Andreas Meier is an emeritus professor of data science at the faculty of economics and social sciences of the University of Fribourg. After music studies in Vienna, he graduated in mathematics at the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich and got a Ph.D. and habilitation degree at the institute for computer science. He conducted research at the IBM Research Lab in California, was a systems engineer at IBM Switzerland, a director at a swiss bank corporation, and a member of the executive board of the CSS insurance company. His research areas included eBusiness, eGovernment, and information management.

Gwen Wilke is a lecturer of Data Analytics and Mathematics at the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW). She studied mathematics at the University of Vienna and the Technical University of Berlin, and received her Ph.D. from the Technical University of Vienna in the field of Geographic Information Science, specializing in Fuzzy Geometries. Among others, she was a guest researcher at the Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC) at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests focus on Data Analytics and Human Data Interaction.

Allel Hadjali is Full Professor in Computer Science at the National Engineering School for Mechanics and Aerotechnics, Poitiers, France. He is a member of the Data & Model Engineering research team of the Laboratory of Computer Science and Automatic Control for Systems. His main area of research falls within Data Science field, and more specifically, the research topics related to Data Exploitation & Analysis (sensor data, semantic data, incomplete data), Knowledge Extraction and Recommendation. His current research interests include Soft Computing and Computational Intelligence in Databases (Cooperative/Intelligent Databases, Data fusion/integration, Data quality, Data Uncertainty, Data Privacy and Trust), Machine Learning-based Recommendation and Explainable Artificial Intelligence. His recent works were published in well-known journals (e.g., Applied Soft Computing, Knowledge and Information Systems, Fuzzy Sets and Systems, International Journal of Intelligent Systems, Journal of Intelligent Information Systems and Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence).

Cristina Puente Águeda is Professor at the School of Engineering (ICAI- Universidad Pontificia Comillas), Department of Telematics and Computer Science. She graduated in Computer Engineering in 2001 from the Universidad Pontificia Comillas de Madrid. In 2010, she received his PhD with European mention also from Universidad Pontificia Comillas, being her main lines of research Natural Language Processing, Soft Computing techniques and their applications. She belongs to the BISC (Berkeley Initiative for Soft Computing), where she spent 4 months at the University of Berkeley (San Francisco, USA), with Professor Lotfi Zadeh, and another 3 months in Marseille with professor Elie Sanchez. In the academic year 2021-2022 she founded the research group of which she is principal investigator “AEQUITAS: Power and Equity in the Digital Age”, dedicated among other work to the application of artificial intelligence techniques for the study of equality.

Elpiniki I. Papageorgiou is an associate professor at the Energy Systems Department and director of the MSc program in “Energy and Automation Systems” at the University of Thessaly, Larissa. She holds an MSc degree in Medical Physics from the same University and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Patras. She has been working for over 17 years as a principal investigator and senior researcher in several European and Greek research projects. She is IEEE Senior Member, IEEE in Women in Computational Intelligence, and member in IEEE CIS. Her research interests include intelligent systems, fuzzy cognitive maps, soft computing methods, decision support systems, cognitive systems, data mining, and machine learning. Her main research specialization is the development of novel algorithms and fuzzy models for intelligent decision support systems focused on Fuzzy Cognitive Maps.

Jose M. Alonso Moral is with the Centro Singular de Investigación en Tecnoloxías Intelixentes (CiTIUS) at the University de Santiago de Compostela. Dr. Alonso holds a Master’s and Ph.D. degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the Technical University of Madrid. He is a board member of several the ACL Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation, the European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology (EUSFLAT), Chair of the Task Force on Explainable Fuzzy Systems in the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (IEEE-CIS), Associate Editor of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems and member of the IEEE-CIS Task Forces on Explainable Machine Learning and Fuzzy Systems Software.

Marco Elio Tabacchi, Ph.D., is a fuzzy logician and a prize-winning printmaker. He is the Scientific Director at Instituto Nazionale di Ricerche Demopolis, where fuzzy logic is used to improve society’s understanding. Dr. Tabacchi is also a researcher at Dipartimento di Fisica e Chimica “Emilio Segré” – Università Degli Studi di Palermo, developing fuzzy Clinical Diagnosis Support Systems.

Miroslav Hudec is an associate professor at the VSB – Technical University of Ostrava and at the University of Economics in Bratislava, as well as visiting professor at the University of Belgrade. He received a Master’s degree in information sciences and a Ph.D. degree in operations research from the University of Belgrade. He has a Habilitation in System engineering and informatics from the VSB – Technical University of Ostrava. His work is mainly focused on fuzzy logic, knowledge discovery, aggregation functions, and business intelligence.

Professor Vilém Novák, Ph.D., DSc. is the founder and former director of the Institute for Research and Applications of Fuzzy Modeling of the University of Ostrava, Czech Republic. The institute (established in 1996) is one of the world-renowned scientific workplaces that significantly contributed to the theory and applications of fuzzy modeling. He is the author or co-author of 5 scientific monographs, two edited mono- graphs, and over 300 scientific papers with over 7000 citations. He was awarded in the International Conference FLINS 2010 in China and obtained the title “IFSA fellow” in 2017 for his scientific achievements. He is currently the vice- president of IFSA.