Future Research Directions in Computational Intelligence / EAI/Springer Innovations in Communication and Computing (PDF)

of expertise. Since 2019, he has been in the list of 1% highly-cited researchers and named as one of the most influential researchers in the world by Web of Science. In 2021, The Australian newspaper named him the top researcher in Australia in three fields of Artificial Intelligence, Evolutionary Computation, and Fuzzy Systems. He is a senior member of IEEE and is serving as an editor of leading AI journals including Neurocomputing, Applied Soft Computing, Advances in Engineering Software, Computers in Biology and Medicine, Decision analytics, Healthcare Analytics, Applied Intelligence, and Plos ONE.



Amar Ramdane-Cherif received his Ph.D. degree from Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris in 1998. In 2007, he obtained his HDR degree from Versailles University. From 2000 to 2007 he was associate professor at university of Versailles and worked in PRISM Laboratory. Since 2008, he is Full Professor at University of Versailles which belong to the Paris Saclay university and he works in LISV laboratory. His research interests include ambient intelligence, semantic representation of knowledge, modelling of the ambient environment, multimodal interaction between person-machine and machine-environment, system of fusion and fission of events, ambient assistance, software architecture, software quality, quality evaluation methods, functional and non-functional measurement of real-time, reactive and software embedded systems. He wrote 7 book chapters, 50 international journals and about 200 international conferences. He supervised 20 doctoral PhD thesis and reviewed 30 PhD theses. He managed several projects and made several national and intentional collaboration. Actually, he is member in the council board of the graduate school of computer science of the university of Paris Saclay.



Rafik Zitouni is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Surrey and Leader Research Developer at the 5G and 6G Innovation Centers. He is a highly accomplished research engineer and academic with a wealth of experience in computer science. His expertise in new architecture and protocols for 5G New Radio & 6G networks has led to significant contributions to numerous international projects. Previously, he was a lecturer at the ECE Paris Graduate School of Engineering in France and a research associate at the VEDECOM Institute in Versailles, France. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Paris-Est and an M.Sc. from the University of Paris 12. He also obtained Engineer and Magister degrees in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Networks from the universities of Setif and Bejaia in Algeria. Dr. Zitouni's research interests include wireless network protocols, software and cognitive radios with artificial intelligence, and software design. He has published numerous research articles in top-tier academic journals, and his expertise has led to invitations to speak at conferences around the world. In addition to his technical research subjects, he has taken a leadership role in organizing research conferences in Africa and Europe. Dr. Zitouni has also co-edited several books on new technologies for emerging countries and on computational intelligence.