• Each presentation has 15 min. followed by  5 min discussion. Session chairs will coordinate presentations in their respective sessions
• There will be LCD projector available in every session room.  Please prepare your presentation in Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 or 2003.
  
• Save your files on a flash (USB) drive and on a CD just in case.  Also, it is highly recommended that you email your presentation to yourself on a web-based client (hotmail, yahoo, etc.) as a backup.  NO Floppy Disks OR Transparencies Please.
• It would be a good idea to bring your own laptop for your presentation to insure that your paper is presented properly.
• Every registered participant will be issued a name tag that he/she should wear at all times.  No one without name tag will be allowed into the conference area

The Price of Being Green: Does It Really Matter?
Wenshin Chen

Water Poverty Mapping and its Management Applications
Charles van der Vyver and Dawid B Jordaan

Supplier Selection in the International Environment with a Comparison of a Turkish and an Australian Company
Arzu Tektas and Aycan Aytekin

Coffee Break                                                     10:30 am – 11:00 am
Sponsored by Future University in Egypt

Saturday November 6, 2010                              11:00 am – 12:15 pm

The BONSAI approach How Small-Medium Enterprises improve their Software Development Processes
Diego Bruno

The Advent of GPU Ray Tracers
Kroeze, JCW, Jordaan, DB, and Pretorius, P.

Benchmarking for Ray Tracing Performance Measurement
Kroeze, JCW, Jordaan, DB, and  Pretorius,P.

Session S2.1: E-Learning and ICT in Academia
Room II
Session Chair: Zainal Arifin Hasibuan 

Perceptions of Quality Learning Environments at Private Higher Learning Institutions: The Educators’ Perspective
Wan Fadzilah Wan Yusoff  and Sabarudin Zakaria

Students' Perception and Readiness Toward E-Learning Adoption In Higher Education: The Case of Egypt
Sarah El Gamal and Rasha Abd EL Aziz

Enhancing Learning Experiences with Mobile Technology
Wenshin Chen, Venugopal Balijepally, and Peter Sutanto

User Perception towards Mobile Learning and the Cultural Aspects that Affect its Adoption: The Case of Egypt
RashaAbd El Aziz and Rehab El Badrawy

Saturday November 6, 2010                              12:15 pm – 1:00 pm

Session S3.1:  Keynote Speech Session           Room I
Session Chair: Khalid S. Soliman
Topic: Open Access Publishing: Future Direction

Conference Lunch                                           1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Saturday November 6, 2010                              2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Session S3.1: Management de l’innovation et Management d’information
Room I
Session Chair: Az-Eddine BENNANI

Un modèle CIM pour les systèmes d’information sécurisés
Nadira LAMMARI, Jean-Sylvain BUCUMI, Jacky AKOKA, et Isabelle WATTIAU

Management de l’innovation et management des connaissances: quelle relation pour une entreprise apprenante?
Chehla LAID TALBI et Zeineb BEN AMMAR MAMLOUK

Extension multiniveau de corpus applicatif
Najeh HAJLAOUI

Proposition d'un système d'aide à la recherche d'information par sérendipité et capitalisation d'expériences dans le domaine de la Gestion Electronique de Documents
Jean-Luc MARINI ,Laïd BOUZIDI , et  Sabrina BOULESNANE

Session S3.2: Enterprise Resource Planning
Room II
Session Chair: Wenshin Chen 

The Usage of EDI in UAE: Empirical Evidence
Yousef Shahwan

The Effect of Implementing ERP Systems on Business Performance: An Exploratory Case-Study
Ahmed A. Elragal and Ayman M. Al-Serafi

Strategical and Tactical Impact on ERP Implementation: Case Study on ERP Implementation in Indonesia
Gede Rasben Dantes and Zainal Arifin Hasibuan

Coffee Break                                                   3:30 pm – 4:00 pm

Saturday November 6, 2010                            4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

Session S4.1: IT Governance and SOA
Room I
Session Chair: Diego Bruno 

A Model for the Development of ICT Service Agreements
Rob Johnston, David Sewry, and Robert Benyon

Value Trees usefulness in assessment of Enterprise Architectures value
Luis Silva Rodrigues and Luis Amaral

Extending SOA to Cloud Computing In Higher Education
Marinela Mircea and Anca Ioana Andreescu

