Differ in their Role and Approach
Regarding the Use of Semantics for Web Processes?
John A. Miller is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Georgia and has also been the Graduate Coordinator for the department for 9 years. His research interests include database systems, simulation and workflow as well as parallel and distributed systems. Dr. Miller received the B.S. degree in Applied Mathematics from Northwestern University in 1980 and the M.S. and Ph.D. in Information and Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1982 and 1986, respectively. During his undergraduate education, he worked as a programmer at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. Dr. Miller is the author of over 90 technical papers in the areas of database, simulation and workflow. He is an Associate Editor for ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation and IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics as well as a Guest Editor for the International Journal in Computer Simulation and IEEE Potentials.
Shishir Garg is a Senior Software Architect for France Telecom R&D. He is active in the development and standardization of middleware and service technologies including the following groups/organizations ObjectWeb Consortium, OASIS UDDI Spec TC, W3C Web Services Architecture WG.
Jianwen Su received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from Fudan University, and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Southern California. He joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1990. Dr. Su is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and SIGMOD, and a senior member of the IEEE and Computer Society. He served on program/organizational committees of several database conferences.
Mr. Jeff Pollock is a technology leader and author of "Adaptive Information: Improving Business Through Semantic Interoperability, Grid Computing, and Enterprise Integration." (John Wiley & Sons, 2004) As VP of Technology at Network Inference, Mr. Pollock is responsible for product strategy and envisioning next-generation adaptive enterprise software. Previously, as Chief Technology Officer of Modulant, he delivered one of the industry's first market-ready semantic integration middleware platforms in 2001. Throughout his career, he has architected, designed, and built application server/middleware solutions for Fortune 500 and US Government clients. Prior to Modulant, Mr. Pollock was a Principal Engineer with Modem Media and Senior Architect with Ernst & Young's Center for Technology Enablement. He is also a frequent speaker at industry conferences, author for industry journals, active member of W3C and OASIS, and engineering instructor with University of California at Berkeley's Extension on the subjects of Object-Oriented systems, software development process and software systems architecture.
Dr. Ryusuke Masuoka is a senior researcher with Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Inc. at College Park, Maryland, USA. He is also an adjunct professor of UMIAC, University of Maryland. Since joining Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. in 1988, he has conducted research into neural networks, simulated annealing, and agent systems. Results from all of those areas of research have lead to products from Fujitsu. Specifically, recent research on agent systems has paved the road to an agent system software product, INTERSTAGE AGENTPRO. After moving to Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Inc. in March of 2001, he has engaged in research on pervasive computing, system security, and bioinformatics.