Biographical sketches of authors

Santhosh Kumaran   IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (electronic mail: sbk@us.ibm.com). Dr. Kumaran received the B.Tech. degree in naval architecture from the University of Cochin, the M.S. degree in ocean engineering from the University of Miami, and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from Oregon State University. He currently manages the e-commerce systems research team at IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown. He has been with IBM since 1996 and was awarded an IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement award in 2001and an Execute Now award in 2002. His research interests include frameworks and platforms for e-business solutions, business process tooling, performance, scalability, and availability analysis of complex e-business systems, and dynamic e-business models.

Ying Huang   IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (electronic mail: ying_huang@us.ibm.com). Dr. Huang received the B.S. degree in applied mathematics from Fudan University and the Ph.D. degree in operations research from Stanford University. He currently is a research staff member at the T. J. Watson Research Center. He has worked previously with other IBM divisions and with Philips Research. He has conducted research, development, and customer engagements in electronic commerce and marketplaces, supply chain modeling, and decision support systems. Areas of current research include integration architectures, e-marketplaces, and analysis and mark-up languages for business-to-business data and decision exchanges.

Jen-Yao Chung   IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (electronic mail: jychung@us.ibm.com). Dr. Chung received the B.S. degree in computer science and information engineering from National Taiwan University and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Since June 1989, he has been with the T. J. Watson Research Center as a research staff member. He currently is the senior manager of the electronic commerce and supply chain department, and program director for the IBM Institute for Advanced Commerce Technology office. He has authored or coauthored over 60 technical papers in published journals or conference proceedings. He has been involved in research, development, and customer engagements in electronic commerce, electronic marketplaces, and Web application systems. Dr. Chung's current research is in e-marketplaces, XML and EDI, integrating existing business with the World Wide Web, back-end ERP (enterprise resource planning) integration, Web data access, and scalable Web servers. He was awarded an IEEE Outstanding Paper award in 1995, two IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement awards, in 1994 and 2000, an IBM Outstanding Contribution award in 1997, and three IBM Research Division awards, in 1990, 1996, and 2001. He is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of ACM.