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Raymond Chiong is a tenured academic at the School of Computing & Design, Swinburne Uni- versity of Technology (Sarawak Campus), Malaysia. He is leading the Intelligent Informatics Research Group under the Information & Security Research Lab (iSECURES Lab). He serves as an Associate Editor for the Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management (IJIKM), and reviews for IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Springer’s Memetic Computing Journal as well as Springer’s Soft Computing Journal. He also serves in the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics (TCII), IASTED Technical Committee on Artificial Intelligence, as well as IASTED Technical Committee on Modelling and Simulation. His main research interests include nature-inspired computing and its application to complex systems. He has numerous publications in books, international journals and conference proceedings, and is currently involved with four edited books.

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Marcelo Keese Albertini is currently a PhD candidate under the Program of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics of the University of São Paulo, Brazil. His research interests include machine learning, statistics and grid computing.

Li-Minn Ang received his PhD and Bachelor degrees from Edith Cowan University, Australia in 2001 and 1996 respectively. He has taught at Monash University Malaysia before joining the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus in 2004, where he is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He is a member of the Visual Information Engineering Research Group. His research interests are in the fields of signal, image, vision processing, intelligent processing techniques, hardware architectures, and reconfigurable computing.

Walter Anheier received the Diploma and the Doctorate from Rheinisch Westfaelische Technische Hochschule (RWTH), Aachen, Germany, both in Electrical Engineering, in 1973 and 1980 respectively. From 1977 to 1981, he was an Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at RWTH Aachen. His research interests emphasised on mathematical and physical aspects of numerical modelling of semiconductor devices. In 1981 he joined Philips Semiconductors in Hamburg, Germany, where he was involved in the characterization of MOS-devices and monolithic integrated circuits. Later on he was a project manager of several CAD-research and development projects in the field of MOS-modelling, circuit and hybrid simulation and in 1990 he was appointed as CAD-Manager of the Industrial IC De-

partment at Philips. From 1985 to 1992 he was also a lecturer at FH and TU Hamburg. Since 1992, he has been working as a Full Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Bremen, Germany. His research interests include various aspects of microelectronics with emphasis on fast functional simulation, computer-aided testing (CAT), synthesis of digital systems, signal integrity analysis and ATPG for delay and crosstalk faults in digital circuits. He is an associate member of IEEE and a member of ACM and ITG.

Mariusz Boryczka was born in 1958. In 1982, he acquired his MSc in Computer Science at the Fac- ulty of Automatic Control and Computer Science, Silesian University of Technology. He then obtained his PhD degree from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at Poznań University of Technology in 1992. In 2008, he received the Doctor of Science (habilitation) degree in Computer Science from the Polish Academy of Science. Since 1982 he has been working in the Institute of Computer Science at University of Silesia. Starting from 2009 he acts as the deputy director (teaching affairs) of the Institute of Com- puter Science. His research interests include programming and programming languages, evolutionary algorithms, optimization, artificial life, and artificial intelligence.

José Ramón Cano received his MSc and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the University of Granada, Spain in 1999 and 2004 respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Depart- ment of Computer Science, University of Jaén, Spain. His research interests include data mining, data reduction, data complexity, interpretability-accuracy trade-off, and evolutionary algorithms.

Siew Wen Chin received her Master of Science and Bachelor degrees from the University of Not- tingham Malaysia Campus in 2008 and 2006 respectively. She is currently doing her PhD at the same university. She is a member of the Visual Information Engineering Research Group. Her research interests are in the fields of signal, image, vision processing, and audio visual speech recognition.

Miguel Aurelio Duarte-Villaseñor was born in Puebla, México, in 1981. He received the Bachelor degree in Electronics from the Faculty of Electronics Sciences (FCE-BUAP) in 2005, and the Master Sciences degree in Electronics from the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (INAOE), México, in 2007. His research interests include electronic design automation, evolutionary electronics, modeling and simulation and circuit synthesis. He is now pursuing a PhD at INAOE.

Salvador García received his MSc and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the University of Granada, Spain in 2004 and 2008 respectively. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science, University of Granada, Spain. His research interests include data mining, data reduction, imbalanced problems, statistical inference, data complexity and evolutionary algorithms.

Ivick Guerra-Gómez received the BSc degree in Electronic Engineering (with Cum Laude distinc- tion) from the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP), México, in 2006, and the MSc in Electronics from the Insituto Nacional de Astrofísica Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE), México, in 2008. He is working towards the PhD degree at INAOE and his research interests include evolutionary computation applied to circuit optimization and computer aided circuit design.

