Dr. Abbas A. Tarhini is an Associate Professor at the Information Technology and Operations Management Department at the Lebanese American University (LAU). He received his BS and MS in Computer Science from the Lebanese American University, Lebanon and his PhD in Information Systems from University of Reims, France. Dr. Tarhini is a member of the Association for Information Systems (AIS) and an honorable member of the Beta Gamma Sigma honor society. He is the past president of the Middle East and North Africa Association for Information Systems (MENA-AIS), the AIS MENA chapter and at the President of the Lebanese Association for Information Systems (AIS Lebanon chapter) and the VP for research at the Information and Communication Technologies in Organizations and Society alliance (ICTO), France. He is on the steering committees of a number of international conferences and on the editorial board of the Journal of Innovation and Knowledge and the Journal of Computers & Industrial Engineering. His research is published in recognized journals including IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Systems, Journal of Business Research, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Annals of Operation Research and more.