Professor C.C. Chang was born in Taichung, Taiwan on Nov. 12th, 1954. He obtained his Ph.D.degree in computer engineering from National Chiao Tung University. He's first degree is Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics and master degree is Master of Science in computer and decision sciences. Both were awarded in National Tsing Hua University. Dr. Chang served in National Chung Cheng University from 1989 to 2005. His current title is Chair Professor in Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, Feng Chia University, from Feb. 2005. Prior to joining Feng Chia University, Professor Chang was an associate professor in Chiao Tung University, professor in National Chung Hsing University, chair professor in National Chung Cheng University. He had also been Visiting Researcher and Visiting Scientist to Tokyo University and Kyoto University, Japan. During his service in Chung Cheng, Professor Chang served as Chairman of the Institute of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Dean of College of Engineering, Provost and then Acting President of Chung Cheng University and Director of Advisory Office in Ministry of Education, Taiwan.

Professor Chang's specialties include, but not limited to, data engineering, database systems, and computer cryptography and information security. A researcher of acclaimed and distinguished services and contributions to his country and advancing human knowledge in the field ofinformation science, Professor Chang has won many research awards and honorary positions by and in prestigious organizations both nationally and internationally. He is currently a Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of IEE, UK. And since his early years of career development, he consecutively won Outstanding Youth Award of the R. O. C., Outstanding Talent in Information Sciences of the R. O. C., AceR Dragon Award of the Ten Most Outstanding Talents, Outstanding Scholar Award of the R. O. C., Outstanding Engineering Professor Award of the R. O. C., Chung-Shan Academic Publication Awards, Distinguished Research Awards of National Science Council of the R. O. C., Outstanding Scholarly Contribution Award of the International Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics, Top Fifteen Scholars in Systems and Software Engineering of the Journal of Systems and Software, and so on. On numerous occasions, he was invited to serve as Visiting Professor, Chair Professor, Honorary Professor, Honorary Director, Honorary Chairman, Distinguished Alumnus, Distinguished Researcher, Research Fellow by universities and research institutes. He also published over 990 papers in Information Sciences. In the meantime, he participates actively in international academic organizations and performs advisory work to government agencies and academic organizations.

Jun Wang is a Professor and the Director of Computational Intelligence Laboratory in the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong . Prior to this position, he held various academic positions at Dalian University of Technology, Case Western Reserve University , and University of North Dakota . Besides, he also held various short-term visiting positions at USAF Armstrong Laboratory (1995), REKEN Brain Science Institute (2001), Universite catholique de Louvain (2001), Chinese Academy of Sciences (2002), and Huazhong University of Science and Technology (2006-2007). He also holds a Changjiang Chair Professorship in computer science and engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University since 2008. He received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering and an M.S. degree in systems engineering from Dalian University of Technology, Dalian , China . He received his Ph.D. degree in systems engineering from Case Western Reserve University , Cleveland , Ohio , USA . His current research interests include neural networks and their applications. He published over 140 journal papers, 11 book chapters, 8 edited books, and numerous conference papers in the areas. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks since 1999 and IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics – Part B since 2003, a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the International Journal of Neural System since 2006. He also served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics – Part C (2002-2005), a guest editor of the special issue of European Journal of Operational Research (1996), International Journal of Neural Systems (2007), and Neurocomputing (2008), He was an organizer of several international conferences such as the General Chair of the 13th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (2006) and the 2008 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence. He served as the President of Asia Pacific Neural Network Assembly in 2006. He is an IEEE Fellow.

Benjamin Kwang-Mong Sim has extensive experience serving as Editor and Guest Editor of many international journals. He has been an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C since 2003. He is also the Guest-Editor-in-Chief of the special issue on Grid Resource Management in the IEEE Systems Journal, the official journal of the IEEE Systems Council (formed by 15 IEEE Societies). In addition, he serves as an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Applied Systemic Studies, an Editorial board member of the International Journal of Hybrid Intelligent Systems, and an Editorial Advisory Board Member of The Open Cybernetics and Systemics Journal, The Open Software Engineering Journal and The System and Information Sciences Notes.

