Professor Lida Xu is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of an engineering journal entitled Enterprise Information Systems with 2009 Impact Factor of 2.809. He also served as the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions SMC, IEEE Systems Journal, and many other journals. He serves as the Founding Chair of IFIP TC8 WG8.9 and IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Enterprise Systems. He is a Changjiang Chair Professor designated by the Chinese Ministry of Education and an Eminent Professor at Old Dominion University, USA.