Dr. George Kozmetsky was the Executive Associate for Economic Affairs, The University of Texas System. Dr. Kozmetsky served from 1966-1982 as Dean of the College of Business Administration and the Graduate School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin. He is the co-founder and was a Director, and former Executive Vice President of Teledyne, Inc. He has assisted in developing over 100 technology based companies as well as serving on numerous boards including Gulf Oil, La Quinta, Heizer Inc., and DELL Corporation. Dr. Kozmetsky is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Society for Design and Process Science (SDPS). His three most recent books are Creating the Technopolis [co-editor] (Ballinger, 1988), Pacific Cooperation and Development [co-editor] (Praeger Publishers, 1988) and Modern American Capitalism [co-author] (Quorum Books, 1990). Dr. Kozmetsky received the 1987-88 Dow Jones Award from the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business for his outstanding contributions to management education; the 1988 Thomas Jefferson Award from the Technology Transfer Society for his work in advancing technology transfer; and was inducted into the Texas Business Hall of Fame for his business contributions to the State of Texas. In 1989, he received the University of Washington Alumnus Summa Dignatus Award. He was Austin’s 1992 Entrepreneur of the Year Supporter of Entrepreneurship. Dr. Kozmetsky is one of nine recipients of the 1993 National Medal of Technology. He is the first recipient of the Entrepreneurial Leadership Award from the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge, Inc. A native of Seattle, WA, Dr. Kozmetsky received the Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Washington in 1938, the Master of Business Administration degree in 1947 and the Doctor of Commercial Science degree in 1957 from Harvard University.

In 1995, the Society for Design and Process Science established the George Kozmetsky Distinguished Achievement Award to be awarded annually during the SDPS IDPT Conference.

As the minister of Economy and Finance of the Republic of China(ROC), Dr. Li’s farsighted designs of economic infrastructure of ROC not only let to her economic miracle over the last forty years, but has also become a symbol of the hope for developing nations. Dr. Li’s design process and blueprints has not only influenced two generations of economic system designers, but has also become the case study for higher learning in major business schools around the world.

In 1997, the Society for Design and Process Science established the K. T. Li Award for Outstanding Design of Economical/Social systems to be given away annually during the SDPS IDPT Conference. This award acknowledges outstanding achievements in design excellence of economic/social systems.

Dr. Yukio Mizuno specializes in software engineering and software development management. He has been honored with the Blue Ribbon Medal from the Emperor of Japan for his great contribution to Japan’s computer industry through the development and promotion of basic software technology. Mr. Mizuno has published several books on computer software and has also been honored by the C.V. Ramamoorthy Distinguished Scholar Award and received an official commendation from the Operations Research Association of Japan and the Science and Technology Agency of Japan. He has served at the NEC-TOSHIBA Information Systems, Inc. since 1978 and has been actively associated with the Operations Research Society of Japan, Japan Association for the Promotion of Educational Technology and the Information Processing Society of Japan. He was Counselor & Board Member, NEC Infrontia Corp.

Dr. Carl Adam P. Petri with his PhD thesis established a completely new research area, widely known under the name Petri nets. Petri nets and its concepts have been extended and developed since then and both the theory and the applications. Petri nets have been used to model,visualize and analyze process and design abstractions in a wide range of technical and organizational disciplines. Applications can be found in automation technology, business administration, chemistry, computer science, design and management of manufacturing systems, process engineering and many more. The Petri Net is a formal method of modeling and describing such complex systems.

In 1997, the Society for Design and Process Science established the Carl A. Petri Distinguished Technical Achievement Award to be given away annually during the SDPS IDPT Conference.

Professor Herbert A. Simon’s research has ranged from computer science to psychology, administration, and economics. The thread of continuity through all his work has been his interest in human decision-making and problem solving processes, and he has made use of the computer as a tool for simulating human thinking. Born in 1916 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Simon was educated at the University of Chicago. Since 1949, he has been on the faculty of Carnegie Mellon University, where he is the Richard King Mellon University Professor of Computer Science and Psychology. Simon was not only a polymath crossing the lines between multiple disciplines, but a truly original thinker who foresaw many of today's most important scientific issues. He was a founding father in the domains of Artificial Intelligence, human problem-solving, information economy, complex systems and computer simulation of scientific discovery. He coined the terms bounded rationality and satisficing, and was the first to analyse the architecture of complexity and to propose a preferential attachment mechanism to explain power law distributions. In 1978, he received the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, and in 1986 the National Medal of Science. Simon’s writings include “Administrative Behavior, Human Problem Solving (jointly with Alen Newell), and Models of my Life (autobiography).

In 1996, The Society for Design and Process Science has established the Herbert A. Simon Gold Medal Award to recognize distinguished achievement in applying scientific principles to problems and processes for the benefit of mankind.

Dr. Raymond T. Yeh taught computer science at Pennsylvania State University, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Maryland at College Park. He was also Chairman of the Department of Computer Sciences at both Texas and Maryland. Under his leadership, he helped both departments to gain top-ten ranking nationally. He was the Control Data Corporation Distinguished professor at the University of Minnesota, and is an honorary professor at four leading universities in China. He is founding editor- in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering as well as Journal on Systems Integration and is on the editorial board of various journals. He also founded the Technical Committee on Software Engineering as well as the International Software Engineering Conference (ICSE) within the IEEE. He has published 10 books, including the four volume classic on Programming Methodology published by Prentice-Hall, and more than 120 scientific articles. Most recently, he co-authored his first business book “Zero Time” published by John Wiley & Sons. In August, 2000. He founded three successful software companies during the time of 1983 to 1999. Dr. Yeh served as a board member for several organizations. He is a fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), Society for Design and Process Science (SDPS), and a senior research fellow at the ICC Institute at the University of Texas at Austin. He was an honorary research fellow at Fujutsu from 1976 to 1985. He is a co-founder of the Society for Design andProcess Science and its first President, and co-founder of the Software Engineering Society. Dr. Yeh is a recipient of the IEEE Centennial Medal, the IEEE Golden- Core award, Special Award of the IEEE Computer Society, the SDPS Awards for Scholarship and Lifetime Achievement, as well as Visionary Leadership in Information Technology Award from the government of Taiwan, among others.

In 1996, The Society for Design and Process Science has established the Raymond T. Yeh Life Time Achievement Award to be presented during the SDPS IDPT Conference.

Since 2001, Dr. Anlauff has been with Kestrel Institute as a lead architect and project manager on various industry and government-funded projects in the area of formal approaches for software development, software synthesis, security protocol derivation, network embedded wireless sensor networks, and dynamic architectures. Since recently, he was the lead architect of many funded projects. He studied computer science at the University of Karlsruhe, hosting one of the most prestigious computer science departments in Germany and Europe. Dr. Anlauff received his Ph.D. degree from Technical University Berlin.

Dr. Hartmut Ehrig is full professor of Theoretical Computer Science/Formal Specification at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany. He has been leader of several national and international research projects in Theoretical Computer Science and Formal Software Development: THE ESPRIT-projects SEDOS, LOTOSPHERE, ESPRIT-Basic Research WG's ASMICS, COMPASS, COMPUGRAPH, APPLIGRAPH, the German BMFT, BMBF and DFG-projects KORSO, ESPRESS, ACT, DAO, Graph-Transformations, IOSIP, and Petri Net Technology and the TMR-network GETGRATS, and SEGRAVIS. He has produced more than 250 publications in international conference proceedings and journals. He had various research stays at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, University of Catalunya, Barcelona, and at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, University of Leiden, University of Rome, and University of Pisa.He has been the Organizer and Program Chairman of many international workshops and conferences on graph grammars, abstract data types and theory and practice of software development (TAPSOFT), and program chair and committee member of several leading European and worldwide conferences. He is member of IFIP WG 1.3 (Found. of Syst. Spec.) and of the editorial boards of "Journal of Computer and System Science" (Academic Press), "Mathematical Structures in Computer Science" (Cambridge University Press), "Applied Categorical Structures", (Kluwer Academic Publishers), and “Journal of Integrated Design and Process Science” (Transact. of the SDPS). Moreover he is editor of the "Formal Specification Column" in the Bulletin of the EATCS, editor of various special issues of journals and of volumes in World Scientific Publishing and in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, and reviewer for several scientific and industrial projects including ESPRIT Basic Research and several other EU projects.

