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Printedonacid-freepaper SpringerispartofSpringerScience+BusinessMedia(www.springer.com) Affiliations of Authors (Vol. 1 & Vol. 2) AbdulazizAlkhalid MathematicalandComputerSciencesandEngineeringDivision KingAbdullahUniversityofScienceandTechnology Thuwal,23955-6900 SaudiArabia e-mail:[email protected] TalhaAmin MathematicalandComputerSciencesandEngineeringDivision KingAbdullahUniversityofScienceandTechnology Thuwal,23955-6900 SaudiArabia e-mail:[email protected] PiotrArtiemjew DepartmentofMathematicsandComputerScience UniversityofWarmiaandMazury 54,Słoneczna,Olsztyn,10-710 Poland e-mail:[email protected] S. Asharaf IndianInstituteofManagementKozhikode Kozhikode,Kerala India673570 e-mail:[email protected] NoumanAzam DepartmentofComputerScience UniversityofRegina Regina,Saskatchewan CanadaS4S0A2 e-mail:[email protected] VI AffiliationsofAuthors(Vol.1&Vol.2) SanghamitraBandyopadhyay MachineIntelligenceUnit IndianStatisticalInstitute 203,B.T.Road,Kolkata700108 India e-mail:[email protected] MohuaBanerjee IndianInstituteofTechnology Kanpur,208016 India e-mail:[email protected] MinakshiBanerjee CenterforSoftComputingResearch IndianStatisticalInstitute 203,B.T.Road,Kolkata700108 India e-mail:[email protected] Jan G.Bazan InstituteofComputerScience UniversityofRzeszo´w 2,Dekerta,Rzeszo´w,35-030 Poland e-mail:[email protected] and InstituteofMathematics UniversityofWarsaw 2,Banacha.,Warsaw,02-097 Poland StanisławaBazan-Socha SecondDepartmentofInternalMedicine JagiellonianUniversityMedicalCollege 8,Skawin´ska,Cracow,31-066 Poland e-mail:[email protected] TheresaBeaubouef DepartmentofComputerScienceandIndustrialTechnology SLU10847 SoutheasternLouisianaUniversity Hammond,LA70402 USA e-mail:[email protected] AffiliationsofAuthors(Vol.1&Vol.2) VII Parag Bhalchandra SchoolofComputationalSciences SwamiRamanandTeerthMarathwadaUniversity Nanded,Maharashtra India431606 e-mail:[email protected] Jerzy Błaszczyn´ski InstituteofComputingScience Poznan´ UniversityofTechnology 2,Piotrowo,Poznan´,60-965 Poland e-mail:[email protected] ZbigniewBonikowski InstituteofMathematicsandInformatics OpoleUniversity Poland e-mail:[email protected] Edward Bryniarski InstituteofMathematicsandInformatics OpoleUniversity Poland e-mail:[email protected] SylwiaBuregwa-Czuma InstituteofComputerScience UniversityofRzeszo´w 2,Dekerta,Rzeszo´w,35-030 Poland e-mail:[email protected] Cory Butz DepartmentofComputerScience UniversityofRegina 3737WascanaParkway Regina,Saskatchewan CanadaS4S0A2 e-mail:[email protected] MihirKr.Chakraborty CenterforCognitiveScience JadavpurUniversity Kolkata700032 India VIII AffiliationsofAuthors(Vol.1&Vol.2) and IndianStatisticalInstitute 203,B.T.Road,Kolkata700108 India e-mail:[email protected] Nick Cercone DepartmentofComputerScienceandEngineering YorkUniversityToronto ONM3J1P3,Canada e-mail:[email protected] Chien-Chung Chan DepartmentofComputerScience,CAS221 UniversityofAkron Akron,OH44325-4003 USA e-mail:[email protected] Chiao-Chen Chang DepartmentofInternationalBusiness NationalDongHwaUniversity No.1,Sec.2,DaHsuehRd.,Shoufeng,Hualien97401 Taiwan e-mail:[email protected] HongmeiChen