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Keynotes
Professor John Carroll
Professor Robert Tennyson Editor in Chief, Computers in Human Behavior, Eslevier
Professor Amit Sheth Wright State University Editor in Chief, International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems, IGI-Global
Dr. Ambjorn Naeve Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Co-Editor in Chief, International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning, Inderscience
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Program Committee General Chair of the Summit Dr. Miltiadis D. Lytras, OPEN RESEARCH SOCIETY, NGO Summit Co-Chairs Professor David Avison
Distinguished Professor in Information Systems David Avison is Distinguished Professor of Information Systems at ESSEC Business School, near Paris, France after being Professor at the School of Management at Southampton University for nine years. He has also held posts at Brunel and Aston Universities in England, and the University of Technology Sydney and University of New South Wales in Australia, and elsewhere. He is President-elect of the Association of Information Systems (AIS). He is joint editor of Blackwell Science’s Information Systems Journal now in its eighteenth volume, rated as a ‘core’ international journal. So far, twenty-five books are to his credit including the fourth edition of the well-used text Information Systems Development: Methodologies, Techniques and Tools (jointly authored with Guy Fitzgerald). He has published a large number of research papers in learned journals, edited texts and conference papers. He was Chair of the International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP) 8.2 group on the impact of IS/IT on organisations and society and is now vice chair of IFIP technical committee 8. He was past President of the UK Academy for Information Systems and also chair of the UK Heads and Professors of IS and is presently member of the IS Senior Scholars Forum. He was joint programme chair of the International Conference in Information Systems (ICIS) in Las Vegas (previously also research programme stream chair at ICIS Atlanta), joint programme chair of IFIP TC8 conference at Santiago Chile, programme chair of the IFIPWG8.2 conference in Amsterdam, panels chair for the European Conference in Information Systems at Copenhagen and publicity chair for the entity-relationship conference in Paris and chair of several other UK and European conferences. He will be joint program chair of the IFIP TC8 conference in Milan, Italy in 2008. He also acts as consultant and has most recently worked with a leading manufacturer developing their IT/IS strategy. He researches in the area of information systems development and more generally on information systems in their natural organizational setting, in particular using action research, though he has also used a number of other qualitative research approaches.
Professor Ernesto Damiani
Ernesto Damiani is a professor at the Dept. of Information Technology, University of Milan, where he leads the Software Architectures Lab. Prof. Damiani holds/has held visiting positions at several international institutions, including George Mason University (Fairfax, VA, US) and LaTrobe University (Melbourne, Australia). Prof. Damiani is an Adjunct Professor at the Sydney University of Technology (Australia). He has written several books and filed international patents; also, he co-authored more than two hundred research papers on advanced secure service-oriented architectures, open source software and business process design, software reuse and Web data semantics. Prof. Damiani is the Vice Chair of IFIP WG 2.12 on Web Data Semantics and the secretary of IFIP WG 2.13 on Open Source Software Development. He coordinates several research projects funded by the Italian Ministry of Research and by private companies including Siemens Mobile, Cisco Systems, ST Microelectronics, BT Exact, Engineering, Telecom Italy and others Professor Thomas Davenport
Voted the third-leading business-strategy analyst in Optimize Magazine’s October 2005 issue, Tom Davenport is a world-renowned thought leader who has helped hundreds of companies revitalize their management practices. An agile and prolific thinker, Davenport has written or co-authored 12 best-selling business books and has been a creator and early proponent of several key business ideas including: knowledge management, human approaches to information management, business process reengineering, and realizing the value of enterprise systems.With his vast storehouse of industry stories, research and data, and cutting-edge ideas, Davenport balances research-based business acumen with practical application. His areas of expertise include improving the productivity of knowledge workers, information and knowledge management, attention management, idea generation, innovation, competing on analytics, managing enterprise applications for business value, and business process reengineering. Dr. John Davies
