Quan Z. Sheng is a Lecturer in the School of Computer Science at the University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia. His research interests lie in the areas of Web services, business process integration, and pervasive computing. He can be reached at qsheng at cs.adelaide.edu.au.

Leon Jololian is an Associate Professor in the College of Information Technology at Zayed University in Dubai, UAE. His research interests include software architecture, component integration, and Web services. He can be reached at Leon.Jololian at zu.ac.ae.

Zakaria Maamar is Professor in the College of Technological Innovation at Zayed University, Dubai, UAE. His research interests include business processes, the Internet of Things, and Web 2.0. Dr. Maamar has a PhD in computer science from Laval University, Quebec City, Canada. He can be reached at zakaria.maamar@zu.ac.ae.