Computational Intelligence
in Wireless Sensor Networks:
Recent Advances and Future Challenges

Volume Editors

Ajith Abraham [ajith-dot-abraham-at-ieee-dot-org]

Ajith Abraham is the Director of Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), Scientific Network for Innovation and Research Excellence, WA, USA, with a joint appointment in the IT For Innovations - Center of excellence at VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic. He also holds an Adjunct Professor appointment in Dalian Maritime University, China. He received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. His research and development experience includes more than 23 years in the industry and academia. He works in a multidisciplinary environment involving machine intelligence, network security, various aspects of networks, e-commerce, Web intelligence, Web services, computational grids, data mining and their applications to various real-world problems.

He has authored/co-authored more than 900 publications (h-index=50+), and some of the works have also won best paper awards at international conferences. He has given more than 60 plenary lectures and conference tutorials in these areas. He serves/has served the editorial board of over 50 International journals and has also guest edited over 40 special issues on various topics. Since 2008, he is the Chair of IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society Technical Committee on Soft Computing and a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Computer Society representing Europe (since 2011). More information at: http://www.softcomputing.net

Rafael Falcon [rfalcon-at-ieee-dot-org]

Rafael received his PhD degree in Computer Science from the School of Information Technology and Engineering at the University of Ottawa. Previously, he attained his Bachelor and MSc degrees in Computer Science from the Central University of Las Villas. He currently works as a Research Scientist for Larus Technologies Corporation, an Ottawa-based firm that specializes in high-level information fusion and decision support from a computational intelligence angle. His research interests are in the area of Computational Intelligence with applications to security and defense, including wireless sensor networks, robotics, maritime domain awareness and multi-sensor data fusion.

He is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, the International Rough Sets Society and the Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association. He serves also as the IEEE Ottawa Section Secretary,  Vice-Chair of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society’s Security, Surveillance and Defense Task Force and the Chair of the local IEEE Computational Intelligence/ Systems, Man and Cybernetics chapter.

Rafael is a recipient of  the 2011 IEEE CIS "Walter Karplus" Graduate Student Research Grant, the National Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada's Industrial Research & Development Fellowship, the Ontario Centres of Excellence's First Job Award, the 2009-2010 Ontario Graduate Scholarship, the 2014 MITACS and NRC-IRAP Award for Commercialization and two MITACS Accelerate PhD Fellowships.

Mario Köppen [mkoeppen-at-ieee-dot-org]

Mario Köppen was born in 1964. He studied physics at the Humboldt-University of Berlin and received his master degree in solid state physics in 1991. Afterwards, he worked as scientific assistant at the Central Institute for Cybernetics and Information Processing in Berlin and changed his main research interests to image processing and neural networks. From 1992 to 2006, he was working with the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology. He continued his works on the industrial applications of image processing, pattern recognition, and soft computing, especially evolutionary computation. During this period, he achieved the doctoral degree at the Technical University Berlin with his thesis works: "Development of an intelligent image processing system by using soft computing" with honors. He has published more than 150 peer-reviewed papers in conference proceedings, journals and books and was active in the organization of various conferences as chair or member of the program committee, incl. the WSC on-line conference series on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications, and the HIS conference series on Hybrid Intelligent Systems. He is founding member of the World Federation of Soft Computing, and also Associate Editor of the Applied Soft Computing journal. In 2006, he became JSPS fellow at the Kyushu Institute of Technology in Japan, and in 2008 Professor at the Network Design and Research Center (NDRC) and 2013 Professor at the Graduate School of Creative Informatics of the Kyushu Institute of Technology, where he is conducting now research in the fields of multi-objective and relational optimization, digital convergence and multimodal content management.