Antonio Gagliano Editor

Bekkay Hajji is Professor and the Director of the Renewable Energy, Embedded Systems and Information Processing Laboratory in the National School of Applied Sciences at the Mohammed First University. He received his DEA in microelectronics from the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées of Toulouse" (INSAT, France) in 1996 and his PhD from the Laboratory for Analysis and Architecture of Systems (LAAS-CNRS) Toulouse, France. He is author of two proceedings books and one handbook. His research activities focus on the development of biochemical micro-sensors and the application of artificial intelligence techniques in photovoltaic systems. Adel Mellit is Professor at the Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Jijel University, Algeria. He received his MS and PhD in electronics from the University of Sciences Technologies (USTHB), Algiers, in 2002 and 2006, respectively. His research interests focus on the application of artificial intelligence techniques in photovoltaic systems and micro-grids. Dr. Adel Mellit has authored or co-authored more than 170 papers in international peer-reviewed journals (mostly with Elsevier), papers in conference proceedings (mostly with the IEEE) mainly on photovoltaic systems, six book chapters, two proceedings books and one handbook. He is serving on the editorial board of the Renewable Energy and is Editor of the IEEE Journal of Photovoltaic and of Energy (Elsevier Ltd). Antonio Gagliano is Associate Professor of Building Physics at the University of Catania, Italy, where he is the Scientific Manager of the Laboratory of Applied and Building Physics of the Department of Electric, Electronic and Computer Engineering (DIEEI). He received his MS in 1991 and PhD degree in Environmental Applied Physics in 1998. He participated in several national and international research projects. He is the author of more than 130 articles published in reputed international journals and conference proceedings and component of the editorial board of several international journals. Abdelhamid Rabhi is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Picardie Jules Verne of Amiens, France. He completed his Masters in robotics and control systems from the University of Versailles, and his PhD in observation and control for nonlinear and complex systems in December 2005. His research deals with robust control, diagnosis and observation for complex systems with focus on areas such as vehicles, autonomous robots applications and renewable energy systems. Mohammed Amine Koulali is Associate Porfessor at the National School of Applied Sciences, Mohammed First University. He received his Eng. Degree in Computer Science from Ecole Nationale des Sciences Appliquées d’Oujda in 2006 and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the Université Mohammed V Souissi, Rabat. His research focuses on Computer Science and he is responsible of several scientific projects.