Osman Tokhi is Reader in Control and Systems Engineering at the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, the University of Sheffield, UK. His research interests include active noise and vibration control, intelligent/adaptive control, biomedical applications of control, parallel processing, real-time signal processing and control, application of soft computing techniques to modelling and control of dynamic systems. He is the author of three books and over 200 refereed research papers, and serves on the editorial board of several other international journals. He is co-founder of the IEE Inter-Active: International Online Conferenence on Active Control of Sound and Vibration series. He is a Member of the IEE, Senior Member of the IEEE and Member of the International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration (IIAV).Sandor Veres is Professor of Autonomous Control Systems at the University of Southampton, UK. His interests include the theory and practice of control engineering including adaptive and intelligent control systems, robust modelling and hardware implementations using microprocessors. He is the author of two books and over 100 refereed research papers. He is cofounder of the IEE Inter-Active: International Online Conference on Active Control of Sound and Vibration series. He is a Member of the IEE and on the Executive Committee of the IEE Professional Network on Concepts and Theory of Control Systems.