Professional Activities

Editor-in Chief:


Associate Editor/Guest Editor:
  • Editorial Board Member (Web Services Area Editor), IEEE IT Professional Magazine, 2005-Present
  • Associate Editor, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications (ECRA), 2002-2006
  • Associate Editor, ACM SIGecom Exchange, 2002-2006
  • Guest Editor, Information Systems Frontier, Special Issue on From Web Services to Services Computing: Technologies and Applications, with Professor Leon Zhao and Mohan Tanniru
  • Guest Editor, ACM/Springer Multimedia Systems Journal, 2005
  • Guest Editor, Jae Kyu Lee, Liang-Jie Zhang, Jen-Yao Chung: Introduction of Vol. 3, No. 2, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications 3(2): 107 (2004)

Technical Community Leadership
  • Founder, IEEE Services Computing Community (an official IEEE online community, https://www.ieeecommunities.org/services ) , 2004- Present
  • Chair of Technical Steering Committee for Services Computing (TSC-SC, http://tab.computer.org/tcsc ), IEEE Computer Society, Nov. 2003 –Nov. 2004
  • Chair of Technical Committee on Services Computing (TC-SVC), IEEE Computer Society, Nov. 2004 –Present
  • Vice Chair of Communication and Newsletter Editor, IEEE Computer Society Task Force on E-Commerce, 2002-2003
  • Vice President (2003), e-Business Society, Chinese Association for Science and Technology (CAST), USA
  • Steering Committee Member, IEEE European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS)
  • Steering Committee Member, IEEE Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference (APSCC)
  • Steering Committee Member, International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2007)
  • Steering Committee Member, The Second International Workshop on Grid and Cooperative Computing (GCC 2003), Dec. 7- 10, 2003, Shanghai, China.
  • Founding Chair, IBM Research Services Computing PIC (Professional Interest Community), September 2004- October 2006
  • Founding Core Team Member, IBM Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services Community of Practices (5,600 + IBM Members)
  • Lead, IBM Think Friday University Courses, “Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)” , 2006 September 2004- October 2006
General Chair & Program Committee Chair:
  • Program Co-Chair of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2007), July 9-13, 2007, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
  • Program Co-Chair of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2007), July 9-13, 2007, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
  • General Co-Chair of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2006), September 18-22, 2006, Chicago, Illinois, USA
  • Co-Chair, Workshop on Service Oriented Techniques (SOT06), Co-located with the Eighth International Conference of E-Commerce (ICEC06), Fredericton, New Brunswick, Aug. 13, 2006
  • General Co-Chair of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2006), September 18-22, 2006, Chicago, Illinois, USA
  • General Co-Chair of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2005), July 12-15, 2005, Orlando, Florida, USA.
  • General Co-Chair of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2005), July 12-15, 2005, Orlando, Florida, USA.
  • General Co-Chair of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2004), September 15-18 2004, Shanghai, China
  • General Chair of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2004), July 6-9, 2004, San Diego, California, USA.
  • General Co-Chair of the 2004 IEEE Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC 2004), July 6-9, 2004, San Diego, California, USA.
  • Program Co-Chair, 2004 European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS 2004), Erfurt, Germany, September 27-30, 2004, ( formerly: International Conference on Web Services Europe (ICWS-Europe)
  • Program Co-Chair, The 6th International Symposium on Multimedia Software Engineering (MSE 2004), December 13-15, 2004, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
  • Program Co-Chair, The 2003 International Conference on Web Services - Europe (ICWS-Europe'03), Erfurt, Germany, Sept. 23-24, 2003
  • General Chair/Program Chair, The First International Conference on Web Services (ICWS'03), June 23 - 26, 2003, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
  • Program Co-Chair, IEEE Conference on E-Commerce (CEC'03), June 24-27 2003, Newport Beach, California, USA
Other Chairs:
  • Chair, IEEE International Workshop on Web X.o (WebX 2007), July 13, 2007, Salt Lake City, USA
  • Industrial Sponsor Chair, 2007 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2007), April 15-20, 2007, The Marmara Hotel, Istanbul, Turkey
  • Industrial Chair, International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions 2007 (ICITST-2007), May21–23, 2007, London, United Kingdom
  • Co-Chair, The 2005 International Symposium on Business Excellence through Services-oriented Transformation (BEST 2005), August 15, 2005, Xi'an, China
  • Publicity Co-Chair and Program Committee Member, IEEE International Conference on e-Technology, e-Commerce and e-Service, March 29-31, 2004
  • Industrial Co-Chair, IEEE 5th International Symposium on Multimedia Software Engineering (MSE2003),December 10-12, 2003 Taichung, Taiwan
  • Publication Chair and Member of Program Committee of IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia Software Engineering (MSE 2002). (Plus Track Chair of Web Services & Multimedia).
  • Chair, Web Services Computing at IC'02, June 24 - 27, 2002, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
  • Chair, Web Services and Grid Computing at SCI'2002, July 14-18, 2002, Orlando, Florida (USA)

