Claudio Savaglio Editor

Claudio Savaglio is Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering at the Dept of Informatics, Modeling, Electronics, and Systems (DIMES) of the University of Calabria (Unical), Italy, where he received the Ph.D. degree in ICT in 2018. Dr. Savaglio was a Researcher at the  ICAR-CNR (Institute for high performance computing and networking of the Italian National Research Council) and Visiting Researcher at the University of Texas at Dallas (TX, USA) in 2013, at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJ, USA) in 2016, and at the Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain) in 2017. He currently serves as Associate Editor for the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Magazine and Guest Editor for the Journal of Computers & Electrical Engineering (CAEE), Computer Communication, MDPI Sensors, Frontiers and IET journal. His research interests include the Internet of Things (IoT), network simulation, Edge Computing, Edge Intelligence (EI) and agent-oriented development methodologies

Giancarlo Fortino is Full Professor of Computer Engineering at the Dept of Informatics, Modeling, Electronics, and Systems (DIMES) of the University of Calabria (Unical), Italy, where he received the Ph.D. degree in 2000. Dr. Fortino is also guest professor at Wuhan University of Technology (China), high-end expert at HUST (China), and senior research fellow at the ICAR-CNR Institute. Dr. Fortino is currently member of the IEEE SMCS BoG and of the IEEE Press BoG, and chair of the IEEE SMCS Italian Chapter. According to Clarivate he is Highly Cited Researcher 2021 and 2020 in Computer Science (among 124 researchers worldwide). He is the founding editor in chief of the IEEE Book Series on “Human-Machine Systems” and of the Springer Book Series on "Internet of Things: Technology, Communications and Computing”, and currently serves in the editorial board of 20+ Journals. His research interests include agent-based computing, wireless sensor networks, and the Internet of Things.

MengChu Zhou is Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, NJ, USA. He received the Ph.D. degree from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA, in 1990. He joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology in 1990, and has been Distinguished Professor since 2013. He is with Zhejiang Gongshang University. His interests are in intelligent automation, robotics, Petri nets, Internet of Things, edge/cloud computing, and big data analytics.  He has over 1100 publications including 14 books, over 750 journal papers including over 600 IEEE Transactions papers, 31 patents and 32 book-chapters. Dr. Zhou is fellow of IEEE, the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and the Chinese Association of Automation (CAA) and National Academy of Inventors (NAI). His research interests include Petri nets, automation, AI, Internet of Things, and intelligent transportation.

 Jianhua Ma is a Professor in the Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences of Hosei University. He received the PhD degree of Information Engineering from Xidian University, China, and he is a member of IEEE and ACM. Dr. Ma has edited over 15 books/proceedings, and published more than 200 academic papers in journals, books and conference proceedings. He is an Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Ubiquitous Computing and Intelligence (JUCI), Journal of Mobile Multimedia (JMM), Journal of Autonomic and Trusted Computing (JoATC), and International Journal of u- and e- Service, Science and Technology (IJUNESST), and an Assistant Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications (JPCC). He is an Area Editor of the Int'l Journal of Computer Processing of Oriental Languages (JCPOL), an Associated Editor of of the Int'l Journal of Distance Education Technologies (JDET) and Springer's Journal of Human-centric Computing (HCIS), on the Advisory Board of the Int'l Journal of Smart Home (IJSH), and on the Editorial Board of the Int'l Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing (IJWMC), International Journal of Security and Its Applications (IJSIA), Int'l Journal of Database Theory and Application (IJDTA), Int'l Journal of Computing & Information Technology (IJCIT), and Int'l Journal On Advances in Software.