General Chairs

Frank Leymann, Ph.D. Professor, University of Stuttgart, Germany Research areas: service oriented computing and middleware, workflow- and business process management, programming in the large, transaction processing, integration technology, and architecture patterns.

Ming-Chien Shan, Ph.D. Director, SAP Research, USA Research areas: Service oriented architecture, Model-driven architecture, Application programming model, Business process management, Data warehouse and Business KPI, Database management.

Program Committee Chairs

Liang-Jie (LJ) Zhang, Ph.D. Research Staff Member and Founding Chair of Services Computing Professional Interest Community, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Research areas: Services Computing with a focus on SOA Services, Industry Solutions, and Application Services.

Kenneth P. Birman, Ph.D. Professor, Cornell University, USA Research areas: Reliable distributed computing, applications involving reliable information collection or dissemination, and problems associated with security in complex distributed systems.

Program Committee Vice Chair

Jia Zhang, Ph.D. Assiatant Professor, Northern Illinois University, USA Research areas: Services Computing, with a focus on reliability, integrity, security, interoperability, and fault tolerance.

Industry Co-Chairs

Wu Chou, Ph.D. Director, Avaya Labs Fellow, Avaya Labs Research, USA Research areas: Converged and Service-Oriented Communication, Web Services/SOA, VoIP, Wireless Communication, Multimedia Systems, Intelligent Router/Gateway, Service Delivery Platform, and Multimodal Dialogue Interaction

Paul Hofmann, Ph.D. Director External Relations, SAP Labs, USA Research areas: Semantic Web, Supply Chain Management, Business Process Management, Data warehouse, Benchmarking and KPI, Database Management, Economic Benefits of Web Services.

Publication Chair

Yuhong Yan, Ph.D. Researcher Officer, Institute for Information Technology (IIT), National Research Council's (NRC), Canada Research areas: Web service modeling and computing, Monotonicity analysis in model abstraction and data mining

Work-in-Progress Chair

		Graciela Gonzalez, Ph.D. Assistant Research Professor, Arizona State University, USA Research areas: Knowledge extraction from biomedical literature, Multimedia Databases, Human-Computer Interaction, and Artificial Intelligence
		Ali Bahrami, Ph.D. Boeing Phantom Works, The Boeing Company, USA Research areas:

 

Tutorial Co-Chairs:

		Michael Maximilien, Ph.D. Research Staff Member, Almaden Services Research Group, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA Research areas: Distributed systems, Semantic Web, Artificial intelligence, Multiagent systems, Software and knowledge engineering
		J. Leon Zhao, Ph.D. Professor, Department of MIS, University of Arizona, USA Research areas: Modeling and Analysis Methodologies for Business and Workflow Processes, E-Business Workflow Management, Collaborative Process Management, Workflow Modeling and Verification, Organizational Knowledge Distribution

 

Panel Co-Chairs:

		Frank Ferrante Editor in Chief Emeritus, IEEE IT Professional Magazine, IEEE, USA
		Ling Liu, Ph.D. Associate Professor, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Research areas: Distributed data intensive systems, decentralized overlay networks, peer to peer computing, grid computing, mobile information management systems, ensore network systems, and enterprise computing technology

 

Workshop Chair:

Jian Yang, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Computing, Macquaire University, Australia Research areas: e-business transaction management, web service description, discovery, and composition

 

IEEE SOA Industry Summit Co-Chairs:

		Ali Arsanjani, Ph.D. Chief Architect, SOA and Web services Center of Excellence, IBM Global Services, USA Research areas: SOA, Web services
		Tony Shan Lead Systems Architect, Wachovia Bank, USA Research areas: Life-cycle design and development

 

SOA Contest Co-Chairs:

		Zhixiong Chen, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Mathematics and Computer Information Science, Mercy College, USA Research areas: Intelligence in IT Services Computing, digital copyrights
		Charles A. Shoniregun, Ph.D. Programme Leader for MSc TM, School of Computing & Technology, University of East London, UK Research areas: Internet security, risks assessment of technology-enabled information, electronic and mobile commerce (emC), Infonomics, and telecommunications and applied information systems
		Yuan-Chwen You, Ph.D. Founder and CEO, Creative Entrepreneurship Consulting, Inc., Taiwan Research areas: Service-oriented Knowledge Management, Semantic Grid, Collaborative  Commerce, Semantic Business Process Management, Ontology-based Knowledge  Organization, Artificial Intelligence and Expert System

 

Publicity Co-Chairs:

		Mikio Aoyama, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Information and Telecommunication Engineering, Nanzan University, Japan Research areas: Web services, component-based software, software architectures, and software process
		Hong Mei, Ph.D. Professor, School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, China Research areas: Software Engineering and Software Engineering Environment, Software Reuse and Software Component Technology, Distributed Object Technology, Software Production Technology, and Programming Language
		Andreas Wombacher, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, EPFL, Switerland Research areas: Trust and security in cross-organizational workflows, decentralized consistency checking of multi-lateral collaborations, Web Services, decentralized data management, e-Commerce, modelling of business processes
		Akhil Kumar, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Supply Chain and Information Systems, Smeal College of Business, Penn State University, USA Research areas: Workflow systems, e-services, various aspects of database systems, distributed information systems and intelligent systems.

