Miltiadis D. Lytras has co-edited/co-edits, 25 special issues in International Journals (e.g., IEEE Transaction on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Internet Computing, IEEE Transactions on Education, Computers in Human Behaviour, etc.) and has authored/[co-]edited 12 books (e.g., Open Source for Knowledge and Learning Management, Ubiquitous and Pervasive Knowledge Management, Intelligent Learning Infrastructures for Knowledge Intensive Organizations, and Semantic Based Information Systems). He is the founder and officer of the Semantic Web and Information Systems Special Interest Group in the association for information systems (http://www.sigsemis.org). He serves as the (Co) Editor-in-Chief of 12 international journals (e.g., International Journal of Knowledge and Learning, International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning, International Journal on Social and Humanistic Computing, International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems, International Journal on Digital Culture and Electronic Tourism, International Journal of Electronic Democracy, International Journal of Electronic Banking, and International Journal of Electronic Trade) while he is an associate editor or editorial board member of seven more.Meir Russ received his PhD from The Ohio State University in strategic management, entrepreneurship, and international business. He also has an MBA and a BScEE from Tel Aviv University. He is currently an associate professor with the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay. Dr. Russ currently teaches undergraduate and graduate classes in management and marketing. He also teaches a strategic emergency preparedness, planning and implementation class in the certificate for emergency management Master of Administrative Science Program at UW-GB. His research interests include knowledge-based strategies, the use of knowledge management for hospital preparedness and the new-knowledge based economic development, among others. In addition to his academic focus, Dr. Russ serves in a consulting capacity with a number of multinational companies in the area of global strategic management and knowledge management.
Ronald Maier, born in 1968 in Linz/Austria, graduated from Johannes-Kepler-University of Linz, Austria, in management information systems. He holds a PhD in management information systems from The Koblenz School of Corporate Management - Otto Beisheim Graduate School of Management (WHU). His PhD thesis was on quality of data modelling (in German). He completed his habilitation at the University of Regensburg with the habilitation thesis “Knowledge Management Systems. Information and communication Technologies for Knowledge Management." He worked as visiting assistant professor at the Terry College of Business, University of Georgia in Athens, GA from 1998-1999. Since 2002, he has been with the School of Business and Economics, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg and holds a Chair in MIS, Information Systems Leadership. He has published articles on knowledge management and knowledge management systems in a number of research journals, books, and conference proceedings. His research interests include data management and business intelligence, business process management and knowledge management. Ambjörn Naeve (www.nada.kth.se/~amb) has a background in both mathematics and computer science and received his PhD in computer science from KTH in
1993. With his Garden of Knowledge project (1996-98) he initiated the research on
interactive learning environments at KTH, where he presently heads the knowledge
management research group (http://kmr.nada.kth.se). He is also the coordinator of
research on interactive learning environments at the Uppsala Learning Lab at Uppsala University. The KMR group has been involved in Semantic Web research and
development since 1999. The work of the KMR group focuses on how to make use
of Semantic Web technology in order to enable more efficient forms of technologyenhanced learning and administration, and support the emergence of a public knowledge and learning management environment. Prominent among the KMR tools are
the frameworks SCAM (http://scam.sourceforge.net) and SHAME (http://kmr.nada.
kth.se/shame), the concept browser Conzilla (www.conzilla.org), and the electronic
portfolio system Confolio (www.confolio.org). The KMR-group is active within
several international networks in technology-enhanced learning and Semantic Web,
notably, Prolearn (www.prolearn.eu), SIGSEMIS (www.sigsemis.org), and Sakai (http://sakaiproject.org). Ambjörn Naeve is also a well-known industry consultant
with extensive experience in conceptual modeling for software engineering and
business applications. He is the inventor of Conzilla and has developed a conceptual
modeling technique called unified language modeling (http://kmr.nada.kth.se/cm),
which is specially designed to depict conceptual relationships in a linguistically
coherent way - that is, to “draw how we talk about things.”