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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL INFORMATICS
Editor-in-Chief
Past Editor-in-Chief
K IM F. M AN
City University of Hong Kong
Electronic Engineering
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e-mail: eekman@cityu.edu.hk http://www.ee.cityu.edu.hk/~kfman/
BOGDAN M. WILAMOWSKI
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
200 Broun Hall, Auburn University,
AL 36849-5201 USA
wilam@ieee.org
Co Editor-in-Chiefs
M ARCO L ISERRE
Aalborg University, Denmark
M O-YUEN CHOW
North Carolina State University
Associate Editors
K AMAL A L-HADDAD
Ecole de Technologie Superieure,
Canada
M EHMET ONDER EFE
Hacettepe University, Istanbul,
Turkey
M ARINA I NDRI
Politecnico di Torino,
Italy
JOSE A LFONSO A NTONIO-DAVIU
Universitat Politecnica de Valencia,
Spain
JOSE ESPINOZA
Concepcion University,
Chile
OKYAY K AYNAK
Bogazici University, Istanbul,
Turkey
A LEXANDER FAY
Helmut-Schmidt University,
Germany
M ARIAN K AZMIERKOWSKI
Warsaw University of Technology,
Poland
L UCA BENINI
University of Bologna,
Italy
DIETMAR BRUCKNER
Vienna University of Technology,
Austria
GIANLUCA CENA
IEIIT-CNR, Torino,
Italy
JIMING CHEN
Zhejiang University,
China
TOMMY CHOW
City University of Hong Kong,
Hong Kong
PIOTR J. CHRZAN
Gdansk University of Technology,
Poland
M ARCIAN CIRSTEA
Anglia Ruskin University,
England
GERHARD P. HANCKE
City University of Hong Kong,
Hong Kong
M ARCO DI NATALE
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna,
Italy
DRAGAN DJURDJANOVIC
University of Texas at Austin,
USA
PIOTR GAJ
Silesian University of Technology,
Poland
HUIJUN GAO
Harbin Inst. of Technology,
China
M ILOS M ANIC
University of Idaho,
USA
JOSE L. MARTINEZ L ASTRA
Tampere University of Technology,
Finland
ERIC M ONMASSON
Universitê de Cergy,
France
HASAN K OMURCUGIL
Eastern Mediterranean University,
Turkey
ZHIWEI GAO
Northumbria University,
England
TEI-WEI K UO
National Taiwan University,
Taiwan
L UIS GOMES
Universidade Nova de Lisboa,
Portugal
SAM TAK WU K WONG
City University of Hong Kong,
Hong Kong
A NTONI GRAU
University of Catalonia,
Spain
JAY L EE
University of Cincinnati,
Ohio, USA
JAN HAASE
Vienna University of Technology,
Austria
JU-JANG (JJ) L EE
Korea Advanced Institute of Sci.
and Technol. (KAIST), Korea
HONGHAI L IU
University of Portsmouth,
U.K.
HANS HANSSON
Mälardalen University,
Sweden
V INCENZO L OIA
University of Salerno,
Italy
WENG K HUEN HO
National University of Singapore,
Singapore
L UCIA L O BELLO
University of Catania,
Italy
SHIYAN HU
Michigan Technological University,
Michigan, USA
BRENDAN M CGRATH
RMIT University,
Australia
TAMAS K EREKES
Aalborg University,
Denmark
GERHARD HANCKE
University of Pretoria,
South Africa
ADAM SLOWIK
Koszalin University of Technology,
Poland
PIERLUIGI SIANO
University of Salerno,
Italy
THOMAS STRASSER
AIT Austrian Institute of Technology,
Austria
L OTHAR THIELE
Swiss Federal Inst. of Technol. (ETHZ),
Switzerland
PETER PALENSKY
Vienna University of Technology,
Austria
A DRIANO V ALENZANO
CNR/IEIIT, Torino,
Italy
M ARIO PAOLONE
Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology of Lausanne,
Switzerland
FRANCISCO V ASQUES
University of Porto,
Portugal
BIRGIT V OGEL-HEUSER
Technical University Munich,
Germany
A LBERTO PIGAZO
University of Cantabria,
Spain
V ALERIY V YATKIN
Lulea Tekniska Universitet,
Sweden
ROBIN G. QIU
Pennsylvania State University,
USA
JOSE RODRIGUEZ
Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Clara,
Chile
JUAN JOSE RODRIGUEZ-A NDINA
University of Vigo,
Spain
THILO SAUTER
Austrian Academy of Science,
Austria
DIMITRIOS SERPANOS
University of Patras,
Greece
A LEKSANDER M ALINOWSKI
University or Peoria,
Illinois, USA
CE-KUEN SHIEH
National Cheng-Kung University,
Taiwan
BOGDAN WILAMOWSKI
Auburn University,
USA
X INGHUO Y U
Royal Melbourne Institute of
Technology, Australia
A RMIN ZIMMERMANN
Technical University of Ilmenau,
Germany
A HMED FAHEEM ZOBAA
Brunel University,
United Kingdom
GERHARD ZUKER
AIT Austrian Institute of Technology,
Austria
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