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Short Biography

Research Interests

Teaching

• Databases, Service oriented Computing, Web and E-Commerce Engineering

Publications

• DBLP Publications  List
  
• SOC Research Group Publications List
  

Recent Professional Activities

Steering Committee and Editorial Boards

• Member of the steering committee, Int. conf on Business Process Management
• Member of the steering committee, IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing, Workflow Management in Scalable Computing Environments Techical Area
• Member of the editorial board of Service Computing and Applications Journal (SOCA, Springer)
• Member of the editorial board of Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications Journal (Springer)
• Member of the editorial board of the Int. Journal of Business Process Integration and Management (IJBPIM)
• Member of the editorial board of the Int. Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering

Guest Editor


• Guest Editor (with Dr. Brahim Medjahed, Michigan Uni, A/Prof., Athman Bouguettaya, Virginia Tech., USA) of the Special Issue on Semantic Web Services, ACM Transactions on Internet mTechnology, 2007
• Guest Editor (with Prof. Wil van der Aalst, Eindhoven University of Technology, Dr. Fabio Casati, HP labs, Dr. Francisco Curbera, IBM TJ Watson, and Dr. Verbeek M.W., Eindhoven University of Technology) of the Special Issue on Business Process Management - (based on BPM'05), Data and Knowledge Engineering, 2006
• Guest Editor (with A/Prof., Athman Bouguettaya, Virginia Tech., USA) of the Special Issue on Web Service Foundations, Parallel and Distributed Databases, an International Journal, Springer, 2005
• Guest Editor (with Fabio Casati, HP Labs, USA) for the Special Issue on E-Services, Parallel and Distributed Databases, an International Journal, Kluwer Academic Publishers , 2002.
• Guest Editor (with Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates) for the Special Issue M-services - Web Services for the Wireless World, IEEE Transactions - SMC (Part A), 2002.

Conference Program Chair / Area Coordinator


• Technical Program Co-Chair, The 8th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE'2007), Nancy, France, Dec. 2007.
  
• Technical Program Vice-Chair, The International Conference on E-Business Engineering (ICEBE'2006), Shanghai, China, 2006.
  
• Technical Program Co-Chair, The 3th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM'2005), Nancy, France, Sept. 2005.
  
• Technical Program Co-Chair, The 3rd International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Dec., 2005.
• Technical Co-chair, the IEEE International Workshop on Electronic Contracting (WEC'04), held in conjunction with IEEE Conference on
  Electronic Commerce (IEEE-CEC'04), July 2004, San Diego, USA.
  
• PC Co-chair - The 14th International Workshop on Research Issues on Data Engineering:Digital Government Services (RIDE-DGS'2004).
• PC Chair - the 4th VLDB Workshop on E-Services (VLDB-TES'03)

Conference organisation roles


• Area Coordinator International Conference on Service Oriented Computing, Vienna, 2007 .   
  
• Workshops Chair International Conference on E-Business Engineering , Hong Kong, 2007.   
  
• Workshops co-chair 5th International on Business Process Management, Brisbane, 2007.   
  
• Publication chair 4th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing, 2006.   
  
• Tutorial Chair 6th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, 2005.   
  

Tutorial, Keynote Speaker, PhD school lecturer

• Tutorial Speaker, Int. Conference on Service Oriented Computing  (ISOC'03), Trento, Italy, Dec. 2003.
• Tutorial Speaker, Int. Conf. on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE'02), Singapore, Dec. 2002.
• Inaugural Speaker for Service Oriented Computing Special Interest Group, The Australian Computer Society (Victorian Branch), Melbourne, Nov. 2004.
• Keynote Speaker, SAP Future Scope annual conference, Walldorf, Germany, Mar. 2005.
• Keynote Speaker, the 5th VLDB Workshop on Technologies for E-Services (TES-04), Toronto, Canada, Aug. 2004.
• Keynote Speaker, the the Second International Web Services Quality Workshop (WQW 2004), In conjunction with the Fifth International
  Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2004), Nov. 2004, Brisbane, Australia.
• Keynote Speaker, the Australian Workshop on Engineering Service-Oriented Systems (AWESOS'04) (in conjunction with the Australian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC 2004), Melbourne, Australia, April 2004.
• Keynote Speaker: the Int. Workshop on Semantic Web Services and Web Process Composition (SWSWPC 2004), In conjunction with the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS'2004), July 2004, San Diego, California, USA.
• Keynote Speaker: the Workshop on Business Process Intelligence (BPI), to be held in conjunction with the Int. Conference on Business Process Management, September 2005, Nancy, France.
  
• Keynote Speaker: Middleware for Service Oriented Computing Workshop (MW4SOC), held in conjunction with the Int. Middleware Conference, 2006, Melbourne, Australia.
  
• Invited Speaker:Service Oriented Architecture Conference, 2007, Feb 27th-28th, Sydney, Australia.
  
• Int. PhD school Lecturer: Lipari School - 19th International School for Computer Science Researchers. Advances in Software Engineering. Lipari, Italy, Juy 2007
  

Conference Program Committee Membership (Recent conferences)

• CAiSE- The International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering. 2008.
• MDM- The International Conference on Mobile Data Management. 2008.
• ICDE - The Int. Conf. on Data Engineering. 2007.
• ER - Int. Conf. on Conceptual Modeling. 2007.
• ICAC - International Conference on Autonomic Computing. 2006
• WWW - the 15th International World Wide Web Conference, 2006, 2007.
  
• ICDE - The Int. Conf. on Data Engineering. 2006.
• VLDB - Int. Conf. on Very Large Databases. 2006.
• ICEBE - IEEE Int. Conf. on e-Business Engineering. 2005-.
• M-Business - IEEE Int. Conf. on Mobile Business. 2005.
• APCCM - Asia-Pacific Conf. on Conceptual Modelling. 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007.
• IEEE-CEC - IEEE Conf. on E-Commerce Technology. 2005.
• NGWSP - Int. Work Conf. on Next Generation Web Services Practices. 2005.
• NODE - Int. Conf. Net.ObjectDays 2004, 2005.
• SCC - IEEE Int. Conf. on Services Computing. 2004-.
• MOBIS - The IFIP TC8 Working Conf. on Mobile Information Systems. 2004, 2005.
• BPM - Int. Conf. on Business Process Management. 2004-.
• WISE - The Int. Conf. on Web Information Systems Engineering. 2004-.
• EEE - IEEE Int. Conf. on e-Technology, e-Commerce and e-Service. 2004.
• CoopIS - The Conf. on Cooperative Information Systems. 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007.
• FQAS - Int. Conf. on Flexible Query Answering Systems. 2004, 2005.
• EDBT - Int. Conf. on Extending Database Technology. 2004.
• ICSOC - The Int. Conf. on Service Oriented Computing. 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007.
• ICWS - The Int. Conf. on Web Services. 2003, 2005,2006,2007.