Dr John Davies leads the Next Generation Web research group at BT. Current interests centre around the application of semantic web technology to knowledge management, information retrieval and service-oriented architectures. He is industrial chair of the Semantic Web Services Initiative, co-organiser of the European Semantic Web Conference series and Project Director of the SEKT EU integrated project. He has written and edited many papers and books in the areas of web-based information management, knowledge management and the semantic web and has served on the program committee of many conferences in related areas. He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and a Chartered Engineer. Earlier research at BT led to the development of a set of knowledge management tools which are the subject of a number of patents. These tools are now marketed through Exago Ltd (www.exago.com), of which Dr Davies is Chief Technology Office. Professor Gottfried Vossen
Gottfried Vossen is a Professor of Computer Science in the Department of Information Systems at the University of Muenster in Germany. He is the European Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier’s Information Systems - An International Journal, and a Director of the European Research Center for Information Systems (ERCIS) in Muenster. His research interests include conceptual as well as application-oriented problems concerning databases, information systems, electronic learning, and the Web. Organizing Committee
Scientific Committee Members [serving also as reviewers] Prof. Miguel-Angel Sicilia, University of Alcalá, SPAIN Dr. Marie-Hélène Abel, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, Centre de Recherches de Royallieu, FRANCE Laura Papaleo, PhD,
Dr. Eng. in Computer Science, DISI - Department of Computer Science Dr. Salam Abdallah, Abu Dhabi University, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Tarun Abhichandani, Claremont Graduate University, USA Badr Al-Daihani, School Of Computer Science, Cardiff University, UK Prof. Mariel Alejandra Ale, Universidad Tecnológica Nacional (UTN) Facultad Regional Santa Fe, ARGENTINA Prof. Hyggo Almeida, Systems and Computing Department,Federal University of Campina Grande, BRAZIL Dr. Yuan An, Assistant Professor, Drexel University, USA Dr. Sinuhe Arroyo, University of Alcalá de Henares, SPAIN Dr. Steve Barker. Dept. of Computer Science, King's College London, UK Prof. Martin Beer, Sheffield Hallam University, UK Dr. Ioan Marius Bilasco, Laboratoire Informatique de Grenoble (LIG), FRANCE Prof. Christos Bouras, Associate Professor Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics, University of Patras and Research Academic Computer Technology Institute, GREECE Prof. Yolaine Bourda, Professor, head of Computer Science Department, SUPELEC, FRANCE Maria Helena Braz, Technical University of Lisboa, Portugal Prof. Adriana Schiopoiu Burlea, University of Craiova, ROMANIA Dr. Bradley Moore, Assistant Professor, ABD College of Business/CIS University of West Alabama, USA James Braman, Computer and Information Sciences Department, Towson University, USA Mey (Ongech) Brenda,Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, GERMANY Dr. Emma O’Brien, University of Limerick, IRELAND Nicola Capuano, University of Salerno - DIIMA Dept. of Information Engineering and Applied Mathematics, CRMPA - Centre for Research in Pure and Applied Mathematics, ITALY Dr. Antonio Cartelli, Dept. of Human and Social Sciences, University of Cassino, ITALY Prof. Marcos Castilho, Departamento de Informática da Universidade Federal Paraná, BRAZIL Dr. Alan Chamberlain, Mixed Reality Laboratory (MRL) at the University of Nottingham, UK Dr. Maiga Chang, Athabasca University, CANADA Prof. She-I Chang, Department of Accounting and Information Technology National Chung Cheng University, TAIWAN (CHINA) Dr. Yannis Charalabidis, National Technical University of Athens, GREECE Mohamed Amine Chatti,RWTH Aachen University, GERMANY Prof. Dimitris N. Chryssochoou, Associate Professor of International Organization, University of Crete, GREECE Vincenzo Ciancia, University of Pisa, Italy Dr. Jesus Contreras, Business Unit Manager, ISOCO, SPAIN Dra. Carmen Costilla, Titular Professor, Dep. Ingeniería de Sistemas Telemáticos,Technical University of Madrid, SPAIN Dr. Steve Creason, Assistant Professor, College of Management, Metropolitan State University, USA Mike Cushman, Research Fellow and Information Manager, Department of Information Systems, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Violeta Damjanovic, Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft, Knowledge-based Information Systems (KIS), AUSTRIA Prof. Jerome