Sofiane Bendoukha holds a Magister of Computer Science degree from the University of Science and Technology of Oran (USTO), Algeria (2010). Since November 2011, she has been a PhD student at the Theoretical Foundations of Computer Science Group at the University of Hamburg, Germany (http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/TGI/studenten/bendoukha/bendoukha.html).
She has always had an interest in workflow modeling and distributed systems. During her Magister thesis, she worked on web service orchestration with BPEL in grid computing. Her PhD thesis revolves around workflow management in cloud computing, especially in Intercloud environments. She focusses more on modeling issues using high-level Petri nets (HLPN) techniques and agents. The outcome covers many aspects of the workflow lifecycle, that is, from modeling to implementation.
She has also worked for two years as a teaching assistant at the Meteorological Institute for Formation and Learning (IHFR) in Oran, Algeria. After that, for one-and-a-half years, she worked as a system engineer at the Remote Sensing Laboratory related to the Algerian Space Agency (http://www.asal.dz/). For the actual publication, see http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/pers/hd/b/Bendoukha:Sofiane.html.
Ivano Carrara was born on January 22, 1960. He has been an expert in electronics since 1979. He started to work with IBM Italia in 1984 and since 1989, he has managed the Italian operations of Galacticomm Technologies, Inc. (FL). He has been working with Liferay since 2004 and with Alfresco since 2007. As Solutions Architect, he cooperated with Accenture in activities based on the Liferay Enterprise Portal. He is currently working on the integration of Activiti BPM, Liferay Portal, Alfresco ECM, Jasper Reports, and Orbeon Forms on a large project related to the travel industry.
Mike Dias has been an Activiti BPM project committer since 2013, contributing to various project areas. He works for a Brazilian company called iColabora as a technical leader of a BPMS built on top of the Activiti Engine.
He is fluent in Java, and also has OCJP and OCWCD certifications. He also dominates JavaScript and has a lot of experience with libraries such as jQuery, Backbone.js, and d3.js.
Recently, he discovered the power of graph databases that gave him a one-way ticket to NoSQL land.