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Dr. Babak Abedin Information Systems Information, System and Modelling University of Technology Sydney (UTS) Sydney Australia |
| My research examines positive and negative impacts of information systems, particularly social information systems, on organisations and people. I'm interested in how IT transforms businesses and help them innovate. My publications have appeared in various top IS and e-commerce and has been often funded by external Industry partners | |
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Dr. Suzanne Altobello Marketing, Management, International Business School of Business University of North Carolina at Pembroke Wilmington, NC United States of America |
| Dr. Altobello earned degrees at the University of Florida and the University of Notre Dame. After 14 years as an Associate Professor of Marketing at Southern Illinois University (5 yrs as MBA Director), she moved to North Carolina where she is an Associate Professor of Marketing at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke and a Visiting Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Her research interests are in the areas of consumer behavior, digital marketing, social media, technology acceptance, international pricing, small business strategy, and services marketing, with a particular emphasis on advanced multivariate statistics. Dr. Altobello’s work has been published in top academic journals, such as the Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Business Research, Psychology & Marketing, Journal of Services Marketing, and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (past research published under name: Suzanne A. Nasco or Suzanne Altobello Nasco). Her published work can be found at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Suzanne_Altobello | |
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Dr. Gisela Ammetller Marketing Faculty of Economics and Business Open University of Catalonia (UOC, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) Barcelona Spain |
| Gisela Ammetller is an Associate Professor of Marketing at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya). She holds a Bachelor in Business Administration, and a Bachelor in Marketing and Market Research from the University of Barcelona, and a PhD in Information and Knowledge Society from the UOC. At this University she has served as the Director of the Master’s Program in Marketing and Communication Management. She is a researcher of the Digital Business Research Group (DigiBiz), and her research interests lie on the fields of digital marketing, consumer behavior, entrepreneurship, and the marketing/e-learning interface. Her latest research has been published in IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, International Journal of Engineering Education, and the South African Journal of Business Management. Recently, she has co-authored the book Principios y estrategias de marketing (Editorial UOC, 2018). | |
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Dr. Norm Archer Information Systems DeGroote School of Business McMaster University Hamilton Canada |
| Dr. Norm Archer is a professor emeritus in the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University. In his research he is active, in collaboration with his graduate students and colleagues, in the study of organizational and individual problems relating to the implementation of eBusiness approaches in health, business, and government organizations, and the resulting impacts on processes, employees, customers, and suppliers. He has published over 100 refereed journal and conference papers. | |
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Dr. Hernan Astudillo Informática Departamento de Informática UTFSM Santiago de Chile Chile |
| Hernán Astudillo is currently Professor of Informatics and Chair of the Doctorate in Informatics Engineering at Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso & Santiago, Chile. He has a Ph.D. in Information and Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology (1996), and an Informatics Engineer degree from UTFSM, Chile (1988). He spent several years as Senior Applications Architect in U.S.-based systems integrators, including MCI Systemhouse and Financial Systems Architects; had an academic stint in Brazil (U. of São Paulo); and joined UTFSM in 2003. At UTFSM he leads the Toeska Research Group and conducts research, teaching, publication and innovation projects in software architecture, software reuse, semantic systems development, maturity models, and the use of these areas' techniques for heritage informatics, e-government, and e-learning. | |
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Dr. John Atkinson Department of Computer Sciences Faculty of Engineering Universidad de Concepcion Concepción Chile |
| Full Professor at Department of Computer Sciences, Universidad de Concepcion, Chile. He also was the founder and leads the AI Laboratory at University of Concepcion. Dr. Atkinson is a Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). A former vice-president of the Chilean Computer Science Society. Recipient of the ACM Senior Member Award since 2010. His main research interests include text mining, natural language processing and machine learning. He has led national and international research projects and published in several indexed journals and conferences. He is also actively working with industry on transfer technology of AI technologies and Natural Language Processing into real-world complex problems. In the past he got involved in multi-agent systems and models for applications on intelligent search on the web, and RoboCup-style autonomous robotics. He has been visiting researcher and professor in US, UK, France, Canada and South America. He actively participates as national and international reviewer for several journals and research councils. | |
