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.

ICWS 2008:

Information coming soon.

SCC 2008:

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.

SCC 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 of Computer Science, Georgia State University, USA Research areas: Parallel Algorithms and Data Structures, Parallel Discrete Event Simulation, Middleware and Collaborative Applications for Heterogeneous Mobile Devices, and Web-based Distributed and Collaborative Computing and Workflows.

Innovation Showcase Chair:

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

Local Arrangement Chair:

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

Registration Chair:

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)