He is the sole Guest Editor/Lead Guest Editor of five special journal issues on Grid computing and automated negotiation. As the sole Guest Editor, he single-handedly managed and coordinated the review processes for four special journal issues on (i) Grid Resource Management (IEEE Systems Journal), (ii) game-theoretic analysis and stochastic simulation of negotiation agents (IEEE Transactions on SMC), (iii) learning approaches for negotiation agents (International Journal of Intelligent Systems (Wiley)), and (iv) Agent-based Grid Computing (Applied Intelligence Journal (Springer)). He is also the Lead Editor of a special issue on negotiation and scheduling mechanisms in the Multiagent and Grid Systems Journal (IOS Press).

He has contributed actively to the fields of automated negotiation, multiagent systems, and agent-based Grid computing. He founded the Agent-based Grid Computing and Automated Negotiation Group, which has expanded both in its scale and its scope to become the Multiagent Systems Laboratory at the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea. In addition to attracting many research grants, he has contributed many survey papers (including a frequently-cited survey paper in IEEE Transactions), many technical papers in IEEE Transactions, journal guest editorials, award-wining conference papers, as well as position papers in agent-based Grid computing and automated negotiation.

He is a referee for many national research grant councils, including the National Science Foundation, USA, and has served as external tenure and promotion reviewer for a preeminent research university in USA. He is a senior member of IEEE and the IEEE SMC Society, and a TC Member of the IEEE SMC Society's Technical Committee on Distributed Intelligent Systems. He is also a referee for Routledge Economics Book Series on Game Theory (Taylor & Francis), and has served as keynote speaker, program vice-chair, panel speaker, session chair, and PC member for many international conferences.

Dr. Bin Wang is a Professor and Associate Dean in School of Physical Education and Sports, Central China Normal University in P.R. of China. He earned his Ph.D. in Applied Psychology from Beijing Sports University in P.R. of China. Dr. Wang' research interest is in the areas of sport psychology and sports administration. Mainly, he investigates Chinese professional athletic coaches’ job related pressures in relationship to coaches’ family life. Dr. Wang’s research has been supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, China Ministry of Education, China Sport General Administration and Chinese postdoctoral science foundation. He has published over 50 papers in a variety of professional journals and Dr. Wang has made numbers presentations at conferences, including the International Congress of Psychology, Chinese Psychological of Society, China Sport Science Society, and Asian & South Pacifica Association Sports Psychology. Currently, Dr. Wang is a Committee Member of Sports Psychology, Chinese Society of Sports Science, Director of Hubei Society of Psychology and Vice-President of Sports Psychology Committee in P.R of China.

He served as the chairman of IEEE Singapore Control Systems Chapter in 2002 and 2003, and the general chair of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation held in Budapest , Hungary , 2005. He is currently serving as a member of Technical Committee on Control Theory, Chinese Association of Automation, China (2008-). He was the recipient of the Best Poster Paper Award at the 2nd Asian Control Conference, Seoul, Korea (1997); University Researcher Award, National University of Singapore (2000); Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award, Institution of Engineers, Singapore (2001); Temasek Young Investigator Award, Defence Science & Technology Agency, Singapore (2003); Best Industrial Control Application Prize at the 5th Asian Control Conference, Melbourne, Australia (2004); and elected to IEEE Fellow , Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE), USA (2007). Associate Editor.

David Zhang graduated in Computer Science from Peking University. He received his MSc in Computer Science in 1982 and his PhD in 1985 from the Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT). From 1986 to 1988 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Tsinghua University and then an Associate Professor at the Academia Sinica, Beijing. In 1994 he received his second PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Currently, he is a Head, Department of Computing, and a Chair Professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University where he is the Founding Director of the Biometrics Technology Centre (UGC/CRC) supported by the Hong Kong SAR Government in 1998. He also serves as Visiting Chair Professor in Tsinghua University, and Adjunct Professor in Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Harbin Institute of Technology, and the University of Waterloo. He is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Image and Graphics (IJIG); Book Editor, Springer International Series on Biometrics (KISB); Organizer, the International Conference on Biometrics Authentication (ICBA); Associate Editor of more than ten international journals including IEEE Transactions and Pattern Recognition; Technical Committee Chair of IEEE CIS and the author of more than 10 books and 200 journal papers. Professor Zhang is a Croucher Senior Research Fellow, Distinguished Speaker of the IEEE Computer Society, and a Fellow of both IEEE and IAPR.

