Internet of Unmanned Things (Iout) and Mission-Based Networking

Chaker Abdelaziz Kerrache is an associate professor at the department of Computer Science, University of Laghouat, Algeria. He is currently the head of the Informatics and Mathematics Laboratory (LIM) and the manager of the Business Incubator at the University of Laghouat. He received his MSc. degree in computer science in 2012, and his Ph.D. degree in computer science in 2017, both at the University of Laghouat, Algeria. In 2013, he joined the Informatics and Mathematics Laboratory (LIM) as a research assistant and the Computer Networks Group (GRC) in 2015 as a visiting PhD student. His research activity is related to trust and risk management, secure multi-hop communications, vehicular networks, Named Data Networking (NDN), Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), and Brain-to-Computer Interface (BCI).

Carlos Miguel Tavares De Araujo Cesariny Calafate is a Full Professor at the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) since December 2018 in the area of Computer Architecture and Technology, and his research focuses on Communication Networks. He has been teaching at the School of Informatics since 2004. As a full-time professor at the School of Informatics, he has always been teaching courses in the Computer Networks area. As proof of his quality as a teacher, in 2017 he received the Excellent Teacher Award by the Social Council of the UPV and the Valencian Government. In terms of research activity, he has two "sexenios" Periods 2005-2010, and 2011-2016. In 2014, his group received the best research group award (UPV). He has led different national, regional and local research projects. He is currently involved in the SmartLagoon European project, and the SETMAN national project (RTI2018-096384-B-I00), among others. He has participated in the scientific committee of more than 300 conferences sponsored by IEEE, ACM and IFIP. Among others, he has been TPC Chair of ICCCN 2018, DS-RT 2019/2020, IFIP Wireless Days 2013 and ICT-DM 2018, Workshops Chair of the CCNC Conference in 2016 and 2017, and General Chair of DS-RT 2021, ICCCN 2020, INSERT-IoT 2019, Goodtechs 2017, ICCNA 2017, and DroNet 2018, among others. He is currently an associate editor of several scientific journals including: Elsevier Vehicular Networks, MDPI Sensors, Mobile Information Systems, International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, MDPI Electronics, IET Smart Cities, IET Networks, MDPI Drones, etc. He is ranked among the World's Top 2% Scientists, and also among the top 100 Spanish researchers in the Computer Science & Electronics field. He is a founding member of the IEEE SIG on Big Data with Computational Intelligence and the IEEE SIG on Green Internet of Vehicles. To date he has published about 460 papers in journals, books and conferences, including 120 articles in international journals with JCR impact index (70 in Q1), and 213 articles in international conferences (mainly IEEE, ACM and IFIP), 50 of them classified as CORE A/GRIN class 2.

Abderrahmane Lakas is a Professor in the department of Computer and Network Engineering, UAE University. He received his PhD and MSc in Computer Systems from the University of Paris 6 (Pierre et Marie Currie), France respectively in 1996, and 1991. Prior to joining UAE University in 2003, he worked in the industry in various companies such as Nortel Networks (Canada, 1998), Newbridge Networks (Canada, 1997) and start-up company Netrake Corp. (US, Dallas, 2000), serving in various technical and managerial positions. Dr Lakas completed his post-doc at the School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematical Sciences, in Lancaster University, UK (1994-1996) before joining the School of IT and Engineering, University of Ottawa (1996-1997) as a Research Associate, working on various aspects of software engineering for telecommunication systems. At UAE University, Dr Lakas is the head of the CAST (Connected and Autonomous Systems) research team in the CIT and in charge of the CIT's ASIL (Autonomous and IoT Lab). He has published more than a 100 journal and conference papers on various research topics focusing on wireless networks, vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET), intelligent transportation systems (ITS), Internet of Things (IoT), pervasive computing, QoS, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), network security and intrusion detection specifically in mobile ad hoc environments. Dr Lakas is an associate editor in the IEEE Access journal, IET Networks, reviewer for the following journals: IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, EEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Access, Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies (ETT), International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, Computer Communications, International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Ad Hoc Networks, Vehicular Communications, Computers and Electrical Engineering, Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, International Journal of Communication Systems, Enterprise Information Systems. He is member of the technical program committee of several conferences. He has been publishing his research in renown journals and conferences such as IEEE VTC, IEEE CC, IEEE Globcom, IEEE WCNC. Dr Lakas participated to the organization of several scientific events namely he chaired the IEEE IIT'2006 and IIT'2012, chaired a workshop in the Drones Middle East for Government and Public Services, Dubai (2016), co-chaired workshop on artificial intelligence for sustainable B5G/6G networks. Dr Lakas is a recipient of many academic and industrial awards including Faculty Excellence Award in Service, UAE Univ. (2008), Achievement Award, Nortel (1999), Achievement Award, Newbridge (1998).

