Advanced Intelligent Technologies and Sustainable Society

Prof. Kazumi Nakamatsu received the Ms. Eng. and Dr. Sci. from Shizuoka University and Kyushu University, Japan, respectively. He is a full professor at School of Human Science and Environment, University of Hyogo, Japan. His research interests encompass various kinds of logic and their applications to computer science, especially paraconsistent annotated logic programs and their applications. He is an author of over 150 papers and 20 book chapters and 10 edited books published by prominent publishers. Kazumi Nakamatsu has chaired various international conferences, workshops, and invited sessions, and he has been a member of numerous international program committees of workshops and conferences in the area of computer science. He serves as a founding editor of the International Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems(IJRIS) by Inderscience Publisher(UK) and an editorial board member of many international journals.

Prof. Dr. Srikanta Patnaik is the director of Interscience Institute of Management & Technology, Bhubaneswar, India. He has received his Ph. D. Engineering on Computational Intelligence from Jadavpur University, India, in 1999 and supervised more than 30 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 an author of 3 textbooks and more than 80 edited volumes and few invited book chapters, published by leading international publisher like Springer-Verlag, Kluwer Academic, etc.

Dr. Roumiana Koutcheva is the vice president of TK Engineering. She got her M.Sc. and Ph.D. at the Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria, and became a senior researcher (SR) at TIE, in 1993. R. Kountcheva had two post-doc trainings in Japan (Fujitsu, 1977 and Fanuc, 1980). She has more than 200 publications (including 28 book chapters and 5 patents and presented 24 plenary speeches at international conferences and workshops. She is a member of IRIEM, IDSAI, IJBST Journal Group, and Bulgarian Association for Pattern Recognition. She is a reviewer of WSEAS conferences and journals and edited several books for Springer SIST series. Her scientific areas of interest are image processing and analysis, image watermarking and data hiding, multidimensional image representation, tensor representation, pyramidal image decompositions, image and video compression, CNC and programmable controllers, etc.