005, IEEE MASCOTS, and ADCOM 1997 and 1998. He has also edited special issues of the IEEE Internet Magazine and the International Journal on Computers and Operations Research. He is a senior member of the IEEE.

Frank Leymann is a full professor of computer science and director of the Institute of Architecture of Application Systems at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. His research interests include service-oriented computing and middleware, workflow- and business process management, programming in the large, transaction processing, integration technology, and architecture patterns. Before accepting his professor position, he worked for two decades for the IBM Software Group building database and middleware products: He built tools supporting conceptual and physical database design for DB2, built performance prediction and monitoring tools for an object database system, was coarchitect of a repository system, built both a universal relation system as well as a complex object database system on top of DB2, and was coarchitect of the MQSeries family. In parallel to that, Dr. Leymann worked continuously since the late 1980s on workflow technology and became the father of IBM’s workflow product set. As an IBM Distinguished Engineer and elected member of the IBM Academy of Technology, he contributed to the architecture and strategy of IBM’s entire middleware stack as well as IBM’s On Demand Computing strategy. From 2000 on, Dr. Leymann worked as a coarchitect of the Web Service stack. He is a coauthor of many Web Service specifications, including WSFL, BPEL, WS-Addressing, WS-Metadata Exchange, WS-Business Agreement, the WS-Resource Framework set of specifications, and BPEL4People. Since joining the University of Stuttgart, Dr. Leymann has worked on several third-party funded research projects: As scientific director of the EU FP6 project Super, he set the direction for the whole project, which is about combining semantics technology and business process technology. In the EU FP6 project TripCom, his group contributes to combine SOA technoloy and space-based computing. The focus of his work for the Nexus DFG Center of Excellence is in the area of context-aware business processes. For the BMBF project Tools4BPEL, extensions of BPEL for specifying choreographies and their QoS are worked out. For the DFG Excellence Cluster SimTech, his group contributes a service-oriented environment for modeling and executing multiscale simulations. In the DFG Graduate School GSaME, work is done on a service-based environment for adaptive business processes in manufacturing environments. Four EU FP7 projects focus on different aspects of engineering SOA applications, like ensuring compliance (Compas), security (MASTER), adaptability (S-Cube), and advanced composition patterns (ALLOW). Dr. Leymann has published many papers in journals and proceedings, coauthored three text books, and holds a multitude of patents especially in the area of workflow management and transaction processing. He has served on the program committees and organization committees of many international conferences, and he is the editor-in-chief or associated editor of a couple of journals.

Ling Liu is an associate professor in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. There, she directs the research programs in Distributed Data Intensive Systems Lab (DiSL), examining performance, security, privacy, and data management issues in building large scale distributed computing systems and services. Dr. Liu and the DiSL research group have been working on various aspects of distributed data intensive systems, ranging from decentralized overlay networks, mobile computing and location-based services, sensor network and event stream processing, to service-oriented computing and architectures. She has published more than 200 international journal and conference articles in the areas of Internet computing systems, Internet data management, distributed systems, and data privacy and Internet security. Her research group has produced a number of open source software systems, among which, the most popular ones include WebCQ, XWRAPElite, and PeerCrawl. Dr. Liu has chaired a number of popular conferences as a program committee chair, vice program committee chair, or a general chair. The most recent ones include the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering and the IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing. Dr. Liu is currently on the editorial board of several international journals, including the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, the Very Large Data Bases Journal (VLDBJ), the Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications Journal (Springer), the International Journal of Web Services Research, and the Wireless Network Journal (WINET). Dr. Liu was the recipient of the best paper award at ICDCS 2003 and WWW 2004 and a recipient of the 2005 Pat Goldberg Memorial Best Paper Award.

Zhen Liu received the PhD degree in computer science from the University of Orsay (Paris XI), France. He was with France Telecom R&D and then with the French National Research Center on Information and Automation (INRIA). He is now with the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center and is the senior manager of the Next Generation Distributed Systems Department. Dr. Liu is a fellow of IEEE and a member of the IFIP W.G. 7.3 on performance modeling. He has served on US National Science Foundation panels and a number of conference program committees. Dr. Liu is the general chair of ACM Sigmetrics 2008 and was the program cochair of the Joint Conference of ACM Sigmetrics and IFIP Performance 2004. His current research interests are in distributed and networked systems and services, performance modeling and optimization, distributed optimization and control, service composition.

