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Gianluca Cena received the Laurea degree cum Laude in Electronic Engineering and the Ph.D. degree in Information and System Engineering from the Politecnico di Torino, Italy, in 1991 and 1996, respectively. In 1995, he became Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Engineering of the Politecnico di Torino and, in 2001, he joined the Italian National Research Council (CNR) as Senior Researcher. Since 2005, he has been Director of Research with the Istituto di Elettronica e di Ingegneria dell'Informazione e delle Telecomunicazioni  (IEIIT-CNR), where he is engaged in research activities concerning communications in manufacturing and automotive environments. He co-authored more than 80 technical papers in the area of computer communications. His current research interests include industrial communication systems, wired and wireless protocols and, in particular, real-time networks. Present teaching activities include industrial and automotive networks, as well as industrial informatics and field networks. He served as Program Co-Chairman for the 6th (WFCS 2006) and 7th (WFCS 2008) edition of the IEEE Workshop on Factory Communication Systems, held in Torino and Dresden, respectively, and as Co-Chairman for the Tracks “Industrial Communication Systems” and “Emerging Issues”, in the 10th (ETFA 2005) and 12th (ETFA 2007) edition of the IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, respectively. He also served as Co-Guest Editor for the Special Section on Communication in Automation, appeared in the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics in 2008. He is currently serving in the Board of Directors of the Italian National Association for Automation (ANIPLA) – Piedmont chapter.

José Alberto Fonseca (M’00) received the licenciatura degree in electronics and telecommunications engineering and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal, in 1980 and 1992, respectively. He has been an Associate Professor in the Electronics and Telecommunications Department of the University of Aveiro since 2000. At the University of Aveiro, he is currently vice-president of the Scientific Comission of his department and an elected member of the Committee in charge of the definition of the future University statutes (2007-2008). He has been the head of UNAVE, the professional training organization of the University from 1993 to 1998 and from 2002 to 2004. His current research interests are embedded systems, distributed systems, and industrial communications with strong emphasis in real-time applications in the fields of automotive, avionics, vehicular communications and assistive technologies. Since 2002, he has authored or co-authored 66 papers, a majority of them in IEEE International Conferences. From the Journal papers, many of them were published in top-level IEEE Transactions. He has also been a member of the Program Committees of most relevant conferences in the field of Industrial and Real-Time communications. He has been a member of the ISO/TC 22/SC 3/WG 1/TF6 responsible for the standard ISO-11898-4 TTCAN (Time-Triggered CAN) and he is a member of the IEEE IES TC on Building Automation, Control and Management. He holds 2 Portuguese patents in the area of communications and has been awarded in 2007 with the Jaime Filipe Prize, awarding the best portuguese work of the year concerning rehabilitation engineering.

Adriano Valenzano was born in Torino, Italy, in 1955. In 1980 he graduated cum laude in Electronics Engineering atPolitecnico di Torino, Italy. From 1980 to 1983 he was with Istituto di Elettrotecnica Generale, Politecnico diTorino, then he joined the Italian National Council of Research (CNR) where he is a Director of Research ofComputer Engineering since 1991. He is currently with Istituto di Elettronica e di Ingegneria dell’Informazione e delle Telecomunicazioni (IEIITCNR),Politecnico di Torino, where he is responsible for researches concerning local area networks, communicationprotocols and formal methods for the analysis of security properties of computers and networks. Since 1983 Adriano Valenzano has been involved in many national and international research projects and has beenleading a number of research teams in the information and communication technology area. Adriano Valenzano is the author/co-author of about 200 papers published in international journals, books and conferences in the area of computer engineering. He is also the co-author of the books “Advanced Microprocessor Architectures” and “MAP and TOP Communications: Standards and Applications”. Adriano Valenzano has served as a scientific referee for several international journals and conferences taking also part in the program committees of international conferences of primary importance. Recently, he has also served as a general co-chairman of the 6th IEEE Int. Workshop on Factory Communication Systems (WFCS 2006). His current research interests are in the fields of computer networks and communication protocols (in particular, industrial communications) and formal methods for the verification and analysis of security-critical s/w systems and networks. .

Francisco Vasques received the “Licenciatura” degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Porto, Portugal, in 1987 and both the MSc and PhD degrees in Computer Science from LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France, in 1992 and 1996, respectively. Since January 2004, he is Associate Professor at the Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Management Department of the University of Porto. Since November 2006, Prof. Francisco Vasques is at the head of the Master Programme on Mechanical Engineering at his University. He is also the responsible for the Real-Time Systems and the Safety-Critical Computer Systems courses at his University.. Prof. Francisco Vasques is author or coauthor of more than 100 technical papers in the areas of real-time systems and industrial communication systems. His current research interests include real-time communication systems, industrial communications, fault-tolerant systems, and real-time system architectures. Additionally, he is also interested in safety-critical computing systems and communications. Since 2007, he his Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics for the topic on Industrial Communications. He served as Program Co-Chairman for the 2000, 2004 and 2006 editions of the IEEE Workshop on Factory Communication Systems (WFCS), which were held in, respectively, Porto, Vienna and Torino. He also served as track co-chairman for Industrial Communication Systems for the 2003 and 2005 editions of the IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA), which were held in, respectively, Lisbon and Catania.

Andreas Willig Andreas Willig is a senior researcher with the Telecommunication networks group (TKN) at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany since April 2005. From 2002 to 2005 he was an assistant professor with the Hasso-Plattner-Institue at University of Potsdam (Germany). He obtained the Dr.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering from Technical University Berlin (Germany) in 2002, and the diploma degree in computer science from University of Bremen (Germany) in 1994. His research interests include wireless networks, fieldbus and real-time systems, ad-hoc and sensor networks, all with specific focus on protocol design and performance aspects. Dr Wilig is a coauthor of Protocols and Architectures for Wireless Sensor Networks, John Wiley & Sons, 2005.

Adam Wolisz is chaired Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Technical University Berlin, where he has founded and is leading the Telecommunication Networks Group (TKN). Currently he is executive director of the Institute for Telecommunication Systems, grouping the activities in Communications, Networking and Distributed Systems. His research interests are in architectures and protocols of communication networks as well as in protocol engineering with impact on performance and QoS aspects. Recently he is working mainly on: - mobile multimedia communication - sensor networks - optical networking The research topics are usually investigated by a combination of simulation studies and real experiments. His teaching activities encompass courses on Communication Networks and Protocols, Wireless/Mobile Networks and Performance Analysis of Communication Networks. He has authored two books and authored or co-authored over 200 papers in technical journals and conference proceedings. He is senior member of IEEE, IEEE Communications Society (including the TCCC and TCPC) and member of ITG. He is a member of the Steering Board of the GI/ITG Technical Committee on Communication and Distributed Systems.

Dacfey Dzung is with ABB Corporate Research, Switzerland. Prior to that, since 1981, he was with Brown-Boveri, Alcatel, and Ascom. He has worked on power plant automation software, mobile radio systems, and a variety of the industrial communication systems. His recent research includes the design of wireless and powerline communications systems for factory and electricity utility applications. His current interests are in the area of factory communication networks, in particular security and network management issues. Dr. Dzung contributed a paper on security in industrial automation to the special section on Industrial Communication Systems in the Proceedings of the IEEE (2005). Dr. Dzung received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in 1975 and 1981, respectively.

Thilo Sauter received his Dipl.-Ing. and doctorate degrees in electrical engineering from the Vienna University of Technology in 1992 and 1999, respectively. From 1992 to 1996 he was a research assistant at the Institute of General Electrical Engineering, working in the area of programmable logic and analog ASIC design. Since 1996, he has been with the Institute of Computer Technology, where he was head of the center of excellence for fieldbus systems and leading the factory communications group. Since 2004, he is head of the Research Unit for Integrated Sensor Systems established by the Austrian Academy of Sciences. In 2005, he was appointed assistant professor at the Vienna University of Technology. His current research interests are integrated sensor systems and communication networks in automation, with a focus on interconnection issues of fieldbus systems and IP-based networks as well as industrial Ethernet. Present teaching activities include fieldbus systems, fault tolerant systems, and the design of analog integrated circuits. He is author of more than 120 scientific papers and served as Program Co-Chair of WFCS 2004 and ETFA 2005. He is member of the Austrian technical committee ÖVE MR65SC and delegate in the CENELEC committee TC65CX, both concerned with fieldbus standardization. Furthermore, he is AdCom member of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, co-chair of the IEEE IES SC for Factory Communications and IES representative in the administrative committee of the IEEE Sensors Council. In Spring 2006, he was elected Vice Chair of the IEEE Austria Section.

