Programme Committee Member:

Christoph Bussler
Saba Software, Inc., USA

Homepage: http://www.real-programmer.com

Short Bio:

Christoph Bussler (http://www.real-programmer.com) is Principal Engineer at Saba Software, Inc., working on its next generation People Management Software architecture. Before Saba Software Chris was with Merced Systems,Inc., working in the Analytics Group on dynamic analytics report generation and execution. At BEA Systems, Inc., Chris was part of the core WebLogic application server product development organization. Before joining BEA, Chris was architect at Cisco Systems, Inc. in San Jose, CA, USA, responsible for the service-oriented architecture at Cisco Systems' Quote-to-Cash business unit. Before taking this position he was Science Foundation Ireland Professor at the National University of Ireland, Galway in Ireland and Executive Director of the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI). In addition to his role as Executive Director of DERI, Chris led the Semantic Web Services research group at DERI. Before DERI he was member of Oracle’s Integration Platform Architecture Group based in Redwood Shores, CA, USA. He was responsible for the architecture of Oracle’s next generation integration product providing EAI, B2B and ASP integration. Prior to joining Oracle he was at Jamcracker, Cupertino, CA, USA, responsible for defining Jamcracker’s ASP aggregation architecture, Netfish Technologies (acquired by IONA), Santa Clara, CA, USA, responsible for Netfish’s B2B integration server, The BoeingCompany, Seattle, WA, USA, leading Boeing’s workflow research and Digital Equipment Corporation (acquired by Compaq, acquired by Hewlett-Packard), Mountain View, CA, USA, defining the policy resolution component of Digital’s workflow product.

Chris has a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Erlangen, Germany and a Master in computer science from the Technical University of Munich, Germany. Chris published a book titled 'B2B Integration', two books on workflow management, and he co-authored a book on Semantic Web Services.
Chris published over 100 research papers in journals and academic conferences, he gave tutorials on a variety of topics including B2B integration, workflow management and service-oriented architectures and he was keynote speaker at many conferences and workshops on topics like workflow management, B2B and EAI integration as well as Semantic Web.