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                | Gavin Finnie Professor 
                    of Information Systems & Deputy Dean School of Information Technology, Bond University, 
                    Australia |  |  Prof. Gavin Finnie is Professor of Information Systems and Deputy 
              Dean of the School of Information Technology, Bond University, Australia. 
              He was previously Professor and Head of Department of Computer Science 
              and Information Systems at the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 
              South Africa, between 1990 and 1993. Between 1994 and 1998, he was 
              Associate Dean (Academic), School of Information Technology, Bond 
              University. Prof. Finnie has extensive teaching experience in both 
              Computer Science and Information Systems, and obtains consistently 
              good evaluations on teaching. He was awarded the Bond University 
              Students Council Presidents Award for Teaching Excellence in 2002. 
              This is "to the lecturer/tutor who displays the most outstanding 
              performance in the previous semester. Students nominate their teachers 
              based on their dedication, teaching style, approachability, and 
              going above and beyond the call of duty to assist their students". 
              Prof. Finnie has published extensively on different journals and 
              conferences. His current research interests are primarily in the 
              area of AI/expert system applications in information systems, Electronic 
              Commerce, Knowledge-Based Systems, Knowledge-Based Software Engineering, 
              Intelligent Decision Support Systems. The main work at present is 
              in applications of Artificial Intelligence and Case Based reasoning 
              in software development effort estimation and electronic bargaining. 
              
                | Michel Barbeau  
                   Full 
                    Professor and Associate Director School of Computer Science, Carleton 
                    University
 |  |  Dr. Michel Barbeau is a full Professor and the Associate Director, 
              School of Computer Science, Carleton University. He has got his 
              B.Sc. Computer Science from Universite de Sherbrooke (1985), M.Sc. 
              Computer Science from Universite de Montreal (1987) and Ph.D. Computer 
              Science from Universite de Montreal (1991). He had been a Professor 
              at Universite de Sherbrooke (1991-1999) and a visiting researcher 
              at Aizu University, Japan (1998-1999) and Alcatel Canada (2004-2005). 
              He can be described best as a software expert with specific expertise 
              in telecommunications protocols (link, network, transport), mobile 
              and wireless networks, satellite telecommunications, object-oriented 
              design and programming, distributed objects and operating systems. 
              His academic honours include: Research Achievement Award, Carleton 
              University, 2005; Governor Generals Academic Gold Medal, Universite 
              de Montreal, 1991. He has published about 40 research papers in 
              referred journals and conferences, and he is the owner of two patents. B. D. Aggarwala Prof. B. D. Aggarwala is Professor Emeritus, Department of Mathematics 
              and Statistics, University of Calgary. He has taught Mathematics 
              at McGill University in Montreal, and then at the University of 
              Calgary, Calgary, Canada since 1960. He served for two years as 
              the Chairman of the Division of Applied Mathematics here at the 
              University of Calgary and as chairman, I designed both the undergraduate 
              and the graduate curriculum in Applied Mathematics. Numerical solutions 
              of Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations being one of my areas 
              of expertise, I have considerable experience with the Mathematical 
              Software called 'Mathematica'. He has published more than seventy 
              research papers in the area of Applied Mathematics and Engineering. 
              Currently his interests are in mathematical modeling for HIV/AIDS 
              epidemiology.
 
              
                | Chakib Chraibi Full 
                    Professor and Faculty Representative to theInformation Technology Advisory Council
 Barry University |  |  Dr. Chakib Chraibi obtained a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from 
              the University of Bordeaux (France) and a Ph.D. in Computer Science 
              from Binghamton University (New York). He is currently a Full Professor 
              at Barry University in Miami, Florida and the Faculty Representative 
              to the Information Technology Advisory Council. He brings significant 
              experience in industry to academia from his work at Honeywell Bull 
              and through industry funded grants. His research interests are real-time 
              computer systems and computer networks, Internet and web programming, 
              programming languages, operating Systems, object-oriented design 
              and software engineering, computer simulation and performance. Dr. 
              Chraibi has received several awards, including the Distinguished 
              Dissertation Award in the category of Mathematics, Sciences, and 
              Engineering and the Graduate Award for Excellence in Research. He 
              has also been included in the Who's Who Among Teachers in America 
              (1998, 2000 and 2005 editions).
 
