Vipul works in the areas of Information and Knowledge Integration and Management, E-commerce and Semantic Web technologies. He has been active in the Semantic Web research community. He was a facilitator of the track on Interoperability, Integration and Composition at the First International SWWS and has organized panels and workshops on related topics. Vipul has worked at R&D Labs of MCC and Telcordia Technologies (formerly known as Bellcore) on issues related to Information Integration and Agent based infrastructures and is the recipient of a Ph.D. from Rutgers University. His research interests are: interoperation across multiple domain ontologies on the Semantic Web and issues of loss of information as a consequence of ontology mismatches. He is also investigating the feasibility of using sociological approaches for creating and evolving knowledge on the Semantic Web. Vipul has recently published a book on Information Brokering, has participated in panels, has been a member of conference program committees. He has published around 40 research articles and papers at various conferences and prestigious journals.

Vipul can be contacted at: vipul_kashyap@yahoo.com

Leon Leon is the CTO at Information Architects. He is also a part-time lecturer at the Computer Science department at the Rutgers University in New Jersey. Leon has received his Ph.D. in C.S. from Rutgers University in NJ. He chaired the workshop on Web Engineering at the WWW8 conference in Toronto, the workshop on Internet Middleware and Data Modeling at the WWW7 Conference, and the workshop on Object Oriented Web Servers and Data Modeling at the WWW6 Conference. He also presented tutorial on Web Access to Legacy Data at the WWW5 Conference in Paris.

Leon can be contacted at: shklar@cs.rutgers.edu