**About the Editors**

**Pablo Chamoso** is Assistant Professor at the University of Salamanca. He holds a PhD in Computer Engineering (2017) as well as qualifications of Technical Engineer in Computer Systems, Computer Engineer (with i3 award for the best final project of Castilla y Leon), Master in Electronic ´ Commerce, Master in Intelligent Systems, and Master in Information Technology Management.

He has been a member of the research group BISITE since early 2011, participating in the technical development, analysis, and research of multiple international and national projects in areas such as smart cities, robotics, visual analytics, medical applications, and artificial intelligence.

He has been a gues<sup>t</sup> lecturer at universities in Brazil, Portugal, Italy, and Japan. He is co-author of numerous publications in high-impact scientific journals and serves as editor or reviewer for several JCR-indexed journals. He has been a member of the organization and scientific committee of numerous international scientific conferences. His research career has been recognized and awarded with one of the Grants of the State Program Juan de la Cierva in the area "ICT—Information and Communication Technologies" in 2018.

**Sara Rodr´ıguez Gonz ´alez** is Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Automatics, University of Salamanca, and researcher in the BISITE research group (http://bisite.usal.es). She pursued her PhD studies at this University, obtaining an Engineering in Computer Sciences degree in 2007 and being awarded a PhD in Computer Science in 2010. She has participated as a co-author in more than 100 papers published in recognized international conferences and symposiums. She has worked on 50 research projects and around 70 research contracts. She has been active in the organization of numerous international scientific congresses (PAAMS, CEDI, FUSION, DCAI, etc.).

**Mohd Saberi Mohamad** is Professor of Bioinformatics and Artificial Intelligence at the Department of Genetics and Genomics, the College of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University. His research areas are bioinformatics, artificial intelligence, data science, and computational biology. He has received the 2018 Malaysia's Research Star Award in the category of young researchers by the Malaysia Ministry of Higher Education. He has been the project leader for 19 research grants and a project member for 20 research grants. He has also published 282 articles published in international refereed journals, international conference proceedings, and as book chapters in addition to being involved in the production of 14 books (research books, edited books, and original books). Prior to joining UAUE, he has been Director of the Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Big Data, founder of the Department of Data Science, and head of the Artificial Intelligence and Bioinformatics Research Group. In addition, he has also served as head and member of 65 academic and research committees at the faculty, university, national, and international levels. He also has been appointed as an advisory board for Artificial Intelligence Research Institute and IoT Digital Innovation Hub in Europe. He has served as chairman in 7 appointments and member of the committee for 39 international conferences in Europe, ASEAN, Japan, US, Australia, China, and Malaysia. He has served on the accreditation panel of Malaysia Qualification Agency (MQA), which reviews academic programs in the field of bioinformatics, since 2013.

**Alfonso Gonz´alez-Briones** was awarded his PhD in Computer Engineering from the University of Salamanca in 2018, and his thesis obtained second place in the 1st SENSORS+CIRTI Award for the best national thesis in Smart Cities (CAEPIA 2018). At the same university, he obtained his Bachelor of Technical Engineer in Computer Engineering (2012), Degree in Computer Engineering (2013), and Master in Intelligent Systems (2014). Currently, he is a "Juan De La Cierva" Postdoc at GRASIA Research Group in the University Complutense of Madrid at Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence Department. Alfonso Gonzalez Briones has published more than 20 articles ´ in journals, more than 40 articles in books and international congresses, and has participated in 8 international research projects. He is also a member of the scientific committee of the *Advances in Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence Journal* (*ADCAIJ*) and *British Journal of Applied Science & Technology* (*BJAST*) and is also a regular reviewer of renowned journals, namely published by IEEE, Springer, Elsevier, or MDPI, among others. He has participated as chair and member of the technical committee of prestigious international congresses (AIPES, HAIS, FODERTICS, PAAMS, KDIR).
