Genetic and Evolutionary Computing

Swarm Intelligence and Its Applications.- Operational Technologies and Networked Multimedia Applications.- Wearable Computing and Intelligent Data Hiding.- Image Processing and Intelligent Applications.- Intelligent Multimedia Tools and Applications.- Technologies for Next-Generation Network Environments.- Recent Progress in Computational Electromagnetic Dynamics.- Future Cyber Security, Privacy and Forensics for Advanced systems.- Data Mining Techniques and its Applications.

Prof. Jeng-Shyang Pan is currently the Professor of College of Computer Science and Engineering, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Shandong, China. He received the B.S. degree in Electronic Engineering from the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology in 1986, the M.S. degree in Communication Engineering from the National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, in 1988, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Edinburgh, UK, in 1996. He is a Fellow of The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), UK. In 2012, Prof. Pan was named in "National 1000 Talent Plan" in China. His current research interests include soft computing, information security, big data mining, and signal processing. Prof. Pan has published more than 500 research papers in academic journals and conferences with h-index of 39. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing and International Journalof Innovative Computing, Information and Control.

Prof. Jerry Chun-Wei Lin currently works as the full Professor at Department of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway. He received his Ph.D. degree from National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, in 2010. He has published more than 300 research papers in academic journals (IEEE TKDE, IEEE TCYB, IEEE System Journal, ACM TKDD, ACM TDS) and international conferences (IEEE ICDE, IEEE ICDM, PKDD, PAKDD). Prof. Lin is currently editorial board member of journal Intelligent Data Analysis and Editor-in-Chief of journal Data Science and Pattern Recognition. The research fields of Prof. Lin's Intelligent Knowledge Engineering Lab includes data mining, machine learning, artificial intelligence, social computing, machine learning, and privacy-preserving and security technologies. He is a Fellow (FIET) of The Institution of Engineering