The editorial board is responsible for putting laying together the goals and objectives of IJSA. The International Editorial Board consists of approximately 50 expert individuals who are solely committed to the exploration for high-quality research papers that are suitable for publication in the IJSA. These key individuals will work with the editor to achieve objectives of IJSA, execute the editorial responsibilities of the IJSA, contribute and encourage developers to contribute articles, publicize and advertise for the IJSA, periodically review four to six articles per year and one theme issue to assess their quality, relevance, and readability. Contribute at least one submission to IJSA or its BLOG. Additionally, members of the Editorial Board will also vote on the selection of high quality papers.
Ajith Abraham received Ph.D. degree from Monash University, Australia. He works as a Professor under the South Korean Government's Institute of Information Technology Advancement (IITA) program. His primary research interests are in computational intelligence with an application focus including network security, Web services, Web intelligence, multi criteria decision-making, data mining etc. He has authored/co-authored over 300 research publications in peer reviewed reputed journals, book chapters and conference proceedings of which five have won 'best paper' awards. He has given several plenary talks and conference tutorials. He is the editor-in-chief / co-editor in chief of three international scientific journals and also serves the editorial board of several reputed International journals. He has guest edited 21 special issues for International scientific journals. Since 2001, he is actively involved in the Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS) and the Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA) series of International conferences. He is the General Co-chair of the First Asia Modeling Symposium, Phuket, Thailand; Third International Symposium on Information Assurance and Security (IAS'07), Manchester, UK; Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA'07), Brazil; and the Program Chair/Co-Chair of the First European International Conference on Data Mining (EICDM'07), Lisbon; Second International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM'07), France; Third International Conference on Next Generation Web Services Practices (NWeSP'07), Seoul; and The Seventh International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS'07), Germany.
Fahim Akhter received his BSc in Management Information Systems from the University of Missouri - St. Louis (USA), M.B.A. from the Lindenwood University (USA), and Ph.D. in Informatics from the University of Bradford (England). Dr. Akhter has more than fifteen years of academic experience in lecturing, curriculum design, and research at the Colgate University of New York, Baruch College at City University of New York and Zayed University. Dr. Akhter’s research activities are in the areas of e-commerce, web services, and information security. He has written numerous papers in the areas of information technology and e-business, which have been published in international journals and proceedings such as Information & Software Technology - Elsevier, International Journal of E-Business Research, IEEE and ACM. He has served in program committees, advisory boards, and editorial review boards for various international Journals and conferences.
Sören Auer leads the research group Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web (AKSW) at the department Business Information Systems (University of Leipzig) and collaborates with the database research group at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. He is studied Mathematics and Computer Science in Dresden, Hagen and Ekaterinburg / Russia from 1995 till 2000. From 2000 to 2003, Sören was managing director of adVIS GmbH, a Dresden-based Internet and IT service provider. In 2006 he finished his PhD thesis on agile knowledge engineering at the University of Leipzig. Sören is project leader of Powl / OntoWiki, an integrated open-source, Semantic Web development framework for the scripting language PHP and a founding member of the DBpedia project. Sören is author of over 50 peer-reviewed scientific publications, co-organiser of several workshops and chair of the first Social Semantic Web conference.
Jake Chen is an assistant professor of informatics at Indiana University School of Informatics and assistant professor of computer science at Purdue University School of Science Department of Computer and Information Science, Indianapolis, Indiana. He is an IEEE senior member. He holds PhD/MS degrees in computer science from the University of Minnesota at Twin Cities and a BS degree in molecular biology and biochemistry from Peking University, China.
Prof. Chen’s research interests includes large-scale software systems, databases, biological data mining, and bio-computing. He has been active in bioinformatics and large-scale software systems R&D in the biotech industry and Academia. From 1998 to 2002, he was a bioinformatics computer scientist at Affymetrix, Inc., Santa Clara, CA. From 2002-2003, he headed the bioinformatics department at Myriad Proteomics as Head of Computational Proteomics to map the first human protein interactome. Since coming back to Academia in 2004, he became increasingly interested in the area of network and systems biology, where he has authored more than 30 research publications, and filed for a worldwide patent for his invention at Indiana University of a technique to find highly relevant disease-specific genes/proteins from microarray, proteomics, and pathway data sets. He is currently the Chief Informatics Officer and co-founder of Predictive Physiology and Medicine, Inc, Blooming, IN (2006-present), an Indiana-based biotech company focused on the personalized medicine market.
Cooper Kendra received her Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2001 from The University of British Columbia and has over 70 peer reviewed publications in journals, conferences, symposia, and workshops. She has worked in the early phases of the software development lifecycle for over 10 years in industrial and academic settings. In industry, Dr. Cooper worked on defining and maintaining the requirements and architecture for a variety of complex, large-scale systems including a project management, air traffic control, and the core network for a wireless GPRS system. Her research interests center on investigating re-use and modularization techniques, including component based, aspect-oriented, and product line engineering, with a focus on the requirements engineering and software architecture. She has served on over 40 program committees and is a member of two editorial boards for journals.
Laurence Duchien obtained her Ph.D degree from University Paris 6 LIP6 laboratory in 1988 and she worked on protocols for distributed applications. She joined then the Computer Science Department at CNAM (Conservatoire National des Arts et métiers), Paris, France as associate professor in September 1991. She worked on design methodologies, proof systems for distributed object-oriented applications, and reflective and aspect-oriented programming. She also holds a Research Direction Habilitation in Computer Science from the University of Grenoble, France in 1999. She is currently full professor at the department of computer science at University of Lille, France since 2001 and she leads INRIA team-project ADAM (Adaptive Distributed Applications and Middleware) http://adam.lifl.fr. Her research interests are centered on the area of component-based architecture design, software evolution and model driven engineering. Her current research interests include formal description and development techniques for component-based and service-oriented architecture modeling, analysis, transformation, and evolution for distributed applications. She currently involves in ERCIM Group Software Evolution and in AOSD-Europe NoE. She is the author/co-author of more than 60 scientific papers in international conferences and/or journals.
Eduardo B. Fernandez (Eduardo Fernandez-Buglioni) is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida. He has published numerous papers on authorization models, object-oriented analysis and design, and security patterns. He has written four books on these subjects, the most recent being a book on security patterns.. He has lectured all over the world at both academic and industrial meetings. He has created and taught several graduate and undergraduate courses and industrial tutorials. His current interests include security patterns and web services security. He holds a MS degree in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, and a Member of ACM. He is an active consultant for industry, including assignments with IBM, Allied Signal, Motorola, Lucent, and others.