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Dr. Pieter Ballon Communication Sciences Faculty of Arts and Philosophy Vrije Universiteit Brussel Bruxelles [Brussel] Belgium |
| Prof Dr Pieter Ballon is Professor in Communication Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. He is also Director Living Labs at iMinds, the Flemish research institute for ICT innovation, and head of the Media Markets and Innovation unit at iMinds - SMIT. Besides this, he is a visiting Professor at ISTIA, University of Angers, France, and a member of the Board of Directors of Cultuurnet (Culture Net) in Flanders. His teams of Living Lab and Business Model experts, which are both embedded within iMinds, together count around 30 full-time consultants and researchers, which makes them among the most significant at the European and even worldwide level. Since 2009, Pieter Ballon is the international Secretary of the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL). He is also currently coordinating the Exploitation and Business Model working group for the entire EU Future Internet PPP. In 2006-2007, he headed the joint research on business models for future mobile IP-based systems of the Wireless World Initiative (WWI) in the EU 6th Framework Programme. Previous to his current profession, he was senior consultant and team leader at TNO in the Netherlands. | |
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Dr. Ygal Bendavid Management and Technology School of Management (ESG) Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) Montréal Canada |
| Ygal Bendavid is a professor in the Department of Management and Technology at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), where he teaches IT and operations management. He holds an M.Sc. in Technology Management and a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the École Polytechnique de Montréal. His research interests include the adoption of emerging technologies such as RFID/ioT and their impact on operations management. | |
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Dr. Ghassan Beydoun Systems, Management and Leadership Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology University of Technology Sydney Sydney Australia |
| Ghassan Beydoun is a Professor of Information Systems at the School of Systems, Management and Leadership at University of Technology. He received his PhD degree in knowledge systems from the University of New South Wales. His research interests include complex systems modelling, distributed decision support systems and knowledge analysis. He has been applying his results in developing decision support systems for disaster management, multi agent systems, e-learning systems, supply chain managment and other areas. He is currently working on a project sponsored by an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant to investigate the best uses of domain knowledge in developing methodologies for complex systems and at the same time working on decision support systems with SES on exploring the use of ontologies for flood management decision support. He has authored more than 120 journal and conference papers in these areas over the past 15 years. His most recent publications appeared in Information and Management, Information Systems Frontiers, IEEE Transactions of Software Engineering, Information Systems journal, International Journal of Human Computer Studies, and others. | |
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Dr. Niels Bjorn-Andersen IT Management Business Copenhagen Business School Frederiksberg Denmark |
| Niels Bjørn-Andersen is Professor at Department of IT Management, Copenhagen Business School. His research includes the future of ERP systems, IT-strategy for M&As, Internet strategies for fashion brands, and the role of IT in shaping future organizations – the role of Ambient Organizations. Niels has written/edited 25 books and has more than 50 peer-reviewed journal articles including MISQ, I&M, JMIS, JTAER, and ISJ. | |
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Dr. Zorica Bogdanovic Department of e-business Faculty of Organizational Sciences University of Belgrade Belgrade Serbia And Montenegro |
| Zorica Bogdanović is associate professor at Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Belgrade, Serbia. She teaches subjects in the area of e-business, e-education, and internet technologies on BSc, MSc, and PhD studies. Her current professional and scientific interests include e-business, e-education, internet technologies and internet of things. Results of her researches have been published in many well-known international journals and conference proceedings. She has participated in program and organizational boards of several international conferences. She is member of IEEE and secretary of IEEE Computer chapter CO 16. She is in chair of seminar of IEEE Computer chapter CO 16. She is in chair of the summer school "E-business technologies" and of Center for Internet of things at Faculty of Organizational Sciences. Since 2017, she is in chair of the Department for e-business at Faculty of Organizational Sciences. | |
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Dr. Wojciech Cellary Department of Information Technology Poznan University of Economics Poznan University of Economics Poznan Poland |
