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About the Editorial/Advisory Team
Editor-in-Chief
Haibin Duan is an IEEE Senior Member, and the Editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics (IJICC). He is currently an associate professor with the School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering at Beihang University(BUAA), Beijing, China. His current research interests are swarm intelligence, multiple air robots cooperative control, nonliner control, and computer vision. His contact email is: hbduan@buaa.edu.cn
Managing Editors
Martin Middendorf received his PhD degree from University of Hannover in 1992. He is currently a professor with the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Leipzig, Germany. He is an Associate Editor of Swarm Intelligence (Springer), Associate Editor of the International Journal of Applied Evolutionary Computation, Associate Editor of the International Journal of Applied Metaheuristic Computation, Guest Editor of IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation: Special Issue on "Ant Algorithms and Swarm Intelligence", and Guest Editor of IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Special issue on "Swarm Intelligence". His research interests include nature-inspired computing, organic computing, parallel/distributed architectures and algorithms, algorithms from nature , bioinformatics, and algorithms and complexity.
El-Ghazali Talbi is the Head of the research team OPAC (Parallel Cooperative Optimization), Scientific leader of the INRIA Futurs project DOLPHIN (Discrete Multi-objective Optimization with Hybrid Distributed Techniques), Head of the CIB (Bioinformatics Center) of the Genopole of Lille, Head of the SCOPE (PArallel Simulation, Computing, Optimisation Parallèles and Distributed Environments) of the LIFL Laboratory. He is also an editorial board member for the International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications, editorial board member for the International Journal of Innovative Computing and Applications, and an editorial board member of for the Nova Science Book Series in Intelligent Systems Engineering.
Xiufen Yu is currently an assistant research fellow with Chinese Academy of Sciences. She received her MSc degree in control science from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 2004. She has published 30 papers in international journals, and has also designed 7 innovation patents. She is a member of Chinese Society of Space Research. Her areas of expertise are in information processing, swarm intelligence, remote sensing and robot control.
Advisory Board
Christos G. Cassandras is Head of the Division of Systems Engineering and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boston University. He holds a PhD degree from Harvard University and has published over 250 refereed papers and four books. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and is the recipient of several awards, including the Distinguished Member Award of the IEEE Control Systems Society (2006), the 1999 Harold Chestnut Prize (IFAC Best Control Engineering Textbook) and a 1991 Lilly Fellowship. He is also a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the IFAC. He specializes in the areas of discrete event and hybrid systems, stochastic optimization, and computer simulation, with applications to computer and sensor networks, manufacturing systems, and transportation systems.
Tan Kay Chen received a BEng degree with First Class Honors in Electronics and Electrical Engineering, and his PhD degree from the University of Glasgow, Scotland, in 1994 and 1997, respectively. He is actively pursuing research in computational and artificial intelligence, with applications to multi-objective optimization, scheduling, automation, data mining, and games. Dr Tan has published over 80 journal papers, over 100 papers in conference proceedings, co-authored 5 books including Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications (Springer-Verlag, 2005), Modern Industrial Automation Software Design (John Wiley, 2006; Chinese Edition, 2008), Evolutionary Robotics: From Algorithms to Implementations (World Scientific, 2006), Neural Networks: Computational Models and Applications (Springer-Verlag, 2007), and Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization in Uncertain Environments: Issues and Algorithms (Springer-Verlag, expected in 2009), co-edited 4 books including Recent Advances in Simulated Evolution and Learning (World Scientific, 2004), Evolutionary Scheduling (Springer-Verlag, 2007), Multiobjective Memetic Algorithms (Springer-Verlag, expected in 2009), and Design and Control of Intelligent Robotic Systems (Springer-Verlag, expected in 2009).
Dr Tan has been invited to be a keynote/invited speaker for over 10 international conferences. He served in the international program committee for over 100 conferences and involved in the organizing committee for over 20 international conferences, including the General Co-Chair for IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2007 in Singapore and the General Co-Chair for IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling 2009 in Tennessee, USA. Dr Tan is currently the Chairman of Evolutionary Computation Technical Committee in IEEE Computational Intelligence Society and a member of Board of Directors in Evolutionary Programming Society. Dr Tan currently serves as an Associate Editor or editorial board member for over 10 international journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games, European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Scheduling, and International Journal of Systems Science. Dr Tan received the Recognition Award (2008) from the International Network for Engineering Education & Research (iNEER) for outstanding contributions to engineering education and research. He was also a winner of the NUS Outstanding Educator Awards (2004), the Engineering Educator Awards (2002, 2003, 2005), the Annual Teaching Excellence Awards (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006), and the Honour Roll Awards (2007).