Dr. A. Ertas, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, received his masters and Ph.D. from Texas A&M University.He had 12 years of industrial experience prior to pursuing graduate studies. Dr. A. Ertas has been the driving force behind the conception and the development of the transdisciplinary model for education and research. His pioneering efforts in transdisciplinary research and education have been recognized internationally by several awards of Society for Design and process Science (SDPS). Dr. Ertas established the George Kozmetsky Endowment (GKE) and The Academy for Transdisciplinary Learning and Advanced Studies (TheATLAS) as non-profit organizations that fund transdisciplinary research and educational activities. He has developed the Transdisciplinary Master of Engineering and Ph.D. Programs on Design, Process, and Systems in conjunction with The Raytheon Company in Dallas, Texas. This program has graduated over 100 students.

Dr. Ertas has written numerous technical papers and modules on transdisciplinary education. He is a Senior Research Fellow of the ICC Institute at the University of Texas Austin, a Fellow of ASME, and a Fellow of SDPS. He is the founder and was the first Co-Editor-in-Chief of Transdisciplinary Journal of Integrated Design & Process Science (JIDPS), founder of Integrated Design & Process Technology Conference (IDPT), Co-founder of ASME Engineering Systems and Design Analysis (ESDA) conference, founding president and co-founder of SDPS. The SDPS is becoming a leader in the dissemination of transdisciplinary research and education at international conferences which bring together diverse combinations of people with a wide range of backgrounds, including science, engineering, medical, and business. Dr. Ertas has earned both national and international reputation in engineering design. Dr. Ertas is co-editor of more than 35 conference proceedings, senior co-author of transdisciplinary design textbook, The Engineering Design Process, published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc, and author of Fundamentals of Engineering (Static, Dynamics, and Strength of Materials) published by TheATLAS. Additionally, he has published over 150 scientific papers that cover many engineering technical fields. He has been PI or Co-PI on over 40 funded research projects.

Three of Dr. Ertas’ design projects completed at Texas Tech University have won national awards. His research project entitled "A New Liquid Desiccant System Design for Peanut Drying'' has received a National Energy Award (April 27, 1994) from Department of Energy (DOE). Dr. Ertas’ contributions to teaching and research have been recognized by numerous honors and awards. The honors and awards include:President’s Excellence in Teaching; Pi Tau Sigma Best Professor Award; Pi Tau Sigma Outstanding Teaching Award; Halliburton Award in recognition of outstanding achievement and professionalism in education and research; College of Engineering Outstanding Researcher Award; George T. and Gladys Hanger Abell Faculty Award for overall excellence in teaching and research; and President’s Academic Achievement Award. He also received the most prestigious SDPS George Kozmetsky Distinguished Achievement Award and Excellence in Leadership Award.

Recently in his honor, the Society for Design and Process Science established the Ertas Transdisciplinary Scientists and Engineers Award to recognize distinguished achievement in transdisciplinary science and/or engineering as evidenced by contributions to transdisciplinary education and/or research with the use of creative and innovative methods and visionary leadership.

Prof. I. I. Esat has received his BSc honours degree from Queen Mary College of London University in 1973 and his PhD research degree from the same university in 1977. He worked in University College of London and Newcastle university as a research fellow, returning to Cyprus as the head of Mechanical Engineering Department of Eastern Mediterranean University for a short time before joining to the Dunlop as the principal engineer. In 1984, he moved back to Queen Mary College as a lecturer; while he was teaching he continued studying part time gaining a Postgraduate Diploma in Education and an MBA. Finally he moved to Brunel University as a Reader and later gained full Professorship. Prof Esat has a wide ranging research interest and since 1984 he has been heading a research group size of which fluctuated between 10 and 30 researchers. During the last 17 years he has supervised research in the areas of solid modeling, solid mechanics, CAD/CAM, dynamics, vibration, signal processing, neural networks, optimisation and graduated 24 PhD students and published over 200 reviewed technical papers. He has received a number of international awards from ASME and SDPS. He is a fellow of SDPS. He is the sole author of a major software package used in industry, particularly in vibration isolation. His collaborative work with industry also includes biomechanics and medical engineering projects such as novel hip and spinal implants.

Dr. David V. Gibson is Associate Director and The Nadya Kozmetsky Scott Centennial Fellow, at the IC² (Innovation, Creativity, Capital) Institute, The University of Texas at Austin. In 1983, he received a Ph.D. in Sociology from Stanford University with a concentration in organizational behavior and communication theory. His dissertation was on the management of innovation. During 1999-2000, Dr. Gibson was a Fulbright Scholar at Insituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal. Dr. Gibson’s teaching, research, and publications focus on the application of technology/knowledge; cross-cultural communications and management, and the growth and impact of technopoleis or regional technology centers worldwide. He has written scholarly articles, books, and book chapters.

Dr. M. Hagler is P. W. Horn Professor of Electrical Engineering. He received his B. A. degree from Rice University in 1962, his B. S. E. E. from Rice University in 1963, his M. S. E. E.from the University of Texas at Austin in 1964, and his Ph. D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1967. Having taught almost all of the required undergraduate courses in electrical engineering as well as electives and graduate courses in optics, plasmas, and linear systems, Dr. Hagler currently is particularly interested in the application of instructional technologies to engineering education. He served as the guest editor for the August 1996 IEEE Transactions on Education special issue on the application of infomration technologies to engineering and science ecuation. This Transactions issue was the first published by the IEEE that was accompanied by a CD-ROM disk. In addition, Dr. Hagler was the Co-Editor of the Rapid Publication Supplement to the November 1997 issue of the IEEE Transactions on Education, also accompanied by a CD-ROM. Dr. Hagler serves on the Administrative Committee of the IEEE Education Society and as Chair of the Finance Committee for the IEEE Educational Activities Board. He has served as Chair of the IEEE Awards Board, President of the National Electrical Engineering Department Heads Association and Chair of the Steering Committee for the Frontiers in Education Conference.

Robert E. Holmes is Dean of the School of Business and Graduate School of Management at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The UAB business school serves some 2000 graduate and undergraduate students with the faculty and staff of 95 faculty and staff. All accounting and business programs are accredited by AACSB International. The school has achieved national visibility for a number of its programs including accounting and industrial distribution. The UAB Graduate School of Management has recently implemented an MBA for Scientists Program and a Certificate in Technology Entrepreneurship in collaboration with UAB’s world class medical and research programs and these two initiatives have gained national recognition. Prior to coming to UAB in January, 1999, Holmes served as Dean of the F. W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College, Wellesley, MA 1995-1998. During his tenure, Babson’s MBA program in entrepreneurial studies was ranked #1 in surveys published in U. S. News and World Report and Success Magazine and the evening MBA program was ranked 9th in the U.S. The graduate school received a $30 million gift from the F. W. Olin Foundation, built a new building, and was recognized internationally for its innovative full-time MBA program and its international programs. Holmes was Dean of the College of Business at James Madison University in Virginia from 1983-1995. Highlights of his 12 years there include: AACSB accreditation of all accounting and business programs; creation of the first school of accounting in Virginia, establishment of a Center for Entrepreneurship; design and construction of a new business building; successful completion of a major capital campaign; and the initiation of a number of curricula and organizational innovations. He is the co-author of four management textbooks, numerous articles, cases, and papers, and has served as a consultant to a number of major firms including IBM, Sprint, Texas Instruments, VICAT, et. al. He has served on the boards of several business firms and not-for-profit organizations as well as on more than 40 peer review teams (chairing over 25 visits) for the AACSB. He served on the Board of Directors of the Birmingham Area Chamber of Commerce, and currently serves on the boards of the Rotary Club of Birmingham, Entrepreneurial Center, TechBirmingham, the Alabama Economic Education Association, and Medical Properties Trust, listed on the NYSE.

