Rising Threats in Expert Applications and Solutions

Dr. Vijay Singh Rathore is presently working as a Professor in the Department of CS & IT, IIS (Deemed to be) University, Jaipur (India). He received Ph.D. from the University of Rajasthan and has teaching experience of 20 years. He is Secretary, ACM Jaipur Chapter, Past Chairman, CSI Jaipur Chapter, got two patents published, Ph.D. Supervised (Awarded: 16, Under Supervision: 07), 80+ research papers, and 10+ books got published. He is handling international affairs of The IIS University, Jaipur. His research areas are internet security, cloud computing, big data, and IoT.
Nilanjan Dey is an Assistant Professor in Department of Information Technology at Techno India College of Technology, Kolkata, India. He is a visiting fellow of the University of Reading, UK. He was an honorary Visiting Scientist at Global Biomedical Technologies Inc., CA, USA (2012-2015). He was awarded his PhD. from Jadavpur University in 2015. He has authored/editedmore than 70 books with Elsevier, Wiley, CRC Press and Springer, and published more than 300 papers. He is the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence, IGI Global, Associated Editor of IEEE Access and International Journal of Information Technology, Springer. He is the Series Co-Editor of Springer Tracts in Nature-Inspired Computing, Springer, Series Co-Editor of Advances in Ubiquitous Sensing Applications for Healthcare, Elsevier, Series Editor of Computational Intelligence in Engineering Problem Solving and Intelligent Signal processing and data analysis, CRC. His main research interests include Medical Imaging, Machine learning, Computer Aided Diagnosis, Data Mining etc. He is the Indian Ambassador of International Federation for Information Processing - Young ICT Group and Senior member of IEEE.
Vincenzo Piuri is a Full Professor in Computer Engineering at the Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy (since 2000). His original results have been published in more than 400 papers in international journals, proceedings of international conferences, books, and book chapters. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, Distinguished Scientist of ACM, and senior member of INNS. He has been IEEE Vice President for Technical Activities (2015), IEEE Director, and President of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.
Rosalina Babo is a Coordinator Professor of Information Systems Department, School of Accounting and Administration of Polytechnic of Porto (ISCAP/PPorto), Portugal. Since the year 2000 she is the head of the Information Systems Department and for about 12 years acted as a member of the university scientific board. Rosalina's international recognition was improved with the opportunity to be a Visiting Professor at several universities in different countries namely Belgium (KU LEUVEN), Croatia (University of Split), Kosovo (University of Prishtina), Latvia (Latvia University of Agriculture). Rosalina was one of the founders of CEOS.PP (former CEISE/STI) research centre and its director for 5 years. Rosalina has served on committees for international conferences, and acts as a reviewer in scientific journals. As a book editor she collaborates with publishers such as Elsevier, Springer and IGI Global in the fields of Data analyses in Social Networks and eLearning. Having several published papers her main areas of research are e-learning, e-business, Internet applications focusing on usability and social networks.
Dr. Z. Polkowski at present is the Rector's Representative for International Cooperation and Erasmus + Programme in Jan Wyzykowski University in Polkowice, Poland. He graduated from the Wroclaw University of Technology with the Ph.D. degree. Additionally, he graduated from the University of Zielona Gora, the Economic University of Wroclaw. The main areas of scientific interest are e-commerce, e-business, IT systems in business,and logistics-especially in small and medium businesses. Moreover, he is the owner of a small company, where he tries and tests new ideas in practice. In Polkowice, he has done many IT projects, especially in schools, small companies, and government institutions. João Manuel R. S. Tavares graduated in Mechanical Engineering at the Universidade do Porto, Portugal in 1992. He also earned his M.Sc. degree and Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Universidade do Porto in 1995 and 2001, and attained his Habilitation in Mechanical Engineering in 2015. He is a senior researcher at the Instituto de Ciência e Inovação em Engenharia Mecânica e Engenharia Industrial (INEGI) and Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering (DEMec) of the Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP).
João Tavares is co-editor of more than 55 books, co-author of more than 50 book chapters, 650 articles in international and national journals and conferences, and 3 international and 3 national patents. He has been a committee member of several international and national journals and conferences, is co-founder and co-editor of the book series "Lecture Notes in Computational Vision and Biomechanics" published by Springer, founder and Editor-in-Chief of the journal "Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization" published by Taylor & Francis, Editor-in-Chief of the journal "Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering" published by Taylor & Francis, and co-founder and co-chair of the international conference series: CompIMAGE, ECCOMAS VipIMAGE, ICCEBS and BioDental. Additionally, he has been (co-)supervisor of several MSc and PhD thesis and supervisor of several post-doc projects, and has participated in many scientific projects both as researcher and as scientific coordinator.His main research areas include computational vision, medical imaging, computational mechanics, scientific visualization, human-computer interaction and new product development.