Birgit Hofreiter received her MSc. in Business Informatics from the Vienna University of Technology, Austria and her PhD from the University of Vienna, Austria. She was employed as an assistant professor at the Institute of Distributed and Multimedia Systems at the University of Vienna. Her research interests cover the fields E-Commerce (especially B2B), Business Process Engineering and the Semantic Web. Birgit Hofreiter has been a member of the ebXML Initiative, where she participated as Business Process Engineer within the first phase. Furthermore, she contributes to the UN/CEFACT's Techniques and Methodologies Group (TMG) work. Besides her research work she gave lectures on Electronic Commerce, Modeling Techniques and Methods, and Information Systems.

Birgit Hofreiter received an Erwin-Schrödinger Scholarship sponsored by the Austrian Science Fund. She was a research fellow at the University of Technology Sydney beginning with November 2006 until July 2008 (UTS).

Since March 2009 she is employed as an assistant professor at the Martin HILTI Chair of Business Information Systems and Business Process Management at the University of Liechtenstein.

11th IEEE Conference on Commerce and Enterprise Computing (July 20-23, 2009) - CEC'09