Dr. Ben Hua is a Professor and Doctor Supervisor in Chemical Engineering Research Institute of South China University of Technology. He also is the First Chair Scientist of Project of Major State Basic Research Program: “The Key Problems in High Efficiency Energy Conservation”, the Chairman of Academic Committee of the Key Laboratory of Enhanced Heat Transfer and Energy Conservation of Ministry of Education, Standing Vice-Chairman of Thermodynamics and Engineering Application Committee of China Energy Resources Society, Founding Member (December 1995) and Fellow (1999) of Society for Design and Process Science (SDPS), Austin, USA. He has published more than 220 papers, wrote and co-edited 4 books, and holds 2 patents inChemical Engineering in China. Prof. Hua established and developed the “Three-Link” energy structure theory and strategic method for integration of process systems. “Three-Link-Method” fully utilizes computer technique as well as process simulator and other software. Applying the method, more than 40 industrial projects concerning plants such as crude oil distillation, catalytic reforming, hydrocarbon separation, ethylene, formadehyde, fertilizer, as well as total refineries and petrochemical works have been fulfilled.

Dr. Gurdeep S. Hura received his Ph.D. from University of Roorkee (India) in 1985. He held a Post Doctoral Fellowship in the Department of Computer Science, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada during 1984-1985 academic year, and then he joined the faculty of Computer Science and Engineering of Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio (USA) in 1985-1992. He joined Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, West Virginia University Institute of Technology, Montgomery, West Virginia as a Professor and Chair in Jan 2005. He moved to University of Maryland Eastern Shore as a Professor and Chair of Department of Maths and Computer Science in July 2006. His research interests include Petri net modeling and their applications, computer networks and network security, software engineering, distributed systems. He is an author/co-author of over hundred technical papers, which were published, in International IEEE journals and conferences. He guest edited special issues on "Petri nets and related graph models: Past, Present and Future", 1991, “The Practice of Performance modeling and reliability analysis”, 1996, and “Internet: The state of the art”, Computer Communication (Elsevier, UK), 1998. He is an editor of Computer Communications (Elsevier) and International Journal of Electronics and Reliability and Regional Editor of Journal of Integrated design and Process control (SDPS). He was elevated to Fellow of Society for Design and Process Science in 2002. He is a senior member of IEEE and was a member of ACM (1987-1989). He was Chairman of IEEE Computer Society (Dayton Chapter) from 1988-1990. He has presented a number of Invited papers in various IEEE conferences. He has written a chapter on "Local Area Networks, Wide Area Networks, and Metropolitan Area Networks: An Overview" in Computer Engineering Handbook McGraw-Hill, 1992 and another chapter on, "Use of Petri nets in System Reliability Evaluation" in the forthcoming book on "Current issues in System Reliability Evaluation" (Elsevier Publishing Co.1993). He has written a book (with Mukesh Singhal) on “Data and Computer Communications: Networking and internetworking”, CRC Press, 2001. He has been invited to write a chapter on High Speed Networks in the forthcoming Handbook of Computer Engineering, John Wiley, 2006. He is CAC ABET evaluator and serves on the NSF panel review of CISE.

Dr. Raouf A. Ibrahim is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Wayne State University. He received his BSc and MSc in Aeronautical Engineering in 1963 and 1969, respectively, from Cairo University (Egypt). He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Edinburgh in 1974, and continued as a postdoctoral Fellow for two years. From 1963 through 1971, he worked as a research engineer at the Aerospace Research Center of rockets industry in Egypt. From 1976 through 1979 he was appointed as a Senior Research Specialist at Sakr Factory in Cairo and worked as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Cairo University. In 1979, he moved to United States and worked at Shaker Research Corporation, Ballston Lake, NY, then in 1980 he joined Texas Tech University as Assistant, Associate, and then full Professor. While at Texas Tech He was a recipient of Outstanding Professor Award in Teaching in 1982, two Halliburton Awards of Excellence in 1983 and 1986, and Texas Tech Presidential Award in Research 1987. In 1987, he joined Wayne State University and continued his research activities in nonlinear random vibration, liquid sloshing dynamics, friction-induced vibration, and flutter of aeroelastic structures. In 1994 he was named the Arthur Carr Professor of Engineering and in 1995 he was awarded the Board of Governors Outstanding Professor Award, and in 2006 he received WSU Faculty Recognition Award. He has published more than ninety papers in refereed journals, and two research monographs entitledParametric Random Vibration (Wiley, 1985), and Liquid Sloshing Dynamics: Theory and Applications (Cambridge University Press, 2005). He is a Fellow of ASME, the Society for Design and Process Science (SDPS). and the International Center of Vibro-Impact Systems.

Dr. S. S. lyengar a Distinguished Professor and Chairman of the Department of Computer Science at Louisiana State University, USA has been awarded the most prestigious “Distinguished Alumni Award” for the year 2001 at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore recently. Professor Iyengar an eminent Computer Scientist has been at Louisiana State University for the last 23 years. He has received number of awards including the IEEE Computer Society Technical Award for outstanding Contributions in Algorithms and Data Structures. He has written over 350 research papers in IEEE, ACM and other journals and referred proceedings. His best results are in the area of Distributed Sensor Networks, Data Mining, and Networking Techniques. He has published over 13 books published by Prentice Hall, John Wiley and Sons, CRC press, IEEE Computer Society press. His books have been used in many best Universities in United States and around the world. His research has been funded by various agencies including NASA, ONR, DARP A, DOE, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Oakridge National Laboratory, US Army Research Office and various State agencies. He has generated over 8 million dollars in the last 10 years. He has given over 50 invited Lectures / Plenary Talks at various Institutions across the world. He has been a visiting Professor in University of Paris, University of Bonn, Indian Institute of Science etc. He has been the program Chairman for many National and International conferences. His Paper titled “Virtual Quad tress” solves an important problem of image representation. Prof. Iyengar discovered a new data structure called Translation Invariant data structure for storing two and three dimensional images. His work on balancing algorithm has also become a bench mark for evaluating other algorithms in time and space complexity. Professor Iyengar is a member of the New York Academy of Science, A fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Fellow of the American Association of Advancement of Science (AAAS), member of the National ResearchCouncil review committee, NASA Summer faculty fellow, SlAM Distinguished Lecturer, ACM National Institute of Health (NIHNLM) and Fellow of various other organizations. He has been on the Computer Science Accreditation Board for ACM and IEEE. He has been a reviewer of Computer Science Programs in US and Asia. In Karnataka, He was a member of the InformationTechnology Board established by the Karnataka Government.

Dr. Thomas J. Kozik, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University, was born in Jersey City, New Jersey. He received his bachelor of Aeronautical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Engineering Mechanics from Ohio State University. He has been a faculty member at Texas A&M University since 1963. Professor Kozik’s primary research interest endeavors have been in plate and shell theory and in particular its application to laminated anisotropic materials such as composites. For the last two decades, he has been involved in petroleum industry activities serving as chairman of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Petroleum Division, member-at-large of the ASME Energy Resources Board, conference chairman of the Energy-sources Technology Conference and Exhibition (ETCE) and organizer and chairman of the ETCE Composite Symposium. He is a fellow of the ASME, fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and recipient of numerous awards for professional service, research, and teaching.

Dr. K. Kim is interested in real-time object-based software and system engineering, and ultra-reliable distributed and parallel computing. In his DREAM (Distributed Real-time Ever Available Microcomputing) lab, Dr. Kim conducts conceptual, analytical and experimental research on real-time distributed object-oriented programming and software engineering; real-time fault-tolerant computing; real-time simulation; and distributed and parallel computing. Dr. Kim was the primary developer of the time-triggered message-triggered object- (TMO) based methodology for high-level real-time programming and system engineering. The methodology, facilitated by tools such as middleware (ROAFTS) that is capable of timely and fault-tolerant execution of application objects, is aimed at inducing a major improvement in the productivity of programmers and in the reliability of real-time application software. Dr. Kim also originated the DRB technique and other widely applicable basic approaches for the cost-effective design of ultra-reliable fault-tolerant, real-time, distributed and parallel computer systems. The applications for his work lie in areas of embedded computing, such as mobile computing device networks, defense command control, air traffic control and transportation automation (?smart transportation?), as well as in multi-party videoconferencing and network-based virtual reality.