Darmont, University of Lyon (ERIC Lyon 2), FRANCE Dr. Javier De Andrés, University of Oviedo, SPAIN Dr. Liqiong Deng, Richards College of Business, University of West Georgia, USA Dr. Pierre Deransart, Research Director INRIA-Rocquencourt, FRANCE Prof. Lily Diaz-Kommonen, University of Art and Design Helsinki, FINLAND Edward Dieterle, Harvard Graduate School of Education,USA Yihong Ding, Department of Computer Science, Brigham Young University, USA Dr. Juan Manuel Dodero, University of Cádiz, SPAIN Prof. Heinz V. Dreher, Associate Professor, Information Systems, Curtin University of Technology, AUSTRALIA Dr. Martin Dzbor, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK Teck Yong Eng, Ph.D., King's College, University of London, School of Social Science & Public Policy Management, UK Prof. Dr. Martin J. Eppler Chair of Information and Communication Management Institute for Corporate Communication, University of Lugano (USI), SWITZERLAND Dr. Omar Farooq, UKIERI Fellow, Dept. of Electronic and Electrical Engineering,Loughborough University, UK Javier Fabra, Department of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, University of Zaragoza, SPAIN Prof. Joseph Feller, University College Cork, IRELAND Dr. Maria Joao Ferreira, Universidade Portucalense, Innovation, Science and Technology Department, PORTUGAL Prof. Daniel R. Fesenmaier, Temple University, USA Dr. Ken Fisher, Department of Computing, London Metropolitan University, UK Dr. Bob Folden, Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University-Commerce, USA Dr. Terrill L. Frantz, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Dr Mrs Nuran Fraser, Senior Lecturer, International Business Group, The Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Damaris Fuentes-Lorenzo, Research Assistant, IMDEA Networks, Madrid, Spain Dr. Apostolos Gkamas, University of Peloponnese and Research Academic Computer Technology Institute, GREECE Roberto García, Assitant Professor GRIHO (HCI and Data Integration Research Group) Universitat de Lleida, Lleida, SPAIN Prof. Elena García-Barriocanal, University of Alcalá, SPAIN Prof. Peter Gomber, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, GERMANY Dr. Juan Miguel Gómez Berbís, Univesidad Carlos III de Madrid, SPAIN Prof. Joze Gricar, University of Maribor, SLOVENIA Dr. Anna Lisa Guido, University of Salento, ITALY Prof. Joseph Hardin, Director, Collaborative Technologies Lab, University of Michigan, USA Prof. Campbell R. Harvey, Duke University, USA Prof. Hajah Gy Hashim, Faculty of Administrative Science & Policy Studies, University Technology Mara (UiTM), MALAYSIA Prof. Nancy Hauserman Williams, Teaching Professor, Tippie College of Business Dept of Management and Organizations, University of Iowa, USA Prof. Helena Corrales Herrero, Department of Applied Economics, University of Valladolid, SPAIN Dr. Véronique Heiwy, IUT de Paris - Departement Informatique, FRANCE Nick Higgett, Faculty Assessor Research Students Digital Media, Group Faculty of Art and Design, De Montfort University, UK Dr. Stefan Hrastinski, Uppsala University, Department of Information Science Computer and Systems Science, SWEDEN Dr. Hanh H. Hoang, Hue University (College of Sciences), VIETNAM Sabine H. Hoffmann, Macquarie University, Australia Dr. Sijung Hu, Leader of Photonics Engineering and Health Technology Research Group, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Loughborough University, UK Prof. Xiaohua (Tony) Hu, College of Information Science & Technology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA Dr. Hamidah Ibrahim Department of Computer Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia, MALAYSIA Dr. Sergio Ilarri, Department of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, University of Zaragoza, SPAIN Dr. Luis Iribarne, Departamento de Lenguajes y Computacion, Universidad de Almeria, SPAIN Dr. Jeannette K. Jones, RCC MED Lead Faculty - Instructional Technology American InterContinental University (AIU) Online Campus, USA Prof. Dawn Jutla, Professor Dept. of Finance, Information Systems, and Management Science SOBEY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS Saint Mary's University, CANADA Martijn Kagie, Econometric Institute, Erasmus University Rotterdam, THE NETHERLANDS Netherlands Prof Ejub Kajan, High School of Applied Studies, Vranje, Serbia Prof. Takaharu Kameoka, Mie Univeristy, JAPAN Prof. Yvon Kermarrec, Institut Télécom / Télécom Bretagne, FRANCE Prof. Haim Kilov, Affiliate Professor Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Dr. Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen University, GERMANY Prof. Dimitri Konstantas, Vice-Dean, Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, University of Geneva - Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Department of Information Systems, SWITZERLAND Dr. Konstantinos Kotis, Lecturer - Researcher AI-Lab, Dept. of Information and Communications Systems Eng., University of the Aegean, GREECE Dr. Sotiris Kotsiantis, Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Peloponnese, GREECE Dr. Agnes Kukulska-Hulme, Senior Lecturer in Educational Technology, Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University, UK Dr. Monika Lanzenberger, Institut fuer Softwaretechnik und Interaktive Systeme Technische Universitaet Wien, AUSTRIA Nelson K. Y. Leung,University of Wollongong, AUSTRALIA Dr. Tobias Ley, Know-Center, AUSTRIA Dr. Yang Li, Principal Research Scientist Intelligent Systems Research Centre Group, Chief Technology Office, British Telecom, UK Dr. Ziqi Liao, Hong Kong Baptist University, HONG KONG (CHINA) Dr. Fernanda Lima, Universidade Catolica de Brasilia, BRAZIL Dr. Ying Liu, Lecturer, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HONG KONG (CHINA) Prof. Shantha Liyanage, Macquarie University, AUSTRALIA Prof. Daniela Leal Musa, Federal University of Sao Paulo, BRAZIL Prof. Stephan Lukosch, FernUniversitat in Hagen, GERMANY Dr. Anna Maddalena, DISI, University of Genoa, ITALY. Paola Di Maio, Editor, Content Wire, UK Dr Gavin McArdle, School of Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin,IRELAND Dr. Sean Mehan, Lecturer and R&D manager, University of the Highlands and Islands, Scotland, UK Dr. Jens O. Meissner Institute of Management, Lucerne School of Business, SWITZERLAND Dr. Pedro J. Muñoz Merino, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, SPAIN Prof. Paul G. Mezey, Memorial University, CANADA Dr. Douglas L. Micklich, Instructional Assistant Professor,Dept. of Mgt. and Quantitative Methods, Illinois State University, USA Dr. Julià Minguillón, Assistant Director of the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) Lecturer at the Computer Science, Multimedia and Telecommunication Studies Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), SPAIN Dr. Alok Mishra, Associate Professor, Department of Computer & Software Engineering, Atilim University, Ankara - TURKEY Dr. Leonel Morgado, University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, PORTUGAL Prof. Charles A. Morrissey, Associate -Professor, Graziadio School of Business and Management Pepperdine University, USA Pekka Muukkonen, Department of Information Technology, University of Turku, FINLAND Dr. Ambjörn Naeve, Royal Institute of Technology, SWEDEN Prof. Keiichi Nakata, International University in Germany, GERMANY Dr. Raquel Hijón Neira, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, SPAIN Dr. Lynne Nikolychuk, King's College London Department of Management, UK Dr. Michael O'Grady, University College Dublin, Ireland David O'Donnell, Intellectual Capital Research Institute of Ireland, IRELAND Prof. Claus Pahl, Dublin City University, School of Computing, IRELAND Prof. Roberto Paiano, Professor of Information Systems, University of Salento, ITALY Dr. Ricardo Colomo Palacios, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, SPAIN Dr. Ioannis Papadakis, Lecturer, Archives and Library Department, Ionian University, GREECE Thanos C. Papadopoulos, Warwick Business School, The University of Warwick, UK Prof. Joseph C. Paradi, University of Toronto, CANADA Dr. Adrian Paschke, Assistant Professor Biotec Center, Technical University Dresden, GERMANY Dr. Katerina Pastra, Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Athens, GREECE Dr. Jyotishman Pathak, Research Associate & Instructor, Division of Biomedical Informatics Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, USA Maria Pavli-Korres, University of Alcala de Henares, SPAIN Giuseppe Pirrò, D.E.I.S, University of Calabria, ITALY Roman Povalej,Research Assistant, Institute AIFB University of Karlsruhe (TH), GERMANY Dr. Isabel Ramos, University of Minho, PORTUGAL Dr. Jose Jesus García Rueda,Telematics Department Carlos III University of Madrid, SPAIN Prof. Gary D. Robinson, Chair, General Business School of Business and Technology, Capella University, USA Dr. Lazar Rusu, Senior Lecturer, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), SWEDEN Dr. Soror Sahri, Université Paris-Dauphine, FRANCE Dr. Evangelos Sakkopoulos, University of Patras, GREECE Dr Sherif Sakr, Postdoc Researcher Managing Complexity Group - National ICT Australia Limited (NICTA) - University of New South Wales, AUSTRALIA Sadat Shami, Information Science Program, Cornell University, USA Prof. Laura Sanchez Garcia, Departamento de Informatica, Centro de Computacao Cientifica e Software Livre, Universidade Federal do Parana, BRAZIL Virginie Sans, Etis/CNRS laboratory, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, FRANCE Dr. Samiaji Sarosa, Atma Jaya Yogyakarta University, INDONESIA Prof. Walt Scacchi, University of California, USA Hanno Schauer, Institute for Computer Science and Business