Editorial

Special section: Data mining in grid computing environments

Vlado Stankovski was awarded his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in computer science from the University of Ljubljana in 1995 and 2000, respectively. He began his career in 1995 as a consultant and later as project manager with the Fujitsu-ICL Corporation in Prague. From 1998–2002 he worked as a researcher at the University Medical Centre in Ljubljana. From 2003 on, he is with the Department of Civil Informatics at the Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering. Currently, he is the technical manager of the EU IST DataMiningGrid project and financial manager of the EU IST InteliGrid project. He participates in the Slovene national grid-related projects: GridForum.si, AgentGrid and SiGNet. He specializes in grid and semantic technologies as well as applications of machine learning techniques to engineering and medical problems.

Professor Werner Dubitzky holds a Chair of Bioinformatics at the School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Life and Health Science, at the University of Ulster in Coleraine, Northern Ireland since January 2002. He received his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Augsburg University of Applied Sciences (Germany) in 1991, and his Ph.D. in artificial intelligence, knowledge-based systems and machine learning from the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, in 1997. In July 1992 he joined the School of Information and Software Engineering at the University of Ulster as a Research Officer. At the same institute he took up a position as Research Fellow in 1997, and became a Lecturer in 1999. In January 2000 he joined the Intelligent Bioinformatics Systems Group at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg. Currently, his main areas of interest include bioinformatics, computational systems biology, data mining and data management, text mining, and grid technology. He has published over 80 papers in these areas.