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224     EDITORS  AND  CONTRIBUTORS
                    Christopher J. Davis is assistant professor of information systems at the College of Business,
                    University of South Florida Saint Petersburg. His recent research explores the impact of informa-
                    tion technology on the process and organization of work and the efficacy of systems analysis and
                    design techniques. His work has been presented at international conferences in Europe and the
                    United States and published in a range of journals, including Communications of the ACM, Journal
                    of Computer Information Systems, International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction,
                    Journal of Organizational Change Management, Systems Research, and Behavioral Science, and
                    MIS Quarterly.

                    Tharam Dillon holds the position of professor as Head of Research Development with the Digital
                    Ecosystems and Business Intelligence Institute, Curtin University of Technology, Australia. His
                    research interests include data mining, Internet computing, e-commerce, hybrid neuro-symbolic
                    systems, neural nets, software engineering, database systems, and computer networks. He has also
                    worked with industry in developing systems in telecommunications, health care, e-commerce,
                    logistics, power systems, and banking and finance. He is editor-in-chief of the International Jour-
                    nal of Computer Systems Science and Engineering and the International Journal of Engineering
                    Intelligent Systems, as well as co-editor of the Journal of Electric Power and Energy Systems.
                    He is on the advisory editorial board of Applied Intelligence, published by Kluwer in the United
                    States and Computer Communications, published by Elsevier in the UK. He has published more
                    than 400 papers in international and national journals.

                    Yael Dubinsky is a visiting member of the human–computer interaction research group in the
                    Department of Computer and Systems Science at La Sapienza, Rome, and for more than ten
                    years has been the instructor of a project-based course in the Department of Computer Science
                    at Technion Institute of Technology. She is also affiliated with the Software and Services group
                    in IBM Haifa Research Lab (HRL). Her research interests involve aspects in software engineer-
                    ing and information systems. She has significant experience with guiding agile implementation
                    processes in industry and academia. She has presented her work (since 2002) and co-facilitated
                    tutorials (since 2005) in Agile and XP conferences.


                    John Erickson is an assistant professor in the College of Business Administration at the Univer-
                    sity of Nebraska at Omaha. His research interests include Unified Modeling Language, software
                    complexity, and systems analysis and design issues. He has published in journals such as the Com-
                    munications of the ACM, Journal of Database Management, and in conferences such as AMICIS,
                    ICIS WITS, EMMSAD, and CAiSE. He has also co-authored several book chapters.
                    Robert M. Fuller is an assistant professor of information systems at the College of Business
                    Administration, University of Tennessee. His research interests focus on the fit and use of col-
                    laborative technologies for decision performance and the adoption and use of communication
                    technologies. His research has been published in the Journal of the Association for Information
                    Systems, Decision Support Systems, and the Journal of Computer Information Systems, and he
                    has presented at national and international conferences.

                    Paolo Giorgini is researcher at the University of Trento, where he currently leads the Software
                    Engineering and Formal Methods Group of the Department of Information and Communication
                    Technology. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Computer Science Institute of the University of
                    Ancona (Italy) in 1998. Between March and October 1998 he worked at the University of Macerata
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