Information Systems (ICB), Universitaet Duisburg-Essen, GERMANY Prof. Dra. Silvia Schiaffino, ISISTAN Research Institute, Univ. Nac. del Centro de la Pcia, ARGENTINA Dr. Ansgar Scherp, OFFIS - Multimedia and Internet Information Services, GERMANY Dr. Muhammad Shafique, Assistant Professor, Head, Strategy & Management Group, Faculty of Management Sciences, International Islamic University, PAKISTAN Dr. Duncan Shaw, Senior Lecturer & Research Convenor in Operations and Information Management, Aston Business School, Aston University, UK Dr Yun Shen, Department of Engineering Mathematics, University of Bristol, UK Dr. Pancham Shukla, Senior Lecturer, Department of Computing, Communications Technology, and Mathematics (CCTM), London Metropolitan University, UK Upasana Singh, Lecturer, University of KwaZulu, SOUTH AFRICA Dr. Marianna Sigala, University of Aegean, GREECE Prof. Sean Wolfgand M. Siqueira, Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO), BRAZIL Dr. Miha Škerlavaj, Univerza v Ljubljani, Ekonomska fakulteta, SLOVENIA Dr. Georgios Skoulas, Assistant Professor in Political Science, Dept. of International & European, Economic & Political Studies, UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA, GREECE Prof. Vaclav Snasel, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, CZECH REPUBLIC Prof. Ioannis Stamelos, Associate Prof., Dept of Informatics, AUTH, GREECE Dr. Lubomir Stanchev, Assistant Professor Computer Science Department, Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne, USA Dr. Darijus Strasunskas, Research scientist, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), NORWAY Dr. Anna Maria Tammaro, University of Parma, ITALY Cui Tao, Computer Science Department,Brigham Young University, USA Dr. Zaiyong Tang, Assistant Professor, Salem State College, USA Anas Tawileh, School of Computer Science, Cardiff University UK Prof. Vagan Terziyan, Industrial Ontologies Group, University of Jyvaskyla, FINLAND Prof. Eric Tsui, Chairman – IFIP 12.6 Working Group on Knowledge Management, Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HONG KONG (CHINA) Giovanni Vincenti, D.Sc. Gruppo Vincenti, S.r.l. Rome, ITALY Dr. Silvia Rita Viola, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica, Gestionale e dell' Automazione (DIIGA), Universita' Politecnica delle Marche - Ancona, ITALY Dr. Gianluigi Viscusi, DISCo, University of Milano-Bicocca, ITALY Prof. Christian Wagner, Professor of Information Systems, City University of Hong Kong, HONG KONG (CHINA) Dr. Chengbo Wang, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK Prof. Toyohide Watanabe, Nagoya University, JAPAN Dr. Paige Wimberley, MSN, RN,CNS,CNE Assistant Professor of Nursing, Arkansas State University, USA Dr. Martin Wolpers,Fraunhofer FIT.ICON, GERMANY Gang Wu, Department of Computer Science & Technology, Tsinghua University, CHINA Dr. Weili Wu, Dept of Computer Science University of Texas at Dallas, USA Dr. Hui Yang, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, San Francisco State University, USA Dr. Nilay Yajnik,Professor - Information Systems NMIMS University , Mumbai , INDIA Sima Yazdani, Sr. IT Manager, Cisco Systems Cisco Leadership Fellow at Teachers Without Borders, USA Dr. Mahmoud Youssef, Chairman, Arab Academy for Science and Technology, EGYPT Dr. Chengcui Zhang Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA Xihui (Paul) Zhang. University of Memphis, USA Dr. Peisheng Zhao, Research Assistant Professor, George Mason University, USA Dr Jianhan Zhu, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK Prof. Razvan Daniel Zota, Academy of Economic Studies Bucharest, ROMANIA Leyla Zhuhadar, Western Kentucky University, USA Evripidis Korres, OPEN RESEARCH SOCIETY, GREECE Dr. Jan-Willem Strijbos, Department of Educational Sciences, Leiden University, the Netherlands Dr. Nancy Alonistioti, Lecturer, Dept. Informatics, University of Piraeus, GREECE Prof. Per Anker Jensen, Copenhagen Business School, DENMARK Prof. Bodil Nistrup Madsen, Copenhagen Business School, DENMARK Prof. Hanne Erdman Thomsen, Associate Professor, Copenhagen Business School, DENMARK Dra. Maria Jesús Martinez-Argüelles, Program Director, Degree in Business Science, Open University of Catalonia, Spain Dra. Ana Isabel Jiménez-Zarco, Program Director, Degree in Business Administration and Management, Open University of Catalonia, Spain Dra. Inma Rodríguez-Ardura, Senior Lecturer, Studies in Business and Economy, Open University of Catalonia, Spain Dra. Eva Rimbau-Gilabert, Academic Director, Graduate Studies in Business and Economy, Open University of Catalonia, Spain Prof. Konstantinos Tarabanis, Director Information Systems Lab, University of Macedonia, GREECE Ioanna Constantiou, Associate Professor, Ph.D., Copenhagen Business School, DENMARK Francisco Palomo Lozano, Department of Computer Languages and