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226 EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS
Metamodel for Development Methodologies”), editor of the International Journal of Agent-
Oriented Software Engineering, and is also on several editorial boards. In July 2001, he was
awarded a Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) by the University of London for his research contributions
in object-oriented methodologies.

Alan Hevner is an Eminent Scholar and professor in the Information Systems and Decision Sci-
ences Department at the University of South Florida, where he holds the Citigroup/Hidden River
Chair of Distributed Technology. His areas of research interest include information systems de-
velopment, software engineering, distributed database systems, health care information systems,
and telecommunications. He has published more than 120 research papers on these topics and has
consulted for several Fortune 500 companies. He has a Ph.D. in computer science from Purdue
University, and he has held faculty positions at the University of Maryland and the University of
Minnesota. He is a member of ACM, IEEE, AIS, and INFORMS.

Emilio Iborra spent most of his career working for multinational hardware companies, in particular
at Tandem Computers (later acquired by Compaq Computers, now HP), where he was advisory
analyst and project manager in finance and telecom. Specializing in business security, he was an
active member of the European security team and principal specialist in Atalla crypto-technology
products. At the spin-off of CARE Technologies, he accepted the CEO position, where he directed
the creation of a set of products. He left CARE in 2006 to co-found AMI2, where he continues the
research and development of software engineering in user interaction and ambient intelligence.

Karlheinz Kautz is professor in systems development and software engineering in the Depart-
ment of Informatics at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, and until recently director of
studies for the course program on computer science and business administration. Previously, he
was employed as a senior researcher at the Norwegian Computing Center and as a lecturer at uni-
versities in Germany, Norway, England, and Denmark. He is chairman of the IFIP TC8 WG 8.6
on Diffusion, Transfer, and Implementation of Information Technology. His research interests are
diffusion and adoption of information technology (IT) innovations, evolutionary systems develop-
ment and system development methodologies for advanced application areas, the organizational
impact of IT, knowledge management, and software quality and process improvement. He has
published in these areas in such journals as Information and Software Technology, Information,
Technology and People, the Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems, Software Process
Improvement and Practice, IEEE Software, and the Journal of Knowledge Management, and is a
member of ACM and IEEE.
Arie Keren is a senior software engineer with more than twenty years of experience in software
development. Currently, he is doing freelance work in analysis, architecture, and development of
software-based systems. During the project described in this book, he led the systems engineering
group at MAMDAS software development unit in the Israeli Air Force. He has a Ph.D. in computer
science from Hebrew University in Jerusalem (1998), M.Sc. in computer science from Tel-Aviv
University (1991), and B.Sc. in computer engineering from Technion, Haifa (1983).

Manuel Kolp is an associate professor in computer science at the Université catholique de Louvain,
Belgium, where he is head of the Information Systems Research Unit and coordinator of the Center
of Excellence in Management and Information Technology. He is also a visiting professor at the
University of Brussels and the Universitary Faculties St. Louis of Brussels. His research work