Scott R. Hinkelman  IBM Software Group, 11501 Burnet Road, Austin, Texas 78758 (srhus.ibm.com). Mr. Hinkelman is a senior software engineer whose work is focused on industry-level standards organizations and alignment with service-oriented architectures (SOAs). He serves on IBM's Emerging Technology team, helping set strategy in engagements with industry organizations and has been working on service-oriented software for over five years. While working with the OpenTravel Alliance, Mr. Hinkelman was elected to its interoperability committee and provided the technical foundation for the initial definition of XML B2B message architecture for the travel industry. He has served as the Chief eBusiness Architect for IBM's Travel Industry Solution unit. He is currently the MedBiquitous.org Web Services architect, serving on its technical steering committee, and the leader for the quality of service area in RosettaNet's WS-I Web Services profile work. He has been instrumental in many industry-wide and international standards organizations and initiatives. An accomplished Java and XML expert, he represented IBM for the JAX-RPC 1.0 specification, which defined the client programming model for Java Web services. He has published numerous articles, chaired standards conferences, and holds patents in distributed computing. Mr. Hinkelman's interests are focused on consistency in SOA design across industry standards.

Donald Buddenbaum  IBM Software Group, 4205 South Miami Blvd, Durham, North Carolina 27703 (buddenbaus.ibm.com). Mr. Buddenbaum is a software engineer concentrating on emerging standards and vertical-industry standards organizations. He has helped leverage IBM middleware as the basis for finanical service solutions, serving for a time as the Chief Architect for IBM's Software Group insurance solutions. Before joining IBM, he spent time designing and implementing solutions in the life insurance industry at various independent software vendors and insurance companies. His current work targets the adoption of horizontal standards within vertical-industry standards organizations, such as ACORD.

Liang-Jie Zhang  IBM Research Division, 19 Skyline Drive, Hawthorne, New York 10532 (zhangljus.ibm.com). Dr. Zhang is a research staff member and the chair of the Services Computing Professional Interest Community at the Watson Research Center. He has been leading service-oriented architecture (SOA) services research since 2001. He was the Chief Architect of industrial standards at IBM. He has filed more than 30 patent applications in the areas of e-business, Web Services, rich media, data management, and information appliances and has published more than 80 technical papers in journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings. Dr. Zhang chairs the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Services Computing and serves as editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR), which has been included in the Engineering Index Compendex database since 2005. He was the general co-chair of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2005) and the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2005). Dr. Zhang received a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Xidian University in 1990, an M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Xi'an Jiaotong University in 1992, and a Ph.D. degree in computer engineering from Tsinghua University in 1996.