Diane J. Cook received a BS degree in math/computer science from Wheaton College in 1985, and MS and PhD degrees in computer science from the University of Illinois in 1987 and 1990, respectively. She is currently a Huie-Rogers chair professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Washington State Univeristy. Her research interests include artificial intelligence, machine learning, graph-based relational learning, smart environments, and robotics. She is an IEEE Fellow and is the editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B.
David Fogel is Chief Executive Officer of Natural Selection, Inc. in San Diego, California. He has over 200 publications in the area of computation intelligence, including 6 books. Dr. Fogel served as the founding editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, and as general chairman of the 2002 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence and the 2007 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence. He has received several technical awards, including the 2004 IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Technical Field Award and the 2008 IEEE Computational Intelligence Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award. Dr. Fogel will serve as President of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society from 2008-2009.
Lawrence O. Hall: is a Professor and the Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at University of South Florida. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the Florida State University in 1986 and a BS in Applied Mathematics from the Florida Institute of Technology in 1980. He is a fellow of the IEEE. His research interests lie in distributed machine learning, extreme data mining, bioinformatics, pattern recognition and integrating AI into image processing. He is the former EiC of the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics.
Bo Hu Li is an academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, and is also the president of Chinese Association for System Simulation. He is also the director of School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (BUAA); the president of the Institute of Automation Science and Electron Engineering in the BUAA; deputy director of the Science and Technology Committee of Second Academy of the China Aerospace Science & Industry Corporation; and the Advisory Committee member of the International Journal Simulation Theory & Practice.
He was president of the Beijing Institute of Computer Application & Simulation Technology; president of the Beijing Simulation Center; head of the Fifth (1997-2001) China High Tech & Research Plan 863/Contemporary Integrated Manufacturing System (CIMS) Subject Expert Steering Committee; a member of the Expert Steering Committee of Automation Area in the China High Tech & Research Plan 863; a member of the directors committee of the Society of System Simulation International; and the general chair of ICSC2008, ICSC 2005, and ICSC 2002. He authored or co-authored 160 papers, 11 books and 4 translated books. He has also got one first-class national scientific award, two second-class national scientific awards and one third-class national scientific award of China, and 10 scientific awards by the Ministry of Aerospace and Astronautics. His current research interests mainly focus on distributed simulation, virtual prototyping, concurrent engineering and contemporary integrated manufacturing system.
Peter B. Luh: is a fellow of the IEEE. He is also a Professor of Communications & Information Technologies, and the Head of the Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Connecticut, USA. He is also currently the Founding Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering He got his BS from the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, 1973; MS from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1977; and his PhD in Applied Mathematics, Harvard University, 1980. He is currently a Fellow of the IEEE. He also served as the IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, Technical/Associate Editor (1990-1994), Editor (1995-1999), Editor-in-Chief (1999-2003); Discrete Event Dynamic Systems: Theory and Applications (DEDS), Associate Editor (1999-present); IIE Transactions on Design and Manufacturing, Associate Editor (1997-present); International Journal of Intelligent Control and Systems, Associate Editor (1995- 2000); IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, Editor (1996-1999); IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Associate Editor (1989-1991).His research interests are planning, scheduling, and coordination of design, manufacturing and service activities, schedule and bid optimization and load/price forecasting for power systems, decisionmaking under uncertain, fuzzy, or distributed environments, mathematical optimization for large-scale systems, engineering and socio-economic applications.
Qidi Wu is currently Vice Minister of the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China. Professor Wu has worked at Tongji University as Professor of Automatic Control, Deputy Dean of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Assistant President, Vice President and President of Tongji University from May 1986 to June 2003. She was elected to be President of Tongji University in 1995 and became the first university president by a democratic election in China. Professor Wu obtained her BSc in Radio Engineering from the Department of Radio and Electronic Engineering of Tsinghua University, China, her MSc in Automatic Control from the Department of Precision Instrument, Tsinghua University, China and her PhD in Automation from the Department of Electrical Engineering of the Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland.