Prof. Dr. Bernd J. Krämer is a professor at FernUniversität Hagen, Germany, where he holds the Chair of Distributed Systems Engineering. He is also a director of INTE, a consulting division of the Electrical Engineering faculty, a director and founder of the Research Institute for Efficient Energy Use in Buildings, a founder and member of the board of the German Academy for IT Sciences, and a member of FTK, a Research Institute for Telecommunications. He obtained his diploma and doctorate in computer science from the Technical University of Berlin. He was an adjunct professor of the School of Information Systems at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, adjunct professor of the Computer Science Department of the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, and a senior researcher and project director of the German National Research Institute for Information Technology. He was a visiting professor of McGill University in Montreal, Canada, in 1991, the University of California at Berkeley in 1997, Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, in 2001, and the University of Trento, Italy, in 2002. His research interests include Web-based hypermedia systems, distributed systems management and engineering, safety-related software, and formal methods. Currently he is the scientific director of a large EU project in the 5th Framework Program. Prior to this he has been the principal investigator of further EU funded projects and he received funding the German Minister of Research and Technology, the Minister of Science of the state of North-Rhine Westphalia, the National Science Foundation, and other U.S. funding agencies. Dr. Kraemer has published five books including two textbooks, nine university level e-learning courses, 19 book chapters, 31 journal articles, and about 80 refereed articles in scholarly conference proceedings. Further he co-edited four journal issues and 11 books and conference proceedings. The latter include “Information Systems Interoperability³, published by Research Studies, UK (1998); the proceedings of the “18th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems” (1998) and the “Third International Symposium on Software Engineering for Parallel and Distributed Systems” (1998); and “Safety-Critical Real-Time Systems”, Kluwer Academic Publishers (1997). He is the co-editor in chief of the Journal of Integrated Design and Process Sciences. He is on the editorial board of the Nectar Information server of the EU [http://www.nectar.org/], the Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, and the High Integrity Systems Journal.

Dr. Ali H. Nayfeh was born in Shuwaikah, Jordan on December 21, 1933. He received a B.S. degree in Engineering Science in 1962 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Aeronautics and Astronautics in 1963 and 1964 from Stanford University. He has industrial experience with Heliodyne Corporation and Aerotherm Corporation. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the American Academy of Mechanics. He is the Editor of the Wiley Book Series on Nonlinear Science and the Editor-in-Chief of Nonlinear Dynamics and the Journal of Vibration and Control. He is the recipient of the Kuwait Prize in Basic Sciences (Physics), 1981; American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Pendray Aerospace Literature Award, 1995; American Society of Mechanical Engineers J. P. Den Hartog Award, 1997; Honorary Doctorate, St. Petersburg University, Russia, 1996; Frank J. Maher Award for Excellence in Engineering Education, 1997; College of Engineering Dean's Award for Excellence in Research, 1998; Honorary Doctorate, Technical University of Munchen, Germany, 1999; Honorary Doctorate, Politechnika Szczecinska, Poland, 2004. He established and served as Dean of the College of Engineering, Yarmouk University, Jordan from 1980-1984. He is currently University Distinguished Professor of Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Presently, Dr. Peter A. Ng is with the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas-Pan American. In brief, Dr. Ng has served as the Chair and Professor of Computer Science in the College of Information Science and Technology at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, NE (1998-2000), and in the College of Science and Arts at the New Jersey of Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ (1985-1998), etc. He is also an Advisory Professor of the Department of Computer Science at Fudan University, Shanghai, China (since 1999). He has served as the Executive Director for Global e-Learning Project at the International Programs and Studies of the University of Nebraska-Omaha (2000-2003) and as the Vice President for Fudan International Institute for Information Science and Technology, Shanghai, China (1999-2000). Dr. received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin in 1974. He is a Fellow of the Society for Design and Process Science, Austin, Texas and serves as a Permanent Member of the Board of Directors for the International Institute for Systems Integration (IIISis), Campinas, Brazil. Dr. Ng is a founding Editor-in-Chief for Journal and Systems Integration, Kluwer academic Publishers, an Editorial Board Member for Data and Knowledge Engineering journal, North-Holland. Previously he has served as an editor for the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, IEEE Computer Society Press, and a member of the Board of Advisors and Contributors for Software Engineering Strategies, Auerbach Publications. Dr. Ng’s research interests lie on document processing and management, software engineering, database management systems and knowledge-based systems. Dr. Ng has authored several books and more than 100 articles. One of his books is Document Processing and Retrieval: TEXPROS, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996; Some of his recent research works include: Integration of Structured and Unstructured Text Data in a clinical Information System, to be appeared in Transactions of the SDPS, 2007; Privacy Preservation for Data Cubes, Journal of Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS) 176(9), 2006, pp. 1215-1240; Data Declustering with Replications, in the Proceedings on 9^th International Conf. On Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA’ 04), (in Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2973, Springer 2004, ISBN 3-540-21047-4) March 17-19, 2004, Jeju Island, Korea, pp. 682-693; Forecasting Association Rules Using Existing Datasets, IEEE Transactions on Data and Knowledge Engineering, 15(6), (November/December 2003) pp. 1448-1459.

As a professional electronics and software engineer, system developer, tester, and evaluator for the past 26 years, Dr. Paul has held many positions in the field of software engineering. Currently, Dr. Paul serves as the technical director for command and control (C2) Policy. In this position, Dr. Paul manages network enabled command and control systems engineering development for objective, quantitative and qualitative measurements. Dr. Paul’s current research focus is on a dynamic integrated theoretic approach to C2 networks from multiple levels from dyadic to global. Understanding multiple concepts, theories at multiple levels along with attributes of nodes and the links may provide insight to better understand C2 organizational networks that are created, maintained, and reconstituted. Lastly, Dr Paul is developing a methodology for dynamic environment decision making pertaining to real time data from sensors, software/systems and related processes and the risk identification and management framework that includes internal and external variabilities. Dr. Paul holds a doctorate in software engineering and is an active “Fellow” member of the IEEE Computer Society and SDPS. He has published chapter in 4 books and more than 84 articles on software engineering in various technical journals and symposia proceedings, primarily under DoD and IEEE sponsorship. He has authored chapters in 4 technical books concerning software engineering.

Dr. Vicki Rainey is a native of Dyersburg, Tennessee. She received her B.S. in Secondary Education from the University of Tennessee– Martin (1968), an M.S. in Mathematics from the University of Mississippi (1970), a Ph.D. in Higher Education (mathematics concentration) at the University of Mississippi (1979), and an M.A. in Counseling from Amberton University (2001). In November of 1980, Dr. Rainey left West Tennessee to work as a software engineer for E-Systems, a small defense company in the suburbs of Dallas, Texas. In 22 years at the Texas location, including acquisition by the defense giant Raytheon, she rose to the rank of Director, Software Engineering responsible for the management and technical direction of up to 850 engineers. As Director, Software Engineering, Dr. Rainey worked with several universities to aid in the coordination of industrial needs and academic curricula. She was also active in the efforts to integrate engineering concepts into other academic areas through sponsoring of transdisciplinary education. Dr. Rainey presented her ideas through publications, national presentations, international presentations, and development of societies and academies to further these ideas After completing her counseling degree and “retiring” from Raytheon to return home, Dr. Rainey was hired as an instructor of developmental mathematics at Dyersburg State Community College.

Dr. James Smith has been at Texas Tech for the past 27+ years and currently holds the academic rank of Professor. He has served as IE department Chair (9 years), Associate Dean (4 years), and Interim Dean of Engineering (2 years). He has been elected as a Fellow of: the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, the Ergonomics Society, the Institute of Industrial Engineers, and the Society for Design & Process Science. Dr. Smith currently serves as national Executive Vice-President of Alpha Pi Mu, the Industrial Engineering Honor Society. He also currently serves as Director of the Center for Space Sciences, where he has directed over $ IOM of NASA research over the past six years, as well as Director of the Institute for Ergonomics Research at Texas Tech. He is a Director Emeritus for the Board of Certification in Professional Ergonomics, and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Texas Space Grant Consortium. Dr. Smith is currently serving a four year term on the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control Initial Review Group for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Dr. Smith currently teaches ergonomics courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and is actively involved in ergonomics research.