| Prof. Wojciech Cellary is a computer scientist, head of the Department of Information Technology at the Poznan University of Economics. In his professional career he worked at nine universities in Poland, France, and Italy. His research interests are currently focused on Internet technologies, multimedia, electronic business and economy, electronic government and information society. He is an author of 10 books and over 150 scientific papers. He gives lectures on electronic business to over 700 students per year. He was a leader of many national and international scientific and industrial projects. He served as a consultant to several Polish ministries, Polish Parliament and Senate, as well as European Commission. He was a chairman of the Council of Informatization that is an advisory body to Polish government concerning e-government solutions in the whole public sector. Recently he also served as the Program Chair of the 6th European Ministerial eGovernment Conference “Borderless eGovernment Services for Europeans”, Poznan, Poland, November 17-18, 2011, which is a major European event in the area of e-government. | |
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Dr. Mark de Reuver Department Engineering Systems and Services Faculty Technology Policy and Management Delft University of Technology Delft Netherlands |
| Dr ir Mark de Reuver is Associate Professor in the faculty of Technology, Policy and Management. His research focuses on Digital Platform Architecting in Engineering Systems, with specific interest in e-Mobility and Smart Energy. He received a PhD from Delft University of Technology. He is Associate Editor of Telematics & Informatics and editorial board member of Electronic Markets. He (co-)authored over 100 scientific publications, including in journals like Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Journal of Information Technology, Information & Management, Telecommunications Policy, and Electronic Commerce Research and Applications. His teaching received positive appraisal from students at TU Delft and Institut Mines-Telecom. As co-coordinator to the Horizon2020 project ENVISION, he oversees the development of the business model innovation tooling platform www.businessmakeover.eu, which is to be used by 3 million SMEs in Europe. | |
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Dr. Rogerio P. C. do Nascimento Departamento de Computação Centro de Ciências Exatas e Tecnologia Universidade Federal de Sergipe Aracaju Brazil |
| Rogério Patrício Chagas do Nascimento was born in Lagarto City, Sergipe State, Brazil. Has graduation at Computing Science from Universidade Federal de Sergipe (1997), master's at Computer Science from Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (1999) and ph.d. at Informatics Engineering from Universidade de Aveiro (2004). His previous collaboration was in the Instituto de Robótica at Universitat de València (Spain) as Invited Researcher and Invited Assistant Professor at Universidade do Algarve (Portugal). Now, he is Visiting Professor at Universidade Federal do Amazonas (Brazil) and Assistant Professor at Universidade Federal de Sergipe (Brazil). He is currently member of the editorial board of Latin American IEEE Magazine, and the JTAER - Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research, reviewer of the IEEE Computer Society, the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, and the JBCS - Journal of Brazilian Computing Society. He is found member of the EATIS.org - Euro-American Assotiation of Telematics and Information Systems and its current president. Has experience in the area of Computer Science, with emphasis on software engeneering and information systems. | |
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Dr. Kurt Englmeier Department Computer Science Schmalkalden University of Applied Science Schmalkalden Germany |
| Professor of Computer Science. Specialist in Natural Language Processing, Usability Engineering, Semantic Web, Enterprise Information Integration, Information Retrieval, and Project Management. PhD from the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland) PMI certificate PMP (Project Management Professional). Experience in European Projects, FP5 and FP6, Talk (COOP-6026) or IRAIA (IST-10602)/eStage (IST-28314). | |
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Dr. Ulf Essler * * The Swedish Institute of Innovation Stockholm Sweden |
| Ulf Essler, Ph.D., (ulfess58@gmail.com) is active as Director of The Swedish Institute of Innovation. He conducts research on adoption, assimilation, and effects of (technical) innovation within firms and markets. His background is in literature, systems theory and cybernetics, particularly second-order cybernetics, and is also working as an Independent Evaluator for the European Commission. | |
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Dr. Eduardo Fernandez Computer and Elect. Eng. and Comp. Sci. Engineering and Comp. Science Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton United States of America |
| Eduardo B. Fernandez (Eduardo Fernandez-Buglioni) is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida, USA. He has published numerous papers on authorization models, object-oriented analysis and design, cloud computing, and security patterns. He has written four books on these subjects, the most recent being a book on security patterns. He has lectured all over the world at both academic and industrial meetings. He has created and taught several graduate and undergraduate courses and industrial tutorials. His current interests include security patterns, cloud computing security, and cyber-physical systems security and safety. He holds a MS degree in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, and a Member of ACM. He is an active consultant for industry, including assignments with IBM, Allied Signal, Panasonic, Motorola, Lucent, Huawei, and others. More information in: http://faculty.eng.fau.edu/fernande | |