 

Ph.D. Symposium Chair:

Anup Kumar, Ph.D. Professor, University of Louisville, USA Research areas:  Design of Operating Systems, Design of Compilers, Design of Operating Systems, Distributed System Design

Job Fair Chair:

Hemant Jain, Ph.D. Wisconsin Distinguished Professor; Tata Consultancy Services Professor, School of Business Administration, University of Wisconsin - USA Research areas: rchitecture design, distributed and co-operative computing systems, database management, data warehousing, data mining and visualization

Registration Chair:

Thomas Kwok, Ph.D. Research Staff Member, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Research areas: e-contract, Web X.0

Program Committee

Grigoris Antoniou (University of Crete/Institute of Computer Science FORTH, Greece)
Mikio Aoyama (Nanzan University, Japan)
Boualem Benatallah (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Elisa Bertino (Purdue University, USA)
Athman Bouguettaya (Verginia Tech, USA)
Christoph Bussler (Cisco Systems, USA)
Thomas C. Bressoud (Denison University, USA)
Jorge Cardoso (University of Madeira, Portugal)
Malu G. Castellanos (HP Labs, USA)
Jeane Chen (Kintera, USA)
Ying Chen (IBM China Research Lab, China)
Dickson K.W. Chiu (Dickson Computer Systems, Hong Kong, China)
Wu Chou (Avaya Labs Research, USA)
Chandersekaran Coimbatore (Air Force, IDA, USA)
Adina Crainiceanu (US Naval Academy, USA)
Umeshwar Dayal (HP Labs, USA)
Stefan Dessloch (Kaiserslautern University of Technology, Germany)
Asuman Dogac (Middle East Technical University, Turkey)
Schahram Dustdar (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Vadim Ermolayev (Zaporozhye National University, Ukraine)
Ben Falchuk (Telcordia Technologies, Inc., USA)
Ephraim Feig (Motorola, USA)
Elena Ferrari (Politiche e dell'Informazione, University of Insubria at Como, Italy)
Sebastian Fischmeister (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Marcus Fontoura (Yahoo Research, USA)
Ian Foster (Argonne National Lab and University of Chicago, USA)
Piero Fraternali (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Casey K. Fung (Boeing Phantom Works, USA)
George M. Galambos (IBM Canada, Canada)
Shahram Ghandeharizadeh (University of Southern California, USA)
Ashvin Goel (University of Toronto, Canada)
Graciela Gonzalez (Arizona State University, USA)
Andrew Grimshaw (University of Virginia, USA)
Vijay K. Gurbani (Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent, USA)
Jason Hickey (Caltech, USA)
Ken Hopkinson (Air Force Institute of Technology, USA)
Akhil Kumar (Penn State, USA)
Carl Hauser (Washington State University, USA)
Patrick C.K. Hung (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada)
Arun Iyengar (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)
Hemant Jain (University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, USA)
Henrik Hvid Jensen (University of Copenhagen, Devoteam Consulting, Denmark)
Hai Jin (HUST, China)
Ralph Johnson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Eric Jul (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Anup Kumar (University of Louisville, USA)
Herman Lam (University of Florida, USA)
Konstantin Läufer (Loyola University Chicago, USA)
Maurizio Lenzerini (DIS Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Italy)
Michael J. Lewis (Binghamton University, USA)
Frank Leymann (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Mark Linderman (Air Force Research Lab, USA)
Ling Liu (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
J.P. Martin-Flatin (NetExpert, Switzerland)
Carolyn McGregor (University of Western Sydney, Australia)
Dennis McLeod (Univeristy of Southern California, USA)
Hong Mei (Peking University, China)
Milan Milenkovic (Intel Corp, USA)
Dejan S. Milojicic (HP Laboratories, USA)
Simanta Mitra (Iowa State University, USA)
Louise Moser (U.C. Santa Barbara, USA)
Gilles Muller (Ecoles des Mines de Nantes, France)
Yuichi Nakamura (IBM Research, Japan)
Priya Narasimhan (Carnegie-Mellon University, USA)
Krzys Ostrowski (Cornell University, USA)
Massimo Paolucci (Docomo Euro-Labs, Germany)
Thierry Priol (Inria, France)
Calton Pu (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Norbert Ritter (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Norman M. Sadeh (Carnegie-Mellon University, USA)
Atul Sajjanhar (Deakin University, Australia)
Doug Schmidt (Vanderbilt University, USA)
Karsten Schwan (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Vipul Shah (Tata Consultancy Services America, USA)
Luiba Shrira (Brandeis University, USA)
Munindar P. Singh (North Carolina State University, USA)
Dawn Song (Carnegie-Mellon University, USA)
Biplav Srivastava (IBM India Research Lab, India)
Judith Stafford (Tufts University, USA)
Kevin Sullivan (University of Virginia, USA)
Katia Sycara (Carnegie-Mellon University, USA)
Stefan Tai (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)
Mohan Tanniru (University of Arizona, USA)
Harry Jiannan Wang (University of Delaware, USA)
Sanjiva Weerawarana (Apache, USA)
Graham Williams (Togaware, Australia)
Stephen J.H. Yang (National Central University, Taiwan)
Jian Yang (Macquaire University, Australia)
Leon Zhao (University of Arizona, USA)
Hong Zhu (Oxford Brookes University, UK)

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