Chien-Ming Chen Editor

Jeng-Shyang Pan 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, U.K. in 1996. He was selected for IET fellow in 2009 and Thousand Talent Program of China in 2010, respectively. Currently, he is a vice-president and dean of college of information science and engineering in Fujian university of technology, China. He has published about 700 research papers with total citations about 8200, h-index 42, and i-10 index 176. He is the founder of Journal of Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing and two international conferences: Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing (IIH-MSP) and Euro-China Conference on Intelligent Data Analysis and Applications (ECC). His current research interests include artificial intelligence, information security, and image processing. Valentina E. Balas is currently a full professor in the Department of Automatics and Applied Software at the Faculty of Engineering, “Aurel Vlaicu” University of Arad, Romania. She holds a Ph.D. in Applied Electronics and Telecommunications from Polytechnic University of Timisoara. Dr. Balas is the author of more than 300 research papers in refereed journals and inter-national conferences. Her research interests are in intelligent systems, fuzzy control, soft computing, smart sensors, information fusion, modeling, and simulation. She is the editor-in-chief to International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms (IJAIP) and to International Journal of Computational Systems Engineering (IJCSysE), the member in edito¬rial board member of several national and international journals, and is an evaluator expert for na¬tional, international projects, and PhD thesis. Chien-Ming Chen received the Ph.D. degree from the National Tsing Hua Univer¬sity, Taiwan. He is currently an associate professor with the College of Computer Science and Technology, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Shandong, China. His current research interests include network security, mobile internet, wireless sensor network, and cryp¬tography.