ICWS 2008 Organizing Committee
General Chairs
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Hong Mei, Ph.D.
Professor, Director, Institute of Software, Dean, 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.
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Hemant Jain, Ph.D.
Wisconsin Distinguished Professor; Tata Consultancy Services Professor, School of Business Administration, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, USA
Research Areas: Architecture design, distributed and co-operative computing systems, database management, data warehousing, data mining and visualization.
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Program Committee Chairs
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JinPeng Huai, Ph.D.
Vice President, Professor, Beihang University, China
Research Areas: Software based on the Internet, Web service technology together with network security |
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Ming-Chien Shan, Ph.D.
Vice President, SAP Research, USA
Research Areas: Service oriented architecture, model-driven architecture, business process management, data warehouse and business KPI, database management.
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Munindar P. Singh, Ph.D.
Professor, North Carolina State University, USA
Research Areas: Multiagent systems; intelligent agents; agent communication languages and protocols; application-level trust; Web services; semantic and transactional aspects of information management in open environments; and service science management and engineering. |
Program Committee Vice Chairs
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Jia Zhang, Ph.D. (General)
Assiatant Professor, Northern Illinois University, USA
Research Areas: Services Computing, with a focus on QoS testing, data management, mobile learning, and collaborative learning. |
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Fabio Casati, Ph.D. (European region)
Professor and Dean of Ph.D. school, DISI, Trento University, Italy
Research Areas: UI integration, process space management systems, processes and services, improving the knowledge creation and evaluation process. |
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Meichun Hsu, Ph.D. (America region)
Director, HP Labs, USA
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Industry Track Chairs
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Wu Chou, Ph.D., IEEE Fellow
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. |
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Paul Hofmann, Ph.D.
Vice President Research, SAP Labs, USA
Research Areas: Semantic Web, supply chain management, business process management, data Warehouse, benchmarking and KPI, data mining, and
economic benefits of business SW.
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Work-in-Progress Chairs
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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 |
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Ali Bahrami, Ph.D.
Associate Technical Fellow, The Boeing Company, USA
Research Areas: Semantic information integration, adaptive context aware information aggregation and retrieval, adaptive workflow and business process modeling languages. |
Publication Chair
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Patrick C.K. Hung, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Business and Information Technology,
University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), Canada
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada
Research areas: Security and Privacy, Services and Mobile
Computing, Business Process Integration, Electronic Negotiation and
Agreement. |
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Local Arrangement Chair
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Qun Zhou
IBM, USA.
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Global SOA Industry Summit Chairs
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Tony Shan
Senior Vice President, Bank of America, USA
Research Areas: Life-cycle design and development
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Min Luo, Ph.D.
IBM Global Services, USA.
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Publicity Chairs
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Charles 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 |
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Zhiwei Xu, Ph.D.
Professor and head engineer of the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Research Areas: Grid computing, operating systems, and high-performance computer architecture |
Tutorial Chairs
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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 |
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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 |
Panel Chairs
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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 |
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Casey Fung, Ph.D.
Boeing Phantom Works, USA
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Workshop Chairs
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Yanbo Han, Ph.D.
Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Research Areas: Distributed systems integration, information fusion, service composition, business process collaboration and management, situation-aware applications and service personalization, as well as end-user "programming" languages for cooperative applications |
SOA Contest Chair
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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 |
Body of Knowledge Chair
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Hong Cai, Ph.D.
Senior Research Staff Member, IBM China Research Lab
Research Areas: Web services
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Services Education Methodology Summit Chair
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Zhixiong Chen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Mathematics and Computer Information Science, Mercy College, USA
Research Areas: Intelligence in IT Services Computing, digital copyrights |
Registration Chair
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Thomas Kwok, Sc.D.
