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Fausto works at UCLM as Full Professor (Accredited as Full Professor from 2013), Spain, Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Birmingham University, UK, Lecturer at the Postgraduate European Institute, and he has been Senior Manager in Accenture (2013-2014). He obtained his European PhD with a maximum distinction. He has been distinguished with the prices: Grand Prize (2021), Runner Prize (2020) and Advancement Prize (2018) for Management Science and Engineering Management Nominated Prize, First International Business Ideas Competition 2017 Award (2017); Runner (2015), Advancement (2013) and Silver (2012) by the International Society of Management Science and Engineering Management (ICMSEM). He has published more than 170 papers (103 JCR(49Q1; 27Q2; 24Q3; 3Q4), 65 % ISI, 30% JCR and 92% internationals), some recognized as: “Applied Energy” (Q1, IF 9.746, as “Best Paper 2020”), “Renewable Energy” (Q1, IF 8.001, as “Best Paper 2014”); “ICMSEM” (as “excellent”), “Int. J. of Automation and Computing” and “IMechE Part F: J. of Rail and Rapid Transit” (most downloaded), etc. He is author and editor of 40 books (Elsevier, Springer, Pearson, Mc-GrawHill, Intech, IGI, Marcombo, AlfaOmega,…), 90 international chapters, and 6 patents. He is Editor of 5 Int. Journals, Committee Member more than 60 Int. Conferences. He has been Principal Investigator in 4 European Projects, 7 National Projects, and more than 150 projects for Universities, Companies, etc. His main interests are: Artificial Intelligence, Maintenance, Management, Renewable Energy, Transport, Advanced Analytics, Data Science.

Paolo Rocca (IEEE Senior Member) is Associate Professor at the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science (University of Trento) and a member of the ELEDIA Research Center. In April 2017, Prof. Rocca received the National Scientific Qualification for the position of Full Professor.Prof. Rocca is the author/co-author of over 300 peer-reviewed papers on international journals and conferences. He has been a visiting Ph.D. student at the Pennsylvania State University (U.S.A.), at the University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria (Italy), and a visiting researcher at the Laboratoire des Signaux et Systèmes (L2S@ Supèlec, France) in 2012 and 2013. Moreover, he has been an Invited Professor at the University of Paris Sud (France) in 2015 and at the University of Rennes 1 (France) in 2017. Prof. Rocca has been awarded from the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society and the Italy Section with the best PhD thesis award IEEE-GRS Central Italy Chapter. His main interests are in the framework of artificial intelligence (optimization and machine learning) techniques as applied to electromagnetics, antenna array synthesis and design, and electromagnetic inverse scattering. He served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters in the period 2011-2016.

Researcher on bioenergy at the Department of Engineering of the University of Perugia, Italy. Visiting professor at the Institute on Clean and Renewable Energy hosted at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China. More than 15 years of experience in the bioenergy sector, environmental impact assessment, carbon footprinting, carbon emissions reduction technologies, green energy and sustainable industry, with particular attention to food industry and agricultural operations.

Prof. Yassine Maleh (http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4704-5364) is an Associate Professor at the National School of Applied Sciences at Sultan Moulay Slimane University, Morocco. He received his PhD degree in Computer Science from Hassan 1st University, Morocco. He is a cybersecurity and Information Technology researcher and practitioner with industry and academic experience. He worked for the National Ports Agency in Morocco as an IT manager from 2012 to 2019. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, Member of the International Association of Engineers IAENG and The Machine Intelligence Research Labs. Dr Maleh has made contributions in information security and privacy, Internet of Things Security, Wireless and Constrained Networks Security. His research interests include Information Security and Privacy, Internet of Things, Networks Security, Information system and IT Governance. He has published over 50 papers (Book chapters, international journals and conferences/workshops), 7 edited books and 3 authored books. He is the editor in chief of the International Journal of Smart Security Technologies (IJSST). He serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Access (2019 Impact Factor 4.098), the International Journal of Digital Crime and Forensics (IJDCF) and the International Journal of Information Security and Privacy (IJISP). He was also a Guest Editor of a special issue on Recent Advances on Cyber Security and Privacy for Cloud-of-Things of the International Journal of Digital Crime and Forensics (IJDCF), Volume 10, Issue 3, July-September 2019. He has served and continues to serve on executive and technical program committees and as a reviewer of numerous international conference and journals such as Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks, IEEE Network Magazine, IEEE Sensor Journal, ICT Express, and Springer Cluster Computing. He was the Publicity chair of BCCA 2019 and the General Chair of the MLBDACP 19 and MLBDACP 21 symposiums.

