Valentina E. Balas is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Automatics and Applied Software at the Faculty of Engineering, University “Aurel Vlaicu” Arad (Romania).She holds a PhD in Applied Electronics and Telecommunications from Polytechnic University of Timisoara. She is author of more than 160 research papers in refereed journals and international conferences. Her research interests are in Intelligent Systems, Fuzzy Control, Soft Computing, Smart Sensors, Information Fusion, Modeling and Simulation. She is the Editor-in Chief to International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms (IJAIP), member in Editorial Board member of several national and international journals and is evaluator expert for national and international projects. She is a member of EUSFLAT, ACM and a Senior Member IEEE, member in TC – Fuzzy Systems (IEEE CIS), member in TC - Emergent Technologies (IEEE CIS), member in TC – Soft Computing (IEEE SMCS) and also a member in IFAC - TC 3.2 Computational Intelligence in Control.Dr. Neha Sharma is currently Professor at Adhyogik Tantra Shikshan Sanstha’s, Institute of Industrial and Computer Management and Research (IICMR), Pune, Maharashtra, India. She has completed her PhD from the prestigious Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad. She is a Student Avtivity Committee Chair for IEEE Pune Section. She has organized several national and international conferences and seminars and is a Chief Editor for the international journal “International Journal of Advances in Computing and Management”. She has published several papers in reputed indexed journals. She has 13 years of teaching experience and 5 years of industrial experience. Her areas of research interest include Data Mining, Database Design, Analysis and Design, Artificial intelligence, Software Engineering and Metadata.Dr. Amlan Chakrabarti is Professor and Coordinator at the A.K.Choudhury School of Information Technology, University of Calcutta, India. He has donehis Doctoral research on Quantum Computing and related VLSI design at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, 2004-2008. He was a Post-Doctoral fellow at the School of Engineering, Princeton University, USA during 2011-2012. He is the recipient of BOYSCAST fellowship award from the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India in 2011 and Indian National Science Academy Visiting Scientist Fellowship in 2014. He has published around 80 research papers in refereed journals and conferences. He is a Sr. Member of IEEE, Member of ACM and life member of Computer Society of India. He has been the reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Computers, IET Computers & Digital Techniques, Simulation Modeling Practice and Theory, Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications. His research interests are: Quantum Computing, VLSI design, Embedded System Design, Video and Image Processing Algorithms and pattern recognition.
