Mr. NIKOLAOS KARANIKOLAS was born in Athens in 1980. He is a graduate of the department of Informatics of AUEB and currently a student in the International MBA program of AUEB. He has worked as an instructor in basic computer skills seminars. From July 2001 till July 2003 he was the technical administrator of the "Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems" laboratory in AUEB. From October 2002 till now is a research assistant for the ISTLab/OIS. He has participated in the European committee funded project "Train-IT" and the Greek General Secretariat of Research and Technology funded project "PROMITHEAS". Currently he is working on a research project of the adoption and usage of Human Resource Information Systems in Greece.