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Stuart Barnes is an Associate Professor at the School of Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He has been teaching and researching in the information systems field for over a decade. His academic background includes a first-class degree in Economics from University College London and a Ph.D. in Business Administration from Manchester Business School. He has published widely in leading e-commerce journals such as Communications of the ACM, the International Journal of Electronic Commerce, the Journal of Electronic Commerce Research, Electronic Markets, and the e-Service Journal. He has published three books: E-Commerce and V-Business in 2001, Knowledge Management Systems in 2002, and M-Business in 2003.

David Cook is an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Systems and Decision Sciences in the College of Business and Public Administration at Old Dominion University. He graduated from the University of Kentucky with a Ph.D. in Production and Operations Management. Professor Cook has published in such journals as Production and Inventory Managementl, APICS- The Performance Advantage, The Journal of Computer Information Systems, and Production and Operations Management. His research interests include quality management, service operations, and electronic commerce.

Sid Davis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis in the College of Information Science and Technology at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He holds a Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from Indiana University and has also served as a faculty member at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, East Carolina University, and Concordia University in Montreal. His research interests include mobile computing, human-computer interaction, distributed work group computing, electronic commerce, and software training. Professor Davis has published in MIS Quarterly, International Journal of Human Computer Studies, Information Systems Journal, Communications of the ACM, as well as other journals. He currently serves as an associate editor for e-Service Journal and is an editorial board member for the Journal of Database Management. [End Page 85]

Nina Krayer studied Business Administration at the University of Augsburg in Germany. She now works as a research and teaching assistant at the Chair of Business Administration, Information Systems and Financial Engineering and the Competence Center for Information Technology and Financial Services at the University of Augsburg, where she has completed various consulting projects with major financial service providers.

Hans Lehmann is an Associate Professor for Information Systems and Electronic Business at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. After a career as an information technology line manager in Europe and Africa, Professor Lehmann was an international management consultant with Deloitte before joining the University of Auckland in 1991. His research interests are the management of international information systems, especially the development of global electronic business strategies.

Franz Lehner habilitated at the Johannes-Kepler-University Linz in 1992 and is currently a Professor of Business Informatics at the University of Regensburg. His research interests include mobile computing and mobile business as well as knowledge management and software engineering.

Wenhong Luo is an Associate Professor of MIS in the Department of Decision and Information Technologies at Villanova University. He received his Ph.D. in MIS from the University of Kentucky. Professor Luo's research interests include system implementation, electronic commerce, and organizational computing. He has published articles in journals such as Communications of the ACM, Information & Management, European Journal of Information Systems, The Information Society, and Group Decision & Negotiation.

Zakaria Maamar is an Associate Professor at the College of Information Systems of Zayed University. Professor Maamar's research interests are mainly related to software agents, wireless systems, and mobile services. He has published several papers in well-known journals (e.g. CACM, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, and Information & Software Technology) and conference proceedings. Professor Maamar received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in computer sciences from Laval University, Quebec, Canada in 1995 and 1998, respectively.

Wathiq Mansoor is an Associate Professor at the College of Information Systems of Zayed University. He received his M.Sc. in electronic engineering from University of Technology in Baghdad in 1980. He received his Ph.D. in computer sciences and engineering from Aston University in the United Kingdom in 1990. Professor Mansoor's research interests are...

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