Auteur: Kang-Won Lee

Dakshi Agrawal, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, 19 Skyline Drive, Hawthorne, New York 10532 (electronic mail: [email protected]). Dr. Agrawal is a research staff member at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in the Policy & Networking Department. He has been a core team member in developing the Policy Management Toolkit for IBM Autonomic Computing, and received an IBM Research Division Award and Invention Achievement Award for this contribution in the project. Dr. Agrawal received a Ph.D. in 1999 from the University of Illinois—Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Urbana, IL in electrical engineering. He worked as a Visiting Assistant Professor at UIUC during 1999—2000 before joining T. J. Watson Research Center, IBM Corporation, Hawthorne, NY as a Research Staff Member. Dr. Agrawal has more than 30 publications in international conferences and journals in the area of digital communication theory, distributed computing systems, and digital security and privacy. He has been granted or has applied for more than ten patents with the US Patent Office. Seraphin Calo, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, 19 Skyline Drive, Hawthorne, New York 10532 (electronic mail: [email protected]). Dr. Calo is a Research Staff Member at IBM Research and currently manages the Policy Technologies group within that organization. He received the M.S., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey. He has worked, published, and managed research projects in a number of technical areas, including: queuing theory, data communications networks, multiaccess protocols, expert systems, and complex systems management. He has been very active in international conferences, particularly in the systems management and policy areas. His recent involvements include serving on the Organizing Committee of Policy 2004 (IEEE 5th International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks) and serving as the General Chair of IM 2005 (The Ninth IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management). Dr. Calo has authored more than 50 technical papers and has several United States patents (three issued and four pending). He has received two IBM Research Division awards and two IBM Invention Achievement awards. His current research interests include distributed applications, services management, and policy based computing. Kang-Won Lee, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, 19 Skyline Drive, Hawthorne, New York 10532 (electronic mail: [email protected]). Dr. Kang-Won Lee is a research staff member at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in the Policy & Networking Department. He has been a core team member in developing the Policy Management Toolkit for IBM Autonomic Computing, and received an IBM Research Division Award and Invention Achievement Award for this contribution in the project. He is currently working on policy-based storage area network planning and verification. Dr. Lee has received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Illinois—Urbana-Champaign, specializing in computer networks. Dr. Lee has published more than 40 technical articles in premier IEEE and ACM journals and conferences. Jorge Lobo, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, 19 Skyline Drive, Hawthorne, New York 10532 (electronic mail: [email protected]). Dr. Lobo joined IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in 2004. Before going to IBM he was principal architect at Teltier Technologies, a start-u…