Luigi Gallo received his M.Sc. in Computer Science Engineering from University ‘Federico II’ of Naples in July 2006. Since November 2006, he is working toward the Ph.D. degree in Information Technology Engineering at the University of Naples ‘Parthenope’, Department of Technology. Currently he is a grant researcher at the National Research Council (CNR) - Institute for High-Performance Computing and Networking (ICAR), where he is involved in the development of pervasive environments for Medical Imaging applications. His fields of interest involve Pervasive Computing, Utility Computing, Multi-Agent Systems, Virtual Reality, Human-Computer Interaction and Human-Machine Interfaces
Arun Kumar is a Research Staff Member at IBM Research in New Delhi, India. He earned a Master of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Madras, India in 1999, a Master of Computer Science from ICSE, Indore University, M.P., India in 1997 and a Bachelor of Computer Sc., University of Delhi, India in 1995. He joined IBM's India Research Laboratory (IRL) in 1999 in the Distributed Systems Research group where he contributed to and technically led projects in web services, grid computing, eUtilities, access control and web server farms. In 2005, he joined an offsite Ph.D. in Computer Science at the IIT Madras. Later that year, he moved into the newly formed Telecom Research and Innovation Centre at IRL where he led the later half of Synthy-- a project for enabling semi-automated, end to end composition of web services. In 2006, he led the Transaction Process Monitoring project for monitoring application requests in multi-tier IT systems in the absence of domain knowledge such as a reliable description of the deployed environment. Currently he is focusing his energies on an exploratory research project called Pyr.mea.IT, for creating technologies for billions of under-privileged in developing regions that are still untouched by IT and has been a key contributor of technologies and solutions in this project. In a previous life, he worked briefly as a Software Engineer with Hughes Software Systems (now Aricent), Gurgaon, India in the domain of Advanced Intelligent Networks. He was in the Program Committee for ACM SAC 2006 and has published in several reputed international conferences and journals. His current research interests include ICT4D, semantic web technologies, distributed systems management, service oriented computing, data modeling, and object oriented programming.
Thomas Kwok received his B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from M.I.T. in 1976, 1978 and 1981 respectively. Since 1982, he has been a Research Staff Member in IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, New York. His research interests include e-business, document management and information retrieval, 3D graphics and pervasive computing, SOA, Web services and Unified software engines, software architectures and reuse. He has published around 80 papers in refereed journals, conference proceedings and book chapters. He has been involved in more than 20 conferences, workshops and symposia as an organizer, chair, moderator, officer or technical committee member. He received the IEEE VMIC Best Paper Award in 1987. He has 18 patents issued in US and other countries, and another 13 patents pending in US. He is a member of IEEE, ACM and AAAS, Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu.
Athina Lazakidou currently works at the University of Piraeus, Greece as a teaching assistant, and at the Hellenic Army Academy & Hellenic Naval Academy, Greece as a visiting lecturer in informatics. Prior to that, she worked as a visiting lecturer at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Cyprus (2000-2002). She did her undergraduate studies at the Athens University of Economics and Business (Greece) and received her BSc in Computer Science in 1996. In 2000, she received her Ph.D. in Medical Informatics from the Department of Medical Informatics, University Hospital Benjamin Franklin at the Free University of Berlin, Germany. She is also an internationally known expert in the field of computer applications in healthcare and biomedicine, with six books and numerous papers to her credit. She was also Editor of the “Handbook of Research on Informatics in Healthcare and Biomedicine” and the “Handbook of Research on Distributed Medical Informatics and E-Health”. Her research interests include health informatics, e-Learning in medicine, software engineering, graphical user interfaces, (bio)medical databases, clinical decision support systems, analysis and design of hospital and clinical information systems, electronic medical record systems, telematics, and other applications in medicine.
Hong Lin received his PhD degree in computer science from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1997. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Houston-Downtown and the chairperson of the Computer Science Curriculum Committee. His research interests include multi-agent systems, parallel/distributed computing, and formal methods. He has recently studied the application of the chemical reaction model in multi-agent system specification and derivation. His research results have been published in several papers in professional journals and conference proceedings. He is the editor of a book titled "Architectural Design of Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Techniques"
Jie Liu is an associate professor in the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Her research interests are Peer-to-Peer data management, semantic link network, and Web services. Dr. Liu is an outstanding researcher from China. She has published sixteen papers in leading international journals and international conferences, such as Journal of Systems and Software, Computational Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, and World Wide Web conferences. She was also the recipient of several prestigious awards from China, such as the Microsoft Fellowship Award and the Special Prize of Chinese Academy of Sciences. Dr. LIU is active in academic services. She is serving on the editorial board of the International Journal of Knowledge and Learning, and reviewer for the Journal of Systems and Software and the Future Generation Computer Systems. She was the Program Co-Chair of the First International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grid (SKG 2005) and the Second International Workshop on Knowledge Grid and Grid Intelligence (KGGI 2004). She was the Program Committee member of the 5th International Conference on Grid and Cooperative Computing (GCC 2006) and Service Discovery on the WWW Workshop (SDISCO 2006). She is a member of ACM and a member of IEEE.
Xiaodong Liu is a Reader in the School of Computing at Edinburgh Napier University, UK. He is the Director of the Centre for Information and Software Systems at Edinburgh Napier University. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from Xian Jiaotong University and People's University of China, and received his PhD in Computer Science in De Montfort University in 2000. Dr. Liu is an active researcher in software reuse, software evolution and service-based systems. His recent research has focused on component-based reuse, generative programming, aspect-orientation and service-oriented architecture. Dr Liu has published over 40 peer refereed research papers on established international journals and conferences and 2 book chapters. He is the first inventor of two international patent registered in UK and USA. He has served on the programme committee as co-chair or member for several international conferences, such as IEEE Computer Software and Applications (COMPSAC’05, ’06, ‘08,’09), the IEEE International Workshop on Quality-Oriented Reuse of Software (QUORS’07 to ‘10), International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE’07 to ‘10) and IASTED Software Engineering and Application (SEA’04, ’05, ’06, ‘07). He also served as a reviewer of a number of international journals, and as the chief editor of 2 research books. He is a member of IASTED Technical Committee on Software Engineering. Dr Liu has been the project leader of several externally funded projects; he also won several other small grants from Royal Society and other sources. Adaptive component based software engineering is a productive area of research within the group led by Dr Xiaodong Liu. The SAGA Bench project endeavours to develop a component adaptation and integration tool with cutting-edge technology called ScenArio-based Generative component Adaptation. The GAIN project proposes a highly automatic aspect-oriented mechanism for component adaptation. The Agilent project focuses on developing a novel approach to constructing intelligent component repository. He is also the director of the spin out company “FlexiCAGE Ltd” (www.flexicage.com ).
