EMCIS2009: Workshops
Professor
Izak Benbasat
FRSC
Workshop Topic: Publishing in leading academic journals
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Prof Benbasat's EMCIS presentation)
Izak Benbasat,
Fellow-Royal Society of Canada, is CANADA Research Chair
in Information Technology Management at the Sauder
School of Business,
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Prof Benbasat received
the Leo Award for Lifetime Exceptional Achievements in
Information Systems from the Association for Information
Systems in 2007. He currently serves on the editorial
boards of Information Systems Journal and Journal of
Management Information Systems. He was editor-in-chief
of Information Systems Research, editor of the
Information Systems & Decision Support Systems
Department of Management Science, and a senior editor of
MIS Quarterly.
Professor Benbasat was
ranked as the most influential MIS researcher in terms
of publications cited by others (Lowry et al,
Communications of the Association for Information
Systems Volume 20, 2007); and as the most prolific
author in terms of publications in Human-Computer
Interaction research in MIS (Zhang and Li, Journal of
the Association for Information Systems November 2005).
The general theme of his research is improving the
communication between information technology (IT),
management, and IT users. His current research interests
include the investigation and evaluation of
human-computer communication for electronic commerce.
Mr
Atta Badii and Dr Tony Elliman
Workshop Topic: Securing
EU FP7 research Grants
Atta Badii, Founding
Director of IMSS, is a Professorial Fellow with a
multi-disciplinary academic and industrial research
experience in the fields of Distributed Intelligent and
Interactive Systems, Pattern Recognition, Security &
Trust Architectures and Workflow and Enterprise
Application Integration. He also secured 7 million
in EU research applications.
Mr Badii led the
research on Workflow Integration, Multimedia Adaptation
and Mobile Distribution within the EU FP6 IP Axmedis IP
(www.Axmedis.org), is the Coordinator of the EU FP6
Network Security Real-time IDS STREP FastMatch (www.FastMatch.org)
and the Coordinator of the EU FP7 IP CompanionAble (www.CompanionAble.net),
the technical leader/ reviewer/invited expert for a
number of other EU projects.
Mr Badii served as the
Chair of the Security Architectures and Virtualisation
Taskforce of the European RoadMap Security Project
SECURIST (http://www.securitytaskforce.org/). He has had
over twenty years of ICT research experience including
the management of major collaborative research
programmes. Atta has over 100 publications to-date
including refereed journal publications, refereed
specialist research conferences publications and book
chapters and serves on editorial and steering boards.
He is an acknowledged authority in the area of semantic
security context resolution, integrated personalisation
requirements prioritisation and usability evaluation of
ambient assistive systems and services.