Lotfi A. Zadeh: is the founder of fuzzy systems and a Fellow of the IEEE, AAAS, ACM, AAAI, and IFSA. Lotfi Zadeh is currently a Professor in the Graduate School, Computer Science Division, Department of EECS, University of California, Berkeley. In addition, he is serving as the Director of BISC (Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing). Lotfi Zadeh is an alumnus of the University of Teheran, MIT and Columbia University. He held visiting appointments at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ; MIT; IBM Research Laboratory, San Jose, CA; SRI International, Menlo Park, CA; and the Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University. His earlier work was concerned in the main with systems analysis, decision analysis and information systems. His current research is focused on fuzzy logic, computing with words and soft computing, which is a coalition of fuzzy logic, neurocomputing, evolutionary computing, probabilistic computing and parts of machine learning. The guiding principle of soft computing is that, in general, better solutions can be obtained by employing the constituent methodologies of soft computing in combination rather than in stand-alone mode. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. He is a recipient of the IEEE Education Medal, the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal, the IEEE Medal of Honor, the ASME Rufus Oldenburger Medal, the B. Bolzano Medal of the Czech Academy of Sciences, the Kampe de Feriet Medal, the AACC Richard E. Bellman Central Heritage Award, the Grigore Moisil Prize, the Honda Prize, the Okawa Prize, the AIM Information Science Award, the IEEE-SMC J. P. Wohl Career Acheivement Award, the SOFT Scietific Contribution Memorial Award of the Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory, the IEEE Millennium Medal, the ACM 2000 Allen Newell Award, and other awards and honorary doctorates. He has published extensively on a wide variety of subjects relating to the conception, design and analysis of information/intelligent systems, and is serving on the editorial boards of over fifty journals.
Editorial Board
Hussein A. Abbass is a Professor and Chair of Information Technology at the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra, Australia. He has a BA, BSc, PG-Dip, and Masters all from Cairo University Egypt, MSc from Edinburgh University Scotland, and PhD from QUT Australia. He is the Director of the Artificial Life and Adaptive Robotics Laboratory; the Director of the university Defence and Security Applications Research Centre (DSARC); an Advisory Professor at Vietnam National University, Ho-Chi Minh City; a fellow of the Australian Computer Society (ACS); a senior member of the IEEE; a member of the Australian Institute of Management; the chair of ACS National Committee on Complex Systems; the chair of the IEEE Task Force on Complex Adaptive Systems and Artificial Life; and a member of a number of national and international committees including the IEEE technical committee on Data Mining and the IEEE working group on soft computing in the SMC society.
Antonio Bicchi is a Fellow of IEEE , and elected Chair of the Conference Editorial Board of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. He is also a Professor of Systems Theory and Robotics in the Department of Electrical Systems and Automation (DSEA) of the University of Pisa and the Director of the Interdepartmental Research Center "E. Piaggio'' of the University of Pisa , where he has been leading the Automation and Robotics group since 1990. He was the Vice President of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society for Member Activities; Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society; Chairman of the Technical Committee for Manufacturing, Automation, and Robotics Control ( MARC ) of IEEE Control Systems Society. He has published more than 200 papers on international journals, books, and refereed conferences. His main research interests are in dynamics, kinematics and control of complex mechanical systems, including robots, autonomous vehicles, and automotive systems; haptics and dexterous manipulation; theory and control of nonlinear systems, in particular hybrid (logic/dynamic, symbol/signal) systems.
Mauro Birattari received his doctoral degree in Information Technologies from the faculty of Engineering of the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, in 2004. Since 1997, he works as an academic researcher in the field of computational intelligence. He is currently with IRIDIA, CoDE, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, as a research associate of the fund for scientific research F.R.S.-FNRS of Belgium's French Community. Dr Birattari co-authored more than 70 peer-reviewed scientific publications in the field of computational intelligence. Dr Birattari is an associate editor for the journal Swarm Intelligence and an area editor for the journal Computers & Industrial Engineering. He is member of the editorial board of Evolutionary Computation, International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics, Journal of Advanced Research in Evolutionary Algorithms, and Mediterranean Journal of Artificial Intelligence. His research interests include computational intelligence, swarm intelligence, swarm robotics, and epistemology and philosophical foundations of computational intelligence.
