Contributors
- Contributors
Ram N. Achrrya is an Assistant Research Professor at Arizona State University. His research activities are mainly focused in the field of perishable logistics management, market competition and adoption of information technologies, impact of spatial competition on small business lending, price behavior in a dynamic oligopsony market, impact of social marketing campaigns on consumer behavior, and the adoption of Web technologies in business to business e-commerce. Professor Acharya has disseminated his research findings through various outlets including Applied Economics, Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation, Educational and Psychological Measurements, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Journal of Internet Commerce, Health Education and Behavior, and Applied Economics Letters.
Leo G. Anthopoulos holds a B.S. in Computer Sciences and a Ph.D. in the e-Government area, from the Computer Science Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh), Greece. He is a secondary education computer science teacher and he has worked for many organizations such as the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Research Committee (AUTh), the Information Society S.A. (Ministry of Interior of Greece), and he was the scientific coordinator of the "e-Trikala Digital City" project from 2003 to 2005. His research interests concern the Information Society and e-Government areas, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), and aspects of digital communities. He has published more than ten articles in international journals, magazines and conferences.
Tamara Dinev is Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Technology and Operations Management (ITOM) at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida. She received her Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics in 1997. Following several senior positions in information technology companies, her interests migrated to MIS research and she joined the Florida Atlantic University ITOM faculty in 2000. Her research interests include Internet privacy and trust in online vendors, multicultural aspects of e-commerce use, spyware, and negative technologies. She has published in several journals including Information Systems Research, Communications of the ACM, International Journal of Electronic Commerce, European Journal of Information Systems, Journal of Global Information Management, and Behaviour and Information Technology. [End Page 77]
Paul Hart is Professor and Chair of the Department of Information Technology and Operations Management at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida. His research interests include the role of computer networks in organizational boundaries and relations between customer and supplier firms; trust in online transactions, web page design and impression management; co-location requirements in engineering design environments; communication genres and video teleconferencing; and information privacy. He has published in a number of journals including Information Systems Research, Organization Science, Journal of Management Information Systems, International Journal of Electronic Commerce, European Journal of Information Systems, Journal of Global Information Management, and Behaviour and Information Technology.
Albert Kagan is a professor at Arizona State University. His research activities are in the area of electronic commerce applications, computer security, database design tools, and banking systems. Professor Kagan's publications have appeared in the following outlets: Journal of Applied Business Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of Marketing Research, Omega, Journal of Systems and Software, Information Systems Journal, Applied Economics, Information & Management, Computers & Security, Information Systems Management, Information and Software Technology, Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, American Journal of Agricultural Economics and Commercial Bank Lending, among others. Professor Kagan's funded research projects have totaled approximately $11 million. He has MIS industry experience at two Fortune 500 companies.
Vinod Kodepaka received his Master's degree in Agribusiness Management from Arizona State University. Since then he has been working as a Software Consultant, managing projects ranging from requirements management to quality assurance. In addition to consulting, he is active in business analysis and information management.
Alexandros Nanopoulos was born in Craiova, Romania, in 1974. He graduated from the Computer Science Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1996, and obtained a Ph.D. from the same institute in 2003. The subject of his dissertation was "Techniques for Non Relational Data Mining." He is co-author of more than 30 articles in international journals and conferences, also co-author of the monographs "Advanced Signature Techniques for Multimedia and Web Applications" and "R-tree: Theory and Applications." His research interests include spatial and Web mining, integration of data mining with database...
