About the Author

Haim Kilov has been through all stages of various software (compilers, preprocessors, post-relational DBMS, etc.) design and development – from initial conception to actual implementation and release, and also has been engaged in research, development, and consulting in advanced information modeling. He is currently involved in information modeling as a Member of Technical Staff at Bellcore (Morristown, NJ). His approach to creating a reusable library of generic object classes for this purpose has been widely used in actual modeling activities within Bellcore. He is also a member of the ANSI X3 Database System Study Group and its subgroups (Object Database Task Group and OSI/Database Task Group); he is one of the Editors of the reports of the Object Database Task Group and one of the active contributors to the Object Data Management Reference Model. He is a member of the Editorial Board of ``Computer Standards and Interfaces'' and has been a Program Committee member of several domestic and international conferences and workshops on information management. He has a significant number of published papers and reviews in the database and information modeling areas. His current interests and experience are in the areas of information modeling and programming methodology.