Hong Mei received a Bachelor’s degree and a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Nanjing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics (NUAA) in 1984 and 1987 respectively, and a Doctorate degree in Computer Science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1992. In 1992, he joined in Peking University (PKU) as a post-doctoral research fellow. From 1994 to present, he was working at the Department of Computer Science and Technology and the School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science in PKU, and became associate professor in 1994 and full professor in 1997. In 2005, he became a "Chang Jiang Scholars Program" professor of Ministry of Education. From 1999 to 2000, he was working at Software Production Research in Bell Labs at Naperville, IL as a visiting Scientist. He is the dean of School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, director of Institute of Software, the director of Key Laboratory of High Confidence Software Technologies (Peking University), Ministry of Education. His current research interests include: Software Engineering and Software Engineering Environment, Software Reuse and Software Component Technology, Distributed Object Technology and Middleware, and Service Computing.

Louise E. Moser received the PhD degree in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is currently a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her current research interests span the fields of distributed systems, computer networks, software engineering, and services computing, and include, in particular, service-oriented architectures, Web services, mobile computing, multimodal user interfaces, middleware, network protocols, dependability, and performance evaluation. She is the codirector of the Computer Networks and Distributed Systems Laboratory at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. Moser has authored or coauthored more than 250 conference and journal publications and has 10 US patents granted or pending. She has served as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Computers, as an area editor for Computer magazine in the area of networks, and now as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Services Computing. She has also served on many technical program committees for conferences, including the IEEE International Conference on Web Services, the IEEE International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, the IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing, the IEEE International Symposium on Object-Oriented Real-Time Distributed Computing, and the IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems. She regularly serves as a reviewer for the US National Science Foundation and the Hong Kong Research Grants Council. She has been active in various standards bodies, including the Service Availability Forum and the Object Management Group, and has served as a technical editor for the IEEE-ISTO SCOPE Alliance. She is a member of the IEEE and the ACM.

Erich J. Neuhold is currently a professor of computer science at the University of Vienna and a free consultant in information and communication technology. Until April 2005, he was a professor of computer science at the University of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany, and director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Publication and Information Systems (IPSI), Darmstadt, Germany, an institution of about 120 persons. There, he was involved in basic research and applications on all aspects of services computing, e.g., information and process intensive applications like e-learning, e-government, and e-commerce, as well as mobile and location-based systems. Earlier, he was a professor at the University of Stuttgart and the Technical University of Vienna and also worked in research and management positions for IBM and Hewlett Packard, both in Europe and the US. His areas of expertise include interoperable databases, semi and unstructured databases, information stores for the internet (e.g., XML), and intelligent content engineering for multimedia data using standards like RDF and OWL. Lately, Web services computing, peer-to-peer and GRID systems and their applications in digital libraries, cultural heritage, and e-commerce have been the focus of his work. He is currently on the steering committees of the three main digital library conferences, JCDL, ECDL, and ICADL, and chairs the JCDL committee. He is a member of various editorial boards and currently serves as a chair on the International Journal on Digital Libraries editorial board. He is a fellow of the IEEE and of the Gesellschaft fuer Informatik, Germany. He has published four books and about 200 papers. His work has appeared, among others, in the VLDB Journal, Information Systems, Acta Informatica, and in many conferences, for example, VLDB, ICDE, MMDB, ADL, DL, IRC, CAiSE, EC-Web, EURASIA, etc. He has served or is serving in all capacities on many congress, conference, and workshop committees. His current homepage is at http://www.cs.univie.ac.at/employee.php?eid=63.

Ming-Chien Shan Sixth International Conference on Business Process Management 2008, and panel program chair of the Sixth International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing 2008.

Pradip K. Srimaniurrently, he serves as a commissioner of the Computing Accreditation Commission of ABET. He is a fellow of the IEEE.

Jeffrey J.P. Tsai received the PhD degree in computer science from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. He is a professor of computer science and the director of the Distributed Real-Time Intelligent Systems Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is also a senior research fellow of IC2 at the University of Texas at Austin and a chair professor at National Chiao-Tung University. He has published 10 books and more than 250 papers in the areas of sensor networks, services computing, intrusion detection, knowledge-based software engineering, intelligent agents, bioinformatics, and distributed real-time systems. Dr. Tsai chaired the IEEE/CS Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing from 2000 to 2003, served on the steering committee of the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia from 2000 to 2003, and was an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering from 1994 to 1999. He was also the conference cochair of the 16th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, the Ninth IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia, the First IEEE International Conference on Sensor Networks, Ubiquitous, and Trustworthy Computing, and the Third IFIP International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing. He is currently the co-editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence Tools and is on the editorial board of six international journals. He has also served on the DARPA ISAT working group and on the review panel for the US National Science Foundation and the NIH. He has received several awards, including an Engineering Foundation Research Award from the Engineering Foundation Society and the IEEE in 1988, a University Scholar Award from the University of Illinois Foundation in 1994, and an IEEE Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Computer Society in 1997. He is a fellow of the AAAS, the IEEE, and the SDPS.