Luca Carloni is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University in the City of New York. He holds a Laurea Degree Summa cum Laude in Electronics Engineering from the University of Bologna, Italy, a Master of Science in Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California at Berkeley. At Berkeley Luca was the 2002 recipient of the Demetri Angelakos Memorial Achievement Award in recognition of altruistic attitude towards fellow graduate students. Luca coauthored over fifty refereed papers and holds one patent. In 2002 one of his papers was selected for ``The Best of ICCAD: A collection of the best IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided Design papers of the past 20 years.'' In 2006 Luca received a National Science Foundation "Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award". His research interests are in the area of design tools and methodologies for integrated circuits and systems, distributed embedded systems design, and design of high-performance computer systems.

Luca Benini is a Full Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (DEIS) of the University of Bologna. He also holds a visiting faculty position at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de  Lausanne (EPFL) and a Consulting Research Professor position at the Belgian Interuniversity MicroElectronics Centre (IMEC). He received a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1997. Dr. Benini's research interests are in the design of system-on-chip platforms for embedded applications. He is also active in the area of energy-efficient smart sensors and sensor networks, including biosensors and related data mining challenges. He has published more than 400 papers in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences, four books and several book chapters. He has been general chair and program chair of the Design Automation and Test in Europe Conference. He has been a member of the technical program committee and organizing committee of several conferences, including the  Design Automation Conference, International Symposium on Low Power Design, the Symposium on Hardware-Software Codesign. He is Associate Editor of several international journals, including the the IEEE Transactions on Computer Aided Design of Circuits and Systems and the ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems and of the ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems . He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a  member of the steering board of the ARTEMISIA European Association on Advanced Research & Technology for Embedded Intelligence and Systems.

Stephen A. Edwards is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department of Columbia University. He obtained his Ph.D from the University of California, Berkeley in 1997, his MS from Berkeley in 1994, and his BS from the California Institute of Technology in 1992, all in Electrical Engineering. Before pursuing his academic career in 2001, he worked for two Electronic Design Automation (EDA) companies, Simplex Solutions, now part of Cadence, and Synopsys. Professor Edwards and his group explores automating the creation of software for embedded systems: application-specific computers hiding in a growing number of industrial and consumer systems. He has developed numerous compilation techniques for the Esterel synchronous language for real-time control and is also developing domain-specific languages for device drivers and communication protocols.

Rajesh Gupta joined the UCSD faculty in November 2002, and in May, became the first occupant of the Qualcomm Endowed Chair in Embedded Microsystems. Previously, he taught at UC Irvine, where he arrived in 1996 after spending three years at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1993. From 1986-89, he was a senior design engineer at Intel Corporation. In 1995, Gupta was the recipient of a five-year NSF CAREER Award, for architecture and synthesis of embedded systems. Among professional activities, he is the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Design and Test of Computers, and at UC Irvine was Cal-(IT)2's layer leader in charge of Interfaces and Software Systems. Gupta is author or co-author of three patents and over 120 research articles. He wrote "Co-Synthesis of Hardware and Software for Digital Embedded Systems" (Kluwer 1995). Professor Gupta is a pioneer in "codesign" of hardware and software for embedded microsystems. He works on new architectures for mobile devices that take into account their constraints: battery life, a small footprint, less memory, and so on. The research goal is to create system architectures that allow mobile computers to manage power more efficiently. Gupta is also an expert on system modeling and design tools. He teaches courses in computer-aided design (CAD) for digital circuits and systems, and his research extends to algorithms for automated design of very large-scale integrated (VLSI) circuits. Gupta is also an expert on adaptive computing architectures that permit, to a greater degree, built-in flexibility for better performance, fault tolerance etc. One current project focuses on how to design systems that can "learn" from the way they are being used, to allow the system to make the most efficient use (of power, for instance).

Hans Hansson is a Professor in Computer Engineering, specialising in real-time systems, at Mälardalen University in Västerås Sweden since 1997. He is director of research at the dept. of Computer Science and Electronics, heads Mälardalen Real-Time Research Centre and the PROGRESS strategic research centre for Predictable Embedded Software. He is director of the Swedish national graduate school SAVE-IT and co-ordinates the national research initiative SAVE. He received an MSc (Engineering Physics), a Licentiate degree (Computer Science), a BA (Business Administration), and a Doctor of Technology degree (Computer Science) from Uppsala University, Sweden, in 1981, 1984, 1984 and 1992, respectively. Hans was previously director of the Swedish national research programme ARTES, visiting professor and department chairman at the Department of Computer Systems, Uppsala University, and researcher and scientific advisor at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science in Stockholm, Sweden. Hans Hansson's research interests include real-time system design and analysis, scheduling theory, distributed real-time systems, and real-time communications networks. An important current focus is on component based development of safety-critical real-time systems software. Record of Hans Hansson’s previous research achievements Selected contributions include: [2002-- ] Techniques for component-based design of safety-critical real-time embedded systems. This work is a natural extension and combination of previous work on real-time systems, modelling and design, taking advantage of recent development in Software Engineering. [1995-- ] Modelling and analysis of real-time communication, including timing analysis for various networks (e.g. CAN and ATM), as well as a method for making timing – reliability trade-offs, and techniques for real-time scheduling of network traffic.  [1998-- ] Real-Time Testing and Debugging, in particular development of a novel patented technique for real-time systems debugging. Commercialisation supported by venture capital is now being accelerated in the spin-off Zealcore. [1991-1997] Development of automotive control SW, including an execution platform and design method. Basis for the commercial real-time operating system (Rubus) and a design method currently in use at Volvo and others. [1988-1995] Formal modelling of timing and probability, including probabilistic modal logics, timed-probabilistic process algebra, verification techniques, algorithms and tools (model-checking), as well as several case-studies. Invited book and several well-cited publications. Early and foundational work on probabilistic logics and modelling.

Tei-Wei Kuo received the B.S.E. degree in Computer Science and Information Engineering from National Taiwan University in Taipei, Taiwan, in 1986. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Sciences from the University of Texas at Austin in 1990 and 1994, respectively. He is currently a Professor and the Chairman of the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC. Since February 2006, he serves as a Deputy Dean of the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, National Taiwan University. His research interests include embedded systems, real-time operating systems, and real-time database systems. Dr. Kuo serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Real-Time Systems (SCI) since 1998 and the Steering Committee Chair of IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA) since 2005. Dr. Kuo also serves as the Program Chair of IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS) in 2007 and a Program Co-Chair of the IEEE Real-Time Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS) in 2001. He is now an Executive Committee member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems (TC-RTS). Dr. Kuo received several prestigious research awards in Taiwan, including the Distinguished Research Award from the ROC National Science Council in 2003, and the ROC Ten Outstanding Young Persons Award in 2004 in the category of research and development. He has over 130 technical papers published or been accepted in international journals and conferences. Prof. Kuo also serves as a review committee member of several government agencies and research/development institutes in Taiwan, including National Science Council and the Institute for Information Industry.

