Jugal K. Kalitais a professor at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA. He completed his MS and Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania, USA; M.Sc. at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada; and his B.Tech. at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. His areas of research include artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, information retrieval and computer security. He has published 200 journal/conference papers and 4 books.
Valentina E. Balas is currently a full professor at the Department of Automatics and Applied Software at the Faculty of Engineering, "AurelVlaicu" University of Arad, Romania. She holds a Ph.D. in Applied Electronics and Telecommunications from the Polytechnic University of Timisoara. Dr. Balas is the author of more than 250 research papers in refereed journals and international conferences. Her research interests are in intelligent systems, fuzzy control, soft computing, smart sensors, in