6th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing, December 1-5, 2008, University of Technology, Sydney, Ultimo City Campus (Tower Building)

Committees

• Key Conference Officials
• Steering committee
• Research Track - Area Coordinators
• Program Committee
• Industry Committee
• Demonstration Committee
• PhD Symposium Committee Members (TBC)

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Key Conference Officials

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General Chairs:

• Boualem Benatallah (University of New South Wales, Australia)
• Vincenzo d'Andrea (University of Trento, Italy)
• Frank Leymann (University of Stuttgart, Germany)

Program Committee Chairs:

• Athman Bouguettaya (CSIRO, Australia)
• Ingolf H. Krueger (University of California, San Diego, USA)
• Tiziana Margaria (University of Potsdam, Germany)

Workshop Chairs:

• George Feuerlicht (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)
• Winfried Lamersdorf (University of Hamburg)

Tutorial Chairs:

• Anna Liu (Microsoft)
• Xiaofang Zhou (University of Queensland, Australia)

Panel Chairs:

• Mohand-said Hacid (University Lyon 1, France)
• Yuzuru Tanaka (Hokkaido University, Japan)
• Ming Shan (SAP)

Demonstration chairs:

• Malu Castellanos (HP Labs, USA)
• Marlon Dumas (University of Tartu, Estonia)
• Karsten Schulz (SAP, Australia)

Industry-Academic Coordination Chairs:

• Dave Chapel (Oracle, USA)
• Priya Narasimhan (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

Industry Program Chairs:

• Christoph Bussler (Merced Systems, Inc., USA)
• Don Ferguson (Computer Associates, USA)
• Volkmar Lotz (SAP, USA)

PhD symposium Chairs:

• Hamid Motahari (University of New South Wales, Australia)
• Farouk Toumani (University of Clermont-Ferrand, France)
• Yannis Velegrakis (University of Trento, Itay)

Publicity Chairs:

• Florian Daniel (University of Trento, Italy)
• Hakim Hacid (University of New South Wales, Australia)
• Brahim Medjahed (University of Michigan, USA)

Local Organisation Chairs:

• Helen Paik (University of New South Wales, Australia)
• Vladimir Tosic (NICTA, Australia)
• Jian Yang (Macquarie University, Australia)
• George Feuerlicht (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)

Local Community Laison chairs:

• Jay Hanon (IBM Australia)
• Renato Iannella (NICTA)
• Michael Roseman (QUT, Brisbane, Australia)

Financial Chairs:

• Fethi Rabhi (University of New South Wales, Australia)

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Steering committee

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• Fabio Casati (University of Trento, Italy)
• Paco Curbera (IBM Research, USA)
• Asit Dan (IBM Research, USA)
• Bernd Kraemer (Fern Universitaet Hagen)
• Mike Papazoglou (Tilburg University, The Netherlands - acting Chair )
• Paolo Traverso (ITC-IRST, Italy)

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Research Track - Area Coordinators

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Service Foundations

• Bernhard Steffen (University of Dortmund, Germany)
• Gianluigi Zavattaro (University of Bologna, Italy)

Business Service Modeling

• Jian Yang (Macquarie University, Australia)

Integrating Systems of Systems using Services

• Doug Schmidt (Vanderbilt University, USA)

Service Engineering

• Jose Luis Fiadeiro (University of Leicester, UK)
• Michael Huhns (University of South Carolina, USA)

Service Assembly

• Paco Curbera (IBM)

Service Management

• Asit Dan (IBM Research, USA)
• Mike Papazoglou (University of Tilburg, The Netherlands)

SOA Runtime

• Priya Narasimhan (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

Quality of Service

• Mourad Ouzzani (Purdue University, USA)

Grid Services

• Domenico Laforenza (CNR, Italy)
• Uwe Schwiegelshohn (TU Dortmund, Germany)

Business & Economical Aspects of Services

• Paul Maglio (IBM Almaden, USA)
• Stefan Tai (TU of Karlsruhe, Germany)

