Editor-in-Chief:

Hamid Mcheick
Computer Science Department
University of Quebec at Chicoutimi
Chicoutimi, Quebec
Canada

Associate Editors:

Aameek Singh
Storage Systems
IBM Research - Almaden
San Jose, CA
USA

Adnan Kabbani
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ryerson University
Toronto
Canada

Athman Bouguettaya
CSIRO ICT Centre
Canberra, ACT
Australia

Bharat Bhargava
Departments of Computer Sciences and Electrical & Computer Engineering
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN
USA

Regoinal Editors:

Andrea De Lucia
Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica
Università degli Studi di Salerno
Via Ponte don Melillo
84084 Fisciano (SA)
Italy

Chia-Chen Lin
Department of Computer Science and Information Management
Providence University
Taichung
Taiwan

Evangelos Sapountzakis
Institute of Structural Analysis and Antiseismic Research
School of Civil Engineering
National Technical University of Athens
Athens
Greece

Editorial Advisory Board:

A. Abdollahi (Univ. of California, California, CA, USA)
A. Abimbola (Napier Univ., Edinburgh, Scotland)
A.A. Abouzeid (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York, NY, USA)
U.R. Acharya (Ngee Ann Polytechnic/SIM University, Singapore, Singapore)
M.O. Adigun (Univ. of Zululand, Kwadlangezwa, South Africa)
A.M. Aguilera (Univ. de Granada, Granada, Spain)
A. Albrecht (Univ. of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK)
A. Andrzejak (Zuse Institute Berlin, Berlin, Germany)
M. Anjanappa (Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA)
B. Apolloni (Univ. of Milan, Milan, Italy)
W.G. Aref (Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, USA)
A. Ashyralyev (Fatih Univ., Istanbul, Turkey)
A.A. Atifi (Kuwait University, Kuwait, Kuwait)
A. Azadeh (Univ. of Theran, Theran, Iran)
A. Azooz (Mosul Univ.,Mosul, Iraq)
A. Bahmer (Technical Univ., Darmstadt, Germany)
R. Bansal (Institute of Engineering & Tech., Ropar, India)
A. Bartoszewicz (Technical Univ. of Lodz, Lodz, Poland)
T.W. Berger (Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA)
H.G. Beyer (Vorarlberg Univ. of Applied Sciences, Dornbirn, Austria)
A. Bigand (Univ.des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France)
R.G. Carvajal (Univ. of Seville, Sevilla, Spain)
W.A. Chaovalitwongse (The State Univ. of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, USA)
A.P. Chassiakos (Univ. of Patras, Patras, Portugal)
H.M. Cheick (Univ. of Quebee, Chicoutimi, Canada)
H.H. Chen (Natl. Sun Yat-Sen Univ Taiwan, Taiwan)
P. Chen (Carnegie Mellon University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA)
A.D. Cheok (National Univ. of Singapore, Kent Ridge, Singapore)
C.O. Chow (Tokai Univ., Tokyo, Japan)
C.Z. Christov (Univ. of Sussex, Brighton, UK)
S. Cimato (Univ. di Milano, Crema, Italy)
C.A. Coello (Av. Instituto Politécnico Nacional, San Pedro Zacatenco, Mexico)
D. Corne (Heriot-Watt Univ., Edinburgh, UK)
P. Cortes (Univ. of Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain)
A.P.C.S. Costa (Federal Univ. of Pernambuco,Recife, Brazil)
A. Coy (Univ. of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK)
M. Cremonini (Univ. of Milan, Milan, Italy)
A.T. De Almeida (Federal Univ. of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil)
F. De Rosis (Univ. of Bari, Bari, Italy)
K. Deb (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India)
S.M. Debbal (Univ. Aboubekr Belkaid, Tlemcen, Algeria)
A. Dehghani (Univ. of Leeds, Leeds, UK)
I. Dincer (King Fahd Univ. of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia)
K. Dong-Soo (Telerobotics & Control Lab, Daejeon, S. Korea)
J. Dopazo (Centro de Investigacion Principe Felipe, Valencia, Spain)
A. El Hami (Univ. INSA de Rouen, Normandy, France)
A.A. Fahoum (Yarmouk Univ., Irbid, Jordan)
A.D. Fenza (Institute for Chemical and Physical Processes (IPCF), Pisa, Italy)
J. Fogel (City Univ. of New York, New York, NY, USA)
A. Ghorbani (Univ. of Brunswick, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada)
A. Guergachi (Ryerson Univ., Ontario, CA, Canada)
F. Herrera (Univ. of Granada, Granada, Spain)
L. Heutte (Univ. de Rouen, Rouen, France)
A. Hospodor (IEE E CNSV Consultants, Los Gatos, CA, USA)
A. Hidalgo (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain)
A.J.L. Hou (National Tsing Hua Univ, Hsinchu, Taiwan)
S.H. Huang (Univ. of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA)
K.C. Hui (The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China)
C. Hung (Chung Yuan Christian Univ., Chungli, Taiwan)
Y. Ishida (Toyohashi Univ. of Technology, Toyohashi, Japan)
R.S.H. Istepanian (Kingston Univ., London, UK)
K. Iyer (Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA)
A. Jain (Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India)
