WEI TAN, PhD, is currently a Research Staff Member at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center. He received a Best Paper Award from the IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (2011), a Pacesetter Award from Argonne National Laboratory (2010), and caBIG Teamwork Award from the National Cancer Institute (2008).

MENGCHU ZHOU, PhD, is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of the Discrete Event Systems Laboratory at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). He is also a Professor at The Key Laboratory of Embedded System and Service Computing, Ministry of Education, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.