ANDY JU AN WANG, PHD, is Associate Professor of Software Engineering at the School of Computing and Software Engineering, Southern Polytechnic State University. In addition to teaching graduate courses in component-based software development, Dr. Wang has published more than thirty technical papers and has given presentations at a number of national and international conferences and universities.

KAI QIAN, PHD, is Professor and Department Chair of Software Engineering at the School of Computing and Software Engineering, Southern Polytechnic State University. He has taught component-based software development courses and has completed a number of research projects in component-based software engineering. Dr. Qian has also published extensively in various professional journals and international conference proceedings.