Shyi-Ming Chen is an IET Fellow, the President of the Taiwanese Association for Artificial Intelligence (TAAI). He is currently a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan. He is a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society. He is a Co-Chair of the IEEE SMC's Technical Committee on Intelligent Internet Systems, the Vice Chair of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, Taipei Chapter, an officer of the IEEE Taipei Section, the Counselor of the IEEE Student Branch at the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, and the Advisor of the IEEE SMC Student Branch Chapter at the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology. Dr. Chen is currently also an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part C, an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part A, an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, an Associate Editor of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Applied Intelligence, an Associate Editor of the Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence Tools, an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, an Editor of the New Mathematics and Natural Computation Journal, an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Fuzzy Systems. He has published more than 260 papers in referred journals, conference proceedings and book chapters. His research interests include fuzzy systems, information retrieval, knowledge-based systems, artificial intelligence, neural networks, data mining, and genetic algorithms.
Wen-Hua Chen: is a Senior Lecturer in Flight Control Systems, Department of Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering, Loughborough University, UK, and he also serves as the Socrates European Programme Coordinator. He is currently the Member of Editorial Board of the International Journal of Control, Automation and Systems (IJCAS), and a Member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Aerospace Control. His main interests lie in guidance, navigation and flight control systems, advanced control theory and applications, optimisation including both conventional and evolutionary methods, and mechatronics including robotics.
Zongji Chen is the vice-president of Chinese Association for System Simulation, the vice-president of Beihang University Academy Committee, member of AIAA, and he is also the director of Aerial Vehicle Integrated Control Technology National Defense Key Lab of China. He has published 118 journal papers, 61 conference papers and 2 books. His research interests mainly focus on advanced flight control, intelligent control, intelligent decision and management, self-adaptive control theory and application, hybrid system theory, virtual prototype techniques.
Carlos A. Coello Coello received a PhD in Computer Science from Tulane University, USA, in 1996. He is currently Professor of Computer Science at CINVESTAV-IPN, in Mexico. He has published over 200 papers and two books. He received the 2007 National Research Award from the Mexican Academy of Science. He is associate editor of six international journals and editorial board member for six more. His main research interests include both single- and multi-objective optimization using metaheuristics.
Marco Dorigo received his Doctorate in Information and Systems Electronic Engineering in 1992 from Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy. Since 1996, he has been a tenured Researcher of the FNRS, the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research and a Research Director of IRIDIA, the artificial intelligence laboratory of the Université Libre de Bruxelles. He is the inventor of the ant colony optimisation metaheuristic. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Swarm Intelligence. In 2003, he was awarded the 'Marie Curie Excellence Award', in 2005, the 'Dr A. De Leeuw-Damry-Bourlart award in applied sciences' and in 2007, the 'Cajastur International Prize for Soft Computing'. He is a fellow of IEEE and of ECCAI.
Gerry Vernon Dozier is a Professor with the North Carolina A&T State University, USA. He now also serves as an Associate Editor on IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (2001-Present), Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing Journal (2001-Present), International Journal of Education and Information Technologies (2003-Present). Gerry Vernon Dozier received the 2004 Best Paper Award, Genetic & Evolutionary Computation Conference (Artificial Immune Systems), Best Paper Award at the 2002 International Symposium on Soft Computing for Industry, and the Research Excellence Award of Auburn University in 2000. His research interests are genetic & evolutionary computation, distributed constraint reasoning, evolutionary robotics, and artificial & computational intelligence.
Andries Engelbrecht is a Professor in Computer Science at the University Pretoria, and manager of the Computational Intelligence Research Group. He is the South African Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence and a Senior Member of the IEEE. He received his Masters and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the University of Stellenbosch in 1994 and 1999 respectively. He is an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games, and Swarm Intelligence. He also serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Evolutionary Algorithms, Far East Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence and the International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics. He is the author of the books Computational Intelligence: An Introduction and Fundamentals of Computational Swarm Intelligence, both published by Wiley. He authored or co-authored over 150 articles in journals, books, and conference proceedings.
