The editorial board is responsible for putting laying together the goals and objectives of IJOP. The International Editorial Board consists of approximately 50 expert individuals who are solely committed to the exploration for high-quality research papers that are suitable for publication in the IJOP. These key individuals will work with the editor to achieve objectives of IJOP, execute the editorial responsibilities of the IJOP, contribute and encourage developers to contribute articles, publicize and advertise for the IJOP, periodically review four to six articles per year and one theme issue to assess their quality, relevance, and readability. Contribute at least one submission to IJOP or its BLOG. Additionally, members of the Editorial Board will also vote on the selection of high quality papers.

Ashraf Ahmad obtained his PhD degree in Computer Science and Engineering from National Chiao Tung University (NCTU) in Taiwan. He obtained his B.Sc. degree from Princess Sumya University for Technology (PSUT) in Jordan. Dr. Ahmad is currently an assistant professor at the department of computer Graphics in PSUT, Jordan. His interest area includes multimedia semantic features extraction, and analysis, multimedia retrieval, and multimedia communication. Prof. Ahmad has authored over 50 scientific publications including journal papers, conference papers and book chapters. In addition, Dr. Ahmad has several US and international patents in his field of expertise. He serves in program committee for several international conferences. He is also a reviewer and referee for several conferences and journals. His work has been published and presented at various international conferences.

Dr. Ahmad has been listed in Who's Who in the World for the year 2006 and Who's Who in Asia for the year 2007. In addition, He has been elected as one of the 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century for the year 2006 for his outstanding contribution in field of Video Processing and Communications. Ashraf Ahmad has been chosen as one of the recipients of Leading Scientist award in the year 2006. In 2008 Dr. Ahmad and his team won the first place in both Jordan and Middle East Level in the world wide international competition Imagine Cup for their novel project in Air Pollution Detection using video analysis. Again Dr. Ahmad and his team won the first place in METS’08 competition for their project in Bluetooth Mobile Application field. Prof Ahmad was Plenary Lecture in The 8th International Conference on ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING and DATA BASES (AIKED'09).

Omar Aldawud  is a software Engineer at Alcatel-Lucent and a lecturer in the Computer Science department at Illinois Institute of Technologies. Omar's research is focused on advanced object oriented techniques such as modeling Aspect Oriented systems using UML, Aspects and Design Patterns and Dynamic adaptability of software systems using Agent oriented technologies and data mining techniques. Omar has numerous publications related to these topics and was the first to propose a UML profile for AOSD. Omar is on the organization committee of all Aspect Oriented Modeling with UML workshops held in conjunction with Models and AOSD conferences.

 Hesham Arafat ali is an associated Prof. in Information systems and associated Prof. in computer Engineering. He received a BSc in electrical engineering (electronics), and MSc and PhD in computer engineering and automatic control from the Faculty of Engineering, Mansoura University, in 1987,1991 and 1997, respectively. He was assistant professor at the University of Mansoura , Faculty of Computer Science In 1997 up 1999. From January 2000 up to September 2001, he was joined as Visiting Professor to the Department of Computer Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs. From 2002 up to 2004 he was a vice dean for student affair the Faculty of Computer Science and Information, University of Mansoura. He was awarded with the Highly Commended Award From Emerald Literati Club 2002 for his research on network security. Since 2003 he has been an associate professor at the Computer Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, University of Mansoura. He is a founder member of the IEEE SMC Society Technical Committee on Enterprise Information Systems (EIS). He has served as a reviewer for many high quality journals, including Journal of Engineering Mansoura University. International Arab Journal of Information technology, The International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering. His interests are in the areas of network security, mobile agent, Network management, Search engine, pattern recognition, distributed databases, and performance analysis.

Zuhoor.A. Al-Khanjari is assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, College of Science, Sultan Qaboos University (SQU), Sultanate of Oman. She received her B.Sc. degree in Mathematics and Computing from SQU in 1993, the M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the University of Liverpool, UK in 1995 and the PhD degree in Computer Science (Software Engineering: Software Testing) from the University of Liverpool, UK in 1999. Currently she is the coordinator of the Software Engineering Research Group and E-Learning team in the Department of the Computer Science, SQU. Also she is the coordinator of the College of Science E-Learning Committee at SQU.  She is an active faculty in promoting the E-Learning process in SQU. She acted as College of Science Assistant Dean for Postgraduate Studies and Research during 2003-2004. She has participated as a member in the Evaluation Committee for the award of King Abdullah The Second Bin Al-Hussain for Invention In Science in 2004. This involved evaluating the education material submitted by different researchers in the Arab world, whether the material is related to distance learning. She is a member in the editorial board of the International Arab Journal of Information Technology (IAJIT). In addition she is a member of several other professional bodies and societies. She has published 14 Journal papers and 23 conference papers in International journal and conference proceedings. Her research interests include Software Engineering, Software Analysis and Design, Software Testing, Software Reliability, Software Robustness, Database Management, Object Oriented Programming, E-Learning, Human-Computer Interaction, Intelligent Search Engines, and Web Data Mining and Development.  

 
Russo Barbara received her Master degree and her PhD degree in Mathematics from the University of Trento, Italy, respectively in 1991 and 1996. Prof. Russo was post-doc fellow and research assistant in Mathematics at the University of Trento, Italy. She was visiting researcher at the Max Plank Institute für Mathematik in Bonn and at the University of Liverpool. Since 2001 she is a member of the Free University of Bolzano-Bozen. She is currently an associate professor of the Faculty of Computer Science. She is also a member of the Center for Applied Software Engineering at the Free University of Bolzano-Bozen. She has participated to several national and international projects (as NAME EU FP5, COSPA EU FP6, CALIBRE EU FP6, MAPS Italian Ministry). She has relevant publications on Agile Methods and OpenSource development. She has been reviewer for various conferences on the sector (as ESEM2006/2007, SEKE2005, XP200x, OSS200x) and journals (as Journal of Software Architecture, Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society) She is responsible at the Free University of Bolzano-Bozen for the European Master in Software Engineering awarded as Erasmus Mundus program and the Bachelor of Working Students awarded as program with excellence by the National Enterprises Association. Her current research interests focus on reliability analysis and software metrics in the agile and open source development.

