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European, Mediterranean & Middle Eastern Conference on
Information Systems (EMCIS2015)
Athens, Greece, 01-02 June, 2015
PROGRAMME GUIDE
12th European, Mediterranean & Middle Eastern Conference on
Information Systems 2015
June 01-02 2015
Royal Olympic Hotel Athens, Greece
www.emcis.eu
Welcome
Welcome to Athens – Greece, home of the 12th European, Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Conference on Information Systems (EMCIS). It is with great pleasure
that we welcome you to the 12th EMCIS hosted by the University of Piraeus (Greece) and Brunel University London (United Kingdom) (UK).
EMCIS - is an annual research event addressing the Information Systems (IS) discipline with regional as well as global perspective. Entering its 12th 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. Janice Sipior, Villanova University, USA; Prof. Peter Love, Curtin University, Australia; Prof. Gail Corbitt, California State
University, USA; Prof. Vishanth Weerakkody, Brunel University, UK; Dr. Piotr Soja, Cracow University of Economics, Poland; Dr. Sofiane Tebboune, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK; Dr. Fletcher Glancy, Miami University, USA; Dr. Aurelio Ravarini, Universitario Carlo Cattaneo, Italy; Dr. Wafi Al-Karaghouli, Brunel University, UK; Prof. Kamel Ghorab, Alhosn University, UAE; Prof. Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, Holland; Dr. Ricardo Jimenes Peris, Universidad Politécnica
de Madrid (UPM), Spain; Dr. Federico Pigni, Grenoble Ecole de Management, France; Dr. Paulo Henrique de Souza Bermejo, Universidade Federal de Lavras, Brazil;
Associate Prof. Euripidis N. Loukis, University of the Aegean, Greece; Dr. May Seitanidi, University of Kent, UK; Dr. Sevgi Özkan, Middle East Technical University,
Turkey; Dr. Demosthenis Kyriazis, University of Piraeus, Greece; Dr. Karim Al-Yafi, Qatar University, Qatar; Prof. Inas Ezz, Sadat Academy for Management Sciences SAMS, Egypt; Dr. Manar Abu Talib, Zayed University, UAE; Dr. Alan Serrano, Brunel University, UK; Dr. Steve Jones, Conwy County Borough, UK; Dr. Tillal Eldabi, Ahlia
University, Bahrain; Prof. Ibrahim Osman, American University of Beirut, Lebanon; Dr. Carsten Brockmann, University of Potsdam, Germany.
We also acknowledge the support of our collaborators, Business and Technology Outlook Research Program (BTO) Italy, University of Piraeus, Greece, Microsoft
Hellas, KEMEA Greece and BIC for their generous support.
We are confident that your participation, presentations and active engagement in scientific debates will make EMCIS 2015 in Athens-Greece a very special event.
EMCIS ORGANISATION
Conference Foundation Chair:
Prof. Zahir Irani, Brunel University, UK
Conference Co-Chairs:
Associate Prof. Vincenzo Morabito , Bocconi University, Italy
Associate Prof. Costas Lambrinoudakis , University of Piraeus, Greece
Conference Executive Committee:
Dr. Ahmad Ghoneim, Brunel University, UK (Program Chair)
Associate Prof. Marinos Themistocleous, University of Piraeus, Greece (Program Chair)
Dr. Paulo Rupino Cunha, University of Coimbra, Portugal (PhD Consortium Chair)
Dr. Gianluigi Viscusi, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de, Switzerland (Publications Chair)
Dr. Muhammad Kamal, Brunel University, UK (Public Relations Chair)
Mr. Leonidas Katelaris, University of Piraeus, Greece (Website Coordinator)
EMCIS TRACKS & CHAIRS
Track Big Data and Analytics
Track Chairs: Dr. Paulo Rubino Cunha, Coimbra University, Portugal
Dr. Christos Doulkeridis, University of Piraeus, Greece