Saud Maghrabi is a Full Professor of Computer Science at Umm Al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia, from 2002 to present. He is currently Vice Dean of Computer and Information Systems College and Chairperson of the Computer Science Department, Umm Al-Qura University. He was Vice Dean Institute of Science Research at the same University from 1998- 2000. He was Director General of Computer Center at the same University from 1990-1995. He has 20 years of academic experience in Computer Science. Prof. Maghrabi's research interests are on Algorithms and data structures, Database systems, Internet development, Artificial intelligent, Software engineering, Formal languages and parsing, Computer graphics. He has published around 100 papers in refereed journals, conference proceedings and book chapters in these areas. He has taught about 16 courses related to these areas. Prof. Maghrabi earned his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Hull University, and his MS degree in Computer Science from Liverpool University (UK). He has been involved in more than 60 conferences and workshops as a program/general conference chair. He is serving as an editorial boards for 3 international journals. He is a member of AAAS, ACM, and IEEE.
Tokuro Matuso (Ph.D, M.S, B.Edu) is working as an associate professor at Faculty of Computer Science in Yamagata University since 2006. He received the Doctor degree of Engineering from Dept. of Computer Science at Nagoya Institute of Technology in 2006. He awarded a Telecommunication System Award by Telecommunications Advancement Foundation since he published high quality papers from several authority journals in 2005. He got scholarship awards from American Associate of Artificial intelligence in 2004 and 2005. He also awarded by Information Processing Society of Japan as Outstanding Paper for Young researchers in 2006 and Outstanding Paper of Special Interest Group in 2007. He is a member of AAAI, IEEE, and several others. He is a conference chair (program chair) of IEEE-IWEA 2008, IEEE-IWEA 2007, IEEE-PRIWEC 2006, RRS 2006, and RRS 2005.
His main research areas are:
- Designs on Agent-mediated Electronic Commerce Support Systems,
- Designs on e-Auction Protocols,
- Qualitative Reasoning and Simulations,
- e-Learning Support Systems,
- Software Engineering based on Analogical Thinking,
- Knowledge Communication/Collaboration Process based on Information
Reuse and Integrations.
- Risk Management in Large-scale Software System Manufacture
He is a principal investigator of Grant for Doctorate Receiver (C and C (NEC) Foundation, 2007-2008), Research grants for young researchers (Japan Ministry of Education, 2006-2008), Research Scholarship (The Daiko Foundation, 2004-2005), Research Grant (Japan Science Research Foundation, 2003-2004) and Other 12 research grants in years past.
Aamer Nadeem is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Mohammad Ali Jinnah University, Islamabad, Pakistan. His research interests include software reliability, model and specification based software testing, software fault tolerance, safety-critical systems and formal methods. He has published 25+ papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings in the areas of software testing, fault-tolerance, and formal methods. He has also served as program committee member of several international workshops and conferences. Dr. Nadeem earned his PhD in computer science from Mohammad Ali Jinnah University, Islamabad, MS in software engineering from National University of Science and Technology (Pakistan), and MSc in computer science from Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. He has 20 years of research and industrial experience.
PadmaRaj M.V. Nair is a research software engineer at Fujitsu America Inc, richardson, Texas, USA. He is working on the next generation metro optical networks to maximize transport efficiency for regional and metro. He received his Ph.D and MS in Computer Science from Southern Methodist university, Dallas, Texas, USA. His research interests include metro area networks, software and network security, fault tolerant computing, and Network restoration. He has published in several journals and conference proceedings. He has received industry, conference and university awards for outstanding performance, technical contributions, and advanced research. In addition, he has participated in the review process of several IEEE conferences.
Claus Pahl is currently a Senior Lecturer at Dublin City University, School of Computing. Dr. Pahl graduated from the Technical University of Braunschweig in 1990. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Dortmund in 1996. Before his current appointment he has been employed at other universities in Ireland, Denmark and Germany. Dr. Pahl’s main research area is Software and Systems Engineering. He has been working on software engineering technologies, where he has investigated software service technologies including semantic services and architectures. Specific interests include service process architectures and architectural patterns, model-driven service engineering, and service integration architectures. E-learning technologies form a systems engineering research interest that is looked at from both an educational and a technical perspective, focusing on software and architecture technologies for teaching and learning systems. Dr. Pahl has published more than 140 papers. He is the editor of a book on applications of software architecture for learning technology systems. He has been an invited speaker and an invited panellist at conferences and workshops in the area of service engineering. He is a reviewer for several journals (including Theoretical Computer Science, Formal Aspects of Computing, World-Wide Web Journal, Intl. Journal of Software and Knowledge Engineering, Distributed Systems Online, Intl. Journal of Web Services and Information Systems, and Computers & Education) and publishers. He is on the editorial review board of three journals. Dr. Pahl has been on more than 40 programme committees of conferences and workshops over recent years, including the European Conference on Web Services, the Symposium on Software Composition, and the International Software Engineering Conference. He is currently the Programme Committee Co-Chair of the IEEE-supported European Conference on Web Services and will be its General Chair in 2008. Dr. Pahl is the course director of the M.Sc. in Software Engineering at Dublin City University. He has developed and accredited this degree programme with colleagues and he has been chairing the degree’s programme board since. He also chairs the programme board of the M.Sc. in Computer Applications.
