Schahram Dustdar Vienna University of Technology Austria

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Schahram Dustdar (ACM Distinguished Scientist), is Full Professor of Computer Science with a focus on Internet Technologies heading the Distributed Systems Group, Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien). From 1999 - 2007 he worked as the co-founder and chief scientist of Caramba Labs Software AG in Vienna (acquired by Engineering NetWorld AG), a venture capital co-funded software company focused on software for collaborative processes in teams. He is Editor in Chief of Computing (Springer), Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, and on the editorial board of IEEE Internet Computing, as well as author of some 300 publications and several books. More info on his homepage: www.infosys.tuwien.ac.at/Staff/sd

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Dimitris Karagiannis University of Vienna Austria

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Dimitris Karagiannis is head of the research group knowledge engineering at the University of Vienna. His main research interests include knowledge management, modelling methods and meta-modelling. Besides his engagement in national and EU-funded research projects Dimitris Karagiannis is the author of research papers and books on Knowledge Databases, Business Process Management, Workflow-Systems and Knowledge Management. He serves as expert in various international conferences and is presently on the editorial board of Business & Information Systems Engineering (BISE), Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures and the Journal of Systems Integration. He is member of IEEE and ACM and is on the executive board of GI as well as on the steering committee of the Austrian Computer Society and its Special Interest Group on IT Governance. Recently he started the Open Model Initiative (www.openmodels.at) in Austria. In 1995 he established the Business Process Management Systems Approach (BPMS), which has been successfully implemented in several industrial and service companies, and is the founder of the European software- and consulting company BOC (http://www.boc-group.com), which implements software tools based on the meta-modelling approach.

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Steffen Staab University of Koblenz-Landau Germany

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Steffen Staab is professor for databases and information systems at the University of Koblenz-Landau. He is director of the institute for Web Science and Technologies (West; http://west.uni-koblenz.de). He is programme chair of WWW 2012 and editor-in-chief of Elsevier's Journal of Web Semantics. His interests are related to many aspects of Web Science, such as Semantic Web, Web Retrieval, Social Web, Multimedia Web, Software Web and Interactive Web. Steffen is project coordinator for the EU Integrated Project "Robust - Risk and Opportunities Management of Huge-Scale Business Community Cooperation". Previously, Steffen held positions as researcher, project leader and lecturer at the University of Freiburg, the University of Stuttgart/Fraunhofer Institute IAO, and the University of Karlsruhe and he is a co-founder of Ontoprise GmbH.

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Pericles Loucopoulos Loughborough University United Kingdom

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Pericles Loucopoulos is Professor of Information Systems in the Business School, Loughborough University, UK. He began his career in the City of London where he was responsible for delivering systems for financial applications. He moved to Manchester in 1984 to take up an academic appointment at the University of Manchester Institute of Science & Technology (UMIST) where in 1990 he was elected to the post of Professor in Information Systems Engineering in the Department of Computation. He has taught at Université de Paris I – Sorbonne, the University of the Aegean, the Delhi Institute of Technology and the Athens University of Economics and Business and has acted as scientific expert for U.K., Greek, Italian, Austrian, and Swiss Governmental institutions. His research work focuses on supporting the transformation of large, complex and dynamic enterprise systems through the provision of information systems. Theoretical results derived from his research have been applied on industrial scale problems in a variety of domains, such as banking, utilities, large-scale sports events etc. For his work he has received the 2005 OR Society’s President Medal and the Inform Society’s Edelman Laureate Medal. He is the co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Requirements Engineering, associate editor of Information Systems and of the Journal of Database Management and serves on the Editorial Board of 10 other journals.

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