Marco Di Natale is Associate Professor at the Computer Science and Computer Engineering Dept. of the Scuola Superiore S. Anna in Pisa, Italy. He started his research work on real-time systems during his PhD at the Scuola S. Anna and later as a research assistant at the University of Massachusetts in 1993-94. His research interests include real time systems and embedded systems, optimization of software architectures for distributed systems, operating systems and design methodologies for embedded real-time systems; object oriented and component-based design. Marco Di Natale is an IEEE member and author of more than 75 papers in international journals and conferences. He has been principal investigator in more than ten projects supported by the European Union and the Italian Ministry of University and Research. He served in the program or technical committees of several international conferences in the embedded systems or real-time systems field, including the IEEE RTSS, the IEEE RTAS, the IEEE/ACM DAC and the IEEE ICPP. In 2006 and 2008/09 he has been visiting researcher at UC Berkeley, in the EECS dept., developing research in a program partly supported by the GM Research (later GM Bay Area Labs). He provided support for the evaluation of automotive architectures, with special focus on the timing analysis of distributed architectures and opportunities for architecture optimization and synthesis. He later became principal investigator at GM Research in Warren, Michigan on architecture exploration (2008). He also served as national representative in the European Union ARTEMIS platform on embedded systems. He currently teaches courses on Operating Systems, Real-Time Systems and Models and Tools for the Design of Real-Time Embedded Systems.

Dimitrios Serpanos is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Patras, Greece. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Princeton University (1990), an MA in Computer Science from Princeton (1988) and an Engineering Diploma in Computer Engineering and Information Sciences from the University of Patras (1985). His research interests include architecture of security systems, architecture of network systems, computer architecture, embedded computing, high-performance computing and VLSI. Before becoming a faculty member, Professor Serpanos was a Research Staff Member at the IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center (1990-1996), where he conducted research in high-performance network systems (adapters, switches, routers, etc.), secure services and home networking. Between 1996 and 2000, he was faculty at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Crete, and in 2000 he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Patras, where he is Professor. Furthermore, he has conducted research at the Institute of Computer Science (ICS-FORTH) and the Industrial Systems Institute (ISI). Professor Serpanos received an IBM Faculty Award in 2005 and has received significant funding for his research from industry in Europe and the USA as well as by the European Commission and the Greek Government. He holds two US patents and has published extensively in journals and conferences. He has served in various positions –General Chair, TPC Chair, TPC member, etc.— in well-respected conferences and workshops sponsored by IEEE and ACM; additionally, he is currently Associate Editor of the ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, the Journal of Internet Engineering and the International Journal of Computers and Their Applications.

Françoise Simonot-Lion received her PhD degrees in 1981 and her HdR (Habilitation à diriger des Recherches) in 1999 from Nancy Université, France. She is Professor of Computer Science at Nancy Université (France). Since 1997, she is the scientific leader of the Real Time and InterOperability (TRIO), an INRIA research team at LORIA laboratory in Nancy (France). During 4 years (2001-2004), she was responsible of CARAMELS, a joint Research Team with PSA Peugeot Citroën funded by the French Ministry for Research and Technology. She has participated in the French Embedded Electronic Architecture project (AEE, 1999-2001), and in the European project ITEA EAST-EEA (2001-2004). The purpose of ITEA EAST was to define an industry-wide layered software architecture, including a communication middleware, and a common Architecture Description Language supporting a formal description of in-vehicle embedded systems (EAST-ADL). She is actually involved in the project ANR SAFE-NECS that developed coordinated approaches for scheduling and control laws design and in the project CRISTAL whose aim is to define new secure urban vehicle systems. Professor Françoise Simonot-Lion is author or co-author of more than 100 scientific papers in the areas of real-time, safety assessment of communication systems and in-vehicle embedded electronic systems. Her main research topics are modelling and verification techniques for the design of optimized real time distributed applications under safety constraints and specification of embedded services ensuring a real time Quality of Service (scheduling of tasks and messages, real time middleware deployment, frame packing). She served as Program Co-Chairman for the 2008 edition of the IEEE Workshop on Factory Communication Systems (WFCS’08, Dresden Germany), for the 2006 edition of Symposium on Industrial Embedded Systems (IES’2006, Antibes, France) and, as guest editor for the special section “automotive embedded systems” of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics that will appear in 2009.

Lothar Thiele received his Diplom-Ingenieur and Dr.-Ing. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Munich in 1981 and 1985 respectively. After completing his Habilitation thesis from the Institute of Network Theory and Circuit Design of the Technical University Munich, he joined the Information Systems Laboratory at Stanford University in 1987. In 1988, he took up the chair of microelectronics at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Saarland, Saarbrucken, Germany. He joined ETH Zurich, Switzerland, as a full Professor of Computer Engineering, in 1994. He is leading the Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory of ETH Zurich. His research interests include models, methods and software tools for the design of embedded systems, embedded software and bioinspired optimization techniques. In 1986 he received the "Dissertation Award" of the Technical University of Munich, in 1987, the "Outstanding Young Author Award" of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, in 1988, the Browder J. Thompson Memorial Award of the IEEE, and in 2000-2001, the "IBM Faculty Partnership Award". In 2004, he joined the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina. In 2005, he was the recipient of the Honorary Blaise Pascal Chair of University Leiden, The Netherlands.

Javier Campos received the degree in applied mathematics and the Ph.D. degree (with Doctoral Award) in systems engineering and computer science from the University of Zaragoza, Spain, in 1986 and 1990, respectively. In 1986 he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Zaragoza, where he was named Associate Professor in 1992. In 2004 he won the first Spanish national habilitation for full Professor in Languages and Computing Systems, and he is full professor at the University of Zaragoza, Spain, since 2006. Dr. Campos was the Director of the Department of Computer Science and Systems Engineering of the University of Zaragoza from 2001 to 2003. His research interests include modelling and performance evaluation of distributed and concurrent systems, Petri nets, and software performance engineering. Since 1989 he co-authored about 80 papers published in refereed journals and conferences. He gave tutorials in the 1997 and 1999 editions of the International Workshop on Petri Nets and Performance Models. He has recently given an invited talk on software performance engineering using UML and Petri nets at the 6th International Conference on Application of Concurrency to System Design (ACSD) and the 26th International Conference On Application and Theory of Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency (ICATPN), colocated in 2006 in Turku, Finland. Dr. Campos is a Founding Member of the Aragón Institute for Engineering Research.

Wil van der Aalst is a full professor of Information Systems at the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (TU/e) having a position in both the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science and the Department of Technology Management. Currently he is also an adjunct professor at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) working within the BPM group there. His research interests include workflow management, process mining, Petri nets, business process management, process modeling, and process analysis. Wil van der Aalst has published more than 100 journal papers, 13 books (as author or editor), 200 refereed conference/workshop publications, and 30 book chapters. Many of his papers are highly cited (he has an H-index of more than 55 according to Google Scholar) and his ideas have influenced researchers, software developers, and standardization committees working on process support. He has been a co-chair of many conferences including the Business Process Management conference, the International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems, the International conference on the Application and Theory of Petri Nets, and the IEEE International Conference on Services Computing. He is also editor/member of the editorial board of several journals, including the Business Process Management Journal, the International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management, the International Journal on Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures, Computers in Industry, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, and Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency.

MengChu Zhou (S’88-M’90-SM’93-F’03) received his B.S. degree from Nanjing University of Science and Technology, M.S. degree from Beijing Institute of Technology, and Ph. D. degree in Computer and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He joined New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) in 1990, and is currently a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Director of Discrete-Event Systems Laboratory. His interests are in Computer-integrated systems, Petri nets, intelligent systems, collaborative systems, formal methods in industrial automated systems, supply chains, semiconductor manufacturing, control software engineering. He has 250+ publications including 6 books, 90+ journal papers and 15 book-chapters. He co-authored with F. DiCesare Petri Net Synthesis for Discrete Event Control of Manufacturing Systems, Kluwer Academic, Boston, MA, 1993, edited Petri Nets in Flexible and Agile Automation, Kluwer Academic, 1995, co-authored with K. Venkatesh Modeling, Simulation, and Control of Flexible Manufacturing Systems: A Petri Net Approach, World Scientific, 1998, and -edited with M. P. Fanti, Deadlock Resolution in Computer-Integrated Systems, Marcel Dekker, 2005. He is Managing Editor of IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC), Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, and Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Intelligent Control and Systems. He served as General and Program Chair of many international conferences. Dr. Zhou has led or participated in over thirty research and education projects with total budget over $10M, funded by NSF, DoD, and industry. He was the recipient of CIM University-LEAD Award by Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Perlis Research Award by NJIT, Humboldt Research Award for US Senior Scientists, and Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE SMC Society. He is a life member of Chinese Association for Science and Technology-USA and served as its President in 1999.

