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Contributors to Volume 78
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Prof. Christian Breiteneder is a Full Professor for Interactive Systems with the Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems at the Vienna University of Technology. Dr. Breiteneder received the Diploma Engineer degree in Computer Science from the Johannes Kepler University in Linz in 1978 and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Technology in Vienna in 1991. Before joining the institute he was Associate Professor at the University of Vienna and had postdoc positions at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and GMD (now Frauenhofer) in Birlinghoven, Germany. His current research interests include interactive media systems, media processing systems, content-based multimodal information retrieval, 3D user interaction, and augmented and mixed reality systems. His email address is [email protected]. Dr. Fabio Calefato received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Bari in 2002 and 2007, respectively. He is currently associated with the Collaborative Development Group at the University of Bari as postdoctoral research assistant. His main research interests focus on collaborative software engineering and computer-mediated communication theories and tools. He is also a member of the Eclipse Italian Community Group, since 2006, and AI*IA (Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence), since 2008. He can be contacted at [email protected]. Prof. Wingyan Chung is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Operations and Management Information Systems in the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University. He received his Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from the University of Arizona and an M.S. and B.B.A. from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include knowledge management, Web analysis and mining, data and text mining, business intelligence, information visualization, and human–computer interaction. He has over 50 refereed publications in Journal of Management Information Systems, Communications of the ACM, IEEE Computer, International Journal of Human–Computer Studies, Decision Support Systems, and
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Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, among others. A certified teacher since 1998, Dr. Chung has more than 10 years of teaching and curriculum development experiences in the United States and Hong Kong. He teaches information systems courses at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Contact him at [email protected]. Prof. Filippo Lanubile is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Bari. From 1995 to 1997, he was a Research Associate in the Experimental Software Engineering Group at the University of Maryland. His research interests lie in the areas of software engineering and CSCW, focusing on social software and distributed software development. He is a recipient of a NASA Group Achievement Award (1996), an IBM Eclipse Innovation Award (2006), and an IBM Faculty Award (2008). He has been the Program Chair of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering (2008). He can be contacted at [email protected]. Prof. Ross A. Malaga is an Associate Professor of Management and Information Systems at the School of Business, Montclair State University. He received his Ph.D. from George Mason University. Dr. Malaga has published extensively in the area of electronic commerce in Communications of the ACM, Electronic Commerce Research, and the Journal of Organization Computing and Electronic Commerce. He serves on the editorial review boards of Information Resources Management Journal and the Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations. He can be reached at [email protected]. Prof. Emilia Mendes is an Associate Professor in Computer Science at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. She has active research interests in the areas of empirical web and software engineering, evidence-based research, hypermedia, computer science and software engineering education, in which areas she has published widely and over 120 refereed publications, which include two books. Prof. Mendes is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology, the Journal of Web Engineering, the Journal of Software Measurement, the International Journal of Software Engineering and Its Applications, the Empirical Software Engineering Journal, the Advances in Software Engineering Journal, the Software Quality Journal, and Springer Journal of Internet Services and Applications. She worked in the software industry for 10 years before obtaining a Ph.D. in 1999 in Computer Science from the University of Southampton (UK) and moving to Auckland (NZ). Her email address is [email protected].
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Dalibor Mitrovic´ is a Teaching and Research Associate with the Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems at the Vienna University of Technology. He received an M.Sc. degree in Computer Science in 2005 from the Vienna University of Technology, Austria. He pursues a Ph.D. in Computer Science focusing on multimodal information retrieval. His research interests include audio retrieval, real-time feature extraction, and computer vision. He can be reached at [email protected]. Pedro Neves received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Aveiro, Portugal, in 2003 and 2006 respectively. From 2003 to 2006 he joined the Telecommunications Institute (IT), Aveiro, Portugal, and participated in the DAIDALOS-I and DAIDALOS-II (Designing Advanced network Interfaces for the Delivery and Administration of Location independent, Optimized personal Services) European-funded projects. Since 2006 he joined Portugal Telecom Inovac¸a˜o, Aveiro, Portugal, and he was involved in the WEIRD and, more recently, HURRICANE European-funded projects. Furthermore, since 2007 he is also pursuing a Ph.D. in Telecommunications and Informatics Engineering at the University of Aveiro. He has been involved in six book chapters, as well as more than 25 scientific papers in major journals and international conferences. His research interests are focused on broadband wireless access technologies, mobility and QoS management in all-IP heterogeneous environments, multicast and broadcast services, as well as mesh networks. Dr. Kostas Pentikousis is a Senior Research Scientist at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, the foremost multidisciplinary applied research organization in Northern Europe. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook (2004). He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Computer Science from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1996; summa cum laude; ranked first) and State University of New York at Stony Brook (2000), respectively. Since 1996, he has been working in R&D positions in both industry and academia. He has been involved in several contract and joint research projects, including the EU-funded Ambient Networks (Phase 2), PHOENIX, WEIRD, and 4WARD; and the Future Internet program of the Finnish Strategic Centre for Science, Technology and Innovation in the field of ICT (TIVIT). Dr. Pentikousis has published more than 70 papers and book chapters in areas such as network architecture and design, mobile computing, applications and services, local and wide-area networks, and simulation and modeling, and has presented several tutorials on these topics. Dr. Pentikousis was an ERCIM Fellow in 2005 and is a member of IEEE, ACM, ICST, and TEK, the Finnish Association of Graduate Engineers.
