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Conference Chairs

	Gabriele Piccoli After eight years on the faculty of the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University Gabriele Piccoli is now Associate Professor of Information Systems at the University of Sassari (Italy). His research and teaching expertise is in strategic information systems and the use of Internet technology to support customer service. His research has appeared in MIS Quarterly, MIS Quarterly Executive, Harvard Business Review, Communications of the ACM, Decision Sciences Journal, The DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems, The Cornell Hospitality Quarterly, as well as other academic and applied journals.
	Alessandro D'Atri is professor of Business Organisation at the LUISS University of Rome where he is the Director of CeRSI (www.cersi.it) and teaches Management Information Systems. He is Vice-President of ItAIS, the Italian Chapter of AIS, and member of ECIS Standing Committee. He serves in the editorial board of the Journals: IS and e-Business Management; Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, and Advanced Technology for Learning. Main research interests include: IS, virtual enterprises, telemedicine, databases, computational complexity, and graph theory. In these fields he has more than 100 articles published in journals and books including: Journal of the ACM, SIAM Journal on Computing, Journal of Computer and Systems Science, Information Systems, and Intelligent Information Systems.
	Richard T. Watson is the J. Rex Fuqua Distinguished Chair for Internet Strategy and Interim Head of Management Information Systems in the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia. He has published over 100 refereed journal articles, written books on electronic commerce and data management, and given invited presentations in more than 30 countries. His most recent research focuses on IS leadership and the role of IS in creating ecologically sustainable practices. He is a consulting editor for John Wiley & Sons, a former President of the Association for Information Systems, a visiting professor at the University of Agder in Norway, and co-leads the Global Text Project.

Organizing Committee

Team:	Francesca Cabiddu Ricercatore di Economia e gestione delle imprese Facoltà di Economia - Università degli Studi di Cagliari
	Maria Chiara di Guardo Ricercatore di Organizzazione aziendale Facoltà di Economia - Università degli Studi di Cagliari
	Daniela Pettinao Ricercatore di Economia e gestione delle imprese Facoltà di Economia - Università degli Studi di Cagliari
	Antonio Usai Dottore di ricerca - SSD Economia e gestione delle imprese Facoltà di Economia - Università degli Studi di Sassari

