About the Editor

Plamen Angelov

Plamen Angelov is a Reader in Computational Intelligence and coordinator of the Intelligent Systems Research at Infolab21, Lancaster University, UK. He is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Chair of two Technical Committees (TC): the TC on Standards, Computational Intelligence Society and the TC on Evolving Intelligent Systems, Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society. He is also a member of the UK Autonomous Systems National TC, of the Autonomous Systems Study Group, NorthWest Science Council, UK and of the Autonomous Systems Network of the Society of British Aerospace Companies. He is a very active academic and researcher who has authored or co-authored over 150 peer-reviewed publications in leading journals, 50+ peer-reviewed conference proceedings, a patent, a research monograph, a number of edited books, and has an active research portfolio in the area of computational intelligence and autonomous system modelling, identification and machine learning. He has internationally recognised pioneering results in online and evolving methodologies and algorithms for knowledge extraction in the form of human-intelligible fuzzy rule-based systems and autonomous machine learning. Angelov is also a very active researcher leading projects funded by EPSRC, ASHRAE-USA, EC FP6 and 7, The Royal Society, Nuffield Foundation, DTI/DBIS, MoD and other industry players (BAE Systems, 4S Information Systems, Sagem/SAFRAN, United Aircraft Corporation and Concern Avionica, NLR, etc.).

His research contributes to the competitiveness of the industry, defence and quality of life through projects such as ASTRAEA – a £32M (phase I and £30M phase II) programme, in which Angelov led projects on collision avoidance (£150K, 2006/08) and adaptive routeing (£75K, 2006/08). The work on this project was recognised by The Engineer Innovation and Technology 2008 Award in two categories: (i) Aerospace and Defence and (ii) The Special Award. Other examples of research that has direct impact on the competitiveness of UK industry and quality of life are the BAE Systems-funded project on sense and avoid (principal investigator, £66K, 2006/07), BAE-funded project on UAS passive sense, detect and avoid algorithm development (£24K consultancy, a part of ASTRAEA-II, 2009), BAE Systems-funded project (co-investigator, £44K, 2008) on UAV safety support, EC-funded project (€ 1.3M, co-investigator) on safety (and maintenance) improvement through automated flight data analysis, Ministry of Defence-funded projects (‘Multi-source Intelligence: STAKE: Real-time Spatio-Temporal Analysis and Knowledge Extraction through Evolving Clustering’, £30K, principal investigator, 2011 and ‘Assisted Carriage: Intelligent Leader–Follower Algorithms for Ground Platforms’, £42K, 2009 which developed an unmanned ground-based vehicle prototype taken further by Boeing-UK in a demonstrator programme in 2009–11), the £9M project GAMMA: Growing Autonomous systems Mission Management, 2011--2014, in which PI of £480K work); funded by the Regional Growth Fund, UK Government; the £3M project CAST (Coordinated Airborne Studies in the Tropics) which envisages usage of the Global Hawk with NASA so-called ‘innovation vouchers’ by the North-West Development Agency-UK and Autonomous Vehicles International Ltd (£10K, 2010, principal investigator), MBDA-led project on algorithms for automatic feature extraction and object classification from aerial images (£56K, 2010) funded by the French and British defence ministries. Angelov is also the founding Editor-in-Chief of Springer's journal Evolving Systems, and serves as an Associate Editor of several other international journals. He chairs annual conferences organised by the IEEE, acts as Visiting Professor (2005, Brazil; 2007, Germany; 2010, Spain) and regularly gives invited and plenary talks at leading companies (Ford, Dow Chemical USA, QinetiQ, BAE Systems, Thales, etc.) and universities (Michigan, USA; Delft, the Netherlands; Leuven, Belgium; Linz, Austria; Campinas, Brazil; Wolfenbuettel, Germany; etc.).

More information can be found at www.lancs.ac.uk/staff/angelov.