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Jarno Pinola received his M.Sc. degree in Telecommunications from the University of Oulu, Finland, in June 2008. He has worked at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland since 2007 concentrating on wireless access technologies and mobility management. He has worked in both European and national projects covering these topics on different layers of the communication protocol stack. In the area of wireless communications, his current research interests include WiMAX system performance evaluations as well as LTE protocol studies. In addition, the energyefficiency at the upper protocol levels in the next-generation cellular networks and wireless networking is part of his research agenda. He can be reached at [email protected]. Esa Piri received his M.Sc. from the University of Oulu, Finland, in Spring 2008. During his studies, he specialized in information networks and wrote his Master’s Thesis on mobility management issues in heterogeneous networks. Currently, he is working as a Research Scientist in the field of seamless networking at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland in Oulu, Finland. He can be contacted via e-mail at [email protected]. Dr. Susana Sargento joined the Department of Computer Science of the University of Porto in September 2002, and has been in the University of Aveiro and the Institute of Telecommunications since February 2004. She earned a Ph.D. in 2003 in Electrical Engineering. Dr. Sargento has been involved in several national and European projects, taking leaderships of several activities in the projects, such as the QoS and ad hoc networks integration activity in the FP6 IST-Daidalos Project. Her main research interests are in the areas of next generation and heterogeneous networks, infrastructure, mesh, and ad hoc networks, where she has published more than 150 scientific papers. Matthias Zeppelzauer was born in Vienna, Austria, on October 15, 1980. He received the M.Sc. degree in Computer Science in 2005 from the Vienna University of Technology. Since 2006 Matthias Zeppelzauer works as a Ph.D. student at the Interactive Media Systems (IMS) group at the Vienna University of Technology. He has been employed in different research projects focusing on content-based audio and video retrieval. His research interests include content-based retrieval and recognition of sound, time series analysis, data mining, and multimodal media understanding. He can be reached at [email protected].
Prof. Christian Breiteneder is a Full Professor for Interactive Systems with the Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems at the Vienna University of Technology. Dr. Breiteneder received the Diploma Engineer degree in Computer Science from the Johannes Kepler University in Linz in 1978 and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Technology in Vienna in 1991. Before joining the institute he was Associate Professor at the University of Vienna and had postdoc positions at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and GMD (now Frauenhofer) in Birlinghoven, Germany. His current research interests include interactive media systems, media processing systems, content-based multimodal information retrieval, 3D user interaction, and augmented and mixed reality systems. His email address is [email protected]. Dr. Fabio Calefato received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Bari in 2002 and 2007, respectively. He is currently associated with the Collaborative Development Group at the University of Bari as postdoctoral research assistant. His main research interests focus on collaborative software engineering and computer-mediated communication theories and tools. He is also a member of the Eclipse Italian Community Group, since 2006, and AI*IA (Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence), since 2008. He can be contacted at [email protected]. Prof. Wingyan Chung is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Operations and Management Information Systems in the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University. He received his Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from the University of Arizona and an M.S. and B.B.A. from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include knowledge management, Web analysis and mining, data and text mining, business intelligence, information visualization, and human–computer interaction. He has over 50 refereed publications in Journal of Management Information Systems, Communications of the ACM, IEEE Computer, International Journal of Human–Computer Studies, Decision Support Systems, and
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Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, among others. A certified teacher since 1998, Dr. Chung has more than 10 years of teaching and curriculum development experiences in the United States and Hong Kong. He teaches information systems courses at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Contact him at [email protected]. Prof. Filippo Lanubile is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Bari. From 1995 to 1997, he was a Research Associate in the Experimental Software Engineering Group at the University of Maryland. His research interests lie in the areas of software engineering and CSCW, focusing on social software and distributed software development. He is a recipient of a NASA Group Achievement Award (1996), an IBM Eclipse Innovation Award (2006), and an IBM Faculty Award (2008). He has been the Program Chair of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering (2008). He can be contacted at [email protected]. Prof. Ross A. Malaga is an Associate Professor of Management and Information Systems at the School of Business, Montclair State University. He received his Ph.D. from George Mason University. Dr. Malaga has published extensively in the area of electronic commerce in Communications of the ACM, Electronic Commerce Research, and the Journal of Organization Computing and Electronic Commerce. He serves on the editorial review boards of Information Resources Management Journal and the Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations. He can be reached at [email protected]. Prof. Emilia Mendes is an Associate Professor in Computer Science at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. She has active research interests in the areas of empirical web and software engineering, evidence-based research, hypermedia, computer science and software engineering education, in which areas she has published widely and over 120 refereed publications, which include two books. Prof. Mendes is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology, the Journal of Web Engineering, the Journal of Software Measurement, the International Journal of Software Engineering and Its Applications, the Empirical Software Engineering Journal, the Advances in Software Engineering Journal, the Software Quality Journal, and Springer Journal of Internet Services and Applications. She worked in the software industry for 10 years before obtaining a Ph.D. in 1999 in Computer Science from the University of Southampton (UK) and moving to Auckland (NZ). Her email address is [email protected].