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Dr. Samuel Fosso Wamba Information Systems Toulouse Business School University of Toulouse Toulouse France |
| Samuel Fosso Wamba is Full Professor at Toulouse Business School, France. Prior, he was Associate Professor at Rouen Business School, Rouen, France and Senior lecturer at the School of Information Systems & Technology (SISAT), University of Wollongong, Australia. He earned an MSc in mathematics, from the University of Sherbrooke in Canada, an MSc in e-commerce from HEC Montreal, Canada, and a Ph.D. in industrial engineering, from the Polytechnic School of Montreal, Canada. His current research focuses on business value of IT, inter-organizational system (e.g., RFID technology) adoption and use, e-government, supply chain management, electronic commerce and mobile commerce. He has published papers in a number of top international conferences and journals. He has been (or will) served as mini-track organizer or co-organizer and chair for the Americas Conference on Information Systems and Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. He is CompTIA RFID+ Certified Professional, Academic co-Founder of RFID Academia and Founder and CEO of e-m-RFID.biz. | |
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Jerry Gao Department Faculty Organization City Country |
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Dr. Mila Gasco Public Administration Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy University at Albany - SUNY Albany United States of America |
| Dr. Mila Gascó is the Associate Research Director at the Center for Technology in Government and is also an Associate Research Professor at Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy. Mila comes to the United States and CTG from the Center for Public Governance at ESADE Business & Law School in Barcelona, where she was a senior researcher leading the center’s research on e-governance, open government, and smart cities. She has an extensive consulting and teaching background, having worked for a wide variety of organizations including the United Nations’ Development Program, the Office of the Mayor of Valencia, Valenzuela, the Spanish Agency for International Development, the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, and many others. She is a recipient of the Entric Prat de la Riba award, which is granted by the School of Public Administration of Catalonia to the author of the top thesis on public management and administration. She has taken part in numerous national and international seminars/conferences and regularly publishes in both English and Spanish. Mila splits her time between guiding CTG’s research initiatives, and teaching in the Government Information Strategy Management program at Rockefeller College. | |
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Dr. Elizabeth Grandon Information Systems Business Administration Universidad del Bío-Bío Concepción Chile |
| Elizabeth E. Grandón is associate professor of Information Systems at Universidad del Bío-Bío, Chile and worked as an assistant professor at Emporia State University, USA. She is a Fulbright scholar grantee and received her MBA and Ph.D. in Business Administration with emphasis in MIS from Southern Illinois University. Her research interests includes technology acceptance, e-commerce, ERP systems, and information technology adoption in small businesses. Dr. Grandon has written more than 40 publications in academic journals and conference proceedings. Her articles has been published in journals such as Information & Management, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Computer Information Systems, Journal of Internet Commerce, International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management, Communications of the Association for Information Systems (CAIS), Information Systems and E-Business Management, Academy of Educational Leadership Journal, The International Journal of Business and Public Administration, The Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges y Journal of Global Information Technology Management. She has written book chapters published in the USA and UK. | |
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Dr. Yujong Hwang School of Accountancy & MIS Driehaus College of Business DePaul University Chicago United States of America |
| Yujong Hwang is Associate Professor in the School of Accountancy and MIS at DePaul University in Chicago and Professor (International Scholar) at Kyung Hee University in South Korea. He was Visiting Professor in the Kellogg School at Northwestern University and received his Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of South Carolina. His research focuses on e-commerce, knowledge management, and human-computer interaction, published in more than 40 refereed journals including Journal of Management Information Systems, European Journal of Information Systems, IEEE Transactions, Decision Support Systems, Communications of the ACM, and International Journal of Electronic Commerce. He serves as Program Co-Chair for AMCIS 2013 and Senior Associate Editor for European Journal of Information Systems. He is Associate Editor for Behaviour & Information Technology and Journal of Electronic Commerce Research. | |
