• Youakim Badr, INSA de Lyon, France

• Richard Chbeir, Bourgogne University, France

• Yuehui Chen, Jinan University, China

• Swagatam Das, Javadpur University, India

• Aboul Ella Hassanien, Cairo University, Egypt

• Crina Groşan, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania

• Suliman Hawemdeh, University of Oklahoma, USA

• Hisao Ishibuchi, Osaka prefecture University, Japan

• Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia

• Arpad Kelemen, University at Buffalo, USA

• Amit Konar, Javadpur University, India

• Mario Köppen, Fraunhofer IPK - FHG, Germany / Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan

• Hongbo Liu, Dalian University of Technology, China

• Yukio Ohsawa, University of Tokyo, Japan

• Antony Satyadas, IBM, USA

• Vasile Palade, Oxford University, UK

• Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada

• Jeng-Shyang Pan, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Taiwan

• James Peters, University of Manitoba, Canada

• Sonja Petrovic-Lazarevic, Monash University, Australia

• Marcin Paprzycki, Oklahoma State University, USA

• Vitorino Ramos, CVRM GeoSystems Centre–IST, Portugal

• P. Saratchandran, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

• Sugata Sanyal, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India

• Siti Shamsuddin, University Technologi Malaysia, Malaysia

• Muhammad Riaz Khan, AMEC Inc., Canada

• Johnson Thomas, Oklahoma State University, USA

• Fatos Xhafa, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain

Professor Yasuhiko Dote, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan was a great friend and scientific mentor who inspired and influenced me a lot from several perspectives. Professor Dote passed away on March 04, 2006.