Managing the IT service level in large organizations: reference framework and a survey of actual practices
Gianmario Motta, Thiago Barroero, Filippo Galvani, and Antonella Longo

Session S4.2: IT Adoption and Intellectual Capital
Room II
Session Chair: Zaigham Mahmood

Review of ten years relevance of Technology Acceptance Model in healthcare context
Az-Eddine BENNANI and Rachid OUMLIL

Barriers to the Adoption of Mobile Data Services in South Africa
Hiranjali Ramburn and Jean-Paul Van Belle

Intellectual Capital and Radicalness of Innovation: Direct and Moderating Effects
Gregorio Martín-de-Castro, Miriam Delgado-Verde, José Emilio Navas-López, and Jorge Cruz-González

The Role and Value Added by ICTs in South African SMEs
Reza Ismail, Robyne Jeffery, Anjali Ramburn, and Jean-Paul Van Belle

Factors influencing the adoption of e-Services in Indonesian Airlines: A Field Study Approach
Dekar Urumsah, Mohammed Quaddus, and Jeremy Galbreath

Assessing Knowledge Assets in Professional Service Firms: Proposing A Model of Intellectual Capital
Elsa Mercedes Alama-Salazar, Gregorio Martín-de-Castro,  José Emilio Navas-López, and Pedro López-Sáez

Sunday November 7, 2010                              8:30 am – 4:30 pm
Registration

Sunday November 7, 2010                              9:00 am – 10:30 am

Session Su1.1: Accounting and Banking  
Room I
Session Chair: Alena Kocmanová   

Offshore Outsourcing in the Accounting Industry: Drivers, Concerns and Perceptions
Ramesh Mohan and Ryan P. Daley

The Efficacy of Egyptian Monetary Policy Responses to the Global Financial Crisis
Monal Abdel-Baki

Financial Performance of Selected Firms in the Czech Republic
Chandrapala Pathirawasam, Adriana Knápková, and Eva Kramná

An Innovation of Toy Car Based on Target Costing
Josef Dvorak and Martin Kopecky

An Appraisal of Egyptian Banking Reforms Amidst the Global Financial Crisis
Monal Abdel-Baki

Session Su1.2: Quality & Process Management  
Room II
Session Chair: Ileanu Gabriela Niculescu-Aron 

Product Life Cycle in Digital factory
Ondrej Kurkin and Martin Januška

Towards a Comprehensive Design-time Compliance Management: A Roadmap
Amal Elgammal, Oktay Turetken, Willem-Jan van den Heuvel, and Mike Papazoglou

Non-parametric Performance Evaluation of Container Ports
Susila Munisamy and Wang Danxia

Classification of Researches and Evolving a Consolidating Typology of Management Studies
Malek Elahi and Seyyd AbdolMajid Shoja

Coffee Break                                                  10:30 am – 11:00 am
Sponsored by American University in Cairo

Sunday November 7, 2010                              11:00 am – 12:15 pm

Session Su2.1: Economic Research & Development and Social Issues
Room I
Session Chair:  Liliana Mihaela Moga

GCC Economic Integration in the World Economy and it’s Role in the Current Economic Crisis
Noura Abdel Maksoud Eissa

Impact of economic, social and environmental efficiency of sustainable development in the Czech Republic
Alena Kocmanová, Jana Hornungová, and Markéta Klímková

Romanian ICT based companies’ bankruptcy analysis through econometric modeling
Miruna Mazurencu Marinescu and Ileanu Gabriela Niculescu-Aron 

Session Su2.2: Knowledge Management
Room II
Session Chair: Susila Munisamy 

Interrogative Knowledge Organization and Structuring From Unstructured Documents
Fatimah Sidi and Marzanah A. Jabar

Egypt’s ICT Indicators Initiative: An Egyptian Knowledge Management Experience
Nagwa Ibrahim El Shenawy and Heba Ahmed Youssef

Automated User and Competencies Profiling from Tacit Knowledge in Knowledge Management
Marzanah A. Jabar and Fatimah Sidi

Sunday November 7, 2010                              12:15 pm – 1:00 pm

Session Su3.1:  Keynote Speech Session           Room I

Keynote Speaker

Taha Khalifa

Intel Manager, Egypt

(Brief biography about the keynote speaker is at the bottom of this page)