Armin Zimmermann studied computer science at Technische Universität Dresden and Technische Universität Berlin. He held positions as research fellow and research assistant at TU Berlin, where he led the performance evaluation group at the real-time systems and robotics chair. He teaches courses on Modeling, Performance analysis and Simulation, Robotics, Real-time and Embedded Systems, Automation, and Operating Systems. He received the Diplomingenieur and Ph.D. degree at TU Berlin in 1993 and 1997, respectively. He was scientific coordinator of the DFG-funded Research Training Group "Stochastic Modeling and Quantitative Analysis of Complex Systems in Engineering". After his Habilitation in 2006, he joined the Hasso Plattner Institute for IT Systems Engineering at the University Potsdam as a guest professor. Currently he holds a deputy professorship for real-time systems and robotics at the faculty of electrical engineering and computer science of TU Berlin. He was granted a Ph.D. stipend from the Research Training Group “Communication-Based Systems” of the Berlin universities. He received the Krone award, the Carl Ramsauer award, and the Chorafas Foundation award for his Ph.D. thesis on modeling and analysis of manufacturing systems with Petri nets. He was a visiting scientist at the Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain, in the research group of Prof. Silva, and a guest lecturer at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and University Potsdam. He heads the TimeNET project, one of the leading non-commercial software tools for the modeling and evaluation of stochastic discrete-event systems. His research interests include modeling, performance evaluation, optimization, and control of technical systems using discrete-event models as well as their tool support. He is author or co-author of more than 50 refereed papers in international journals and conferences since 1994. He published a book on “Stochastic Discrete Event Systems - Modeling, Evaluation, Applications” (Springer 2007).

Mo-Yuen Chow earned his degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (B.S., 1982); and Cornell University (M. Eng., 1983; Ph.D., 1987). Dr. Chow joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University as an Assistant Professor in 1997, became an Associate Professor in 1993, and a Professor since 1999. He worked in U.S. Army, TACOM TARDEC Division as a Senior Research Scientist during the summer of 2003. He spent his sabbatical leave as a Visiting Scientist in 1995 in ABB Automated Distribution Division. Dr. Chow’s research focuses on diagnosis, control, and computational intelligence. He has been applying his research to areas including mechatronics, motors, power distribution systems, network-based distributed control systems, and robotics. He has established the Advanced Diagnosis, Automation and Control Laboratory at NC State University. He has published one book, five book chapters, and over one hundred journal and conference articles. Dr. Chow is an IEEE Fellow, an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, and the Vice President for Publication of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society. He was the General Chair of IEEE-IECON05. Dr. Chow served as a guest editor for the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics special sections on Distributed Network-Based Control Systems and Applications (2003), on Motor Fault Detection and Diagnosis (2000), and on Application of Intelligent Systems to Industrial Electronics (1993). He has received the IEEE Eastern North Carolina Section Outstanding Engineering Educator Award, and the IEEE Region-3 Joseph M. Biedenbach Outstanding Engineering Educator Award.

Ricardo Duniaobtained his bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Universidad Simon Bolivar in Caracas, Venezuela (1988). He worked for the Venezuelan Petrochemical company for two years and completed a specialization in oil refining and petrochemicals from the Universidad Metropolitana. In 1991 Dr. Dunia enrolled in the Chemical Engineering graduate department at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he obtained his Master’s Degree in 1992. He immediately moved to the University of Texas in Austin, where he finished his PhD in May of 1997 under the supervision of Dr. Thomas Edgar and Dr. Joe S. Qin. During these years he worked part time for Fisher-Rosemount (Emerson) as a graduate intern for the advanced control group. At Fisher-Rosemount he developed fault detection and identification techniques that have been useful for multivariable process monitoring in chemical industries. In 1997 Dr. Dunia joined Raytheon Process Automation in Houston, where he had the opportunity to install several advanced controllers in the process industry. He also became a postdoctoral fellow for Dr. Joe Qin in 2001. Back in academia, Dr. Dunia worked in data analysis techniques for protein design based on PCR. In March of 2003 Dr. Dunia joined National Instruments in Austin, where he currently works as Senior Software engineer for the Control Design and Simulation group in LabVIEW R&D. His main research interest is in the area of model predictive control for fast dynamic systems and fault detection in the presence of model uncertainties. He has also been a lecturer at the University of Texas in Austin since 2005. Dr. Dunia has taught undergraduate as well as graduate control and optimization courses in the Chemical Engineering department. He serves as a reviewer for several control journals.

Weng Khuen HO received the B.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the National University of Singapore in 1987 and 1992 respectively. Currently, he is an Associate Professor and Director, Center for Intelligent Control, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore. His research interests include process control and semiconductor manufacturing. He published more than 100 journal and conference papers and received the 2002 Best Paper Award, IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing, the 2001, 2002 and 2003 Faculty of Engineering Teaching Awards. He is also a Council Member (1995-1997, 2003-) Instrumentation and Control Society of Singapore, Committee Member (2005-) Asian Control Society, Associate Editor (2005-) IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Committee Member (2004-) IEEE Industrial Electronics Technical Committee on Integrated Manufacturing and Service Systems. He was a Fellow (2003-2005), Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology and Visiting Scholar (1998-2001) Stanford University.

Kim F Man received his PhD from Cranfield Institute of Technology, Bedford, U.K. He is a professor of the Electronic Engineering Department at City University of Hong Kong. He had over ten years working experience in UK aerospace industry specializing on guidance and control systems. He is/has been the Editor, Associate Editor and Guest Editor of many technical journals including the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. He is the author with coauthors of three books on the topic of genetic algorithms and published over hundred papers in journals and conferences. His primary research interests are multiobjective optimization and multi-criteria decision making in control engineering, signal processing, wireless network, antenna designs and many others. He is a Senior Adcom Member and the Vice President for Technical Activities of IEEE Industrial Electronic Society.

James Moyne is an Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan. He is also the Standards and Technology Specialist for Applied Material’s Applied Global Services division. Dr. Moyne was president and co-founder of MiTeX Solutions, Inc., established in 1995 to provide the first integrated run-to-run control solutions for semiconductor and display manufacturing; MiTeX Solutions was purchased by Brooks Automation in 2000. James received his B.S.E.E. and B.S.E. - Mathematics, and his M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan. He has experience in advanced process control, database technology, and sensor bus technology, and is the author of a number of many refereed publications in each of these areas. He also holds the patent on a software control framework enabling technology called the Generic Cell Controller, is co-author of Run-to-run Control in Semiconductor Manufacturing, and is co-editor of IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing, Special Issue on Advanced Process Control (Nov. 2007). He is also the author of a number of SEMI standards in the areas of process control systems, sensor bus, and communications, and currently co-chairs process control systems and sensor bus standards efforts.

