Alex Bordetsky

Alex Bordetsky is tenured Associate Professor of Information Systems at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey. He is also an Associate Chair for Research at the Department of Information Sciences. Professor Bordetsky is Director of the NPS Center for Network Innovation and Experimentation (CENETIX). He is Principal Investigator for one of the major research projects at NPS, Tactical Network Topology (TNT) Testbed and Experimentation, conducted jointly and sponsored by USSOCOM. Bordetsky is a recipient of prestigious Robert W. Hamming Interdisciplinary Research Award for his pioneering studies of collaborative technologies and adaptive network-centric environments. His work has been recently featured in the AFCEA SIGNAL Magazine, Via Sat and the USSOCOM Tip of the Spear Journal, and Pentagon Channel TV programme. Professor Bordetsky publishes in major IT journals including Information Systems Research, Telecommunication Systems Modeling and Analysis, Command and Control Systems, International Journal of Mobile Wireless Communications, and International Command and Control Research Journal.

Suphong Chirawattanakij

Suphong Chirawattanakij is studying a PhD in Management (concentration in Knowledge Management) at the College of Management, Mahidol University, Thailand. He received his Masters in Computer Science from Mahidol University and Bachelors in Accounting Information Systems from Chulalongkorn University.

Currently, Suphong is working as the lead HRIS (Human Resources Information System) with Chevron Thailand Exploration and Production.

Before Chevron, he worked at Exxon Mobil (Thailand) for 14 years. Suphong has diversified his experiences in three major areas: business processes, information systems and human resources management. He used to work as an internal auditor and a control advisor in both functional and information system aspects for many years. In terms of information system perspective, Suphong has been involved in accounting and human resources applications as the implementer and system support for several years.

Giuliana Dettori

Giuliana Dettori has been working as a researcher for the Italian National Research Council since 1978. She is currently with the Institute for Educational Technology in Genoa, Italy. After an initial involvement in Applied Mathematics, her research interests have been in Educational Technology for most of her professional life. She has been working, in particular, on self-regulated learning, narrative learning and the mediating role of ICT in teaching and learning, in relation to school settings, distance education and teacher training. She is teaching in the PhD school of the University of Genoa ‘ICT for Human and Social Sciences’, has authored numerous scientific papers, is carrying out editorial collaboration with many international journals and conferences, and has been responsible in her institute for several international and national projects.

Virginia Maracine

Virginia Maracine is Professor of Operational Research, Business Logistics and Risk Management, and is also elected Vice-Dean within the Faculty of Economic Cybernetics, Statistics and Informatics (www.csie.ase.ro) within the Bucharest University of Economics – BUE (www.ase.ro) – the most important university with an economic profile in Romania.

She graduated from the Faculty of Economic Cybernetics, Statistics and Informatics in 1990, and since then she joined the academic community in the BUE as Junior Assistant Professor. She received her PhD degree in 1997 at the Bucharest University of Economics for the PhD thesis entitled ‘Companies’ Decisions under Uncertain Economic Environment’.

Her scientific activity consists of over one hundred articles, papers presented at international conferences and monographs, 16 national research grants both as a programme director and as a team member, and 12 books in the fields such as: Operational Research, Managerial Decisions, Economic Dynamics and Financial Market and Portfolios Management.

Iulia Maries

Iulia Maries is a PhD student in the field of Economic Cybernetics at the Bucharest University of Economics. She holds a BA in Economic Cybernetics from the same university.

Her research focuses on computational collective intelligence, cognitive systems and complex adaptive systems. Iulia is also interested in applications of multi-agent systems and complex systems in economics.

Her scientific activity is materialised both in articles published in national and international journals, and scientific papers presented to conferences. She is currently a member of the research project ‘The Development of Theoretical Fundaments of Knowledge Ecosystems and Their Applications on Economy and Healthcare’.

Mark Nissen

Mark Nissen is Command and Control Chair, and Professor of Information Science and Management at the Naval Postgraduate School. His research focuses on dynamic knowing and organising, and has concentrated for years on research to understand and guide dynamic knowledge flows. Mark’s many publications span information systems, organisation studies, knowledge management, project management, command and control, and related fields. In 2000 he received the Menneken Faculty Award for Excellence in Scientific Research, the top research award available to faculty at the Naval Postgraduate School. In 2001 he received a prestigious Young Investigator Grant Award from the Office of Naval Research for work on Knowledge Flow Theory. In 2002–2003 he was Visiting Professor at Stanford. In 2004 he established the Center for Edge Power. Before his doctoral work at the University of Southern California, he acquired over a dozen years’ technical and management experience in the aerospace and electronics industries.

Giorgio Olimpo

Giorgio Olimpo was professor of Software Engineering at the University of Genoa (Italy) and director of the Institute for Educational Technology of the Italian National Research Council for more than 20 years. He is presently associate researcher at the Institute for Educational Technology and is responsible of the project ‘Innovation of Learning’ of the National Research Council. His present interests are focused on the new cognitive skills required in the knowledge society and on the use of graphic representation languages in education, both for students (as conceptual tools for building knowledge) and for teachers (as an aid for communication and pedagogical design).

Emil Scarlat

Emil Scarlat is Professor of Cybernetics within the Department of Economic Cybernetics in the Bucharest University of Economics, Romania. He teaches for the senior students in the undergraduate and master programmes, and also leads doctoral students in the Cybernetics and Statistics fields.

Professor Scarlat’s scientific activity is materialised in over 100 articles and scientific papers published in the prestigious internal and international journals, and presented to international conferences. He is the author and co-author of 27 books in the fields such as: Economic Cybernetics, Complex Adaptive Systems, Nonlinear Dynamics, Agent-Based Modelling and Simulation, and, lately, Networked Virtual Organisations. He was leading various academic and industrial projects in the area of agent intelligence, virtual enterprise and knowledge ecosystems.

His researches are focused now on the use of intelligent agents in the design and operation of dynamic networked organisations, in particular in healthcare organisations.

Guglielmo Trentin

Guglielmo Trentin is senior researcher and project manager at the Institute for Educational Technology (ITD) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR). His studies have largely focused on the use of network technology in formal and informal learning. In this field he has managed several projects and scientific activities, developing technological applications and methodological approaches to support networked collaborative learning. Since 2002 he has taught ‘Network Technology, Knowledge Flow and Human Resources Development’ at the University of Turin. He has authored several papers and some books on the themes of technology enhanced learning. Since 1999 he has been a contributing editor to Educational Technology (USA).

Vichita Vathanophas

Vichita (Vathanophas) Ractham has been a member of the Faculty at College of Management (international campus), Mahidol University, since January 2003. She teaches graduate programmes in management, specialising in information technology, e-commerce and knowledge management. Prior to joining Mahidol, Professor Ractham was with the National University of Singapore (NUS) where she focused on management of information technology in cutting-edge international enterprises.

Academically, Vichita holds a PhD in Information Science and a Masters from the University of Pittsburgh, where she examined the ‘Use of Peripheral Social Awareness Tools in Collaborative Systems’. She received her first degree from the Faculty of Commerce and Accountancy, Chulalongkorn...