Miklós BIRÓ has a Ph.D. in mathematics (operations research) from the Loránd Eötvös University in Budapest, an Executive MBA (Master of Business Administration) degree from ESC Rouen, France, and a Master of Science in Management degree from Purdue University, USA. He is fluent in Hungarian, English, and French. He is an associate professor at the Department of Information Systems of Corvinus University of Budapest with 30 years of software engineering and university teaching (including professorship in the USA), and 20 years of management experience. He initiated and managed the Hungarian participation in numerous European multinational projects and organisations committed to information technology process impovement (European Software Institute, Bootstrap Institute). He was the initiator and head of the Information Society Technologies Liaison Office in Hungary for the European Union's 5th Framework Programme. He is invited as expert consultant by Hungarian and international organizations (European Commission; Irish National Policy and Advisory Board for Enterprise, Trade, Science, Technology & Innovation~Forfás; Communications Authority of Hungary; Hungarian Committee for Technological Development; Investment and Trade Development Agency of Hungary; Hungarian Airlines; United Nations Industrial Development Organization~UNIDO; International Software Consulting Network;...). He has numerous publications in international scientific and professional journals (Wiley Software Process Improvement and Practice, American Society for Quality Software Quality Professional, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Software Process Newsletter, European Journal of Operational Research, Zeitschrift für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik, Optimization, Information Processing Letters, Discrete Mathematics, Journal of Advanced Transportation, Acta Cybernetica) and conference proceedings. He is the co-author of Hungarian and English language books on operations research and decision models, software engineering, software process improvement and business motivations. He is member of the Editorial board of the journal Software Process Improvement and Practice published by John Wiley & Sons, and founding president of the professional division for Software Quality Management of the John von Neumann Computer Society. He is the Hungarian member of Technical Committee 2 (TC-2) Software: Theory and practice of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) . He is member of several other professional bodies and societies.

Rafael Capilla is a graduated in computer science by the University of Seville (Spain) and he earns a PhD.  in computer science by the University Rey Juan Carlos of Madrid (Spain). He worked for a Telecommunication company for more than two years and 9 years as a Unix system manager in the computing center of the University of Seville. He has been an assistant professor in the Polytechnic University of Madrid. At present he is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science in the University Rey Juan Carlos. He is co-author of one book and co-author of more than 25 international conference papers and one journal. His research interests focuses on software architectures, product line engineering and software variability management. In addition, other related interests are service oriented systems and mobile application development.

Fouad B. Chedid received the B.S. degree in Physics from the Lebanese University in 1982, the M.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Riverside, in 1987, and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, in 1990. From 1990 to 1996, he was on the faculty of Temple University in Japan. Since 1996, he has been on the faculty of the Notre Dame University Computer Science Department in Lebanon, where he is currently a professor and chairman. He has served on the program committees of many international conferences and workshops.  He has published over 40 publications in international journals and conference proceedings. His research interests are in Parallel and Distributed computing, very large databases, spatio-temporal modeling, Kolmogorov complexity, inductive inference, and algorithms.

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Bernard Coulette is a full professor in Computer science at the University of Toulouse 2 Le Mirail (UTM).  In 1979, he got an engineering degree in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the ENSEEIHT engineering school of Toulouse. He got a PHD in Computer Science in 1982, and thus worked as an engineer in computer science in a french company from 1982 to 1984. He was recruited at the ENSEEIHT engineering school as an associate professor from 1984 to 1999. Since 2000, he works as a full professor in the Mathematics & Computer Science department of the UTM. He was head of this department from 2002 to 2004. From 2001 to 2006, he led the ISYCOM research team of the GRIMM laboratory of the UTM. He moved in 2007 to the IRIT laboratory of Toulouse, and is currently in charge of the IRIT UTM site. His fields of interest in teaching are Software Engineering, Object-Oriented Analysis and Design methodologies, Formal Specification with B, Process Modeling with UML and SPEM, Design Patterns. He had been involved in international teaching exchange programs such as Socrates and Erasmus for many years. His main research topics are Software Designer Assistance, UML profiles, View based Object-Oriented approaches, Process Modeling and Process Patterns, and more recently Model Driven Engineering. He directed or co-directed more than 15 PHD students. He developed international research relationships with European universities, Morocco and Vietnam, and he is currently member of program committees of several international journals and conferences.

Dr.Sergio de Cesare is currently a Lecturer and Director of Postgraduates Studies in the Department of Information Systems and Computing at Brunel University. His work focuses on the adoption of ontologies and conceptual patterns in software engineering as a means to develop and evolve information systems that are increasingly flexible and adaptive to change. His research interests relate to the foundational principles and concepts of semantic modelling, the role of semantic models in making sense of real-world domain knowledge and the development of ontology-based development tools and techniques. Sergio has over 40 peer-reviewed publications in leading journals and conferences and has organised several international events related to modelling in software engineering including a series of ACM OOPSLA workshops on the general theme of 'Semantics in Systems Development'. He is also currently the Managing Editor of the European Journal of Information Systems.

Dilip Patel holds the chair of Information Systems and is the head of the Centre for Information Management & E-Business, in the Faculty of Business, Computing and Information Management at London South Bank University. Dilip has a wide range of research, teaching and consultancy experience in the areas of Software Engineering, Information Management and Modelling, Data Mining, Knowledge Management, Ontologies, Social Aspects of Computing and Key Performance Indicators. He has published extensively in journals, book chapters and conference proceedings. In addition he has edited special issues of journals and conference proceedings. He is currently on the editorial board for two international journals.He is also Editor-in-Chief for The International Journal of Computing and ICT Research. He has successfully supervised PhD Students. He has served on numerous programme committees and organised various international conferences. As a subject specialist reviewer in computing, he has undertaken subject reviews for the UK Quality Assurance Agency in HE and United Nations (UN) funded Quality Assurance initiatives in the Middle East. He has secured funding for and worked on many research projects funded by the European Union, DTI and industry.

Ali Dogru is a faculty member in the Department of Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University since 1993.  He obtained his PhD degree in Computer Science from the Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas in 1992.  His previous degrees are in Electrical Engineering, from the University of Texas at Arlington and Technical University of Istanbul.  Besides having worked for the industry Dr. Doğru has been teaching for the University of Texas and Texas Tech University, since 1995, in the training and degree programs mostly designed for the industry.  His current research areas are mainly focused on software development approaches, having published his ideas in various articles and the book: “Component Oriented Software Engineering.”  Dr. Doğru has contributed to four books and also co-authored a Turkish Software Engineering book.  He has been conducting various training and consulting work for major companies in Turkey.  He has established and coordinated the MS in Software Engineering program in METU.