S. Joe Qin obtained a B.S. in Process Control from the Dept. of Automatic Control, Tsinghua University, Beijing, in 1984; an M.S. in Automatic Control from Dept. of Automatic Control, Tsinghua University, Beijing in 1987; and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Department of Chemical Engineering and Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland at College Park in 1992. Prof. S. Joe Qin is the Fluor Professor of Process Engineering at the Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, and Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Southern California. Previously he held Paul D. and Betty Robertson Meek and American Petrofina Foundation Centennial Professorship in Chemical Engineering at the Dept. of Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, September 1995 – 2007. Prior to joining the academia, he was Control Specialist, 1992 - 1994; and Principal Engineer, 1994 – 1995 - at Fisher-Rosemount Systems, Inc., Austin, Texas Prof. Qin’s expertise includes: process control, model predictive control, process monitoring, fault detection and diagnosis, control performance monitoring, process optimization, semiconductor process optimization, system identification, building energy efficiency Prof. Qin is a receipient of a numerous awards including: Control Engineering Prize, 2003, by the 16th International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) World Congress, Prague, July 4-8, 2005; National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2000-2004; Outstanding Overseas Young Investigator Award, Natural Science Foundation of China, 2003-2006; Halliburton/Brown & Root Young Faculty Excellence Award, College of Engineering, University of Texas, 1999; DuPont Young Professor Award, 1999-2002. Prof. Qin was Editor, Control Engineering Practice, Official Journal for IFAC, 1999-2005; Associate Editor, Journal of Process Control, Official Journal for IFAC, 2005 – present; Member of the Editorial Board, J. of Chemometrics, Jan. 1999- present; Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 1994-1997. He is Senior Member, IEEE, AIChE Prof. Qin presented 26 invited/keynote speeches, 65 invited seminar presentations; 16 technical short courses on process control, monitoring, and modeling. He has 84 archival journal publications or book chapters, and 116 scientific conference papers and/or presentations. He is a holder of 9 U.S. patents and one U.S. patent pending.

Sam Kwong received his BSc degree and MASc degree in electrical engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo, USA and University of Waterloo, Canada, in 1983 and 1985 respectively. In 1996, he obtained his PhD from the University of Hagen, Germany. From 1985 to 1987, he was a diagnostic engineer with the Control Data Canada where he designed the diagnostic software to detect the manufacture faults of the VLSI chips in the Cyber 430 machine. He later joined the Bell Northern Research Canada as a Member of Scientific staff where he worked on both the DMS-100 voice network and the DPN-100 data network project. In 1990, he joined the City University of Hong Kong as a lecturer in the Department of Electronic Engineering. He is currently an Associate Professor in the department of computer Science. At present, Dr. Kwong is the associate editor for the Journal of Real-time Systems published by Springer and the Far East Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence. He was a guest editor for the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics in 2004. He was the track chairman of IEEE ICIT 2008 and IEEE ICIT 2005. He served as a reviewer for many journals and international conferences. He also served on over 30 international conference committees in addition to chairing sessions in conferences. He is also the senior member of IEEE since 2004. Dr. Kwong co-authored three books, eight book chapters and over 150 journal papers and international conference papers. His current research interests include artificial and computational intelligence, optimization methods, video coding, speech recognition and genetic algorithms.

Ju-Jang Lee (M’86–SM’99) received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, in 1973 and 1977, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin in 1984. From 1977 to 1978, he was a Research Engineer at the Korean Electric Research and Testing Institute, Seoul. From 1978 to 1979, he was a Design and Processing Engineer at G. T. E. Automatic Electric Company, WI. For a brief period in 1983, he was the Project Engineer for the Research and Development Department of the Wisconsin Electric Power Company, Wisconsin. He joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, in 1984, where he is currently a Professor. In 1987, he was a Visiting Professor at the Robotics Laboratory of the Imperial College Science and Technology, London, U.K. From 1991 to 1992, he was a Visiting Scientist at the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. His research interests are in the areas of intelligent control, machine learning, mobile and service robots for the disabled, space robotics, evolutionary computation, soft computing, variable structure control, chaotic control systems, electronic control units for automobiles, and power system stabilizers. Dr. Lee is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of Robotics and Automation Society, the IEEE Evolutionary Computation Society, the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, IEEK, KITE, and KISS. He is an AdCom member of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society. He was former President of ICASE in Korea. He is Counselor of SICE in Japan.

Hideki Hashimoto received B.S., M.S. and Dr. of Engineering from the Electrical Engineering of the University of Tokyo, 1981,1984 and 1987, respectively. He joined the Institute of Industrial Science, Univ. of Tokyo as a lecturer in 1987 and he has been an Associate Professor since 1990. He was a Vice Program Chair of IROS88, a founder General Chair of 1997 IEEE/ASME AIM, a Program Chair of IROS2000, a Program Co-chair of ICRA2001. He was Vice President of IEEE IES and ITSC, AdCom member of IEEE RAS from. He is Senior Adcom member of IEEE IES, and Treasurer of IEEE Japan Council and Tokyo Section. He is a founder and a leader in the world of the technology technical　field,　"Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics",　which has been well known word for control, robotics and mechatronics　researchers and industrial engineers who have been very strong interested in the future evolution of the manufacturing  processes. "Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics" is established and defined, as the Fusion Technology of the technical fields such as the control ( old control, modern, sliding mode and so on), soft computing ( fuzzy, NN,GA etc.), intelligent space (improvement of human　circumstance with computer, robotics etc.), vision system, tele-control and so on.

Kazuhiro Kosuge is a Professor in the Department of Bioengineering and Robotics. He received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in control engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1978, 1980, and 1988 respectively. From 1980 through 1982, he was a Research Staff in the Production Engineering Department, DENSO Co., Ltd. From 1982 through 1990, he was a Research Associate in the Department of Control Engineering at Tokyo Institute of Technology. From 1989 to 1990, he was a visiting scientist, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1990 to 1995, He was an Associate Professor at Nagoya University. From 1995, he has been at Tohoku University. For more than 20 years, he has been doing research on various robot control problems. He has over 150 technical publications in the area of robotics and its applications to the real world. Currently he is an AdCom member of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. He was a Vice President of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (1998-2001). He has been serving several chairs of domestic academic societies as Robotics Society of Japan, Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, and Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers. He also served several academic meetings, which include IROS'95 as a Program Co-chair, ICRA'95 in Nagoya as a Steering Committee Vice-Co-chair, IROS’98 as a Program Co-chair, SMC2001 as a Program Co-chair, ICAR2003 as a Program Co-chair, AIM2003 as a Program Co-chair, and IROS’04 as the General Chair. He received the JSME Awards for the best papers in 2002 and 2005, the Excellent Paper Award from FANUC FA and Robot Foundation in 2003 and 2006, the Best Paper Award of IROS'97. He is an IEEE Fellow, a JSME Fellow and a SICE Fellow.

Axel Pinz was born in 1958 in Vienna, Austria. He received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering in 1983 and the Ph.D. degree in computer science in 1988 from Vienna University of Technology. In 1995 he received the habilitation in computer science from Graz University of Technology. He worked in high-level image analysis in Remote Sensing at the University of Natural Resources in Vienna (1983-1990, Institute of Surveying and Remote Sensing IVFL). From 1990 to 1994 he was with the Institute for Automation, Department of Pattern Recognition and Image Processing (PRIP), Technical University of Vienna, working as an assistant professor in Computer Vision. From 1994-1999 he was a visiting scientist at the Institute for Computer Graphics and Vision (ICG), Graz University of Technology, where he was building up the Computer Vision Group of the Institute. In 1996/97, he served as the academic head of the ICG, and from Oct 1997 - July 1999 he was a visiting professor in computer vision and computer graphics at Graz University of Technology, Austria. Since Oct 1999 he has been with the Institute of Electrical Measurement and Measurement Signal Processing (EMT), Graz University of Technology, Austria, where he has built up and is now heading the vision-based measurement group (vmg). Axel Pinz is a member of the IEEE. He was the general chairman of ECCV 2006 in Graz, and he has served as the chairman of the Austrian Association for Pattern Recognition (AAPR), the Austrian chapter of the IAPR from 1997-2003. He is author or coauthor of more than 200 scientific publications. His main research interests are in object recognition and structure and motion analysis.