Vladimir Fomichov is a professor with the Department of Innovations and Business in the Sphere of Informational Technologies, Faculty of Business Informatics, State University-Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia. He is also a half-time professor of Computer Science at the Department of Information Technologies, K.E. Tsiolkovsky Russian State Technological University, Moscow. He is a member of the International Society for Artificial Intelligence in Education (Head Office in Leeds, UK) since 1996, a scientific member of the International Association for Cybernetics (Secretariat in Namur, Belgium) since 1991, and also the editorial board member of INFORMATICA since 1992. He has authored and co-authored over 125 scientific publications in Russian, English, French (including three monographs) pertaining to the fields of discrete mathematics, artificial intelligence, multi-agent systems, semantic web, electronic commerce, and cognitive science.
Gábor Horváth is an associate professor with the Department of Measurement and Information Systems (DMIS), Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary. His current research fields are digital signal processing, non-linear signal processing, theory and application of neural networks, and construction of microprocessor controlled instruments.
Hisao Ishibuchi is a professor of Osaka Prefecture University, Japan. He is also the head of CI Research Center of Osaka Prefecture University. He received GECCO 2004 Best Paper Award, ISIS 2005 Outstanding Paper Award, EFS 2006 Best Runner-up Paper Award, HIS-NCEI 2006 Best Paper Award, and GECCO 2007 Competition 2 First Prize. He is an associate editor for IEEE CI Magazine, IEEE TFS, IEEE TEC, and IEEE TSMC-Part B. He is also an area editor for Soft Computing Journal, a vice-chair of the fuzzy technical committee of IEEE CIS, a vice-chair of the genetic fuzzy systems task force, and a vice-president of SOFT. His current research interests include genetic fuzzy systems, evolutionary multiobjective optimization, fuzzy data mining, and evolutionary games.
Zhong-Ping Jiang is a Fellow of the IEEE. He is also an Professor with the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Polytechnic University at Brooklyn, USA. He has authored or co-authored four book chapters, over 80 journal papers and numerous conference papers. Currently, Dr Jiang is a Subject Editor for the International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, an Associate Editor for Systems & Control Letters and IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. He served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE CSS Conference Editorial Board during 2000 - 2002. Dr Jiang is the recipient of a prestigious Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship Award from the Australian Research Council and a CAREER Award from the US National Science Foundation. His current research includes control theory for nonlinear systems, advanced stability theory, control of underactuated mechanical systems and ships, analysis and control of communication systems.
Yaochu Jin is currently a Principal Scientist at the Honda Research Institute Europe, Germany. He is also a member of the Scientific Coordination of the CoR-Lab Graduate School, Bielefeld University, Germany. He currently serve as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, and IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part C: Applications and Reviews, and is an editorial board member for several other international journals. His research interests include computational intelligence, machine learning and cognition, computational systems biology, and artificial life for understanding biological complexity and designing complex systems.
Graham Kendall is a Professor in the Automated Scheduling, Optimisation and Planning Group in The School of Computer Science at The University of Nottingham, and is also a Fellow of the Operational Research Society. He received his undergraduate degree (in Computation) in 1997 from The University of Manchester, UK and his PhD from The University of Nottingham in 2000. Before entering academia he worked in the IT industry for fifteen years, holding a variety of technical and managerial positions. He is an Associate Editor of six international journals. He chairs the MISTA (Multidisciplinary International Conference on Scheduling: Theory and Applications) conference series and has published over 100 refereed papers in international journals and conferences, and has co-edited 10 books.
Irwin King received a BSc degree in Engineering and Applied Science from California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, in 1984. He received his MSc and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, in 1988 and 1993 respectively. He joined the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1993. His research interests include machine learning, web intelligence & social computing, and multimedia processing. In these research areas, Dr King has published over 140 refereed journal and conference manuscripts. In addition, he has contributed over 20 book chapters and edited volumes. Moreover, Dr King has over 30 research and applied grants. One notable system Dr King has developed is the CUPIDE (Chinese University Plagiarism IDentification Engine) system, which detects similar sentences and performs readability analysis of text-based documents in both English and in Chinese to promote academic integrity and honesty.