A. Janiak (Wroclaw Univ. of Technology, Janiszewskiego, Poland)
X. Jiang (Nanyang Tech. Univ., Nanyang, Singapore)
S.C. Jun (Yuan Ze Univ., Taoyuan, Taiwan)
C.K. Koc (Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR, USA)
A.W-K. Kong (Univ. of Waterloo, Ontario, ON, Canada)
A.P.S. Kumar (PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India)
A. Kushniruk (Univ. of Victoria, British Columbia, BC, Canada)
A. Koulakov (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York, NY, USA)
N. Krishnan (Manonmaniam Sundaranar Univ., Tirunelveli. India)
A. Ksentini (Univ. of Rennes, Rennes, France)
D. Laefer (Univ. College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland)
F. Lanubile (Univ. of Bari, Bari, Italy)
L.M. Laura (Univ. of Seville, Sevilla, Spain)
M.N. Liebman (Windber Research Institute, Pennsylvania, PA, USA)
L.T. Lilien (Western Michigan Univ., Kalamazoo, MI, USA)
L. Liu (Georgia institute of Technology, Georgia, GA, USA)
S.K. Madria (Missouri Univ. of Science & Technology, Rolla, MO, USA)
A. Mantalaris (Imperial College London, London, UK)
A. Marcus (Wayne State Univ., Michigan, MI, USA)
F. Marino (Politecnico di Bari, Bari, Italy)
H.M.G. Martins (Univ. da Beira Interior, Covinha, Portugal)
S.N. Meziani (The Univ. of Salford, Manchester, UK)
E. Milková (Univ. of Hradec Králové, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic)
A. Milosavljevic (Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA)
S. Miyano (The Univ. of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan)
J. Mizera-Pietraszko (Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland)
C. Morabito (Univ. Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria, Italy)
J. Mostafa (Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN, USA)
A. Mukherjee (Thapar Univ., Patiala, India)
S. Nefti-Meziani (Univ. of Salford, Salford, UK)
N.T. Nguyen (Wroclaw Univ. of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland)
M. Noguera (Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain)
M. O'Neill (Univ. College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland)
A.A. Ola (CBA Kuwait Univ., Kuwait, Kuwait)
M. Pal (Univ. Of Wales Swansea, Swansea, UK)
S. Pang (GE Global Research, Niskayuna, NY, USA)
W. Park (Kwangwoon Univ., Seoul, Korea)
B. Patra (Univ. at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA)
M. Pezze (Univ. of Milano Bicocca, Milan, Italy)
T. Pham (James Cook Univ., Townsville, Australia)
A. Pourzaki (Khorasan Institute of Food Science and Industries, Mashhad, Iran)
L.M. Roa (Univ. of Seville, Sevilla, Spain)
A.M. Sabatini (ARTS Lab, Pisa, Italy)
A. Salkintzis (Mobile Devices Technology Office Motorola, Athens, Greece)
A. Sbihi (Lancaster Univ. Management School, Lancaster, UK)
P. Scerri (Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
R. Schettini (Univ. degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy)
D. Schonfeld (Univ. of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA)
K. Seghouane (France and National ICT Australia, Canberra, Australia)
B. Sendhoff (Honda Research Institute Europe, Offenbach, Germany)
A. Sequeira (Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal)
F. Sheng (The Univ. Town, Shenzhen, China)
A. Shervington (Univ. of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK)
F.Y. Shih (New Jersey Inst. of Technol., New Jersey, NJ, USA)
A.N. Sinha (Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, India)
S. Soffer (IPriori, Inc, California, CA, USA)
M. Sonmez (Loughborough Univ. Business School, Loughborough, UK)
G. Succi (Univ. of Bozen, Bolzano, Italy)
Y. Sun (Tongji Univ, Shanghai, China)
J. Tait (University of Sunderland, Sunderland, UK)
A.M.K. Tarabia (Al-Jouf Univ., Al-Jouf, Saudi Arabia)
C-F. Tsai (National Chung Cheng Univ., Minsyong, Taiwan)
E.D. Ubeyli (Univ. of Economics and Technology, Ankara, Turkey)
A.A. Ungar (North Dakota State Univ., Fargo, ND, USA)
E. Vezzetti (Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy)
A. Vitaletti (Univ. of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy)
S.H. Voldman (IBM Semiconductor Research and Development Center, Vermont, VT, USA)
S. Wan (Northwestern Polytechnical University, Shaanxi, China)
L. Wang (Rochester institute of Technology, Rochester, Germany)
O. Wolfson (Univ. of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA)
N. Xi (Michigan State Univ., Michigan, MI, USA)
R.B. Yates (Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain)
D. Yang (Trinity University, Son Antonio, TX, USA)
 P.C. Yuen (Baptist Univ, Hong kong, China)
A. Zaia (Italian National Research Center on Aging, Ancona, Italy)
A. Zelinsky (CSIRO ICT Centre, Marsfield, Australia)
W. Ziarko (Univ. of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada)