Biographical sketches of authors

Susan Malaika IBM Software Group, Silicon Valley Laboratory, 555 Bailey Avenue, San Jose, California 95141 (electronic mail: malaika@us.ibm.com). Ms. Malaika is a senior software engineer with IBM's Silicon Valley DB2 development group. She works in the area of XML, DB2, and the Web.

Constance J. Nelin IBM Software Group, 11501 Burnett Road, Austin, Texas 78758 (electronic mail: nelin@us.ibm.com). Ms. Nelin is a Senior Technical Staff Member in the IBM Database Advanced Technology area. She has worked for IBM since 1987, with a focus on database application development support and tooling. She has responsibility for application development tooling strategy, architecture, and development for data management. This covers the application development support for the full DB2 family spanning the areas of core relational database, federated database, XML, Web services, and messaging features.

Rong Qu IBM Software Group, 11501 Burnett Road, Austin, Texas 78758 (electronic mail: qu@us.ibm.com). Ms. Qu is a software engineer in the IBM Database Technology Institute for e-Business with seven years' experience in software development. Her recent projects include DB2 integration with MQSeries^® and Web services.

Berthold Reinwald IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, California 95120 (electronic mail: reinwald@almaden.ibm.com). Dr. Reinwald joined the IBM Almaden Research Center in 1993, after finishing his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Erlangen-Nuernberg. His Ph.D. thesis on workflow management received the “best Ph.D. thesis” award from the university and was published as a book. At IBM Research, Dr. Reinwald contributed to SMRC (shared memory-resident cache) in DB2 Common Server, query explain tools, workflow management with Lotus Notes^®, FlowMark^®, and MQSeries, researched and delivered in DB2 Universal Database^® support for OLE/COM, OLEDB, XML, and most recently Web services. Dr. Reinwald is active in the design, architecture, and implementation of SQL extensions for XML.

Daniel C. Wolfson IBM Software Group, 11501 Burnett Road, Austin, Texas 78758 (electronic mail: dwolfson@us.ibm.com). Mr. Wolfson is a Senior Technical Staff Member and manager in the Database Technology Institute for e-Business. With more than 15 years of experience in distributed computing, his interests have ranged broadly across databases, messaging, and transaction systems. He is a lead architect in the information integration area, focusing on DB2 integration with WebSphere, MQSeries, workflow, Web services, and asynchronous client protocols.