European, Mediterranean & Middle Eastern Conference on

Information Systems (EMCIS2014)

Doha, Qatar, 27 - 28 October, 2014

www.emcis.org

Big Data in the Era of Cloud Computing and Social Media

11th European, Mediterranean & Middle Eastern Conference on

Information Systems 2014

PROGRAMME GUIDE

October 27 - 28, 2014

Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

EMCIS

Welcome Welcome to Doha - Qatar, home of the 11th European, Mediterranean and Middle Easter Conference on Information Systems (EMCIS2014). It is with great pleasure that we welcome you to the 11th EMCIS 2014 hosted by the Brunel University London (United Kingdom), Qatar University (UK), and University of Piraeus (Greece). EMCIS - is an annual research event addressing the Information Systems (IS) discipline with regional as well as global perspective. Entering its 11th year, EMCIS has successfully helped bringing together researchers from around the world in a friendly atmosphere conducted to free exchange of innovative ideas. EMCIS was founded by Brunel University research Group ISEing. A number of respected collaborations were made with different local universities across the destinations chosen each year and EMCIS still proves to attract many further partnerships. We thank the International Committee - Prof. Peter Love (Curtin University, Australia); Prof. Janice Sipior (Villanova University, USA); Prof. Kamel Ghorab (Alhosn University, UAE); Prof. Inas Ezz (Sadat Academy for Management Sciences - SAMS, Egypt); Assistant Prof. Fletcher Glancy (Miami University, USA); Assistant Prof. Manar Abu Talib (Zayed University, UAE); Dr. Demosthenis Kyriazis (University of Piraeus, Greece); Dr. Wafi Al-Karaghouli (Brunel University, UK); Dr. Vishanth Weerakkody (Brunel University, UK); Dr. Sofiane Tebboune (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK); Dr. Piotr Soja (Cracow University of Economics, Poland); Dr. May Seitanidi (University of Kent, UK); and Dr. Sevgi Özkan (Middle East Technical University, Turkey). We also acknowledge the support of our collaborators, I-MEET Project funded by the Qatar National Research Fund, and Business and Technology Outlook Research Program (BTO) Italy for their generous support. We are confident that your participation, presentations and active engagement in scientific debates will make EMCIS 2014 in Doha-Qatar a very special event.

Founding Chair Zahir Irani (Brunel University, UK) Conference Co-Chairs Associate Prof. Marinos Themistocleous (University of Piraeus, Greece) Prof. Nitham Mohammed Hindi (Qatar University, Qatar) Dr. Ahmad Ghoneim (Brunel University, UK) Conference Executive Committee Dr. Muhammad Kamal (Brunel University, UK - Program Chair) Associate Prof. Vicenzo Morabito (Bocconi University, Italy - Program Chair) Dr. Paulo Rubino Cunha (University of Coimbra, Portugal - Program Chair) Dr. Dimosthenis Kyriazis (University of Piraeus, Greece - PhD Consortium Chair) Dr. Gianluigi Viscusi (École polytechnique fédérale de, Lausanne, Switzerland - Publications Chair) Dr. Konstantinos Koumaditis (University of Piraeus, Greece - Public Relations Chair) Mr. George Pittas (University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece - Website Coordinator) Dr. Karim Al-Yafi (Qatar University, Qatar - Organiser)

EMCIS Organisation

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Keynote Speakers DAY 1 - Title of Talk: Evolving Issues in ICT, Smart Cities and Human Resources Prof. Thomas Andersson is a Senior Advisor in the Sultanate of Oman on issues of research, innovation and higher education. He is currently involved in projects linking Big Data, Smart Cities and trusted e-services to innovation and strengthened user control in digital communication, in collaboration with partners in the Middle East, Europe and Asia. He is responsible coordinator for GINI (Global Identity Networking of Individuals), a support action of the European Commission over the past years and partner in the EU-funded Inconet-GCC project which aims at collaboration between the GCC countries and the EU in capacity building on research and innovation, as well as in SI-Drive which addresses social innovation.

Among other assignments he is Chairman of IKED, Intentac and IUET, which is the Swedish partner institute of the World Economic Forum. Previously he was the Vice Chancellor of Jo nko ping University, Assistant Under-Secretary and responsible for the Structural Policies Secretariat of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Sweden, Deputy Director of the Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry, the OECD, Paris, Visiting Scholar at the Bank of Japan, Tokyo, and Visiting Fellow at Harvard University, Cambridge, M.A.

