Rachid Benlamri Editor

Salah-ddine Krit is an Associate Professor at the Polydisciplinary Faculty of Ouarzazate, Ibn Zohr University Agadir Morocco, Dr. Krit is currently The Director of Engineering Science and Energies Laboratory and The Chief of Department of Mathematics, Informatics and Management. Dr. Krit received the Ph.D degrees in Software Engineering from Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah university, Fez, Morroco in 2004 and 2009, respectively. During 2002-2008, he worked as an engineer Team leader in audio and power management Integrated Circuits (ICs) Research, Design, simulation and layout of analog and digital blocks dedicated for mobile phone and satellite communication systems using Cadence, Eldo, Orcad, VHDL-AMS technology. Dr. Krit authored/co-authored over 130 Journal articles, Conference Proceedings and Book Chapters. His research interests include Wireless Sensor Networks, Network Security, Smart-Homes, Smart-Cities, Internet of Things, Business Intelligent, Big Data, Digital Money, Microelectronics and renewable Energies.

Mohamed Elhoseny is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Computers and Information, Mansoura University and a researcher at CoVIS Lab, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of North Texas. Dr. Elhoseny is the Director of Distributed Sensing and Intelligent Systems Lab, Mansoura University, Egypt. Collectively, Dr. Elhoseny authored/co-authored over 100 ISI Journal articles, Conference Proceedings, Book Chapters, and (9) books. His research interests include Sensors Technologies, Network Security, Internet of Things, and Artificial Intelligence Applications. Dr. Elhoseny serves as the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Smart Sensor Technologies and Applications, IGI Global. Besides, he is an Associate Editor of prestigious journals.

Valentina Emilia-Balas Ph.D Automation and Applied Informatics, Valentina E. Balas is Full Professor at "AurelVlaicu" University of Arad, Romania. She is author of more than 265 research papers. Her research interests are in Intelligent Systems, Fuzzy Control, Soft Computing.

Rachid Benlamri is a Professor of Software Engineering at Lakehead University - Canada. He earned his Master's degree and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Manchester - UK in 1987 and 1990 respectively. He is the head of the Artificial Intelligence and Data Science Lab at Lakehead University. He supervised over 80 students and postdoctoral fellows. He served as keynote speaker and general chair for many international conferences. Professor Benlamri is a member of the editorial board for many referred international journals. His research interests are in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Semantic Web, Data Science, Ubiquitous Computing and Mobile Knowledge Management.

Marius M. Balas is a Full Professor in the Department of Automatics and Applied Software at the Faculty of Engineering, University "Aurel Vlaicu" Arad (Romania). He holds a Doctorate in Applied Electronics and Telecommunications from the Politehnica University of Timisoara. Dr. Balas is an IEEE Senior Member. He is the author of 4 books, 12 book chapters, more than 100 papers (33 ISI/BDI papers, 40 papers in journals and conference proceedings, etc.) and 7 invention patents. His research interests are in Electronic Circuits, Modeling and Simu¬lation, Adaptive Control, Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems, Soft Computing and Intelligent Transportation. The main original concepts introduced by Prof. Marius M. Balas are: the fuzzy-interpolative systems, the passive green-house, the constant time to collision optimization of the traffic, the imposed distance braking, the internal model bronze casting, PWM inverter for railway coaches in tropical environments, the rejection of the switching controllers effect by phase trajectory analysis, the Fermat neuron, etc. He has been men¬tor for many student research teams and challenges, awarded by Microsoft Imagine Cup, GDF Suez, etc. Prof. Marius M. Balas has participated in many international conferences as organizer, session chair and member in international program committees. He is editor-in chief, member of editorial board or reviewer for several international journals.