Alexandre Dolgui is a full Professor, the Director of the Division for Industrial Engineering and Computer Sciences and the Head of the Department "Scientific Methods for Industrial Management" at the Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne (France). He received Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Engineering Cybernetics of the Academy of Sciences of Byelorussia (USSR) and Dr. Hab. degree from the University of Technology of Compiègne (France). He has worked as a Faculty Member at the State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics, Belarus (1986 – 1994) and at the University of Technology of Troyes, France (1995 - 2003). He has held visiting appointments at the INRIA-Lorraine, France (in 1992-1993 and in 1994) and at the Queen's School of Business, Kingston, Canada (in 2005). His research focuses on manufacturing line design, production planning, and supply chain optimization. His main results are based on the exact mathematical programming methods and their intelligent coupling with heuristics and meta-heuristics algorithms. He is the author of four books, the editor of one book and 10 conference proceedings, the author of 80 journal papers and book chapters and over 230 papers in conference proceedings and research reports. He is also an Associate Editor of the International J. of Systems Science and a Member of the Editorial Board of five other international journals: Computers and Industrial Engineering, Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Algorithms, International Journal of Manufacturing Technology and Management, International Journal of Simulation and Process Modelling and Journal of Operations and Logistics. He has been Chairman of several international conferences. He is a Member of IFAC Technical Committee TC 5.1 "Manufacturing Plant Control". He is a Member of the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE), a Member of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) and a Member of the French Operational Research Society (ROADEF). For more information see www.emse.fr/~dolgui.

Max-Olivier Hongler received a Ph.D. degree in Theoretical Physics from the University of Geneva, Switzerland in 1981. He subsequently held several research positions at the Theoretical Physics Department of the University of Texas at Austin, USA, at the University of Toronto, Canada, at the University of Geneva and at the University of Lisboa, Portugal. In 1991, he joined the Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne, Switzerland, where he presently is a Professor in the Micro-Engineering Department. His present research interests are production flows, stochastic models of manufacturing systems and multi-agent queueing systems.

Jay Lee is Ohio Eminent Scholar and L.W. Scott Alter Chair Professor in Advanced Manufacturing at the Univ. of Cincinnati and is founding director of National Science Foundation (NSF) Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) on Intelligent Maintenance Systems (IMS www.imscenter.net ) which is a multi-campus NSF Center of Excellence between the Univ. of Cincinnati (lead institution), the Univ. of Michigan, and the Univ. of Missouri-Rolla in partnerships with over 40 global companies including Rockwell Automation, Boeing, Caterpillar, DaimlerChrysler, ETAS, Festo, GE Aviation, Harley-Davidson, Honeywell, ITRI (Taiwan), Komatsu, Omron, P&G, Samsung, Toshiba, Toyota, United Technologies, Bosch, AMD, Parker Hannifin, BorgWarner, and McKinsey & Company, etc. He is also a founding director for Advanced Gerontics Engineering (AGE) Innovation Collaboratory with a focus on innovation technologies for aging population at the Univ. of Cincinnati. In addition, he is Changjiang (Cheung Kung) Chair Professor and a Co-Director of Industrial Innovation Center (IIC) at Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ. (www.iicsjtu.com), a distinguished Scheme Chair Professor at Hong Kong PolyU, as well as serves as honorary professor and visiting professor in a number of institutions including, Cranfield Univ. in UK, Lulea Univ. of Technology in Sweden, City Univ. of Hong Kong, etc. His current research focuses on autonomic computing and smart prognostics technologies for predictive maintenance and self-maintenance systems, advanced gerontics engineering and innovative service business model studies.  Previously, he held a position as Wisconsin Distinguished Professor and Rockwell Automation Professor at the Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Prior to joining UWM, he served as R&D Director for Product Development and Manufacturing Department at United Technologies Research Center (UTRC), E. Hartford, CT, and was responsible for the strategic direction and R&D activities for next-generation products and manufacturing, and service technologies for diversified UTC business units including P&W Aircraft, Sikorsky Helicopter, Carrier Air Conditioning, Otis Elevator, Hamilton Sundstrand, UTC Fuel Cell, etc . Prior to joining UTRC, he served as Program Directors for a number of programs at NSF during 1991-1998, including the Engineering Research Centers (ERCs) Program, the Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers (I/UCRCs) Program, and the Materials Processing and Manufacturing Program (MPM). In addition, he had served as an adjunct professor for a number of academic institutions, including Johns Hopkins University, where he was an adjunct faculty member for the School of Engineering and Applied Science as well as for the Hopkins Technical Management Program during 1992-1998. He conducted research work at the Mechanical Engineering Lab. of the Ministry of International Trades and Industry (MITI) as a Japan Science and Technology Agency (STA) Fellow in 1995, a Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellow at the Univ. of Tokyo as in 1997, and a visiting professor at Swiss Institute of Technology (EFFL), Lausanne, Switzerland in July 2004..  Currently, he serves as advisor to many global organizations, including Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) in Taiwan, Academy of Machinery Science & Technology in China, Japan Productivity Center (JPC), etc. In addition, he serves as editors and associate editor for a number of journals including Int Journal on Asset Engineering an Mgt, Int. Journal on Service Operations and Informatics, Tsinghua Science & Technology Journal, etc, Previously, he had served on Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design (BMAED) of National Research Council, Board of Directors for the National Center for Manufacturing Science (NCMS), Chairman of the Manufacturing Engineering Div. and Materials Handling Engineering Div. of ASME, etc. He has authored/co-authored over 150 technical publications, edited two books, contributed numerous book chapters, three U.S. patents, 2 trademarks, and had delivered numerous invited lectures and speeches, including over 100 invited keynote and plenary speeches at major international conferences.  Dr. Lee received his B.S degree from Taiwan, a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, a M.S. in Industrial Management from the State Univ. of New York at Stony Brook, and D.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the George Washington University. He received Milwaukee Mayor Technology Award in 2003 and was a recipient of SME Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineering Award in 1992. He is also a Fellow of ASME and SME.

Jean-Marie Proth received his Ph. D. in Computer Science from the University of Nancy (France) and his Ph. D. in Management Science from the University of Paris 9-Dauphine. He was an Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Professor in several French Universities. In 1980, he became a Professor at the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management (Brussels, Belgium) and, three years later, he joined INRIA (the National French Institute for Research in Computer Sciences and Automation) where he became Research Director. Professor Proth carried out a close research and teaching collaboration with the University of Maryland at College Park (USA). His main research fields are Petri nets, graph theory, discrete optimization, real time scheduling and data analysis. He authored and co-authored more than 400 papers and 20 books in France and the U.S.

Alexander Fay received his Dipl.-Ing. and doctorate degrees in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany, in 1995 and 1999, respectively. From 1995 to 1998 he was a research assistant at the Institute of Control and Automation Engineering in Braunschweig, developing a knowledge-based system for railway traffic control, based on Fuzzy Petri Nets. Through the years 1999 to 2003, he has been with ABB Corporate Research in the research centers in Heidelberg and Ladenburg, Germany. In 2000, he became Head of the Mechatronic Systems Group. In 2001, he founded a new group of researchers devoted to Engineering of Automation Systems. In 2002, he was among the "M.I.T. Top 100 Young Innovators". Since January 2004, he is Chair for Automation Engineering at the Helmut-Schmidt-University in Hamburg, Germany (www.hsu-hh.de/aut). His research interests are the methods for the engineering of automation systems, esp. large scale automation systems for process automation, factory automation, building automation and transport systems, and (mostly graphical and object-oriented) means to describe system structure and production processes. He is author of more than 100 reviewed papers (journals or conferences). In IEEE IES, he mainly served as the General Co-Chair of IEEE ETFA 2008.

Andrew Kusiak is a Professor of Mechanical Industrial Engineering at The University of Iowa, Iowa City. He directs the Intelligent Systems Laboratory http://www.icaen.uiowa.edu/%7Eankusiak/lab/islhome.html. Dr. Kusiak is interested in data mining, computational intelligence, optimization, and their applications in manufacturing, energy (combustion and wind power), engineering, medicine, and innovation. He has authored and edited fifteen books and handbooks and published over 200 papers in journals sponsored by different societies. He has served on editorial boards of over 40 journals, participated in some 250 program and organizing committees of conferences and technical meetings, and has edited book series. Dr. Kusiak is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing. His research has been sponsored by the National Science Foundation, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Center for Disease Control, Iowa Energy Center, and numerous private corporations. He is a Fellow of The Institute of Industrial Engineers and recipients of numerous national and international awards.