Dikai Liu is currently an Associate Professor of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), Australia. He is also a Deputy Director of the UTS Research Centre for Intelligent Mechatronic Systems. He serves as an editorial board member of the International Journal of Advanced Mechatronics and Robotics and a Technical Editor of the Journal of Applied Sciences. His main research interests lie in intelligent robotic systems in automation, logistics, health/aged care and infrastructure maintenance, multi-robot coordination and control, path/motion planning and collision avoidance for mobile robots and robot manipulators, computational intelligence and optimization, dynamics and control.
Hiroshi G Okuno is the professor of Speech Media Laboratory, Department of Intelligence Science and Technology, Gradulate School of Informatics, Kyoto University. His research areas include computational auditory scene analysis, robot audition, music information processing, and artificial intelligence.
Helmut Prodinger is currently a professor with the Department of Mathematics, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. He is also the associate editor for Theoretical Computer Science, Journal of Algorithms, Transactions on Algorithms, and Discrete Mathematics. His current research interests are analysis of algorithms, concrete mathematics, combinatorics, tree enumeration, and number theory.
Grzegorz Rozenberg is currently a professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Leiden, Netherlands, and an adjoint professor at the Department of Computer Science of University of Colorado at Boulder, USA. He is the head of the Theoretical Computer Science group at Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), and the scientific director of Leiden Center for Natural Computing (LCNC). He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Advances in Petri Nets (Springer-Verlag), the International Journal on Natural Computing (Kluwer Academic Publishers), Theoretical Computer Science C: Theory of Natural Computing (Elsevier), Monographs in Theoretical Computer Science (Springer-Verlag), Texts in Theoretical Computer Science (Springer-Verlag), Natural Computing Book Series (Springer), and the associate editor of about 12 esteemed international journals. He was the President of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) in the period 1985-1994, and he was the chairman of the Award Committee for the Gödel Prize 1997. He was the chairman of the Steering Committee for the International Conferences on Theory and Applications of Petri Nets (ICATPN) in the period 1981-2004, the President of the International Society for Nanoscale Science, Computation and Engineering (ISNSCE) in 2006. Professor Rozenberg has published about 500 papers, 6 books, and is a (co-)editor of more than 70 books. His current research interests are natural computing, including molecular computing, computation in living cells, self-assembly, theory of biochemical reactions, theory of concurrent systems, theory of graph transformation, formal language and automata theory, and mathematical structures useful in computer science.
Yuhui Shi is a Professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and the Director of the Research and Postgraduate Office, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China. Dr Shi is also the associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Trans. SMC-B, and Swarm Intelligence. Yuhui Shi received his PhD degree in 1992. He is currently with Electronic Data Systems, Inc., Kokomo, Indiana, USA, as an Applied Specialist. His main interests include artificial neural networks, evolutionary computation, fuzzy logic systems and their industrial applications. Dr Shi was a co-presenter of the tutorial, Introduction to Computation Intelligence, at the 1998 WCCI Conference, Anchorage, Alaska, and presented the tutorial, Evolutionary Computation and Fuzzy Systems. He is the technical co-chair of 2001 Particle Swarm Optimization Workshop, IEEE SIS 2007, IEEE SIS 2009. He is the author of Computational Intelligence Concepts to Implementations and Swarm Intelligence.
Ong Yew Soon is currently an Associate Professor with the School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, as well as Director of the Center for Computational Intelligence (C2I). He is technical co-editor-in-chief for the Memetic Computing Journal, associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics - Part B, International Journal of System Science and Soft Computing Journal. He is also Chair of the Task Force on Memetic Algorithms in the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Emergent Technology Technical Committee. His current research interests lie in computational intelligence spanning: memetic & evolutionary computation and machine learning, with application to real world complex problems.
Paul Spirakis obtained his PhD from Harvard University, USA. He has served as a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University and as an assistant professor at New York University, (the Courant Institute). He was appointed as a Full Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Patras University (Greece) in 1990. Paul Spirakis is the Director of the Research Academic Computer Technology Institute (RA.CTI). His research interests include algorithms and complexity and interaction of complexity and game theory.