              
                | Padmanabhan Krishnan Professor of Computer Science Bond University |  |  Dr. Padmanabhan Krishnan is Professor of Computer Science at the 
              Faculty of Information Technology, Bond University. He has been 
              Associate Dean (Research and Development) at the School of Information 
              Technology, Bond University (2002-2003). He has got his B.Tech from 
              IIT Kanpur, MS from U. Michigan, Ann Arbor, and PhD from U. Michigan, 
              Ann Arbor. He has held various positions at University of Canterbury 
              (Christchurch New Zealand), Siemens Research (Munich, Germany), 
              Aarhus University (Aarhus, Denmark) and Texas A&M University 
              (College Station, USA). He has won several awards including Best 
              Researcher in the IT Faculty, 2004, and Best Paper (Honorary Mention) 
              at the Australian Software Engineering Conference, 2004. His research 
              interests include Software Assurance Software Engineering (Formal 
              methods, Specification, Verification and Testing), Verification 
              of Security Protocols, Real-Time systems, and Models for concurrent 
              systems. Kazumi Nakamatsu Prof. Kazumi Nakamatsu is a professor of computer science at School 
              of Human Science and Environment, University of Hyogo, Japan. He 
              earned his Doctoral degree of Science from Kyushu University, Japan. 
              He published 8 books and over 80 papers. He was invited by several 
              organizations to make lectures, to hold a session at international 
              conferences, and as an editorial committee member or reviewer (International 
              Journal of Hybrid Intelligent Information Systems and others). He 
              won the Best Paper Award at the international conference CASYS2000 
              which was held in Belgium. His current academic interest is mainly 
              application of a paraconsistent annotated logic program called EVALP 
              (Extended Vector Annotated Logic Program) that was developed by 
              himself. He has already developed some intelligent control methods 
              based on EVALP for traffic signal system, railway interlocking, 
              discrete event system, and so on. Tai-Chi Lee Prof. Tai-Chi Lee has been on the faculty at Saginaw Valley State 
              University since 1988. He is currently a Professor of Computer Science, 
              Department of Computer Science and Information Systems. He received 
              a BS in Mathematics from National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, 
              Taiwan, in 1965, a MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 
              from University of Illinois at Chicago in 1986, and a Ph.D. in Applied 
              Mathematics from University of Utah in 1975. His research interests 
              include computer architectures, database systems design, image compression, 
              and cryptography & network security. Tony White Dr. Tony White is an Associate Professor in the School of Computer 
              Science, Carleton University. He received B.A. and M.A. degrees 
              in Theoretical Physics from Cambridge University (1978, 1981), followed 
              by M.C.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Carleton University in Computer 
              Science (1993) and Electrical Engineering (2000) respectively. Prior 
              to Carleton University, Tony worked with Nortel Networks on agent-based 
              solutions to network management problems. His research interests 
              include Software Agents, Evolutionary Computation, Swarm Intelligence 
              and Autonomic Computing. He has published in excess of 60 papers 
              and has 7 patents granted with several others pending. He is also 
              the Chief Technology Officer for Symbium Corporation, a leading 
              company in Autonomic Computing. He has also served as a member of 
              the advisory boards of two companies in the area of policy-based 
              computing. Rajgopal Kannan Dr. Rajgopal Kannan is currently an Assistant Professor in the 
              Computer Science department at Louisiana State University. He obtained 
              his B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT-Bombay in 
              1991 and the Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of Denver 
              in 1996. His areas of interest are in algorithmic aspects of wireless 
              sensor networks, game and information theory, data security, interconnection 
              networks, optical networks, routing and multicasting protocols, 
              distributed systems and algorithms. He has published extensively 
              in top tier journals and conferences and his papers have won several 
              best-paper awards. He is on the technical program committee and 
              organizer/co-organizer of several conferences. His research work 
              has been funded by agencies such as NSF, DARPA, AFRL and DOE.
 
