IEEE SCC 2009
International Conference on Services Computing

September 21-25, 2009, Bangalore, India

Organization

Services 2009 General Chairs: J. Leon Zhao, Ph.D. Head and Chair Professor, Department of Information Systems, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 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, E-Market Security and Role-Based Access Control, Web Services Technology and Applications Integration, Embeded Facilitation in Distributed Group Systems, Distance Learning and Distributed Education Systems. Harrick M. Vin, Ph.D. Vice President (R&D) and the Chief Scientist of the Systems Research Lab, Tata Research Development and Design Centre (TRDDC) at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India Research Areas: Networks, Operating Systems, Distributed Systems, and Multimedia Systems. Sumit Sarkar, Ph.D. Ashbel Smith Professor of Information Systems, Academic Director, ICDRiA, School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Research Areas: Management of Data and Knowledge in Business Environments, including, Personalization and Recommendation Technologies, Data and Information Quality, Data Privacy, Discovery of Knowledge from Data Repositories, Schemes for Representation of Uncertain Data in Databases and Knowledge Bases, Integration and Reconciliation of Data from Diverse Sources in Data Warehousing Environments, Software Releases, and Incentive-Compatibility Issues for Participants of Knowledge Management Projects. IEEE SCC 2008 Program Committee Program Committee Chairs: Guruduth S Banavar, Ph.D. Director of IBM India Research Lab, India Research Areas: Service Science, Pervasive Computing, Distributed Systems, and Programming Models. Stephen S. Yau, Ph.D. Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Director, Information Assurance Center, Arizona State University, USA Research Areas: Cyber Trust, Software Engineering Service-based Systems, Ubiquitous Computing, Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems Program Committee Vice-Chair: Patrick C. K. Hung, Ph.D. Associate Professor and IT Director, Faculty of Business and Information Technology, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), Canada Adjunct Faculty Member, 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

Technical Assistant:

Manish A. Bhide, Ph.D. Research Staff Member, IBM India Research Lab, India

Program Committee Administrative Assistants:

	Jordanne Christie University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada
	Lalita Narupiyakul, Ph.D. University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada
	Thomas Trojer Research Group Quality Engeneering, Institute of Computer Science University of Innsbruck, Austria

Application and Industry Track Chairs:

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

Soo Dong Kim, Ph.D. Soongsil University, Korea Research areas:

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 Chair:

Tony Shan, Ph.D. Bank of America, USA Research Areas: SOA Strategic Architect.

Publicity Chair:

Althea Liang, Ph.D. Singapore Management University, Singapore Research Areas:

Tutorial Chairs: 

	Elisa Bertino, Ph.D. Purdue University, USA Research Areas: Information Security, Services Oriented Architecture, and Database Systems
	Shiping Chen, Ph.D. CSIRO, Australia Research Areas: Web Services.

Panel Chair: 

Yong Woo Lee, Ph.D. The University of Seoul, Korea Research Areas:

Workshop Chairs

	Jian Yang, Ph.D. Macquarie University, Australia Research Areas: e-business transaction management, web service description, discovery, and composition; interoperability, trust and security issues in digital libraries and e-commerce; business process modelling, query languages and query optimization; distributed query processing; internet computing; materialized view design and data warehousing.
	Akhil Kumar, Ph.D. Penn State University, USA Research Areas: workflow systems, e-services, various aspects of database systems, distributed information systems and intelligent systems.
	Christian Huemer, Ph.D. University of Vienna, Austria Research Areas: methodologies for modelling e-business transactions, meta data support for electronic business and EDI environments.

Body of Knowledge Chairs: 

	Ernesto Damiani, Ph.D. University of Milan, Italy Research Areas: Information Security, Services Oriented Architecture, and Database Systems
	Zhixiong Chen, Ph.D. Mercy College, USA Research Areas: Soliton Dynamic System, Compiled Parallel Computing, Neuronal Network Modeling and J2EE Application.

Ph.D. Symposium Chairs: 

	Kezysztof Zielinski, Ph.D. AGH - University of Science and Technology, Poland Research Areas:
	Yuhong Yan, Ph.D. Concordia University, Canada Research Areas: Web service modeling and computing, Monotonicity analysis in model abstraction and data mining.

Innovation Showcase Chair: 

Wing-Kwong Chan, Ph.D. City of University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Research Areas: Software Engineering and Programming Languages, Software Analysis and Testing, Pervasive Computing, and Services Computing

Local Arrangement Chair: 

A. Senthil Rajan, Ph.D. Jyoti Nivas College, Bangalore, India Research Areas: Operating System, System programming, C, COBOL, Computer Architecture.