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Research Areas: Services Computing, e-Business, Information Retrieval and 3D Graphics |
Technical Steering Committee
Carl K Chang (Iowa State University, USA)
Ephraim Feig (Motorola, USA)
Hemant Jain (University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee , USA)
Frank Leymann (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Calton Pu (Georgia Tech, USA)
Jeffrey Tsai (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
Zhiwei Xu (Institute of Computing Technology (ICT), China)
Liang-Jie Zhang, Chair (IBM Research, USA)
Administrative Assistant
Raghu Kumar Reddy Ariga (Northern Illinois University, USA)
Program Committee
Marco Aiello (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
Sriram Anand (Accenture, India)
Mikio Aoyama (Nanzan University, Japan)
Danilo Ardagna (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Akhilesh Bajaj (University of Tulsa, USA)
Matteo Baldoni (University of Torino, Italy)
Guruduth Banavar (IBM Research, India Lab)
Alistair Barros (SAP Research, USA)
Boualem Benatallah (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Elisa Bertino (Purdue University, USA)
Athman Bouguettaya (Verginia Tech., USA)
Christoph Bussler (Merced Systems, Inc., USA)
Jorge Cardoso (SAP Research, Germany and University of Madeira, Portugal)
Malu G. Castellanos (HP Labs, USA)
Coimbatore Chandersekaran (Air Force, IDA, USA)
Shiping Chen (CSIRO ICT Centre Australia)
Ying Chen (IBM China Research Lab, China)
Dickson K.W. Chiu (Dickson Computer Systems, Hong Kong, China)
Wu Chou (Avaya Labs Research, Avaya, USA)
Cecil Chua (Nanyang Technological University)
Florian Daniel (University of Trento, Italy)
Nirmit Desai (North Carolina State University, USA)
Stefan Dessloch (Kaiserslautern University of Technology, Germany)
Asuman Dogac (Middle East Technical University, Turkey)
Marlon Dumas (University of Tartu, Estonia)
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 Waterloo, Canada)
Ian Foster (Argonne National Lab and University of Chicago, USA)
Piero Fraternali (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Casey K. Fung (Boeing Phantom Works, USA)
Shahram Ghandeharizadeh (University of Southern California, USA)
Andrew Grimshaw (University of Virginia, USA)
Vijay K. Gurbani (Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent, USA)
Mohand-Said Hacid (Universite Claude Bernard Lyon, France)
James Harland (RMIT University, Australia)
Carl Hauser (Portland State University, USA)
Alan Hevner (University of South Florida)
Ken Hopkinson (Air Force Institute of Technology, 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)
Hai Jin (HUST, China)
Eric Jul (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Akhil Kumar (Penn State, USA)
Anup Kumar (University of Louisville, USA)
Herman Lam (University of Florida, USA)
Konstantin Laufer (Loyola University Chicago, USA)
Michael J. Lewis (Binghamton University, USA)
Frank Leymann (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Ling Liu (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Shiyong Lu (Wayne State University, USA)
Heiko Ludwig (IBM Research, USA)
Tiziana Margaria (University of Potsdam, Germany)
Carolyn McGregor (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada)
Dennis McLeod (Univeristy of Southern California, USA)
Hong Mei (Peking University, China)
Weiyi Meng (Binghamton University, 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)
Srinivas Padmanabhuni (Infosys India)
Massimo Paolucci (Docomo Euro-Labs, Germany)
Thierry Priol (Inria, France)
Calton Pu (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Sandeep Purao (Penn State University, USA)
Venguswamy Ramaswamy (Tata Consultancy Services, India)
Manfred Reichert (University of Ulm, Germany)
Norbert Ritter (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Marcus Rotheberger (UNLV, USA)
Karsten Schwan (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Eric Y. Shan (Google, USA)
Luiba Shrira (Brandeis University, USA)
Gautam Shroff (Tata Consultancy Services, India)
Atish Sinha (University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, USA)
Judith Stafford (Tufts University, USA)
Vijayan Sugumaran (Oakland University, USA)
Kevin Sullivan (University of Virginia, USA)
Varghese S. Jacob (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
Kunal Verma (Accenture Technology Labs, USA)
Padmal Vitharana (Syracuse University, USA)
Harry Jiannan Wang (University of Delaware, USA)
Richard J. Welke (Georgia State University, USA)
Graham Williams (Togaware, Australia)
Joseph Williams (Microsfoft Corporation, USA)
Andreas Wombacher (University of Twente, Netherlands)
Tao Xie (North Carolina State University, USA)
Stephen J.H. Yang (National Central University, Taiwan)
Jian Yang (Macquaire University, Australia)
Pinar Yolum (Bogazici University, Turkey)
Liang-Jie Zhang (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)
Leon Zhao (University of Arizona, USA)
Huimin Zhao (University of Wisconsin Milwaukee)
Nianjun (Joe) Zhou (IBM Research, USA)
Hong Zhu (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
Joe Zo (Information and Communications University. Korea)
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