Dr. Xiaocong (Simon) Fan is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. He received his Ph.D. in Software Engineering from Nanjing University, China. He has been an active researcher in the fields of Multi-Agent Systems, Formal Methods in Software Engineering, and Advanced Decision-Support Systems. He is a key architect of several intelligent agent systems, including RCAST and SMMall. Dr. Fan is a Senior Member of IEEE.