Subarna Shakya is currently Professor of Computer Engineering, Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering, Central Campus, Institute of Engineering, Pulchowk, Tribhuvan University, and Coordinator (IOE), LEADER Project (Links in Europe and Asia for engineering, eDucation, Enterprise and Research exchanges), ERASMUS MUNDUS. He received M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Engineering from the Lviv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine, 1996 and 2000, respectively. His research area includes E-government system, computer systems & simulation, distributed and cloud computing, software engineering and information system, computer architecture, information security for E-government, and multimedia system. George A.

Papakostas received the Diploma degree in electrical and computer engineering in 1999 and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering in 2002 and 2007, respectively, from the Democritus University of Thrace (DUTH), Greece. From 2007 to 2010, he served as Adjunct Lecturer with the Department of Production Engineering and Management, DUTH. He currently serves as Adjunct Assistant Professor with the Department of Computer and Informatics Engineering, Technological Educational Institution, Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, Greece. In 2012, he was elected as Full Professor in the aforementioned Department of Computer and Informatics Engineering.

He has co-authored more than 70 publications in indexed journals, international conferences, and chapters. His research interests include pattern recognition, computer/machine vision, computational intelligence, machine learning, feature extraction, evolutionary optimization, and signal and image processing. He served as Reviewer in numerous journals and conferences, and he is Member of the IAENG, MIR Labs, EUCogIII, and the Technical Chamber of Greece. Khaled A. Kamel is currently Chairman and Professor at Texas Southern university, College of Science and technology, Department of Computer Science, Houston, TX. He has published many research articles in refereed journals and IEEE conferences. He has more than 30 years of teaching and research experience. He has been General Chair, Session Chair, TPC Chair, and Panelist in several conferences and acted as Reviewer and Guest Editor in referred journals.

His research interest includes networks, computing, and communication systems.