Short Biography: Ian H. Witten is currently a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Waikato in New Zealand. He is on the editorial board of three journals International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence and Journal of Universal Computer Science. His main research interests include, theory of adaptive systems, speech synthesis, digital signal processing, linear and non-linear identificatiion techniques, adaptive user interfaces, programming by example, machine learning, documentation systems, text compression and compressed information retrieval systems and digital libraries.
 Prof. Mark Bedau
Reed College, Oregon, USA
Short Biography: Mark Bedau is currently a Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Reed College, Portland, USA and an Adjunct Professor of Systems Science at Portland State University, Portland, USA. He is also a Visiting Professor of the European School of Molecular Medicine. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Society of Artificial Life (ISAL) Journal. His research interests include, dynamical emergent processes, measuring and visualizing evolutionary dynamics, evolutionary design of chemical systems, the creativity of evolution, cultural evolution and the evolution of technology, the nature of life, the science of creating life from scratch and social and ethical implications of recreating life.
 A/Prof. Eamonn Keogh
University of California - Riverside, California, USA
Short Biography: Dr. Keogh is a prolific author with over 120 publications, including 4 best paper awards. He has given well-received tutorials at SIGKDD (three times), ICDM (twice), VLDB, SDM, ACM Multimedia and CIKM. He has recently turned his attention to using artificial intelligence and data mining for understanding cultural heritage objects (such as rock art, arrowheads, historical manuscripts etc) and has recently been awarded over one million US dollars in grants from the NSF and the National Geographic Society for these efforts.
 Prof. Andries P. Engelbrecht
University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
Short Biography: Andries P. Engelbrecht is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa. He is also a staff member of the Computational Intelligence Research Group (CIRG) hosted by the University of Pretoria, in the Department of Computer Science, and focuses on research in the broad realm of computational intelligence. Under this umbrella, work is done in the fields of swarm intelligence, evolutionary computation, neural networks, artificial immune systems, multi-agent systems, data and text mining, image analysis and game playing systems.
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