M.A. Serhani holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from Concordia University, Canada (August 2006). Prior to that, he received his M.S. degree in 2002 from University of Montreal, Canada. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Faculty of Information Technology, U.A.E University, Al Ain, U.A.E. His research area is on Web Services Computing, Mobile and Pervasive Computing, and Software Engineering. He has published one book, more than 80 papers in conferences, journals and book chapters. He served on several Organizing and Technical Program Committees, including the IEEE ICC, IEEE DEST, WSS, and NWeSP. He is also member of IEEE Body of Knowledge on Services Computing, member of IEEE Service Computing Community, and Member of Service University. Dr. Serhani has been involved/supervised many projects during the last 8 years on the area of Web Services, Mobile computing, Software Engineering, service discovery in emergency response operations using mobile Ad hoc networks.