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Dr. Marijn Janssen ICT Faculty of Technoloogy, Policy & Management Delft University of Technology Delft Netherlands |
| Marijn Janssen is a full professor in ICT and governance within the Information and Communication Technology section of the Technology, Policy and Management Faculty of Delft University of Technology. He has been a consultant for the Ministry of Justice and received a Ph.D. in information systems (2001). His research interests are in the field of open government, open data, information coordination, intermediaries, brokers, orchestration and shared services. He is particularly interested in situations in which heterogeneous public and private organizations want to collaborate, in which information technology plays an enabling role and solutions are constrained by organizational realities and political wishes and there are various ways to proceed, all directions having its own implications. He is (associate) editor of various journals, edited several special issues, chaired various conferences and has published over 260 refereed publications. More information: www.tbm.tudelft.nl/marijnj | |
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Dr. Axel Küpper Service-centric Networking Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Telekom Innovation Laboratories/TU Berlin Berlin Germany |
| Since December 2009 I'm a professor for Service-centric Networking at Telekom Innovation Laboratories, which is a public-private partnership of Deutsche Telekom AG and Technische Universität Berlin. Before, I was an assistant professor and research assistant at the Mobile and Distributed Systems Group at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, where I received my postdoctoral lecture qualification (in German: Habilitation). Prior to that, I was a research fellow at the Chair of Computer Science IV at Aachen University of Technology, where I received my Ph.D. and diploma (both in computer science). My research topics include new and innovative services and service concepts for the Internet and mobile networks, in particular Ubiquitous Computing, Location-based Services, and Software as a Service. My group and I are also addressing problems and challenges of Electronic and Mobile Commerce, service discovery, and open marketplaces. Besides research and teaching in these areas, other professional activities include the organization of workshops, the participation of programme committees and related reviewing activities. | |
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Dr. Yinsheng Li Software School School of Computer Science and Technology Fudan University Shanghai China (People's Republic) |
| Since 2003, Yinsheng Li is an Associate Professor of Fudan University. He is the chief scientist of National Engineering Lab of ecommerce (http://eb.fudan.edu.cn). From 2001 to 2003, he was a Research Fellow and Postdoctoral Fellow at National Research Council of Canada and University of Western Ontario. Yinsheng Li received his Ph.D from Tsinghua University in 2001, his MSc from Southeast University in 1995, and his BSc from Chongqing University in 1992. Yinsheng Li is currently editor of Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Elsevier (2009-Present), ISSN: 10848045; Service-Oriented Computing and Applications Journal, Springer (2007-Present), ISSN: 1863-2386; and Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research, (2008-Present), ISSN 0718–1876. Yinsheng Li is a IEEE Senior Member,and the Chief Scientist of China Ecommerce Service Center for Trustable Trading, Since 2011. He is a TC member for IEEE Computer Society TCEC (Nov. 2010 - present) and IEEE SMC CSCWD (Feb. 2009 - present). Yinsheng's research interests are Semantics-based Online Intelligence and Non-Structural Data Processing, and Service-Oriented Techniques and Applications on E-Business. | |
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Dr. Eleanor Loiacono Management Business Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester United States of America |
| My research expertise centers on the intersection of technology and the user/customer. Over the past 20 years, I have focused on how people feel about the technology they use and how technologies, such as the Web, can improve users’ experiences. Areas, including IS acceptance, quality, accessibility, affective computing, and decision-making, are the foundations of much of my research. | |
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Dr. Euripidis N. Loukis Information and Communication Systems Engineering School of Sciences University of the Aegean Athenai Greece |
| Dr Euripidis Loukis is Ass. Professor of Information Systems and Decision Support Systems at the Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering, University of the Aegean. Currently he is Coordinator of two pan-European Projects co-funded by the ‘ICT for Governance and Policy Modelling’ research initiative of the European Commission: project PADGETS (‘Policy Gadgets Mashing Underlying Group Knowledge in Web 2.0 Media’) and project NOMAD (‘Policy Formulation and Validation through non moderated crowdsourcing’).Formerly he has been Information Systems Advisor at the Ministry to the Presidency of the Government of Greece, Technical Director of the Program of Modernization of Greek Public Administration of the Second Community Support Framework and National Representative of Greece in the programs ‘Telematics’ and ‘IDA’ (Interchange of Data between Administrations) of the European Union. He is the author of numerous scientific articles in international journals and conferences; one of them has been honoured with the International Award of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers – Controls and Diagnostics Committee. | |