Systems, University of Cádiz, SPAIN Prof. Meir Russ, Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, USA Dr. Mikael Collan, Institute for Advanced Management Systems Research, FINLAND Arianna D'Ulizia, National Research Council, Institute of Research on Population and Social Policies,ITALY Prof. Carla Limongelli, Associate Professor, Universita "Roma Tre", Dipartimento di Informatica e Automazione, ITALY Prof. Marco Temperini, Associate Professor, Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Universita' La Sapienza, ITALY Dr. Filippo Sciarrone, Lecturer at Universita` "Roma Tre", Dipartimento di Informatica e Automazione, ITALY Dr. Juan Pablo de Castro Fernández, Associate Professor, Department of Signal Theory, Communications and Telematics Engineering, University of Valladolid, SPAIN Prof. dr. Paul A. Kirschner, Professor of Educational Psychology, Open University of the Netherlands, THE NETHERLANDS Dr. Kleanthis Thramboulidis, University of Patras, GREECE Prof. Algirdas Pakstas, London Metropolitan University, UK Juan Ye, Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin, IRELAND Pankaj Kamthan, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Concordia University, CANADA Johann Gamper, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Ramon J. Duran Barroso. University of Valladolid. Spain Dr. Andy Dearden, Reader in e-SocialAction , Communication and Computing Research Centre, Sheffield Hallam University, UK Dr. Seppo Virtanen, Dept. of Information Technology, University of Turku, Finland Prof. Pascal Francq, Digital Information Chair, Universitat Libre de Bruxelles, BELGIUM Dr. Miguel L. Bote-Lorenzo, University of Valladolid, Spain Constantinos T. Artikis, Department of Computing and Mathematics, School of Informatics, University of Bradford, U.K. Panagiotis T. Artikis, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK Luis Angel Galindo Sanchez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, SPAIN Professor María Jesús Segovia Vargas, Department of Financial Economics and Accounting I, Faculty of Economy and Business Management, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, SPAIN Dra. Zuleyka Diaz Martínez, Department of Financial Economics and Accounting I, Faculty of Economy and Business Management, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, SPAIN Rushed Kanawati, Associate Professor, LIPN – CNRS, FRANCE Jose M. Hernandez-Munoz, Assistant Professor, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, and Head of Division, TELEFONICA I+D, SPAIN Maurizio Vincini, Research Associate, Ph. D., Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia, ITALY Berardina Nadja De Carolis, Intelligent Interfaces, Department of Informatics, University of Bari, ITALY Dr. Konstantinos Samiotis, Managing Consultant, Research & Innovation, PLANET S.A., GREECE Professor Pirkko Walden, Institute for Advanced Management Systems Research, Abo Akademi University, FINLAND Maria de Lourdes Machado-Taylor, CIPES- Center for Research in Higher Education Policies, PORTUGAL Dr. Suneeti Rekhari, Lecturer in Sociology, School of Social Sciences, Media and Communication, Arts Faculty, University of Wollongong, AUSTRALIA Dr Phil Fitzsimmons, Deputy Director Primary, Acting Practicum Director , Senior Lecturer Language and Literacy, Director Fiji Practicum, Faculty of Education, University of Wollongong, AUSTRALIA Jeanne D. Maes, Ph.D., Professor, Mitchell College of Business, University of South Alabama, USA Yujian Fu, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Alabama A&M University, USA Patricia A. Walls, Ph. D., Assistant Professor,Department of Social Work,Arkansas State University, USA Dr. Pilar Manzanares-Lopez, Technical University of Cartagena, Spain Nuria Hurtado Rodríguez, Department of Computer Languages and Systems, University of Cádiz, SPAIN Dr. Antonio Tomeu, University of Cadiz, SPAIN Carlos Bobed, University of Zaragoza, SPAIN Dr. Lori L. Scarlatos, Associate Professor, Department of Technology and Society, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Stony Brook University, USA Dr. Juan Gabriel Cegarra Navarro, Associate professor, Facultad de Ciencias de la Empresa, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, SPAIN Dr. Helena Villarejo, Lecturer in Public Law, University of Valladolid. SPAIN Nancy Linwood, DuPont, Central Research and Development, Information and Computing Technologies, USA Dr Zuleyka Diaz Martinez, Department of Financial Economics and Accounting I., Universidad Complutense de Madrid, SPAIN Dr Claire Dormann, Human-oriented Technology Lab, Carleton University, CANADA Dr Rob Potharst, Erasmus University, Econometric Institute, THE NETHERLANDS Sebastian Matyas,Chair of Computing in the Cultural Sciences, Laboratory for Semantic Information Processing, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, GERMANY