David Rine has been practicing, teaching and researching engineered software development for over thirty years. He joined George Mason University in 1985 and was the founding chair of the Department of Computer Science and one of the founders of the (Volgenau) School of Information Technology and Engineering. Rine has received numerous research, teaching and service awards from computer science and engineering societies and associations. He has been a pioneer in graduate, undergraduate and high school education, producing computer science texts and leading establishment of the international Advanced Placement Computer Science program for the nation's high school students, co-designer the first computer science and engineering curriculum (1976) and the first masters in software engineering curriculum (1978). He has been an editor of a number of prestigious software-oriented journals. He has authored over 300 published works and has directed many PhD students.

Ghazi Alkhatib is an assistant professor of software engineering in the College of Computer Science and Information Technology, Applied Science University (Amman, Jordan). In 1984, he obtained his Doctor of Business Administration from Mississippi State University in information systems with minors in computer science and accounting. Since then, he has been engaged in teaching, consulting, training, and research in the area of computer information systems in the U.S. and gulf countries. In addition to his research interests in databases and systems analysis and design, he has published several articles and presented many papers in regional and international conferences on software processes, knowledge management, e-business, Web services and agent software, workflow, and portal / grid computing integration with Web services.