Mourad Elloumi received an Undergraduate Degree in Mathematics and Physics in 1984, and a Master's Degree in Computer Engineering in 1988, from the Faculty of Sciences of Tunis, Tunisia. He also received a Master's Degree in Computer Science in 1989, and a PhD Degree in Computer Science in 1994, from the University of Aix-Marseilles III, France. Then, he received a Habilitation for conducting research in Computer Science in 2003, from the National School of Computer Science, Tunis, Tunisia. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department in the Faculty of Economic Sciences and Management of Tunis, Tunisia. His research interests are Computational Molecular Biology, Algorithmics, and Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.

Mario Joao Ferreira is a Professor of Information Systems at the Innovation, Science and Technology Department at the Universidade Portucalense, Porto, Portugal. She is also a researcher at Universidade Portucalense. She graduated in Applied Mathematics and Computation, from Universidade Portucalense and received a MSc (1993) and a PhD (2003) degree in Computation from UMIST – University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology - Manchester, UK. Currently, she teaches subjects in the area of Information Systems and Requirements Engineering at undergraduate and master level as well as supervises final year undergraduate and MSc students. She is member of the INSTICC- Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication and the EDGE - an Investigation Center on Management Studies. Her research includes Analysis Patterns, Specification Reuse, Requirements Engineering and Information Systems. She has published several papers in refereed conference proceedings in these areas and she has been involved in several conferences and workshops as a program committee member.

Islam AM EL-Maddah has been awarded the doctoral of philosophy degree in computing since May 2004, from University of London, King’s College London, UK. His interest niches include Software Engineering: Requirements validation, reuse, refinement, formalization, Component–based development, tracing early aspects, design patterns, process control systems development, Data mining and Knowledge Discovery. He received his Masters from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, in August 1999. He is currently working as a lecturer at Computers and Systems Engineering department, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. He is teaching post-graduate and under graduate students foundation courses concerning Software development and Control Engineering. He has published around ten papers in international conferences and workshops. He has been involved in reviewing research papers for some international conferences and IEEE software Magazine in the domains of Software Requirements and Human Computer Interface. During his PhD study, Dr.El-Maddah has been developing a software tool called (GOPCSD) www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/pg/elmaddah/GOPCSD for goal–driven requirements analysis of process control systems. He has received a prize for the second best poster in Requirements Day (R-Day04) organized by the Requirements Engineering Specialist Group of the British Computer Society (REGS-BCS) http://www.resg.org.uk/ in 2004, London, UK. Dr. EL-Maddah writes articles related to Software Requirements Engineering in the Requirements Quarterly (RQ) newsletter of the REGS http://www.resg.org.uk/newsletter.html. For more information about El-Maddah’s research and Publication please visit the web-page www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/pg/elmaddah. Dr. El-Maddah’s latest research focuses on Requirements-reuse, Hardening soft requirements, and Data- and Knowledge- visualization.

Crina D. Grosan received BS and MS degrees in mathematics and a Ph.D. in computer science from  Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania in 2005. She is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, Babes-Bolyai University. Her recent research interests include optimization, mathematical programming, numerical analysis, computational intelligence, computational biology. Dr. Grosan has over 70 scientific publications including over 25 journal articles/book chapters and 6 books written or edited. She serves on the editorial board of a number of journals and on the program committee of several international conferences.

Gang Huang is an Associate Professor in the School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science of Peking University and is a faculty member of the Institute of Software. He received his Ph.D. in 2003 from the School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science of Peking University, an M.S. in 2000 and a B.S. in 1997 in Computer Science from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an. Huang’s research interests are in the area of distributed computing with emphasis on middleware, including the construction and management of middleware, and software engineering with emphasis on component based development and software architecture. He has published more than 50 papers and won the award of National Outstanding Dissertations in China. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and China Computer Federation (CCF). He has served as program or organization committee members of COMPSAC, SOSE and other conferences and workshops.

Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc is assistant professor at the Department of Computing Science and Operations Research of University of Montreal where he leads the Ptidej team on evaluating and enhancing the quality of object-oriented programs by promoting the use of patterns, at the language-, design-, or architectural-levels. He holds a Ph.D. in software engineering from University of Nantes, France (under Professor Pierre Cointe's supervision) since 2003 and an Engineering Diploma from École des Mines of Nantes since 1998. His Ph.D. thesis was funded by Object Technology International, Inc. (now IBM OTI Labs.), where he worked in 1999 and 2000. His research interests are program understanding and program quality during development and maintenance, in particular through the use and theidentification of recurring patterns. He is interested also in empirical software engineering where he uses eye-trackers to understand and to develop theories about program comprehension. He has published many papers in international conferences and journals..

Orit Hazzan is an associate professor at the Technion's Department of Education in Technology and Science. Her main research topic human aspects of software engineering deals with cognitive and social issues of software engineering. She is co-author (with Jim Tomayko) of Human Aspects of Software Engineering (2004). Hazzan combines her academic research with consulting to several Israeli software development companies on the assimilation of agile methods and change management. She presents her work at computer science and software engineering education conferences as well as conferences on software engineering in general, and agile development in particular.

Hoda M. Hosny is an IT consultant and trainer and a Professor of Computer Science specializing in Software Engineering. Her areas of academic interest also include System Simulation, Interactive Learning, Computer Science Education and Database Systems. Dr. Hosny graduated with a B.Sc. degree in Mathematics (concentration in Computer Science and minor in Management) from the American University in Cairo (AUC), Egypt in June 1978. She received her M.Sc. degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Davis at the end of 1984 and Ph.D in Computer Science from the School of Computer Studies from the University of Leeds, UK in 1991.

Since 1985, she worked as an IT specialist, unit manager, consultant and trainer in industry and has been continuously teaching academic courses at AUC and 4 other universities in Cairo. She developed training material and delivered more than 30 professional short courses and workshops at a number of Egyptian government and public organizations.

She is an active member of a number of societies such as the ACM and its Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) since 1988 and the Egyptian Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN) since its inception in 2003. She is the author/co-author of more than 40 scientific papers, articles and columns. She reviewed papers for more than 30 international conferences and journals.

