Professor Andrew Slade
Graduate Research School
University of Sunderland

Unit 4F/G, Technology Park, Chester Road

Sunderland

SR2 7PS

UK
andrew.slade@sunderland.ac.uk

University of Sunderland- Centre for Electronic Commerce R& D

The Centre for Electronic Commerce Research and Development has an international reputation for applied research in Electronic Commerce and is currently involved in a range of high profile, market driven projects with partners from around the World.  With a proven track record in applied research, the Centre has established strong links with partners from industry, commerce and the public sector.  The Centre comprises staff and students from the School of Computing, Engineering and Technology. The objective of the centre is to research into both the theoretical foundations and application of electronic commerce solutions to problems in commerce and business.  Apart from the development of applications, the Centre is currently involved in examining the impact of electronic commerce in public organisations, and in particular in the area of public procurement.  The Centre also has considerable experience in the management of projects and has successfully lead the ELPRO, TRADEPOINT and SUPPLYPOINT projects.  ELPRO and TRADEPOINT have been concerned with electronic procurement and commercial exploitation of these is under negotiation.  The SupplyPoint project is still ongoing and includes the provision of virtual workspaces primarily for SMEs in the construction sector to form virtual enterprises and jointly bid for larger contracts. The Centre also co-ordinates an XML standardisation project, EXPERTS II, and is a technical partner in the IST project

E-NTRY.  There are also a number of follow-on activities through regional activities to exploit and transfer the solutions to local businesses through SRB and ERDF initiatives.  In addition the Centre provides consultancy services at a local and national level. The Centre for Electronic Commerce is also represented in this consortium by Kevin Ginty, who is vice chairman of the CEN/ISSS XML/EDI Workshop, and a member of the ebXML liaison group.  The ebXML liaison group also includes representatives from the ECOMMERCE and EBES workshops of CEN/ISSS.  As such, we have a direct link into the activities of CEN and of ebXML.  The University of Sunderland has also successfully completed an XML project, EXPERTS under the Information Society Initiative for Standardisation (ISIS) programme, and is currently co-ordinating a follow-up project EXPERTS II. 

CURRICULUM VITAE

Professor Andrew Slade - expert in software engineering, web systems, IST and related matters.
Professor Greg Rubin - primary health care specialist and a practicing medical doctor (Greg also has many contacts in Hospitals and we can find someone who would be a very useful addition to the team).
Dr Albert Bokma - expert in knowledge management.

Andrew Slade

Andrew Slade has been researching into the applications of software systems to areas of engineering and commerce for many years. He has been project manager and principal investigator of many projects funded by the UK government, EU and private companies. In recent years he has conducted projects for the BRITE/Euram, ESPRIT and the Telematics programmes of the EU. He has published many papers on the application of software systems in many areas of endeavour and has acted as academic referee of many project proposals. He is the project co-ordinator responsible for two large EU funded projects (ELPRO and TRADEPOINT), the EXPERTS project and three funded regional project; all in the area of Electronic commence and Procurement.  In his current position as Director of Research at the University of Sunderland, he is responsible for the development of research across the University.  He also chairs the North-East Regional Technology Foresight Committee on Information Technology and Electronic Commerce.

Professor Andrew Slade

Date and place of birth:                  23-3-1949, London

Nationality:                  British

Graduate Research School, Unit 4F/G, Technology Park, Chester Road, Sunderland, SR2 7PS, UK

Education:

BSc. (Hons)(2i) Pure and Applied Mathematics, Hull 1971

MSc Mathematics of Modern Control Systems, Loughborough 1972.

Membership of professional bodies: Chartered Engineer (CEng), British Computer Society (MBCS)

Other skills:                   EU Expert Evaluator, Project Manager

Present position:                   Professor of Applied Computing and Director, Graduate Research School and Director, Centre for Electronic Commerce, Sunderland University, UK.

Key qualifications:

Professor Slade is the Director of the Graduate Research School at the University of Sunderland and is responsible for Research Development, Administration and Strategy for the University of Sunderland as a whole. Additionally Professor Slade is also the Director of the Centre for Electronic Commerce and the Editor of the International Journal of E-Business Strategy Management. Professor Slade has extensive experience of participating in and leading pan European projects in the area of Information and Communication Technologies.

Professor Slade has been researching into information systems and electronic commerce for over 20 years. He has been project manager and principal investigator of many projects funded by the UK government, EU and private companies. In recent years he has conducted projects for the Telematics, ESPRIT (& IST) and BRITE/EuRam programmes of the EU. He has published many papers on the application of software systems in many areas of endeavour and has acted as academic referee of many project proposals.

Professor Slade is currently lead evaluator on an EU IST B2B metrics project, which is part of a cluster of projects looking at statistical measurements of ICT business-to-business activity.