Mohamed Lahby is Associate Professor at the Higher Normal School (ENS) University Hassan II of Casablanca, Morocco. His PhD in Computer Science from Faculty of Sciences and Technology of Mohammedia, University Hassan II of Casablanca, in 2013. His research interests are wireless communication and network, mobility management, QoS/QoE, Internet of things, Smart cities, Optimization and Machine learning. He has published more than 35 papers (book chapters, international journals, and conferences), 1 edited book, and 1 authored book. He has served and continues to serve on executive and technical program committees of numerous international conferences such as IEEE PIMRC, ICC, NTMS, IWCMC, WINCOM, ISNCC. He also serves as a referee of many prestigious Elsevier journals: Ad Hoc Networks, Applied Computing and Informatics and International journal of disaster risk reduction. He organized and participated more than 40 conferences and workshops. He is the chair of many international workshops and special sessions such as MLNGSN'19, CSPSC'19, MLNGSN'20, MLNGSN'21, AI2SC '20 and WCTCP'20, CIOT'22.

Chaker Abdelaziz Kerrache 是阿爾及利亞拉古阿特大學計算機科學系的副教授。他目前擔任資訊與數學實驗室（LIM）的負責人以及拉古阿特大學商業孵化器的經理。他於2012年獲得計算機科學碩士學位，並於2017年獲得計算機科學博士學位，均在阿爾及利亞拉古阿特大學取得。2013年，他以研究助理身份加入資訊與數學實驗室（LIM），並於2015年作為訪問博士生加入計算機網絡小組（GRC）。他的研究活動與信任與風險管理、安全的多跳通信、車輛網絡、命名數據網絡（NDN）、無人機（UAV）以及腦機介面（BCI）相關。

Carlos Miguel Tavares De Araujo Cesariny Calafate 自2018年12月起擔任瓦倫西亞理工大學（UPV）計算機架構與技術領域的全職教授，他的研究重點在於通信網絡。自2004年以來，他一直在資訊學院教授課程。作為資訊學院的全職教授，他始終教授計算機網絡領域的課程。作為教師的質量證明，他於2017年獲得UPV社會委員會和瓦倫西亞政府頒發的優秀教師獎。在研究活動方面，他擁有兩個“sexenios”期間，分別是2005-2010年和2011-2016年。2014年，他的團隊獲得了最佳研究小組獎（UPV）。他曾領導多個國家、區域和地方的研究項目。目前，他參與了SmartLagoon歐洲項目和SETMAN國家項目（RTI2018-096384-B-I00）等多個項目。他參與了300多個由IEEE、ACM和IFIP贊助的會議的科學委員會工作。除此之外，他曾擔任ICCCN 2018、DS-RT 2019/2020、IFIP Wireless Days 2013和ICT-DM 2018的TPC主席，並在2016年和2017年擔任CCNC會議的工作坊主席，以及在2021年擔任DS-RT、ICCCN 2020、INSERT-IoT 2019、Goodtechs 2017、ICCNA 2017和DroNet 2018的總主席。他目前是多本科學期刊的副編輯，包括：Elsevier Vehicular Networks、MDPI Sensors、Mobile Information Systems、International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks、MDPI Electronics、IET Smart Cities、IET Networks、MDPI Drones等。他在全球前2%的科學家中排名，並且在計算機科學與電子領域的西班牙研究人員中排名前100名。他是IEEE大數據計算智能特別興趣小組和IEEE綠色車輛互聯網特別興趣小組的創始成員。至今，他已在期刊、書籍和會議上發表約460篇論文，其中包括120篇在具有JCR影響指數的國際期刊上（70篇在Q1），以及213篇在國際會議上（主要是IEEE、ACM和IFIP），其中50篇被歸類為CORE A/GRIN 2類。

Abderrahmane Lakas 是阿聯酋大學計算機與網絡工程系的教授。他於1996年和1991年分別在法國巴黎第六大學（Pierre et Marie Currie）獲得計算機系統的博士和碩士學位。在2003年加入阿聯酋大學之前，他曾在多家公司工作，包括Nortel Networks（加拿大，1998年）、Newbridge Networks（加拿大，1997年）和初創公司Netrake Corp.（美國，達拉斯，2000年），擔任各種技術和管理職位。Lakas博士於1994年至1996年在英國蘭卡斯特大學工程、計算和數學科學學院完成博士後研究，然後於1996年至1997年在渥太華大學IT與工程學院擔任研究助理，從事電信系統軟件工程的各個方面的研究。在阿聯酋大學，Lakas博士是CIT的連接與自主系統（CAST）研究小組的負責人。