Pao-Ann Hsiung received the B.S. degree in Mathematics and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC, in 1991 and 1996, respectively. From 1993 to 1996, he was a Teaching Assistant and System Administrator in the Department of Mathematics, National Taiwan University. From 1996 to 2000, he was a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC. From February 2001 to July 2002, he was an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan, ROC. He is currently an associate professor. Dr. Hsiung was the recipient of the 2001 ACM Taipei Chapter Kuo-Ting Li Young Researcher for his significant contributions to design automation of electronic systems. This award is given annually to only one person under the age of 36, conducting research in Taiwan. Dr. Hsiung was also a recipient of the 2004 Young Scholar Research Award given by National Chung Cheng University to five young faculty members per year.  Dr. Hsiung is a senior member of the IEEE, the IEEE Computer Society, a senior member of the ACM, and a life member of the IICM. He has been included in several professional listings such as Marquis' Who's Who in the World (starting from the 17th Millenium Edition, 2000), Marquis' Who's Who in Asia (starting from the 1st Edition, 2007), Outstanding People of the 20th Century (2nd Edition, 2000, International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England), Rifacimento International's Admirable Asian Achievers (2006), Afro/Asian Who's Who, Vol. I (2007), and Asia/Pacific Who's Who, Vol. VII, (2007), Who's Who in Formal Methods, ACM SIGDA's design automation professionals, ... Dr. Hsiung is an editorial board member of the International Journal of Embedded Systems (IJES), Inderscience Publishers, USA, an associate editor of the Journal of Software Engineering (JSE), Academic Journals, Inc., USA, an editorial board member of the Open Software Engineering Journal (OSE), Bentham Science Publishers, Ltd., USA, and has guest edited two special issues in 2005 and 2006 for IJES. Dr. Hsiung has been on the program committee of 38 international conferences. He served as session organizer and chair for PDPTA'99, as workshop organizer and chair for RTC'99, DSVV'2000, and PDES'2005. He has published more than 120 papers in international journals and conferences. He has been taking an active part in paper refereeing for international journals and conferences. His main research interests include: reconfigurable computing and system design, System-on-Chip (SoC) design and verification, embedded software synthesis and verification, real-time system design and verification, hardware-software codesign and coverification, and component-based object-oriented application frameworks for real-time embedded systems.

Mustafa Jarrar is currently working as an assistant professor at the University of Birzeit. He has been a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Cyprus. Before that he worked as a Senior Research Scientist at STARLab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium, where he also completed his Masters (2000) and PhD (2005) in Computer Science. Jarrar published more than 60 articles and refereed reports in the areas of database, Web 2.0,semantic web, conceptual modeling, ontologies, automated reasoning, and lexical semantics. He chaired 13 international events and workshops, a PC members of more than 55 conferences and journals. Dr. jarrar served as a project leader in many national and international projects, and has co-founded the Ontology Outreach Advisory, which is an international not-for-profit association with the aim of developing strategies for ontology recommendation and standardization. Dr. Jarrar is a full member of the IFIP2.6 on Database Semantics, the IFIP2.12 on Web Semantics, the IEEE Learning Standards Committee, and the CEN/ISSS ICT Skills and Curricula.

Paul Jorgensen holds a B.A. and an M.A. in mathematics from North Central College (1964) and the University of Illinois (1965). He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Arizona State University in 1985, where he emphasized Software Engineering. From 1965 to 1985, he worked on telephone switching systems, where he was involved in all facets of software development, testing, and management. During this time, he had a three-year assignment in Italy, where he shared the final technical responsibility for a major telephone switching system with one colleague. Dr. Jorgensen is a full professor in the School of Computing and Information Systems at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan. He has taught graduate level software engineering courses since 1986, where his teaching and research interests center on requirements specification and software testing. Most recently, these have come together in model-based testing. He has made dozens of invited presentations with an equally extensive list of formal publications. He is the author of Software Testing-A Craftsman’s Approach 1^st, 2^nd, and 3^rd Editions.  Dr. Jorgensen is active in the technical community, having been a member of ACM and a Senior Member of IEEE for decades. He serves on the board of XP westMichigan, a regional group of working professionals interested in agile practices, and has participated in the development of IEEE standards. Most recently, he has become involved with tester certification in conjunction with the ISTQB. Dr. Jorgensen lives near Rockford, Michigan. He and his wife enjoy travel, particularly to Italy.

 Pankaj Kamthan ’s educational background is in Mathematics, Mathematics Education, and Computer Science. He has taught in academia and industry for past several years, has been a Technical Editor for McGraw-Hill, has served on program committees of international conferences, and is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning and the International Journal of Teaching and Case Studies. His teaching and research interests include Document, Model, and Software Quality; Knowledge Representation; Requirements Engineering; Markup Languages; Ontology Engineering; Representation of Patterns; and Web Engineering.

Dae-Kyoo Kim is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Oakland University since 2004. He received the PhD in computer science from Colorado State University in 2004. During his PhD work, he had an internship at NASA\Ames Research Center, Mountain View, California. He worked as a software engineer at McHugh Software International, Waukesha, Wisconsin from 1997 till 2000, developing warehouse management systems. He has published over twenty four papers including SCI journal papers, book chapters, and eighteen conference and technical papers. He was a co-chair of a workshop at ICECCS 2005, and has served as a program committee member in thirteen conferences and as a reviewer for renowned journals including JVLC, SQJ and SoSym. His research interests include pattern formalization, model refactoring, aspect-oriented modeling, security, and component-based software development. He is a member of the IEEE Computer Society.

Kholladi Mohamed-Khireddine is a Doctor of state in Data processing (graduate Doctor of the INSA of Lyon). He is currently a head of Computer science department of the Faculty of Science of the engineer of the Mentouri university of Constantine and president of association sciences and development of the university. He is a head of team of research at the documentary research laboratory of the department of biblio-economics and member of the vision team & computer graphics of the research laboratory LIRE of the computer sciences department. He is member of the network Cassini in France and member of network ACIT International. Its work concerns the geographical information systems, the computer graphics, the treatment and synthesis of image, national’s archives, knowledge bases, the new technology of information and communication “NTIC”, etc.

Jonathan Lee is a professor of Computer Science and Information Engineering at the National Central University (NCU) in Taiwan, and was the department chairman (1999-2002) and the director of Software Research Center (2003-2006). He is currently the director of the Computer Center at NCU. His research interests include goal-driven software engineering, agent-based software technology, service-oriented software technology, and software engineering with computational intelligence. He has authored more than 100 journal and refereed conference papers, and is in the editorial boards of International Journal of Artificial Intelligence Tools, Fuzzy Optimization and Decision Making, and Journal of Information Science and Engineering. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Texas A&M University. He is the president of Taiwan Software Engineering Association, a senior member of the IEEE Computer Society and a member of the ACM.

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Brian A. Malloy, has published over 100 articles on object-oriented design, software visualization, language and compiler technology, reverse engineering and software visualization. He has a distinguished history of success in prior funded projects both federal (NSF, ARL, DARPA) and industrial (Battell, Biotech, TACOM) funding agencies. Brian has twice received the ACM Best Teacher of the Year award for his work at Clemson (2001, 2002). His recent work includes the application of software engineering and object technology to game construction. He has developed undergraduate curriculum for 2D and 3D game development, leveraging programming talent from the School of Computing, and art and model construction talent from the Digital Production Arts component of the school. His courses are some of the most popular in the college.

