Elarbi Badidi
http://faculty.uaeu.ac.ae/ebadidi/
Faculty of Information Technology, UAE University
United Arab Emirates

Elarbi Badidi is currently an Assistant Professor of computer science at the Faculty of Information Technology (FIT) of United Arab Emirates University. Before joining the FIT, he held the position of bioinformatics group leader at the Biochemistry Department of Université de Montréal from 2001 to July 2004. He received a Ph.D. in computer science in 2000 from Université de Montréal, Québec (Canada). Dr. Badidi has been conducting research in the areas of object-based distributed systems, bioinformatics tools integration, and Web services. He is a member of the IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and ACM. He served on the technical program committees of many international conferences. His research interests include Web services and service oriented computing, middleware, cloud computing, and bioinformatics data and tools integration.

Larbi Esmahi
http://ccism.pc.athabascau.ca/scis/staff/index.jsp?ct=larbie&sn=faculty
School for Computing & Information Systems, Athabasca University
Canada

Larbi Esmahi is an Associate Professor of the School of Computing and Information Systems at Athabasca University. He was the graduate program coordinator at the same school during 2002-2005. He holds a PhD in electrical engineering from Ecole Polytechnique, University of Montreal. His current research interests are in e-services, e-commerce, multi-agent systems, and intelligent systems. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Computer Science, and the Tamkang Journal of Science and Engineering. He is also member of the editorial advisory board of the Advances in Web-Based Learning Book Series, IGI Global, and member of the international editorial review board the International Journal of Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies.