IEEE SCC 2007 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Chairs:

		Ephraim Feig, IEEE Fellow, Ph.D. Senior Director of Services Architecture, Motorola, USA Research areas: Services Oriented Architecture, and e-business applications.
		HT Kung, Ph.D. William H. Gates Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, USA Research areas: Computer and telecommunications networks and business applications.

Program Committee Chairs:

		Wil van der Aalst, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Research areas: Information systems, workflow management, Petri nets, specification languages, and simulation.
		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

Program Committee Vice-Chair:

Patrick C. K. Hung, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Faculty of Business and IT, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada Research areas: Security and Privacy, Services and Mobile Computing, Business Process Integration, Electronic Negotiation and Agreement

Industry Co-Chair:

Fausto Bernardini, Ph.D. Senior Manager, Application Services Technologies, IBM, Watson Research Center (Hawthorne) Research areas: Service Oriented Architecture design methodologies, enterprise architecture modeling, project risk and quality management

Work-in-Progress Co-Chair:

Zhi-Hong Mao, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, USA Research areas: Automatic control, signal processing and optimization, Neural signals and systems, Robotics and multiagent systems

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, 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 Co-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, Ph.D. 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 Co-Chairs:

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 Co-Chairs:

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

IEEE SCC 2007 Program Committee:
Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed (Marquette University, USA)
Antonia Delft Albani (University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Anne H. Anderson (Sun Microsystems Laboratories)
Axel Martens (IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA)
Akhilesh Bajaj (The University of Tulsa, USA)
Janaka L. Balasooriya (University of Missouri-Rolla, USA)
Roger Barga (Microsoft Research, USA)
Bhanu Prasad (Florida A&M University, USA)
Mario Bravetti (University if Bologna, Italy)
Paul Buhler (College of Charleston, USA)
Rajkumar Buyya (The University of Melbourne, Australia)
Wentong Cai (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Jiannong Cao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
Rong N. Chang (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)
Charles Shoniregun (University of East London, UK)
Zhixiong Chen (Mercy College, USA)
Hsing K. Cheng (University of Florida, USA)
Ludmila Cherkasova (HP Laboratories, USA)
William Cheung (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)
S.C. Cheung (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Cecil Eng Huang Chua (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Claude Godart (University Henri Poincare, France)
Farhad Daneshgar (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Haluk Demirkan (Arizona State University, USA)
Joerg Desel (The Catholic University of Eichstatt-Ingolstadt, Germany)
Murthy Devara (IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA)
Prashant Doshi (University of Georgia, USA)
Opher Etzion (IBM Research Laboratory in Haifa, Israel)
Ming Fan (University of Washington, USA)
Weiguo Fan (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA)
Fion Lee (Baptist University, Hong Kong)
Gianluigi Zavattaro (University if Bologna, Italy)
Michael Goul (Arizona State University, USA)
Dominic Greenwood (Whitestein Technologies AG, New Zealand)
Minyi Guo (University of Aizu, Japan)
Hakan Hacigumus (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA)
Hai Zhuge (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Yanbo Han (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Alan Hevner (University of South Florida, USA)
Peter Hrastnik (E3 Competence Center, Austria)
Christian Huemer (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Kazuo Iwano (IBM Corporation, Japan)
Stefan Jablonski (University of Erlangen, Germany)
Varghese S. Jacob (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
Hai Jin (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China)
Daniel S. Katz (JPL/Caltech, USA)
Jeffrey T. Kreulen (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA)
Akhil Kumar (Penn State University, USA)
Dongwon Lee (Penn State University, USA)
Sanjay K. Madria (University of Missouri-Rolla, USA)
Zhi-Hong Mao (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Leo Mark (Georgia Tech, USA)
Michael Maximilien (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA)
Vojislav Misic (University of Manitoba, Canada)
Prasenjit Mitra (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Aris M. Ouksel (The University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
Niranjan Iyengar Varadharajan (Infosys Technologies Limited, India)
Srinivas Padmanabhuni (Infosys Technologies Limited, India)
Paul Grefen (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Dunlu Peng (Fudan University, China)
Sandeep Purao (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Ramiro Liscano (UOIT, Canada)
Berthold Reinwald (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA)
Norbert Ritter (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany)
Dumitru (Titi) Roman (University of Innsbruck / DERI Innsbruck, Austria)
Matti Rossi (Helsinki School of Economics, Finland)
Steve Ross-Talbot (Hattrick Software & Pi4 Technologies Foundation, USA)
Josef Schiefer (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Seog-Chan Oh (GM Research, USA)
Tony Shan (Wachoiva Bank, USA)
Venky Shankararaman (Singapore Management University, Singapore)
Benjamin Shao (Arizona State University, USA)
Jun Shen (University of Wollongong, Australia)
Keng Siau (University of Nebraska at Lincoln, USA)
Giri K. Tayi (SUNY at Albany, USA)
Zhong Tian (IBM Beijing Research Lab, China)
Kwok Ching Tsui (HSBC, Hong Kong)
Vijay Vaishnavi (Georgia State University, USA)
Robert van Engelen (Florida State University, USA)
Kaladhar Voruganti (Network Appliance, USA)
Cho-Li Wang (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Kanliang Wang (Xi'An Jiaotong University, China)
Xiaoling Wang (Fudan University, China)
Hongbing Wang (SouthEast University, China)
Mathias Weske (University of Potsdam, Germany)
Wolfgang Reisig (Humboldt University, Germany)
Andreas Wombacher (EPFL, Switerland)
Carson Woo (University of British Columbia, Canada)
George Yee (National Research Council, Canada)
Ying Li (IBM Beijing Research Lab, China)
Yuan-Chwen You (National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan)
Yuqing Sun (Shandong University, China)
Dongsong Zhang (University of Maryland at Baltimore County, USA)
Jia Zhang (Northern Illinois University, USA)
Yanchun Zhang (Victoria University, Australia)
Jing Zhao (China University of Geosciences, China)
Huimin Zhao (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA)
Lina Zhou (University of Maryland at Baltimore County, USA)
Aoying Zhou (Fudan University, China)
Haibin Zhu (Nipissing University, Canada)