Advances in Smart Vehicular Technology, Transportation, Communication and Applications

Valentina E. Balas is currently Full Professor in the Department of Automatics and Applied Software at the Faculty of Engineering, “Aurel Vlaicu” University of Arad, Romania. She holds a Ph.D. in Applied Electronics and Telecommunications from Polytechnic University of Timisoara. Dr. Balas is the author of more than 350 research papers in refereed journals and international conferences. Her research interests are in intelligent systems, fuzzy control, soft computing, smart sensors, information fusion, modeling and simulation. She is Editor-in-Chief to International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms (IJAIP) and to International Journal of Computational Systems Engineering (IJCSysE), Editorial Board Member of several national and international journals and Evaluator Expert for national, international projects and Ph.D. thesis. Jeng-Shyang Pan received the B.S. degree in Electronic Engineering from the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology in 1986, the M.S. degree in Communication Engineering from the National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, in 1988, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Edinburgh, UK, in 1996. He was selected for IET Fellow in 2009 and Thousand Talent Program of China in 2010, respectively. Currently, he is Vice President and Dean of College of Information Science and Engineering in Fujian University of Technology, China. He has published about 700 research papers with total citations about 8200, h-index 42 and i-10 index 176. He is Founder of Journal of Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing and two international conferences: Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing (IIH-MSP) and Euro-China Conference on Intelligent Data Analysis and Applications (ECC). His current research interests include artificial intelligence, information security and image processing.