Martin Wollschlaeger graduated at Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg with a diploma degree (1988) and a PhD degree (1991) in electrical engineering. After spending ten years in academic research on various fieldbus systems - mainly on software tools for engineering and management of automation networks - he joined ifak Institute for Automation and Communication Magdeburg in 2000. His research topics at ifak covered engineering and maintenance aspects of networked automation systems, with a focus on application and device profiles, XML descriptions, and web applications based on PROFIBUS and PROFINET. A close co-operation with industry was established. In 2001, he received the lecture qualification (venia legendi) in Communication Systems. In 2003, he was appointed as a full professor for Industrial Communications, Faculty of Computer Science, at Technical University Dresden, Germany. He is the head of the Institute of Applied Computer Science. Prof. Wollschlaeger offers several lectures on protocols, management, information models, device descriptions, design and engineering of networked automation systems based on fieldbusses and Industrial Ethernet. His research areas cover various aspects of industrial communication networks. A special focus is set on integration aspects, ranging vertically from fieldbusses up to Manufacturing Execution and ERP Systems, and temporal throughout the life cycle of automation systems. A main topic is Industrial Internet - the adoption of IT and web technologies for automation systems. A close co-operation with industry is established. Martin Wollschlaeger is member of IEEE IES and ComSoc. He is deeply involved in different national and international standardisation activities. He is leader and member of various working groups at PROFIBUS International, at the Association of German Engineers (VDI) - Field of competence Information Technology (VDI-KfIT), at German Society of Measurement and Automation (GMA), and at "Zentralverband Elektrotechnik- und Elektronikindustrie" (ZVEI) Germany. He is author and co-author of more than one hundred papers and presentations at various international and national conferences and journals. He serves as a member of program committees of numerous conferences.

Alan Bovik is the Curry/Cullen Trust Endowed Chair Professor at The University of Texas at Austin. He is a member of the Department of Electrical Engineering and the Institute for Neuroscience and is Director of the Laboratory for Image and Video Engineering (LIVE). He is well known for his fundamental work in nonlinear image processing, perceptual image and video processing and computational modeling of visual perception. Al is particularly noted for his pioneering contributions to robust statistical image processing, multi-resolution image analysis, image and video quality assessment, and computational modeling of visual perception. He is also noted for innovations in engineering education, including his popular books and the widely-used Signal, Image and Video Audiovisual (SIVA) Demonstration Gallery. Al has also been a major contributor to engineering service, including innovating and creating the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, first held in Austin, Texas, in November, 1994, and playing an instrumental role in proposing and creating the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, for which he served as Editor-in-Chief for six years. Al has received a number of major awards from the IEEE Signal Processing Society, including: the Education Award (2008); the Technical Achievement Award (2005), the Distinguished Lecturer Award (2000); and the Meritorious Service Award (1998). He was named a Distinguished Alumnus of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2008, and a recipient of The University of Texas Hocott Award for Distinguished Engineering Research, also in 2008. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA), and a Fellow of the Society of Photo-Optical and Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE).

Marios S. Pattichis received his B.Sc. in Computer Sciences (High Honors and Special Honors) and his B.A. in Mathematics (High Honors) with a minor in Electrical Engineering in 1991. He received his M.S.E. in Electrical Engineering in 1993 and his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering in 1998, all degrees from the University of Texas at Austin. He joined the University of New Mexico in 1999, where he is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering, and an Associate Professor with the Department of Radiology. He is a board member of the Configurable Space Microelectronics Innovation & Applications Center (COSMIAC). He has published over 125 journal and conference articles and has contributed to over 17 published book chapters. He has taught 15 different courses at the University of New Mexico, the University of Cyprus and Washington State University. He has been awarded the 2006 School of Engineering Harrison Faculty Excellence Award and a 2003 Department Teacher of the Year Award. He was a co-author to the best paper award from the Third IFIP Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Innovations (AIAI06). He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Associate Editor for Pattern Recognition, and member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Experimental Biomechanics. He will also be a Guest Editor to a special issue on Computation Intelligence in Medical Systems and a special issue on Biomedical Informatics to be published by the IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine. He will also serve as guest editor to a special issue on Biomedical Signal Processing and Analysis to be published to Biomedical Signal Processing and Control. He has also served as the General Chair of the 2008 IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation.

Christopher D. Gill is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. His research interests include formal modeling, verification, implementation, and empirical evaluation of policies and mechanisms for enforcing timing, concurrency, footprint, fault tolerance, and security properties in distributed, mobile, embedded, and real-time systems. He developed the Kokyu real-time scheduling and dispatching framework that was used in several AFRL and DARPA projects. He led the development of the nORB small-footprint real-time object request broker at Washington University in St. Louis. He also has led research projects under which a number of real-time and fault-tolerant services for The ACE ORB (TAO) and the Component Integrated ACE ORB (CIAO) were developed. He has more than 50 refereed technical publications and has an extensive record of service in review panels, standards bodies, workshops, and conferences for distributed real-time and embedded computing. He is a member of the IEEE, the IEEE Computer Society, and the ACM.

Rolf Ernst received a diploma in computer science and a Dr.-Ing. (with honors) in electrical engineering from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, in 81 and 87. After 2 years at Bell Laboratories, Allentown, PA, he joined the Technical University Braunschweig, Germany, where he chairs a university institute of 55 researchers and staff. He is a full professor and was Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering from 1999 to 2001. His research activities include embedded system design and design automation. The activities are currently supported by the German "Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft", by the German BMBF, by European programs, and by industrial contracts, such as from Intel, Thomson, Ford, Bosch, and Volkswagen. He gave numerous invited presentations and tutorials at major international events and contributed to seminars and summer schools in the areas of hardware/software co-design, embedded system architectures, and system modeling and verification. He chaired major international events, such as the International Conference on Computer Aided Design of VLSI (ICCAD), or the Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) Conference and Exhibition, and was Chair of the European Design Automation Association (EDAA), which is the main sponsor of DATE. He is a founding member of the ACM Special Interest Group on Embedded System Design (SIGBED), and was a member of its first board of directors. He is a member and activity leader of the European Networks-of-Excellence Artist1 (real-time systems), Artist 2 (embedded systems), and ArtistDesign. He is an elected member (Fachkollegiat) and Deputy Spokesperson of the "Computer Science" review board of the German DFG. He is an advisor to the German Ministry of Economics and Technology for the high-tech entrepreneurship program EXIST (www.exist.org). He is an IEEE Fellow and served as an ACM-SIGDA Distinguished Lecturer. He is a member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering, acatech.

Giorgio Buttazzo (SM’05) received the B.S.E. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, in 1985, the M.S. degree in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, in 1987, and the Ph.D. degree in computer engineering from the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna of Pisa in 1991. He is a Full Professor of computer engineering at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, where he teaches courses on real-time systems and computer architectures. He has authored six books on real-time systems and over 200 papers in the field of real-time systems, robotics, and neural networks. His main research interests include real-time operating systems, dynamic scheduling algorithms, quality of service control, multimedia systems, advanced robotics applications, and neural networks. Prof. Buttazzo has been Program Chair and General Chair of the major international conferences on real-time systems. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Real-Time Systems (Springer), the major journal on real-time computing. He is a member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Real- Time Systems and a member of the Euromicro Executive Board on Real-Time Systems.

Chengbin Chu received the B.Sc degree in Electrical Engineering from Hefei University of Technology, China in 1985 and the PhD degree in Computer Science from Metz Universtity, France in 1990. He was with the National Research Institute in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA), France, from 1987 to 1996. He was a Professor with the University of Technology of Troyes, France, from 1996 to 1008, where he was also the Founding Director of the Industrial Systems Optimization Laboratory. He is currently with Ecole Centrale Paris and holds a chair in supply chain management jointly endowed by six major companies (Carrefour, Danone, DHL, Gefco, PSA Peugeot-Citroen and Vallourec). He was nominated "Chang Jiang Scholar Program" Chair Professor by the Chinese Ministry of Education in 2005. He is an Overseas Visiting Professor and Overseas Director of the Department of Industrial Engineering at Xi'an Jiaotong University, China. He is author or coauthor of three books and more than 100 articles in international journals such as the Operations Research, the SIAM Journal of Computing, the IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, the IEEE Transactions on Reliability, the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. the International Journal of Production Research, the Naval Research Logistics, and so on. He has also published numerous papers in conference proceedings. His current research interests include areas related to modeling, analysis and optimization of supply chains and manufacturing systems. Professor Chu was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation from 2001 to 2004. He also serves as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. He was the recipient of the First Prize of the Robert Faure Award in 1996 for his research and application activities. He was also the recipient of the "1998 Best Transactions Paper Award" from the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.