Track Cloud Computing
Track Chair: Associate Prof. Ricardo Jimenes Peris, Universidad
Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Spain
Track Digital Services, Social Media and Digital Collaboration
Track Chair: Dr. Gianluigi Viscusi, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de,
Switzerland
Track e-Government
Track Chair: Dr. Karim Al-Ya�i, Qatar University, Qatar
Track Enterprise Systems
Track Chairs: Dr. Piotr Soja, Cracow University of Economics, Poland,
Dr. Carsten Brockmann, University of Potsdam, Germany
Track Innovative Research Projects
Track Chair: Dr. Demosthenis Kyriazis, University of Piraeus, Greece
Track Management and Organizational Issues in Information Systems
Track Chairs: Dr. Ahmad Ghoneim, Brunel University, UK
Associate Prof. Euripidis N. Loukis, University of the Aegean,
Greece
Track Security and Privacy Protection for Information Systems
Track Chair: Dr. Tsohou Aggeliki, Ionia University, Greece
Track Green Information Systems
Track Chairs: Prof. Habin Lee, Brunel University, UK
Afshin Mansouri, Brunel University, UK
Ahmet Bilici, Promatech Maritime, Turkey
Levent Demiriz, ARKAS Shipping, Turkey
Track Healthcare Information Systems
Track Chairs:
Associate Prof. Andriana Prentza, University of Piraeus, Greece
Associate Prof. Flora Malamateniou, University of Piraeus, Greece
Keynote Speaker
Prof. Sokratis K. Katsikas was born in Athens, Greece, in 1960. He received the Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the University of
Patras, Patras, Greece in 1982, the Master of Science in Electrical & Computer Engineering degree from the University of Massachusetts
at Amherst, Amherst, USA, in 1984 and the Ph.D. in Computer Engineering & Informatics from the University of Patras, Patras, Greece in
1987. Currently he is a Professor of the Dept. of Digital Systems of the University of Piraeus, Greece, member of the pool of experts of the
Institutional Evaluation Programme of the European University Association and member of the Steering Committee of the same
programme. He has been the Rector (2003-2006) and Vice-Rector (1997-2003) of the University of the Aegean, member of the Board of
the Hellenic Quality Assurance Authority for Higher Education (2006-2008), member of the Board of the Hellenic Authority for Information and Communication Security and Privacy (2008-2009), Vice-President of the Panhellenic Federation of University Faculty Members
(2009), the National Representative of Greece to the Management Committee of the 7th EU R&D Framework Programme “People”
(2007-2009), the General Secretary for Communications of the Ministry of Infrastructures, Transport and Networks of the Hellenic
Republic (2009-2012), member of the Committee for Information and Communication Technologies of the Greek Government (2011-2012) and Chairman of the
Technical Advisory Board on Information and Communication Technologies projects of the Ministry of Administrative Reform and Electronic Government
(2011-2012). His research interests lie in the areas of information and communication systems security and of estimation theory and its applications. He has
authored or co-authored more than 230 journal publications, book chapters and conference proceedings publications and he has participated in more than 60
funded national and international R&D projects in these areas. He is serving on the editorial board of several scientific journals, he has authored / edited 26
books and has served on/chaired the technical programme committee of more than 300 international scientific conferences.