SchoolofInformationScienceandTechnology SouthwestJiaotongUniversity&KeyLabofCloudComputingandIntelligent Technology Chengdu,610031 China e-mail:[email protected] IgorChikalov MathematicalandComputerSciencesandEngineeringDivision KingAbdullahUniversityofScienceandTechnology Thuwal,23955-6900 SaudiArabia e-mail:[email protected] Yang-Chieh Chin DepartmentofManagementScience NationalChiaoTungUniversity 1001Ta-HsuehRoad,Hsinchu300 Taiwan e-mail:[email protected] AffiliationsofAuthors(Vol.1&Vol.2) IX DavydovMaksymVolodymyrovych LvivPolytechnicNationalUniversity 12,Bandery,L’viv,79013 Ukraine e-mail:[email protected] PawełDelimata InstituteofComputerScience UniversityofRzeszo´w 2,Dekerta,Rzeszo´w,35-030 Poland e-mail:[email protected] Ivo Du¨ntsch BrockUniversity,St.Catharines,Ontario Canada,L2S3A1 e-mail:[email protected] AlyA. Fahmy FacultyofComputersandInformation CairoUniversity Egypt e-mail:[email protected] Gu¨ntherGediga DepartmentofPsychology,InstitutIV,Universita¨tMu¨nster Fliednerstr.21,Mu¨nster48149 Germany e-mail:[email protected] SalvatoreGreco DepartmentofEconomicsandBusiness UniversityofCatania 55,CorsoItalia,Catania,95129 Italy e-mail:[email protected] PiotrGrochowalski InstituteofComputerScience UniversityofRzeszo´w 2,Dekerta,Rzeszo´w,35-030 Poland e-mail:[email protected] X AffiliationsofAuthors(Vol.1&Vol.2) Jerzy W. Grzymała-Busse DepartmentofElectricalEngineeringandComputerScience UniversityofKansas 3014EatonHall 1520W.15thSt.,Lawrence,KS66045-7621 USA e-mail:[email protected] and InstituteofComputerScience,PolishAcademyofScience 5,JanaKazimierza,Warsaw,01-237 Poland OsmanGurdal SchoolofMedicine,IUPUI 975W.WalnutStreet,Indianapolis,IN46202 USA e-mail:[email protected] AboulEllaHassanien FacultyofComputersandInformation CairoUniversity Egypt e-mail:[email protected] HodychOles Vasyliovych LvivPolytechnicNationalUniversity 12,Bandery,L’viv,79013 Ukraine e-mail:[email protected] JunHu InstituteofComputerScienceandTechnology ChongqingUniversityofPostsandTelecommunications Chongqing,400065 P.R.China e-mail:[email protected] QinghuaHu HarbinInstituteofTechnology Box458,Harbin150001,HeilongjiangProvince P.R.China e-mail:huqinghua@ hit.edu.cn Shahid Hussain MathematicalandComputerSciencesandEngineeringDivision KingAbdullahUniversityofScienceandTechnology AffiliationsofAuthors(Vol.1&Vol.2) XI Thuwal,23955-6900 SaudiArabia e-mail:[email protected] MasahiroInuiguchi GraduateSchoolofEngineeringScience 1-3Machikaneyama-cho,Toyonaka,Osaka560-8531 Japan e-mail:[email protected] Ryszard Janicki DepartmentofComputingandSoftware McMasterUniversity Hamilton,ON CanadaL8S4K1 e-mail:[email protected] JanuszKacprzyk SystemsResearchInstitute,PolishAcademyofSciences 6,Newelska,Warsaw,01-447 Poland e-mail:[email protected] and WIT-WarsawSchoolofInformationTechnology 6,Newelska,Warsaw,01-447 Poland Md.AquilKhan TheInstituteofMathematicalSciences Chennai,600113 India e-mail:[email protected] and InstituteofMathematics UniversityofWarsaw 2,Banacha,Warsaw,02-097 Poland Ikno Kim TheGraduateSchoolofInformation,ProductionandSystems WasedaUniversity 2-7Hibikino,Wakamatsu,Kitakyushu808-0135 Japan e-mail:[email protected]