Meet the editors

Constantin Volosencu is a professor in the Department of Automation, "Politehnica" University Timisoara, Romania. He is the editor of nine books and author of ten books, five book chapters, more than 170 scientific papers published in journals and conference proceedings, and twenty-seven patents. He is also a manager of research grants, a member of international journal editorial boards, a former plenary speaker, a member of scien-

tific committees, and chair at international conferences. His research is in the fields of control systems, control of electric drives, fuzzy control systems, neural network applications, fault detection and diagnosis, sensor network applications, monitoring of distributed parameter systems, and power ultrasound applications. He has developed electrical equipment for machine tools, spooling machines, high-power ultrasound processes, and more.

Dr. Serdar Kucuk received a BA and MSc from Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 1995 and 1998, respectively. He received a Ph.D. from Kocaeli University, Turkey, in 2004. He is currently a full professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Kocaeli University. He has published several international conference papers, journal papers, books, and book chapters. He serves as a reviewer for several well-known robot-

ics journals. He has also edited a number of scientific books. His research interests include optimization, control, kinematics, and dynamics modeling of serial and parallel robotic manipulators. Lately, Dr. Kucuk has also been interested in designing electrical controlled above-the-knee prosthetics and hand–wrist rehabilitation robots, surgical robots, and biomedical robotic devices.

Dr. José Guerrero Sastre received a degree in Computer Science from the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB). In 2012, he completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science at UIB with a thesis entitled "New Methodologies for Allocating Tasks and Coalition Formation in Multi-Robot Systems." He has been a member of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, UIB, since 2002, where he is currently a lecturer and postdoctoral research-

er. He is also a member of the Systems, Robotics and Vision Group (SRV) and a collaborator with the Models for Information Processing (MOTIBO) research group. His research interests include multi-robot and multi-agent task allocation mechanisms with auction, swarm-like coordination mechanisms, and possibility theory.

Dr. Oscar Valero graduated in Mathematical Sciences from the University of Valencia and obtained a Ph.D. in Mathematical Sciences from the Polytechnic University of Valencia in 20003. Since then, he has worked as an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of the Balearic Islands (UBI). His research focuses on the theoretical study of generalized metric structures, measures of similarity,

fixed point theory, functional analysis, asymmetric topology, fuzzy logic, and the

application of theoretical results to engineering, economics, and medicine. Dr. Valero has published more than 140 international research articles in these areas. In addition, he has presented fifty-two communications at several international conferences, seven of which he served as the main speaker. Moreover, he has been president and member of the organizing and scientific committees of several international congresses. He is currently a member of the editorial board of nine international research journals.