Conference Programme
Monday 1st June, 2015
08:30 - 18:00
09:00 - 09:15
09:15 - 10:00
Registration (Panorama Hall - 6th �loor)
Welcome by Conference Chairs (Panorama Hall-6th �loor)
Keynote Speech (Panorama Hall-6th �loor)
PROF. SOCRATIS KATSIKAS - Security and Privacy Challenges in New Computing Paradigm
TRACK: Big Data Analytics
(Conference Room 1 - 1st �loor)
CHAIR: DR. FLORA MALAMATENIOU
10:00 - 10:30
10:30 - 11:00
Programme
Ubiquitous Decision Making and
Support: A Framework and
Evaluation
[PID-12]
Anika Rani, Shahper Vodanovich and
David Sundaram
Text Analytics Evaluation on Big
Data Projects Using Elasticsearch
[PID-2]
Panagiotis Nikitopoulos, Christos
Doulkeridis and Marinos
Themistocleous
TRACK: Cloud Computing
(Conference Room 2 -2nd �loor)
CHAIR: DR. MARINOS THEMISTOCLEOUS
Drifting Clouds: A Case Study of IT
Transformation at Eni
[PID-11]
Giorgio De Michelis,
Gianluigi Viscusi and
Tiziano Salmi
Strategies for Cloud Computing Adoption:
Insights From the Norwegian Public Sector
[PID-65]
Rania El-Gazzar
and Fathul Wahid
TRACK: Green IS
(Panorama Hall - 6th �loor)
CHAIR: PROF. HABIN LEE
The Use of Social Media for
Improving Energy Consumption Awareness
and Ef�iciency: An Overview of Existing Tools
[PID-25]
Uthayasankar Sivarajah, Habin Lee, Zahir
Irani, Gary Fragidis and Michele Lombardi
Increasing Environmental
Sustainability by Optimizing
Vessel Speed in Liner Shipping
[PID-31]
Nursen Aydin,
Afshin Mansouri and Habin Lee
Conference Programme
Monday 1st June, 2015
11:00 - 11:30
11:30 - 12:00
Improved Single-Label Text
Categorization by Instance
Filtration
[PID-8]
Kashif Khan and Usman Qamar
TRACK: Managment and Organizational
Issues in Information Systems
(Conference Room 1 - 1st �loor)
CHAIR: DR. GIANLUIGI VISCUSI
12:00 - 12:30
12:30 - 13:00
Programme
Towards a Uni�ied Meta-Model for Goal
Oriented Modelling [PID-6]
Amjad Fayoumi, Evangelia Kavakli and
Pericles Loucopoulos
A Qualitative Study of the Signi�icant
Motivators for Shopping Online Among
Undergraduate Students in the UK
[PID-32]
Wa�i Al-Karaghouli, Mohamed Haffar,
Ahmad Ghoneim and Sulaf Assi, Harry
Philips and Joseph Wilkinson
A User-Centric, Privacy-Aware Platform for new Business
Models in a Data Driven Era
[PID-100]
Michael Petychakis, Iosif Alvertis, Romanos Tsouroplis,
Evmor�ia Biliri,Fenareti Lampathaki, Dimitris Askounis, Andreas
Daskalopoulos, Theodoros Michalareas, Eric Robson, Dónal
Mccarthy, Christine O'Meara, Lukasz Radz iwonowicz,
Robert Kleinfeld and Timotheos Kastrinogiannis
Relational Bene�its and Customer Engagement
in Social Media and Brand Communities
[PID-63]
Hojeong Yoon
COFFEE BREAK
TRACK: Cloud Computing
(Conference Room 2 - 2nd �loor)
CHAIR: DR. MARINOS THEMISTOCLEOUS
Building Robust Cloud enabled e-health Applications
[PID-1]
George Pittas
Dynamic Prediction on E-Health Application Based on
Varying Scalability Parameters
[PID-5]
Avraam Giogourtsoglou
TRACK: Green IS
(Panorama Hall-6th �loor)
CHAIR: PROF. HABIN LEE
Decision Support System for Multi-Objective
Sustainable Marine Shipping
[PID-64]
Saowanit Lekhavat, Nursen Aydin, Habin Lee
and Ahmet Bilici
Factors In�luencing Adoption
