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, Web services and bioinformatics. 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. He is the author of over 130 publications in the areas of database systems (transactions, object-oriented databases and XML databases), modeling & simulation (modeling methodology, simulation environments, Web-based simulation and ontology driven simulation), workflow and Web services (discovery, composition, semantics and quality of service) and bioinformatics (workflows, databases, ontologies and simulation).

Dr. Miller has been active in the organizational structures of research conferences in all these areas. He has served in positions from Track Coordinator to Publications Chair to General Chair of the following conferences: Annual Simulation Symposium (ANSS), Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), Workshop on Research Issues in Data Engineering (RIDE), NSF Workshop on Workflow and Process Automation in Information Systems, and Conference on Industrial & Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems (IEA/AIE). He is an Associate Editor for the ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation and IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics as well as an Editorial Board Member for the Journal of Simulation and International Journal of Simulation and Process Modelling. In addition, he has been a Guest Editor for the International Journal in Computer Simulation and IEEE Potentials.