Biographical sketches of authors

John E. Funderburk IBM Software Group, Silicon Valley Laboratory, 555 Bailey Avenue, San Jose, California 95141 (electronic mail: jfund@us.ibm.com). Mr. Funderburk is a software developer at IBM's Silicon Valley Lab. He previously worked on DB2's XML Extender and is currently working on XTABLES.

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.

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.