The Domain Experts Board of IJSA consists of unlimited number of talented experts who have demonstrated their unflinching commitment to the IJSA, its mission, objectives and its high standards. Their sole role is to efficiently serve as specific domain expert advisors to the editor, assist with the solicitation and publication of research articles and perspectives in their domains, promote the goals of IJSA, periodically review theme issues proposal that needs the knowledge of domain experts, vote on the selection of the best papers to be awarded and published in the journal, and contact sponsors for financial support for IJSA.
Michael F. Alexander holds degrees in electrical engineering (TGM), business administration (University of Southern California) and economics (University of Vienna). He is CEO of scaledinfra technologies GmbH, a large dataset analytics-focused enterprise. Prior, he was a senior lecturer in the Department of Information Systems and Process Management, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (WU). His professional experience includes education and product management at IBM, Siemens, Nortel Networks and Alcatel. At Alcatel he was Product Line Manager for Alcatel ADSL and Optical Access Networks. He is the author of a textbook on networks and network security published by Hüthig/Verlagsgruppe Süddeutsche, and editor of a special issue on mathematical methods in network management of the Wiley International Journal of Network Management. For the last five years, Dr. Alexander has served as the Program Committee Chair for VHPC, Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cluster and Grid Computing. His current research interests are in sublinear time algorithms, formal methods, network management, concurrency, payment systems and machine learning methods.
Abdelkrim Amirat received his Engineer and Master degrees in Computer Sciences at the University of Badji Mokhtar, Annaba, Algeria. Until October 2006, he is associate Professor at the University of Annaba. His research interests include Aspect Oriented Software Development, Requirement Engineering, Software Architecture, Software Reuse, Component-Based Software Development, Aspect Oriented Software Architecture. Actually he is invited researcher for 2 years with MODAL Group by the Laboratory of LINA, University of Nantes-France.
Ashraf Ahmad obtained his PhD degree in Computer Science and Engineering from National Chiao Tung University (NCTU) in Taiwan. He obtained his B.Sc. degree from Princess Sumya University for Technology (PSUT) in Jordan. Dr. Ahmad is currently an assistant professor at the department of computer Graphics in PSUT, Jordan. His interest area includes multimedia semantic features extraction, and analysis, multimedia retrieval, and multimedia communication. Prof. Ahmad has authored over 50 scientific publications including journal papers, conference papers and book chapters. In addition, Dr. Ahmad has several US and international patents in his field of expertise. He serves in program committee for several international conferences. He is also a reviewer and referee for several conferences and journals. His work has been published and presented at various international conferences. He has been listed in Who's Who in the World for the year 2006 and Who's Who in Asia for the year 2007. In addition, He has been elected as one of the 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century for the year 2006 for his outstanding contribution in field of Video Processing and Communications. Ashraf Ahmad has been chosen as one of the recipients of Leading Scientist award in the year 2006. In 2008 Dr. Ahmad and his team won the first place in both Jordan and Middle East Level in the world wide international competition Imagine Cup for their novel project in Air Pollution Detection using video analysis. Again Dr. Ahmad and his team won the first place in METS’08 competition for their project in Bluetooth Mobile Application field. Prof Ahmad was Plenary Lecture in The 8th International Conference on ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING and DATA BASES (AIKED'09).
Larry Bernstein is the Industry Research professor at Stevens Institute of technology. He is Director of the Quantitative Software Engineering Program and teaches Quantitative Software Engineering. His recent book is "Trustworthy Systems through Quantitative Software Engineering." He had a 35-year career at Bell Laboratories managing huge software projects. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the Association for Computing Machinery for innovative software project management. He is on the Board of the center for National Software Studies and Director of the NJ Center for Software Engineering. He is an active speaker on Trustworthy Software in the IEEE Computer Society DVP program.
Dr. Leonardo Candela is a researcher at Networked Multimedia Information Systems (NMIS) Laboratory of the Institute of Information Science and Technologies - Italian National Research Council (ISTI - CNR). He graduated in Computer Science in 2001 at University of Pisa and completed a Ph.D. in Information Engineering in 2006 at University of Pisa. In 2001 he joined the NMIS Laboratory and was involved in the CYCLADES (http://www.ercim.org/cyclades) and Open Archives Forum (www.oaforum.org) projects. He is currently involved in the DILIGENT (http://www.diligentproject.org) and DRIVER (http://www.driver-repository.eu) projects and he is an active member of the DELOS (http://www.delos.info ) working group on the Digital Library Reference Model (http://www.delos.info/ReferenceModel). He is member of the OAI-ORE (http://www.openarchives.org/ore/) Liaison Group. His research interests include Digital Library [Management] Systems and Architectures, Digital Libraries Models, Distributed Information Retrieval, and Grid Computing.
Khalil Drira received the Engineer degree in Computer Science from INPT, the National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse, in June 1988, the M.S. degree (DEA) in Computer Science (Concurrent Systems orientation) from INPT in September 1988, the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from UPS, University Paul Sabatier Toulouse, in October 1992, and the HDR degree from UPS, in January 2005. He is since 1992 (tenured at 1993), Chargé de Recherche CNRS, a full-time research position at the National Center for Scientific Research of France.His research interest includes software architecture, self-healing web services, component-oriented software, model-driven coordination, cooperative networked software applications, and formal design of software architecture for collaborative and communicating systems. He has supervised 10 PhD and more than 20 Master works on these subjects. He is or have been involved in several national and international projects in the field of distributed and concurrent communicating systems, web services, networked software. He is author of more than 100 regular and invited papers in international conferences and journals. He was editor of the volume 2236 of LNCS and guest editor for Journal of Supercomputing. He is or has been initiator of national and international collaboration work with researchers at SRI International (USA), at CINVESTAV (Mexico), Sao Paulo University, Univeristy of Campinas, Cenpra (Brazil), University of Sfax (Tunisia). He is or has been involved in several European research projects from 90 to now (Esprit-LotosPhere, HPCN-CANET, IST-DSE, IST-WS-DIAMOND, IST-NETQOS). He is editor of the "technology survey" board of "La Revue de L'Entreprise", JITTA journal, and ITSE journal. Dr. Drira is or has served as member of the programme committees of the following international conferences: PDPTA'99, ACIDCA'2000, DOCS '2000, PDPTA'2000, ISADS'2000, OPODIS’2001, IEEE WETICE/KMN 01, ISADS’2002, OPODIS’2002, IRMA’2002, MCSEAI04, ISSADS04, IEEE WETICE/DMC, IWUC 2005, IASTED-SEA 2005, ISSADS 2005, ISSADS 2006, GEI’03,GEI’04, GEI’05, ACS-IEEE AICCSA'06. He also served as publicity chair for IEEE-ICPS’05, IEEE-ICPS’06, ACM-IEEE CNSR’06. Dr. Drira is or has been co-chair of special tracks on coordination, cooperation and distributed software at PDPTA'99, PDPTA'00, PDPTA'01, Euromicro-WMT’00 and GEI’05. He is co-chair of NOETERE’06.
Prof.dr. Borka Jerman-Bla
