Teri Kirk, Founder and President of the NovaForum Dispute Resolution Services Group.
     NovaForum provides a full range of in-person mediation, arbitration and alternative dispute resolution (ADR) services, world-wide; the specialized ADR and e-services include www.MediationTravail.ca, and www.ElectronicCourthouse.com.

Alex Ramirez, Assistant Professor, Sprott School of Business, Carleton University, Ottawa.
    Research interests: introduction, evaluation and adoption of emerging information technologies in organisations, hypermedia and multimedia, decision support technologies, e-commerce.
  

Haifei Li, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Nyack College, Nyack, New York, USA. Post-doctoral training at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center.
    Research interests: e-business, m-commerce, automated negotiation, negotiation support, negotiation simulation, application integration, e-business solution management, web services, grid computing, web analysis, collaborative decision making, competitive intelligence.

Ryszard Kowalczyk, Professor of Intelligent Systems and Director of the Centre for Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems in the School of Information Technology, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia.
   Research interests: complex agent negotiations and collective decision-making, distributed learning and adaptation in multi-agent systems, agent coordination and dynamic virtual organisations, agent-based service management and collaborative e-business.

Emilia Bellucci, Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Information Systems at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia. She is awaiting results on her PhD thesis on Negotiation Support Systems.
    Research interests: negotiation support systems, knowledge based systems and on-line dispute resolution.

Wojciech Cellary, Professor of Information Systems and the head of the Department of Information Technology of the Poznan University of Economics, Poznan, Poland.
    Research interests: development of e-economy and global information society; Internet technologies: web search, negotiations and cooperation via Internet.
 

Willy Picard, Assistant Professor at Department of Information Technology of the Poznan University of Economics, Poznan, Poland.
    Research interests: computer support for e-contracting, negotiation support over the Internet, electronic commerce infrastructure design, mobile software agents.
 

Tomasz Wachowicz, Assistant Professor at the Katowice University of Economics, Katowice, Poland.
    Research interests: game theory, modelling of negotiation processes, e-negotiations.
 

John Zeleznikow, Professor of Information Systems at Victoria University in Melbourne Australia.
    Research interests: research interests include machine learning and knowledge discovery from databases, legal decision support systems and knowledge based systems, alternative dispute resolution and on-line dispute resolution.