Home	July 8-11, 2008, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

SERVICES 2008 General 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. Paul Hofmann, Ph.D. Director External Relations, SAP Research, USA Research areas: Semantic Web, Supply Chain Management, Business Process Management, Data warehouse, Benchmarking and KPI, Data Mining, and Economic Benefits of Web Services.

IEEE SCC 2008 Program Committee General 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. Calton Pu, Ph.D. Professor and John P. Imlay, Jr. Chair in Software College of Computing, Georgia Tech, USA Co-Director, Center for Experimental Research in Computer Systems (CERCS) Research areas: Distributed computing, Internet data management, and operating systems. Program Committee Chairs: Elisa Bertino, IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, Ph.D. Professor of Computer Science, Purdue University, USA Professor of Electrical and computer Engineering, Purdue University, USA Research Director of CERIAS, Purdue University, USA Research Areas: Information Security, Services Oriented Architecture, and Database Systems Ephraim Feig, IEEE Fellow, Ph.D. Senior Director of Services Architecture, Motorola, USA Research areas: Services Oriented Architecture, and e-business applications. Program Committee Vice-Chair:

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

Industry Track Chairs:

Wu Chou, Ph.D. Director, Dialogue Systems Research, Avaya Labs Research, Avaya, USA Research areas: Service-oriented communication, new router/gateway for emerging communication paradigms, multimodal/multimedia interaction and dialogue systems.

Murthy Devarakonda, Ph.D. Senior Manager, Services Technologies, IBM Watson Research Center, USA Research areas: Large Scale Systems, Data and Storage Systems, Systems Management, and Services Computing.

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

Work-In-Progress 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.

Publication Chair:

Jia Zhang, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Northern Illinois University, USA Research areas: Services Computing, with a focus on QoS testing, security, mobile learning, collaborative learning, and model-driven variation propagation analysis.

Global SOA Industry Summit Co-Chair:

Tony Shan, Ph.D. Bank of America, USA Research areas: Life-cycle design and development

Publicity Chairs:

Alistair Barros, Ph.D. SAP Research, Australia Research areas: Business process management, service sciences and software architectures.

Satoshi Hada, Ph.D. Research staff member, IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory, Japan Research areas: Information security, cryptography, and complexity theory.

Andreas Wombacher, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, University of Twente, The Netherlands Research areas: Data manegement in sensor networks, notions of consistency in multi-lateral collaborations and between different models, decentralized data management, Web Services.

Tutorial 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.

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:

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

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.

Workshop Chairs:

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

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

SOA Contest Chair:

Yuhong Yan, Ph.D. Research Officer, Institute of Information Technology, National Research Council Canada, Canada Research areas: Web service modeling and computing, and monotonicity anaysis in model abstraction and data mining.

Body of Knowledge Chair:

Hong Cai, Ph.D. Senior Research Staff Member, Services Research, IBM China Research Lab, China Research areas: Services computing technology and methodology, services in virtual worlds, social network analysis, complex network, and services curriculum design.

Services Education Methodology Summit Chair:

	Zhixiong Chen, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Math and Computer Information Science, Mercy College, USA Research areas: Intelligence in IT Services Computing, digital copyrights.
	Beverley Hope, Ph.D. Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs, Director of E-Commerce Program, College of IT, UAE University, United Arab Emirates Research areas: The nature of service quality in online environments and how this quality might be improved.
	Dr. Piers Campbell, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Information Systems, College of IT, UAE University, United Arab Emirates Researc areas: Knowledge Discovery, Data Provenance, Simulation & Modeling and Artificial Intelligence.

Ph.D. Symposium Chairs:

Christian Huemer, Ph.D. Professor, Faculty of Computer Science, University of Vienna, Austria Research areas: Methodologies for modelling e-business transactions, meta data support for electronic business and EDI environments.

Hai Jin, Ph.D. Dean and Professor, School of Computer Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Research areas:

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.

Job Fair Chairs:

Brian Blake , Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Georgetown University, USA Research areas: Enterprise integration, software engineering: design, specification, proof? of correctness, implementation/experimentation, performance evaluation, and application. ?

Sushil Prasad, Ph.D. Professor, Computer Science Department, Georgia State University, USA Research areas: Parallel Algorithms and Data Structures, Parallel Discrete Event Simulation, Middleware and Collaborative Applications for Heterogeneous Mobile Devices.

Innovation Showcase Chair:

Zon-Yin Shae, Ph.D. IBM T.J.Watson Research Center, USA

Local Arrangement Char:

Qun Zhou, Ph.D. IBM T.J.Watson Research Center, USA Research areas: Strategic management system, Research computing cloud

Registration Char:

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, China)
Liang-Jie Zhang (IBM Research, USA)

Administrative Assistant:

Jordanne Christie (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada)

IEEE SCC 2008 Program Committee:

Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed (Marquette University, USA)
Antonia Albani (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Akhilesh Bajaj (The University of Tulsa, USA)
Janaka L. Balasooriya (Arizona State University, USA)
Guruduth Banavar (IBM India Research Lab, Bangalore, India)
Alistair Barros (SAP Research, Australia)
Sujoy Basu (HP Labs Palo Alto, 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)
Mark Cameron (CSIRO, Australia)
Rong N. Chang (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)
Jeane Chen (Kintera, USA)
Shiping Chen (CSIRO, Australia)
Zhixiong Chen (Mercy College, USA)
Hsing K. Cheng (University of Florida, USA)
Ludmila Cherkasova (HP Laboratories, USA)
Dickson Chiu (Dickson Computer Systems, Hong Kong)
Haluk Demirkan (Arizona State University, USA)
Joerg Desel (The Catholic University of Eichstatt-Ingolstadt, Germany)
Murthy Devara (IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA)
Remco Dijkman (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands)
Prashant Doshi (University of Georgia, USA)
Khalil El-Khatib (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada)
Opher Etzion (IBM Research Laboratory in Haifa, Israel)
Casey Fung (Boeing Phantom Works, USA)
Claude Godart (University Henri Poincaré, France)
Michael Goul (Arizona State University, USA)
Hakan Hacigumus (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA)
Satoshi Hada (IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory, Japan)
Michael Hafner (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
Yanbo Han (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Alan Hevner (University of South Florida, USA)
Christian Huemer (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Wendy Hui (Zayed University, U.A.E)
Kazuo Iwano (IBM Corporation, Japan)
Varghese S. Jacob (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
Hai Jin (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China)
Pontus Johnson (KTH - The Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Dawn Jutla (Saint Mary's University, Canada)
Kamalakar Karlapalem (International Institute of Information Technology, India)
Daniel S. Katz (JPL/Caltech, USA)
Jeffrey T. Kreulen (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA)
Akhil Kumar (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Thomas Kwok (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)
Dongwon Lee (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Fiona Lee (Baptist University, Hong Kong)
Jianxin Li (Beihang University, China)
Ying Li (IBM China Research Lab, China)
Althea Liang (Singapore Management University, Singapore)
Ramiro Liscano (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada)
Shiyong Lu (Wayne State University, USA)
Kelly Lyons (University of Toronto, Canada)
Sanjay K. Madria (University of Missouri-Rolla, USA)
Zhi-Hong Mao (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Axel Martens (IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA)
Leo Mark (College of Computing, Georgia Tech, USA)
Muhammad Masoon Alam (IMSciences, Pakistan)
Carolyn McGregor (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada)
E. Michael Maximilien (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA)
Vojislav Misic (University of Manitoba, Canada)
Lalita Narupiyakul (UOIT, Canada)
Yuri Natchetoi (SAP Labs, Canada)
Varadharajan Niranjan Iyengar (Infosys Technologies Limited, India)
SeogChan Oh (GM Research, USA)
Aris M. Ouksel (The University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
Srinivas Padmanabhuni (Infosys Technologies Limited, India)
Dunlu Peng (Fudan University, China)
Iman Poernomo (King's College London, UK)
Bhanu Prasad (Florida A&M University, USA)
Calton Pu (Georgia Tech, USA)
Sandeep Purao (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Berthold Reinwald (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA)
Wolfgang Reisig (Humboldt University, Germany)
Norbert Ritter (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Dumitru (Titi) Roman (University of Innsbruck / STI Innsbruck, Austria)
Matti Rossi (Claremont Graduate University, USA)
Steve Ross-Talbot (Hattrick Software & Pi4 Technologies Foundation, UK)
Fumiko Satoh (IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory, Japan)
Josef Schiefer (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Tony Shan (Bank of America, USA)
Venky Shankararaman (Singapore Management University, Singapore)
Benjamin Shao (Arizona State University, USA)
Jun Shen (University of Wollongong, Australia)
Charles Shoniregun (University of East London, UK)
Keng Siau (University of Nebraska at Lincoln, USA)
Yuqing Sun (Shandong University, China)
Michiaki Tatsubori (IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory, Japan)
Giri K Tayi (SUNY at Albany, USA)
Kerry Taylor (CSIRO, Australia)
Karthikeyan Umapathy (University of North Florida, USA)
Naohiko Uramoto (IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory, Japan)
Vijay Vaishnavi (Georgia State University, USA)
Robert van Engelen (Florida State University, USA)
Cho-Li Wang (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Hongbing Wang (SouthEast University, China)
Kanliang Wang (Xi'An Jiaotong University, China)
Xiaoling Wang (Fudan University, China)
Mathias Weske (University of Potsdam, Germany)
Andreas Wombacher (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
Carson Woo (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Huaigu Wu (SAP Labs, Canada)
George Yee (National Research Council, Canada)
Yuan-Chwen You (National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan)
Xiaofeng Yu (Nanjing University, China)
Gianluigi Zavattaro (University if Bologna, Italy)
Dongsong Zhang (University of Maryland at Baltimore County, USA)
Jia Zhang (Northern Illinois University, USA)
Yanchun Zhang (Victoria University, Australia )
Huimin Zhao (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA)
Tian Zhong (IBM Beijing Research Lab, China)
Aoying Zhou (Fudan University, China)
Joe Zhou (IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA)
Lina Zhou (University of Maryland at Baltimore County, USA)
Hai Zhuge (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Haibin Zhu (Nipissing University, Canada)
Meiyun Zuo (Renmin University of China, China)