David Taniar received his PhD in Databases from Victoria University (Australia, 1997) and is now a Senior Lecturer at Monash University (Australia). He has published more than 100 research articles and edited a number of books in the Web technology series. He is on the editorial board of a number of international journals, including Data Warehousing and Mining , Business Intelligence and Data Mining , Mobile Information Systems , Mobile Multimedia , Web Information Systems , and Web and Grid Services . He has been elected as a Fellow of the Institute for Management of Information Systems (UK).