Peter Sturm obtained MSc degrees from INPG (National Polytechnical Institute of Grenoble, France) and the University of Karlsruhe, both in 1994, and a PhD degree from INPG in 1997. His PhD thesis was awarded the SPECIF award (given to one French PhD thesis in Computer Science per year). After a two-year post-doc at Reading University, working with Steve Maybank, he joined INRIA on a permanent research position as Chargé de Recherche in 1999. Since 2006, he is Directeur de Recherche (Professor). He has been a member of programme committees for over 40 events, among which all major conferences in computer vision, image processing and pattern recognition. He will be Programme Chair of ICCV 2011 and Area Chair of ICCV 2009 and CVPR 2009 and was an Area Chair for ECCV 2006. Peter is on the editorial board of Image and Vision Computing, Journal of Computer Science & Technology and IPSJ (Information Processing Society of Japan) Transactions on Computer Vision and Applications. He was organization co-chair of the 2008 European Conference on Computer Vision and has organized workshops and given tutorials and invited lectures at several conferences. His main research topics are in computer vision, and specifically related to camera (self-)calibration, 3D reconstruction and motion estimation, both for traditional perspective cameras and omnidirectional sensors.
Zengqi Sun received his PhD degree at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, in 1981. He is currently a professor of the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, China. He is also a Vice-President of the Chinese Association of Artificial Intelligence, Standing Council Member of the Chinese Association of Automation, the Chair of Intelligent Automation Society of the Chinese Association of Automation, Associate Editor for Journal of China Science, Journal of Control Theory and Applications, Journal of System Simulation, Journal of Robotics, Journal of Intelligent Systems, and International Journal of Control, Automation and Systems. His current research interests include intelligent control, robotics, fuzzy systems, neural networks and evolution computing etc.
Chung-Shi Tseng is a Professor at Minghsin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan. He is also an IEEE Senior Member and now serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems and Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing: An International Journal.
Benjamin W. Wah is currently the Franklin W. Woeltge Endowed Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Professor of the Coordinated Science Laboratory of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL. He received his PhD degree in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, CA, in 1979. Since that he has been awarded a University Scholar of the University of Illinois; the IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award; the IEEE Millennium Medal; the Raymond T. Yeh Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Design and Process Science; the IEEE Computer Society W. Wallace-McDowell Award; the Pan Wen-Yuan Outstanding Research Award; the IEEE Computer Society Richard E. Merwin Award and the IEEE-CS Technical Committee on Distributed Processing Outstanding Achievement Award.
Daobo Wang is a full professor with the College of Automation Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, PR China. He was selected into the first and second levels of “the National Hundred, Thousand and Ten Thousand Talent Project”, the recipient of “National outstanding contribution and experts of China”. He has won 1 “China National Awards for Science and Technology Progress (second level)”, more than 10 Chinese provincial and ministerial level awards. He has published 80 peer-reviewed papers in academic journals and international conferences. His current main interests are UAV flight control systems, high-precision control theory and applications, navigation/guidance and control.
Kay C. Wiese: is the Director of the Bioinformatics Research Lab and Associate Professor in the School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Canada. His main research interests lie in Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics, Prediction and Visualization of RNA Secondary Structure, Evolutionary Computation and Computational Intelligence in Optimization. He is currently serving on the Steering Committee of 4 IEEE/ACM Transactions, has served on the Program Committee of over 30 International Conferences in Computational Intelligence and Bioinformatics, and he has been on the Organizing Committee of several other International Conferences. In 2009 he is serving as Program Chair for the International IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology in Nashville, TN. Dr Wiese was the Chair of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society's Bioinformatics and Bioengineering Technical Committee in 2006 and 2007 and he is the Vice President for Technical Activities of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society for 2008-2009. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.
Baijian Yang received his PhD in Computer Science from Michigan State University in 2002 and is currently an assistant professor at Department of Technology, Ball State University. He received his BS and MS degree in Department of Automation from Tsinghua University in 1995 and 1998, respectively. His areas of expertise are in distributed systems, IP multicast, network Quality of Services and information security. In addition to his academic endeavors, Dr Yang holds MCSE and CISSP certifications and is the author of book Professional Microsoft Smartphone Programming.
Yixin Zhong is the president of Chinese Association for Artificial Intellegence; IEEE fellow; ICCC Governor; former vice-president of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications; co-editor-in-chief of the Chinese Journal of Electronics and associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks. He has published 380 papers and 16 books and some of the books are pioneering ones in the related fields. He has been awarded many scientific awards by the China Ministry of Posts and Tele-Communications. His research interests mainly focus on the fundamentals of artificial intelligence and information science.