Dr. Sajid Anwar is an Associate Professor at the Center of Excellence in Information Technology Institute of Management Sciences (IMSciences), Peshawar, Pakistan. He received his MS (Computer Science, 2007) and Ph.D degrees (Software Engineering, 2011) from NUCES-FAST, Islamabad. Previously, he was head of Undergraduate Program in Software Engineering at IMSciences. Dr. Sajid Anwar is leading expert in Software architecture engineering and Software maintenance prediction. His research interests are cross-disciplinary & industry focused and includes: Search based Software Engineering; Prudent based Expert Systems; Customer Analytics, Active Learning and applying Data Mining and Machine Learning techniques to solve real world problems. Dr. Sajid Anwar is Associate editor of Expert Systems Journal Wiley. He has been a Guest Editor of numerous journals, such as Neural Computing and Applications, Cluster Computing Journal Springer, Grid Computing Journal Springer, Expert Systems Journal Wiley, Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies Wiley, and Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory Journal Springer. He is also Member Board Committee Institute of Creative Advanced Technologies, Science and Engineering, Korea (iCatse.org). He has supervised to completion many MS research students. He has conducted and led collaborative research with Govt. organizations and academia and has published over 50 research articles in prestigious conferences and journals.Dr. Abrar Ullah is an Associate Professor and Director of Postgraduate Studies at the School of Mathematical and Computer Science, Heriot Watt University, Dubai Campus. Abrar received the MSc (Computer Science, 2000) from University of Peshawar. Abrar received the PhD (Security and Usability) from University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom. Abrar has been working in industry and academia for over 20 years. He has vast experience in teaching and development of enterprise systems. Abrar started his teaching career in 2002 as lecturer at the University of Peshawar and Provincial Health Services Academy Peshawar. In 2008, Abrar joined the ABMU NHS UK as Lead Developer and contributed to a number of key systems in the NHS. In 2011, Abrar joined professional services at Cardiff University as “Team Lead & Senior Systems Analyst” and led a number of successful strategic and national level projects. In the same period, besides his professional role, he also worked as lecturer of “Digital Media Design” for School of Medicine, Cardiff University. In 2017, Abrar held the role of lecturer at school of management and computer science, Cardiff Metropolitan University. He also held the role of “Lead Developer” at the NHS - Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) until 2019. Abrar is General Chair of the 16th ICITA conference to be held in Lisbon, Portugal on 20 - 22 October 2022. His research interests are cross-disciplinary & industry focused. Abrar has research interest in Security Engineering, Information Security, Usability, Usable Security, Online Examinations and Collusion Detection, Applying Machine Learning techniques to solve real world security problems. Abrar has published over 16 research articles in prestigious conferences and journals.Dr. Álvaro Rocha holds the title of Honorary Professor, and holds a D.Sc. in Information Science, Ph.D. in Information Systems and Technologies, M.Sc. in Information Management, and BCs in Computer Science. He is a Professor of Information Systems at the ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics & Management, University of Lisbon. He is also President of AISTI (the Iberian Association for Information Systems and Technologies), Chair of the IEEE Portugal Section Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society Chapter, and Editor-in-Chief of both JISEM (Journal of Information Systems Engineering & Management) and RISTI (Iberian Journal of Information Systems and Technologies). Moreover,he has served as Vice-Chair of Experts for the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 program, and as an Expert at the COST - intergovernmental framework for European Cooperation in Science and Technology, at the Government of Italy’s Ministry of Education, Universities and Research, at the Government of Latvia’s Ministry of Finance, at the Government of Mexico's National Council of Science and Technology, and at the Government of Polish's National Science Centre.Dr. Maria José Sousa (Ph.D. in Industrial Management) is Pro-Rector for Distance Learning Development and a University Professor at ISCTE. She is also a research fellow at Business Research Unit, and has assumed a Post-Doc position from 2016-2018 in digital learning and digital skills, researching those fields, with several publications in journals with high impact factor (Journal of Business Research, Journal of Grid Computing, Future Generation Computer Systems, and others). And is collaborating as an expert in digital skills, with Delloite (Brussels) for a request of the European Commission in the creation of a new category regarding digital skills to be integrated with the European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS). She was a member of the Coordinator Committee of the Ph.D. in Management at Universidade Europeia. She was also a Senior Researcher at GEE (Research Office) in the Portuguese Ministry of Economy, responsible for Innovation, Research, and Entrepreneurship Policies, and a Knowledge and Competencies Manager at AMA, IP, Public Reform Agency (Ministry of the Presidency and the Ministers Council). She was also a Project Manager at the Ministry of Labor and Employment, responsible for Innovation, and Evaluation and Development of the Qualifications Projects. Her research interests currently are public policies, health policies, innovation, and information science. She has developed major research in the innovation policies with articles published in high-level journals (as the European Planning Studies, Information Systems Frontiers, Systems Research, and Behavioral Science, Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, Future Generation Computer Systems, and others). She is also the guest-editor of more than 5 Special Issues from Springer and Elsevier. She has participated in European projects of innovation transfer (for example, as Ambassador of EUWIN, and Co-coordinating an Erasmus + project with ATO - Chamber of Commerce of Ankara about entrepreneurship) and is also an External Expert of COST Association - European Cooperation in Science and Technology, and former President of the ISO/TC 260 – Human Resources Management, representing Portugal in the International Organization for Standardization.

