**About the Editors**

**Peter Brida** obtained his M.Sc. and the Ph.D. degrees in Telecommunications from the University of Zilina, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Slovakia in 2002 and 2006, respectively. He ˇ has been full professor since 2017. Since November 2016, he has held the position of Vice-dean for Development and International Co-operation at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University of Zilina. His research interests include wireless positioning in mobile radio networks, satellite navigation systems, location-based services, Internet of Things, cellular networks and intelligent transport systems. He is the author or co-author of more than 60 scientific papers published in scientific journals and presented at international conferences. He has been a guest editor and member of Technical Program Committees for several journals and conferences such as IPIN (Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation), ACIIDS (Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems), ICCCI (International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence), etc. In the past, he was chairman of several invited and special sessions at various conferences. He was guest editor of several Special Issues in high-impact journals, e.g., Sensors (MDPI), Mobile Information Systems (Hindawi) etc.

**Ondrej Krejcar** is a full professor in systems engineering and informatics at the University of Hradec Kralove, Faculty of Informatics and Management, Center for Basic and Applied Research, Czech Republic, and Research Fellow at Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology, University Technology Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. In 2008, he received his Ph.D. title in technical cybernetics at Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic. He is currently a vice-rector for science and creative activities of the University of Hradec Kralove from June 2020. At present, he is also a director of the Center for Basic and Applied Research at the University of Hradec Kralove. In the years 2016–2020, he was vice-dean for science and research at Faculty of Informatics and Management, UHK. His h-index is 21, with more than 1500 citations received in the Web of Science, where more than 100 IF journal articles is indexed in JCR index. In 2018, he was the 14th top peer reviewer in Multidisciplinary in the World according to Publons and a Top Reviewer in the Global Peer Review Awards 2019 by Publons. Currently, he is on the editorial board of the MDPI Sensors IF journal (Q1/Q2 at JCR), and several other ESCI indexed journals. He is a Vice-leader and Management Committee member at WG4 at project COST CA17136, since 2018. He has also been a Management Committee member substitute at project COST CA16226 since 2017. Since 2019, he has been Chairman of the Program Committee of the KAPPA Program, Technological Agency of the Czech Republic as a regulator of the EEA/Norwegian Financial Mechanism in the Czech Republic (2019-2024). Since 2020, he has been Chairman of the Panel 1 (Computer, Physical and Chemical Sciences) of the ZETA Program, Technological Agency of the Czech Republic. From 2014 until 2019, he was Deputy Chairman of the Panel 7 (Processing Industry, Robotics, and Electrical Engineering) of the Epsilon Program, Technological Agency of the Czech Republic. At the University of Hradec Kralove, he is a guarantee of the doctoral study program in Applied Informatics, where he is focusing on lecturing on Smart Approaches to the Development of Information Systems and Applications in Ubiquitous Computing Environments.

His research interests include control systems, smart sensors, ubiquitous computing, manufacturing, wireless technology, portable devices, biomedicine, image segmentation and recognition, biometrics, technical cybernetics, and ubiquitous computing.

His second area of interest is in biomedicine (image analysis), as well as biotelemetric system architecture (portable device architecture, wireless biosensors), development of applications for mobile devices with use of remote or embedded biomedical sensors.

**Ali Selamat** has received a B.Sc. (Hons.) in IT from Teesside University, U.K. and M.Sc. in Distributed Multimedia Interactive Systems from Lancaster University, U.K. in 1997 and 1998, respectively. He has received a Dr. Eng. degree from Osaka Prefecture University, Japan, in 2003.

Ali Selamat is currently a professor at the School of Computing, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). He is presently serving as a Dean of Malaysia Japan International Institute of Technology (MJIIT), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. Before that, he was a Chief Information Officer (CIO) and a Director of Communication and Information Technology Director, UTM. He is currently elected as a Chair of IEEE Computer Society, Malaysia Section under the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), USA, and a Malaysia Engineering Deans Council member. He previously held the position of research Dean on Knowledge Economy Research Alliance, UTM. He is currently elected as a fellow under Academy Professor Malaysia and a research fellow at Magicx - Media and Games Center of Excellence, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. He was a principal consultant of Big Data Analytics, Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia 201, and, currently, a member of Malaysia Artificial Intelligence Roadmaps (2020–2021) and a keynote speaker in many international conferences. He was a visiting professor at Kuwait University and few other universities in Japan, Saudi Arabia, and Indonesia. Currently, he is a visiting professor at Hradec-Kralove University, Czech Republic, and Kagoshima Institute of Technology, Japan.

He was serving as the Editorial Boards of International Journal of Knowledge-Based Systems Elsevier, Netherlands, and currently an associate editor for International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (IJAIML), IGI Global and Journal of Service Oriented Computing and Application (SOCA), Springer. He is also an editorial member of the International Journal of Information and Database Systems (IJIIDS) under Inderscience Publications, Switzerland, and Vietnam Journal of Computer Science under Springer Publications. He is the Program co-chair of IEA/AIE 2021: The 34th International Conference on Industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. His research interests include data analytics, digital transformations, knowledge management in higher educations, key performance indicators, cloud-based software engineering, software agents, information retrievals, pattern recognition, genetic algorithms, neural networks, and soft-computing.

**Attila Kertesz** Ph.D. is an associate professor at the Department of Software Engineering, University of Szeged, leading the IoT Cloud research group at the department. His research interests include the federative management of Blockchain, IoT, Fog and Cloud systems, and interoperability issues of distributed systems in general. Currently, he is the leader of the FogBlock4Trust sub-grant project of the TruBlo EU H2020 project and a national project OTKA FK 131793, and a work package leader in the national GINOP Internet of Living Things project. He is also a Management Committee member of the CERCIRAS and INDAIRPOLLNET Cost Actions. He has more than 100 publications with more than 1000 citations.
