Jiawei Han is director of the Intelligent Database Systems research Laboratory and professor in the School of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University.Well dnown for his research in the areas of data mining and data-base systems,he has served on program committees for dozens of international conferences and workshops and on editorial boards for several journals,including IEEE Transactiona on Knowledge and Data Engineering and Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.Micheline Damber is a researcher adn freelance technical writer with an M.S.in computer science.She is a member of the Intelligent Database Systems Research Laboratory at Simon Fraser University.