Haralambos Mouratidis received his B.Eng (Hons) in Electronics with Computing Science from the University of Wales, Swansea; his M.Sc. in Data Communications and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Sheffield, England. He has also received a Postgraduate Certificate on Teaching and Learning from the University of East London. He is currently a Senior lecturer at the School of Computing and Technology at the University of East London, England.He is member of the Software Design and Development Field of the Schol of Computing and Technology, teaching and leading modules associated mainly with software engineering. His research interests lie in the areas of secure information systems development and agent oriented software engineering and he has published over 45 refereed journal and conference papers. He has reviewed for various international journals and served at the programme committee of various events related to his research interests. He has chaired the programme committee of international events such as the International Workshop on Agent Oriented Information Systems and he has co-initiated the international workshop on safety and security in multiagent systems series. He is the guest editor on a forthcomming special issue of the International Journal of Agent Oriented Software Engineering. Dr Mouratidis has received individual grants from various sources including the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), and the Royal Society of Engineering towards international collaborative research work.

Benamrane Nacera is an assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science of University of Science and Technology of Oran, Algeria where I give courses on theory of computation, programming theory, parallel programming, Image processing and computer vision.  I received my BS degree in Computer Science from the Université of Oran, the  master degree and a PhD  from the Université of Valenciennes, France. Since 1992-1993 I wasp a tachina and resarci assistant at. université of Valenciennes, France.I supervised several research projects and  participated  as a program committee and reviewer of many  international conference, such as IEEE/GMAI2005,  IEEE/MEDIVIS2006, META’06, COSI2005-2007, LANIA2007. I was a membre of the French association of opérationnel  resarci, I supervise more thane 15 master thèses sine 1995 and Continues to supervise master thesis and doctorate  thesis. I have more thane 25 palpers Publisher in journaux, conférence procédions and one in book. My main research topics are on computer vision, image  procession, médical  imager, artificiel intelligence, data mini and  pattern recognition

  Selmin NURCAN obtained her engineer degree in computer sciences at INSA-Lyon (National Institute of Applied Sciences) in 1986. She joined then the Information Systems Engineering Research Centre where she received her PhD in computer sciences in 1991 and worked on knowledge representation and CSCW till 1995. She is currently associate professor at IAE de Paris – University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne and researcher at CRI (Centre de REcherche en Informatique). Her research activities include enterprise modelling, enterprise architecture and business/IT alignment, process (re)engineering, change modelling, cooperative IS engineering and business process management. She has an extensive teaching experience in the areas of enterprise computing, information systems and ICT, including enterprise knowledge development, organizational change modelling, business process and workflow engineering, CSCW, IS engineering and project management. She actively participated to the development of EKD-CMM, a multi-method for defining the organizational change and more generally for guiding the engineering activities for enterprise modelling and business/system alignment. She currently works on intention driven modelling formalisms in order to measure their ability to represent adaptive and flexible business processes (intra or inter enterprises). She is interested to the enhancement of IS engineering methods aiming to anticipate business/IS alignment and IS governance requirements. Selmin is author or co-author of 80 research papers , co-president of the ECI (Communicating Enterprise and Interoperability) Working Group of the National Research Associations GDR I3 and GDR MACS of CNRS, co-organizer of the 8 th Workshop on Business Process Modelling, Development, and Support (BPMDS'07) , co-chair of the BPM Track (Business Process Management) during the four last editions of the IRMA (Information Resources Management Association) International Conference and an active member of the French Association of Process Pilots. She supervised 19 research and 84 professional master thesis since 1995. She is acting as a program committee member of a number of international and national conferences and she is serving on the editorial board of International Journal of Innovation and Learning and on the editorial advisory board of the Advances in End-User Computing Book Series.

Toacy C. Oliveira is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Brazil and Adjunct Professor at the University of Liverpool, UK.  Prof. Toacy is currently member of ACM and received his PhD in 2001 from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). He has published several articles on Software Engineering journals such as IEEE Transactions of Software Engineering and the Journal of System and Software.  His main areas of research are related to Software Reuse and Automated Software Engineering. Toacy started his career as a Software Engineer in 1992 after finishing the Computing Engineering course. At that time, he and some colleagues engaged on an endeavor to develop a pure Object Oriented Programming Language, and its supporting infrastructure (Compiler, Linker, Virtual Machine and an Integrated Development Environment such as Visual Basic). In the beginning of 1995, TOOL (The Object Oriented Language) was released for beta test at Brazilian Ministry of Defense (Navy) and was successfully used to develop some tactical systems. In the middle of 1995 Toacy started to develop his academic career when he joined PUC-Rio as a Master Candidate and two years later as a PhD Candidate. During this period Toacy participated as a Project Leader on another venture: the conception and development of a CASE Tool aimed at designing and generating code for object-oriented applications based on the UML specification. 2GOOD (2^nd Generation Object Oriented Design) was sponsored in a cooperation between LMF/PUC-Rio (Formal Methods Lab at PUC-Rio) and Siemens AG (former Equitel Brasil). 2GOOD was released in the mid 1999 as an academic product. In 1998, as an extension of previous work, Toacy was hired by the Brazilian’s Navy as a part time contractor to lead the creation of a development infrastructure for several decision support systems based on the concept of Object Oriented Frameworks and supporting material. This job supported many of Toacy’s PhD ideas about software reuse process systematization. By the end of 1999, Toacy joined LES at PUC-Rio (Software Engineering Lab at PUC-Rio), where he met Prof. Carlos Lucena, his mentor and PhD advisor. Together they started working on the underlying aspects of Object Oriented Framework development. By this time Toacy also started to cooperate with the University of Waterloo, Canada, where he met Professor Don D. Cowan and ended as postdoctoral fellow in 2002 for one and a half years. When in Waterloo Toacy worked with the Computer Systems Group (CSG) at the David Sheriton School of Computer Science. During his stay in Canada, Toacy joined the University of Liverpool Master in IT program, where he is currently Adjunct Professor. After returning to Brazil, Toacy joined PUCRS as an Associate Professor in 2004. His major duties at PUCRS are teaching Software Engineering courses, supervising several industry projects in Software Engineering and advising students at both undergrad and graduate levels. Among the courses taught by Toacy are Software Development with UML, Software Reuse and Automated Software Engineering. Currently Toacy coordinates two major projects: PDS Quantiza and SOFA. PDS Quantiza is a commercial project sponsored by Quantiza  Systems Inc. aiming at i) deploying software processes compatible with CMMi Level 2 Process Areas and; ii) developing a programming infrastructure to facilitate construction of Web and Rich-Client Applications. The infrastructure is realized as an Eclipse Plugin and contains an Object Oriented Framework, an UML Profile to expose the framework’s characteristics at design level and a transformation engine to convert UML models into Java and XML code. SOFA is an academic project where graduate and undergraduate students develop several small applications under the Automated Software Engineering umbrella, based UML models’ manipulation.