Robert Fullér, Institute for Advanced Management Systems Research, Department of Information Technologies, Faculty of Technology, Åbo Akademi University, FINLAND Dr Ian Taylor, School of Computer Science, Cardiff, UK and Dept. Computer Science and Center for Computation and Technology, LSU, USA. Prof. Paola Mello, Ph.D., DEIS - University of Bologna, ITALY Dr. Ricardo Lopez-Ruiz,Department of Computer Science and Systems Engineering,Faculty of Sciences, University of Zaragoza, SPAIN. Dr. Xavier Calbet,EUMETSAT, GERMANY Anastasia Petrou, Department of Economics,School of Economics and Management,University of Peloponnese, GREECE Irene Daskalopoulou, Lecturer, Department of Economics, School of Economics and Management, University of Peloponnese, GREECE Bonifacio Llamazares, PRESAD Research Group, Dep. de Economía Aplicada, Universidad de Valladolid, SPAIN Dr.Nadia Pisanti, Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa, ITALY Juan Vicente Perdiz, Institute for European Studies, University of Valladolid, SPAIN Dr. María Jesús Verdú Pérez, University of Valladolid, SPAIN Elena Verdú Pérez, University of Valladolid, Spain Dr Evanegelia Karagiannopoulou, Senior Lecturer Department of Philosophy, Education and Psychology,Section Psychology, University of Ioannina, GREECE Dr Dusica Novakovic MBCS FHEA MLMS, Senior Lecturer in Computer Science, Department of Computing, London Metropolitan University, USA Jorge Gracia, Department of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Josemaria Maalgosa Sanahuja, Department of Information Technologies and Communications, Polytechnic University of Cartagena, SPAIN Dr. Daniel TSE, Department of Information Systems, CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG, HONG KONG (CHINA) Dr. Sotirios Goudos, Telecommunications Center, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GREECE Ino Martínez León, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Facultad de Ciencias de la Empresa, SPAIN Dr M. Latif, Dept of Engineering and Technology, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Guillermo Ibañez Ph.D., Associate Profesor, Telematic Engineering / Dpt. Automatica, Universidad de Alcalá, SPAIN Prof. Alejandro Diaz-Morcillo, Department of Information Technologies and Communications, Polytechnic, University of Cartagena, SPAIN. Maria Chiara Caschera, IRPPS-CNR, Rome, ITALY Marcos Martin-Fernandez,Associate Professor in Signal Theory and Communications, Valladolid University, SPAIN M. Carmen de Castro, Deparatamento Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos, Dr. Mercedes Ruiz, University of Cádiz, SPAIN Dr. Christos K. Georgiadis, Lecturer, Dept. of Applied Informatics Prof. Paolo Toth, DEIS, University of Bologna, ITALY Dr. Michael Derntl, University of Vienna, Research Lab for Educational Technologies, AUSTRIA Dr Athanassios Vozikis, Lecturer, University of Piraeus, GREECE Diane H. Sonnenwald, Director, Center for Collaborative Innovation, Professor, Swedish School of Library & Information Science, Göteborg University & University College of Borås, SWEDEN Gianluca Elia, Assistant Professor at Faculty of Engineering - University of Salento (Lecce, IT) Dr. Raymond Y.K. Lau, Program Leader - BBA in Electronic Commerce, Department of Information Systems, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR Spyros D. Arsenis, University of Thessaly, GREECE Manolis Vavalis, Department of Computer & Communication Engineering, University of Thessaly, GREECE Denis Gillet, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland Michael Veith, University of Siegen, Institute for Information Systems and New Media, GERMANY Nineta Polemi, University of Piraeus, GREECE Assoc Prof Sonia Berman, Computer Science Department, University of Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA Prof.Andreas Holzinger, Head Research Unit HCI4MED, Institute of Medical Informatics, Statistics & Documentation, Medical University Graz,AUSTRIA Dr Russel Pears, Senior Lecturer, School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Professor Val Clulow, Head, School of Business and Economics Laurel D. Riek, Cambridge University, UK Associate Professor Karl-Heinz Pognmer Ph.d., Department of Intercultural Communication and Management, Copenhagen Business School, DENMARK Dr. Markus Rohde, International Institute for Socio-Informatics (Bonn)and University of Siegen, GERMANY Dr. Manuel Rubio-Sanchez, Rey Juan Carlos University, SPAIN Dr. Kylie Hsu, Professor of Chinese and Linguistics, California State University at Los Angeles, U.S.A. Dr. Carlos Ferran, Penn State Great Valley University, USA David R. Harding, Jr. PhD, Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Administration, Arkansas State University, USA Chunzhao Liu, Ph.D., Professor of Biochemical Engineering,National Key Laboratory of Biochemical