Biographical note

Prof. Dr. Roumen Kountchev, D.Sc., works at the Faculty of Telecommunications, Department of Radio Communications and Video Technologies – Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria. He has published over 340 papers in journals and conference proceedings, 15 books, 46 book chapters, and 20 patents. He was a member of the Euro Mediterranean Academy of Arts and Sciences, President of the Bulgarian Association for Pattern Recognition, and a member of the editorial boards of the IJBST Journal Group, the International Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems and the International Journal of Broad Research in Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience.

Prof. Dr. Shen Chong, D.Sc., is Deputy Director of Hainan University Scientific Research Office, China. He graduated from the School of Electronic Information of Wuhan University and the University of Strathclyde. He holds 23 patents and has published more than 100 SCI and EI indexed papers. He was the PI of various projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation, Ministry of Education, and the International Science and Technology Cooperation. He was a member of youth standing committee of the China Electronics Association and the Chinese Association of Marine limnology, and is an IEEE VTS senior member.

Prof. Dr. Srikanta Patnaik is with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, SOA University, Bhubaneswar, India. He published over 100 papers in international journals and conference proceedings, 2 textbooks, and 32 edited volumes and is the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Information and Communication Technology and International Journal of Computational Vision and Robotics and Book Series: Modeling and Optimization in Science and Technology (Springer),  Advances in Computer and Electrical Engineering, Advances in Medical Technologies and Clinical Practices (IGI-Global).

Prof. Dr. Margarita Favorskaya is the Head of the Department of Informatics and Computer Techniques at Reshetnev Siberian State University of Science and Technology, RF. She is an IPC member and has chaired invited sessions at over 30 international conferences. She is also a reviewer for journals such as Neurocomputing, Knowledge Engineering and Soft Data Paradigms, Pattern Recognition Letters, and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence; an Associate Editor of the Intelligent Decision Technologies Journal, International Journal of Knowledge-Based Intelligent Engineering Systems, and the International Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems; and is a Springer book editor.