Prof. Srikanta Patnaik is Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, SOA University, Bhubaneswar, India. He has received his Ph. D. in Engineering on Computational Intelligence from Jadavpur University, India, in 1999 and supervised 25 Ph. D. theses and more than 60 master theses in the area of computational intelligence, soft computing applications and re-engineering. Dr. Patnaik has published around 100 research papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He is Author of 2 textbooks and 52 edited volumes and few invited chapters, published by leading international publisher like Springer-Verlag, Kluwer Academic, etc. Dr. Patnaik is Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Information and Communication Technology and International Journal of Computational Vision and Robotics published by Inderscience Publishing House, England, and also Editor-in-chief of Book Series on “Modeling and Optimization in Science and Technology” published by Springer, Germany, Book Series on Advances in Computer and Electrical Engineering (ACEE), and Book Series on Advances in Medical Technologies and Clinical Practices (AMTCP), published by IGI-Global, USA. He is Editor of Journal of Information and Communication Convergence Engineering, published by Korean Institute of Information and Communication Convergence Engineering. He is also Associate Editor of International Journal of Granular Computing, Rough Sets and Intelligent Systems (IJGCRSIS) published by Inderscience Publishing House, England. Prof. Roumen Kountchev, Ph.D., D. Sc., is Professor at the Faculty of Telecommunications, Department of Radio Communications and Video Technologies at the Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria. His scientific areas of interest are digital signal and image processing, image compression, multimedia watermarking, video communications, pattern recognition and neural networks. Prof. Kountchev has 341papers published in magazines and conference proceedings (71 international), 15 books, 46 chapters, and 20 patents (3 international). He had been Principle Investigator of 38 research projects (6 international). At present, he is Member of Euro Mediterranean Academy of Arts and Sciences (EMAAS), President of Bulgarian Association for Pattern Recognition (member of Intern. Association for Pattern Recognition), and Editorial Board Member of: Intern. Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems; Intern. Journal Broad Research in Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience; KES Focus Group on Intelligent Decision Technologies; Egyptian Computer Science Journal; Intern. Journal of Bio-Medical Informatics and e-Health, and Intern. Journal Intelligent Decision Technologies. He has been Plenary Speaker at WSEAS Intern. Conf. on Signal Processing 2009, Istanbul; 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 Liabès University, Sidi Bel Abbès, Algérie; Intern. Conf. on Information Technology 2015 and 2017, Al Zayatoonah University, Amman, Jordan; WSEAS European Conf. of Computer Science 2016, Rome, Italy. Dr. Vipul Jain is working in the area of operations and supply chain management at Victoria Business School, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He has also worked as French Government Researcher for the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control at Nancy, France, and was also involved in the European project I*PROMS (Innovative Production Machines and Systems) from the UK. Vipul has more than 85 archival publications to his credit in high impact factor journals, as well as conference papers and chapters, is Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Intelligent Enterprise, and Editorial Board Member for seven international journals. Vipul is ranked 7th in India in a list of top 20 Indian leading academicians publishing in the area of logistics and supply chain management in an exhaustive study entitled “Analysis of the Logistics research in India- white paper (2012), pp.1-11” conducted by researchers from Institute of Transport Logistics, Dortmund University, Institute for Supply Chain and Network Management, Technische Universität Darmstadt, and University of Münster, Germany. Vipul is involved as Scientific and Advisory Committee Member for various international conferences. He was Program Coordinator for the Masters in Industrial Engineering Program at IIT Delhi and has been actively involved in conducting Management Development Programs/Training Programs for Senior Managers and Executives of Public and Private Organizations in India on various issues and challenges encountered in operations,logistics, and supply chain management.
