Nilmini,Wickramasinghe [PhD , MBA, GradDipMgtSt, BSc.,AmusA (piano) A.mus A (violin] researches and teaches in various areas of MIS with a special focus of the confluence of KM and healthcare. She is well published with over 100 refereed articles, book chapters, numerous books and an encyclopaedia. Dr. Wickramasinghe regularly presents her work throughout Australasia, Europe and North America. She is the US representative of HCTM (Healthcare Technology Management) association, holds a professor position at RMIT University Australia and is the associate director for the Centre for the Management of Technology at IIT, in Chicago. In addition, Dr Wickramasinghe is the editor in chief of two journals published by InderScience: IJBET, Intl. J Biomedical Engineering and Technology ( www.inderscience.com/ijbet) and IJNVO, Intl. J Networking and Virtual Organisations (www.inderscience.com/ijnvo).Jatinder N.D. Gupta is currently an eminent scholar of management, Professor of
Management Information Systems, and chairperson of the Department of Accounting
and Information Systems in the College of Administrative Science at the University of
Alabama in Huntsville, Alabama, USA. Most recently, he was a professor of Management, Information and Communication Sciences, and Industry and Technology at Ball
State University, Muncie, Indiana (USA). He holds a PhD in Industrial Engineering (with
specialization in Production Management and Information Systems) from Texas Tech
University. A co-author of a textbook in operation research, Dr. Gupta serves on the
editorial boards of several national and international journals. A recipient of the
Outstanding Faculty and Outstanding Researcher awards from Ball State University, he
has published numerous papers in such journals as the Journal of Management
Information Systems, the International Journal of Information Management, INFORMS
Journal of Computing, Annals of Operations Research, and Mathematics of Operations
Research. More recently, he served as a co-editor of a special issue on Neutral Networks
in Business of Computers and Operation Research and a book titled Neutral Networks
in Business: Techniques and Applications. His current research interests include
information and decision technologies, scheduling, planning, and control, organizational learning and effectiveness, systems education, and knowledge management. Dr.
Gupta is a member of several academic and professional societies including the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS), the Decision Sciences Institute (DSI),
and the Information Resources Management Association (IRMA).
Sushil K. Sharma is currently Associate Dean and Professor of Information Systems and Executive Director of the MBA and Certificate Programs at the Miller College of Business, Ball State University (Muncie, Indiana, USA). He co-edited five books that include the Handbook of Research on Information Assurance and Security and Creating Knowledge-based Healthcare Organizations. He is also the co-editor of the book: Managing E-Business (Heidelberg Press, Australia). Dr. Sharma has authored over 100 refereed research papers in many peer-reviewed national and international MIS and management journals, conferences proceedings and books. He serves on editorial boards of several national and international journals and has also edited special issues. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of E-Adoption. His primary teaching and research interests are in e-commerce, computer-mediated communications, community and social informatics, information systems security, e-government, ERP systems, database management systems, cluster computing, Web services and knowledge management. He has a wide consulting experience in information systems and e-commerce and he has served as an advisor and consultant to several government and private organizations including projects funded by the World Bank.