Professor Slade has been involved in over 20 externally funded research projects for Industry, UK Research Councils and the European Union including acting as co-ordinator of the EU projects ELPRO, TRADEPOINT and EXPERTS II (XML/EDI standards project). Professor Slade is currently involved in five EU projects based in the Centre for Electronic Commerce.

Professor Slade has published numerous papers in the area of Distributed Systems and Electronic Commerce and has presented at many International Conferences and Workshops. Recently he was a key speaker at a joint USA/European workshop on Extended Enterprises held in Fairfax, Virginia. This workshop focussed on the challenges facing manufacturing industry in embracing the new opportunities offered by E-Business and E-Commerce.

CV: Professor Gregory Paul Rubin

Date of Birth             24/3/51

Current post:

Professor of Primary Care, School of Sciences, University of Sunderland

Benedict Building, St George’s Way Sunderland. SR2 7BW. Tel 0191 515 3831

Email: greg.rubin@sunderland.ac.uk

Qualifications

MB ChB University of Sheffield                                                           1974

MRCGP                                                                                              1983

FRCGP                                                                                               1997

Previous Appointments

1976-2000             Principal in General Practice, Thornaby & Barwick Medical Group.

1995-1998:               NoReN (Northern Primary Care Research Network) Research Fellow, Department of             Primary             Health Care, University of Newcastle.

1998-2000            Senior Lecturer in Primary Health Care, University of Teesside.

Research responsibilities

1996-1999            Principal investigator, Evaluation of guidelines for open access flexible                                     sigmoidoscopy (NHS primary / secondary interface programme)

1997-2000            Project leader, European guideline project on H pylori management in                                                 primary care

1996-2001            Northern and Yorkshire NHS Executive Research Capacity Committee

1994- date            Financial director, Northern Primary Care Research Network (NoReN)

1999- date            Member, Royal College of General Practitioners Scientific Foundation Board

2001-date            Member, NHS R&D National Primary Care Commissioning Panel   

2001-date            Acting Director, NoReN

2001-date            Member, Sunderland West TPCT Steering group

Grants held

1997-9                         Evaluation of guidelines for open access flexible sigmoidoscopy. NHS national primary / secondary interface programme; £147,000

Selected Publications

1.   Hungin APS, Rubin GP, O’Flanagan H. Long term prescribing of proton pump inhibitors in general practice. Br J Gen Pract 1999; 49: 451-453

2.   Hungin APS, Rubin GP, O’Flanagan H. Factors influencing compliance in long term proton pump inhibitor therapy in general practice. Br J Gen Pract 1999; 49: 463-4

3.   Rubin GP, Meineche-Schmidt V, Roberts AP, Childs SM, de Wit NJ. The management of Helicobacter pylori infection in primary care: guidelines from the ESPCG. Eur J Gen Pract 1999; 5: 98-104

4.   Rubin GP, Ling JM, Kelly P et al. The impact of an open access flexible sigmoidoscopy service on general practitioners’ management of rectal bleeding. Endoscopy 1999; 31 (Suppl 1) E65-66

5.   Dougall A, Russell A, Rubin G, Ling J. Rethinking patient satisfaction: patient experience of an open access flexible sigmoidoscopy service, Soc Sci Med 2000; 50: 53-62.

6.   Rubin GP, Hungin APS, Kelly P, Ling J. Inflammatory bowel disease: epidemiology and management in an English primary care population. Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics 2000; 14: 1553-1559

7.   Clinical governance in Gastroenterology. Eds, Rubin G, Jones R, Stevens R, Price J. Radcliffe Medical Press; Oxford 2000.

8.   Jones, R, Rubin G, Hungin P. Is the two week wait for cancer working? BMJ 2001; 322: 1555-6

9.   Hungin P, Rubin G. Are primary care research networks up to the challenge? Primary Health Care Research and Development 2001; 2: 67-68

10. Hungin APS, Rubin GP. Management of dyspepsia across the primary / secondary care interface. Digestive Diseases 2001; 19: 219-224

Dr. Albert Bokma graduated from University College London in 1986 with a B.A. and from the University of Durham in 1991 where he was awarded a Ph.D. in Computer Science.  He then worked on the Consensus Project, to develop methods for large, distributed knowledge based systems.  In 1994 he came to Sunderland, to manage the Pepita Project on the use of the internet in public authorities in the EU and is currently principal investigator of two current FW5 projects, namely Pikon (IST-2001-33487) and Burma-X (GRDI-2000-25560).  He currently holds a senior research fellowship in the School of Computing and Technology. His current research activities concentrate on ontology based knowledge management, enterprise network modeling, virtual enterprises, and semantic information management. He also represents the University at the International Manufacturing Initiative sponsored by the DTI and EPSRC.  In the course of the Pikon and Burma-x  projects ontology based integrated information and knowledge management solutions are developed which allow for visualization and semantically based navigation of annotation based knowledge management.  