Track Chairs

	Marco De Marco is professor of Organization at the Catholic University of Milan where he teaches Digital Management of Corporate Data. He is President of ItAIS, the Italian Chapter of AIS, and serves as conference chair at ECIS 2009. He is in the editorial boards of the "Information Systems Journal", the "International Journal of Digital Accounting Research", "Information Systems and e-business Management". His major interests are systems development, e-government, program evaluation and banking information systems. He is visiting professor at Paris Dauphine and at the University of Liechtenstein. Marco is the representative of Region 2 (Europe, Middle East, Africa) for the Association for Information Systems. marco.demarco@unicatt.it
	Jan vom Brocke is professor of Information Systems at the University of Liechtenstein. He holds the Endowed Chair of Business Process Management funded by the Hilti Corporation and is Head of the Institute of Information Systems. Jan has research and teaching experience from the University of Münster in Germany, the University of Warwick in the UK, the University of St.Gallen in Switzerland, the University College Dublin in Ireland, the University of Tartu in Estonia, the Saarland University in Germany and the Queensland University of Technology in Australia. He is member of two EU-Networks of Excellence, and was been elected member of the FP 7 program committee for ICT research in the EU. Since 2009 he is President of the Liechtenstein Chapter of the Association of Information Systems (LCAIS). jan.vom.brocke@hochschule.li
	Ferdinando Pennarola is Associate Professor of Organization Theory and Management Information Systems at Bocconi University. He is Delegate Rector for E-Learning initiatives at Bocconi University. He is the current Chairman of the Board of Directors of the ISBM (International schools of Business Management) the international consortium of b-schools that has been managing the ITP (International Teachers Programme) since 1971. ferdinando.pennarola@unibocconi.it
	Maddalena Sorrentino is a researcher in organization theory and organisational change, and teaches e-government at the University of Milan. She is the author and editor of seven books and more than 140 articles, essays, and research reports. Maddalena is member of the editorial boards of the "Government Information Quarterly" and the "Information Systems and e-Business Management". maddalena.sorrentino@unimi.it
	Valeria De Antonellis is a full professor of Information Systems at University of Brescia. Chair of the Bachelor and Master degrees in Computer Engineering and chair of the PhD Program in Computer Engineering and Automation. Chair of the Brescia University Competence Centre for EUCIP (European Certification of Informatics Professionals). Co-founder of the Italian Pole of Research on Interoperability "Interop-Vlab.IT". Responsible of several national and international research projects and collaborations. Led the DATAID research project originating a methodology for database design (cited in People Behind Informatics: The history of Conceptual Modeling). Promoted the conceptual modeling of both data and processes in the methodology anticipating issues of the object-oriented methodologies. Proposed novel affinity and clustering techniques for automatic schema matching supported by the ARTEMIS tool, chosen by the Microsoft Database Group as a reference for development of matching tools. Research interests include: database and information system design; conceptual modeling of data and processes; matchmaking and semantic integration; web information systems; ontologies and semantic interoperability, semantic web services, resource discovery and sharing in P2P systems. deantone@ing.unibs.it
	Katia Passerini is an Associate Professor and the Hurlburt Chair of Management Information Systems at the School of Management of the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) where she teaches courses in MIS, Knowledge Management and IT Strategy. She has published in refereed journals and proceedings (Communications of the ACM, Communications of AIS, Society and Business Review, Journal of Knowledge Management, Computers & Education, Journal of Educational Hypermedia and Multimedia, IEEE Internet Computing) and professional journals (Project Management Network, Cutter IT Journal, Cutter Benchmark Review), particularly in the area of computer-mediated learning, IT productivity and knowledge management. Her professional background includes multi-industry projects at Booz Allen Hamilton and the World Bank where she worked on information technology projects in Europe, North America and the South Pacific. pkatia@gmail.com
	Francesco Contini is a researcher at IRSIG (Research Institute on Judicial Systems) of the Italian National Research Council. His research work is on ICT-based organizational and institutional innovation in the Italian and European judiciaries, and in the analysis of judicial reforms and judicial policies. He edited with Marco Fabri the volumes "Justice and Technology in Europe" (Kluwer Law International, 2001) and "Judicial Electronic Data Interchange in Europe" (Lo Scarabeo, 2003) and, and with Giovan Francesco Lanzara "ICT and innovation in the public sector" (Palgrave 2009).
	Antonio Marturano is an adjunct professor of Business Ethics at the Sacred Heart catholic University of Rome and Visiting Lecturer in Leadership and Communication at the LUISS University of Rome. Previously Dr. Marturano has worked at the Jepson School of Leadership, University of Richmond (first semester 2007) and at the Centre for Leadership Studies, University of Exeter (2003-2007). Dr. Marturano has published extensively on leadership, leadership ethics, and ethics of IS. He is co-author of many international conference proceedings, editor of many special issues on international journals, the book "Media Ethics. Regulating the Information Society", Milan Franco Angeli, 2000 and co-editor of Leadership: the Key Concepts, Routledge, 2008. He published in many journals such as Bioethics, Ethics and Information Technology, Philosophy of Management, Business Ethics: An European Review, Business Ethics Forum and ICES. He is on the advisory board of ICES and IRIE. He is chair-elected of the ILA Education Interest Group and one of founders of INSEIT.
	Gabriele Cioccarelli is Full Professor of Organization Theory and Design and coordinator of the Ph.D. course in Business Administration at the Faculty of Economics, University of Pavia. He taught previously Management of IS at the Bocconi University of Milan (1976-2000). He was in charge of the Organization and IS area within the master in “Banking and Finance” for Eastern Europe countries organized by the “Giordano Dell'Amore Foundation” (1995-2002) and director of the Master in Business Organization and IT (2002-2005) at the University of Pavia.
	Ernestina Giudici is professor of Management and Communication at the University of Cagliari. She is Coordinator of the Doctoral Program in Management and Business that is a member of the European Doctoral Programme Association in Management and Business Administration (EDAMBA). She is also the head of the Technological Competence Centre on Materials and Production Process at the University of Cagliari. She is in the board of directors of the European Community Studies Association. She has published several books (2 in a team with his head up), chapters in team books (e.g. in 2005, Organization today, Palgrave Macmillan), and now is engaged in chapter – on Motivation – in an international book project “Management through Collaboration”. Her research interests include innovation, relationship between organization and its environment, identity, motivation, creativity, sustainable development.
