Keeley Crockett is senior lecturer in the School of Computing, Mathematics and Digital Technology at Manchester Metropolitan University in the UK. She gained a BSc Degree (Hons) in Computation from UMIST in 1993, and a PhD in the field of machine learning from the Manchester Metropolitan University in 1998 entitled "Fuzzy Rule Induction from Data Domains". She also obtained a P.G.C.E from The University of Huddersfield in June 2000. She is a knowledge engineer and founding member of Convagent Ltd, a company set up in collaboration with Manchester Metropolitan University, which provides business rule automation with natural language interfaces using conversational agents. She is also involved in a second University spin off company Silent Talker Ltd. She is a member of the Intelligent Systems Group which has established a strong international presence in its research into Conversational Agents and Adaptive Psychological Profiling including an international patent on "Silent Talker". Her main research interests include the areas of fuzzy decision trees, rule induction, applications of fuzzy theory, biologically inspired algorithms, text based similarity measures and the use of neural networks for psychological profiling. She is vice-chair of the IEEE Women into Computational Intelligence Society, CIS Travel Grant Administrator and a senior member of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society and the IEEE Women In Engineering Society. She was workshops co-chair for IEEE WCCI 2010, programme co-chair for 5th International KES Conference on Agents and Multi-agent Systems - Technologies and Applications in 2011, and a technical co-chair for IEEE WCCI 2012.

Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier is a director of research at the National Centre for Scientific Research, head of the department of Databases and Machine Learning in the Computer Science Laboratory of the University Paris 6. Graduate from the École Normale Supérieure at Cachan, she received the degrees of B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science, Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics and D. Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Paris. Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-based Systems (World Scientific), she is also the (co)-editor of 22 books and the (co)-author of five books on uncertainty management in artificial intelligence. Co-executive director of the International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-based Systems (IPMU), she also served as the FUZZ-IEEE 2010 Program Chair, and the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence SSCI 2011 General Chair. She is presently the conference chair of FUZZ-IEEE 2012. She is an IEEE fellow and an International Fuzzy Systems Association fellow. Her present research interests include approximate reasoning and applications of fuzzy logic and machine learning techniques to decision-making, data mining; risk forecasting, information retrieval and user modelling.

Gary Yen received the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana in 1992. He is currently a Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oklahoma State University. Before he joined OSU in 1997, he was with the Structure Control Division, U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory in Albuquerque, NM. His research is supported by the DoD, DoE, EPA, NASA, NSF, and Process Industry. His research interest includes intelligent control, computational intelligence, evolutionary multiobjective optimization, conditional health monitoring, signal processing and their industrial/defence applications. Gary was an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and IEEE Control Systems Magazine during 1994-1999, and of the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics and IFAC Journal on Automatica and Mechatronics during 1999-2006. He is currently serving as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation. He served as the General Chair for the 2003 IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control held in Houston, TX and 2006 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence held in Vancouver, Canada. Gary served as Vice President for the Technical Activities, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society in 2004-2005 and is the founding editor-in-chief of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine from 2006 to 2009. He is currently serving as President of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society in 2010-2011. He is a Fellow of IEEE.

Gérard Dreyfus is a professor of electronics and automatic control, and head of the SIGnal processing and MAchine learning (SIGMA) lab of ESPCI ParisTech, which he joined in 1974 as an assistant professor in computer science after receiving a PhD in physics from Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris). After 10 years as a researcher in physics, he became involved in statistical machine learning as early as 1982, when he published pioneering papers on neural networks. He devoted his research to machine learning ever since. He authored or co-authored more than 200 publications in international journals and conferences, three books on machine learning and neural networks. He is a co-founder of two companies, and has been scientific advisor of various French companies. He holds some 20 international patents. He created the French chapter of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society in 2003. He is a member of the Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP) Technical Committee of the IEEE and of the Multimedia Tutorials of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society; he was a member of the Neural Networks technical committee. He is action editor of Neural Computation (MIT press), member of the editorial committee of Theoretical Computer Science - Theory of Natural Computing (Elsevier), Applied Intelligence (Springer), Neurocomputing (Elsevier, 1990 - 2008), associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks (1991 - 1992). His present research interests are in machine learning for medicine, biology and natural risk assessment.

Vincenzo Piuri has been a Full Professor in Computer Engineering since 2000 and Director of the Department of Information Technology since 2007 at the University of Milan, Italy. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Italy. He was Associate Professor at Politecnico di Milano, Italy (1992-2000) and Visiting Professor at the University of Texas at Austin (June-October from 1993 to 1999). His main research interests are: theory and industrial applications of neural techniques, biometrics, signal/image processing for industrial applications, neural network architectures, application-specific processing architectures, and fault tolerance. He is Director both of the Biometric Systems Laboratory and the Industrial and Environmental Informatics Laboratory at the University of Milan, Italy.Dr. Piuri was very active in promoting technical activities, especially in the IEEE. He served in various technical committees of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, the IEEE Computer Society, and the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society. Dr. Piuri accomplished several editorial activities. He served in the editorial boards of various international journals, including the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks (2002-2004) and the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (1997-2002). He also was Vice-President for Publications both of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society (2002-2004) and the IEEE Systems Council (2008-2009). He was Scientific Co-Director of the NATO-IEEE-INNS-ENNS Advanced Study Institute on Neural Networks for Instrumentation, Measurement, and Related Industrial Applications, Crema, Italy, 2001; Director of the International Master's Degree Program on Soft Computing for Industrial Applications (2003-2004), University of Milan (Italy), with the support of the IEEE Neural Networks Society, IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society, INNS - International Neural Networks Society, and ENNS - European Neural Network Society. Dr. Piuri is an IEEE Fellow since 2001, ACM Distinguished Scientist (2008), and INNS Senior Member (2009).