Dr. Robert S. Sullivan, founding dean of UCSD's Rady School of Management, is an internationally acclaimed expert on entrepreneurship, knowledge management, operations and venture financing. In addition to serving as dean, he is the Stanley and Pauline Foster Endowed Chair. Prior to his arrival at UCSD, Dr. Sullivan served as dean of UNC's Kenan-Flagler Business School. Under his leadership, Kenan-Flagler rose significantly in the national rankings. He initiated a weekend executive MBA Program that was ranked 5th in the world by Business Week magazine in 2001. He also launched the OneMBA executive MBA program, the first truly global program delivered in partnership with four other top-tier international business schools. From 1995 to 1997, Dr. Sullivan served as director of the University of Texas at Austin's IC2 Institute, a nontraditional international center for research and education on innovation, creativity, capital and commercialization. He held the J. Marion West Chair for Constructive Capitalism in the university's Graduate School of Business. Dr. Sullivan served as dean of the Graduate School of Industrial Administration at Carnegie Mellon University from 1991 to 1995. During his tenure, the school's rankings rose dramatically. He led a complete reengineering of the school's educational programs, including integrating advanced technology into the field of finance and creating experiential and international distance-learning opportunities for students. From 1976 to 1991, Dr. Sullivan served in a variety of posts at the University of Texas, including the Joe B. Cook professor of management and associate dean for research and academic affairs in the Graduate School of Business. He was co-director of the Center for Technology Venturing, director of the Bureau of Business Research and director of the Manufacturing Systems Engineering Program in the College of Engineering. Dr. Sullivan was a Peace Corps volunteer in Ethiopia from 1968 to 1970, where he worked as a lecturer in production management in the College of Business Administration at Haile Selassie I University in Addis Ababa (now Addis Ababa University). Dean Sullivan holds a doctorate in operations management from Pennsylvania State University, a master's degree in production management and quantitative methods from Cornell University and a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Boston College.

Dr. S. Szygenda holds the Cecil H. Green Chair in Engineering at SMU, where he served as Dean of Engineering from 2000 to 2004. Before assuming the position of Dean at SMU, he was the Dean of Engineering at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), from 1996 to 2000, and Chairman of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department (ECE) at The University of Texas at Austin (1993 to 1996), where he also held the Clint Murchison Sr. Chair of Free Enterprise (1986 to 1996), and served as Director of the Center for Technology Development and Transfer (CTDT). CTDT was created by the Texas Legislature, to facilitate the commercialization of technology from Texas universities. Dr. Szygenda formed a company, CCSS, which was the first multi-product simulation and test company, producing very large software and hardware systems. Over the years he has graduated more than 150 M.S. and 50 Ph.D. students, acquired extensive government and industrial research funding, received numerous awards, served on the boards of numerous companies. He published more than 150 papers and seven book chapters. His areas of expertise include: technology entrepreneurship; start-up companies; incubators; management and planning; technology transfer; software engineering; telecommunications engineering; simulation and diagnosis; automatic programming; fault-tolerant computing; reliability and maintainability, and leadership.

Dr. Fuad G. Sobrinho is the President of Ambiencia Information Systems, Ltd, Campinas, Brazil, which develops Galaxy 4.0, a crossplatform development environment with editing tools, interface construction tools and runtime classes, that is used world-wide to deploy business solutions ranging from stand-alone, departmental applications to sophisticated, distributed applications designed to address enterprise-wide problems.Dr. Sobrinho is the founder and has been served the Secretary Executive of Board of Directors of International Institute on Systems Integration – IIISis, Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil.The Founder – Chief of the Núcleo Tecnológico para Informática Agropecuária- NTIA – of Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária–EMBRAPA, Campinas, SP in 1985 – 1990, the Executive Director of the Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária – EMBRAPA, Brasilia. Dr. Sobrinho has also served as a member of Excellence Committee of the Integrated Software Engineering Environment of the National Institute of Standards on Technology, Department of Commerce,Gaithersburg, MD in 1990-1992, and a member of Product Software Quality Assurance Group, AT&T from 1989, a member of SIGMA Project, Information-Technology Promotion Agency, IPA, Tokyo, Japan in 1985-1990. Dr. Sobrinho has been appointed as an Assistant Professor at the Departamento de Informática , Pontifícia Universidade Católica – PUC, Rio de Janeiro, RJ in 1974-1975, a Visiting Professor at the Departamento de Estatistica , Universidade de Brasilia – UnB, Brasilia, DF in 1976- 1978, a Research Professor of Computer Science at New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ in 1989 and Distinguished Research Professor of Computer Science at the University of Dortmund, Germany in 1990. Dr. Sobrinho was an editor of the Journal of Systems Integration, Kluwer and of the IEEE in 1990. Dr. Fuad Sobrinho also published numerous research results in many conference proceedings, journals and book chapters.

Dr. Jeffrey J. P. Tsai received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. He is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he is also the Director of the Distributed Real-Time Intelligent Systems Laboratory. He co-authored Knowledge-Based Software Development for Real-Time Distributed Systems (World Scientific, 1993), DistributedReal-Time Systems: Monitoring, Visualization, Debugging, and Analysis (John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1996), Compositional Verification of Concurrent and Real-Time systems (Kluwer, 2002), co-edited Monitoring and Debugging Distributed Real-Time Systems (IEEE/CS Press, 1995), and has published over 160 papers in the areas of knowledge-based software engineering, software architecture, requirements engineering, formal methods, agent-based systems, and distributed real-time systems. Dr. Tsai was the recipient of a University Scholar Award from the University of Illinois in 1994, and was presented a Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Computer Society in 1997. He is the Co- Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence Tools and on the editorial board of the International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, and chairs the IEEE/ CS Technical Committee on Multimedia. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, the AAAS, and the SDPS.

A member of the faculty since 1985, Dr. Benjamin W. Wah holds joint appointments as Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Research Professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory. His research activities are in optimization and search, computer networks, and multimedia signal processing. Professor Wah pioneered the theory of extended saddle points that is now used throughout the world and developed its statistical generalization that has been applied to many problems in industry. He is also well known for his work on computers for artificial intelligence processing.He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and of the Society for Design and Process Science. He received the R. T. Yeh Lifetime Achievement Award from SDPS in 2003, the IEEE Millennium Medal in 2000, and the IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award in 1998, and was a University Scholar from 1989 to 1991. He is cofounder of the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering and was its editor-in-chief from 1993 to 1996. He was the Fujitsu Visiting Chair Professor of Intelligence Engineering at the University of Tokyo in 1992 and McKay Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1994. He served as the IEEE Computer Society President in 2001.Born in Hong Kong, Professor Wah received his B.S. in 1974 and M.S. in 1975 in electrical engineering from Columbia University, and his M.S. in 1976 and Ph.D. in 1979 in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley. He and his wife, Christine, have two daughters, Catherine and Elaine.

Dr. John N. Warfield was educated in mathematics and electrical engineering. He worked in eight universities and in three industries. Early on, he concentrated on teaching but later focused his energies on research. His publications include books on computers and complexity reflecting his development of two sciences and a management system. Understanding complexity, Warfield discovered, depended on a theory of thought about thought merged with empirical evidence of human behavioral pathologies and the application of design concepts in groups. Warfield's scientific research emphasized adherence to established criteria for scientific work, drawing inspiration from numerous well-known scholars. Other scholars adopted his theories and methodologies, applying his research results in many locations and on many projects, often involving complexity. Their work provided ample and significant empirical evidence to support hypotheses and theories developed through his scientific endeavors, often verifying and "completing" the theoretical foundations of his scientific investigation. He also applied the results of his research to all levels of education with special attention paid to the complexities of higher education. The John N. Warfield Collection contains materials from Dr. Warfield's long and distinguished career, including papers authored and co-authored by Warfield, presentations, video and audio tapes, and correspondence. The collection is 63 cubic feet or 93.5 linear feet.

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Dr. Herbert Weber is a chair professor emeritus in Informatics of the Technical University of Berlin as well as founder and director emeritus of the Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering with locations in Berlin and Dortmund, Germany.

In his academic research he engaged himself in the development and use of formal techniques like algebraic specifications and Petri nets for the modelling and specification of software systems as well as semi-formal techniques for the modelling of data and information. In his applied research he coined the terms:

• Continuous Engineering to cope with changing requirements and technologies in the development and operation of IT infrastructures in their respective use environment;
• Information Logistics to cope with the growing floods of information in networked application environments by establishing formalized regimes for the distribution of information to the right recipient, at the right time and place;
• Profiling of IT to cope with the complexity of IT infrastructures of industrial size in the absence of proper documentation and/or specification of systems and their interactions.

His current research is on the FUTURENET that is meant to better cope with the growing floods of information in networked organizations by means of embedded intelligence to enable smarter services for different applications like healthcare, business process management, and corporate communication management in the context of the German flagship project THESEUS.

In his capacity as the director of the Fraunhofer Institute he acted as a mediator between research and industry, in government sponsored activities, in industry initiatives, in domestic and foreign projects, and in the conceptualization of technology development and transfer policies.

