Yanchun Zhang

Dr. Yanchun Zhang is full Professor and the Director of Internet Technologies and Applications Research Laboratory in the School of Computer Science and Mathematics at Victoria University, Australia. He obtained PhD in Computer Science from the University of Queensland in 1991. His research areas cover databases, electronic commerce, internet/Web information systems, Web data management, Web search and Web services.  He has published over 100 research papers on these topics in international journals and conference proceedings, and edited over 10 books/proceedings and journal special issues. He is a co-founder and Co-Editor-In-Chief of World Wide Web: Internet and Web Information Systems and Chairman of International Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE) Society.

  Jeffrey Xu Yu

Dr. Jeffrey Xu Yu received his B.E., M.E. and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Tsukuba, Japan, in 1985, 1987 and 1990, respectively. Jeffrey Xu Yu was a faculty member in the Institute of Information Sciences and Electronics, University of Tsukuba, Japan, and was a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science, The Australian National University.  Currently, he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research areas cover XML databases, data warehouse, data mining, and data stream mining. He has published over 100 research papers on these topics in international journals and conference proceedings. Jeffrey Xu Yu is a member of ACM, and a society affiliate of IEEE Computer Society.

  Jingyu Hou

Dr Jingyu Hou received his BSc in Computational Mathematics from Shanghai University of Science and Technology (1985) and his PhD in Computational Mathematics from Shanghai University (1995). He also received another PhD in Computer Science in the Department of Mathematics and Computing at The University of Southern Queensland, Australia (2004). He is now a Lecturer in the School of Information Technology at Deakin University, Australia. His research interests include Web-Based Data Management and Information Retrieval, Web Databases, Internet Computing and Electronic Commerce, and Semi-Structured Data Models. He has published extensively in the areas of Web information retrieval and Web Communities.