Biographical note

George Dimitrakopoulos is Assistant Professor at the Department of Informatics and Telematics of Harokopio University of Athens. His research interests include optimization and performance evaluation of wireless systems, applications of wireless networks, intelligent transport systems, autonomous driving and smart radio systems. He has authored more than 150 articles and is involved in research and development projects in transportation and urban mobility. Lorna Uden is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Computing at Staffordshire University in UK. Her research interests include learning technology, web engineering and technology, big data, knowledge management, and the Internet of Things. She has authored more than 200 papers and is on the editorial board of several international journals, including as the founder and editor-in-chief for the International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology, and the International Journal of Learning Technology. She has been invited as keynote speaker at many international conferences and visiting professor at many universities internationally. She is the conference chair for both KMO and LTEC. She also travels widely to give workshop on Problem Based Learning. Iraklis Varlamis is Associate Professor of Data Management at the Department of Informatics and Telematics at the Harokopio University of Athens. His research interests span data-mining and knowledge extraction from social media, to intelligent systems and machine learning with application in recommender systems and personalization. He has co-authored three books and more than 130 papers concerning graph and text mining, data analytics, intelligent systems and personalization and has more than 2000 citations on his work. He holds a patent from the Greek Patent Office and an application pending from the US patent office. He is been involved on several EU funded projects concerning intelligent systems, machine learning, and data mining on the industrial and automotive domain.