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Giovanni Acampora is Associate Professor in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Naples Federico II. Previously, he was Reader in Computational Intelligence (September 2012 - June 2016) at the School of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, U.K. From July 2011 to August 2012, he was in a Hoofddocent Tenure Track in Process Intelligence with the School of Industrial Engineering, Information Systems, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, the Netherlands. He is the Chair of IEEE - SA 1855WG, the working group that has published the first IEEE standard in the area of fuzzy logic. As a result of this activity, he got a prestigious IEEE - SA Emerging Technology Award. He serves as an Editor in Chief of Springer Quantum Machine Intelligence, Associate Editor of Springer Soft Computing and Editorial Board Member of Springer Memetic Computing, Elsevier Heliyon, Inderscience International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communication Systems, and IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems. In 2017, he acted as General Chair of IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, the top leading conference in the area of fuzzy logic. He is member of the scientific board of the Interdepart mental Center for Advanced RObotics in Surgery (ICAROS). He is Senior Member of IEEE. His main research interests include computational intelligence, fuzzy modeling, evolutionary computation, and ambient intelligence.

Autilia Vitiello is a Assistant Professor of the Department of Physics of the University of Naples Federico II, Italy. o II. She took the master degree cum laude in Computer Science at the University of Salerno in July 2009, defending a thesis in Time Sensitive Fuzzy Agents: formal model and implementation. She got Ph.D. in Computer Science at the same university on April 15th, 2013, defending a thesis titled Memetic Algorithms for Ontology Alignment. She is chairing the IEEE CIS Standards Committee and the Task Force named Datasets for Computational Intelligence Applications. She is part of the IEEE Standard Association 1855 Working Group for Fuzzy Markup Language Standardization where she also serves as Secretary. Moreover, she is part of the IEEE Technical Committee on Fuzzy systems. She is member of the Editorial Board of two international journals (Hindawi Scientific Programming and Springer Quantum Machine Intelligence) and referee for many other journals. Her main research area is Computational Intelligence, and in particular, Fuzzy Logic and Evolutionary Algorithms. Her recent interests include the integration between Computational Intelligence and Computer Vision to address Bloodstain Pattern Analysis, the integration between Evolutionary Algorithms and Machine Learning techniques to tackle Big Data Challenges and the emerging area of Quantum Machine Intelligence.

Ferdinando Di Martino is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Department of Architecture of University of Napoli Federico II. His main interests of research concern applications of fuzzy set theory, fuzzy equations, fuzzy functions and related transforms applied to various topics as , data mining and data clustering , spatial data mining, forecasting, image processing, Type-2 fuzzy systems, intelligent systems. He is associate editor of the international journal Soft Computing and is in the editorial board of the international journal Advances in Fuzzy Systems. He has published over one hundred papers on the above topics and was guest editor of numerous special issues of well-known international journals in soft computing. He is a scientific member of the EUropean Society for Fuzzy Logic And Technology (EUSFLAT) Image Processing group on soft computing in image processing.

Roberto Schiattarella is a Ph.D. student in Quantum Technologies - 36rd Cycle under the supervision of Prof. Giovanni Acampora.

Angela Chiatto is a Ph.D. student in Quantum Technologies - 37th Cycle under the supervision of Prof. Giovanni Acampora and Dr. Autilia Vitiello.

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Amir Pourabdollah is a senior lecturer in computer science at Nottingham Trent University. He currently teaches System Analysis and Design for UG and PG levels. He is with Computational Intelligence and Applications Research Group, and supervises PhD students in the area of Artificial Intelligence.