Claus Pahl is currently a Senior Lecturer at Dublin City University, School of Computing. Dr. Pahl graduated from the Technical University of Braunschweig in 1990. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Dortmund in 1996. Before his current appointment he has been employed at other universities in Ireland, Denmark and Germany. Dr. Pahl’s main research area is Software and Systems Engineering. He has been working on software engineering technologies, where he has investigated software service technologies including semantic services and architectures. Specific interests include service process architectures and architectural patterns, model-driven service engineering, and service integration architectures. E-learning technologies form a systems engineering research interest that is looked at from both an educational and a technical perspective, focusing on software and architecture technologies for teaching and learning systems. Dr. Pahl has published more than 140 papers. He is the editor of a book on applications of software architecture for learning technology systems. He has been an invited speaker and an invited panellist at conferences and workshops in the area of service engineering. He is a reviewer for several journals (including Theoretical Computer Science, Formal Aspects of Computing, World-Wide Web Journal, Intl. Journal of Software and Knowledge Engineering, Distributed Systems Online, Intl. Journal of Web Services and Information Systems, and Computers & Education) and publishers. He is on the editorial review board of three journals. Dr. Pahl has been on more than 40 programme committees of conferences and workshops over recent years, including the European Conference on Web Services, the Symposium on Software Composition, and the International Software Engineering Conference. He is currently the Programme Committee Co-Chair of the IEEE-supported European Conference on Web Services and will be its General Chair in 2008. Dr. Pahl is the course director of the M.Sc. in Software Engineering at Dublin City University. He has developed and accredited this degree programme with colleagues and he has been chairing the degree’s programme board since. He also chairs the programme board of the M.Sc. in Computer Applications.

Dietmar Pfahl joined the Schulich School of Engineering at the University of Calgary in July 2005. He holds the position of Associate Professor. Before moving to Canada, he was group leader, project manager, and department head with the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (10 years), project manager with Siemens Corporate Technology (7 years), and research staff member with the German Aerospace Research Establishment (1 year). Dr. Pfahl has more than 15 years of experience in conducting and leading national and international research and transfer projects with software industry, including organizations such as Bosch, DaimlerChrysler, Dräger, Ericsson, and Siemens. Dr. Pfahl received his PhD degree (Dr. rer. nat.) in Computer Science from the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. He is member of two editorial boards, serves on many program committees of international conferences, and has been program co-chair of the International Conference on Software Process in 2007. Dr. Pfahl has more than 60 refereed publications. His current research interests include quantitative software project management, software process analysis and improvement, and simulation-based learning and decision support. One focus of his research is the identification of software process patterns. Dr. Pfahl is a senior member of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), an affiliate member of the IEEE Computer Society, an affiliate fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Application, and a member of the German Computer Society.

Andreas Rausch is the head of the chair for Software Systems Engineering at the Clausthal University of Technology. Until early 2007 he was head of  the chair for Software Architecture at the University of Kaiserslautern. In 2001 he obtained his doctorate at the University of  Munich under Prof. Dr. Manfred Broy. His research in the field of software engineering focuses on software architecture, model-based software engineering and process models, with more than 70 publications worldwide. Prof. Dr. Andreas Rausch is project leader for the development of the new V-Modell XT, the standard system development process model for IT systems of the Federal Republic of Germany. In addition to his research activities he participated in various commercial software projects developing large distributed systems. He is one of the four founders and shareholders of the software and consulting company 4Soft GmbH, Munich. His main research areas are: Software architecures and component techniques, Model- and view-based specification techniques and development methods, Development and adjustment of process models, Design and implementation of universal tool support.

  David Rine earned his PhD from the University of Iowa in 1970. David Rine has been practicing, teaching and researching engineered software development for over thirty years. Prior to joining George Mason University he served in various leadership roles in the IEEE Computer Society and co-founded two of the technical committees. He joined George Mason University in 1985 and was the founding chair of the Department of Computer Science and one of the founders of the (Volgenau) School of Information Technology and Engineering. Rine has received numerous research, teaching and service awards from computer science and engineering societies and associations, including the IEEE Centennial Award, the IEEE Pioneer Award, the IEEE Computer Society Meritorious Service Awards, the IEEE Computer Society Special Awards, and the IEEE Computer Society 50th anniversary Golden Core Award, the historical IEEE Computer Society Honor Roll and Distinguished Technical Services Awards. He has been a pioneer in graduate, undergraduate and high school education, producing computer science texts and leading establishment of the international Advanced Placement Computer Science program for the nation's high school students, co-designer the first computer science and engineering curriculum (1976) and the first masters in software engineering curriculum (1978). He has been an editor of a number of prestigious software-oriented journals. During his tenure he has authored over 300 published works and has directed many PhD students. Complementing his work at GMU, he has worked on many international technology and relief projects in various countries and made many life-long international friendships. His past students are the most important record of his technical achievements

Arturo Sánchez is an Associate Professor (Tenured) with the School of Computing (SoC), University of North Florida (UNF). He architected the Software Engineering Track, part of the MS program in CIS, and has been acting as its coordinator since its inception. Previous to joining UNF, Dr. Sánchez held appointments with the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, and Universidad Central de Venezuela at Caracas. Dr. Sánchez has presented numerous papers at renowned international conferences on Computing, organized by ACM, IEEE-CS, IFIP, and Dagstuhl. He was personally invited to be part of Comprehensive Object-Oriented Learning (COOL), a project funded by Norwegian government, by its original proponent and leader, the late Kristen Nygaard, recipient of the 2001 ACM Turing Award and 2002 IEEE John von Neumann Medal. Dr. Sánchez has participated in research and consulting projects funded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the Venezuelan Petroleum Research Center (INTEVEP), and various companies which belong to the main Venezuelan Petroleum Company (PDVSA). He is an active Software Engineering independent consultant in the Jacksonville area. Recent clients include the MPS Group and the University of North Florida. Dr. Sánchez has served on various conference and workshop program committees, and a NSF panel. He has been a reviewer for the IEEE Latin America Transactions, an electronic periodical published in Spanish and Portuguese by the IEEE Region 9, since its inception. Dr. Sánchez holds a PhD degree in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a Masters of Science degree in Computer Science from the same institution, and a Licenciado degree in Computer Science (Magna Cum Laude) from Universidad Central de Venezuela in Caracas. His current research interests include Software Engineering in general, with an emphasis on large enterprise systems which interact with mobile clients, ontology-enabled semantic interoperability, domain-specific software development, workflow management systems, and computer science education.