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Dr. Luis Luna-Reyes Business Administration Business School Universidad de las Americas Puebla San Andres Cholula Mexico |
| Luis Felipe Luna-Reyes is a Professor of Business at the Universidad de las Américas-Puebla in México. He holds a Ph.D. in Information Science from the University at Albany. He has been co-chair of an International Research Group with members from Canada, the United States and Mexico. Luna-Reyes is also a member of the Mexican National Research System, which is a peer-reviewed certification, assessing both productivity and contribution to knowledge creation. His research focuses on electronic government and on modeling collaboration processes in the development of information technologies across functional and organizational boundaries. His research projects are related to areas such as inter-organizational collaboration, information sharing, information systems development, success of government-wide Web sites, digital divide policies, and recently, information policy to promote economic exchange in the NAFTA region. | |
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Dr. Joaquim Arnaldo Martins Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatic Faculty University of Aveiro Aveiro Portugal |
| Born in 1956, in Albergaria-a-Velha, Portugal. Received the Electronics and Telecommunications Engineer degree (5 year) in 1979, and the Ph.D in 1989, all from the University of Aveiro, Portugal. From 1979 to the present he has been with the University of Aveiro in the Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics Department (DETI) being Lecturer (1979-1989), Assistant Professor (1989-1994), Associate Professor (1994-2004) and since 2004, Full Professor. From 1998 to 2002 was the Director of University of Aveiro Communications and Informatics Center. Since 1998 he is also senior researcher of the IEETA (Institute of Electronic Engineering and Telematics of Aveiro) Laboratory of Information Systems and Telematics and coordinator of the Digital Library group. From 1992 to 1997 he was vice-director of INESC Aveiro and coordinator of the Telematics group. He participated in several National and European RD projects in the aim of Telemedicine, Open and Distance Learning and Information Technology programs. Since 2011 is the Director of the Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics Department. | |
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Dr. Keith Mayes ISG Smart Card Centre Information Security Group Royal Holloway University of London London United Kingdom |
| Professor Keith Mayes: (Ph.D., B.Sc., CEng, FIET, A.Inst.ISP) received his BSc (1st Class Hons) in Electronic Engineering in 1983 from the University of Bath and his PhD in Digital Image Processing in 1987. He is an active researcher with over 100 publications in conferences, books, journals and patents (see www.scc.rhul.ac.uk). His interests include the design of smart cards/RFIDs, mobile phones, secure protocols, communications architectures, security tokens and sensors as well as associated attacks/countermeasures. He has extensive industry experience having worked for Pye TVT, Honeywell Aerospace and Defence, Racal Research/Messenger and Vodafone UK, Europe and Global. In 2002, Keith left Vodafone to join the Information Security Group at Royal Holloway University of London; as the Director of the Smart Card Centre. Keith is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, a Founder Associate Member of the Institute of Information Security Professionals and an expert evaluator for the French Agence Nationale de Recherche. | |
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Dr. Paraskevi Mentzelou Civil Engineering School of Applied Technology Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki Thessaloniki Greece |
| Dr Paraskevi Mentzelou is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece. She is a member of the IEEE, AACE, BCS, ACM and a co-found member of the Hellenic Branch of BCS. She received a PhD degree in 2000 in Computer Assisted Learning from Bristol University, a Postgraduate Diploma in Computer Science from West of England University and a Graduate Diploma in Computer Science from the University of SouthBank. She has served for six years as an EDP Manager and System Analyst in Industry and in private commercial companies. Her research interests are in computer assisted learning, environmental information systems and web applications and took part in several research projects relative to these fields. She has published papers in referred journals and con-ference proceedings and has served as a reviewer to journals, conferences and books. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Environmental Protection and Ecology (JEPE) and of the Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research (JTAER). | |
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Dr. Jani Merikivi Management, Technology, and Strategy GEM Grenoble Ecole de Management Grenoble France |
