Lin Luo  IBM Research Division, China Research Lab, Building 19, Zhongguancun Software Park, 8 Dongbeiwang West Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100094, China (luolincn.ibm.com). Dr. Luo is a research staff member in the Service Asset Technology department at the China Research Laboratory. She received a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2003. She subsequently joined IBM at the China Research Laboratory, where she has worked on digital media communication and content protection. Her current research interest is in service asset protection and governance.

Da Ming Hao  IBM Research Division, China Research Lab, Building 19, Zhongguancun Software Park, 8 Dongbeiwang West Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100094, China (haodmcn.ibm.com). Mr. Hao is an R & D engineer in the Service Asset Technology department at the China Research Laboratory. He received a Master's degree in electrical engineering from the Xi’an Jiaotong University in 2005 and subsequently joined IBM at the China Research Laboratory, where he has worked on content protection and security enhancement technologies. His current research interest is in service asset protection and governance.

Zhong Tian  IBM Software Group, China Development Laboratories, Building 19, Zhongguancun Software Park, 8 Dongbeiwang West Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100094, China (tianzcn.ibm.com). Dr. Tian is a Senior Architect at the Laboratory-Based Services department of the China Development Laboratories. He received a Ph.D. degree in computer science from Fudan University, Shanghai, China in 1995. He subsequently joined IBM at the China Research Laboratory, where he worked on SOA service discovery and patterns, business-process modeling and integration, B2B eCommerce, and the digital library. His currently interests are in SOA solution architecture through process-modeling and patterns.

Ya Bin Dang  IBM Research Division, China Research Laboratory, Building 19, Zhongguancun Software Park, 8 Dongbeiwang West Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100094, China (dangybcn.ibm.com). Mr. Dang is an R & D engineer in the Service Asset Technology department at the China Research Laboratory. He received a Master's degree in electrical engineering from the Xi’an Jiaotong University in 2004. Since joining IBM two years ago, he has worked on digital rights management and content protection. His current research interest is in service asset protection and governance.

Bo Hou  State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), 187#, 10 Xitucheng Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100876, China (polluxplusgmail.com). Bo Hou is a postgraduate student in BUPT, majoring in computer science. He received his Bachelor's degree in computer science and technology from BUPT in 2005. His current research interest is in next generation network and next generation Internet (NGN & NGI).

Peter Malkin  IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, 19 Skyline Drive, Hawthorne, NY 10532 USA (malkinus.ibm.com). After a one year ITT fellowship at the Australian National University in Canberra Australia, where he worked on the Automated Reasoning Project, Peter Malkin earned a Master's degree in computer science from Brown University in 1987. In 1988, Peter joined the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, and in 2002, he became a Master Inventor by developing and helping others develop intellectual property for IBM. He is now a member of the Enhanced Web Experience Project, working with the SPARCLE Privacy Policy Project, developing a privacy-policy-authoring and a compliance-auditing workbench.

Shun Xiang Yang  IBM Research Division, China Research Laboratory, Building 19, Zhongguancun Software Park, 8 Dongbeiwang West Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100094, China (yangsxcn.ibm.com). Mr. Yang is a research staff member and the manager of the Service Asset Technology department at the China Research Lab. He received his Master's degree in computer science from Beihang University in 2001. He subsequently joined IBM at the China Research Laboratory, where he has worked on business-process modeling and integration and enterprise-architecture and business-transformation technologies. His current research interests lie mainly in service-asset harvesting, reuse, and governance.