Автор: Florin Popențiu Vlădicescu

Dr. Vipul Jain is currently working in the area of Operations and Supply Chain Management at Victoria Business School, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He has also worked as a French Government researcher for the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control at Nancy, France. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Intelligent Enterprise and an Editorial Board Member for seven international journals. Dr. Srikanta Patnaik is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, SOA University, Bhubaneswar, India. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Information and Communication Technology and International Journal of Computational Vision and Robotics, both published by Inderscience, England, and of the book series “Modeling and Optimization in Science and Technology, ” published by Springer, Germany. Prof. Florin Popenţiu Vlădicescu graduated with a degree in Electronics and Telecommunications from the University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest in 1974 and holds a Ph.D. in Reliability. He has been appointed as a Director of the “UNESCO Chair in Information Technologies Department” at the University of Oradea. Professor Vlădicescu is the founder of the first “UNESCO Chair of Information Engineering” in the UK, established at City University London in 1998. He is also an Advisory Board Member for several international journals, including “Reliability and Risk Analysis: Theory & Applications.” Dr. Ishwar K. Sethi is currently a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, USA. He has served on the editorial boards of several prominent journals including IEEE Transactions Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, and IEEE Multimedia. He was elected an IEEE Fellow in 2001 for his contributions to artificial neural networks and statistical pattern recognition.