| I am currently an associate professor at Grenoble Ecole de Management, France. I hold a PhD in Information System Sciences with specialism in hedonic information systems, omnicommerce, and digital youth work. In my research, I use quantitative research methods. I have published my research in journals such as Information & Management, Electronic Markets, New Media and Society, Computers in Human Behavior, and International Journal of Information Management. I have also published in the top confer- ences within my field, such as European Conference of Information Systems (ECIS), Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), and International Conference on In- formation Systems (ICIS). | |
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Dr. Peter OConnor MIS Faculty Essec Paris France |
| Peter O'Connor, Ph.D. is Professor of Information Systems at Essec Business School France, where he also serves as Associate Dean of Essec’s Hospitality Management programs. His research, teaching and consulting interests focus on technology, distribution, e-commerce and electronic marketing applied to hospitality and tourism. A prolific speaker, he is widely sought after to deliver presentations by both international hospitality companies and industry associations. Previously he held a visiting position at the Cornell School of Hotel Administration and worked in a variety of positions within hospitality, in sectors as diverse as luxury hotels and contract food services. | |
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Dr. Andreja Pucihar Information Systems Department Faculty of Organizational Sciences University of Maribor Kranj Slovenia |
| Andreja Pucihar is an Associate Professor and head of MIS study programs at the Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Maribor in Slovenia. She received her PhD in Management of Information Systems in 2002. Her recent research is mainly focused to IS innovation, in particular to digital transformation and e-business models. She is a member of eCenter and Head of eMarkets Laboratory. She has published over 170 papers in journals and conference proceedings. She has been involved into several national, international (EU, CE, cross-border, bilateral) and industry projects, mainly focusing to digitalization, IS innovation and support to SMEs. Since 2009 she has been serving as a conference chair of annual international Bled eConference, focusing on electronic interactions research since 1988 (http://bledconference.org). She is an assistant editor of »Electronic Markets - The International Journal on Networked Business« journal and a member of the board of »Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research«. | |
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Dr. Inma Rodríguez-Ardura Digital Business Research Group Faculty of Economics and Business Open University of Catalonia (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) Barcelona Spain |
| Inma Rodriguez-Ardura (PhD University of Barcelona) is an associate professor of Marketing and the Director of the Digital Business Research Group at the Open University of Catalonia (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya). She has also served as a part-time lecturer at the University of Miami and as a visiting professor at the University of Oxford, and at Babson College, Boston. Her research interests lie in the areas of entrepreneurial digital marketing, online consumer experiences, and marketing for e-learning. She carries out competitive research projects funded by European and international institutions. Her research has appeared in numerous journals including Behaviour & Information Technology, British Journal of Educational Technology, Computers & Education, Computers in Human Behavior, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, Information and Management, Information Society, Information Technology & People, Interactive Learning Environments, Internet Research, the South African Journal of Business Management, and Telematics and Informatics. She has authored scores of research books and textbooks. | |
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Dr. Tomas Sabol Department Faculty of Economics Technical University of Kosice Košice Slovakia |
| Tomas Sabol is professor of artificial intelligence at the Technical University of Kosice, Slovak Republic. His research interests are in knowledge management, semantic technologies and ontology-based knowledge modelling (with applications in e-Government, embedded systems, networked enterprises, and Internet of Things), project management, Information Society and Knowledge Economy development. Tomas has extensive experience in participation and management of international R&D projects, so far participated in 17 EU-funded projects, two times being the project coordinator (projects Webocracy and Access-eGov). As a subcontractor he participated in 13 EU tenders in the area of Information Society. Tomas has served as an evaluator and rapporteur of European eGovernment Award programme, EU ICT projects, eParticipation projects etc. In 2003-2005 Tomas was a member of the eEurope Advisory Group (Expert Chamber) to the European Commission. He is member of boards of several national and international conferences and journals, collaborating with several organisations Europe-wide. Published about 160 papers in books, journals and proceedings of national and international conferences. | |
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Dr. Eusebio Scornavacca Information Systems and Decision Sciences Merrick School of Business University of Baltimore Baltimore United States of America |