Dr. Albert Bokma

Date and place of birth:            03-01-1960, Würzburg, Germany

Nationality:     German

Centre for Electronic Commerce, School of Computing and Technology, St. Peter’s Campus, Sunderland, SR6 0DD, UK

Education:

University College London            1983-86            B.A.(Hons) in Philosophy

University of Durham                        1986-87            M.Sc. in Computer Science

University of Durham                        1987-93            Ph.D. in Computer Science

Membership of professional bodies:

Member of the IEEE (MIEEE)

Other skills:             EU Expert Evaluator, Project Manager

Present position:             Senior research fellow at the University of Sunderland and scientific officer, Centre for Electronic Commerce, Sunderland University, UK.

Key qualifications:

Dr. Bokma is a senior research fellow at the University of Sunderland in the School of Computing and Technology and is responsible for the scientific management of the Centre for Electronic Commerce where he is also responsible for several projects as principal investigator. Dr Bokma has extensive experience of participating in pan European projects in the area of Information and Communication Technologies stretching back over the last ten years.

Dr. Bokma has been researching into model based AI, information and knowledge management and electronic commerce for over 10 years. He has been principal investigator of number projects funded by the UK government, and the European Commission. His involvement includes projects for the Telematics, ESPRIT, BRITE/EuRam IST and GROWTH programmes of the EU. He has published many papers on the application of systems and on information and knowledge management.  Dr. Bokma is a registered expert for Framework 6.

Dr. Bokma has been involved in over 10 externally funded research projects for UK Research Councils and the European Union including acting as principal investigator of the EU projects Smartisan, Burma-X and Pikon. Dr. Bokma is currently involved in four EU projects based in the Centre for Electronic Commerce.

Dr. Bokma has published numerous papers in the area of distributed systems development, electronic commerce, information and knowledge management and has presented at many International Conferences and Workshops.

Selected Publications:

Slade Andrew, Bokma Albert F., Ontologies and XML, Proceedings of the 35th System Science Conference, Hawaii , IEEE Computer Society Press, 2002,

Bokma Albert F., CogNet: Integrated Information and Knowledge Management and its Use in Virtual Organisations, Proceedings of the IFIP TC5/W 2nd Working Conference on Infastructures for Virtual Organsations , Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000, pp361-370, ISBN 0792372050

Slade Andrew, Bokma Albert F., Conceptual Approaches for Personal and Corporate Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings of the 34th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences , IEEE Computer Society Press, 2001, ISSN 0769509827

Slade Andrew, Bokma Albert F., XML and Knowledge Management and its use in the Organisation, Proceedings of the ISCA International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI2000), Honolulu, Hawaii , 2000,

Bokma Albert F., Slade Andrew, Using XML for Information and Knowledge Management in the Organisation, Proceeding of the ISCA 2nd International Conference on Information Reuse and Intergration IRI 2000 , 2000, pp76-81, 1880843366

Storey Andrew, Thompson John Barrie, Bokma Albert F., A Review of Quality Issues for Electronic Commerce Systems, The British Computer Society Quality Special Interest Group's 8th Annual Conference , British Computer Society,, 2000, ISBN 1902505255

Storey Andrew, Thompson John Barrie, Bokma Albert F., An Evaluation of UK and USA Online Banking and Web Sites, Association for Information Systems 2000 Americas Conference on Information Systems, 2000,

Periorellis P, Bokma Albert F., An Object-oriented Modelling Approach for Enterprise Networks, Proceedings of the TOOLS 24 Conference (Technology of Object-oriented Languages and Systems) , IEEE Computer Society Press, 1997, IBSN 0818685514

Smith Peter, Harvey Clare, Bell Robert, Wilson Mark, Edwards Helen M., Bokma Albert F., Hannam A, Benjamin A, Building Tomorrow's Company: The Route to Sustainable Business Success, Procedings of the 14th International Conference of WACRA , Madrid July 1997, Vol 2, pp355-362

Storey Andrew, Thompson John Barrie, Bokma Albert F., Can Business that use Electronic Commerce be both Successul and Ethically Oriented, Proc. Of the 10th Annual Meeting of the International Information Management Association (IIMA) , Iona College, 1999

Bokma Albert F., Jarvis S, Huiban M, Slade Andrew, Handling Communications in Concurrent Knowledge Based Systems, Industrial and Engineering Applications of AI and Expert Systems , Proceeding of the 8th International Conference, 1995, Vol n/a, pp533-540, 2884491988

Slade Andrew, Bokma Albert F., Kerridge Simon, Engineering Large Scale Agent Based Systems with CONSENSUS, Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing , Elsevier Science Ltd., 1994, Vol 11, pp81-90, 07365845