Organization of SERVICES 2009

General Chair:

Ephraim Feig, Ph.D.
President, Innovations-to-Market, USA
Research Areas: Software as a Service, signal processing.

Program Committee Chairs:

Hemant Jain, Ph.D.
Professor, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, USA
Research Areas: Services Lifecycle (M.2), Service-Oriented Architecture (M.4), Business Process Management and Integration (M.7), Enterprise Modeling and Management (M.9), Application Services and Standards (M.12), IT Services Management (M.14).

Liang-Jie 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 Vice Chair:

Patrick C.K. Hung, Ph.D.
Associate 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.

Program Committee Administrative Assistants:

Jordanne Christie
University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada

Matthias Farwick
Research Group Quality Engineering,
Institute of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck, Austria

Industry Chair:

Krishna Singh
Director of Strategic Programs, Service Science Research
IBM Almaden Research Center, USA

The following organizing committee members support the shared activities of the co-located ICWS 2009 and SERVICES 2009 for effective operations.

Global SOA Industry Summit Chairs:

	Tony Shan IBM, USA Research Areas: Life-cycle design and development
	Dejan Milojicic, Ph.D. Senior research manager, HP Labs, USA Research Areas: Distributed computing, SOA, service oriented computing, service management, systems and systems software, mobility, and load distribution.

Publicity Chairs:

	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
	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, 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.

Panel Chairs:

	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, Web Services (M.3), Services Composition (M.6), Business Process Management and Integration (M.7), Security and Privacy in Services (M.13).
	Geng Lin, Ph.D. CTO of Cisco IBM Alliance, USA Research Areas: Business planning, product development and technology strategy.
	Bhavani Thuraisingham, Ph.D. Professor, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Research Areas: Business planning, product development and technology strategy.
	Casey Fung, Ph.D. Boeing Phantom Works, USA

Tutorial Chairs:

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, Business Process Management and Integration (M.7), Business Grid (M.8), Security and Privacy in Services (M.13)..

Brian Blake, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Computing Science, Georgetown University, USA
Research Areas: Enterprise integration, with a focus on design, specification, proof of correctness, implementation/experimentation, performance evaluation, and application.

Workshop Chairs:

	Umesh Bellur, Ph.D. Professor, IIT Bombay, India Research Areas: revolve around adaptability in service oriented environments, autonomic computing techniques for distributed component based applications and model driven development techniques in software engineering, Principles of Services (M.1), Web Services (M.3), Service-Oriented Architecture (M.4), Services Composition (M.6), Services Delivery Platform and Methodology (M.11).
	Jian Yang, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Computing, Macquaire University, Australia Research areas: E-business transaction management, Web service description, discovery, and composition, Principles of Services (M.1), Services Lifecycle (M.2), Web Services (M.3), Service-Oriented Architecture (M.4), Services Relationships (M.5), Services Composition (M.6), Business Process Management and Integration (M.7), Enterprise Modeling and Management (M.9), Application Services and Standards (M.12), Security and Privacy in Services (M.13), IT Services Management (M.14).
	Pradip K Srimani, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Computer Science, Clemson University, USA Research areas: Parallel and distributed computing, interconnection networks, self-stabilizing systems, graph theory applications, mobile computing.

Ph.D. Symposium Chair:

Stephen S. Yau, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Computer Science, Arizona State University, USA.
Research Areas: Cyber Trust, Software Engineering, Service-based Systems, Ubiquitous Computing, Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems.

Services Cup Contest Chairs:

	Min Luo, Ph.D. IBM Global Services, USA. Research Areas: Principles of Services (M.1), Services Lifecycle (M.2), Web Services (M.3), Service-Oriented Architecture (M.4), Services Relationships (M.5), Services Composition (M.6), Business Process Management and Integration (M.7), Enterprise Modeling and Management (M.9), Service-Oriented Consulting Methodology (M.10), Application Services and Standards (M.12).
	Yuhong Yan, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Concordia University, Canada Research Areas: Web service modeling and computing, Monotonicity analysis in model abstraction and data mining.
	Sujoy Basu, Ph.D. HP Labs - Palo Alto, USA Research Areas: Resource and service discovery for overlay networks and grids, Fault and performance management for applications deployed using service-oriented architecture, Web Services (M.3), Service-Oriented Architecture (M.4), Services Delivery Platform and Methodology (M.11), IT Services Management (M.14).
	Sushil Prasad, Ph.D. Professor, Georgia State University, USA Research Areas: Parallel and distributed computing - 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, Web Services (M.3), Service-Oriented Architecture (M.4), Services Composition (M.6), Business Process Management and Integration (M.7).

Body of Knowledge Chairs:

Michael Goul, Ph.D.
Professor, W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, USA
Research Areas: Enterprise modeling, information systems strategy, data warehousing, decision support, knowledge management, and services-oriented systems development.

Yanchun Zhang, Ph.D.
Director, Centre for Applied Informatics Research School of Computer Science & Mathematics, Victoria University, Australia
Research Areas: Database and information systems, internet and Web information systems, Web services and transaction management, Web mining and Web search, database support for cooperative work, Web data management, and e-Research, M.3 Web Services (M.3), Service-Oriented Architecture (M.4), Services Composition (M.6).

Services Education Methodology Summit Chairs:

Andreas Wombacher, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Research Areas: Data management in sensor networks, notions of consistency in multi-lateral collaborations and between different models, decentralized data management, Web Services, electronic commerce (especially information commerce), and modelling of business processes.

Registration Chairs

	Zhixiong Chen, Ph.D. Professor, Mathematics and Computer Information Science, Mercy College, USA Research Areas: Intelligence in IT Services Computing, digital copyrights, Enterprise Modeling and Management (M.9), Security and Privacy in Services (M.13).
	Thomas Kwok, Sc.D. IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Research Areas: Services Computing, e-Business, Information Retrieval and 3D Graphics, Web Services (M.3), Service-Oriented Architecture (M.4), Services Composition (M.6).

Program Committee Members:

Nils Gruschka (NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany)
Yaacov Yesha (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA)
Celso Hirata (ITA, Brazil)
Reijo Sulonen (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland)
Timothy K. Shih (Tamkang University, Taiwan)
Fa-Long Luo (Anyka Inc., USA)
Anca Ivan (IBM Thomas J Watson Center, USA)
Gang Li (Chinese Academacy of Sciences, China)
Philippe Cudre-Mauroux (MIT, USA)
Abhik Roychoudhury (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Liming Zhu (NICTA, Australia)
Khalid Al-Begain (University of Glamorgan, UK)
Shiping Chen (CSIRO, Australia)
Suresh Damodaran (RosettaNet, USA)
Prashant Doshi (University of Georgia, USA)
Wei CR Sun (IBM China Research Lab, China)
Young B. Choi (James Madison University, USA)
Pontus Johnson (KTH, Sweden)
Shiyong Lu (Wayne State University, USA)
Calton Pu (Georgia Tech, USA)
Ernesto Damiani (The University of Milan, Italy)
Justin Zhu (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Sanjay Chaudhary (Dhirubhai Ambani - Institute of Information and Communication Technology, India)
Harry Perros (North Carolina State University, USA)
Yan Wang (Macquarie University, Australia)
Claude Godart (LORIA, France)
Claudio Bartolini (HP Palo Alto Labs, USA)
Meiko Jensen (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany)

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