Jennifer Pérez is an associate professor at the E.U. Informática of the Technical University of Madrid (UPM), Spain. She received her PhD degree in computer science from Polytechnic University of Valencia Spain in 2006, where she developed is PhD at the Software Engineering and Information Systems (ISSI) group of the Department of Information Systems and Computation (DSIC). She had a Research Professional Formation grant funded by the Spanish Government to perform her thesis in the Software Engineering and Declarative Program. Since 2001, she is participating in several national projects related to Software Engineering and Software Architectures. It is important to mention that she was the Project Manager of the “PRISMA: Model Compiler of aspect-oriented component-based software architectures” Microsoft Research Cambridge Project. Now, she is member of the Systems & Software Technology Group of the Technical University of Madrid (UPM) and she is collaborating to the ISSI Research Group (for Software Engineering) in several projects and networks. She is the author of several journal articles and numerous national and international articles in conferences related to software engineering and software architectures. She is reviewer of several conferences and workshops. Currently, she is PC Member and Posters Chair of the First European Conference on Software Architecture, ECSA 2007. Her research interests are focused on software architectures, service-oriented architectures, component-based software development, aspect-oriented software development, software product-lines, model compilers and evolution.
Dumitru Roman works as a researcher at Digital Enterprise Research Institute Innsbruck, Austria, in the area of semantically-enabled service-oriented architectures. Since joining DERI he has been involved in several FP5 and FP6 EU funded projects, e.g. SWWS, DIP, SWING, SUPER, etc., in the area of semantic Web and Web services. He is the main author of the Web Service Modeling Ontology (WSMO) and co-authored many WSMO related documents, including the Springer book "Enabling Semantic Web Services". Before joining DERI Innsbruck, he received a Diploma Engineer in Computer Science from the University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. His previous research includes composition of semantically enabled services in the context of open agent architectures, planning techniques, reconfigurable hardware-software co-design, and networking (he is also CCNA). Dumitru Roman initiated and chaired various conferences and workshops in the area of service-orientation, e.g. MoSO, SerComp, mda4soa, semantics4ws, etc., and currently serves as an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Web Services Practices (IJWSP).
Jungwoo Ryoo is an Assistant Professor in Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State Altoona, Pennsylvania. His main research interests include information assurance and security, software engineering, and networking. More specifically, he is interested in software security, network/cyber security, security management particularly in small and medium-sized organizations, software architecture, Architecture Description Languages (ADLs), object-oriented software development, formal methods, and requirements engineering. He has a significant industry experience (Sprint and IBM) in architecting and implementing secure, high-performance software for large-scale network management systems. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Kansas in 2005.
Heung Seok Chae received the BS degree in nuclear engineering from Seoul National University in 1994, the MS and PhD degrees in computer science from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 1996 and 2000, respectively. He worked as a senior consultant for the TongYang Systems between 2000 and 2002. During the year of 2003, he was as a visiting professor in the Department of Computer Science at KAIST. Since 2004, he has been on the faculty of the Department of Computer Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan, Korea. Current research interests include: object-oriented analysis and design; object-oriented frameworks; component-based software development; software architecture; software metrics/measurement; software testing, software maintenance. He has been Member of Program Committee for COMPSAC 2003, APAQS(Asia-Pacific Conference on Quality Software) 2001, APSEC 2004/2005, ISFST 2004
Ioan Toma is a researcher at University of Innsbruck, Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), Austria. He is an active member of several working groups, including: the Web Service Modeling Ontology (WSMO), the Web Service Modeling Language (WSML) working groups and OASIS Web Services Quality Model TC. He is/was involved in various EU FP VI and Austrian funded projects. His current research areas include Semantic Web services, modeling and ranking of Semantic Web services based on their non-functional properties, Grid Computing and the relation between Semantic Web services and Grid computing. He published around 27 papers as book chapters, journal articles, conference and workshop papers. Before joining DERI Innsbruck, he obtained his graduated engineer of computer science (Dipl. Eng.) and M.Sc. titles from Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania in 2002, respectively 2003 and he worked as a junior lecturer at Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. From 2000 to April 2004 he carried out various software development projects in Romania.
Eli Weintraub has a Ph.D from Tel Aviv University - Faculty of Management, 2002. His research interest is in the area of Artificial Intelligence - Natural Language Systems for Database inquiries in a multi Database environment. Eli has an MBA and M.Sc from Tel Aviv University, and a B.Sc from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Eli Lectured in several Israeli Universities: Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Management, Holon Technological Institute, Ben Gurion University of Beer Sheva. Now Eli is lecturing in Derby University Tel Aviv. Eli is Teaching several Courses in the area of Information systems: Artificial Intelligence, Business Information Systems, Business and Information Systems Development, Information Systems Analysis, Information Systems Projects Management. Dr. Weintraub has performed many Information Technology Projects in the Israeli Banking Sector: Architecting Banking systems, Managed and Developed Information Systems, managed Software Engineering and QA in Bank Information Technology Units, Managed Information Security Function of a Bank, served as the Risk Manager of IT Projects, wrote an Israeli Standard for Quality Assurance in software projects.
Chen Wu is a PhD Candidate at Digital Ecosystems and Business Intelligence Institute, Curtin University of Technology, Australia. He received both of his Masters and Bachelors degree in Information Systems in China. He has published more than 20 refereed international conference papers and 2 book chapters during his PhD, and 2 international journal papers in the area of Service-Oriented Architecture, Web services, and e-Business engineering. He is also a co-author of the book ‘Digital Ecosystems: The Next Generation of Internet Computing’ to be published by Springer Studies in Computational Intelligence (2008). He has also been an academic staff at the School of Information Systems at Curtin University for the last 3 years.Before embarking on his PhD, he was a research engineer at Software Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing. His research interest includes: Service-Oriented Architecture, Web-Oriented Software Architecture, Architectural Styles and Patterns, Social Software, and Architecture of Digital Ecosystems.
Liguo Yu received his PhD degree in Computer Science from Vanderbilt University in 2004. He is an assistant professor at Computer Science and Informatics Department, Indiana University South. Before joining IUSB, he was a visiting assistant professor at Tennessee Tech University. His research interests include software dependency, software maintenance, software reuse, software testing, software management, empirical software engineering and open-source development.