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Dalibor Mitrovic´ is a Teaching and Research Associate with the Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems at the Vienna University of Technology. He received an M.Sc. degree in Computer Science in 2005 from the Vienna University of Technology, Austria. He pursues a Ph.D. in Computer Science focusing on multimodal information retrieval. His research interests include audio retrieval, real-time feature extraction, and computer vision. He can be reached at [email protected]. Pedro Neves received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Aveiro, Portugal, in 2003 and 2006 respectively. From 2003 to 2006 he joined the Telecommunications Institute (IT), Aveiro, Portugal, and participated in the DAIDALOS-I and DAIDALOS-II (Designing Advanced network Interfaces for the Delivery and Administration of Location independent, Optimized personal Services) European-funded projects. Since 2006 he joined Portugal Telecom Inovac¸a˜o, Aveiro, Portugal, and he was involved in the WEIRD and, more recently, HURRICANE European-funded projects. Furthermore, since 2007 he is also pursuing a Ph.D. in Telecommunications and Informatics Engineering at the University of Aveiro. He has been involved in six book chapters, as well as more than 25 scientific papers in major journals and international conferences. His research interests are focused on broadband wireless access technologies, mobility and QoS management in all-IP heterogeneous environments, multicast and broadcast services, as well as mesh networks. Dr. Kostas Pentikousis is a Senior Research Scientist at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, the foremost multidisciplinary applied research organization in Northern Europe. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook (2004). He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Computer Science from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1996; summa cum laude; ranked first) and State University of New York at Stony Brook (2000), respectively. Since 1996, he has been working in R&D positions in both industry and academia. He has been involved in several contract and joint research projects, including the EU-funded Ambient Networks (Phase 2), PHOENIX, WEIRD, and 4WARD; and the Future Internet program of the Finnish Strategic Centre for Science, Technology and Innovation in the field of ICT (TIVIT). Dr. Pentikousis has published more than 70 papers and book chapters in areas such as network architecture and design, mobile computing, applications and services, local and wide-area networks, and simulation and modeling, and has presented several tutorials on these topics. Dr. Pentikousis was an ERCIM Fellow in 2005 and is a member of IEEE, ACM, ICST, and TEK, the Finnish Association of Graduate Engineers.
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Jarno Pinola received his M.Sc. degree in Telecommunications from the University of Oulu, Finland, in June 2008. He has worked at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland since 2007 concentrating on wireless access technologies and mobility management. He has worked in both European and national projects covering these topics on different layers of the communication protocol stack. In the area of wireless communications, his current research interests include WiMAX system performance evaluations as well as LTE protocol studies. In addition, the energyefficiency at the upper protocol levels in the next-generation cellular networks and wireless networking is part of his research agenda. He can be reached at [email protected]. Esa Piri received his M.Sc. from the University of Oulu, Finland, in Spring 2008. During his studies, he specialized in information networks and wrote his Master’s Thesis on mobility management issues in heterogeneous networks. Currently, he is working as a Research Scientist in the field of seamless networking at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland in Oulu, Finland. He can be contacted via e-mail at [email protected]. Dr. Susana Sargento joined the Department of Computer Science of the University of Porto in September 2002, and has been in the University of Aveiro and the Institute of Telecommunications since February 2004. She earned a Ph.D. in 2003 in Electrical Engineering. Dr. Sargento has been involved in several national and European projects, taking leaderships of several activities in the projects, such as the QoS and ad hoc networks integration activity in the FP6 IST-Daidalos Project. Her main research interests are in the areas of next generation and heterogeneous networks, infrastructure, mesh, and ad hoc networks, where she has published more than 150 scientific papers. Matthias Zeppelzauer was born in Vienna, Austria, on October 15, 1980. He received the M.Sc. degree in Computer Science in 2005 from the Vienna University of Technology. Since 2006 Matthias Zeppelzauer works as a Ph.D. student at the Interactive Media Systems (IMS) group at the Vienna University of Technology. He has been employed in different research projects focusing on content-based audio and video retrieval. His research interests include content-based retrieval and recognition of sound, time series analysis, data mining, and multimodal media understanding. He can be reached at [email protected].