Information about Authors

Short Papers' Authors (in alphabetical order)


  • Christos Tsarouchis holds a Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Patras Greece, MSc in Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, USA. He is currently working towards a PhD in Computer Science at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Member IEEE.
    http://kdeg.cs.tcd.ie

  • Daniel Elenius is a Computer Computer Scientist in the Computer Science Laboratory of SRI International. He received a Masters degree at Linkoping University in Sweden in 2003. His research interests include policies, machine reasoning, logic, ontologies, services, and distributed systems.

  • Dr. Gail Ahn is an Associate Professor of Software and Information Systems Department at UNC Charlotte and Director of Laboratory of Information Integration, Security and Privacy.
    His research foci include vulnerability and risk management, access control, and security architecture for distributed objects. His research has been supported by NSF, NSA, DoD, DoE, Bank of America, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Dr. Ahn is a recipient of Department of Energy CAREER Award.
    www.sis.uncc.edu/~gahn

  • Hanan Lutfiyya is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Western Ontario (London, Canada). Her research interests are policy-based management, autonomic computing and BDIM.
    http://www.csd.uwo.ca/faculty/hanan

  • Kris Verlaenen studied "Master in Computer Science" at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. He is currently doing a Phd there, focussing on policy and workflow support in middleware.
    http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/cs/

  • Lalana Kagal is a Research Scientist at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT and works with the Decentralized Information Group.
    Her current research focus is on distributed policy-based frameworks and protocols for access control on the Web and on privacy policy compliance for knowledge acquisition and inference across heterogeneous systems.
    http://csail.mit.edu/~lkagal

  • Kurt J. Maly received the Ph.D. Degrees from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, New York, NY.He is Kaufman Professor and Chair of Computer Science at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA.
    http://www.cs.odu.edu/~maly/

  • Marco Casassa-Mont is a senior researcher and technical contributor at HP Labs, TSL Lab, Bristol. He has worked in a variety of research and development programs including collaborations with HP business units and the EU PRIME project (Privacy and Identity Management for Europe).
    His current R&D focus is on identity and privacy management.
    http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/mcm/

  • Professor Professor Morris Sloman set up the Policy workshop series and chairs the Steering Committee.
    http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~mss

  • Nima Kaviani is a master's student in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT), at Simon Fraser University, Canada. His research interests are mainly in the area of Trust and Policy Management for Semantic Web Services. He has also an extensive background in the area of robotic and multi-agent systems. More details about Nima Kaviani can be found at:
    http://www.sfu.ca/~nkaviani

  • Patroklos Argyroudis is a postdoctoral researcher working on information security in the Emerging Networks strand of the Centre for Telecommunications Value-chain Research, Department of Computer Science, University of Dublin, Trinity College in Ireland.
    His current research focuses on cryptographic key management and flexible authorization, the investigation of incorporating economic considerations into the design of network security protocols, and the trading of access rights using policy-driven mechanisms.
    http://ntrg.cs.tcd.ie/~argp/

  • Prathima Rao Prathima Rao is a third year PhD student, in the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University, under the supervision of Prof. Elisa Bertino. Her research interests are analysis of access control languages (particularly XACML) and information retrieval techniques.
    http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/prao/index.html

  • Dr. Ritu Chadha is Chief Scientist and Director of the Policy Management research group in Applied Research at Telcordia Technologies, where she has been working since 1992. In the past few years, she has been working on a variety of defense-related programs in the area of policy-based network management.
    http://www.telcordia.com

  • Taufiq Rochaeli is a research assistant at Technische Universität Darmstadt and currently pursuing his PhD degree supervised by Claudia Eckert. His research interests lie in Policy Refinement, Workflow Security, Patterns and Description Logics.
    http://www.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/

  • Wolfgang Dobmeier received a diploma degree in Information Systems from the University of Regensburg, Germany, in 2004. He has been working as a software engineer for several small companies during his studies. In 2004, he joined the Department of Information Systems at the University of Regensburg as a research assistant and Ph.D. candidate in the group of Prof. Günther Pernul.
    http://www-ifs.uni-regensburg.de/index.php?id=29

  • Yuri Demchenko
    graduated from the Kiev Polytechnic Institute, National Technical University of Ukraine and currently works as a Senior Researcher with the System and Network Engineering (SNE) Group at the University of Amsterdam.
    His main research areas include Security architecture and distributed authorisation service infrastructure for Computer Grids and Collaborative applications, Complex Resource Provisioning and Dynamic Security services. http://www.science.uva.nl/~demch