Rami Bahsoon is Lecturer in Computer Sc and the Computer Sc PhD Tutor at the School of Engineering and Applied Sc, a RAE 5 rated school of Aston University Birmingham, UK. He holds a PhD in Computer Sc, Software Engineering from the Dept. of Computer Sc, University College London (UCL), University of London. During his PhD, he was a member of the Software Systems Engineering Group, of London Software Systems, a joint Software Engineering Institute of University College and Imperial College London. His PhD is on the evaluation of software architectures for stability and evolution using real options theory where he worked with Prof Wolfgang Emmerich(first supervisor) and Prof Anthony Finkelstein(second supervisor). Dr Bahsoon holds MBA level certificates with high merit standing in management, technology strategy, and new communications industry from London Business School (LBS), University of London. He also holds an MS and BS in Computer Sc with a focus on Software Engineering from the Lebanese American University, Beirut. Dr Bahsoon is research active in Software Engineering with a special interest in economics-driven software engineering, relation between non-functional requirements and software architectures, metrics, software maintenance and evolution (requirements evolution, architectural stability, software mining, software testing and regression testing), and empirical evaluation. He has published articles in international scientific journals and conferences including the Journal of Systems and Software, the Journal of Information and Software Technology; and the IEE Software Proceedings, International Conference on Software Maintenance and a number of peer-reviewed workshops affiliated with the International Conference on Software Engineering. He is acting a program co-chair for the 2nd IEEE International Workshop Towards Stable and Adaptable Software Architectures, In conjunction with IEEE IRI 2007; The 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Software Stability at Work (SSW 07); and the First OOPSLA 2007 International Workshop on Unified Data Mining Engine, all chaired by Prof M. Fayad. His scholarly services have included program committee memberships to International Conferences on Software Engineering including Search-Based Software Engineering, a special track of GECCO 2007; Software Engineering Education and Training; the International Conference on Software Engineering Advances; OOPSLA 2007 workshop on Pattern Languages among the others. Dr Bahsoon is a regular reviewer for premier software engineering venues including the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), IEEE Software, IEE Proceedings Software, and external reviews for the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Foundations on Software Engineering (FSE), and Component-Based Software Engineering (CBSE). Dr Bahsoon is a member of the IEEE Computer Society and the Requirements Engineering Specialist group, of the British Computer Society.
Pablo Chacín is currently a Assistant Professor, Researcher and PhD Candidate at the Computer Architecture Department of the Technical University of Catalonia, Spain. His research interests are centered in architectures for large-scale self-adaptive distributed systems, Autonomic Computing and Servcice Oriented Architectures for Grid Computing. He is the lead architect for the gmm middleware project, which is being used in various European research projects in the area of grid computing. Mr. Chacín received a degree in Computer Sciences from the Central University of Venezuela in 1993 and a Master degree in Information Technology Management from the ITESM, Mexico in 2004. He has more than 15 years of experience in the Information Technology industry and has been involved in software and technology architecture since 1998 as consultant for large organizations in Latin America, primarily in the Banking, Telecommunications and Government sectors. Among his appointments, Mr. Chacín was a Principal Architect and Practice Leader for Service Oriented Architecture for Novell inc, where among other duties, lead the development of a methodology for the SOA practice.
Carlos E. Cuesta obtained his BSc in Informatics and Systems (1994) and his MSc in Informatics Engineering (1997) from the University of Valladolid (Spain). He also obtained his PhD in Information Technologies from the University of Valladolid in 2002. He has received the Third National Award for the Termination of Higher Studies for his BSc degree (1995), a mention from the jury of National Awards for his MSc degree (1998), and the Extraordinary Awards both for his MSc degree (1999) and his PhD degree (2004). Since 2006 he is an Associate Professor of Computing at the Rey Juan Carlos University of Madrid (Spain), where he is a member of the Department of Computer Systems and Languages, and also of the recently created School of Informatics Engineering. He is also a member of the Kybele Research Group (for Software Engineering and Information Systems) in the Rey Juan Carlos University, and he is also an associate member of the ISSI Research Group (for Software Engineering) in the Polytechnic University of Valencia. Previous to that position he has been a teaching assistant (1997-2002), an assistant professor (2002-2003) and an associate professor (2003-2006) in the University of Valladolid; he also was an invited postdoctoral researcher (2004) at the Department of Engineering and Science in the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Hartford Campus, USA). Since 2006 he is also the Head of Studies for the Master in Information Technologies and Computing Systems at the Rey Juan Carlos University. He is and has been involved in teaching in several Bachelor and Master degrees, as well as several other minor courses. He has also been the advisor in a PhD dissertation (2004) in the University of Valladolid, and he currently advises another two PhDs. Since 1999 he has been an academic member and the Education Chair of the Worldwide Institute of Software Architects (WWISA), which awarded him the distinction of founding member. He is the author of several journal articles and book chapters, as well as numerous national and international conference papers. He is and has been involved in several research projects, and has been reviewer in numerous conferences and workshops. In 2007 he will act as conference co-chair for the First European Conference on Software Architecture, ECSA 2007 (http://www.kybele.es/ecsa). In late years, his work has explored the interactions between Software Architecture and recent approaches to Software Engineering, such as Aspect and Service Orientation, and Model-Driven Software Development.
Andrea D'Ambrogio is associate professor of computer science at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Roma "Tor Vergata", Roma (Italy). He has formerly been assistant professor of computer science at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Roma "Tor Vergata", research associate at the Concurrent Engineering Research Center of the West Virginia University (USA), member of the Software Engineering research staff at the Department of Computer Science, Systems and Production of the University of Roma "Tor Vergata" and system manager of the department's Software Laboratory. Andrea D'Ambrogio's research interests are in the software engineering field, specifically in the areas of engineering and validation of system performance and dependability, model-driven system development and interoperability, QoS prediction and management, service oriented architectures, distributed and web-based simulation, system and software quality In such areas he has participated to several projects at both European and overseas level, jointly working with research groups of universities, research centers, national and international industries. Andrea D’Ambrogio has authored several journal and conference papers. He has lectured in national and international seminars and conferences, and has served as reviewer of international technical journals and as member of program committees of national and international conferences. He has made scientific advisory work for industries and national and international organizations, and is member of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), the IEEE Computer Society and the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery). Andrea D'Ambrogio has taught academic courses in software engineering and interoperability of software systems for graduate and PhD students in computer engineering, and has been lecturer for academic courses in distributed object technology and fundamentals of computer science.