of Green Shipping Practices and In�luence on
Organizational Performance
[PID-69]
Oluwakayode Aluko
and Habin Lee
Conference Programme
Monday 1st June, 2015
13:00 - 13:30
13:30 - 14:30
Building An Innovative Solution for Wild�ire
Prevention and Management: the “Aegis”
Platform
[PID-67]
Nikos Athanasis, Christos Kalloniatis,
Michail Vaitis, Christos Vasilakos
and Kostas Kalabokidis
TRACK: Managment and Organizational
Issues in Information Systems
(Conference Room 1 - 1st �loor)
CHAIR: DR. GIANLUIGI VISCUSI
14:30 - 15:00
15:00 - 15:30
Programme
Organizational issues involved in Project
Portfolio Management in Terms of
Organizational State-Transition Approach
[PID-103]
Hamed Sarbazhosseini and Amy Hart
Learning by Negotiation – Implementing a
Journal Management System
[PID-71]
Ozgun Imre
Discussion on Open Issues on
Cloud Computing
Marinos Themistocleous
Discussion on Open Issues in Green IS
Habin Lee
LUNCH BREAK
TRACK: Security and Privacy Protection for
Information Systems
(Conference Room 2 - 2nd �loor)
TRACK: Innovative Research Projects
Policy Compact Project
(Panorama Hall - 6th �loor)
CHAIR: DR. AGGELIKI TSOHOU
CHAIR: PROF. HABIN LEE
On the Low Diffusion of Pets in SNS:
Results of an Empirical Investigation
[PID-7]
Policy Compass Workshop
Project Outline
[PID-IP1]
Countering the Collusion Attack in A Trust-Based
Manet
[PID-41]
Policy Compass
Live Demo
[PID-IP2]
Konstantina Vemou, Gavriela Mousa and
Maria Karyda
Ryma Abassi and Sihem Guemara El Fatmi
Habin Lee
Youngseok Choi
Conference Programme
Monday 1st June, 2015
15:30 - 16:00
Discussion on Open Issues in
MIS
Gianluigi Viscusi
TRACK: e-Goverment
(Conference Room 1 - 1st �loor)
CHAIR: DR. WAFI AL-KARAGHOULI
16:50 - 17:10
Programme
Martin Brodin, Jeremy Rose and
Rose-Mharie Åhlfeldt
Policy Compass
Emerging Issues
[PID-IP3]
Nursen Aydin
COFFEE BREAK
16:00 - 16:30
16:30 - 16:50
Management Issues for BYOD
[PID-66]
TRACK: Security and Privacy Protection for
Information Systems
(Conference Room 2 - 2nd �loor )
CHAIR: DR. AGGELIKI TSOHOU
TRACK: Innovative Research Projects
PinCloud Project
(Panorama Hall - 6th �loor)
CHAIR: MARINOS THEMISTOCLEOUS
Policy Impact Evaluation through
Prosperity Metrics and Open Data Sources
[PID-24]
Training Users on Information Security: Evidence
From Java Applets
[PID-74]
PinCloud: A Healthcare Innovative
Project
[PID-116]
Investigation How Citizens' Trust Can In�luence
the Success Adoption to E- Government:
A Literature Review and a Proposed Framework
[PID-60]
A Framework for Designing an Effective Security
Awareness System for Online Social Network Users
[PID-68]
Pincloud
Part1:E-Referral [PID-3]
Leonidas Katelaris
Panagiotis Kokkinakos, Costas Koutras, Ourania
Markaki, Sotirios Koussouris and John Psarras
Latifa Alzahrani, Wa�i Al-Karaghouli and
Vishanth Weerakkody
Norilyz Figueroa and Ramakrishna Ayyagari
Ehinome Ikhalia and Alan Serrano
Marinos Themistocleous
Part 2: E-Prescription [PID-IP4]
Charalambos Bouchlis
Conference Programme
Monday 1st June, 2015
17:10 - 17:30
Navigation in Politics – Fuzzy Cognitive Map and
Argumentation Approach for Policy Modeling
and Analytics