Engineering, Institute of Process Engineering,Chinese Academy of Sciences, CHINA Dr Mary Meldrum, Head of Postgraduate Programmes and Quality Enhancement, Manchester Metropolitan University Business School, UK Prof. Aime' Lay-Ekuakille, University of Salento, ITALY Dr. Giuseppe Vendramin, University of Salento, ITALY Shaoyi He, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Information Systems,Department of Information Systems and Operations Management, College of Business Administration, California State University, USA Dr. Alyson Gill, Assistant Professor, Art History, Arkansas State University, USA Jon A. Preston, Associate Professor, Department of Information Technology, College of Information and Mathematical Sciences, Clayton State University Linda A. Jackson, Professor, Psychology and Computer Science Karim Mohammed Rezaul, Centre for Applied Internet Research (CAIR) Grigorios N. Beligiannis, Lecturer, Department of Business Administration of Food and Agricultural Enterprises, University of Ioannina, GREECE Ryan Robeson, Arkansas State University, MPA graduate, USA Lambros Skarlas, MSc, PhD, Pattern Recognition, Clinical Oncology Laboratory, University of Patras, GREECE Ana B. Ríos Hilario, Prof. Dra. Departamento de Biblioteconomía y Documentación, Universidad de Salamanca, ESPANA Dr Ane Troger, Lecturer at Aston Business School, UK José Luis García-Lapresta, PRESAD Research Group, Dep. de Economía Aplicada Dr. Belén Carro, University of Valladolid, Spain Dr F F Cai, London Metropolitan University, UK Aristomenis Macris, Assistant Professor, MIS and ERP Systems, Department of Business Administration, Academic coordinator of IT department, University of Piraeus, GREECE Prof. Anastasios A. Economides, Information Systems Department, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, HELLAS (GREECE) Noah Kasraie, Assistant Professor, Arkansas State University, USA George A. Jacinto, PhD, LCSW, CPC, Associate Professor, Department of Social Work, Arkansas State University, USA Prof. Pedro Soto-Acosta, Dpto Organizacion De Empresas y Finanzas, University of Murcia, SPAIN O J Ebohon, Reader on Energy, Sustainability, and Development, & Director, Developing World Built Environment Research Unit, School of Architecture, De Montfort University, UK Dr. Francesca Lonetti, ISTI - Area della Ricerca CNR, Italy Prof. Francesc Burrull, Polytechnic University of Cartagena, SPAIN Dr. Maria Papadaki,Associate Professor of Environmental Chemistry,Department of Environmental & Natural Resources Management, University of Ioannina, GREECE Dr. Jesús Ibáñez, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain Dr Daniela Tsaneva, PhD, Cardiff School of Computer Science,UK Prof. Dr. Jose Luis Isla Montes, University of Cadiz, SPAIN Stone Schmidt, PhD, Arkansas State University, USA Dr Taha Osman, School of Computing & Informatics, Nottingham Trent University, UK Razaq Raj, Senior Lecturer, Course Director MSc Events Management, Executive Editor of the World Journal of Tourism, Leisure and Sport, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK Ahmad Syamil, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Computer and Information Technology, College of Business, Arkansas State University, USA Luke Tredinnick, Senior Lecturer in Information Management, London Metropolitan University, Course Director for the MSc on Digital Information Management, UK Dra. CAROLINA LÓPEZ NICOLÁS, Management Department, University of Murcia, Beatriz Fariña, Department of Applied Economics, University of Valladolid, SPAIN Dr. Staffan Elgelid, Arizona State University, USA Gregg, Janie, University of West Alabama, USA Vlasios Voudouris - Senior Lecturer, London Metropolitan Business School, London Metropolitan University, UK Angela J. Daniels, Division of Student Affairs, Arkansas State University, USA Hai Jiang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, College of Sciences and Mathematics, Arkansas State University, USA
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Deadline for papers submissions 30th August 2008 Until 30th August 2008 Submissions are welcome but will be considered for publication directly to the 14 International Journals and the Springer PostConference Proceedings Download Conference Program: here
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Keynotes
John Carroll Edward M. Frymoyer Professor of Information Sciences and Technology Education Ph.D., Psychology Columbia University, New York, NY 1976) M.Phil., Psychology Columbia University, New York, NY 1975 M.A., Psychology Columbia University, New York, NY 1974 B.A.,Information Sciences Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 1972 B.A., Mathematics Lehigh University, Bethlehem,Pa. 1972 http://faculty.ist.psu.edu/jcarroll/ Biographical Information
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