João Miguel Lobo Fernandes received the 5-year degree of Systems and Informatics Engineering, in 1991, the MSc Degree of Informatics (Computer Science), in 1994, both at the University of Minho (Braga, Portugal). On May 2000, he has completed his PhD thesis in Informatics/Computer Engineering in the Department of Informatics from the School of Engineering at University of Minho. The thesis is entitled "An Object-Oriented Methodology for Embedded Systems Development". He has been an invited researcher in U.Bristol (United Kingdom), within the research group of Prof. Erik Dagless, during 6 months, in 1991. Since 2000, he is assistant professor at the Department of Informatics of University of Minho, he is responsible for the Digital Electronics Laboratory, he is a research member of CCTC research center and he supervises undergraduated projects and master and doctoral thesis. From Sep/2002 until Feb/2003, he was a post-doctoral researcher at the Embedded Systems Laboratory, TUCS (Turku Centre for Computer Science), in Turku, Finland, whose leader is Prof. Johan Lilius. Currently, he is an invited assistant professor at DAIMI, Aarhus University, Denmark. Within his R&D activities, he maintains regular collaborations with the local industry as an external engineering consultant in the execution of industrial projects. He is a (co-)author of several scientific publications with peer revision on international conferences, journals and chapters of books, edited by IEEE Computer Society Press, ACM Press, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Springer-Verlag, and Chapman & Hall. He has already served as a scientific reviewer for an Adisson-Wesley book, for IEEE, ACM, IFIP, and FME symposia, and for IEEE Computer, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, IEEE Software, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Elsevier Integration - the VLSI Journal, Elsevier Energy, and Springer Software and Systems Modeling international journals. He also regularly serves as a member of the Programme and Organizing Committees of international workshops and conferences, namely ACSD, CPN, DIPES, DSOA, ETFA, IESS, ICESS, MOMPES, QUATIC, REC, SIES, TeaConc, UCAmI. His research interests focus on: Software Engineering, Embedded Software, Methodologies for System Development, Software Modeling, Software Process and Management, and History of Computing. He was the director of the 5-year degree of Systems and Informatics Engineering and vice-president of the Council of the Engineering degrees in U.Minho, during
Hamido Fujita is a professor at Iwate Prefectural University(IPU), Iwate, Japan. He is the director of Intelligent Software Laboratory. He took his Ph.D from Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan on 1988. He worked at Tohoku University as visiting Professor on late eighties, and then joined University of Tokyo, RCAST as Associate Professor, on 1990_1993, and then he moved to Canada, as visiting Professor at the University of Montreal, IRO, till 1997. He then moved becomes on of the committee to establish Iwate Prefectural University on 1997. Then he have joined Iwate Prefectural University, Faculty of Software and Information Science, as professor and head of Information System Division. He also was directing two laboratories, Intelligent Software Laboratory and Cognitive Systems Laboratory. He was a committee of Establishing Graduate School of Software Science, of IPU. He has directing many project sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Culture of Japan, and others from International sponsors and Japanese company sponsors project of new software methodologies. Also, he is the founder of SOMET organization. He published many books and journal papers, and participated in many conferences worldwide. Also, he gave invited talks at many universities world wide. He is also supervising Ph.D students jointly with University of Laval, University Technology, Syndey(UTS), He is also Professor at the University of Laval, Quebec, Canada supervising Graduate Studies students, he was a visiting Professor CRI at the University of Paris_1, Sorbonne, 2003 (One year Period) working with Prof. Colette Rolland. He worked as opponent for Stockholm University, Sweden co-supervised students with Prof. Love Ekenberg He also worked with UTS, CCS group led by Prof. Ernest Edmonds and co-supervised Ph.D students. He guest edited several special issues on International Journal of Knowledge based systems, Elsevier. Also he guest edited Transaction of Internet Research,
Rosario Girardi, Doctor (Computer Science), University of Geneva, Switzerland, 1996. Master in Computer Science, UFRGS, Brazil, 1991. Engineer in Computer Science, UdelaR, Uruguay, 1982. Associate Professor (Computer Science Department at Federal University of Maranhão). She acts as lecturer, researcher and advisor on the Graduate course in Electric Engineering (Computer Science area) and on the Undergraduate course in Computer Science. Her specialization areas are: Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering. Since 2001 she coordinates research projects in the area of multi-agent system development, with support of the CNPq federal funding agency. Dr. Girardi has orientated more than 50 final degree, research works and teaching apprenticeships at the graduate and undergraduate level. She has produced more than 70 publications in books, book chapters, journals and proceedings of events related with her research activities. She has been participating as member of program committees, lecturer and moderator in several national and international events related with her specialties.
Dong-Han Ham is a senior research fellow of Middlesex University. He obtained his doctoral degree in industrial engineering from KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) in 2001. Then he joined ETRI (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute) as a senior researcher before joining Middlesex University in 2005. His research areas cover various issues in the area of cognitive systems engineering, human-computer interaction, and software engineering. In particular, his research expertise include: joint cognitive systems design, human interaction with automation systems, software architecture, software quality and usability engineering, and intelligent decision support systems combining agent and human-computer interaction theories. His doctoral thesis was about information analysis and interface design for large-scale engineering systems like nuclear power plants, based on cognitive work analysis framework and ecological interface design theory. Since 2002, he has spent much time on the works at international standardization bodies for software engineering, such as OMG (Object Management Group) and ISO/IEC SC7. Currently, he is a member of Software Process Engineering Metamodel (SPEM) working group in OMG. His research goal is to contribute towards realizing human-computer jointly intelligent systems and human-centred design innovation.
Wilhelm (Willi) Hasselbring is a Full Professor of Software Engineering at the University of Oldenburg, Germany, where he leads the research group on Software Engineering. He is also chair of the TrustSoft Graduate School on Trustworthy Software Systems, and a scientific director in the OFFIS Institute for Information Technology. His research interests include software engineering and distributed systems, particularly software architecture design and evaluation as well as middleware technologies. Dr. Hasselbring is co-editor of the German Handbook on Software Architecture, published by dpunkt.verlag in 2006. He is a member of the steering board of the special interest group on Software Engineering and the special interest group on Software Architecture, both from the German Association for Computer Science (GI). He is also a member in the steering committee of the German D-Grid initiative. He received his PhD in computer science from the University of Dortmund, Germany. He's a member of the ACM, the IEEE Computer Society, and the German Association for Computer Science.