[PID-62]
Towards the Design of Trustworthy Websites
for Cultural Organizations: A Visitor's Perspective
[PID-70]
Privacy Preservation in a Pattern-Aware
Authentication Scheme
for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks
[PID-42]
Mobile Health Application: Common Usability and
Functionality Issues
[PID-114]
17:30 - 18:00
Martin G. Löhe, Yuri Glikman, Thomas F. Gordon,
Habin Lee and Youngseok Choi
20:00 - 24:00
Ryma Abassi and Sihem Guemara El Fatmi
Programme
Evangelia Kavakli, Philemon Bantimaroudis,
Christos Kalloniatis, Stefanos Gritzalis and
Konstantina Avgeri
Alexandros Mourouzis, Ioanna Chouvarda and
Nicos Maglaveras
GALA NIGHT
PinCloud Platform
Part 3: PHR [PID-IP5]
Angie Kousiniori
Part4 : Home Care [PID-IP6]
Andriana Prentza
A NoSQL Databases
Comparison for e-health
Projects
[PID-4]
Nikolaos Chelmis
Conference Programme
Tuesday 2nd June, 2015
08:30 - 13:30
09:00 - 10:00
10:00 - 11:30
11:30 - 12:00
Registration (Panorama Hall - 6th �loor)
BTO CIO Executive Community
Private Event
(Conference Room 1 - 1st �loor)
Invitation only
Industrial Events and
Workshops organized by BTO
(Conference Room 1 - 1st �loor)
12:00 - 12:30
BTO CIO Executive Community
Private Event
Invitation only
Programme
Innovative Research Projects: SPAGOS Project
Panel Session
(Conference Room 2 - 2nd �loor)
Costas Lambrinoudakis, Sokratis Katsikas, Xenakis Christos,
Patrikakis CharalambosKlaoudatou Eleni, Tsanakas Panagiotis
Workshops organized by Sponsors and Industrial Partners
PhD Consortium
(Conference Room 1 - 1st �loor)
CHAIR: DR. WAFI AL-KARAGHOULI
Microsoft Azure Workshop on Cloud
Computing
(Conference Room 1- 2nd �loor)
Of�ice Line
Panayiotis Kouris
COFFEE BREAK
SAP Workshop on
Big Data and Analytics
(Panorama Hall - 6th �loor)
Stratis Pelekidis and
Christoforos Verras
TRACK: Digital Services, Social
Media and Digital Collaboration
(Conference Room 1- 2nd �loor)
TRACK: Innovative Research Projects
e-SENS Project
(Panorama Hall - 6th �loor)
CHAIR DR. SEVGI ÖZKAN - YILDIRIM
CHAIR DR. ANDRIANA PRENTZA
Improving the Value of IS – Self
Participation and
Healthy Lifestyle
[PID-73]
Promoting Intelligence Analysts
Training Through Serious
Games: The LEILA Approach
[PID -IP7]
Anton Manfreda
Prokopis Drogkaris
Conference Programme
Tuesday 2nd June, 2015
12:30 - 13:00
BTO CIO Executive Community
Private Event
Invitation only
13:00 - 13:30
BTO CIO Executive Community
Private Event
Invitation only
TRACK: Enterprise Systems
(Conference Room 1- 1st �loor)
CHAIR DR. NIKOLAOS BASIAS
Programme
Creating a European eHealth Space for
cross-border ePrescription and Patient
Summary Services
[PID-111]
An Empirical Analysis of IntraTransactional Disclosure in Internet
Auctions
[PID-27]
Electronic Cross-Border Access to Legal Means
and Procedures in Europe - The Greek
eCODEX Pilot
[PID-112]
Kathy Shen, Shahper Vodanovich
and Mohammed Khalifa
Young Jin Lee, Arvind Tripathi,
Amit Basu and Ananth Srinivasan
LUNCH BREAK
13:30 - 14:30
14:30 - 15:00
The Role of Intensity of Facebook Usage
in Social Capital Development:
An Example of the UAE
[PID-10]
Start-Up Company? Get your ERP
System Asap!
