IoT-based Smart and Complex Systems:A Guest Editorial Report

Naiqi Wu (M'04-SM'05) received his B. S. Degree in Electrical Engineering from Anhui University of Technology, Huainan, China, in 1982, the M. S. and Ph.D. Degrees in Systems Engineering both from Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China in 1985 and 1988, respectively. From1988 to 1995, he was with Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China, and from 1995 to 1998, with Shantou University, Shantou, China. He moved to Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, China in 1998. He joined Macau University of Science and Technology in 2013. He is currently a Professor at the Institute of Systems Engineering, Macau University of Science and Technology. His research interests include production planning and scheduling, manufacturing system modeling and control, discrete event systems, Petri net theory and applications, intelligent transportation systems, and energy systems. He is the author or coauthor of one book, five book chapters, and 130+ peer-reviewed journal papers. Dr. Wu was an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, & Cybernetics, Part C, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, & Cybernetics: Systems, and editor in chief of Industrial Engineering Journal, and is an associate editor of Information Sciences and guest editor of IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica. He is a senior member of IEEE. (e-mail: nqwu@must.edu.mo)

Zhiwu Li (M'06-SM'07-F'16) received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering, automatic control, and manufacturing engineering, respectively, all from Xidian University, Xian, China, in 1989, 1992, and 1995, respectively. He joined Xidian University in 1992. Over the past decade, he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto, Israel Institute of Technology, Martin-Luther University, Meliksah Universitesi, King Saud University, and the University of Cagliari. He is now with the Institute of Systems Engineering, Macau University of Science and Technology. His current research interests include Petri net theory and application, and supervisory control of discrete event systems.
He serves as a frequent reviewer for 60+ international journals including Automatica and a number of the IEEE Transactions as well as many international conferences. He is listed in Marquis Whos Who in the world, 27th Edition, 2010. Dr. Li is a recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt Research Grant, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany, and Research in Paris, France. He is the founding chair of Xi'an Chapter of IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society. He is a Fellow of IEEE. (e-mail: systemscontrol@gmail.com)

Kamel Barkaoui is full professor (Exceptional Class) of Computer Science at Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM-Paris) since 2002. He holds a Ph.D in Computer Science (1988) and Habilitation á Diriger des Recherches (1998) from Université Paris 6 (UPMC). His most important research domains are about formal methods for specification, verification, control and performance evaluation of concurrent and distributed systems. He supervised more than 30 PhD thesis defended mostly on modeling and analysis of concurrent and distributed systems. He published 40 papers in International Journals, more than 100 peer-reviewed papers in international conferences and contributed to several books. He leaded or participated in more than 10 international research projects. He received the 1995 IEEE Int. Conf. on System Man and Cybernetics Outstanding Paper Award. Kamel Barkaoui served on PCs and as PC chair and OC chair of several international workshops and conferences in his areas of research. He was PC co-chair of the 3rd International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing (ICTAC2006), General co-chair of the 18th International Symposium on Formal Methods (FM2012) and General chair of the 35th International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets and Concurrency (Petri Nets2014) and of the 14th International Conference on Application of Concurrency to System Design (ACSD2014). He is founder and SC chair of the International Conference on Verification and Evaluation of Computer and Communication Systems (VECoS). Kamel Barkaoui was a Guest Editor of Formal Aspects of Computing Journal (FACJ), Journal of Systems and Software (JSS) and ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS) and referee for several international computer science journals He is currently Associate Editor for the International Journal of Critical Computer-Based Systems (IJCCBS) and member of the Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts. (e-mail: kamel.barkaoui@cnam.fr)

