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Author (s): Gia Surguladze

About Author

Full Professor, Dr. of Science (Technology) at Georgian Technical University (GTU); Active member of International Informatization Academy (Associated Member of the UN, 1994);  Head of Management Information Systems direction at GTU; Academic director of German-Georgian mutual study and scientific centre (Infotechnologies) at GTU  (2001-2008);  Head of „Scientific research centre for IT Consulting” at the Faculty of Informatics, GTU (since 2010);  Participated in a number of projects (funded by IBRD) aimed at development of support platforms to the state reforms in the areas of Healthcare, Social security and Justice System (2002-2010); Guest professor at University of Germany (Berlin- Humboldt, Erlangen-Nuremberg, Passau, Karlsruhe, Bamberg, Magdeburg: 1991-2014); Expert of USAID, Business Analyst (2009-2010);  Author of more than 300 scientific-pedagogical works (62 books, 47 electronic manuals, more than 200 scientific article/thesis/project) in the areas of Relational Databases, Expert Systems, Knowledge Bases Theory, Object-oriented Programming (C#/C++/Java, WPF, WCF, XAML, ASP/ADO.NET, SQL Server), British Standards (BSI), ITIL, COBIT, Markovian Chains, Petri Networks and Software Engineering with UML/Agile.