Program Committee Member:
  • Member, Program Committee of the 2nd International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, November 17th - 20th, 2006
  • Member, Program Committee of the 2006 IEEE European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS 2006).
  • Member, Program Committee of the 4th Int'l Workshop on SOA And Web Services - Best Practices and Patterns, Oct. 23, 2006, OOPSLA, Oregon, USA
  • Member, Program Committee of the Modeling, Design, and Analysis for Service-oriented Architecture Workshop (mda4soa'06)
  • Member, Program Committee of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2006).
  • Member, Program Committee of the Fifteenth Annual Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS'05) will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, on December 10–11, 2005
  • Member, Program Committee the First International Workshop on Services Engineering (SEIW 2005), Melbourne, Australia, 19-21 September 2005
  • Member, Program Committee the Workshop on Process Automation and Management at AMCIS 2005, August 11, 2005, Omaha, NE, USA
  • Member, Program Committee the Workshop on Web and Grid Services for Scientific Data Analysis (WAGSSDA), conjunction with 2005 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP-2005), Oslo, Norway, June 14, 2005
  • Member, Program Committee of the 2005 IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2005)
  • Member, Program Committee of the 11th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2005), July 20 - 22, 2005, Fukuoka, Japan
  • Member, Program Committee of the 2005 IEEE European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS 2005).
  • Member, Program Committee of the 6th VLDB Workshop on Technologies for E-Services (TES-05), September 2–3, 2005, Trondheim, Norway, in conjunction with the 31st International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2005)
  • Member, Program Committee of the 5th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing, November 8, 2004, Pittsburgh, USA
  • Member, Program Committee of the 2nd International Workshop on Distributed and Mobile Collaboration, (DMC 2004), June 14-16, 2004, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
  • Member, Program Committee of the 2004 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'04), Las Vegas, Nevada, June 21 - 24, 2004.
  • Member, Program Committee of Multimedia Technologies and Services Symposium at the 2004 International Conference on Communications (ICC 2004), June 20-24 2004, Paris, France
  • Program Committee Member, IEEE International Conference on e-Technology, e-Commerce and e-Service, http://bikmrdc.lm.fju.edu.tw/eee04/, March 29-31, 2004
  • Program Committee Vice Chair, 2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'04).
  • Member, Program Committee of the 20th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2004), March 30 - April 2, 2004
  • Member, Program Committee of Globecom 2003 - Next Generation Networks and Internet, December 1-5 2003, San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Member of Program Committee, 4th International Workshop on Grid Computing (GRID'2003), http://www.gridcomputing.org/
  • Program Committee Member, 2003 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'03).
  • Member of Program Committees of International Conference on Internet Computing (IC’03),June 23 - 26, 2003, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
  • Member of Program Committees of the Third International Symposium on Electronic Commerce (ISEC-02), October 18-19, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA.
  • Member of Program Committee, The Third International Symposium on Electronic Commerce (ISEC-02), October 18-19, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA.
  • Member of Program Committee, 3rd International Workshop on Grid Computing (GRID'2002), Baltimore, MD, 18th November 2002, http://www.gridcomputing.org/.
  • Member of Program Committees of International Conference on Internet Computing (IC’02) (Session Chair, Web Services Computing), IC-AI'02, CIC'02 and SERP'02
  • Member of Organizing Committee, IBM Academy – Business Process Integration Conference, May 21-22, 2002
  • Member of Program Committee, 3rd International Workshop on Grid Computing, Baltimore, MD, 18th November 2002

SOA and Web Services Standard Activity:
  • Chair, IEEE Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web Services Working Group, IEEE Standards Association, 2006-Present
  • Member of the ISO/IEC JTC 1 Web Services Study Group (delegate of IEEE Computer Society)
  • Member of the Standards Activities Board of IEEE Computer Society, Liaison of JTC1 Web Services Study Group, 2003-Present
  • Member of RosettaNet Multiple Messaging System and Web Services Interoperability Work Group (IBM), 2004
  • Member of AIAG (Automotive Industry Action Group) SOA Convergence Group (IBM), 2004