Shuzhi Sam Ge, IEEE Fellow, P.Eng, is the Director of Social Robotics Lab, Interactive Digital Media Institute, and Supervisor of Edutainment Robotics Lab, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The National University of Singapore. He received his PhD degree and DIC from the Imperial College , London , and BSc degree from Beijing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics. He has (co)-authored three books: Adaptive Neural Network Control of Robotic Manipulators (World Scientific, 1998), Stable Adaptive Neural Network Control (Kluwer, 2001) and Switched Linear Systems: Control and Design (Springer-Verlag, 2005), edited a book: Autonomous Mobile Robots: Sensing, Control, Decision Making and Applications (Taylor and Francis, 2006), and over 300 international journal and conference papers. He has given invited talks/plenary speeches, managed/completed a number of projects of impact, and delivered many working systems and prototyping to industry and funding agencies. He serves as Vice President of Technical Activities, 2009-2010, and Member of Board of Governors, 2007-2009, and Chair of Technical Committee on Intelligent Control, 2005-2008, of IEEE Control Systems Society. He served as General Chair and Program Chair for a number of IEEE international conferences.

He is the Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Social Robotics, Springer. He has served/been serving as an Associate Editor for a number of flagship journals including IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, and Automatica, and Book Editor for Taylor & Francis Automation and Control Engineering Series. He was the recipient of Changjiang Guest Professor, Ministry of Education, China, 2008; Fellow of IEEE, USA, 2006; Outstanding Overseas Young Research Award, NSF, China, 2004; Inaugural Temasek Young Investigator Award, Singapore, 2002; Outstanding Young Researcher Award, National University of Singapore, 2001. He is the Chairman and founding Director of Personal E-Motion (PEM) Pte Ltd specialized in interactive digital multimedia authoring platform for education and e-publishing of e-books. Its product, koobits, has been successfully deployed in many primary and secondary schools in Singapore and around the region, and being ordered internationally for proactive education and digital book creation using interactive digital media. Koobits was the winner of the prestigious InfoComm Singapore Award, September 2008, and Asia Pacific ICT Award of the E-Learning Category, Jakarta , Indonesia , and November 2008.

His current research interests include social robotics, multimedia fusion, adaptive control, intelligent systems and artificial intelligence.

Hai Jin is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in China. He is now the Dean of School of Computer Science and Technology at HUST. He received his Ph.D. in computer engineering from HUST in 1994. In 1996, he was awarded German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) fellowship for visiting the Technical University of Chemnitz in Germany. He worked for the University of Hong Kong between 1998 and 2000 and participated in the HKU Cluster project. He worked as a visiting scholar at the University of Southern California between 1999 and 2000. He is the chief scientist of the largest grid computing project, ChinaGrid, in China.
Dr. Jin is a senior member of IEEE and member of ACM. He is the member of Grid Forum Steering Group (GFSG). He is the associated editor of Parallel Computing, International Journal of Computer and Applications, International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing, International Journal of Web and Grid Services, Journal of Autonomic and Trusted Computing, Journal of Ubiquitous Computing and Intelligence, Journal of Computer Science and Technology, Frontiers of Computer Science in China. He is IASTED technical committee member on Parallel & Distributed Computing and Systems. He is the steering committee chair of International Conference on Grid and Pervasive Computing (GPC), Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference (APSCC). He is the steering committee member of IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid), IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing (NPC), International Conference on Grid and Cooperative Computing (GCC), International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing (ATC), International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC), and served as program chair of GCC’04, SCC’05, HSI’05, NPC’05, UISW’05, UIC’06, FCST’06, and ICA3PP’07, program vice-chair of the CCGrid’01, PDCAT’03, NPC’04, EUC’05, e-Science’05, AINA’06, and CCGrid’06. He served as conference chairs of ATC’06, UASS’07, HICA’07, and NPC’07. He also served as program committee for more than 200 international conferences/workshops. He has co-authored 15 books and published over 300 research papers. His research interests include computer architecture, cluster computing and grid computing, virtualization technology, peer-to-peer computing, network storage, network security.

