A. F. Salam is an associate professor in the Information Systems and Operations Management (ISOM) Department in the Bryan School of Business and Economics at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG). He earned both his MBA and PhD degrees from SUNY at Buffalo. His research interests include information systems security, trustworthy information systems, Semantic Web technologies and contracts, trust and exchange relationship in ecommerce, secure and dependable information systems, service-oriented architecture, information systems and competitive dynamics, information systems and services in electronic mediated environment, consumer privacy, security and healthcare information exchange, ethics and information systems, and research methodologies in information systems.
He has authored over fifty refereed articles in various journals and conference proceedings. His research has been published in IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part(A), Communications of the ACM, Information & Management, Information Systems Journal, Information Systems Management, International Journal of Semantic Web and Information Systems, Communications of the AIS, and the International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies and Electronic Government Journal. He has co-edited a book on Semantic Web technologies and e-business in 2007. He has served as an associate editor of MISQ Special Issue on information systems security in a digital economy and as a coordinating editor of the Information Systems Frontier. He has also co-guest edited special sections of the communications of the ACM on semantic e-business vision and marketing on the Internet. He also co-guest edited a special issue of the Journal of Electronic Commerce Research on exchange relationship in the digital economy. He has served on the program committees of Information Resource Management International Conference (2006), IADIS International Conference on Applied Computing (2006), Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS, 2007 and 2008), and Secure Knowledge Management Workshop (SKM, 2008).