              
                | Andrija Maricic Senior Lecturer in the School of Information Technology Monash University ¡V Sunway campus Malaysia |  |  Dr. Andrija Maricic has been a Senior Lecturer in the School of 
              Information Technology, Monash University ¡V Sunway campus Malaysia 
              since July 2001. After graduation (November 1969) he worked for 
              7 years as an engineer and researcher at the Electrotechnical Institute 
              in "Rade Koncar" Company ("ETI RK" in the sequel) 
              in Zagreb, capital of Croatia. He was involved in the modelling 
              and simulation of dynamic processes (on the analog, hybrid and digital 
              computers), in the development of software for data acquisition 
              (small nuclear plant) and in the development of a real-time operating 
              system (application of the DEC's PDP-11/40 computer in gas industry). 
              During his professional career, he has produced 86 papers which 
              have been prepared for conferences, project documentation and publication 
              in scientific journals. Dr. Maricic's biographical information was 
              listed on the page 236 in the second edition of the "International 
              Directory of Experts Specialized in Informatics", published 
              in France (in 1994) by UNESCO (7 place de Fontenoy, 75352 Paris 
              07 SP). And his biographical data were also included in the 16th 
              edition (for 1999, page 1025), 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st and 
              22nd edition of Marquis publication "Who's Who in the World".
 
              
                | Qusay H. Mahmoud Assistant Professor, University of Guelph 
                    (Canada) Associate Chair of the Distributed Computing 
                    and Wireless Telecom program |  |  Dr. Qusay H. Mahmoud is an Assistant Professor in the Department 
              of Computing and Information Science at the University of Guelph 
              (Canada), and Associate Chair of the Distributed Computing and Wireless 
              Telecom program at the University of Guelph-Humber. He received 
              his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Middlesex University in London, 
              England, for his work on Mobile Agents for Wired and Wireless Computing. 
              In the past, he has worked for Simon Fraser University, Carleton 
              University, and Newbridge Networks (now Alcatel). His research interests 
              include agent technology, wireless computing, web services, and 
              software engineering. Dr. Mahmoud has presented tutorials on developing 
              wireless and enterprise applications at a number of international 
              conferences worldwide. He is the author of "Distributed Programming 
              with Java" and "Learning Wireless Java" and the editor 
              of the book "Middleware for Communications".
 Fidel Cacheda Seijo Dr. Fidel Cacheda Seijo has been assistant professor at the University 
              of A Coruna in the Department of Information and Communication Technologies 
              since October 1998. In February 2003 to July 2003, he is visiting 
              professor at the University of Glasgow with the Information Retrieval 
              group. He has got his honours degree of Computer Science in the 
              University of A Coruna (Spain). And his Ph. D. degree was in Computer 
              Science, with thesis titled "Web Directory Advanced Data Architecture, 
              with Optimisation of Restricted Searches to an Area of the Category 
              Graph". His research areas of interest are information retrieval 
              on the web, data structures and algorithms for IR, and retrieval 
              evaluation for web search engines. He has published about 30 research 
              papers. Soheil Ghiasi Dr. Soheil Ghiasi is an assistant professor at University of California, 
              Davis, CA Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He 
              has obtained his PhD degree from University of California at Los 
              Angeles (UCLA) in computer science. His research interests are Embedded 
              Systems: Embedded System Design techniques; Application-Specific 
              Programmable Processors and Modules, IP-based system design, embedded 
              software, compilation, CAD and Design Automation; and Reconfigurable 
              Computing: Dynamic/Partial Hardware Reconfiguration, Applications, 
              Design Techniques for Reconfigurable Fabrics and platforms with 
              heterogeneous computational resources. He has obtained awards like 
              the Harry M. Showman Prize, Henry Samueli School of Engineering 
              and Applied Sciences (HSSEAS), UCLA. He has published about 30 referred 
              research papers. 
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