• Digital Policies and Innovation: Contributions to Redefining Online Learning of Health Professionals.- Reference Framework for the Enterprise Architecture for National Organizations for Official Statistics: Literature Review.- Assessing the Impact of Process Awareness in Industry 4.0.- An Overview on the Identification of Software Birthmarks for Software Protection.- The Mayan Culture Video Game – “La Casa Maya”.- Impact of Decentralized and Agile Digital Transformational Programs on the Pharmaceutical Industry, including an Assessment of Digital Activity Metrics and Commercial Digital Activities.- Sprinting from Waterfall: The Transformation of University Teaching of Project Management.- Versioning: Representing Cultural Heritage Ev-idences on CIDOC-CRM via a Case Study.- Towards a Route Optimization Modular System.- Intellectual Capital and Information Systems (Technology): What Does Some Literature Review Say.- REST, GraphQL, and GraphQL Wrapper APIs Evaluation. A Computational Laboratory Experiment.

Dr. Sajid Anwar is an Associate Professor at the Center of Excellence in Information Technology Institute of Management Sciences (IMSciences), Peshawar, Pakistan. He received his MS (Computer Science, 2007) and Ph.D degrees (Software Engineering, 2011) from NUCES-FAST, Islamabad. Previously, he was head of Undergraduate Program in Software Engineering at IMSciences. Dr. Sajid Anwar is leading expert in Software architecture engineering and Software maintenance prediction. His research interests are cross-disciplinary & industry focused and includes: Search based Software Engineering; Prudent based Expert Systems; Customer Analytics, Active Learning and applying Data Mining and Machine Learning techniques to solve real world problems. Dr. Sajid Anwar is Associate editor of Expert Systems Journal Wiley. He has been a Guest Editor of numerous journals, such as Neural Computing and Applications, Cluster Computing Journal Springer, Grid Computing Journal Springer, Expert Systems Journal Wiley, Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies Wiley, and Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory Journal Springer. He is also Member Board Committee Institute of Creative Advanced Technologies, Science and Engineering, Korea (iCatse.org). He has supervised to completion many MS research students. He has conducted and led collaborative research with Govt. organizations and academia and has published over 50 research articles in prestigious conferences and journals.Dr. Abrar Ullah is an Associate Professor and Director of Postgraduate Studies at the School of Mathematical and Computer Science, Heriot Watt University, Dubai Campus. Abrar received the MSc (Computer Science, 2000) from University of Peshawar. Abrar received the PhD (Security and Usability) from University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom. Abrar has been working in industry and academia for over 20 years. He has vast experience in teaching and development of enterprise systems. Abrar started his teaching career in 2002 as lecturer at the University of Peshawar and Provincial Health Services Academy Peshawar. In 2008, Abrar joined the ABMU NHS UK as Lead Developer and contributed to a number of key systems in the NHS. In 2011, Abrar joined professional services at Cardiff University as “Team Lead & Senior Systems Analyst” and led a number of successful strategic and national level projects. In the same period, besides his professional role, he also worked as lecturer of “Digital Media Design” for School of Medicine, Cardiff University. In 2017, Abrar held the role of lecturer at school of management and computer science, Cardiff Metropolitan University. He also held the role of “Lead Developer” at the NHS - Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) until 2019. Abrar is General Chair of the 16th ICITA conference to be held in Lisbon, Portugal on 20 - 22 October 2022. His research interests are cross-disciplinary & industry focused. Abrar has research interest in Security Engineering, Information Security, Usability, Usable Security, Online Examinations and Collusion Detection, Applying Machine Learning techniques to solve real world security problems. Abrar has published over 16 research articles in prestigious conferences and journals.Dr. Álvaro Rocha holds the title of Honorary Professor, and holds a D.Sc. in Information Science, Ph.D. in Information Systems and Technologies, M.Sc. in Information Management, and BCs in Computer Science. He is a Professor of Information Systems at the ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics & Management, University of Lisbon. He is also President of AISTI (the Iberian Association for Information Systems and Technologies), Chair of the IEEE Portugal Section Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society Chapter, and Editor-in-Chief of both JISEM (Journal of Information Systems Engineering & Management) and RISTI (Iberian Journal of Information Systems and Technologies). Moreover,he has served as Vice-Chair of Experts for the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 program, and as an Expert at the COST - intergovernmental framework for European Cooperation in Science and Technology, at the Government of Italy’s Ministry of Education, Universities and Research, at the Government of Latvia’s Ministry of Finance, at the Government of Mexico's National Council of Science and Technology, and at the Government of Polish's National Science Centre.Dr. Maria José