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, Ph.D. Department Chair and Professor, Iowa State University, USA Research Areas: Software engineering, focusing on two major activities: software architecture based requirements engineering (SABRE) and project management with genetic algorithms (PROMGA).
	Ephraim Feig, Ph.D. President, Innovations-to-Market, USA Research Areas: Software as a Service, signal processing.
	Hemant Jain, Ph.D. Professor, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee , USA Research Areas: Electronic commerce, component based system development & Web services, design of distributed systems & infrastructure, data warehousing & data administration, design of system architecture.
	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.
	Calton Pu, Ph.D. Professor and John P. Imlay, Jr. Chair in Software, Georgia Tech, USA Research Areas: Distributed computing, Internet data management, and operating systems.
	Jeffrey Tsai, Ph.D. Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Research Areas: Sensor networks, ubiquitous computing, services computing, intrusion detection, bioinformatics, knowledge-based software engineering, formal modeling and verification, distributed real-time systems, multimedia systems, and intelligent agents.
	Zhiwei Xu, Ph.D. Institute of Computing Technology, China Research Areas: Services Computing, distributed computing.
	Liang-Jie Zhang, Ph.D. (Chair) 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

IEEE SCC 2009 Program Committee:

	Mark Cameron Research Engineer, CSIRO, Australia
	Yanchun Zhang Professor, Victoria University, Australia
	Yanbo Han Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
	Xiaofeng Yu Assistant Professor, Nanjing University, China
	Meiyun Zuo Professor, Renmin University of China, China
	Zhong Tian Senior IT Architect, IBM Software Group, China
	Norbert Ritter Professor, University of Hamburg, Germany
	Mathias Weske Professor, University of Potsdam, Germany
	Srinivas Padmanabhuni Principal Researcher, Infosys Technologies Limited, India
	Gianluigi Zavattaro Associate Professor, University of Bologna, Italy
	Fumiko Satoh Research Staff Member, IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory, Japan
	Remco Dijkman Assistant Professor, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
	Andreas Wombacher Professor, University of Twente, Netherlands
	Steve Ross-Talbot CEO, Hattrick Software & Pi4 Technologies Foundation, UK
	Rong N. Chang Manager of Service Management Environments, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
	Michael Goul Professor, Arizona State University, USA
	Hakan Hacigumus Research Staff Member, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
	Jeffrey T. Kreulen STSM, IBM Research, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
	Jia Zhang Assistant Professor, Northern Illinois University, USA
	Joe Zhou Research Staff Member, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
	Toru Ishida Professor, Kyoto University, Japan
	Althea Liang Assistant Professor, Singapore Management University, Singapore
	Sujoy Basu Senior Researcher, HP Labs Palo Alto, USA
	Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed Associate Professor, Marquette University, USA
	Christian Huemer Associate Professor, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
	Carson Woo Associate Professor, University of British Columbia, Canada
	Hai Jin Dean of CS, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
	Kanliang Wang Associate Professor, Xi'An Jiaotong University, China
	Jiannong Cao Professor, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
	Cho-Li Wang Professor, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
	Pontus Johnson Associate Professor, KTH - The Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
	Haluk Demirkan Assistant Professor, Arizona State University, USA
	Murthy Devara Senior Manager, Services Research, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
	Alan Hevner Professor, University of South Florida, USA
	Shiyong Lu Assistant Professor, Wayne State University, USA
	Calton Pu Professor, Georgia Tech, USA
	Benjamin Shao Associate Professor, Arizona State University, USA
	Biplav Srivastava Research Staff Member, IBM Research, India
	Maggie Minhong Wang Assistant Professor, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
	Paul Maglio Senior Manager, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
	Aditya Ghose Professor, University of Wollongong, Australia
	N Vishwanathan Clinical Professor, International School of Business, India
	Joseph Davis Associate Professor, University of Sydney, Australia
	Kazuyoshi Hidaka Senior Manager, IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory, Japan
	Yuriko Sawatani Manager, Innovation Informatics, IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory, Japan
	Avishai Mandelbaum Professor, William Davidson Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion, Israel
	Bai Xiaoyin Associate Professor, Computer Science, Tsinghua University, China
	Wei-Tek Tsai Professor, Arizona State University, USA
	Elisa Bertino Professor, Computer Science, Purdue University, USA
	Zhi Jin Professor, School of Eletronics Engineering and Computign Sciences, Peking University, China
	Feng-Jian Wang Professor, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan
	Harrick Vin Tata Consultancy Services, India
	Fariaz Karim Senior Software Engineer, Intel Corporation, USA
	Subodha Kumar Assistant Professor, Foster School of Business, University of Washington, USA
	Haishan Gong Senior Software Engineer, eBay, USA
	Srinivasan Raghunathan Associate Professor, University of Texas, Dallas, USA
	Sumit Sarkar Professor, University of Texas, Dallas, USA
	Guru Banavar Director, IBM India Research Lab and Chief Technologist, IBM India, India