Conference Lunch                                           1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Sunday November 7, 2010                               2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Session Su3.1: E-banking and E-Government
Room I
Session Chair:  Ahmad Ghoneim

Classical Theories-based Approach on Incentive Factors for Internet Banking Adoption
Nicoleta Barbuta-Misu, Radu Ilie Stroe, and Liliana Mihaela Moga

Application of Theory of Diffusion of Innovation to E-Government Development and Implementation
Racious Moilamashi Moatshe and Zaigham Mahmood

A Transdisciplinary Approach to Large Scale E-government Projects: Preventing Damaging Environmental Influences on Public Health
Inas Ezz and Anastasia Papazafeiropoulou

SDEAT: A Six Dimensional E-Readiness Assessment Tool for E-Government Projects
Racious Moilamashi Moatshe, Zaigham Mahmood and Nikolaos Antonopoulos

Evolution of modern payment systems in Romania in the context of the European Integration
Liliana Mihaela Moga and Mihaela Neculita

Session Su3.2: Humanities and Social Aspect of ICT
Room II
Session Chair: Luboš Popelínský

The social impact of technological development
Kateřina Sekulová and Michal Šimon

Regional particularities of ICT in Romania
Ileana Gabriela Niculescu-Aron and Miruna Mazurencu Marinescu

An exploratory study on cultural changes in UAE
Hassan Younies, Yacoub Hamdan, and Tamer ElTouni

A Proposed Model for Understanding the Psycho-social Influences and Negative Outcomes of PIU and MMORPG Addiction
Shumaila Yousafzai, Uzma Javed, Mirella Yani-de-Soriano

Coffee Break                                                   3:30 pm – 4:00 pm

Sunday November 7, 2010                              4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

Session Su4.1: Data Mining and Document classification
Room I
Session Chair: Filippo Galvani

Towards Detection of Anomalies in Building Management Data
Luboš Popelínský and Petr Glos

Using Semantic Network for Webpage Classification
Lamiaa Mostafa

Classification of Enterprise Portals: a data mining approach
Ahmed A. Elragal and Heba George Abouseif

The Automated Arabic Text Categorization Using SVM and KNN
Wa'el Musa Hadi, Mohammad Ali H. Eljinini, and Samer Alhawari

Session Su4.2: Management of Innovation and  Corporate Performance measurement
Room II
Session Chair: Ramesh Mohan 

A Framework for Measuring the Management of Innovation
 Nader Nada, Mohamed Kholeif, and Ahmed Elbadawy

Possibilities for the utilization of concepts BSC and EVA for measuring and managing performance with the support of benchmarking
Adriana Knápková, Drahomíra Pavelková, and Eva Jirčíková

The Greek patterns of innovation and knowledge creation
Maria Markatou

The increasing complexity of IS cost Identification and Management in the context of open innovation
Ahmad Ghoneim and Inas Ezz

Innovation and International Competitiveness of Firms
Madan Annavarjula, Anup M. Nandialath, and Ramesh Mohan

Keynote Speaker

Taha Khalifa

Eng. Taha Khalifa is currently Intel Egypt's Country Manager; prior to that Eng. Khalifa was the director of Intel’s World Ahead Program in the META region - responsible for driving Intel’s World Ahead vision in the education, Telco, Digital Health, and Accessibility sectors. He has been working for Intel for over 15 years and was recently responsible for driving Intel’s expansion plans in Africa and evangelizing the Telco strategy in the region focusing on increasing broadband penetration and creating strategic engagements with regional mobile operators.

Prior to this role, Eng. Khalifa acted as the lead business development manager in the Telecommunication industry in EMEA Emerging Markets, focusing on building Intel’s plans and engagements with key service providers.

Eng. Khalifa joined Intel in 1995 and has spent 11 years with Intel US where he assumed several senior engineering, marketing, and management positions. Prior to his move to the Middle East, he held the position of Senior Strategic Planning Manager for Intel‘s Wireless business.

From 1999 to 2003, Eng. Khalifa was the chief architect and manager of a world-wide validation engineering team responsible for developing Intel’s multi-core architecture validation tools, where he received several Intel’s recognition awards.

Eng. Khalifa received his Bachelor degree in Computer Engineering from Alexandria University, Egypt in 1991. His Masters degree is in Computer Science from Dundee University, UK and his MBA degree in 2005 from Arizona State University (ASU), USA.