CCS 2017 Keynote Addresses: Assoc. Prof. Margaret Chan School of Social Sciences Singapore Management University Prof. Jeanette Hoorn rofessor of Visual Cultures President Australia-Morocco Friendship Group Faculty of Arts Assoc.Prof. Anna Hickey-Moody Department of Gender & Cultural Studies School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences IE 2017 Keynote Addresses: Prof. Richard C. Geibel Dean of Master Program Digital Management Competence Center Entrepreneurship Germany Prof. Naresh Kumar Head of Entrepreneurship Education, Consultancy and Research Global Entrepreneurship Research and Innovation Centre Malaysia EMG 2017 Keynote Addresses: Prof. Bennett Chi Kin Yim Associate Director of the Contemporary Marketing Centre Faculty of Business and Economics Hong KongAssoc. Prof. Humayun Murshed Faculty of Business, Justice and Behavioural Sciences AustraliaTHoR 2017Keynote Addresses:Prof. Larry DwyerTravel and Tourism Economics AustraliaAssoc. Prof. T. C. ChangDepartment of Geography Singapore HRM&PD Keynote Addresses: Prof. Adrian Wilkinson Director of the Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing AustraliaAssoc. Prof. Paul HigginsHuman Resource Management Hong Kong Prof. Peter Gahan Founding Director of the Centre for Workplace Leadership Australia

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ACE 2017 – Delegates from 70 universities, 30 countries

Global Science & Technology Forum – GSTF

Since inception in 2008, Global Science & Technology Forum – GSTF has dedicated itself to promoting research and development, ICT training and certification, Journal Publications and offers an interdisciplinary intellectual platform for academics, scientists, researchers and industry professionals in Asia Pacific to actively consult, network and collaborate with their counterparts across the globe.

Our mission is to be a premier Centre of Excellence by offering strategic management consulting services, a global forum for innovation, training and certifications, publication and collaboration at both regional and international levels through and by the effort of recognizing outstanding scholarly and professional contributions of both individuals and organizations.

International Conferences/Workshops

Global Science & Technology Forum – GSTF provides a global intellectual platform for top notch academics and industry professionals to actively interact and share their ground-breaking research achievements. GSTF is dedicated to promoting research and development and offers an inter-disciplinary intellectual platform for leading scientists, researchers, academics and industry professionals across Asia Pacific to actively consult, network and collaborate with their counterparts across the globe.

As of now, GSTF partners with 38 Universities around the globe. In addition, 63 other universities are partner organizations for the 40 annual academic conferences organized and administered by GSTF in the areas of ICT, Computer Science & Engineering, Bio Informatics, Social Science, Physical Science, Business, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Neurology and Veterinary Science. As part of this initiative, over 1000 academics and researchers constitute the various GSTF technical committees of the annual academic conferences from Institutions such as:

University of Oxford
University of Cambridge
Carnegie Mellon University
Purdue University
Northwestern University
Princeton University
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

University of Southern California
University of Texas
Cornell University
Tsinghua University
The University of Melbourne
Australian National University (ANU)
The University of Sydney
Indian Institute of Technology
(Kanpur, Roorkee, Bombay)

Indian Institute of Management
(Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Kozhikode)
National University of Singapore (NUS)
Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
Singapore Management University (SMU)
IBM (Labs)
HP (Labs)
Apple
amongst several others.

GSTF Training & Certifications

GSTF is a pioneer in offering Open Source Technology based (and vendor neutral) ICT Certification Programs in Cloud Computing, Business Anaytics / Big Data / Data Science, and Internet of Things (IoT). The programs are offered through its Authorized Training Providers (ATP) worldwide. In Singapore, GSTF’s ATP Rapidstart offers the program which are funded by IDA’s CITREP grant and Singapore citizens are eligible for these grants to pursue the certification. In Malaysia GSTF programs are endorsed and supported by MDeC and is offered through GSTF’s Authorized Training Partners (ATP) InfoTrek (Info-Trek It Training Services) and Iverson (Iverson Associates Sdn Bhd). Also in Vietnam through , BACH KHOA HA NOI TELECOMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICE IMPLEMENTATION,TRAINING JOINT STOCK COMPANY (BKA CAD) the ICT training arm of the Hanoi University of Science and Technology, in Philippines through Info alchemy (Info alchemy Pte Ltd) and in Oman Middle East College amongst others.

GSTF Journals

GSTF currently publishes 4 quarterly and 8 bi annual that features peer reviewed scholarly articles which are available both in print and on line: GSTF Journal on Computing (JoC), GSTF Journal on Business Review (GBR), GSTF Journal of Engineering Technology (JET), GSTF Journal of Advances in Medical Research (JAMR), GSTF Journal of Law and Social Sciences (JLSS), GSTF Journal of BioSciences (JBio), GSTF Journal of Mathematics, Statistics and Operations Research (JMSOR), GSTF Journal on Education (JEd), GSTF Journal on Nursing and Health Care (JNHC),GSTF Journal on Media and Communications (JMC), GSTF Journal of General Philosophy (JPhilo) & GSTF Journal of Psychology (JPsych).

In line with our commitment to facilitate research and disseminate knowledge to the global academic community, GSTF offers authors a platform for rapid publication of their research. GSTF publishes 7 online journals which feature peer-reviewed scholarly articles: GSTF Journal of Chemical Sciences (JChem), GSTF Journal of Physics and Applications (JPA), GSTF Journal on Agricultural Engineering (JAE), GSTF Journal on Aviation Technology (JAT), GSTF Journal of Geological Sciences (JGS), GSTF Journal of Music (JMusic) & GSTF Journal of Veterinary Science (JVet). GSTF online Open Access journals support publication of research articles ahead of the print issue, thus ensuring our researchers and scholars have access to the most rapid route to publication.

In addition, all of our 19 journals are also hosted on Springer’s Open Access publishing platform – Global Science Journals (GSJ).

GSTF Books

GSTF has published the following books in partnership with Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Business Review: Advanced Applications (ISBN: 978-1-4438-5029-2) edited by Dr. Anton Ravindran and Dr. Farid Shirazi, Enhancing Human Performance (978-1-4438-5237-1) edited by Prof. Craig Speelman and Innovations in Technology Enhanced Learning (978-1-4438-6629-3) edited by Dr. Anton Ravindran andProf. Liz Bacon.

GSTF will be publishing The ICT Age edited by Dr. Anton Ravindran and Dr. Edmond C. Prakash, Enhancing Human Performance vol. 2, Contemporary Issues in Nursing: An International Perspective edited by Prof. Violeta Lopez and Advances in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, edited by Dr. H. Vernon Anderson and Dr. Roger Sik Yin Foo. GSTF is the co-publisher of these books with Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Elsevier and World Scientific Publishing.

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Prof. the Hon. Dr. Stephen Martin

Chairman, Board of Governors, GSTF
Chairman, Bank of China (Australia)

Prof. Liz Bacon

Pro Vice-Chancellor, University of Greenwich, UK
Former President, British Computer Society, UK
Dr. Emanuel Grant

CGAT 2013
Program Committee

Assoc. Prof. Roger Sik Yin Foo

Associate Professor of Medicine
Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
Assoc. Prof. James P. Terry

GEOS 2013
Program Committee Member

Prof. Roy Chandler

AF 2014
Professor in Accounting
Prof. Spas D. Kolev

CCECP 2014
Program Chair

Prof. Ian Alexander Eddie

BizStrategy 2013
Co-Program Chair
Asst. Prof. Alain Devalle

AF 2014
Assistant Professor

Professor Nicholas Apergis

AF 2013
Program Committee Member
Prof. Dr. Pascal Gantenbein

QQE 2013
Best Paper Award Recipient

Mr Althaf Marsoof

LRPP 2013
Attorney General
Assoc. Prof. Teri Woo

WNC 2013
Author Delegate

Assoc. Prof. Chris Kewley

WNC 2013
Editor-in-Chief
Dr. Karen Clark-Burg

WNC 2013
Author Delegate

Prof. Susan Nancarrow

GHC 2013
Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Hye-Jung Lee

EeL 2013
Editor-in-Chief

Dr. Lin Allen

University of Northern Colorado USA
Prof. Bill Loving

JMComm 2013
Keynote Speaker

Prof. Roberto Montemanni

CMCGS 2014
University of Applied Sciences
Prof. Ke Chen

CMCGS 2014
CMCGS Editor-in-Chief

Dr. Lidia Suarez

CBP 2014
Program Committee Member
Prof. Nadiya Slobodenyuk

CBP 2014
Best Paper Award Recipient

Prof. Robert C. Rickards

AF 2014
Professor of Accounting
Dr. Michael Falta

AF 2014
Best Paper Award Recipient

Mr. Brandon Beaty

BioTech 2014
Best Student Paper Award
Ms. Anastasia Girshina

QQE 2014
Best Student Paper Award

Dr. Jeff Schonberg

L3 2014
Best Paper Award Recipient
Prof. Marie McGregor

LRPP 2014
University of South Africa

Dr. Riccardo de Caria

LRPP 2014
Best Paper Award Recipient
Dr. Dale Mueller

WNC 2014
California State University

Dr. Mary Lou King & Doris Nussbaumer

WNC 2014
Best Paper Award Recipient
Dr. Gregory Zimmerman

GHC 2014
Ferris State University

Assoc. Prof. Peter Smith

PSSIR 2014
Mahidol University
Dr. Butler Cain

JMComm 2014
West Texas A&M University

Prof. Ann Strahle

JMComm 2014
University of Illinois
Mr. Bruce Woolley

JMComm 2014
University of Queensland

Dr. Raymond Chong

CNN 2014
Georgia Regents University
Dr. Leonard Brown

CSEIT 2014
University of Texas at Tyler

Dr. Anthony Tsarbopoulos

PHARMA 2014
University of Athens
Ying Teng

The University of Sydney
Australia

Ms. Ana Komljenovic

Ministry of Education and Culture
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Dr. Marco Tutino

Roma TRE University
Italy

Dr. Jianing Fang

Marist College Poughkeepsie
New York, USA
Ms. Faridah Najuna Misman

La Trobe University
Australia

Dr. Chris Durden

James Cook University
Australia
Ms. Rajeswari Somasundaram

BITS Pilani
Dubai Campus

Dr. Siti Nurbaya Oslan

Universiti Putra Malaysia
Malaysia
Dr. Anupam Singhal

BITS Pilani
India

Dr. Kirti Rani

Amity University
India
Ms. Louise Nash

Essex Business School
UK

Kateřina Bartošová

Masaryk University
Czech Republic
Prof. Richard Hicks

Bond University
Australia

Mr. Chew Kia Hong Peter

James Cook University
Singapore
Dr. Musa Musa

King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
Saudi Arabia

Ms. Dipali P. Upare

Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT)
South Korea
Dr. Marianne Hulsbosch

The University of Sydney
Australia

Dr. King Sang Ricardo Mak

Hong Kong Baptist University
Hong Kong
Mr. Amir Rashid Chaudhary

Lancaster University, Lancaster
UK

Dr. Lakshman Jayarathna

University of Colombo
Sri Lanka
Prof. Messaoud Bounkhel

King Saud University
Saudi Arabia

Dr. Vijay Kumar

Amity University
India
Ms. Ndèye Fatma Ndiaye

University of Le Havre
France

Dr. Jianying Zhang

Western Washington University
USA
Mr. Friedrich Wernher

University of South Africa
South Africa

Husnul Khotimah

Brawijaya University
Indonesia
Ms. Kipli Joan Minol

Kumamoto University
Japan

Ms. Laphatrada O’ Donnell

Burapha University
Thailand
Dr. Taghreed Abuhamdan

University of Petra
Jordan

Dr Nicole Singleton

University of Kansas
USA
Ms. Yue Shen

University of Oregon
USA

Dr. Nurul Fazmidar Mohd Noor

University of Malaya
Malaysia
Prof. Said Aldhafri

Sultan Qaboos University
Oman

Prof. David Gray

University of Greenwich
United Kingdom
Prof. Jui-Lung Cheng

National Chung Cheng University
Taiwan

Ms. Tatyana Tsukanova

St. Petersburg University
Russia
Ms. Yanuaria Dewi

SKK Migas
Indonesia

Mr Rahmad Dwi Putra

Bandung Institute of Technology Indonesia
Prof. Abdel Aziz Al Bassam

King Saud University
Saudi Arabia

Prof. Dr. Eddy Subroto

Institut Teknologi Bandung
Indonesia
Ida Herawati

Institute Teknologi Bandung
Indonesia

Prof. Susan Nancarrow

Southern Cross University
Australia
Prof. Torben Andersen

University of Southern Denmark
Denmark

Dr. Richard Geibel

Fresenius University of Applied Science
Germany
Ms. Ibifunke Adegunle

Imperial College Business School London
UK

Prof. Bambang Parmanto

University of Pittsburgh
USA
Dr. Candice Lai Peng Chee

MetaCore Asia Pte Ltd
Singapore

Dr. Marnie Slonim

Melbourne
Australia
Mr. Hugh Cameron

Manchester University
United Kingdom

Dr. Kate Magsamen-Conrad

Bowling Green State University
USA
Prof. Gary E Swanson

University of Northern Colorado
Greeley, USA

Dr. Li Zeng

University of Louisville
USA
Dr. Mamie Balajadia

Bureau of Primary Care Department of Public Health
Guam USA

Prof. Nilüfer Pembecioğlu

Istanbul University
Turkey
Ms. Chelsie Akers

University of Arizona
USA

Mr. David Chalk

Brigham Young University
Prof. Daniel Newman

University of Durham
England

Dr. Krupasheela Sarigala

KLUniversity
India
Ms. Morena Botelho de Magalhães

The University of Auckland
New Zealand

Dr. Johara Alangca Azis

Mindanao State University
Philippines
Prof. Saliah H. Amin-Masnar

Mindanao State University
Philippines

Prof. Leo Andrew Biclar

Capiz State University
Philippines
Prof. Duane Ostler

University of Queensland
Australia

Dr. Yee Han Chu

University of North Dakota
USA
Dr. Ram Kumar Sahu

Columbia Institute of Pharmacy India

Dr. KC Sunny

University of Kerala
India
Ms. Kittinut Supsoontornkul

Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne University
France

Dr. Jacek Kwiatkowski

Military University of Technology
Poland
Siti Aisyah Azizan

Kinki University
Japan

Mr. Chun-Hin Chan

The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Prof. Kourosh Marjani Rasmussen

Technical University of Denmark
Denmark

Ms. Khushboo Verma

Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
India
Dr. Anthony Tsarbopoulos

University of Athens
Greece

Prof. Dr. Nasir Ganikhodjaev

International Islamic University Malaysia
Malaysia
Neha Bhati

Subharti Medical College India

Dr. Fawzy Elbarbry

Pacific University
USA
Dr. Bhupendra Gopalbhai Prajapati

Ganpat University
India

Dr. Neelima Dhingra

Panjab University
India
Dr. Michael Byalsky

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Israel

Dr. Ismat Mikky

Bloomfield College
USA
Dr. Anna Bocar

La Salle University
Philippines

Ms. Roh Pin Lee

TU Bergakademie Freiberg
Germany
Ms. Jingjing Shen

Australian National University
Australia

Assoc. Prof. Peter Smith

Mahidol University International College
Thailand
Ms. Birte Ahlhaus

University of Queensland
Australia

Dr. Cesar Escalante

University of Georgia
USA
Dr. Marko Kesti

Mcompetence Inc.
Finland

Dr. Asya Validava

Kazan Federal University
Russia
Dr. Nelson Turgo

Cardiff University
University

Dr. Nigel Gwee

Southern University and A&M College
USA
Tsung-Yu Lee

National Taipei University of Technology
Taiwan

Prof. Glynn Owens

University of Auckland
New Zealand
Dr. Prathiba Nagabhushan

Australian Catholic University & St Mary MacKillop College
USA

Amphone Sivongxay

SEES 2015
Charles Darwin University
Prof. Giulio Vidotto

University of Padua
Italy

Xu Ming

National University of Singapore
Dr. Alvin Keyes

North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
USA

Dr. James W. McNally

University of Michigan
USA
Ms. Jessica Asaro

Saginaw Valley State University
USA

Prof. Ramani Durvasula

California State University LA
USA
Andrea Treshi-Marie Perera

The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus

Kai Hui Wu

University of Southampton Malaysia Campus
Dr. Hassan Abbasi

The Islamia University of Bahawalpur
Pakistan

Assoc. Prof. Radhi Alzubaidi

University of Sharjah UAE
Ms. Anita Medhekar

Central Queensland University Australia

Dr. Nita Jane Carrington

Hawaii Pacific University
USA
Dr. Ismat Mikky

Bloomfield College
USA

Asst. Prof. Cheryl Portwood

Drexel University
USA
Assoc. Prof. Eva Charlotte Toth & Asst Prof Marianne Linnet

Metropolitan University College
Denmark

Dr. Joy Cameron Dow

Bond University
Australia
Ms. Cassandra Rausch Dr. Prerna Thaker Ms. Nadzriah Ahmad

University of Louisville, USA
Vydehi Institute of Dental Sciences and Research Centre Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM), Malaysia

Mr. Bogdan Guzinski

Police Academy
Poland
Prof. Gert Louis Coetzee

University of Pretoria
South Africa

Ms. Ong Chian Teng

University of Queensland
Australia
Dr. Mohamed Nayel

University of Sadat City
Egypt

Dr. Gordon Howarth

University of Adelaide
Australia
Mr. Samuel Malloy

Charles Sturt University
Australia

Dr. Eitan Ginzberg

Academic College of Sapir
Israel
Prof. Rhodora Magan

Cebu Technological University
Philippines

Dr. Sreekala Madhavan Nair

Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit
India
Ms. Pinar Toy

Konya N. E. University
Turkey

Dr. Jun Hua Chong

St George Hospital and Community Services
Australia
Prof. Neil Smart

University of New England
Australia

Prof. Buho Hoshino

Rakuno Gakuen University
Japan
Prof. Josep Raventós

University of Alicante
Spain

Dr. Gubara Said Hassan

Universiti Brunei Darussalam
Brunei
Ms. Julie Anne Del Rosario

University of the Philippines-Diliman
Philippines

Mr. Kevinilo Marquez

Natural Sciences Research Institute, University of the Philippines-Diliman
Philippines
Dr. B.R.Venkatraman

Periyar E.V.R.College (Autonomous)
India

Prof. S. Parvathy

Government Arts College (Autonomous)
India
Mr. Karl Ezra Pilario

University of the Philippines-Diliman
Philippines

Dr. Saleem Al-ashhab

Al al-Bayt University
Jordan
Prof. Meng-Hui Li

Chung Yuan Christian University
Taiwan

Bijil Prakash

Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani
India
Dr. Iain Bethune

University of Edinburgh
UK

Dr. Thorsten Dickhaus

Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics
Berlin, Germany

Testimonials

Prof Richard Hyde

From the 3rd Annual International Conference on Architecture and Civil Engineering (ACE 2015).

“I think the conference was a great success…. Thanks again for a great conference.”
Dr Bradley Myers

“I really wanted to let you know how much we appreciated the hard work that you all obviously put into the organization of the conference. I was very pleased with the diversity of topics and jurisdictions represented by the presenters.

Again thank you for a wonderful conference and I hope to have the opportunity to work with the GSTF in the future.”
Dr. Joy Cameron-Dow

“…thrilled and honoured to be named as recipients of the best paper award.

We accept with pleasure and consider ourselves extremely privileged to have been able to cap a most productive and worthwhile conference with such recognition. “
Dr. Li Zeng

“It’s been a great pleasure to serve for the L3 conference as the Editor-in-Chief of its proceedings. The papers look interesting and diverse, and I’m confident that the conference itself will be of another great success.. “