]> Prof. Kou has over 20 years of experience in the IT field, including over 12 years of industrial experience in North America. He has received various awards from IBM, AT&T, and Siemens. Prof. Kou is Senior Member of IEEE, and was elected as Member of New York Academy of Sciences in 1992. Prof. Kou has authored/edited 8 books, and published over 100 papers on journals and conferences. He also authored over 20 issued patents from US, Canada, UK, Japan, France, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and the Mainland China. He has served as Guest Editor/Associate Editor for several international journals, and was General Chair of 2004 IEEE International Conference on E-Commerce Technology for Dynamic E-Business. ]]>