Miltiadis D. Lytras
is a visiting researcher at Effat University. Dr Lytras is a world-class expert in the fields of cognitive computing, information systems, technology-enabled innovation, social networks, computers in human behavior, and knowledge management. He is an expert in advanced computer science and management, editor, lecturer, and research consultant, with extensive experience in academia and the business sector in Europe and Asia. He served as the Editor in Chief of the International Journal in Semantic Web and Information Systems. He has co-edited more than 110 high impact factor special issues in ISI/Scopus indexed journals and co-Edited/Authored more than 80 books in international publishers including Elsevier, Emerald, IGI-Global, Springer, etc. Dr Lytras has co-authored more than 120 high impact factor papers in Q1 and Q2, Web of Science and Scopus indexed Journals such as: IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering; IEEE Internet Computing; IEEE Transactions on Education; IEEE Access; Future Generation Computer Systems; Journal of Business Research; International Journal of Information Management; Journal of Innovation and Knowledge; Technological forecasting and Social Change; Journal of Ambient Technology and Humanized Computing; World Wide Web Journal; Computers in Human Behavior; Studies in Higher Education; Telematics and Informatics; Information Systems Management; IJ of Engineering Education; Journal of Universal Computer Science; Journal of Knowledge Management; British Journal on Education Technology; Interactive Learning Environment; Educational Technology and Society; Behavior and Information Technology, etc. Dr. Lytras has a 25 years’ experience on Research and Development projects and grants with significant skills and competencies to the successful conceptualization, financing and implementation of R&D projects with extensive experience in Europe, Middle East, and Far East. He has involved in more than 70 R&D projects overtime. Main areas of expertis Dr. Lytras has hold various senior editorial positions in prestigious journals over time including Editor in Chief and Associate Editor positions. He has also the privilege to guest edit more than 130 special issues in high impact factor journals. • Founding Editor and Editor in Chief of IJ on Semantic Web and Information Systems (High Impact Factor, WoS indexed) Additional editorial positions (selected): • Founding Editor in Chief, International Journal on Technology Enhanced Learning (IJTEL) • Founding Editor in Chief International Journal of Knowledge and Learning (IJKL) • Founding Editor in Chief of International Journal of Knowledge Society Research (IJKSR) Dr. Lytras has (co-edited) more than 100 peer reviewed volumes/books in topics related to his expertise. Indicative titles include: • Digital Transformation in Healthcare in Post-COVID-19 Times • Smart Cities and Digital Transformation: Empowering Communities, Limitless Innovation, Sustainable Development and the Next Generation, • Smart Cities: Issues and Challenges: Mapping Political, Social and Economic Risks and Threats • Smart Villages in the EU and Beyond
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.”