BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

Panagiotis Kanellis ([e-mail], [e-mail]) is a manager with Ernst & Young's Business and Technology Risk Services in Athens, Greece. He was educated at Western Intl. University (USA) in Business Administration (BSc), at the University of Ulster (UK) in Computing and Information Systems (Post-Graduate Diploma), and at Brunel University (UK) in Data Communication Systems (MSc) and Information Systems (PhD). His research interests revolve around information systems development and evaluation, information systems flexibility and organizational change and electronic commerce. He is a research fellow in the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Peggy Papadopoulou ([e-mail]) is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. She was educated at the same university in Computer Science (BSc) and at Heriot-Watt University (UK) in Distributed and Multimedia Information Systems (MSc). Her dissertation focuses on trust in electronic commerce and how agent and virtual reality technologies can be applied to aid its development in commercial relationships.

Drakoulis Martakos ([e-mail]) is an associate professor in the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. He received his BSc in Physics, his MSc in Electronics and Radio Communications, and his PhD in Real-Time Computing from the same university. Professor Martakos is a consultant to public and private organizations and a project leader in numerous national and international projects. His current research interests include information systems, multimedia and hypermedia technologies multilingual environments, information retrieval, added-value networks, electronic certification, digital libraries and electronic publishing. He is author or co-author of more than 40 scientific publications and a number of technical reports and studies.