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Francisco Herrera received his MSc degree in Mathematics in 1988 and PhD degree in Mathematics in 1991, both from the University of Granada, Spain. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Granada. He has published more than 140 papers in international journals. He is the co-author of a book “Genetic Fuzzy Systems: Evolutionary Tuning and Learning of Fuzzy Knowledge Bases” (World Scientific, 2001). Besides that, he has co- edited 4 international books and 17 special issues in international journals on different soft computing topics. He also acts as associate editor of the following journals: IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Mathware and Soft Computing, Advances in Fuzzy Systems, Advances in Computational Sciences and Technology, and International Journal of Applied Metaheuristic Computing. He currently serves as area editor of the Soft Computing Journal (on genetic algorithms and genetic fuzzy systems). He is also member of the editorial board of the journals: Fuzzy Sets and Systems, Applied Intelligence, Knowledge and Information Systems, Information Fusion, Evolutionary Intelligence, International Journal of Hybrid Intelligent Systems, Memetic Computation, International Journal of Computational Intelligence Research, The Open Cybernetics and Systemics Journal, Recent Patents on Computer Science, Journal of Advanced Research in Fuzzy and Uncertain Systems, and International Journal of Information Technology and Intelligent and Computing. His research interests include computing with words and decision making, data mining, data preparation, instance selection, fuzzy rule based systems, genetic fuzzy systems, knowledge extraction based on evolutionary algorithms, memetic algorithms and genetic algorithms.

King Hann Lim received his Master of Engineering from the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus in 2007. He is currently doing his PhD at the same university. He is a member of the Visual Information Engineering Research Group. His research interests are in the fields of signal, image, vision processing, intelligent processing techniques, and computer vision for intelligent vehicles.

Rodrigo Fernandes de Mello is currently a Faculty at the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Sciences, Department of Computer Science, University of São Paulo, São Carlos, Brazil. He completed his PhD degree from University of São Paulo in 2003. His research interests include machine learning, autonomic computing and grid computing.

Akira Namatame is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science, National Defense Academy, Japan. He is well-known as an international research leader in the application of agent and evolutionary modelling technologies to problems in economics and social research, and in the past 10 years he has given over 20 invited talks in these areas. His research interests include multi-agent systems, complex networks, evolutionary computation, and game theory. He is the editor-in-chief of Springer’s Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination. He has published more than 200 refereed scientific papers, together with 8 books on multi-agent systems, collective systems and game theory.

Ajoy K. Palit, formerly a senior scientist of the Department of Electronics (DOE), Government of India, received his M.Tech. degree in Radiophysics and Electronics from the University of Calcutta in 1990 and the summa cum laude Ph.D. (Dr.-Ing.) degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Bremen, Germany, in 1999. Thereafter, Ajoy worked in the Electrical Engineering Department of Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in The Netherlands, as an Assistant Professor. He also worked in repas-AEG Information Technology GmbH, Germany, as a research and development engineer.

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Since October 2002 he has been working in the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of Bremen, Germany, as a C1-scientist/faculty member. Ajoy teaches Masters degree courses on neural- fuzzy systems in modeling, prediction and signal processing, computational intelligence in time series forecasting, and fault modeling and test generation for VLSI circuits. He has over 40 publications in refereed international conferences and journals. He is also the principal author of the book “Compu- tational Intelligence in Time Series Forecasting, Theory of Engineering Applications,” published by Springer-Verlag, London, in 2005. He is the recipient of a Best Paper Award at the 2004 World Congress on Lateral Computing, in Fuzzy Logic Session. His research interests include signal integrity (crosstalk) fault modeling, GA-based-testing, test pattern generation and compaction, etc. He also pursues research on fuzzy logic, neural networks, neuro-fuzzy systems, genetic algorithms, etc. in system modeling and time series prediction. Ajoy has been the recipient of a National Scholarship of the Government of India, GATE scholarship, Institutes fellowship from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, UNDP/UNIDO fellowship, and DAAD fellowship of Germany.

Paolo Renna is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Environmental Engineering and Physics in the Engineering Faculty of Basilicata University, Italy. He received his PhD degree at Polytechnic of Bari in advanced production systems. His academic research principally deals with the development of innovative negotiation and production planning in distributed environments and manufacturing scheduling in dynamic environment. Several contributions have been presented on the design of Multi-Agent Architecture and tested by discrete event simulation in Business to Business environment. Among the contributions, he has been the co-author of two research books about e-marketplaces and production planning in production networks. Besides that, he has developed coordination approaches in multi-plant production planning environment and innovative scheduling approaches in flexible and reconfigurable manufacturing systems.

Carlos Alberto Reyes-García earned his PhD degree in Computer Science from the Florida State University. He has been a postdoctoral at the IIASS in Salerno, Italy. He is now a researcher in the Computer Science Department at INAOE, Mexico. He is also a National Researcher Level I at the Mexi- can SNI. He is the President of the Mexican Society for Artificial Intelligence (SMIA). His research interests are mainly in the fields of soft computing, speech, speaker and infant cry classification, and pattern recognition.

Alexandre Romariz received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Bra- sília, Brazil, in 1992 and his MSc in Electrical Engineering from University of Campinas, Brazil, in 1995. He received his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA, in 2003. He is currently a Professor at the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of Brasília, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in the areas of electronics, digital systems, random systems and computational intelligence. His research interests include applications of computational intelligence, optoelectronics, IC design and engineering education. He is currently the chair of the Brasília Section of the IEEE.

Kah Phooi Seng received her PhD and Bachelor degrees from the University of Tasmania, Australia in 2001 and 1997 respectively. She has taught at the University of Tasmania, Griffith University and Monash University Malaysia before joining the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus in 2005,

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where she is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. She is a member of the Visual Information Engineering Research Group. Her research interests are in the fields of intelligent visual processing, biometrics and multi-biometrics, artificial intelligence, and signal processing.

Flávio Teixeira was born in Brasília, Brazil on March 14, 1982. He received his B.S. degree in Computer Engineering from the UniCEUB in 2005 and the MSc degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Brasília (UnB) in 2008, both in Brasília, Brazil. Currently, he is pursuing the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. From 2004 to 2006, he was a telecommunication software designer at Autotrac, a company in the line of mobile data messaging and fleet monitoring in Brazil, focusing in satellite telecommunications. From 2006 to 2008, he was a software engineer in CEFTRU, a Multidisciplinary Research Center in Science & Technology for Transportation linked to the University of Brasília, concentrating on software design for transportation, including combinatorial optimization methods and geographic processing systems. His research interests include DSP algorithms, digital filter design, and multi-objective optimization for use in telecommunication applications.

Esteban Tlelo-Cuautle received the BSc degree from the Technologic Institute of Puebla (ITP), Mexico, in 1993, the MSc and PhD degrees from the Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Optica y Elec- trónica (INAOE), Mexico, in 1995 and 2000 respectively. Since January 2001 he is a full researcher at INAOE. He has authored and co-authored more than 100 papers on scientific journals, book chapters and conference proceedings. He is a senior member of the IEEE and an IEICE member. His research interests include modeling and simulation of circuits and analog and mixed-signal CAD tools. He regu- larly serves as reviewer of international conferences and international journals.

Andres Upegui is a senior researcher at the Reconfigurable and Embedded Digital Systems (REDS) Institute, HEIG-VD, Yverdon, Switzerland since 2006. He obtained a diploma on Electronic Engineering in 2000 from the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (UPB), Medellín, Colombia. He joined the UPB Microelectronics Research Group between 2000 and 2001. From 2001 to 2002, he did the Graduate School on Computer Science at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), and then in 2003 he joined the Logic Systems Laboratory (LSL) as a PhD student. In 2006, he received his PhD from the EPFL with a thesis entitled “Dynamically Reconfigurable Bio-inspired Hardware”. He has co-authored more than 30 scientific publications, including book chapters, journal articles, and conference proceedings.

Thomas Weise has studied Applied Computer Science at the Chemnitz University of Technology in Germany with specialization in Information and Communication Systems, and obtained his Master's degree in 2005. From Chemnitz, he then went to the Distributed Systems Group of the University of Kassel where he works as a researcher and a PhD candidate. His research focuses on the applications of evolutionary computation, especially to various aspects of distributed systems. In his PhD thesis, he formalizes a new genetic programming approach known as Rule-based Genetic Programming (or in short RBGP), and shows how it can be applied to evolve distributed algorithms.

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Gary G. Yen received the PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, in 1992. He is currently a Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oklahoma State University, USA. Before joining Oklahoma State University, he was with the Structure Control Division, U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His research interests include intelligent control, computational intelligence, conditional health monitoring, signal processing and their industrial/defense applications. He is an IEEE Fellow. He was an associate editor of the IEEE Control Systems Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Automatica, Mechantronics, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part A and Part B, and IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks. He is currently serving as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation and International Journal on Swarm Intelligence Research. He served as the General Chair for the 2003 IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control held in Houston, TX and the 2006 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence held in Vancou- ver, Canada. He also served as Vice President for the Technical Activities of the IEEE Computational intelligence Society in 2005 and 2006, and is the founding editor-in-chief of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine since 2006.

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