Ali Arsanjani  IBM Global Services/Application Management Services, 1804 A Padmavani Lane, Fairfield IA 52556 (arsanjan@us.ibm.com). Dr. Arsanjani is a Senior Technical Staff Member and Executive IT Architect with 21 years of experience in software consulting, development, and architecture. He is a chief architect in the IBM Global Services SOA and Web Services Center of Excellence. His areas of expertise include service-oriented and component-based software architecture, patterns, and methods. He has written extensively on patterns, service-oriented architecture (SOA), component-based development and integration, business rules, and dynamically reconfigurable software architecture. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor of Computer Science at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa.