Manuel Mora is a Full-time Professor and Researcher in the IS Department in the Autonomous University of Aguascalientes (UAA), Mexico. Dr. Mora holds a B.S. in Computer Systems Engineering (1984) and M.Sc. in Computer Sciences (Artificial Intelligence area, 1989) from Monterrey Tech (ITESM), and an Eng.D. in Engineering (Systems Engineering area, 2003) from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He has published about 70 research papers in international top conferences, research books, and journals. Dr. Mora is a member of ACM (senior), of IEEE SMC Society, and of AIS, and serves in the ERB of several international journals. His current research interests are: design of IT services, design-evaluation of DMSS, and research methods in systems engineering.