Pilar Herrero is an Associate Professor at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, in Spain. European Ph.D. in Computer Science and Extraordinary Prize of Doctorate (Extraordinary Ph.D. Award), her research interests include awareness management, multi-agent systems and grid computing. In the last few years, she has also been involved in the organization of more than 10 international events, such as conferences and workshops, as a Steering Committee member, networks of excellence, and she has also been part of more than 50 Program Committees Editor of more than 10 international publications and special issues in prestigious journals such as the Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), the Image and Vision Computing (IVC), the Multi-agent and Grid Systems (MAGS), the International Transactions on Systems Science and Applications (ITSSA), and several proceedings books, since 2005 she has been involved in the organization board of the On The Move (OTM) Federated Conferences as Workshops General Chair, and since then she has coordinated more than 45 international workshops and events. Pilar Herrero published more than 60 publications, some of them in prestigious international journals that are listed as Journal Citation Reports (JCRs), such as IEEE Transactions on Education, Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Future Generation Computer Systems, International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, Springer and Presence.
Mohamed Jmaiel was born in 1966 in Sfax, Tunisia. He obtained his diploma of engineer in Computer Science from Kiel (Germany) University in 1992 and his Ph.D. from the Technical University of Berlin in 1996. He joined the National School of Engineers in Sfax as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science in 1995. He became an Associate Professor in 1997 and full Professor in October 2003. He participated to the initiation of many graduate courses at the University of Sfax. He has published more than 80 papers in refereed Journals and Conference Proceedings. His current research areas include Software Engineering of distributed Systems, Multi-agent Systems, Component Oriented Development, Formal methods and Communication Protocols.
Louise E. Moser is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research interests span the areas of distributed systems, computer networks, and software engineering. Professor Moser has served as principal investigator for many funded research projects, including projects from NSF, DARPA, AFOSR, UC Micro and UC Discovery, and has supervised more than 100 graduate student researchers. The systems software that she has supervised includes the Trans/Total, Totem, AtomicGroup and IntraGroup reliable ordered multicast group communication systems, the Realize real-time and fault tolerance infrastructure for distributed systems, the Eternal fault tolerance and live upgrade infrastructure for distributed systems, the PluggableFT fault tolerance infrastructure for distributed systems, and the Magnet infrastructure for mobile e-commerce agents. Dr. Moser has served as an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Computers and an area editor for IEEE Computer magazine in the area of networks, as well as on many conference program committees. She is currently serving as a member of the International Editorial Board of the International Journal of Software Architectures and as an editor for Scientific Journals International. She has participated in various standards organizations, including the Object Management Group, the Java Community Process, and the Service Availability Forum where she served as editor of the Application Interface Specification. Dr. Moser has authored or coauthored more than 230 publications, and has 10 patents granted or pending. Previously, she was a professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, and a founder of the Computer Science degree program, at California State University, East Bay. At SRI International, she was a key contributor to the design verification of the Software-Implemented Fault-Tolerant (SIFT) reliable aircraft control computer. She received a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Flavio Oquendo is a Full Professor of Computer Science & Software Engineering at the University of South Brittany, France, where he leads the research group on formal approaches for component-based and service-oriented architectures of the VALORIA Research Lab. He holds a Doctorate and Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Grenoble and a Bachelor's degree from the ITA School of Engineering, Sao Paulo. He also holds a Research Direction Habilitation in Computer Science from the University of Grenoble. Before joining the University of South Brittany in 2005, Prof. Oquendo held appointments in Computer Science & Software Engineering as Full Professor at the University of Savoie at Annecy (9 years) and Associate/Assistant Professor at the University of Grenoble (5 years). Previously, he was a member of the R&D Staff at the G.I.E. Emeraude, the R&D group on advanced software engineering created by BULL, Thomson-Syseca (now THALES IS), and Eurosoft (now part of AT&T Europe) in Paris (5 years). Prof. Oquendo has over 20 years experience in Research & Development, having actively participated in 10 European R&D Projects, partially funded by the European Commission: ALICE, PCTE, PCTE+, PACT, ALF, SCALE, PROMOTER I, PROMOTER II, PIE, and ARCHWARE. In particular, he was Scientific Director of the European SCALE Project (1992-1996), that developed methods and tools for software system composition with planned and intensive reuse of components; Partner Manager of the European PIE Project (1997-2001), that developed languages and tools for specifying, architecting, and autonomically evolving software-intensive process-based systems; and Scientific Director of the European ArchWare Project (2002-2005), that developed an integrated set of formal languages and tools for the architecture-centric model-driven engineering of evolvable software systems. Support for his research has mainly come from European Commission's R&D grants and collaborative industrial contracts. Prof. Oquendo has published over 130 refereed journal and conference papers in the fields of Software Architecture, Software Process, Computer-Assisted Software Engineering, and Software Object Databases. He has served on Program Committees of c.a. 40 International Conferences and Workshops, chaired 7 of them, and acted as referee for c.a. 10 International Journals. Prof. Oquendo's research interests are centered on languages and technologies to support the rigorous architecture and engineering of large-scale software system. His current research interests include formal description and development techniques and their automated support for component-based and service-oriented architecture modeling, analysis, transformation, and evolution as well as their applications in industrial settings.
Jacques Pasquier-Rocha holds the software engineering chair at the Department of Informatics of the University of Fribourg, Switzerland (DIUF). His current research interests include Object Oriented Programming, Software Patterns and Frameworks, Distributed Multi-User Virtual Worlds, Agents in Pervasive Distributed Environments, Enterprise Computing (J2EE), as well as innovative software solutions applied to e-commerce and e-health. His Prior research activities focused on developing sound software architectures for modeling complex reliability systems and for creating/managing electronic books (hypertexts). In 1996, he also co-founded with professors Jürg Kohlas and Jean-Luc Gurtner the Center for the application of new technologies in higher education at the University of Fribourg.
