Dr. Haeng-Kon Kim is currently a Dean of engineering college and a professor in the Department of Computer Engineering Catholic University of Daegu, in Korea. He has been a research staff member in Bell Lab. and NASA center in U.S.A. He has taught in Central Michigan Univ. in U.S.A. during his Sabbatical (Dec., 20, 2000 ~ Feb., 20, 2002). Currently, Professor Kim is advising 10 Ph.D. candidates and 12 Master Degree Students in his Laboratory of Catholic Univ. of DaeGu. His research interests include following fields: Software Engineering, Programming Languages and High-Level Approaches to Parallel and Distributed Computing. Professor Kim is chief editor of KIPS SE-Sig journal and Korea Multimedia Society, an editorial board of KISS (Korea Information Science Society), a steering committee of KIPS (Korea Information Processing Society), and a member of IEEE Communication Society and Software Engineering. He was an organization committee (publicity chair) of SERA, which was been held in San Francisco and Michigan in U.S.A. He is also a member of WCECS and ACIS in U.S.A. He has been served as publicity-chair of the conferences during last 4 years. Dr. Burghard B. Rieger, Professor of Computational Linguistics and former Head of Department of Linguistic Computing at the University of Trier, Germany, has been a researcher and academic teacher for more than three decades. He was president of the German Society for Linguistic Computing GLDV (1989-93) and vice-president of the International Society for Terminology and Knowledge Engineering TKE (1990-94), served as Dean and Vice-Dean of his Faculty (1997-2001). Dr. Haeng-Kon Kim is currently a Dean of engineering college and a professor in the Department of Computer Engineering Catholic University of Daegu, in Korea. He has been a research staff member in Bell Lab. and NASA center in U.S.A. Professor Kim is chief editor of KIPS SE-Sig journal and Korea Multimedia Society, an editorial board of KISS (Korea Information Science Society), and a steering committee of KIPS (Korea Information Processing Society). Dr. Sio-Iong Ao finished his doctoral research in The University of Hong Kong and postdoctoral researches in the University of Oxford and Harvard University.
