Dr. Lakhmi C. Jain, PhD, ME, BE(Hons), Fellow (Engineers Australia) is with the Faculty of Education, Science, Technology & Mathematics at the University of Canberra, Australia and Bournemouth University, UK. Professor Jain founded the KES International for providing a professional community the opportunities for publications, knowledge exchange, cooperation and teaming. Involving around 5,000 researchers drawn from universities and companies world-wide, KES facilitates international cooperation and generate synergy in teaching and research. KES regularly provides networking opportunities for professional community through one of the largest conferences of its kind in the area of KES. His interests focus on the artificial intelligence paradigms and their applications in complex systems, security, e-education, e-healthcare, unmanned air vehicles and intelligent agents.Valentina Emilia Balas is currently Full Professor in the Department of Automatics and AppliedSoftware at the Faculty of Engineering, “Aurel Vlaicu” University of Arad , Romania. She holds a Ph.D. in Applied Electronics and Telecommunications from Polytechnic University of Timisoara. Dr. Balas is author of more than 280 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) and to International Journal of Computational Systems Engineering (IJCSysE), member in Editorial Board member of several national and international journals and is the director of Intelligent Systems Research Centre in Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad. She is a member of EUSFLAT, SIAM 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). Dr. Prashant Johri is working as Professor in School of Computing Science & Engineering, Galgotias University, Greater Noida, India. He completed his M.C.A. from Aligarh Muslim University and PhD in Computer Science from Jiwaji University, Gwalior, India. He has also worked as a Professor and Director (M.C.A.), Noida Institute of Engineering and Technology, (N.I.E.T.). He has served as Chair in many conferences and affiliated as member of program committee of many conferences. He has supervised 3 PhD students and many M.Tech students for their thesis. His area of research interests includes big data, data analytics, data retrieval and predictive analytics, information security, privacy protection, big data open platforms etc. He is actively publishing in these areas.
