Pawan Chowdhary  IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (chowdharus.ibm.com). Mr. Chowdhary is an advisory software engineer in the Analytic Models and Architecture department. He is working on the sense-and-respond/BPM architecture framework. He received a B.S. degree in electronics engineering from Nagpur University, India. Mr. Chowdhary is actively involved in the area of the MDD warehouse.

Kumar Bhaskaran  IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (bhaus.ibm.com). Dr. Bhaskaran is a senior manager leading research in the area of service-oriented computing technologies applied to business transformation, business integration, and BPM solutions. He has a Ph.D. degree in engineering science from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Nathan S. Caswell  IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (ncaswellus.ibm.com). Dr. Caswell is a research staff member in the Business Informatics department. He joined IBM Research after earning a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago and holds an IBM Fellowship at the University of California-Berkeley. His recent work has involved developing formal models of business operational behavior. Dr. Caswell holds several patents, has received project-related awards, and has authored a variety of journal articles.

Henry Chang  IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (hychangus.ibm.com). Dr. Chang is a Senior Technical Staff Member and a research manager in the Business Informatics department. He leads the research effort in the business performance monitoring and management framework with impact on IBM business integration products. He received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He received an IBM Innovation Award for his work on business-to-business collaboration solutions. Dr. Chang is a member of the ACM and IEEE.

Tian Chao  IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (tianus.ibm.com). Ms. Chao is a senior software engineer in the Business Informatics department. She has a B.A. degree from National Taiwan University and an M.S. degree in computer science from Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Her research interests include BPM using an MDD approach, business collaboration, Web services, and security for business processes. Ms. Chao has received an IBM Invention Achievement Award, holds several patents, and has published papers in many journals and conferences.

Shyh-kwei Chen  IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 704, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 (skchenus.ibm.com). Dr. Chen is a research staff member. His current research interests include XML, model transformation and synchronization, data engineering, and compilers. He received a B.S. degree in computer science and information engineering from National Taiwan University, an M.S. degree in computer science from the University of Minnesota, and a Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. Dr. Chen is a member of the ACM and IEEE.

Michael Dikun  IBM Business Consulting Services, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (mdikunus.ibm.com). Mr. Dikun is a software engineer. His interests include BPM, MDD, server-side enterprise application development, and Web application development. Mr. Dikun has B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer science from Iona College.

Hui Lei  IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (hleius.ibm.com). Dr. Lei is a research staff member. He works in the areas of e-business and pervasive computing, with a focus on software infrastructure and data management issues. He has a Ph.D. degree in computer science from Columbia University. Dr. Lei is a Senior Member of the IEEE.

Jun-Jang (JJ) Jeng  IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (jjjengus.ibm.com). Dr. Jeng has a Ph.D. degree in computer science from Michigan State University. His interests include BPM, policy-based management, MDD, agent technologies, and formal disciplines of system and software engineering. Dr. Jeng is a member of the ACM and the IEEE.

Shubir Kapoor  IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (shubirkus.ibm.com). Mr. Kapoor is an advisory engineer in the Analytic Models and Architecture department. He received an M.S. degree in computer science from Pune University, India. His technical interests include service-oriented architectures, server-side enterprise applications, rule-based expert systems, Web-based application development, and diagnostic systems for use in supply chain and e-business applications.

Christian A. Lang  IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 704, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 (langcus.ibm.com). Dr. Lang is a research staff member in the Business Informatics department. He is currently involved in several projects dealing with the scalability aspects of database-management and business-process-monitoring systems. He received an M.S. degree from the Munich University of Technology and a Ph.D. degree from the University of California at Santa Barbara, both in computer science. Dr. Lang is a member of the ACM and the IEEE.

George Mihaila  IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 704, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 (mihailaus.ibm.com). Dr. Mihaila is a research staff member. He has a B.S. degree from the University of Bucharest and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Toronto, all in computer science. He also holds an adjunct faculty appointment at Columbia University. Dr. Mihaila's research interests include Web query languages, Web-based information discovery, data integration, data warehousing, event processing, and XML storage and processing.

Ioana Stanoi  IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 704, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 (irsus.ibm.com). Dr. Stanoi is a research staff member in the Intelligent Information Management department. She received a B.S. degree in computer science, a B.A. degree in physics, and a Ph.D. in computer science, all from the University of California at Santa Barbara. Her patents and publications cover exact and approximate query processing, index optimization, XML, publish/subscribe systems, mobile clients, e-commerce applications, and semantics. She has served on a number of conference program committees and is one of the initiators of the Greater New York Area Database/Information Retrieval Workshop.

Liangzhao Zeng  IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (lzengus.ibm.com). Dr. Zeng is a researcher in the Business Informatics department. He received a Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of New South Wales. His research interests are in the areas of Web services, business process and performance management, event-driven systems, and data stream management.