Xiaoou Li (M'00-SM'05) obtained a B. S degree in Applied Mathematics in 1991 and a PhD degree in Automatic Control in 1995 from Northeastern University, Shenyang, P. R. China. She was a lecturer at Northeastern University from 1995 to 1997; then, she was a postdoc of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) from 1998 to 2000. Since April 2000, she has been a professor of Computer Science, at The Research and Advanced Studies Centre of the National Polytechnic Institute (CINVESTAV-IPN) in Mexico. She was a senior research fellow of the School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science in Queen's University Belfast, UK from 2006 to 2007; and a visiting professor at the School of Engineering of the University of California Santa Cruz in 2010. Her research interests include knowledge based system, machine learning and data mining applications, social network analysis, Petri nets, neural networks, system modeling and simulation, human machine interface (HMI), and precision agriculture. She has published more than 100 papers on international journals, books, and conferences. As PI, she has successfully finished three CONACYT (NSF in Mexico) Basic Science projects in the field of Knowledge and Data Engineering, one collaborative project with the University of California Riverside, and several other collaborative research projects. She is active organizer of international conferences such as ICNSC, SMC, etc. She is currently Editor of IEEE Press, and associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, and IEEE SMC Magazine. She is a regular member of the AMC (Mexican Association of Science), and a member of SNI (National Researcher System of Mexico) level 2. (e-mail: lixo@cs.cinvestav.mx)

Tadahiko Murata (M'00-SM'17) received his B.S. degree, and M.S. degree in Industrial Engineering, Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Science in 1994, 1996, and 1997 from Osaka Prefecture University, Japan, respectively. Since 1997, he started his academic career at Ashikaga Institute of Technology, Japan, then became an Associate Professor at Kansai University in 2001. He is currently a Professor of Kansai University since 2009. He established the Policy Grid Computing Laboratory by the matching fund of Kansai University and the Japanese Government from 2005 to 2010. The Laboratory developed into the Research Institute of Socionetwork Strategies at Kansai University with the support of the national fund. He has more than 20 years of experience in leading research in artificial intelligence. His research interests include fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation, many objective optimization, social simulation, and high performance computing. He published more than 300 papers in books, international journals, domestic journals, and conferences. His research is continually supported by the national fund since 1998. He acted as a program committee member in a number of international conferences such as IEEE SMCS annual conference, IEEE CIS CEC, GECCO. From 2004 to 2008, he was a chair of Technical Committee on Soft Computing in IEEE SMCS, and received the Most Active Technical Committee Award in 2006 for his activity in TC on Soft Computing. From 2008 to 2012, he was a chair of IEEE SMCS Japan Chapter. In 2010, he established Technical Committee on Aware Computing in IEEE SMCS and continues to lead it so far. He is handling IEEE International Conference on Awareness Science and Technology (iCAST conference series) with the technical support of IEEE SMCS. For his leadership in TC on Awareness Computing, he received the Most Active Technical Committee Award in 2013 and in 2016. He was a Program Chair of CEC2015 of IEEE CIS, and is a Program Chair of SMC2018. He is a founding board member of the Japanese Society for Evolutionary Computation. He is currently a member of Long-Term Plan Development Team for Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics, and a member of Board of Governors of IEEE SMCS (2015-2017). (e-mail: murata@kansai-u.ac.jp)

MengChu Zhou (S'88-M'90-SM'93-F'03) received his B.S. degree in Control Engineering from Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China in 1983, M.S. degree in Automatic Control from Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China in 1986, and Ph. D. degree in Computer and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY in 1990. He joined New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, NJ in 1990, and is now a Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests are in Petri nets, intelligent automation, Internet of Things, big data, web services, and intelligent transportation. He has over 700 publications including 12 books, 390+ journal papers (over 280 in IEEE transactions), 11 patents and 28 book-chapters. He is the founding Editor of IEEE Press Book Series on Systems Science and Engineering. He is a recipient of Humboldt Research Award for US Senior Scientists from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Franklin V. Taylor Memorial Award and the Norbert Wiener Award from IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society. He is a life member of Chinese Association for Science and Technology-USA and served as its President in 1999. He is a Fellow of International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Chinese Association of Automation (CAA). (e-mail: zhou@njit.edu)