[PID-61]
Luay Ahmad Anaya, Leif Skiftenes
Flak and Dag Håkon Olsen
Dimitrios Katehakis,
George Pangalos and Andriana Prentza
George Pangalos, Ioannis Salmatzidis
and Ioannis Pagkalos
TRACK: Digital Services, Social
Media and Digital Collaboration
(Conference Room 1- 2nd �loor)
TRACK: Innovative Research Projects
SPAGOS Project
(Panorama Hall - 6th �loor)
CHAIR DR. SHAHPER VODANOVICH
CHAIR DR. COSTAS LAMBRINOUDAKIS
Analysing Qualitative Data From Virtual
Worlds: Using Images and Text Mining
[PID-57]
Brad McKenna, Michael Myers and
Lesley Gardner
Security and Privacy Requirements for
SPAGOS
[PID-117]
Costas Lambrinoudakis
Conference Programme
Tuesday 2nd June, 2015
15:00 - 15:30
15:30 - 16:00
Market Reactions To Enterprise Systems
Investments in European Economy:
An Event Study
[PID-104]
Josephine Chong, Swati Nagar and
Xiaowei Wang
Drawing Tools UML Textual Language
[PID-9]
Mohammed Mahmoud
16:00 - 16:30
CHAIR DR. ANDRIANA PRENTZA
Programme
Shang Gao, Zhe Zang and Hong Guo
The Interplay of Omniretailing & Store
Atmosphere on Consumer’s Purchase Intention
Towards the Physical Retail Store
[PID-72]
Chris Lazaris, Adam Vrechopoulos,
Georgios Doukidis and Aikaterini Fraidaki
Protection in eGovernment Services through
the use of Semantic Web
[PID-IP8]
Patrikakis Charalampos
e-Voting from the Ground Up and Zeus
[PID-IP9]
Panayiotis Tsanakas
COFFEE BREAK
TRACK: Healthcare Information Systems
(Conference Room 1- 1st �loor)
16:30 - 17:00
A Study on Users’ Attitude To Pervasive
Games in China
[PID-58]
Challenges of Evolving Pincloud PHR
Into a PHR-Based Health Analytics System
[PID-113]
Mikaela Poulymenopoulou, Flora
Malamateniou,
Andriana Prentza and George Vassilacopoulos
TRACK: Digital Services, Social
Media and Digital Collaboration
(Conference Room 2- 2nd �loor)
CHAIR DR. SHAHPER VODANOVICH
A Game-based Mobile Application on English
Vocabulary Acquisition: Cross-Situational
Learning Approach
[PID-101]
Sevgi Özkan-Yıldırım
TRACK: Innovative Research Projects
European Scene Towards Cloud, Data and
IoT Management
(Panorama Hall- 6th �loor)
CHAIR DR. DIMOSTHENIS KYRIAZIS
Implementing Failure Detection and
Reporting in a Libvirt Cloud Through
Ad-Hoc Mechanisms
[PID-110]
Vasileios Anagnostopoulos, Nikos Vlastaras,
Theodora Varvarigou and Dimosthenis Kyriazis
Conference Programme
Tuesday 2nd June, 2015
17:00 - 17:30
17:30 - 18:00
A Smartphone App for Ef�icient Note Keeping
in Concurrent Multi-Participant Behavoural
Studies
[PID-115]
Social Media Use By the UK Political Parties
[PID-102]
Viktorija Pan�ilova and Nadia Amin
A Design Approach Towards Mvcc Provision by a
Document Data Store for Enabling Transactional
Semantics
[PID-108]
Operational and Innovation Collaboration in
Cloud Computing
[PID-109]
An Innovative Decision Making Framework
for E-banking Integration
[PID-105]
A Cross Layer Management Framework for
Achieving Added Value IoT Services
[PID-107]
Leandros Stefanopoulos, Christos Maramis,
Ioannis Ioakimidis, Ioannis Moulos,
Nicos Maglaveras
Euripidis Loukis, Androniki Kyriakou and
Konstantinos Pazalos
18:00 - 20:00
Programme
Nikolaos Basias, Marinos Themistocleous and
Vincenzo Morabito
SOCIAL EVENT - ACROPOLIS MUSEUM VISIT
Pavlos Kranas, Sotiris Stamokostas
and Vrettos Moulos
Achilleas Marinakis, Spyridon Gogouvitis,
Dimosthenis Kyriazis, George Kousiouris,
Panagiotis Bourelos, Orfefs Voutyras and
Theodora Varvarigou
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