Loris Penserini had the M.Sc. Degree in Electronic Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Marche (Ancona, Italy) in 1998. From the same University, he got a scholarship in 1999. He has been a visiting student at the Computer Science Department of University of Toronto (Toronto, Canada) from January 2001 to June 2001 and from January 2002 to June 2002. He had the PhD title in Computer Science at Polytechnic University of Marche in 2003. From February 2003 to September 2003, he was researcher by contract at the Polytechnic University of Marche. In that period (1997-2003), he was one of the principal investigator and developer of the JEAP project, i.e. a Multi-Agent System with some AI features (e.g. distributed CBR) to deal with information retrieval in P2P architectures. Specifically, several agent patterns have been studied such as Facilitator, Matchmaker, Broker, and Mediator. In October 2003, he joined the Centre for Scientific and Technological Research ITC-IRST (Trento, Italy) and from 2004 up to the end of 2006, he had a researcher post-doctoral position at the Automated Reasoning Systems division of the same research centre. He was the project leader of KLASSE -- Knowledge Level Agent Systems Software Engineering, aiming to improve the different analysis and design phases that characterize the agent-based methodologies focusing on architectural design issues. In that period, he was also involved in the TAOM4E development tool improvements. Specifically, he coordinated the implementation of the process for automated agent code generation for an Agent-Oriented and Software Engineering methodology development, named Tropos. He published in top level international conferences for the area of AI agents and Software Engineering (IJCAI, AAMAS, CoopIS, ER, ASE, CAiSE). For this reason, he has been member of the Program Committee of several International Conferences and Journals, and he participated in several research projects. He has been organizing committee chair of SREIS-05 Symposium collocated with RE-05, and he has been organizing committee chair of STAIRS-06 collocated with ECAI-06.
Jeffrey S. Poulin has over 15 years of experience as the technical lead on large systems development and integration projects. He currently serves as Systems Architect at Lockheed Martin Systems Integration. Dr. Poulin’s landmark work on the business case for software reuse forms the basis for the reuse measurements and return on investment (ROI) models used by industry and government organizations worldwide. In addition, he has authored over 70 technical publications, including Measuring Software Reuse: Principles, Practices, and Economic Models, a book published by Addison-Wesley.
Hassan Reza is an Associate Professor in John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences at the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks since 2000. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science and Operation Research at the North Dakota State University, Fargo. His primary research interests are in software architecture, Model-based design and testing, formal specification and verification, Petri net design patterns, safety engineering, usability engineering, and TeleHealth. He is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
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David Rine has been practicing, teaching and researching engineered software development for over thirty years. Prior to joining George Mason University he served in various leadership roles in the IEEE Computer Society and co-founded two of the technical committees. He joined George Mason University in 1985 and was the founding chair of the Department of Computer Science and one of the founders of the (Volgenau) School of Information Technology and Engineering. Rine has received numerous research, teaching and service awards from computer science and engineering societies and associations, including the IEEE Centennial Award, the IEEE Pioneer Award, the IEEE Computer Society Meritorious Service Awards, the IEEE Computer Society Special Awards, and the IEEE Computer Society 50th anniversary Golden Core Award, the historical IEEE Computer Society Honor Roll and Distinguished Technical Services Awards. He has been a pioneer in graduate, undergraduate and high school education, producing computer science texts and leading establishment of the international Advanced Placement Computer Science program for the nation's high school students, co-designer the first computer science and engineering curriculum (1976) and the first masters in software engineering curriculum (1978). He has been an editor of a number of prestigious software-oriented journals. During his tenure he has authored over 300 published works and has directed many PhD students. Complementing his work at GMU, he has worked on many international technology and relief projects in various countries and made many life-long international friendships. His past students are the most important record of his technical achievements.
Marjan Sirjani is an assistant professor at School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Tehran, Iran where she is the head of Software Engineering Department since June 2005. She established a research group on modeling and verifying reactive systems and Formal Methods Lab. She is also a senior researcher at School of Computer Science at IPM. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, in December 2004. Her Fields of Interest are Software Engineering, Formal Methods, Object-Oriented Modeling, Component-Based Modeling, Formal Verification, Abstraction And Compositional Verification, and Applying Formal Methods in System Design. She has been the organizer and Program Committee chair of FSEN’07 and FSEN’05 (co-chairing with Farhad Arbab) and Program Committee member ofICNSC’08, CSICC’08, ICFEM'07, WS-FM'06, and CSICC’05. She has introduced an actor-based language for modeling and verifying reactive systems, the reactive objects language, Rebeca. A model checking tool set is developed for verifying Rebeca codes. There are multiple papers published on Rebeca. She has also published multiple papers on theory and application of the coordination language Reo.
Nary (Narayanan) Subramanian is currently serving as Assistant Professor of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, Texas. Earlier he served as the Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering in the Department of Engineering at Hofstra University, New York. Dr. Subramanian received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from The University of Texas at Dallas and his dissertation topic was “Adaptable Software Architecture Generation Using the NFR Approach”. His specialization is software engineering with particular focus on software architectures and requirements engineering. In Spring 2007 he introduced a new course COSC5374 Software Architecture in the Computer Science Department at UT Tyler, a graduate level course on software architectures. He has been the co-chair of the International Workshop on System/Software Architectures for five years from 2002 to 2006, has been a guest-editor for conference proceedings and special journal issues, and has served on the Program Committees of several international conferences and workshops. His research interests include software architectures, software engineering, software metrics, software security, non-functional requirements, expert systems, computational biology, home appliance control systems, information systems, and legal systems. He has published over 30 papers in software engineering and interdisciplinary areas. He is a faculty advisor for ACM UT Tyler Chapter and for Indian Students Association at UT Tyler. He has also served as a judge for several high-school science fairs and programming contests. Nary’s prior degrees include MSEE from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; M.E. (Electronics and Communication) from Delhi University, Delhi, India; and B.E. (Electronics and Communication) from Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi, India. Dr. Subramanian has almost 15 years’ experience in the industry in various roles including software engineer, service engineer, maintenance engineer, sales engineer, and manager.
Zhiming Liu did his PhD research at Warwick University on formal techniques in real-time and fault-tolerant systems, while he was a Research fellow there during 1988 - 1991. He worked as a Guest Scientist in the Department of Computer Science of the Technical University of Denmar on systems dependability. During 1992-1994, he was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Computer Science at Warwick University, where he continued his research on fault-tolerance and real-time. In October 1994, he was appointed to a University Lectureship in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Leicester University. Zhiming Liu was appointed to a research fellowship at UNU-IIST in July 2002. Zhiming Liu is an experienced researcher on formal theories and methods high quality software system development, including concurrent, real-time and fault-tolerant, object and component systems, and has more than 50 publications in mainstream journals and books. Zhiming Liu is the founder and Chair of the Steering Committees of the International Colloquium on Theoretical aspects of Computing (ICTAC) and the International Workshop on Formal Aspects of Component Software (FACS). He serves on the Editorial Board of the International Journal Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering published by Springer. He has served as Program Chair of many international conferences and edited a number of volumes and special journal issues. He has served on programme committees of many conferences. Dr. Liu's recent research focuses on formal methods and toold for object and component system development.
