Sunday 4, 11:00 – 13:00
Room: Nautilus

Panellists:

Prof. Leszek Maciaszek, Macquarie University, Australia (IN CHAIR)
Leszek A. Maciaszek is an Associate Professor of Computing at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He obtained his MSc and PhD degrees in Informatics from Academy of Economics, Wroclaw, Poland (in 1972 and 1977, respectively). He has been working interchangeably in academia and industry. His assignments have included national organizations, international corporations and educational institutions in countries spanning four continents, including Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Kuwait, Macao, Malaysia, Poland, Singapore, Thailand, The Netherlands, and USA.
Leszek’s main areas of expertise evolve around the modeling, design, implementation and integration of enterprise information systems. He has authored about 120 publications related to databases, object technology, software engineering, systems modeling, and workgroup computing.
Leszek’s research interests in defining architectural, engineering and organizational imperatives for supportable enterprise systems stem from the experience gained in numerous consultancies, in particular as a project leader and software architect. Leszek has authored and co-authored a number of textbooks and reference books. His main books are: "Database Design and Implementation" (Prentice Hall, 1990), “Practical Software Engineering. A Case-Study Approach” (Addison Wesley, 2005; co-authored with Bruc Lee Liong – translated to Chinese and Russian) "Requirements Analysis and System Design" (Addison Wesley, 2001 – translated to Chinese, Italian and Russian; 2nd edition published in 2005 and the 3rd edition in 2007).

Prof. Claudia Medeiros, UNICAMP, Brazil
Claudia Bauzer Medeiros is full professor of computer science at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil, having received awards for research, teaching, and work concerning women and IT. Her research is centered on design and development of scientific databases, with emphasis on agro-environmental planning and biodiversity. She has been (co)PI on over 30 research and development projects - some of which involved partners in Germany, France, Argentina, Chile and the USA. She is a former chair of the Brazilian National Research Council evaluation Committee for CS research in Brazil, and former vice-chair in the Ministry of Education committee for evaluation of Brazil's CS graduate programs. She was the President of the Brazilian Computer Society for 4 years (2003 - 2007). For more details, see www.lis.ic.unicamp.br

Prof. Marcin Paprzycki, Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Science, Poland
Marcin Paprzycki (Senior Member of the IEEE and Senior Fulbright Lecturer) has received his M.S. Degree in 1986 from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland and his Ph.D. in 1990 from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, USA. His initial research interests were in high performance computing and parallel computing, and over time they evolved toward distributed systems and Internet-based computing and in particular, agent systems. He has published more than 200 research papers and was invited to Program Committees of over 250 international conferences. He has presented over 40 invited and 100 contributed talks. He is on editorial boards of 11 journals and a book series.

Prof. Tony Shan, Bank of America, U.S.A.
Tony Shan is a renowned expert working in the computing field for 20+ years with extensive experience on architecture engineering, technology strategies, and system designs in a number of multi-million dollar IT projects in a broad range of industries (finance/banking, telecommunications, mechanical engineering, aerospace, textile engineering, and government). He holds three advanced degrees in Engineering and Science majors, and is a Sun Certified Enterprise Architect & Java Programmer, and IBM Certified eBusiness/SOA Solution Designer. Having been involved in web technologies since the earliest Html, Java and .Net versions, he has, as an enterprise/solutions/chief architect, directed the lifecycle design and development of large-scale award-winning distributed systems on diverse platforms using a variety of cutting-edge technologies and unified/agile methodologies. He has initiated advanced research on emerging computing technologies (grid computing, design patterns, frameworks, semantic web, machine learning, neural network, expert system, generic/immune algorithm, computer modeling/simulation, telephony/voice response, pervasive computing, and systems engineering automation), resulting in an invention patent and several patent-pending initiatives as well as many unified methodologies and platform models for adaptive enterprise system development. He has played a chief strategist role in leading establishing IT strategies and architecture blueprints, coupled with pragmatic technology roadmaps and enterprise architecture standards/policies, for IT governance and portfolio/asset management in Fortune 100 international organizations. He serves as a mentor/advisor on leading-edge technologies, architecture, and engineering in various technical committees, and teaches a wide variety of courses as an adjunct professor and professional trainer. In addition to dozens of top-notch technical publications, he has authored several books on asynchronous web services, heterogeneous business integration, application frameworks, and data caching, while currently writing multiple books on next-generation technologies. He is a member of numerous professional associations and honorary society, a frequent speaker and Chair/Panel/Program Committee/Advisor in key IEEE/ACM conferences/workshops, an editor/editorial advisory board member of IT research journals and books, as well as a founder of Greater Charlotte Rational User Group and Charlotte Architecture & Technology Symposium.

Prof. Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Rainer Unland is a full professor in computer science at the Institute for Computer Science and Business Information Systems (ICB) at University of Duisburg-Essen where he heads the chair Data Management Systems and Knowledge Representation. He has authored, co-authored and edited more than 120 publications, journals and (text)books in the areas of non-standard/object-oriented database management systems, XML and database systems, object-oriented software development, component-based and aspect-oriented software engineering, advanced transaction management, computer supported cooperative work, (distributed) artificial intelligence, especially Multi-Agent Systems, and industrials informatics. Moreover, he has served as Chair and/or PC member for more than 150 national and international conferences, workshops, and symposia. He is co-founder of the annual International German Conference on Multi-Agent Systems Technology (MATES) and the annual International conference SABRE that serves as an umbrella conference for topics related to software engineering, multi-agent system, Grid computing, and Web-Services and the Internet. Together with Huaglory Tianfield he is editor-in-chief of the IOS journal Multiagent and Grid Systems (MAGS). Additionally, he is also on the editorial board of several other journals.