Prof. Dr. Frank Bannister
Frank Bannister is a Senior Lecturer in Information Systems in Trinity College, Dublin where he is also Director of Studies of the Management Science and Information Systems program. Prior to joining Trinity in1995, he worked in operations research and economic planning in the Irish Civil Service and for 16 years with Price Waterhouse, Management Consultants. He continues as a Consulting Associate with PricewaterhouseCoopers.
His research interests are in e-Government and in particular evaluation of information systems value in the public sector. He was Chairman of the First European Conference on e-Government Conference held in Dublin in 2001 and is co-chair of the European Conference on the IT Evaluation.
Prof. Dr. Marcos Sepúlveda
Marcos Sepúlveda is majored in Industrial Civil Engineering with specialization in Computing from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 1987-92. Nowadays is the Head of the Computing Science of the School of Engineering of the same University. Also the Director of the Centro de Estudios de Tecnologías de la Información, has interests in the following areas: strategic use of IT, e-government, Business Intelligence, Business processes modeling. Among his recent publications there are: Bitwise Implementation of a two-Dimensional Cellular Automate Biofilm Model.
ASCE Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, 2005; Iterative Heuristic Response Surface Method for Transmission Expansion Planning, ASCE Journal of Energy Engineering, 2006; and Combining Iterative Heuristic Optimization and Uncertainty Analysis methods for Robust Parameter Design, Engineering Optimization, 2006.