The Eighth International Conference on Electronic Commerce
August 14-16, 2006
Delta Fredericton
Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada

Keynote Speakers

Prior to Microsoft, Julia was the director of a computer book publishing company and she started her career as a teacher, teaching English to Texans, which she says shows she loves a challenge.

She has a BA from the University of New Brunswick and a BEd from the University of Ottawa. As a result of her successful international career, her husband now regrets ever telling her when they were in college that she’d never get a job with a degree in Spanish.

She travels extensively and when asked where she lives, often answers “British Airways!

Roger Clarke, Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd, Canberra

Roger Clarke is a consultant specializing in strategic and policy aspects of eBusiness, information infrastructure, and data surveillance and privacy.

He has been active in the information technology industry for 35 years, in Sydney, London, Zuerich and Canberra. He spent the decade between 1984 and 1995 as a senior academic in the Information Systems discipline. He holds Visiting Professorships at the University of Hong Kong (in eCommerce), at the University of N.S.W. (in Cyberspace Law & Policy), and at the Australian National University (in Computer Science).

He is a prolific author and public speaker. He provides a very substantial library of community service pages, which attracts 3 million hits p.a. Many of the works are available under open content copyright licences. He is also a longstanding public interest advocate, particularly in relation to information privacy.

Roger Clarke,
Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd, Canberra

Antonio Cordella, London School of Economics,

Antonio Cordella, Lecturer in Information Systems, Department in Information Systems, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He completed his PhD at Department of Informatics, School of Economics and Commercial Law, Goteborg University, Sweden. He has taught, done research and been visiting professor at universities in UK, France, Italy, and Netherlands. He has also taught in Executive Programs at various multinational organizations in Europe.Dr. Cordella was the project manager of the study on "The Role of Information and Communication Technology in Building Trust in Governance: Towards Results and Effectiveness" that LSE recently completed for the Inter-American Development Bank.

He has numerous publications and made presentations at major conferences and international institutional events such as the Annual Meeting of the Governors of the Inter-American Development Bank in Okinawa, Japan and the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis, Tunisia.
His research interests are in the areas of E-government, Information Infrastructures and in the Social Studies of Information Technologies.

Steve Marsh, NRC, Canada

Stephen Marsh is a Research Officer at in the National Research Council's Institute for Information Technology (NRC-IIT), and is based in Moncton and Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. He is the Research Lead for IIT's Privacy, Security and Trust initiative. He has been at NRC-IIT for 10 years, and in that time has worked on trust, distributed agent information systems (inventing the ACORN KM architecture), and computer supported collaborative work. While on leave in 2005, he was a Research Fellow in the Division of Psychology at Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK.

His PhD, finished in 1994 at the University of Stirling, in Scotland, introduced the world's first computationally tractable formalisation of the phenomenon of trust, and applied it to Multi Agent Systems. As a milestone in trust research, it brought together disparate disciplines and attempted to make sense of a vital phenomenon in human and artificial societies.

His research interests include trust (in general, and also in specific areas such as trustable and trusting agents and computers) forgiveness and regret (and their applicability to security), HCI, socially adept technologies, Multi Agent Systems, complex adaptive systems, critical infrastructure interdependencies, advanced collaborative environments, and enabling technologies to support ordinary people trying to work and play together to accomplish extraordinary things. He has published in most of these areas and has numerous publications in refereed conferences, journals, and books, and has been an invited speaker on topics as diverse as collaboration between the Arts and the Sciences, Trust, and Multi-Agent Systems. His website is at www.stephenmarsh.ca.

Norman Sadeh, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Norman M. Sadeh is an Associate Professor (with tenure) in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). He is director of CMU's e-Supply Chain Management Laboratory, director of its Mobile Commerce Laboratory, and co-Director of the School's PhD Program in Computation, Organizations and Society.
Dr. Sadeh has been on the faculty at CMU since 1991. He built his initial reputation in the area of planning, scheduling and constraint satisfaction, developing techniques and tools that have been used by a number of companies and government organizations. He is also well-known for his seminal research in supply chain management and mixed initiative workflow management, which has influenced technical and commercial developments at several large companies. Over the past five years, Norman has conducted pioneering research in pervasive computing and semantic web technologies for privacy and context awareness and is currently extending these techniques to inter-enterprise collaboration scenarios.

In the late nineties, Dr. Sadeh worked as program manager with the European Commission's ESPRIT research program, prior to serving for two years as Chief Scientist of its US$650M (EURO 550M) initiative in "New Methods of Work and eCommerce" within the Information Society Technologies (IST) program. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science at CMU, a MS degree in computer science from the University of Southern California and a BS/MS degree in applied physics from the Free University of Brussels (Belgium).

Dr. Sadeh has authored over 120 scientific publications. He serves as coordinating editor-in-chief of the Journal on "Electronic Commerce Research Applications" (ECRA) and is on the editorial board of several other journals, including "Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems"
(JAAMAS) and "I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society". Norman is a Certified Fellow of APICS (CFPIM). He is also the author of "m-Commerce: Technologies, Services and Business Models", a book published by Wiley in April 2002

Mike Shaw, U of Illinois, USA

Michael J. Shaw is the Hoeft Endowed Chair in Information Technology Management and Director of the Center for Information Technology and e-Business Management at College of Business. He received his Ph.D. from the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University. At Illinois he is also a research faculty member at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. Professor Shaw is the editor-in-chief of the journal Information Systems and e-Business Management, and he has published extensively in leading academic journals. Among Professor Shaw's recent books are the Handbook in Electronic Commerce, Information-Based Manufacturing, and e-Business Management. Currently, Professor Shaw works in the areas of e-business strategy, human-computer intelligent interaction, IT management, and knowledge management.

Mike Shaw,
U of Illinois, USA

Michael Wellman, U of Michigan, USA

Michael P. Wellman received a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1988 for his work in qualitative probabilistic reasoning and decision-theoretic planning. From 1988 to 1992, Wellman conducted research in these areas at the USAF's Wright Laboratory. For the past dozen+ years, his research has focused on computational market mechanisms for distributed decision making and electronic commerce. As Chief Market Technologist for TradingDynamics, Inc. (now part of Ariba), he designed configurable auction technology for dynamic business-to-business commerce. Wellman is Chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Electronic Commerce (SIGecom), and previously served as Executive Editor of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research. He is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence.

Michael Wellman,
U of Michigan, USA

Hai Zhuge, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Hai Zhuge is a professor and director of the Key Lab of Intelligent Information Processing, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and founder of the China Knowledge Grid Research Group. His research interests include the theory and methodology of the future interconnection environment and applications in China. Zhuge received a PhD in computer engineering from Zhejiang University, China. He is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the ACM. Contact him at zhuge@ict.ac.cn.