Riccardo Scandariato obtained his PhD in Computer Science from Politecnico di Torino, Italy, in 2004. During year 2003, he was a visiting research associate at the University of Virginia, USA, working on defense systems against Internet worms, with the Dependability Research Group of Prof. John Knight. In 2004-2005, he was a post-doctoral researcher at Politecnico di Torino, with the Software Engineering Group of Prof. Maurizio Morisio. During that period, he worked on innovative methodological approaches to software-based remote attestation of software integrity.  Starting from January 2006, he joined the DistriNet (Distributed Systems and Computer Networks) Research Group at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. Dr. Scandariato main research activities are in the area of secure software engineering, with a particular focus on (1) the development process for security-aware software, (2) security patterns, and (3) security metrics.    He has been a reviewer for IEEE Internet Computing in 2002, the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering Special Issue on "Software Engineering for the Wireless Internet" in 2003, and the Journal of Zhejiang University SCIENCE (JZUS) in 2002 and 2003.

Giuseppe Scanniello was born in Maratea (PZ), Italy, on 5/1/1975. He received the Laurea degree in Computer Science from the University of Salerno, Italy, in 2001, and the Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Salerno in 2005. From 2001 to 2005 he was a Ph.D. student at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Salerno (Italy) under the supervision of Prof. Andrea De Lucia and Prof. Gennaro Costagliola. In 2006 he joined the Department of Mathematics and Computer Scince of the University of Basilicata, Potenza (Italy), where he is currently an assistant professor. His research interests include Reverse Engineering, Reengineering, Workflow Automation, Migration of Legacy Systems, Wrapping, Integration, E-Learning, Cooperative Supports for Software Development, and Visual Languages. He has published more than 30 papers on these topics in international journals, books, and conference proceedings. Giuseppe Scanniello is a member of the IEEE Computer Society. 

Isabel Seruca is an Associate Professor and a Researcher at the Innovation, Science and Computation Department of Portucalense University, Porto, Portugal and an Invited Associate Professor at University of Aveiro, Portugal, where she teaches subjects in the areas of Information Systems and Programming.She graduated in Applied Mathematics and Computation at Portucalense University and she has an MSc (1993) and a PhD (2003) degree both in Computation from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST). She is a member of the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC) and EDGE, a research unit in management sciences institutionally hosted by the Faculty of Economics of Porto (FEP) of University of Porto (UP).Her research interests are in the Information Systems area, namely in topics such as Requirements Engineering, Method Engineering, Domain Analysis and Patterns. She is a member of several program committees of international conferences and workshops, a co-editor of books and conference proceedings in Enterprise Information Systems and she has published several papers in refereed conferences and journals in the areas of Domain Analysis, Reuse and Patterns.

Alberto Rodrigues da Silva is Professor of Information Systems at the Computer and Information Systems Department at the Technical University of Lisbon (Instituto Superior Técnico - IST/UTL) Lisboa, Portugal. He is also a senior researcher at INESC-ID Lisboa and director at the SIQuant company (http://www.siquant.pt). He graduated in Informatics Engineering from FCT/UNL, and received a MSc and a PhD degree in Computer Science Engineering from IST/UTL Currently, he teaches subjects in the area of information systems and software engineering at undergraduate, master and professional level, as well as he supervises final year, MSc and PhD students. Alberto Rodrigues da Silva’s professional and research interests are in Model Driven Engineering, Requirement Engineering, Project Management, and Electronic Business. At INESC-ID, he is member and co-founder of the Information System Group (http://gsi.inesc-id.pt). He is the Coordinator of the Portuguese South Region “Ordem dos Engenheiros” for the Informatics Engineering area. He is author or co-author of 3 technical books and more than 100 peer-reviewed scientific communications, and he has served on the program committees of several international journals, conferences and workshops in different areas of computer science.

Jun Suzuki joined the Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Boston in September 2004, where he is currently an assistant professor. From 2001 to 2004, he was with the School of Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine (UCI), as a postdoctoral research fellow. Before joining UCI, he was with Object Management Group Japan, Inc., as the Technical Director. His research interests include model-driven software engineering, software architectures, object-oriented and aspect-oriented languages, and autonomous adaptive distributed systems. In these areas, Dr. Suzuki has authored two books, published over 70 refereed papers including five award papers, gave over 100 invited talks, and served on technical program committees of over 25 conferences including IEEE AINA 2008 and IEEE/ACM/Create-Net/ICST BIONETICS 2007. Dr. Suzuki is an active participant and contributor of the International Standard Organization SC7/WG19 and the Object Management Group (OMG), Super Distributed Objects SIG. In 2004, he co-authored an OMG specification entitled "Platform Independent Model (PIM) and Platform Specific Model (PSM) for Super Distributed Objects." He is a member of IEEE and ACM.

 Jerffeson Teixeira de Souza é an adjunt professor at State University of Ceará (UECE), Brazil. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the School of Information Technology and Engineering (SITE) at University of Ottawa, Canada. He worked as Co-Chair in the Fourth Latin American Conference on Pattern Languages of Programming (SugarLoafPLoP´2004) and as Program Co-Chair in the Sixth Latin American Conference on Pattern Languages of Programming (SugarLoafPLoP´2007). He is currently the Coordinator of the Specialization Program on Software Engineering with Emphasis on Software Patterns and of the Professional Masters Program on Applied Computing, both on UECE. He is also the Chair for the Seventh Latin American Conference on Pattern Languages of Programming (SugarLoafPLoP´2008), which will take place in August 2008 in Ceará, Brazil. He was recently nominated as a Hillside Member and is currently writing a book, in Portuguese, on the basics of Software Patterns. His research interests are: documentation and application of software patterns and the study of data mining techniques and applications.

Hironori Washizaki is an assistant professor at National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan. He is also an assistant professor at The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Tokyo, Japan. He obtained his Doctor's degree in Information and Computer Science from Waseda University in 2003. His research interests include software reuse (e.g. component-based development), software quality assurance (e.g. metrics) and software patterns. He has published more than 35 research papers in refereed international journals and conferences. He received SES2006 Best Paper Award from IPSJ/SIGSE, and Takahashi Encouraging Award from JSSST in 2004. He has served as member of program committee for several international conferences including REP'04, ASE'06, Profes'04-07 and APSEC'07. He is also a member of IEEE, ACM, IEICE, JSSST, IPSJ, and Hillside Group. In Japan, he is currently responsible for steering the software engineering community IPSJ/SIGSE and a pattern community PatternsWG.
 