DAY 2 - Title of Talk: Comparative Global Strategies for m-Government Mr. Paul Waller is a Visiting Research Fellow at Brunel University, London, where he pursues research in e-Government, e-Participation, and ICT-enabled innovation. Formerly he was a UK Cabinet Office senior civil servant at the centre of policy and strategy development and delivery in e-Government. He led e-Government work for the UK Presidency of the EU, including the development of European policy, and hosting the Manchester ‘Transforming Public Services’ ministerial conference. He led government work on e-Democracy. Previously he developed and directed implementation of the Government’s ICT Capability Strategy. He has presented on innovation, e-Government, e-Inclusion and e-Democracy at numerous international conferences.

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Conference Programme Monday 27th October, 2014

09:00 - 18:00 Registration

09:15 - 09:30 Welcome by Conference Chairs

09:30 - 10:30 DAY 1 - Keynote Speech (Room 3)

PROF. THOMAS ANDERSSON - Evolving Issues in ICT, Smart Cities and Human Resources

10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK

11:00 - 13:00 TRACK - Cloud Computing (Room 1) CHAIR: DR. DIMOSTHENIS KYRIAZIS

13:00 - 14:30 LUNCH BREAK

TRACK - E-Government [I-MEET Project] (Room 2) CHAIR: PROF. IBRAHIM OSMAN

11:00 - 11:30 ICT Infrastructure Sophistication and Interconnection and Propensity for Cloud Computing Adoption Androniki Kyriakou and Euripidis Loukis 11:30 - 12:00 Cloud Computing: A Comparison of Adoption Issues Between UK and Sub-Saharan Africa SMEs Abubakar Dahiru Abubakar, Julian M. Bass and Ian K. Allison 12:00 - 12:30 Real-Time Execution Flow Management for Event -Driven Computational Cloud Storage Athanasios Tsitsipas, Dimosthenis Kyriazis and Marinos Themistocleous 12:30 - 13:00 Cloud Computing Benefits and Disadvantages: Reflections and Lessons Learnt From a United Kingdom Case Study Steve Jones and Uthayasankar Sivarajah

Integrated Model for Evaluating E-Government Service Transformation (I-MEET) Project: An Overview

UK E-Government Provider Satisfaction Evaluation: Findings from the I-MEET Study

Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) for KPI Validation in E-Government Satisfaction

Data Envelopment Analyses (DEA) for Derivation of E-Government Satisfaction Variables from Stakeholders

Open Ended Content Analysis: The User Perspective on E-Government Satisfaction

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Conference Programme 14:30 - 16:00 TRACK - Cloud Computing (Room 1)

CHAIR: DR. DIMOSTHENIS KYRIAZIS

16:00 - 16:30 COFFEE BREAK

TRACK - E-Government & IT in Public Sector (Room 2)

CHAIR: DR. MUHAMMAD KAMAL

14:30 - 15:00 Dynamic Prediction based on Varying Scalability Parameters Enabling Time- Constrained Resource Provisioning

Avraam Giogourtsoglou

15:00 - 15:30 Business Models Based in Cloud Computing Elasticity Needs

Nikolaos Chelmis

15:30 - 16:00 Optimized Resource Provisioning based on SLAs in Cloud Infrastructures

Leonidas Katelaris and George Pittas

Organisational Structures During SOA Implementations

Konstantinos Koumaditis

Open Social Innovation Based on Idea Crowdsourcing

Teresa Cristina Martins and Paulo Henrique Bermejo

The Institutional and Structuration Dimensions of ICT Enabled Public Sector Transformation: A Systematic Literature Review

Amizan Mohamed Omar, Vishanth Weerakkody and Ramzi El-Haddadeh

16:30 - 18:00 TRACK - Management and Organisational Issues in Information Systems (Room 1)

CHAIR: ASSISTANT PROF. KARIM AL-YAFI

TRACK - E-Government & IT in Public Sector (Room 2)

CHAIR: DR. MUHAMMAD KAMAL

16:30 - 17:00 A Methodology to Identify, Model, and Improve Business Processes

Negin Banaeianjahromi, Ali Changizi and Kari Smolander

17:00 - 17:30 Is Information Systems Interoperability an Innovation Driver? An Empirical Investigation

Vasiliki Diamantopoulou, Euripidis Loukis and Yannis Charalabidis

17:30 - 18:00 Knowledge Sharing Culture in Higher Education Institutions: Critical Literature Review

Osama Ali Al Kurdi, Ahmad Ghoneim and Amer Al Roubaie

Digital Government Diffusion in Bahrain – The Role of Trust and its Influence on Adoption

Mohamed Mahmood and Vishanth Weerakkody

Planning the Use of Crowdstorming for Public Management: A Case in the Ministry of Education of Brazil

