Biographical sketches of authors

Martin Bichler   IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (electronic mail: bichler@us.ibm.com). Dr. Bichler is an associate professor in the Department of Information Systems at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. He received his M.Sc. degree in information systems from the University of Vienna and his Ph.D. degree from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. Dr. Bichler was research Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley and is currently a visiting scientist at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, where he is working on multidimensional market mechanisms and multiattribute negotiation support.

Jayant Kalagnanam   IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (electronic mail: jayant@us.ibm.com). Dr. Kalagnanam received his Ph.D. degree from Carnegie Mellon University in 1991. His research goal is developing decision support capabilities for electronic commerce. His recent work has focused on computational issues in the design and deployment of dynamic pricing mechanisms such as auctions.

Kaan Katircioglu   IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (electronic mail: kaan@us.ibm.com). Dr. Katircioglu is a research staff member in the Department of Enterprise Solutions Research at the IBM Research Center. He received his Ph.D. degree in management science/transportation & logistics from the University of British Columbia, Canada, in 1996. His research interests include theory of inventory control, supply-chain management, e-business, stochastic models, and risk management.

Alan J. King   IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (electronic mail: kingaj@us.ibm.com). Dr. King is a research staff member with the Mathematical Sciences Department at the IBM Research Center. He received his Ph.D. degree in 1986 at the University of Washington in Seattle, working with R. T. Rockafellar and Roger J-B Wets on properties of empirical estimators of solutions to stochastic programming problems. His research interests include algorithms and estimation in stochastic programming, asset-liability management, options pricing, dynamic resource allocation, and managing risk in the supply chain.

Richard D. Lawrence   IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (electronic mail: ricklawr@us.ibm.com). Dr. Lawrence is a research staff member and manager, eMarketplace and Supply Chain Analytics, at the IBM Research Center. He received his B.S. degree from Stanford University and his Ph.D. degree from the University of Illinois. Since joining IBM Research in 1990, he has received IBM Outstanding Innovation Awards for his work in parallel-processing communication libraries and scalable data-mining applications. His research interests include the development of data-mining algorithms and applications in the areas of product recommendation systems, stock-market analysis, and dynamic-pricing applications.

Ho Soo Lee   IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (electronic mail: leehs@us.ibm.com). Dr. Lee is a manager in the Deep e-Commerce Department at the IBM Research Center. He received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from Northwestern University in 1985, and subsequently joined the Research Center as a research staff member. His research interests include electronic commerce, with emphasis on advanced B2B auctions and intelligent bid evaluation, supply-chain optimization, and rule-based programming languages.

Grace Y. Lin   IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (electronic mail: gracelin@us.ibm.com). Dr. Lin is a senior manager at the IBM Research Center. Her department conducts research in the areas of supply-chain optimization, adaptive business model, and advanced decision support, including dynamic pricing and risk management for e-commerce. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in industrial engineering from Purdue University. She received the IIE Doctoral Dissertation Award, several major IBM Research and Corporate Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards, and the INFORMS Edelman Award. She is an associate editor of Operations Research, a member of the INFORMS Academic/Practitioner Interface Committee, and a council member of CPMS. She serves on the 2001 Edelman judge panel and is a member of INFORMS and IIE.

Yingdong Lu   IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (electronic mail: yingdong@us.ibm.com). Dr. Lu joined IBM Research in 2000 after receiving his Ph.D. degree in operations research from Columbia University. His research interests include stochastic modeling and discrete control.