He initiated and supported numerous technology transfer initiatives and projects on behalf of and with many industrial companies in Europe and the USA.

In his activities outside the academic environment Prof. Weber has been

• Chief Information and Communication Technology Advisor to the state government of North Rhine-Westfalia in Germany;
• IT Consultant and board member to a number of corporations in Germany and abroad.

He received a diploma-degree and a PhD in Numerical Mathematics and Applied Physics from the Technical University of Berlin in 1967 and 1970, respectively. Since then he has been affiliated with the Technical University of Berlin as an Assistant Professor, as a Visiting Assistant Professor with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with IBM Research in San José, with the Hahn-Meitner-Institut in Berlin, as a full professor with the University of Bremen in 1980 and with the University of Dortmund in 1984. In 1978 he taught as a Distinguished Visitor at the University of Texas in Austin and in 1979 as a Visiting Professor at INRIA, France.

During his career he conducted research on communication-based systems, data management systems, software engineering and software development environments. In his various affiliations in the US and in Europe he has been working mostly in software engineering, on the development of database systems and distributed data management systems. He has published a large number of papers on his work and presented his research results in many lectures in Europe, the United States and Japan.

He has actively participated in the organization of a large number of international conferences, was General Chairman of the 4th International Conference on Very Large Databases and General Chairman of the 7th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems. He was a member of the editorial board for the IEEE-CS Transaction on Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Data and Knowledge Engineering and IEEE Computer and served the IEEE Computer Society as a member of the governing board. He carries the most prestigious IEEE Computer Society’s Golden Core Member award.

Dr. Mehmet Aksit holds an M.Sc. degree from the Eindhoven University of Technology and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Twente. Currently, he is working as a full professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Twente and affiliated with the institute Centre for Telematics and Information Technology. He is the head of the Software Engineering chair and the leader of the Twente Research and Education on Software Engineering (TRESE) Group. He has served as the program co-chair of several conferences and symposia, such as ECOOP’97, SACT’00, HQSAD’00, NoD’02 and AOSD2003. He has been serving as a program committee member of various international conferences and he was the tutorial chair of the ECOOP’92 conference and the organizing chair of the AOSD’02 conference. Since 1988, he has been serving as a reviewer of various European projects.

He has given more than 100 international and in-company courses and conference tutorials mainly in the Netherlands, but also in Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States. Mehmet Aksit has been the user and developer of object-oriented systems since 1983. Later, in the end of 80’s, he started to work on firstly, software composition techniques and later, on aspect-oriented software engineering. He has been involved in designing architectures for several large industrial projects. He and the TRESE group were among the pioneers of the following techniques.

Since 1988, the TRESE group has developed, probably the first aspect-oriented language called Sina, which has later evolved into Composition Filters. The group has organized the first Aspect-Oriented Software Development conference (AOSD2002) and Aksit is the co-editor of the first aspect-oriented journal. Since begining of the 90’s, the TRESE group has developed synthesis based architecture/software design, which adopts controlled problem solving techniques in designing software architectures. Since 1994, the TRESE group has applied, probably for the first time, fuzzy-logic based techniques to modeling software design heuristics and processes. Since 1997, the TRESE group has been developing new design formalisms called Design Algebra for managing large design spaces.

Dr. Ziya Aktas was born in 1940. He got his BS and MS in 1962 and 1963, respectively, both at METU (Middle East Technical University) in Ankara. He had a Fulbright Scholarship in 1966 and went to the USA for graduate study. He received his Ph.D. in 1969 at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania/USA. He returned home in the same year and joined today’s Department of Computer Engineering at METU. He visited Vienna Technical University as an associate professor during the school year 1973-1974. He became a full professor in 1978, and was the first full professor of Computer Science/Engineering in Turkey.Prof.Aktas served as the chairman of the Department during 1977-81 and 1983-1988. Prof.Aktas taught at Purdue University School of Engineering and Technology at Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, between 1981-1983 as a Visiting Professor. Between 1988-1991 he became the founding General Manager of a technical consultancy firm, STRABIS, in Ankara.He is the author of the book “Structured Analysis and Design of Information Systems” published by Prentice Hall in 1987 in the USA.

He has been a faculty member of the Department of Computer Engineering, METU and also served as the Vice President of State Institute of Statistics (SIS) of Turkey in charge of Information Systems during 1992-1995. In the general elections of December 1994 and April 1999 he was elected as the Deputy of Istanbul in the Democratic Left Party ( DSP ) to the Turkish Grand National Assembly. Prof.Aktas had served as the Minister of Energy and Natural Resources in the Ecevit’s Cabinet during January 11-May 28, 1999. He has been a member of IPU (Inter-Parliamentary Union) and Chairman of the Information and Information Technology Group in the Turkish Parliament and Vice President of Turkish - US Interparliamentarian Friendship Group.

May 24 ,2004-2007 he was the President (rector) of Çankaya University – Ankara. Prior to that he served as Acting Rector at the same university during 07.11.2003 – 24.05.2004 . He also served as the Dean of School of Engineering and Architecture of Çankaya University. Prof.Aktas is a member of ACM, TBD and a Board Member of TBV.

Dr. Sunil R. Das is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada. He previously held academic and research positions with University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University, National Chiao Tung University. He has published extensively in the areas of switching and automata theory, digital logic design, threshold logic, faulttolerant computing,microprogramming and microarchitecture, microcode optimization, applied theory of graphs, and combinatorics.

Dr.-Ing. Reiner W. Hartenstein is professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Kaiserslautern University of Technology (TU Kaiserslautern), where his most recent research focuses on Reconfigurable Computing (RC), Reconfigurable Supercomputing,Configware / Software Co-Compilation, and design flows for RC in embedded systems.Reiner Hartenstein is an IEEE life fellow, FPL fellow, and member of the ACM. He has published more than 400 professional papers for journals and conference proceedings, and has authored or co-edited 14 books. Reiner Hartenstein frequently receives invitations to give keynote addresses at international conferences. In 1981 he was visiting professor at University of California at Berkeley. Before joining TU Kaiserslautern he was a professor at University of Karlsruhe. He has graduated more than 100 M.S. and 25 Ph.D. students. He acquired extensive government and industrial research funding, received several awards, and consulted for more than 10 international companies. Reiner Hartenstein received all his academic degrees from the EE Department at University of Karlsruhe (TH), where he was the first Ph.D. graduate student of Karl Steinbuch, the pioneer of artificial neuronal networks.

Dr. Allam Appa Rao is Dean of Engineering Faculty, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, one of the top Universities in India. He has been a Professor from the year 1985. He started his career in Computing field in the year 1969. He had his early training in computers from the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, and ICTP, Trieste, Italy. He obtained his Ph.D. degree for his work in Studies on Computer Performance Evaluation. He has devoted himself to promoting computerization in India in all his endeavors for the last three decades. Dr. Allam Appa Rao has published extensively and received numerous awards for his research work and teaching.

Robert S. Block is a serial entrepreneur and has a long and successful career in the computer software, communication and entertainment industries including pioneering roles in commercial and pay television and cellular telephone operating companies, and the new energy business. Block has contributed significantly to the creation and development of entertainment and communication technologies used worldwide. He has been granted more than 150 international patents. Block holds an Honorary Doctorate degree from the United States Sports Academy.

Dr. Belle Wei is a strong advocate and education leader, committed to defining and directing the course of global competitiveness and innovativeness issues and the role of U .S. science and technology education in maintaining and enhancing future U.S. leadership. As Dean of the College of Engineering at San Jose State University (SJSU), Wei has demonstrated assertive and inspired oversight in shaping academic engineering programs that are rigorous and agile so that new technologies and the demands of a rapidly-changing global marketplace can be quickly incorporated.

As the first Asian American woman college dean, Wei is one of fewer than 20 women holding a deanship of 345 engineering schools in the U.S. Recognizing the need to motivate underrepresented students to study engineering, she has created effective community outreach programs to address this issue. Through her relationships with industry executives in Silicon Valley, and regional and national government leaders, Wei has created a vibrant and dynamic educational environment at SJSU that prepares engineering professionals and future entrepreneurs for the global market. Wei is an active and outspoken figure of higher education in the national policy arena as well as in engineering research and professional forums.

