Dakshi Agrawal is a Research Staff Member at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. Dr. Agrawal received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 1999 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He worked as a Visiting Assistant Professor at UIUC before joining the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. Dr. Agrawal has more than 30 publications in international conferences and journals in the area of digital communication theory, distributed computing systems, and digital security and privacy. View his Web site at http://www.research.ibm.com/people/a/agrawal. Dakshi Agrawal, James Giles, and Kang-Won Lee were core contributors to the development of the Policy Management Toolkit for the IBM Autonomic Computing Initiative, and received an IBM Research Division Award and Invention Achievement Award for this contribution.

James Giles is an assistant professor of Electrical Engineering/Computer Science at the University of Evansville, Indiana. He was a research staff member at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center from 2000-2004. Dr. Giles received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 2000 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He has published many technical articles in international conferences and journals in the area of digital communications, networking, distributed computing, and computer security. View his Web site at http://www.research.ibm.com/people/g/gilesjam. Dakshi Agrawal, James Giles, and Kang-Won Lee were core contributors to the development of the Policy Management Toolkit for the IBM Autonomic Computing Initiative, and received an IBM Research Division Award and Invention Achievement Award for this contribution.

Kang-Won Lee is a Research Staff Member at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. He is currently working on policy-based storage area network planning and verification. Dr. Lee received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000. Dr. Lee has published more than 35 technical articles in premier journals and conferences in the area of computer networks, distributed systems, and policy-based systems management. View his Web site at http://www.research.ibm.com/people/k/kangwon. Dakshi Agrawal, James Giles, and Kang-Won Lee were core contributors to the development of the Policy Management Toolkit for the IBM Autonomic Computing Initiative, and received an IBM Research Division Award and Invention Achievement Award for this contribution.

Jorge Lobo is a Research Staff Member at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. Prior to joining IBM he was a principal architect at Teltier Technologies. Before Teltier he was a tenured associate professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a member of the Network Computing Research Department at Bell Labs. At Teltier he developed a policy server for the availability management of Presence Servers. He also designed and codeveloped PDL, one of the first generic policy languages for network management. Dr. Lobo has more than 50 publications in international journals and conferences in the areas of networks, databases and artificial intelligence. He is co-author of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) book on logic programming and is the cofounder and a member of the steering committee for the IEEE Policy Workshop. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland. View his Web site at http://www.research.ibm.com/people/j/jlobo.