	Chiara Francalanci is an associate professor of Information Systems at Politecnico di Milano. She has a master’s degree in Electronic Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, where she has also completed her Ph.D. in Computer Science. As part of her post doctoral studies, she has worked for two years at the Harvard Business School as a Visiting Researcher. She has authored articles on the economics of information technology and on feasibility analyses of IT projects, consulted in the financial industry, both in Europe and the U.S., and is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Information Technology
	Aurelio Ravarini is a Senior Assistant Professor of Information Systems at the School of Engineering at Università Carlo Cattaneo, Castellanza, Italy, where he is also Head of CETIC, Research Center on Information Systems. His research expertise is in strategic information systems, knowledge management systems and information systems development, the latter focused on the context of small and medium size companies. He serves as Associate Editor of the European Journal of Information Systems and other international journals as well member of the program committee of several international conferences in the IS field.
	Barbara Pernici is full professor at Politecnico di Milano since 1993. Her research interests are in process design, service oriented design, adaptive service-based systems. She has edited the Springer book “Mobile adaptive information systems”.
	Andrea Carugati is Associate Professor at Aarhus School of Business (Aarhus, Denmark). His research focuses on management of development projects and the alternative, deviating uses of technology in organizations. His work has been published in the European Journal of Information Systems, Database for Advances in Information Systems, Electronic Markets, ICIS and ECIS.
	Maria Francesca Costabile is full professor at the Computer Science Department of the University of Bari, Italy, where she teaches human-computer interaction and other courses for the computer science curriculum. Her current research interests are in human-computer interaction, interaction design, mobile systems, usability engineering, visual analytics, end-user development. Prof. Costabile is regularly in program committees of international conferences and workshops. She has been Paper Co-Chair of CHI 2008, the most important international conference on HCI, Program Co-Chair of Interact 2005 and Program Chair of AVI 2004. She is senior member of IEEE and member of ACM; she is founding member of the Italian Chapter of ACM SIGCHI, and served as Chair from 1996 to 2000.
	Laura Tarantino is Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering of the University of L'Aquila, where she teaches courses on Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Architectures, and Fundamentals of Computer Sciences. From 2002 to 2005 she was Director of the Computing Center of the School of Engineering of the University of L'Aquila. Her primary research activities are in human-computer interaction, user interfaces of database and information systems, with focus on information visualization formalisms, notification techniques in ambient and peripheral systems, and interaction paradigms. She is referee for international journals, and has served in the organizing and program committees of international conferences and workshops. From 1996 to 2008 she has been in the Steering Committee of the International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) series, for which she served as Program Co-Chair in 1998 and Program Chair in 2000.
	Cecilia Rossignoli is professor of Organization Science at the University of Verona and teaches Information Systems in the master course where she is also responsible of the master program of Business Intelligence and Knowledge Management. She is active member of Aidea, the Italian Society of academics of business management and administration. She is author of several books and papers. She participated at several European projects. One of her latest publications is on the Journal of Electronic Commerce Research. Her major research interests are related to the organizational impact of ICT, with an emphasis on the management of ICT on organizational design.
	Daniela Baglieri is Associate Professor of Business Economics and Management at the University of Messina (Italy) and holds an appointment at University of Catania (Italy) since 1999. She received her Ph.D. in Management from the University of Catania (Italy). Visiting scholar at Texas A&M University, she organized the 3td Workshop on Coopetition Strategy, sponsored by EURAM, held in Madrid’s Carlos III University on 7-8 February 2008. Her current research interests include technology entrepreneurship, the management of intellectual property rights, and coopetitive strategies for knowledge creation and rent appropriation.
	Andrea Cordella is lecture at the Department of Management at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is visiting professor in various European Universities and advisor of the UN on the implementation of the World Summit on the Information Society guidelines. He is member of IFIP 8.2 and serves as Officer at ECIS. His latest publications are, among other journals, on the Scandinavia Journal of Information systems, the Journal of Information Technology and the European Journal of Information Systems.
	Lapo Mola is assistant professor in Organization Science at the University of Verona and teaches Information Systems in the undergraduate course. He is member of the scientific committee of the master program of Business Intelligence and Knowledge Management of the University of Verona. He used to work in consultancy industry, leading several ERP implementation projects form 1997 to 2002. He is coauthor of several papers presented in international conferences (ECIS, Academy of Management, e-Global Conference etc.) and journals (Sinergie, Electronic Commerce etc). His major research interests are related to the organizational impact of ICT, with an emphasis on the management of ICT on organizational design.
	Domenico Saccà (http://sacca.deis.unical.it) is full professor of Computer Engineering at the University of Calabria. He is also Director of the CNR (the Italian National Research Council) Research Institute ICAR (Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking), located in Rende (CS) and branches in Naples and Palermo. In the past he was visiting scientist at IBM Laboratory of San Jose, at MCC in Austin, at the Computer Science Department of UCLA and at the ICSI Institute of Berkeley. His current research interests focus on advanced issues on databases and knowledge discovery such as: scheme integration in data warehousing, compressed representation of datacubes, workflow and process mining, logic-based database query languages.
	Michele Missikof, Director of Research at IASI (Istituto di Analisi dei Sistemi ed Informatica) of National Research Council, and Coordinator of LEKS: Lab for Enterprise Knowledge and Systems since 1999. Scientific Director of the European laboratory on Enterprise Interoperability, Interop-VLab, has a long experience in European projects, both in eBusiness and eGovernment. Elected member of the National Steering Committee for Information Science and Technology, from 1992 to 1997. He has been member of the editorial Board of VLDB Journal and co-founder of EDBT Conference series. Past-president of EDBT Endowment, he has organised numerous conferences and workshops. He has published more than 150 technical and scientific papers, the majority of which on international journals and conference proceedings His main research interest are on: semantic technologies and ontologies, semantic interoperability, conceptual modeling, workflows and business process modeling, knowledge bases and object-oriented systems. Recently he has concentrated his activities on semantic search engines and ontology building methods