Wil van der Aalst is a full professor of information systems at the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (TU/e) with a position in both the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science and the Department of Technology Management. Currently, he is also an adjunct professor at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), working within the BPM group there. His research interests include workflow management, process mining, Petri nets, business process management, process modeling, and process analysis. Dr. van der Aalst has published more than 85 journal papers, 13 books (as author or editor), 200 refereed conference/workshop publications, and 25 book chapters. Many of his papers are highly cited and his ideas have influenced researchers, software developers, and standardization committees working on process support. He has been a cochair of many conferences including the Business Process Management Conference, the International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems, the International Conference on the Application and Theory of Petri Nets, and the IEEE International Conference on Services Computing. He is also an editor/member of the editorial board of several journals, including the Business Process Management Journal, the International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management, the International Journal on Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures, Computers in Industry, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, and Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency.

Fei-Yue Wang received the PhD degree in computer and systems engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, in 1990. He joined the University of Arizona in 1990 and became a professor and the director of programs for advanced research in complex systems in 1999. In 1999, he founded the Intelligent Control and Systems Engineering Center at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China. Since 2002, he has been the director of the Key Laboratory of Complex Systems and Intelligence Science at CAS. Since 2006, he has been the vice president of research, education, and academic exchange at Institute of Automation, CAS. His current research interests include social computing, Web and services science, modeling, analysis, and control of complex systems, especially social and physical/cyber systems. He was the president of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society from 2005 to 2007 and the president of the Chinese Association for Science and Technology (CAST) in 2005. Currently, he is the president of the American Zhu Kezhen Education Foundation. Since 1996, he has been the editior-in-chief, associate editior-in-chief, department editor, or associate editor of 10 IEEE magazines and transactions, and was the program or general chair of more than 10 IEEE conferences. Dr. Wang is a member of Sigma Xi and an elected fellow of the IEEE, INCOSE, IFAC, ASME, and AAAS. In 2007, he received the National Prize in Natural Sciences of China and was elected as the Outstanding Scientist by ACM for his work in intelligent control and social computing.

Zhiwei Xu received the PhD degree from the University of Southern California in 1987. He is currently a professor and CTO of the Institute of Computing Technology (ICT), Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research areas include high-performance computer architecture, distributed systems, grid computing, and services computing. His recent editorial board services include the IEEE Transactions on Computers, the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, and Parallel Computing.

Stephen S. Yau received the PhD degree in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana. He is currently the director of the Information Assurance Center and a professor of computer science and engineering at Arizona State University, Tempe. He served as the chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Arizona State University, from 1994 to 2001. He was previously with the University of Florida, Gainesville, and Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. He served as the president of the IEEE Computer Society and the editor-in-chief of Computer. He has organized many international conferences, including the IEEE Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC), the International Symposium on Autonomous Distributed Systems (ISADS), and the 11th World Computer Conference (WCC) sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing. His current research is in distributed and service-oriented computing, software engineering, cyber trust, and pervasive computing. He has received many awards, including the Richard E. Merwin Award and Tsutomu Kanai Award of the IEEE Computer Society and the Louis E. Levy Medal of the Franklin Institute. He is a fellow of the IEEE and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His homepage is at http://dpse.asu.edu/yau.

Jia Zhang received the PhD degree in computer science from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2000. She is now an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Northern Illinois University. Dr. Zhang coauthored the book Services Computing that was announced as the recommended textbook for the Global Services University program. She has published more than 80 refereed journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers. Dr. Zhang is serving as associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), the International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR), and the Advances in Web Services Research (AWSR) Book Series, IGI Global. She also serves on the editorial board of IEEE IT Professional and as the program vice chair of the IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2009, 2008, 2007, and 2006). Her current research interests center around services computing,with a focus on QoS testing, data management, mobile learning, and collaborative scientific workflows. She is a member of the IEEE.

J. Leon Zhao received the BS degree from the Beijing Institute of Agricultural Mechanization, the MS degree from the University of California, Davis, and the MS and PhD degrees from the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. He is currently the Eller Professor in the Department of Management Information Systems, Eller College of Management, the University of Arizona. He taught previously at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the College of William and Mary, respectively. He has published about 150 research articles in major journals, books, and conference proceedings. He received an IBM Faculty Award in 2005 for his work in business process management and services computing. His current research focuses on business process management, workflow technology, knowledge management, and services computing. Dr. Zhao has been an associate editor of Information Systems Research and Decision Support Systems, among other journals. He has coedited nine special issues in various journals and has chaired numerous conferences, including the Workshop on E-Business (2003), the 15th Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (2005), the IEEE Conference on Services Computing (2006), the First China Summer Workshop on Information Management (2007), the Arizona Exposium on Frontiers in Information Technology and Applications (2008), and the IEEE Symposium on Advanced Management of Information for Globalized Enterprises (2008).