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Program Committee

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• Marco Aiello, University of Groningen, Netherlands
• Jörn Altmann, Seoul National University, South Korea
• Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Alistair Barros, SAP, Australia
• Salima Benbernou, University of Lyon, France
• Kamal Bhattacharya, IBM Research, USA
• Ken Birman, Cornell University, USA
• Laura Bocchi, University of Leicester, UK
• Mario Bravetti, University of Bologna, Italy
• Karin Breitman, PUC Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
• Ruth Breu, University of Innsbruck, Austria
• Paul Buhler, College of Charleston, Charleston, , USA
• Tefvik Bultan, UC Santa Barbara, California, USA
• Christoph Bussler, BEA, USA
• Hong Cai, IBM China Research Laboratory
• Jorge Cardoso, SAP,
• Manuel Carro, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain
• Fabio Casati, ITC-IRST, Italy
• Shiping Chen, CSIRO, Australia
• Siobhan Clarke, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
• Paco Curbera, IBM, USA
• Asit Dan, IBM Research, USA
• Jiangbo Dang, Siemens,
• Asuman Dogac, METU, Turkey
• Schahram Dustdar, TU Vienna, Austria
• Kim Elms, SAP, Germany
• Jose Luis Fiadeiro, University of Leicester, UK
• Chris Gill, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
• Andy Gordon, Microsoft Research, UK
• Paul Grefen, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
• Andrew Grimshaw, University of Virginia, USA
• Norbert Gronau, University Potsdam, Germany
• Chihab Hanachi, University of Toulouse, France
• Jingshan Huang, University of South Carolina, USA
• Michael Huhns, University of South Carolina, USA
• Rick Hull, Bell Labs, USA
• Dimka Karastoyanova, University Stuttgart, Germany
• Bettina Kemme, McGill University, Canada
• Bernd Kraemer, Free University Hagen, Germany
• Domenico Laforenza, CNR, Italy
• Christine Legner, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
• Qianhui (Althea) Liang, Singapore Management University, Singapore
• Chengfei Liu, Swinburne University, Australia
• Qing Liu, CSIRO, Australia
• Paul Maglio, IBM Almaden, USA
• Michael Maximilien, IBM Almaden, USA
• Massimo Mecella, Universita di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy
• Brahim Medjahed, University of Michigan, USA
• Priya Narasimhan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Anne Ngu, Texas State University, USA
• Christos Nikolaou, University of Crete, Greece
• Mourad Ouzzani, Purdue University, USA
• Mike Papazoglou, University of Tilburg, Netherlands
• Cesare Pautasso, Univeristy Lugano, Switzerland
• Thierry Priol, INRIA, France
• Wolfgang Reisig, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
• Abdelmounaam Rezgui, Virginia Tech, USA
• Colette Roland, University Paris 1, France
• Robin Russell, Virginia Tech, USA
• Doug Schmidt, Vanderbilt University, USA
• Karsten Schwan, Georgia tech, USA
• Uwe Schwiegelshohn, TU Dortmund, Germany
• Quan Z. Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia
• Fabrizio Silvestri, CNR, Italy
• Munindar Singh, NCSU, USA
• Bernhard Steffen, Univeristy of Dortmund, Germany
• Ketil Stoelen, SINTEF, Norway
• Jianwen Su, UC Santa Barbara, California, USA
• Tarja Systä, Tampere University, Finland
• Stefan Tai, TU Karlsruhe, Germany
• Zahir Tari, RMIT, Australia
• Paolo Traverso, ITC-IRST, Italy
• Frank van Breugel, York University, Ontario, Canada
• Wil van der Aalst, TU Eindhoven, Netherlands
• Kunal Verma, Accenture Technology Labs, USA
• Von Welch, NCSA, UIUC, USA
• Mathias Weske, University of Potsdam, Germany
• John Wilkes, HP, USA
• Raymond Wong, University of NSW, Australia
• Lai Xu, CSIRO, Australia
• Jian Yang, Macquarie University, Australia
• Yelena Yesha, University of Maryland, USA
• Qi Yu, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
• Gianluigi Zavattaro, University of Bologna, Italy
• Wenbing Zhao, Cleveland State University, USA
• Andrea Zisman, City University London, UK

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Industry Committee

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• Jorge Cardoso, SAP, Germany
• Malu Castellanos, HP Labs, USA
• Richard Hull, Bell Labs, USA
• Mark Little, RedHat, USA
• Heiko Ludwig, IBM Research, USA
• Eugene M. Maximilien, IBM Almaden, USA
• Kunal Verma, Accenture, USA
• Sanjeeva Weerawarana, WSO2, USA
• Umit Yalcinalp, SAP, USA
• Michal Zaremba, SeekDa, Austria

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Demonstration Committee

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• Jorge Cardoso, SAP Research, Germany
• Mike Carey, BEA Systems, USA
• Remco Dijkman, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
• Schahram Dudstar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
• Howard Foster, Imperial College, UK
• Rania Khalaf, IBM TJ Watson Research Centre, USA
• Peep Küngas, SOA Trader, Estonia
• Julien Vayssiere, SAP Research, Australia
• Jim Webber, ThoughtWorks, UK
• Andreas Wombacher, EPFL, Switzerland
• Olaf Zimmermann, IBM Zürich Research Laboratory, Switzerland

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PhD Symposium Committee Members (TBC)

• Claudio Bartolini, HP Labs, Palo Alto, USA
• Marlon Dumas, University of Tartu, Estonia
• Schahram Dustdar, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
• Andreas Hanemann, Leibniz Supercomputing Center, Germany
• Vahid Hashemian, University of Waterloo, Canada
• Aditya K. Ghose, University of Wollongong, Australia
• Chengfei Liu, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
• Heiko Ludwig, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA
• Annapaola Marconi, SRA ITC-irst, Italy
• Mike Papazoglou, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
• Julien Ponge, Université Blaise Pascal, France
• Michael Sheng, The University of Adelaide, Australia
• Halvard Skogsrud, ThoughtWorks, Australia
• Eric Wohlstadter, University of British Columbia, Canada
• Andreas Wombacher, University of Twente, The Netherlands