Dima Alhadidi is an Assistant Professor in the College of Technological Innovation at Zayed University, Dubai campus. Dr. Alhadidi's research interests include computer security, aspect-oriented programming, software engineering, secure distributed computing, and cloud computing. She has a PhD in computer science and software engineering from Concordia University, Canada. She can be reached at dima.alhadidi@zu.ac.ae.

Zakaria Maamar is Professor in the College of Technological Innovation at Zayed University, Dubai, UAE. His research interests include business processes, the Internet of Things, and Web 2.0. Dr. Maamar has a PhD in computer science from Laval University, Quebec City, Canada. He can be reached at zakaria.maamar@zu.ac.ae.