| Eusebio Scornavacca is Parsons Professor of Digital Innovation at University of Baltimore. He also holds the J. & M. Thompson Professorship in Management Information Systems at the Merrick School of Business. Prior to joining UB, Professor Scornavacca was a faculty member and director of research at the School of Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. He has also held academic positions in Japan, Italy, France and Brazil. His research interests include mobile and ubiquitous information systems and disruptive ICT innovation and digital transformation. During the past 18 years he has conducted qualitative and quantitative research in a wide range of industries, including research sponsored by the private sector. Professor Scornavacca's research has appeared in journals such as the Journal of Information Technology, Information and Management, Communications of the ACM, Decision Support Systems, Communications of the AIS and the Journal of Computer Information Systems. He has served as track chair at conferences such as ICIS, ECIS, PACIS, AMCIS, ACIS, HICSS and Conf-IRM. | |
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Dr. Marcos Sepulveda Computer Science School of Engineering Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Santiago Chile |
| Marcos Sepúlveda was born in Santiago, Chile. He received his B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. on Computer Science from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He made a postdoctoral research in the ETH Zürich, Switzerland. He is a professor in the Computer Science Department at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile since 2001. He is also the director of the Information Technology Research Center of his university (CETIUC). His research fields are Information Technology Management, Business Process Management and Process Mining. | |
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Dr. Reima Suomi Department of Management Turku School of Economics University of Turku Turku [Åbo] Finland |
| Reima Suomi is a professor of Information Systems Science at University of Turku, and a part-time professor at Huazhong Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei, China. Currently he concentrates on topics around management of networked activities, including issues such as management of telecommunication networks, electronic and mobile commerce, virtual organizations, telework and competitive advantage through telecommunication-based information systems. Different governance structures applied to the management of IS and are enabled by IS belong too to his research agenda, as well as application of information systems in health care. Reima Suomi has together over 500 publications, and has published in journals such as Communications of the Association for Information Systems, CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing, Information & Management, Information Services & Use, Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, The Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Behaviour & Information Technology, Journal of Management History, Orthopaedic Nursing and Information Resources Management Journal. | |
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Dr. Doug Vogel eHealth Research Institute School of Management Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin China (People's Republic) |
| Doug Vogel is Professor of Information Systems (IS) and an Association for Information Systems (AIS) Fellow as well as AIS Past President and, currently, Director of the eHealth Research Institute as a State Specially Recruited Expert in the School of Management at the Harbin Institute of Technology in China. He received his M.S. in Computer Science from U.C.L.A. and his Ph.D. in Business Administration (Management Information Systems) from the University of Minnesota where he was also research coordinator for the MIS Research Center. In a ten year relationship with a Colorado electronics manufacturer he served in virtually every technical and managerial capacity including Director of Engineering, General Manager and Board of Directors. He has published widely and been recognized as the most-cited IS author in Asia Pacific. His research interests reflect a concern for encouraging efficient and effective utilization of computer systems in an atmosphere conducive to enhancing the quality of life with particular attention to healthcare and wellness. | |
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Dr. Steven Walczak Information Science School of Information & Florida Center for Cybersecurity University of South Florida Tampa United States of America |
| Steven Walczak, Ph.D., is a tenured Associate Professor of Health Information Science at the University of South Florida. His research emphasis is in artificial intelligence applications, e-commerce systems, healthcare systems, information security, knowledge management, and application programming practices. Specific research domains include medical modeling and decision support systems, financial time series predictions, online auctions and other electronic commerce applications, social networking, and knowledge transfer mechanisms within organizations. He is a member of the editorial boards for 6 journals (JTAER, JOEUC, TLO, OMIJ, IJIIT, IJBE) and was the Editor-in-Chief of The Learning Organization (TLO) from 2005-2007. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of the JOEUC(Journal of Organizational and End User Computing) journal. Prof. Walczak's research has been published in well over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles, conference articles, and book chapters. His work has appeared in: JTAER, MISQ, JMIS, ECR, DSS, and various IEEE Transactions among others. | |