Professional Membership
  • Senior Member of IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Communication Society (2001)
  • Member of ACM (in 2000)
  • Member of the IASTED Technical Committee on The Web, Internet, and Multimedia for the term 2002-2005, http://www.iasted.com/

Keynotes, Panels and Tutorials:

  • Opening Technical Keynote, “Global Trends of eBusiness” at the 2006 eBusiness Summit (400 participants), Beijing, China, February 28, 2006.
  • Keynote, Top 10 Trends of Services Computing, IEEE 2006 Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference (APSCC 2006), Guangzhou, China. December 13, 2006.
  • Tutorial: Liang-Jie Zhang: SOA and Web Services, IEEE ICWS/SCC 2006
  • Panel: Ling Liu, Carl K. Chang, Ephraim Feig, Hemant K. Jain, Liang-Jie Zhang: Software and Services: Where do they meet? IEEE SCC 2006 and ICWS 2006.
  • Panel Review, e-Government Program, National Science Foundation (NSF), 2005.9
  • Tutorial: Min Luo, Benjamin Goldshlager, Liang-Jie Zhang: Designing and Implementing Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and SOA Solutions. ICWS/SCC 2005.
  • Panel: Frank E. Ferrante, Arnold W. Bragg, Ken Christensen, Wayne Clark, Simon Liu, Joseph Williams, Liang-Jie Zhang: Service-Based Computing Strategy & Planning. IEEE SCC 2005 and ICWS 2005.
  • Invited Talk in Session for Information Sharing and Information Technology, The 4th Annual Forum on City Informatization In the Asia-Pacific Region(CIAPR IV - Shanghai 2004), May 20-21, 2004
  • Keynote, The First China International Conference on E-Commerce Technology, Fuzhou, China, May 17-19, 2004.
  • Business Grid: Grid Computing Infrastructure for e-Business Solutions, OMG’s 2nd Workshop On Web Services Modeling, Architectures, Infrastructures And Standards (Web Services for the Integrated Enterprise), April 22-25, 2003 - Philadelphia, PA USA
  • Model Driven Dynamic Composition of Web Services Flow for Business Process Integration, OMG’s 2nd Workshop On Web Services Modeling, Architectures, infrastructures And Standards (Web Services for the Integrated Enterprise), April 22-25, 2003 - Philadelphia, PA USA
  • Keynote: Liang-Jie Zhang: On-Demand Business Collaboration Enablement with Services Computing. GCC (1) 2003: 10
  • Invited Talk, Business Grid, International Digital City and City Grid Forum, Shanghai, China, Nov. 6, 2003
  • Tutorial: Web Services: Web Services Infrastructure, Liang-Jie Zhang, IBM, Fourth International Workshop on Advanced Issues of E-Commerce and Web-based Information Systems (WECWIS 2002), June 26-28, 2002, Newport Beach, California, USA

Special Sessions and Tracks in 2002
Web Services Computing at IC'02 The technical format ensures each of these self-contained business services is an application that will easily integrate with other services to create a complete business process. This interoperability allows businesses to dynamically publish, discover, and aggregate a range of Web services through the Internet to more easily create innovative products, business processes and value chains... 

Call for Papers: Web Services Computing
June 24 - 27, 2002, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
http://www.uet.e-technik.uni-kassel.de/~IC02  

Session Chair: Dr. Liang-Jie Zhang


Web Services and Grid Computing at SCI'2002 A typical usage of Web Services is Dynamic e-business integration, which is the dynamic adaptation of business processes and associated systems to support changing business scenarios. The Grid Computing is the key to advancing e-business into the future and the next step in the evolution of the Internet towards a true computing platform. In general, companies offering grid-based Web Service will tap new revenue streams as valuable data created on a grid system becomes information that can be sold via Web Service to partners or subscribers...


Web Services and Multimedia Track at MSE'2002 The typical usages of Web Services for multimedia are media content management, media streaming and interactive application development. With the advancement of wireless information appliances, Web Services interfaces provide a means to enable the content or service can be created once and accessed by multiple SOAP-enabled devices such as Wireless phones, Palm devices, set-top boxes as well as regular Web browsers. This special track at MSE'2002 is the first attempt to provide an opportunity for researchers and engineers to exchange ideas regarding Multimedia and emerging Web Services technology in the world ...

Call for Papers: Web Services and Multimedia December 11-13, 2002, Newport Beach, California, USA
http://mse2002.ece.uci.edu/

Track Chair: Dr. Liang-Jie Zhang