Sousa (Ph.D. in Industrial Management) is Pro-Rector for Distance Learning Development and a University Professor at ISCTE. She is also a research fellow at Business Research Unit, and has assumed a Post-Doc position from 2016-2018 in digital learning and digital skills, researching those fields, with several publications in journals with high impact factor (Journal of Business Research, Journal of Grid Computing, Future Generation Computer Systems, and others). And is collaborating as an expert in digital skills, with Delloite (Brussels) for a request of the European Commission in the creation of a new category regarding digital skills to be integrated with the European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS). She was a member of the Coordinator Committee of the Ph.D. in Management at Universidade Europeia. She was also a Senior Researcher at GEE (Research Office) in the Portuguese Ministry of Economy, responsible for Innovation, Research, and Entrepreneurship Policies, and a Knowledge and Competencies Manager at AMA, IP, Public Reform Agency (Ministry of the Presidency and the Ministers Council). She was also a Project Manager at the Ministry of Labor and Employment, responsible for Innovation, and Evaluation and Development of the Qualifications Projects. Her research interests currently are public policies, health policies, innovation, and information science. She has developed major research in the innovation policies with articles published in high-level journals (as the European Planning Studies, Information Systems Frontiers, Systems Research, and Behavioral Science, Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, Future Generation Computer Systems, and others). She is also the guest-editor of more than 5 Special Issues from Springer and Elsevier. She has participated in European projects of innovation transfer (for example, as Ambassador of EUWIN, and Co-coordinating an Erasmus + project with ATO - Chamber of Commerce of Ankara about entrepreneurship) and is also an External Expert of COST Association - European Cooperation in Science and Technology, and former President of the ISO/TC 260 – Human Resources Management, representing Portugal in the International Organization for Standardization.

• Digital Policies and Innovation: Contributions to Redefining Online Learning of Health Professionals.- Reference Framework for the Enterprise Architecture for National Organizations for Official Statistics: Literature Review.- Assessing the Impact of Process Awareness in Industry 4.0.- An Overview on the Identification of Software Birthmarks for Software Protection.- The Mayan Culture Video Game – “La Casa Maya”.- Impact of Decentralized and Agile Digital Transformational Programs on the Pharmaceutical Industry, including an Assessment of Digital Activity Metrics and Commercial Digital Activities.- Sprinting from Waterfall: The Transformation of University Teaching of Project Management.- Versioning: Representing Cultural Heritage Ev-idences on CIDOC-CRM via a Case Study.- Towards a Route Optimization Modular System.- Intellectual Capital and Information Systems (Technology): What Does Some Literature Review Say.- REST, GraphQL, and GraphQL Wrapper APIs Evaluation. A Computational Laboratory Experiment.

Dr. Sajid Anwar is an Associate Professor at the Center of Excellence in Information Technology Institute of Management Sciences (IMSciences), Peshawar, Pakistan. He received his MS (Computer Science, 2007) and Ph.D degrees (Software Engineering, 2011) from NUCES-FAST, Islamabad. Previously, he was head of Undergraduate Program in Software Engineering at IMSciences. Dr. Sajid Anwar is leading expert in Software architecture engineering and Software maintenance prediction. His research interests are cross-disciplinary & industry focused and includes: Search based Software Engineering; Prudent based Expert Systems; Customer Analytics, Active Learning and applying Data Mining and Machine Learning techniques to solve real world problems. Dr. Sajid Anwar is Associate editor of Expert Systems Journal Wiley. He has been a Guest Editor of numerous journals, such as Neural Computing and Applications, Cluster Computing Journal Springer, Grid Computing Journal Springer, Expert Systems Journal Wiley, Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies Wiley, and Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory Journal Springer. He is also Member Board Committee Institute of Creative Advanced Technologies, Science and Engineering, Korea (iCatse.org). He has supervised to completion many MS research students. He has conducted and led collaborative research with Govt. organizations and academia and has published over 50 research articles in prestigious conferences and journals.Dr. Abrar Ullah is an Associate Professor and Director of Postgraduate Studies at the School of Mathematical and Computer Science, Heriot Watt University, Dubai Campus. Abrar received the MSc (Computer Science, 2000) from University of Peshawar. Abrar received the PhD (Security and Usability) from University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom. Abrar has been working in industry and academia for over 20 years. He has vast experience in teaching and development of enterprise systems. Abrar started his teaching career in 2002 as lecturer at the University of Peshawar and Provincial Health Services Academy Peshawar. In 2008, Abrar joined the ABMU NHS UK as Lead Developer and contributed to a number of key systems in the NHS. In 