Seok-Won Lee is an Assistant Professor of Software and Information Systems Department at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. He has received his B.Sc. in Computer Science from Dongguk University at Seoul, Republic of Korea in 1992, M.Sc. in Computer Science from University of Pittsburgh at Pittsburgh in 1995 and Ph.D. in Information Technology from George Mason University in Fairfax, VA in 2003. Prior to joining to the UNC Charlotte, he was affiliated with Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) and IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. He has published more than 50 scientific papers in the areas of software engineering with specific expertise in ontological requirements engineering and domain modeling, and knowledge engineering with specific expertise in knowledge acquisition, machine learning, knowledge-based systems, and intelligent software agents. He is currently focusing on a new research in the area of knowledge-intensive software engineering and its applications to information assurance domain. He is a member of the ACM, IEEE, and AAAI.   

W. Eric Wong received his B.S. in Computer Science from Eastern Michigan University, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Purdue University. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas. Dr. Wong is a recipient of the Quality Assurance Special Achievement Award from Johnson Space Center, NASA (1997). Prior to joining UTD, he was with Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bellcore) as a Senior Research Scientist and as the project manager in charge of the initiative for Dependable Telecom Software Development. Dr. Wong's research focus is on the development of technology to help practitioners produce high quality software at low cost. In particular, he is doing research in the areas of software testing, maintenance, reliability, metrics, and QoS at the application, as well as architectural design, level. He has published over 100 refereed papers in journals and conference/workshop proceedings. Dr. Wong has served, or is serving, as special issue guest editor for the Journal of Systems and Software, Software Practice and Experience, Software Quality Journal, the International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, and the Journal of Software Testing, Verification & Reliability,and as program chair for QSIC 2007, ACM SAC-SE 2008 & 2007, IWSC 2007 & 2006, AST 2007, Mutation 2006, ISSRE 2005, SEKE 2005, COMPSAC 2004, etc.

Guandong Xu is a Research Associate at the Internet Technology & Application Research Laboratory and a PhD candidate (will complete this year) in the School of Computer Science & Mathematics, Victoria University, Australia. He used to be an Associate Professor and Head of School at the School of Computer Science & Engineering of Wenzhou University, China from 1998-2004 and a visiting professor with Department of Mathematics & Computing, University of Southern Queensland, Australia in 2002. He received his MEng. in 1992 and BEng in 1989 in Computer Science, and Automation Control from the School of Computer Science & Engineering, School of Information Science & Technology of Zhejiang University respectively. He has published over 30 research papers on the conferences and journals in the areas of Web Mining, especially Web Content & Usage Mining, Advanced Web Applications, such as Web Search, Recommendation & Personalization, Date Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Biomedical/Biomechanical Data Mining, Signal Analysis and Modelling, Automatic Control, Instrument and Instrumentation Engineering. He serves as the Publication Chair of APWEB’08 conference, and has been an external Reviewer for a number of international journals and conferences, such as WWWJ, CIKM, APWeb, WAIM, WIDM, ADC, ACSC, APCCM, ADCS, MMM etc. 

George Yee is a Senior Research Officer (Senior Scientist) in the Information Security Group, Institute for Information Technology, National Research Council Canada (NRC). Prior to joining the NRC in late 2001, he spent over 20 years at Bell-Northern Research and Nortel Networks. George received his Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering), M.Sc. (Systems and Information Science), and B.Sc. (Mathematics) from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, where he is currently an Adjunct Research Professor. George is on the Editorial Review Board of several journals, including the Journal of Autonomic and Trusted Computing and the International Journal of E-Business Research. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, and member of ACM and Professional Engineers Ontario. His research interests include security and privacy for e-services (including security patterns), using software agents to enhance security and privacy, and engineering software for security, reliability, and performance.

Peter Stanchev
 
Education: 1972 - M.Sc., 1975 -Ph.D, 1998 - D.Sc   Mathematics/Computer Science, Sofia University

Employment History: Currently, Professor, Kettering University, Flint, Michigan, USA and Professor and Department Chair, Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria and guest professor in the Institute of Information Science and Technologies, Italian National Research Council, Pisa, Italy. Worked for Polytechnic School, University of Nantes, France; Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA; Columbia University, Columbia, Missouri, USA; University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Held research grants in Bulgaria, Canada, Holland, and the USA.

Resent Affiliations: IEEE, Information Federation for Information Processing, International Society for Computers and Their Applications, The Union of Bulgarian Mathematicians since 1977, The Union of Scientists in Bulgaria since 1977, Bulgarian Association for the Development of the Information Society, The Society for Imaging Science and Technology, Kappa Mu Epsilon National Mathematics Honor Society, Michigan Epsilon Chapter, The International Association of Science and Technology for Development, Upsilon Pi Epsilon National Computer Science Honor Society, Michigan Epsilon Chapter.

Teaching: Computer Science courses in Bulgaria, USA, Canada, France, Italy, Germany and the Netherlands.
Publications: 2 books, more than 200 chapters in monographs, journal and conference peer-reviewed papers, more than 200 conference papers and seminars, 258 citations.

Hesham Arafat ali is a Prof in Computer Engineering and systems and an associated Prof. in Information systems and associated Prof. in computer Engineering. He received a BSc in electrical engineering (electronics), and MSc and PhD in computer engineering and automatic control from the Faculty of Engineering, Mansoura University, in 1987,1991 and 1997, respectively. He was assistant professor at the University of Mansoura , Faculty of Computer Science In 1997 up 1999. From January 2000 up to September 2001, he was joined as Visiting Professor to the Department of Computer Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs. From 2002 up to 2004 he was a vice dean for student affair the Faculty of Computer Science and Information, University of Mansoura. He was awarded with the Highly Commended Award From Emerald Literati Club 2002 for his research on network security. Since 2003 he has been an associate professor at the Computer Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, University of Mansoura. He is a founder member of the IEEE SMC Society Technical Committee on Enterprise Information Systems (EIS). He has many book chapters published by international press and about 150 published papers in intrnational (conf. and journal). He has served as a reviewer for many high quality journals, including Journal of Engineering Mansoura University. International Arab Journal of Information technology, The International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering. His interests are in the areas of network security, mobile agent, Network management, Search engine, pattern recognition, distributed databases, and performance analysis.