The Fifth Wuhan International Conference On E-Business

(WHICEB2006)

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Keynote Speeches

Professor Graham Pervan of Curtin University of Technology

in Perth, Western Australia, has over 30 years experience in

 education, research, and practice in Information Systems

and Information Technology (IS/IT). He has published on

various issues related to IS/IT management and decision

support systems in journals such as Journal of Information

Technology, Decision Support Systems, Information and

Management, Journal of Computer Information Systems, Journal of Group Decision and Negotiation, and Journal of Research and Practice in IT, and most major conferences. He is the Asia-Pacific Regional Editor for the Journal of Information Technology, the IT Management Editor for the Australian Journal of Management, and President of the Australian Council of Professors and Heads of Information Systems.

Dr. Kwok Kee Wei is Head and Chair Professor in the

Department of Information Systems at the City University

of Hong Kong. Before joining CityU, he was Professor

and founding Head of the Department of Information

Systems at the National University of Singapore. As Head

of two major IS Departments in Asia in the past decade,

Dr. Wei has developed a strong research culture and

 initiated major research efforts that resulted in both Departments being placed among the top 15 IS departments worldwide (Communications of the AIS, 2005, pp. 555-564). Dr. Wei is serving on the Series Editorial Advisory Board of Idea Group Publishing/Information Science Publishing and on the Editorial Boards of a good number of international journals including the IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. He has served as Senior Editor of MIS Quarterly and Associate Editor of Information Systems Research. Dr. Wei has published more than 140 journal and conference papers, and he is actively pursuing research on knowledge management, electronic commerce and virtual communities.  Dr. Wei was the President of the Association of Information Systems in 2004.

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Dr. Juergen Seitz is a professor for business information

systems and finance and chair of the department of business

information systems with a concentration on e-commerce/

e-business, m-business/telematics at University of Cooperative Education Heidenheim, Germany. He holds a diploma in business administration and business information systems from University of Cooperative Education Stuttgart, Germany, and a diploma in economics from University of Stuttgart-Hohenheim, Germany. He received his Ph. D. from Viadrina European University Frankfurt (Oder), Germany. Dr. Seitz is currently Associate Editor of the International Journal of Cases on Electronic Commerce and member of the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations. He is also member of the Executive Council of the Information Resources Management Association.At the beginnning of his career Dr. Seitz worked as a consultant for financial institutions and as an investment manager in a venture capital company. He recently wrote a book titled "Digital Watermarking for Digital Media". During the last years he has also been a guest lecturer at Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, at University of Newport, Wales, Great Britain and at Poznan University of Economics, Poznan, Poland.

Dr. Wayne Wei Huang, Professor at MIS Department.,

College of Business, Ohio University, USA. He has worked

as a faculty in universities in Australia, Singapore, China,

and Hong Kong before, and received research awards in

universities of Australia and USA. Wayne has had more

than 15 years of full-time teaching experience in universities

as well as a few years of IT industrial working experience

(as a system analyst/programmer). His research combines both quantitative and qualitative research methodologies. He published more than 10 books and/or book chapters on Information Systems internationally. He has published more than 80 refereed research papers in international journals and conference proceedings, including some leading international MIS/IS journals such as IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics; Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS); IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication; Information & Management (I&M); Decision Support Systems (DSS); Communications of AIS (CAIS); and European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS). He has presented his research papers in most leading and prestigious international conferences on information systems, such as ICIS (the top MIS/IS annual conference in the world, USA), HICSS (USA), DSI (USA), AMCIS (USA), IFIP (Europe), PACIS (Asia), and ECIS (Europe).Wayne¡¯s research work and published papers have been cited by the top 5 international IS/MIS journals, including MIS Quarterly (MISQ), Journal of MIS (JMIS), Information Systems Research (ISR), and IEEE transactions.He is currently a Senior Editor of International Journal of Data Base: Advanced in Information Systems, an ACM publication, USA; and on the Editorial Boards of Information & Management (I & M), International Journal of Global Information Management (JGIM), Journal of Database Management (JDM), USA (those journals are all listed in SCI or SSCI)

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