Advisory Board and Editors Adaptive & Self-Organizing Systems
Bilal Alatas
Prof. Alatas received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Firat University. He works as a Professor of Software Engineering at Firat University and he is the head of same department. He is the founder head of the Computer Engineering Department of Munzur University and Software Engineering Department of Firat University. His research interests include artificial intelligence, data mining, social network analysis, metaheuristic optimization, and machine learning. Dr. Alatas has published over 250 papers in many well-known international journals and proceedings of the refereed conference since 2001. He has been editor of twelve journals five of which are indexed in SCI and reviewer of seventy SCI-indexed journals.
Muhammad Asif
Dr Muhammad Asif is currently working as Chairman, Department of Computer Science and Tenured Associate Professor of Computer Science. He served as Director of Graduate Studies and Research at NTU. Before this, he was a research scholar in the Computer Science and Information Management Department at the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand. He received his MS and Ph.D. from AIT in 2009 and 2012 on HEC foreign Scholarship. Over the time, he was a visiting researcher at the National Institute of Information Tokyo, Japan, where he worked on the design and development of a data collection system for infectious diseases through modern technologies. He has also worked on a very important project of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) related to Pakistan's Air Traffic Control System. He was mainly involved in the architectural design of the systems as a software engineer. Asif is actively involved in teaching research and administration activities at the national textile University Faisalabad. He has Two PhD students who graduated in his credit and fifty-five plus MS and BS level students. He has won funded projects of more than Three Hundred (300) million from National and International funding agencies. He enjoys more than 200 impact factors from his research publications in top-class computer science journals and allied domains. He is also serving as Associate Editor of many top journals of computer science, namely, IEEE Access (IF 3.37), PlosOne (IF 3.752), Peerj Computer Science (IF 2.41), CMC (IF 3.77) and Frontiers in Communications and Networks. He is a reviewer of several reputed journals and authored a number of research papers in reputed journals and conferences. He is also a permanent member of the Punjab Public Service Commission (PPSC) as an advisor and program evaluator at the National Computing Education Accreditation Council (NCEAC) Islamabad.
Wolfgang Banzhaf
Wolfgang Banzhaf is the John R. Koza Chair in Genetic Programming at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State University and an Honorary University Research Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland. He received a "Diplom in Physik" degree in Physics from the LMU Munich and his Dr.rer.nat (PhD) from the Dept. of Physics of the TH Karlsruhe, now KIT. After a postdoc at the U. of Stuttgart, he was a Visiting and Senior Researcher at the Central Research Lab of Mitsubishi Electric in Japan and at MERL in Cambridge, USA. From 1993 to 2003 he was Associate Professor for Applied Computer Science at TU Dortmund.
Mario Luca Bernardi
I received the Laurea degree in Computer Science Engineering from the University of Naples Federico II, Italy, in 2003 and the Ph.D. degree in Information Engineering from the University of Sannio in 2007.
Since 2003 I have worked as a researcher in the field of software engineering writing more than 90 papers published in journals and conference proceedings. My main research interests include software maintenance and testing, software reuse, software reverse engineering, and re-engineering, with a particular interest in software modularization.
I also served both as a member of the program and organizing committees of several international conferences, and as a reviewer of papers submitted to some of the main journals and magazines in the field of data and process mining, software engineering, software maintenance, program comprehension, and the application of computational intelligence approaches in the above fields.
Currently, I am an Senior Researcher at University of Sannio, holding the course of "Pervasive Computing".
Siddhartha Bhattacharyya
Dr. Siddhartha Bhattacharyya is currently serving as a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Christ University, Bangalore. He is a co-author of 5 books and the co-editor of 60 books and has more than 300 research publications in international journals and conference proceedings to his credit. He has got two PCTs to his credit. He has been a member of the organizing and technical program committees of several national and international conferences.
His research interests include hybrid intelligence, pattern recognition, multimedia data processing, social networks and quantum computing.
Vincent A Cicirello
Dr. Vincent A. Cicirello is a Professor and Chair of Computer Science at Stockton University. He is also among the founding faculty of Stockton University's interdisciplinary Behavioral Neuroscience program. Dr. Cicirello earned his Ph.D. in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University in 2003, and his M.S./B.S. in Computer Science and B.S. in Mathematics from Drexel University in 1999. His research interests include artificial intelligence, evolutionary computation, algorithms, machine learning, and computational intelligence. Dr. Cicirello is an ACM Senior Member, IEEE Senior Member, AAAI Life Member, and a member of SIAM.
William A Cresko
Professor of Biology and Associate Vice President for Research at the University of Oregon. Research focuses on the genetics and genomics of evolutionary change. Elected Fellow, AAAS.
Elisabetta Di Nitto
Elisabetta Di Nitto is full professor at Politecnico di Milano. Her research interests are mainly on software engineering, cloud computing, process support systems, service-centric applications, dynamic software architectures, and autonomic systems. She has served in the Editorial Board of ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, SOCA Journal, Journal of Software: Evolution and Process. She has been program co-chair of SEAMS 2020, ASE 2010 and ServiceWave 2010 and general chair of ESEC/FSE 2015.
Karl J. Friston
Karl Friston is Professor of Imaging Neuroscience/Wellcome Principal Research Fellow, Faculty of Brain Science, University College London. In 2000 he was President of the international Organization of Human Brain Mapping. In 2003 he was awarded the Minerva Golden Brain Award and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2006. In 2008 he received a Medal, Collège de France and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of York in 2011. He became of Fellow of the Society of Biology in 2012.
Mariagrazia Fugini
Research interests in data and systems security, information system development, services for Public Administrations, Risk and Adaptive Cyber security, and services co-production. Involved in National and International Research Projects on e-Government, Web-based Information Systems, Risk and Adaptive Security, Security of Smart Environments and Service Platforms for Social Care and e-Health.
José Manuel Galán
José M. Galán is a Professor at the Department of Management Engineering. He received a M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from the Universidad de Valladolid and a Ph.D. degree in Industrial and Civil Engineering from the Universidad de Burgos. His research has focused on computational modelling and simulation, especially on agent-based modelling. He initially combined analytical approaches together with simulation and, more recently, with network theory and statistical and machine learning. Former president of the Complex Sociotechnical Systems Association. Member of the European Social Simulation Association and the INSISOC research group.
Nicholas Geard
I am am a computer scientist with over 10 years experience in modelling the spread and control of infectious diseases. I obtained mys PhD in computer science from the University of Queensland in 2016. Following 3 years of postdoctoral research in the UK, I joined the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health in 2011, where I was awarded an ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award. I joined the School of Computing and Information Systems in 2016, where I am an Associate Professor leading a group of 6 postdoctoral and PhD researchers. I am also Director of the Melbourne Data Analytics Platform (MDAP), a team of 20 data scientists who provide cross-disciplinary support on computing and data-intensive research across the University of Melbourne.