Sheng-Lung Peng is a Professor of the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan. He received the BS degree in Mathematics from National Tsing Hua University, and the MS and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the National Chung Cheng University and National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, respectively. He is an honorary Professor of Beijing Information Science and Technology University of China, and a visiting Professor of Ningxia Institute of Science and Technology of China. He is also an adjunct Professor of Mandsaur University of India. He is now serving as the secretary general of the ACM-ICPC Contest Council for Taiwan and the regional director of the ICPC Asia Taipei-Hsinchu site. He is a director of Institute of Information and Computing Machinery, of Information Service Association of Chinese Colleges and of Taiwan Association of Cloud Computing. He is also a supervisor of Chinese Information Literacy Association, of Association of Algorithms and Computation Theory. His research interests are in designing and analyzing algorithms for Bioinformatics, Combinatorics, Data Mining, and Networks. Dr. Peng has edited several special issues at journals, such as Soft Computing, Journal of Internet Technology, Journal of Computers and MDPI Algorithms. He is also a reviewer for more than 10 journals such as IEEE Access and Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Theoretical Computer Science, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, Journal of Modelling in Management, Soft Computing, Information Processing Letters, Discrete Mathematics, Discrete Applied Mathematics, Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory, and so on. He published more than 100 international conferences and journal papers.

P. Kumar received his Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering, Master of Engineering in Electronics and Communication Engineering and Doctor of Philosophy in Electronics and Communication Engineering in 2003, 2005 and 2009, respectively. He completed his post-doctoral studies from Autonoma University of Madrid, Spain. He is involved in teaching and research activities since last 14 years. He received various awards/fellowship such as MHRD fellowship during MEngg, A4U fellowship at Autonoma University of Madrid, research excellence award, JW Nelson fund research award etc. He was selected to receive Brain Korea 21 postdoctoral fellowship, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea. He is registered as Professional Engineer with Engineering Council of South Africa. He is the author of many research papers published in various peer reviewed journals/conferences. He is serving as reviewer/member of editorial board for many journals/conferences such as IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Progress in Electromagnetic Research Journals, SAIEEE Research Journal, International Journal of Electronics etc. He has organized many IEEE international conferences. At present, he is working with University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He is the academic member of Center of Excellence, University of KwaZulu-Natal. His research areas include antennas, wireless communication, wireless networks and image processing.

Vivek Kumar Sehgal (SM’18) received the B.Tech. degree in Instrumentation Engineering from Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology (Deemed University), in 2000, M.Tech. degree in Process Control Engineering from Netaji Subhash Institute of Technology (Delhi University), in 2002, and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Uttrakhand Technical University, Dehradun, in 2007- 2010. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Information Technology, Jaypee University of Information Technology, Solan, H.P-India. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, Senior Member of ACM, member IEEE Computer Society, Member of IEEE Exe. Com. Delhi Section, member of SIAM, and a Fellow of Institution of Engineers. His current research interests include embedded processor architecture, hardware-software co-design, Networks-on-Chip, Smart Instrumentation, Cyber- Physical Systems, and Internet of Things. He is a member of the technical program committees for several technical conferences and editorial member of IEEE Access and other reputed journals

Dr. Yugal Kumar is presently working as Assistant Professor (Senior Grade) in Department of Computer Science & Engineering at Jaypee University of Information Technology (JUIT), Waknaghat, Himachal Pradesh, India. He has more than 14 years of teaching and research experience at reputed colleges and universities of India. His primary area of research includes meta-heuristic algorithms, data clustering, swarm intelligence, pattern recognition and medical data mining. He has published more than seventy five papers in international journals and conferences of repute. He is also serving as editorial review board member of various journals including Soft Computing, Neurocomputing, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, PLOSE ONE, Sustainable Computing, IEEE Access, Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics and Journal of Information Processing System.