Prof. Dr. Hugo de Garis is a Full Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Artificial Brain Lab (ABL) in the Cognitive Science Department of the School of Information Science & Technology (SIST), Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian Province. He has a 4 year contract (2008-2011) to build China’s first artificial brain, consisting of 1000s of evolved neural net modules to control the behaviors of French NAO robots. He has had two books published, “The Artilect War : Cosmists vs. Terrans : A Bitter Controversy Concerning Whether Humanity Should Build Godlike Massively Intelligent Machines”, and “Multis and Monos : What the Multicultured Can Teach the Monocultured : Towards the Creation of a Global State”. He is co-guest editor of a special issue of the Neurocomputing journal on the topic of “Artificial Brains”, the first of its kind worldwide, and is contracted by World Scientific to write a book on “Artificial Brains”. Before living in China, he was an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Utah State University, in Utah, USA. He has lived in 7 countries (Australia, England, Holland, Belgium, Japan, America, China), and is married to a Chinese woman who is the daughter of a general who accompanied Mao Zedong on the long march.

He was awarded the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems Outstanding Paper Award in 2007 and an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship in 1997. He was a visiting Fellow at National University of Singapore (1997), and Aachen Technology University , Germany (1997-1998). He has author or co-authored over 150 international journal papers including over 60 in IEEE Transactions. His current research interests include hybrid systems and control, system biology, and intelligent systems and control. Prof. Feng is an associate editor of IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, IEEE Trans. on Fuzzy Systems, and Journal of Control Theory and Applications, and was an associate editor of IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man & Cybernetics, Part C and the Conference Editorial Board of IEEE Control System Society.

Ning Zhong received the Ph.D. degree in the Interdisciplinary Course on Advanced Science and Technology from the University of Tokyo. He is currently head of Knowledge Information Systems Laboratory, and a professor in Department of Life Science and Informatics at Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan. He is also director and an adjunct professor in the International WIC Institute (WICI), Beijing University of Technology. He has conducted research in the areas of knowledge discovery and data mining, rough sets and granular-soft computing, Web intelligence, intelligent agents, brain informatics, and knowledge information systems, with over 200 journal and conference publications and 20 books. He has been the editor-in-chief of the Web Intelligence and Agent Systems journal (IOS Press), associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (2003-2008), and Knowledge and Information Systems journal (Springer), a member of the editorial board of Transactions on Rough Sets and International Journal of Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence.He has been a member of the editorial board of Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing(AI&KP) book series (Springer), Frontiers in AI and Applications book series (IOS Press), Chapman&Hall/CRC Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery book series, and editor (the area of intelligent systems) of the Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Engineering (Wiley). He has also been co-chair of Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC), chair of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics (TCII), chair of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Task Force on Brain Informatics (TF-BI), member of the steering committee of IEEE InternationalConferences on Data Mining (ICDM) (2000-2008), vice chair of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Technical Committee on Granular Computing, the steering committee of International Rough Set Society. He has served or is currently serving on the program committees of over 100international conferences and workshops, including IEEE ICDM'02(conference chair), IEEE ICDM'06 (program chair), IEEE/WIC WI-IAT'03(conference chair), IEEE/WIC/ACM WI-IAT'04 (program chair), and IJCAI'03
(advisory committee member). He was awarded the best paper awards of AMT'06, JSAI'03, IEEE TCCI/ICDM Outstanding Service Award in 2004, and Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD) Most Influential Paper Award (1999-2008).