Thomas Shortell Editor

William Lawless is Professor of Mathematics and Psychology. Dr. Lawless has published over fifty book chapters and/or journal articles and is featured in more than 120 peer-reviewed conference publications.

Ranjeev Mittu is the Branch Head for the Information Management and Decision Architectures Branch within the Information Technology Division at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. The research within the branch is focused on visual analytics and augmented reality, immersive simulations, intelligent decision support applications, distributed systems and enterprise and service oriented architectures.

Donald A. Sofge is a Computer Scientist with the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, USA, where he leads the Distributed Autonomous Systems Group. He has extensive expertise in the application of artificial intelligence, machine learning, machine vision (and other forms of artificial perception), planning and control theory to robotic systems.

Thomas Shortell is a Systems Engineer at Lockheed Martin. He has been awarded the PhD degree by Drexel University.

Tom McDermott is a leader, educator, and innovator in multiple technology fields. He currently serves as Deputy Director of the Systems Engineering Research Center at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ, as well as a consultant specializing in strategic planning for uncertain environments. He serves as Director of Strategic Integration on the Board of the International Council on Systems Engineering.