Peretz ShovalPeretz Shoval is a professor of information systems at the Department of Information Systems Engineering of Ben-Gurion University, Israel. He earned his Ph.D. (Information Systems) from the University of Pittsburgh, USA, where he specialized in exper systems for information retrieval. In 1984, he joined Ben-Gurion University, where he started the information systems program, and later on created and headed the Department of Information Systems Engineering. Prior to moving to academia, Shoval held professional and managerial positions in computer and software companies. Prof. Shoval has published more than a hundred papers in journals, conference proceedings and book chapters, and authored several books on systems analysis and design. Hel has developed methodologies and tools for systems analysis and design, and for conceptual and logical database design. Read More Read Less