Wagner Vilas Boas de Souza, Carolina Cristina Martins Cavalcante, Wellington Rodrigues Pereira, Paulo Henrique De Souza Bermejo, Teresa Cristina Monteiro Martins and Jose Roberto Pereira

Social Media Marketing and the Consumer Decision Journey

George Pittas and Leonidas Katelaris

20:00 - 23:00 GALA NIGHT

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Conference Programme Tuesday 28th October, 2014

09:00 - 13:00 Registration

09:30 - 10:30 DAY 2 - Keynote Speech (Room 3)

MR. PAUL WALLER - Comparative Global Strategies for m-Government

10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK

11:00 - 13:00 TRACK - General Topics in Information Systems (Room 1) CHAIR: PROF. VINCENZO MORABITO DR. MUHAMMAD KAMAL

13:00 - 14:30 LUNCH BREAK

TRACK - Healthcare Information Systems (Room 2) CHAIR: DR. KONSTANTINOS KOUMADITIS

11:00 - 11:30 Developing University Students’ Moral Decision- Making Strategies: A Case of Project-Based Learning in Information Systems Tero Vartiainen 11:30 - 12:00 Evaluating the Adoption and Implementation of Green IT/IS Investments Salakjit Jongsaguan and Ahmad Ghoneim 12:00 - 12:30 Psychology Theories in Gamification: A Review of Information Systems Literature Christian Schlagenhaufer and Michael Amberg 12:30 - 13:00 Regional Innovation System for SMEs in ICT: A Systematic Literature Review Mo Zhang, Youjung Lee, Jinny Seo, Youeel Kim and Habin Lee

A Versatile Mobile Device Architecture for Managing Data From Body Area Network Medical Sensors Petros Andreou, Vasilis Kilintzis, Alexandros Mourouzis, Ioanna Chouvarda and Nicos Maglaveras Link between Social Capital and Innovations Mediated by Knowledge Sharing & Technology Anjum Razzaque and Tillal Eldabi Supply Chain Management in the Health Sector: A Research Agenda Christos Bialas, Vicky Manthou and Constantinos Stefanou Using the LEAP 3D Motion Controller for Implementing Text Entry for All Alexandros Mourouzis, Vasilis Kilintzis, Ioanna Chouvarda and Nicos Maglaveras

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Conference Programme 14:30 - 16:00 TRACK - Enterprise Systems (Room 1)

CHAIR: PROF. CONSTANTINOS STEFANOU

16:30 - 17:00 COFFEE BREAK

TRACK - PinCloud Project (Room 2)

CHAIR: DR. ILIAS MAGLOGIANNIS

14:30 - 15:00 A Process Driven Data Integration Framework – Towards Integrated System Landscapes for The Digital Factory

Florian Himmler

15:00 - 15:30 Role of Enterprise Architecture in Enterprise Integration - A Systematic Mapping Study

Negin Banaeianjahromi and Kari Smolander

15:30 - 16:00 Towards a Functional Reference Model for Service Planning and Execution in the Heavy Equipment Manufacturing Industry Alexander Andreas Neff, Falk Uebernickel, Stephanie Lingemann, Walter Brenner and Matthias Herterich

16:00 - 16:30 The ERP Systems Impact on Business Performance

Constantinos Stefanou, Vicky Manthou and Kalliopi Tigka

PinCloud Project: An Overview

Alexandros Mourouzis

Pincloud E-Prescribing: A Cloud-Based E-Prescribing System

Vassiliki Koufi, Flora Malamateniou, Marinos Themistocleous and George Vassilakopoulos

PinCloud II: An Enhanced Cloud-Based PHR Service with Healthcare Analytics

Mikaela Poulymenopoulou, Despina Papakonstantinou, Flora Malamateniou, Konstantinos Koumaditis and George Vassilacopoulos

Cloud Based Audio and Video Communication in Personal Health Systems: VoIP and WebRTC

Ilias Maglogiannis, Vassilis Pigadas and Vassilis Plagianakos

17:00 - 18:30 TRACK - Enterprise Systems (Room 1)

CHAIR: PROF. CONSTANTINOS STEFANOU

PhD Consortium (Room 2)

CHAIRS: DR. DIMOSTHENIS KYRIAZIS DR. KONSTANTINOS KOUMADITIS

17:00 - 17:30 Conceptual Contributions in ERP Research – Adoption of Macinnis Framework

Farzaneh Amani and Adam Fadlalla

17:30 - 18:00 Understanding Users’ Trust and the Moderating Influence of Privacy and Security Concerns for Mobile Banking: An Elaboration Likelihood Model Perspective

Kinana Jammoul and Habin Lee

PhD Consortium

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