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Issues of IPSJ Journal. Dr. Barolli has served as a Guest Editor of many International Journals. He is engaged as a Program Committee (PC) Member in many International Conferences. He was a Program Committee Vice Chair of IEEE ICPADS-2001 and IEEE ICOIN-16 International Conferences. He was a PC Co-Chair of AINA-2003 and PC Chair of IEEE AINA-2004 and IEEE ICPADS-2005. Dr. Barolli served as General Co-Chair of AINA-2006. He is serving as Workshops Chair of iiWAS-2006 and Workshops Co-Chair of IEEE AINA-2007. He is Steering Committee of AINA, iiWAS, MoMM, ARES and CISIS International Conferences. He is organizer of MNSA, NBiS, HWISE, WAIS, BWCCA and 3PGIC International Workshops. He has served as a reviewer for many International Conferences and Journals.Dr. Barolli has published more than 200 papers in Referred Journals, International Conference Preceedings and National Workshops. His research interests include high-speed networks, mobile communication systems, ad-hoc networking, sensor networks, P2P systems, Quality of Service (QoS), traffic control mechanisms (policing, routing, congestion control, Connection Admission Control (CAC)), intelligent algorithms (fuzzy theory, genetic algorithms, neural networks), network protocols, agent-based systems, grid and Internet computing. Dr. Barolli is a member of IPSJ, Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Systems (SOFT), IEEE Society and IEEE.

Fatos Xhafa is native from Albania (Spanish citizen) where he was graduated in Mathematics from the Faculty of Natural Sciencies (FNS), University of Tirana (UT), Albania, in 1988. During 1989-1993 he was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics of the FNS, UT, Albania. Fatos joined the Techical University of Catalonia as a Visiting Professor at the Applied Mathematics Department I, and later he entered the Department of Languages and Informatic Systems (LSI) as a PhD student and in 1996 as an Assistant Professor. Fatos got his PhD in Computer Science from the Department of LSI in 1998. Currently, Fatos is Hab. Full Professor and holds a permanent position of Professor Titular at the Department of LSI and member of the ALBCOM Research Group. His current research interest include parallel and distributed algorithms, combinatorial optimization, approximation and meta-heuristics, networking systems, distributed programming, Grid and P2P computing. His research is supported by Research Projects from Spain, EU and NSF/USA. Fatos is awarded research merits for the period 1996-2007 (dos sexenios) and for the period 2001-2006 (sexeni compl. autonòmic.) and teaching merits for the period 1995-2010 (tres quinquenios). His research/teaching activity is evaluated to A/A by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.Fatos is involved in the organization of several International events. He served as Organizing Chair of ARES-2008, PC Chair of CISIS-2008, General Chair of HIS-2008 and of 6th 3PGCIC-2011/6th BWCCA-2011 conferences held at UPC. He served as Workshops Chair of CISIS-2009. Currently, he is General Co-Chair of INCoS-2009/INCoS-2010, PC Co-Chair of AINA-2010, General Co-Chair of CISIS-2010 and AINA-2011 conferences. He is the co-organizer of several workshops held in conjunction with international conferences. Fatos is Editor-In-Chief of International Journal of Space-Based and Situated Computing (IJSSC) and of International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing (IJGUC), member of EB of  several International Journals and Guest Editors of Special Issues. Fatos teaches at UPC and also at Open University of Catalonia (UOC). He is also external member of the research group Parallel, Distributed and Collaborative Systems  (PDCS) of UOC.

Hwa Young Jeong is in the Humanitas College at Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea. He is a reviewer of MTAP (Multimedia Tools and Application) at Springer. And he is a member of the Standard Words Committee in Ministry of Information and Communication Republic of Korea. He has worked on the editorial board of the journal of the Korea Society for Internet Information from 2004. He was a system and software engineer in the Aju System Co., and CNA Research Inc., 1994 ~ 1999. In there, he had worked and programmed the GUI system of semiconductor testing machine which was called IC Test Handler. He was assistant professor, Dept of E-Business of Yewon Art University in 2000~2005.