Kazumi Nakamatsu received the Ms. Eng. and Dr. Sci. from Shizuoka University and Kyushu University, Japan, respectively. His research interests encompass various kinds of logic and their applications to Computer Science, especially paraconsistent annotated logic programs and their applications. He has developed some paraconsistent annotated logic programs called ALPSN (Annotated Logic Program with Strong Negation), VALPSN (Vector ALPSN), EVALPSN (Extended VALPSN) and bf-EVALPSN (before-after EVALPSN) recently, and applied them to various intelligent systems such as a safety verification based railway interlocking control system and process order control. He is an author of over 180 papers and 30 book chapters and 20 edited books published by prominent publishers. Kazumi Nakamatsu has chaired various international conferences, workshops, and invited sessions, and he has been a member of numerous international program committees of workshops and conferences in the area of Computer Science. He has served as the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems(IJRIS); he is now the founding editor of IJRIS and an editorial board member of many international journals. He has contributed numerous invited lectures at international workshops, conferences, and academic organizations. He also is a recipient of numerous research paper awards.
Dr. Srikanta Patnaik is presently working as the director of International Relation and Publication of SOA University. He is a full professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, SOA University, Bhubaneswar, India. He has received his Ph. D. (Engineering) on Computational Intelligence from Jadavpur University, India, in 1999. He has supervised more than 25 Ph.D. theses and 60 master theses in the area of computational intelligence, machine learning, soft computing applications, and re-engineering. Dr. Patnaik has published around 100 research papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He is author of two textbooks and 52 edited volumes and few invited book chapters, published by leading international publisher like Springer-Verlag, Kluwer Academic, etc. Dr. Srikanta Patnaik is the editors-in-chief of International Journal of Information and Communication Technology and International Journal of Computational Vision and Robotics published from Inderscience Publishing House, England, and International Journal of Computational Intelligence in Control, published by MUK Publication, the editor of Journal of Information and Communication Convergence Engineering, and an associate editor of Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems (JIFS), which are all Scopus Index journals. He is also the editors-in-chief of Book Series on “Modeling and Optimization in Science and Technology” published from Springer, Germany, and Advances in Computer and Electrical Engineering (ACEE) and Advances in Medical Technologies and Clinical Practice(AMTCP), published by IGI Global, USA. Dr. Patnaik has travelled more than 20 countries across the globe to deliver invited talks and keynote address at various places. He is also a visiting professor to some of the universities in China, South Korea, and Malaysia.
Prof. Roumen Kountchev Ph.D., D.Sc. is a professor at the Faculty of Telecommunications, Dept. of Radio Communications and Video Technologies, Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria. His areas of interests are digital signal and image processing, image compression, multimedia watermarking, video communications, pattern recognition and neural networks. Prof. Kountchev has 350 papers published in magazines and proceedings of conferences; 20 books; 47 book chapters; and 21 patents. He had been a principle investigator of 38 research projects. At present, he is a member of Euro Mediterranean Academy of Arts and Sciences and President of Bulgarian Association for Pattern Recognition (member of Intern. Association for Pattern Recognition). He is an editorial board member of: Intern. J. of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems; Intern. J. Broad Research in Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience; KES Focus Group on Intelligent Decision Technologies; Egyptian Computer Science J.; Intern. J. of Bio-Medical Informatics and e-Health, and Intern. J. Intelligent Decision Technologies. He has been a plenary speaker at: WSEAS Intern. Conf. on Signal Processing, 2009, Istanbul, Turkey; WSEAS Intern. Conf. on Signal Processing, Robotics and Automation, University of Cambridge 2010, UK; WSEAS Intern. Conf. on Signal Processing, Computational Geometry and Artificial Vision 2012, Istanbul, Turkey; Intern. Workshop on Bioinformatics, Medical Informatics and e-Health 2013, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt; Workshop SCCIBOV 2015, Djillali Liabes University, Sidi Bel Abbes, Algeria; Intern. Conf. on Information Technology 2015 and 2017, Al Zayatoonah University, Amman, Jordan; WSEAS European Conf. of Computer