In January 2006, Wei addressed the House Democrats in Washington D.C., at the behest of the House of Representatives Democratic leader, Nancy Pelosi. Serving as the authority on engineering education at the "Innovation Forum: A Commitment to Competitiveness to Keep America Number One,” Wei spoke forcefully of the "burning crisis...that challenges our nation's leadership in technology." Wei elaborated on this point, stating that "what is missing in American engineering education, is drive and motivation…and…a much needed awakening of the students to the new world of globalization." Wei offered, as an example solution to the Innovation Forum attendees, the College's Global Technology Initiative (GTI), a pioneer program that takes the top 25 SJSU engineering students on a two-week externally-sponsored study-tour to China and Taiwan. The GTI exposes these students to the realities of the competition they face: That their future global competitors take more rigorous courses of study, and are dedicated to their own education as a means for personal success and national technology leadership.

At an engineering conference in early February 2006, Wei spoke on the state of engineering education to industry executives and venture capitalists. She elaborated on the comparison between the engineering students in U.S. and China. Chinese students not only take an average of six or seven classes a semester (vs. the American students’ average of four), but also plan on getting at least one master degree in order to better compete in the global job market (whereas American students are eager to join the workforce immediately after earning their bachelor's degree.) Wei sees the need to articulate these trends and their consequences as a means to call for solutions from national and industry leaders who can enact policies to encourage the change. As Dean of the College, Wei has established strong strategic partnerships with the College's key stakeholders such as Silicon Valley industry. These partnerships have been instrumental in providing the financial and intellectual support for the College's curricular development and faculty research, as well as student scholarships and internship programs.

During her tenure, externally-funded grants and contract awards for faculty research and curricular development have increased by 145%. Wei demonstrates an unwavering commitment to the College's students and their futures as engineers. By actively recruiting scholarship sponsors, the College is better able to support a student body of diverse backgrounds. In 2005, the College offered $240,000 in student scholarships sponsored by Silicon Valley companies such as Hewlett-Packard and Applied Materials. The College's MEP program offers specifically-designated scholarships to underrepresented minority students. The MEP supports its students through their college careers with mentoring that has resulted in a 76% retention rate that is significantly higher than that of the SJSU’s university-wide retention rate. In addition to her relentless efforts to make the College a premier institution for engineering education, Wei’s continuing endeavor in research and publication is impressive, in light of her intensive administrative and national advisory responsibilities. In particular, during 2001 – 2005, a series of papers were published that showcased her work in developing new protocols and scheduling algorithms which optimize the performance of a variety of networks, i.e., 1) least energy consumption and maximal network lifetime for sensor networks; 2) higher load level and better delay/jitter performance for various traffic types of the Differentiated Services and MPLS routers.

Dr. Sumit Ghosh who presently serves as the chair of the Computer Science Department at The University of Texas at Tyler. He is the recipient of the 2004 IEEE Computer Society's Technical Achievement Award. He is the Principal Investigator of a proposal on "Organic Semiconductor Modeling and Simulation," that has been funded by US Senate and US House of Representatives under Special Appropriations through the US Army Research Lab. He received his B.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur (India), and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University, CA. Sumit has held the title of Thomas E. Hattrick Endowed Chaired Professor of Information Systems Engineering in the ECE Department at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey; served as the associate chairman for research and graduate programs in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at Arizona State University; been on the faculty of Computer Engineering at Brown University, Providence, RI; served as Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs Research (Area 11) in Holmdel, NJ; and worked as Member of the Technical Staff at Fairchild Advanced Research and Development Labs in Palo Alto, CA.

He is the primary author of 5 reference books: Hardware Description Languages: Concepts and Principles (IEEE Press); Modeling and Asynchronous Distributed Simulation of Complex Systems (IEEE Press); Intelligent Transportation Systems: New Principles and Architectures (CRC Press); Principles of Secure Network Systems Design (Springer-Verlag); and Algorithm Design for Networked Information Technology Systems: Principles and Applications (Springer-Verlag). He has co-edited the book titled, Guarding Your Business: A Management Approach to Security (Kluwer). He is currently co-editing a book titled, "Cybercrimes," with a former Asst. US Attorney of the US Department of Justice and is completing his sixth reference book for Springer-Verlag that will present the discipline of networking from an entirely new perspective and provide new research directions. He has written 95+ transactions/journal papers and 100+ refereed conference papers. Sumit's research focuses on fundamental and challenging yet practical, interdisciplinary problems that are of potential benefit to society. His most recent interests include radically new types of computing engines, creativity and the physiological organization of the human brain, and a computing principles-based analytical foundation for the empirical disciplines of biology, business, chemistry, medicine, pharmacology, and law.

Sumit's research has been funded by US Army Research Office, US Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, National Science Foundation, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, US Army Research Lab, US Air Force Research Lab (Rome, NY), US Army Communications and Electronics Command (NJ), National Security Agency, Sandia National Labs, National Library of Medicine, MOTOROLA, INTEL, BELLCORE, NYNEX, MITRE, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Korea), IEEE Foundation, and US Congress.

Dr. Radmila Juric is a Principal Lecturer at the Department of Information Systems, School of informatics, University of Westminster, London, United Kingdom. She obtained her first degree, Dipl. Ing. (MEng) in Mathematics from the Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Zagreb, Croatia; MSc in Information Systems and Databases from Birkbeck College, University of London and PhD in Computing from Brunel University, West London, UK. She worked in the computing industry as a software engineer until 1989 when she joined The South Bank University Business School in London as lecturer in Business Information Systems. Dr Juric is currently leading postgraduate courses in Information Systems at University of Westminster; she is a member of the academic standards group and leader of the Software Interoperability research group. She is also a program committee member of a few international conferences and a member of the specialist group on Healthcare Informatics at the British Computer Society.

Dr. Juric’s major research interest is the field of Software Interoperability, with emphasis on software engineering disciplines, including interoperability frameworks, component based architectures and service technologies, in solving the problem of heterogeneities of hardware/software platforms and software applications across problem domains. Her research also includes Medical Informatics and Ubiquitous Computing in Healthcare systems, particularly for the UK National Health Service. She has worked on building ontologies for sharing information and knowledge in pervasive and intelligent healthcare systems and in creating generic software solutions for automating marketing authorisations in the pharmaceutical industry across regulatory authorities. Dr Juric is interested in modelling behaviour of ambient intelligent systems; security models in medical databases and service oriented solutions for context aware software applications in ambient assisted living. Dr Juric is also interested in Commercial-off-the-Shelf and Open Source Software products and systems, the development, marketing and selection of COTS/OSS components and their impact on software development, software architectures and software interoperability in general.

Xuedong Zhang was born in Qixian County, Shanxi Province, in September 9th(Chinese Lunar Calendar) 1962. He is the Vice Secretary General of the Chinese Academy of Public Administration and directing its Enterprise Development Department. He is also the Secretary General of China’s National County Public Administration as well as a member of Central Committee of the September 3rd Society. He is the Executive Director of the Research Centre of E-Picture Thinking and Future Government at Beijing University. Zhang is well known in China for his transdisciplinary work as the author of "E-Picture Thinking—A Comprehensive Awakening on Nature, Man and Society" with Chinese Postal Service Issued a special Postage volume on "the Art of E-Picture—Zhang Xuedong’s Art of Soul". Based on his pioneering work, there is about 10 books published applying E-picture philosophy to Life, Arts, Media, Fashion Design, etc. In June 2006 he won the prestigious George Kozmetsky award for Outstanding Achievement in Transdiscplinary Innovation at World Congress on Innovation of the Society for Design and Process Science (SDPS),in San Diego, USA. In August, 2006, was honored with Awards from Nevada and California State Governments for the E-Picture theory’s contribution to humanity and art. In September 2006, he was accredited the Outstanding Contributor Title for Comprehensive Construction of a Prime Prosperous Society at the honoring ceremony and working experience conference for the Comprehensive Construction of a Prime Prosperous Society in China.

Dr. Kumar Krishen is the ST Senior Scientist / Lead Technologist for the Advanced Planning Office, NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC), Houston, Texas, responsible for developing strategies for joint research and technology projects and plans with industries, universities, other NASA centers, and government agencies.  Dr. Krishen has served at Virginia Tech as University Fellow for Technology Transfer, Office of Special Initiatives, and Visiting Professor on a special NASA assignment.  He also served as Adjunct Professor at Rice University.

