Kamel Rouibah is an associate professor of information systems, College of Business Administration (CBA) at Kuwait University. He hold a PhD in Information Systems from Ecole Polytechnique of Grenoble, France. Before joining CBA, he worked at Faculty of Technology Management at Eindhoven (Netherlands) and Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (France). His research interests include Design of Information Systems, Management Information Systems, Engineering Data Management, Workflow Management, Information Ssystem and Information Technology Acceptance. He was involved in several European projects. His publications appeared in several leading journals: Journal of Strategic Information System, IT & People, Computers in Industry; International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing; Robotics & Computer Integrated Manufacturing Journal; Journal of Decision System; Journal of Engineering Design. Has taught many information systems courses in France, Netherlands, and Kuwait.
Omar Khalil is currently a professor of Information Systems, Quantitative Methods & Information Systems (QMIS) Department, College of Business Administration, Kuwait University. He has a PhD in Information Systems from the University of North Texas. His publications have appeared in journals such as the Journal of Global Information Management, Journal of Organizational and End-User Computing, Information Resources Management Journal, International Journal of Production and Economics, International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of informing Science, and International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems. His research interest includes information systems effectiveness, global information systems, information quality, and knowledge management. Has taught many graduate and undergraduate information systems courses in a number of universities in Egypt, USA, and Kuwait. He has served as the program committee member of various international conferences and reviewer for various international journals.
Aboul Ella Hassanien received his BSc (with honors, 1986) and MSc degree (1993) both from Ain Shams University (Cairo, Egypt). He received his doctoral degree from the Tokyo Institute of Technology ( Japan, 1998). Currently, he is an associate professor in the Faculty of Computer and Information, IT Department, Cairo University. He is also a visiting professor in the College of Business Administration, Quantitative and Information System Department at Kuwait University. He has served as a review committee chair, program committee member, and reviewer for various international conferences on artificial intelligence, soft computing, image processing and data mining. He has received the excellence younger researcher award from Kuwait University for the academic year 2003/2004. He serves on the technical committee on image processing and signal processing for the term 2004-2007 for the International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED). He is editing several special issues for many international journals. He has directed many funded research projects. He was a member of the interim advisory board committee of the International Rough Set Society. His research interests include rough set theory, wavelet theory, x-ray mammogram analysis, medical image analysis, fuzzy image processing and multimedia data mining.