2011, Abrar joined professional services at Cardiff University as “Team Lead & Senior Systems Analyst” and led a number of successful strategic and national level projects. In the same period, besides his professional role, he also worked as lecturer of “Digital Media Design” for School of Medicine, Cardiff University. In 2017, Abrar held the role of lecturer at school of management and computer science, Cardiff Metropolitan University. He also held the role of “Lead Developer” at the NHS - Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) until 2019. Abrar is General Chair of the 16th ICITA conference to be held in Lisbon, Portugal on 20 - 22 October 2022. His research interests are cross-disciplinary & industry focused. Abrar has research interest in Security Engineering, Information Security, Usability, Usable Security, Online Examinations and Collusion Detection, Applying Machine Learning techniques to solve real world security problems. Abrar has published over 16 research articles in prestigious conferences and journals.Dr. Álvaro Rocha holds the title of Honorary Professor, and holds a D.Sc. in Information Science, Ph.D. in Information Systems and Technologies, M.Sc. in Information Management, and BCs in Computer Science. He is a Professor of Information Systems at the ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics & Management, University of Lisbon. He is also President of AISTI (the Iberian Association for Information Systems and Technologies), Chair of the IEEE Portugal Section Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society Chapter, and Editor-in-Chief of both JISEM (Journal of Information Systems Engineering & Management) and RISTI (Iberian Journal of Information Systems and Technologies). Moreover,he has served as Vice-Chair of Experts for the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 program, and as an Expert at the COST - intergovernmental framework for European Cooperation in Science and Technology, at the Government of Italy’s Ministry of Education, Universities and Research, at the Government of Latvia’s Ministry of Finance, at the Government of Mexico's National Council of Science and Technology, and at the Government of Polish's National Science Centre.Dr. Maria José Sousa (Ph.D. in Industrial Management) is Pro-Rector for Distance Learning Development and a University Professor at ISCTE. She is also a research fellow at Business Research Unit, and has assumed a Post-Doc position from 2016-2018 in digital learning and digital skills, researching those fields, with several publications in journals with high impact factor (Journal of Business Research, Journal of Grid Computing, Future Generation Computer Systems, and others). And is collaborating as an expert in digital skills, with Delloite (Brussels) for a request of the European Commission in the creation of a new category regarding digital skills to be integrated with the European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS). She was a member of the Coordinator Committee of the Ph.D. in Management at Universidade Europeia. She was also a Senior Researcher at GEE (Research Office) in the Portuguese Ministry of Economy, responsible for Innovation, Research, and Entrepreneurship Policies, and a Knowledge and Competencies Manager at AMA, IP, Public Reform Agency (Ministry of the Presidency and the Ministers Council). She was also a Project Manager at the Ministry of Labor and Employment, responsible for Innovation, and Evaluation and Development of the Qualifications Projects. Her research interests currently are public policies, health policies, innovation, and information science. She has developed major research in the innovation policies with articles published in high-level journals (as the European Planning Studies, Information Systems Frontiers, Systems Research, and Behavioral Science, Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, Future Generation Computer Systems, and others). She is also the guest-editor of more than 5 Special Issues from Springer and Elsevier. She has participated in European projects of innovation transfer (for example, as Ambassador of EUWIN, and Co-coordinating an Erasmus + project with ATO - Chamber of Commerce of Ankara about entrepreneurship) and is also an External Expert of COST Association - European Cooperation in Science and Technology, and former President of the ISO/TC 260 – Human Resources Management, representing Portugal in the International Organization for Standardization.

• Digital Policies and Innovation: Contributions to Redefining Online Learning of Health Professionals.- Reference Framework for the Enterprise Architecture for National Organizations for Official Statistics: Literature Review.- Assessing the Impact of Process Awareness in Industry 4.0.- An Overview on the Identification of Software Birthmarks for Software Protection.- The Mayan Culture Video Game – “La Casa Maya”.- Impact of Decentralized and Agile Digital Transformational Programs on the Pharmaceutical Industry, including an Assessment of Digital Activity Metrics and Commercial Digital Activities.- Sprinting from Waterfall: The Transformation of University Teaching of Project Management.- Versioning: Representing Cultural Heritage Ev-idences on CIDOC-CRM via a Case Study.- Towards a Route Optimization Modular System.- Intellectual Capital and Information Systems (Technology): What Does Some Literature Review Say.- REST, GraphQL, and GraphQL Wrapper APIs Evaluation. A Computational Laboratory Experiment.