Dr. Krishen has served as JSC Chief Technologist and represented JSC as the Principal Technologist on the NASA Council on Science and Technology.  His academic degrees are from Kansas State University (Ph.D. and M.S.-Phi Kappa Phi, Eta Kappa Nu & Sigma Xi honors), Calcutta University (M. Tech and B. Tech- Gold & Silver Medals), and Jammu and Kashmir University (B.A.- Highest Univ. Merit) in electronics, electrical engineering, radio physics, physics, and mathematics. Dr. Krishen taught and guided research at Kansas State University before joining Lockheed in 1969 as Staff Scientist.  Dr. Krishen joined NASA in 1976 and has held key positions in Advanced Programs in Earth Observations, Science Payloads, Experiment Systems, Tracking & Communications, Mission Support, New Initiatives, and technology research and development.

Authoring more than 160 technical papers/reports/proceedings, Dr. Krishen is a Fellow of the Society for Design and Process Science (SDPS) and an Assoc. Fellow of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). He is the recipient of many awards, medals, and  commendations from universities, industry, and government organizations, and is listed in Who is Who in the World, Who is Who in America, Who is Who in Science and Technology, Men of Achievement, Personalities of America, and 2000 Outstanding People of the 20th Century and was commissioned  “Honorary Texan” by Texas Governor Rick Perry in 2001. Dr. Krishen was nominated by Governor George W. Bush and confirmed by the State Senate of Texas to the Texas Board of Licensure for Professional Medical Physicists in 1999 and continues to serve on this Board under Governor Perry’s administration. Dr. Krishen was awarded Bharat Samman, the highest honor given by the Non Resident Indian (NRI) Institute in 2006.  The award was presented by the British High Commissioner to India.  He was awarded Hind Rattan, the highest award given by NRIW Society in 2008. The award was presented by Hon. Sushil Kumar Shinde, Union Minister for Power, Government of India.

Tiziana Margaria-Steffen is full professor at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences of the University Potsdam, where she holds the Chair of Service and Software Engineering at the Institute of Informatics.

She has previously held positions in Germany at the universities of Göttingen (where she was until March 2006 associate professor and headed the group of Service Engineering for Distributed Systems at the Institute of Informatics), Dortmund, Passau, and at the Technical University of Aachen, in Sweden at the University of Uppsala and in Italy at the University of Udineand at the Politecnico di Torino. Her research focusses on model-based system and service engineering, a subdiscipline of software engineering and programming languages with a strong emphasis on tools and formal methods.

Tiziana Margaria-Steffen received a Laurea in Electrical Engineering and a PhD degree in Computer and Systems Engineering from the Politecnico di Torino, Italy. She is (co-) author of over 80 refereed papers in international journals and conferences. 
Tiziana Margaria-Steffen is currently President of the "European Association of Software Science and Technology" (EASST), after having been elected member of the Presidium of the GI("Gesellschaft für Informatik" - the German Association for Computer Science). 
She is member of the Board of FMICS (the ERCIM Working Group on Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems), serves as a member of the steering committee of ETAPS, the European joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, is an Advisory Board member of the QPQ (QED-Pro-Quo) Initiative, an online journal for publishing peer-reviewed source code for deductive software components, and a member of the IFIP Working Group 10.5 on Design and Engineering of Electronic Systems. She is also the ideator and Steering Committee Chair of ISoLA 2006, the series of International Symposia on Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation, a co-founder of the International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT, Springer), and a member of the editorial board of the Formal Methods Letter (Springer) and of the NASA journal Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering (Springer). If you want to know more about PC Chairs and Memberships, please click here. 
She is a member of the ACM, IEEE, GI, FME, EAPLS, and EASST.

Provost and VP for Academic Affairs, Texas A&M Univ., Commerce

Dr. Larry Lemanski serves as the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Texas A&M University, Commerce.  Dr. Lemanski is the second ranking administrative officer and the chief academic officer of the University.  He is responsible for the oversight, evaluation and leadership of Academic Affairs including all of the Academic Colleges and research programs at the University.  Dr. Lemanski also serves as a liaison with external constituents regarding academic and research activities. 

Prior to joining A&M Commerce in July 2009, Dr. Lemanski held the position of Senior Vice President for Research and Strategic Initiatives at Temple University, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Dr. Lemanski has served in a number of university faculty and leadership roles throughout his career including:

• Assistant Professor of Anatomy in the College of Medicine at the  University of California, San Francisco
• Assistant, Associate and Full Professor of Anatomy in the College of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Professor and Chairperson of Anatomy and Cell Biology as well as Founding Director of the Cell and Molecular Biology Program in the College of Medicine at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse
• Associate Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
• President and CEO of Florida Atlantic University Research Corporation and Vice President for Research at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton

Dr. Lemanski’s education includes:

• University of Wisconsin, Platteville (Biology major; Chemistry minor), B.S. (with honors)
• Arizona State University (Zoology), M.S. and Ph.D.
• He then spent five years as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.       

Dr. Lemanski has authored over 300 publications, has won a number of prestigious professional prizes and awards, has given invited lectures throughout the world and has mentored numerous Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows.  Many of his former students and fellows have gone on to very successful and distinguished careers.  He has obtained over fifty million dollars in funding for Research Grants.  Dr. Lemanski has maintained an active research program. Even today, he continues his study of myofibrillogenesis and heart inductive processes in developing embryonic hearts at the cell and molecular levels.  This research program has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and the American Heart Association. A patent for the sequence and action of a unique nucleic acid sequence has been issued which has the ability to turn non-muscle cells into beating cardiac muscle cells.  This research holds promise for the repair of damaged heart tissues in patients who have suffered heart attacks or have related cardiovascular diseases.

Prof. Dr. – Ing. Herwig Unger is a full professor at the FernUniversität in Hagen (Germany) and the head of the Chair of Communication Networks in the Faculty for Mathematics and Computer Science.

Herwig Unger was born in 1966 in Halle/S. in the former GDR. He took a diploma in automation from the Technical University in Ilmenau in 1991 and received his doctoral degree  (Dr.-Ing.) in engineering science in 1994 with a work about the implementation of Petri Net models on multiprocessor computers from the same university. In 2000 he finished his habilitation (Dr.-Ing. habil.) with a work on large distributed and decentralized systems at the University of Rostock and got an extraordinary professorship there in 2004. In 2006 he followed a call and changed on his current position at the FernUniversität in Hagen.  Several projects, research stays and guest professorships e.g. in the USA, Canada and Thailand allowed him to extend his horizons.

His current research interests are in self-organization, adaptive and learning systems, Internet algorithms and simulation. Herwig Unger is a Fellow of the Society for Design and Process Science (SDPS) and a member of the German Society of Informatics.

Dr. Tetsuo Tomiyama has been Professor of Life Cycle Engineering at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Marine Technology at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands since July 2002. Prior to this appointment, he was Professor of Service Engineering (April 2002-June 2002) and of Intelligence Science (April 1998-March 2002) at the Research into Artifacts, Center for Engineering (RACE) and was Associate Professor at theDeparment of Precision Machinery Engineering (July 1987-March 1998) both of the University of Tokyo in Japan. Hisresearch fields cover a variety of topics in design engineering and life cycle engineering, including design theory, design methodology for innovative artifacts (such as self-maintenance machines and cellular machines), knoweldge intensive engineering, manufacturing paradigm, life cycle simulation, and service engineering. He obtained his PhD from the University of Tokyo in 1985.

Dr. Phillip C.-Y. Sheu is a professor of EECS and Biomedical Engineering at the University of California, Irvine. He received his Ph.D. and M. S. degrees from the University of California at Berkeley in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.  He has published two books: (1) Intelligent Robotic Planning Systems and (2) Software Engineering and Environment—An Object-Oriented Perspective, and more than 100 papers in object relational data and knowledge engineering and their applications. His current research interests include semantic computing and complex biomedical systems. He is a Fellow of IEEE and SDPS, Founding Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Semantic Computing, Founder of IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, Founder of IEEE International Conference on Internet Operating Systems and New Applications, Founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Semantic Computing, and a main author of the book Semantic Computing (eds. P. Sheu, H. Yu, C.V. Ramamoorthy, A. Joshi and L.A. Zadeh, IEEE and Wiley, 2010).