Alessandro Giua is professor of Automatic Control at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of the University of Cagliari, Italy. He received the Laurea degree in electric engineering from the University of Cagliari, Italy in 1988, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer and systems engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, in 1990 and 1992. He has been with the University of Cagliari since 1994. His research interests include discrete event systems, hybrid systems, networked control systems, automated manufacturing, Petri nets, control of mechanical systems, failure diagnosis. He has published over 180 papers and two text books on these topics. He is a member of the editorial board of the journals Discrete Event Dynamic Systems: Theory and Applications; IEEE Trans. on Control Systems Technology; Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems and Applications. He was an associate editor of the European Journal of Control, of the IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control. He is Chapter Activities chair of the Member Activities Board of the IEEE Control Systems Society, chair of the IFAC Technical Committee 1.3 on Discrete Event and Hybrid Systems, member of IFAC Technical Committee 6.4 SAFEPROCESS. He was a member of the WODES Steering Committee (Workshop series on Discrete Event Systems). He has served as General Chair of the international conferences AHDS06 and WODES98, as  co-chair of the Program Committee for WODES10, ADHS09, WODES08, WODES02, and as a member of the Program Committee for over 60 other international conferences.

Dragan Djurdjanovic obtained his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and in Applied Mathematics in 1997 from the University of Nis, Serbia, his M.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering from the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 1999, and his M.S. in Electrical Eng. (Systems) and Ph.D. in Mechanical Eng. in 2002 from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.  Dr. Djurdjanovic worked with the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan as an Assistant Research Scientist before joining the faculty of UT's Cockrell School of Engineering in September 2007. Dr. Djurdjanovic’s research focuses on employing formal control theory to problems in operations and design of complex self-healing dynamic systems, such as multistation manufacturing systems, automotive engines and water supply systems. Results of Dragan Djurdjanovic’s research have found applications in automotive and semiconductor manufacturing systems, as well as in fault isolation and detection in automotive engines.  Dr. Djurdjanovic serves as the Vice-Chair of the Quality and Reliability Technical Committee of the Manufacturing Engineering Division (MED) of ASME, and he served as the Chair of the Manufacturing Systems Technical Panel of the Dynamic Systems and Control Division of ASME. Dr. Djurdjanovic was the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2006 Branimir F. von Turkovich Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers and the 2005 Teaching Incentive Award from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan.

Eugene received the B.S.+M.S. degree in computational mathematics from Lomonosov State University, Moscow, USSR, and the Ph.D. degree in computer & systems sciences from the Central Economic-Mathematical Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, Moscow,  in 1968 and 1973, respectively. He was a Research Associate at the Central Economic-Mathematical Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, Moscow, from 1972 to 1990. He joined the Department of Computer Science, Holon Institute of Technology, Israel, in 1994, and is currently a Full Professor of Computer Science.  He was a Visiting Scholar at the Eindhoven Technological University, the Netherlands (1991), Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (1991-1992), Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Ishikawa, Japan (1997), INRIA, Metz, France (1998), Groningen University, the Netherlands (1999), Osaka University, Japan (2001), National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico (2004), University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain (2006-2007)   and Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (20007). He has authored/coauthored several books and 65 refereed journal articles in the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION, ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems,  IIE Transactions on Operations Engineering,  Theoretical Computer Science, Mathematics of Operations Research, Discrete Applied Mathematics, European Journal of Operational Research, Operations Research Letters, Annals of Operations Research, International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management, Mathematical Problems in Engineering, and Automation and Remote Control.  His research interests include the design and analysis of computer algorithms, operations research, scheduling theory, and risk analysis. Prof. Levner received Best Paper Awards from the Soviet Academy of Sciences and the IFAC INCOM-2009 (Moscow) National Committee in 1972 and 2009, respectively. He is a reviewer in 20 leading international journals in the areas of Operations Research and Informatics. He is a member of the editorial boards of INFOR, Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management, and International Journal of Foresight and Innovation Policy.

Joseph P. Havlicek received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Texas at Austin, all in electrical engineering. He was a software developer with Management Systems Laboratories, Blacksburg, VA, from 1984 to 1987 and with IBM, Austin, TX, throughout 1993 where he was affiliated with Ralph Kirkley Associates. From 1987 to 1997 he was with the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, where he was associated with SFA, Inc., from 1987 to 1989. He was a recipient of the Department of the Navy Award of Merit for Group Achievement in 1990 for this work. He joined the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Oklahoma in 1997 where he currently holds the rank of Professor. His research interests include signal, image, and video processing and intelligent transportation systems. He has been a member of the organizing committee of the IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation since 1998, serving as technical program co-chair from 2004 to 2008, as well as general co-chair for 2010. He served as publications chair on the organizing committee of ICIP 2007. Dr. Havlicek was recipient of the University of Oklahoma Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award in 2006, the University of Oklahoma College of Engineering Brandon H.~Griffith Faculty Award in 2003, the University of Oklahoma IEEE Favorite Instructor Award in 1998 and 2000, the Department of the Navy Award of Merit for Group Achievement in 1990, and the 1992 University of Texas Engineering Foundation Award for Exemplary Engineering Teaching while Pursuing a Graduate Degree. He is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Phi Kappa Phi, and Eta Kappa Nu, as well as a senior member of IEEE.

Lui Sha graduated with Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in 1985. From 1985 to 1998, he was member and then senior member of technical staff at Software Engineering Institute. Since 1998, He has joined the Department of Computer Science of University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign as professor and later as Donald B. Gillies chair professor. He is a fellow of the ACM and the IEEE. His work transformed the IEEE standards on real time computing, taught in real time computing textbooks, and was cited as a major accomplishment in National Academy of Science's report: A Broader Agenda for Computer Science and Engineering. His work was also cited as a key enabling technology for many high technology projects, including GPS in orbit upgrade, the Mars Pathfinder rescue, and the International Space Station development. He served on US National Academy of Science's study committee on certifiably dependable software, and was a member of the organizing committee for National Science Foundation's Cyber Physical Systems Research Initiative. He received the Outstanding Technical Contribution and Leadership award from IEEE Real Time Systems Technical Committee and serves on its Executive Committee.

Timothy N. Chang is a Professor at the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, NJIT. He received his B.Eng (honours) degree from McGill University, M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from University of Toronto. Prior to joining NJIT in 1991, he was a Senior Research Specialist and Program Manager at Kearfott Guidance and Navigation Corp., NJ, in charge of the Doppler mirror ring laser gyroscope program. From 1992-1994, he served as a consultant to Condor Pacific (NJ), responsible for the hardware/software design and development of the sidewinder inertial navigation signal processing system. From 1999-2001, he was a consultant to Intelligent Health Inc. where he was responsible for designing computer-controlled fitness equipment and software animation of the human-machine interface. Dr. Chang has been the Chairman of the North Jersey IEEE Control Systems Chapter since 1994. He also served as an elected member of the Montville Township Board of Education from 2000-2003. He is the General Chairman of the 2010 IEEE IECON, Phoenix, AZ. His areas of interest include: ultra-high precision systems, genetic systems, robotics/motion control, traffic control systems, vehicle dynamics and control, decentralized control systems, and network-based control. Dr. Chang holds 7 patents with 3 patents pending. He has published over 70 referred journal and conference papers. Dr. Chang is a recipient of nine education awards. He received the Thomas Edison Patent Award from the New Jersey Research Council in 2007 and the  Robert W. Van Houten Award for Teaching Excellence, NJIT, 2008.

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