Professional or Scholarly Activities

Journal and Book Series Editorship

1. Series Editor (with Ahmed Elmagarmid), Advances in Database Systems, Springer, July 2007. ISSN: 1386-2944
2. Joint Editor-in-Chief (with Ahmed Elmagarmid), Distributed and Parallel Databases: An International Journal, Springer, June 2007. ISSN: 0926-8782
3. Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Advances in Web Services Research (AWSR) Book Series, IGI Global, 2007 - present.
4. Member of the Editorial Board, IEEE Internet Computing, May 2006-present.
5. Member of the Editorial Review Board, International Journal of Web Services Research, 2005-present.
6. Editor-in-Chief, International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS), Idea Group Publishing, 2005 - present.
7. Editor (with Ramesh Jain), Book Series on Semantic Web and Beyond: Computing for Human Experience, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004 - present.
8. Member of the Editorial Board, Journal on Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web, 2003 - present.
9. Member of the Editorial Board (acting Editor-in-Chief from 9/94 to 3/95), the Journal on Distributed and Parallel Databases, 1992 - present.
10. Member of the Editorial Board, the International Journal of Intelligent and Cooperative Information Systems, 1995 - present.
11. Member of the Editorial Board, Information Systems- an International Journal, 1993 - present.
12. Member of the Editor Board, IEEE Multimedia, 1998 - 2004. Also edited Media Reviews.
13. Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, International Journal of Engineering Intelligent Systems, 1993 - 2000.
14. Member of the Editorial Board, the Distributed Systems Engineering Journal, 1993 - 1999.

Key Committee/Honorary Memberships

1. World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Advisory Committee Member, 2004-present.
2. Advisory Board of Semantic Web Challenge 2005. Also, 2006
3. Faculty, Biomedical and Health Science Institute, UGA, 2004.
4. World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Advisory Committee Member, 2004- .
5. Faculty, Institute of Bioinformatics, UGA, 2004- .
6. Member, Semantic Web Services Initiative Architecture Committee (SWSA), 2004 - 2005.
7. Associate Editor for SIGMOD Record, 1988 - present. Also edited research center reports.
8. Advisor on Workflow for SIGGROUP (ACM's SIG for GroupWare and GroupWork), 1996 - 1999. Also edited a section of the Bulletin.
9. Member/Representative, the World Wide Web Consortium, 2004 - present.
10. Advisor on Workflow for SIGGROUP (ACM's SIG for GroupWare and GroupWork), 1996-1999. Also edited a section of the Bulletin.