Genetic and Evolutionary Computing

Jerry Chun-Wei Lin is currently working as the full Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway. He has published 500+ research papers in refereed journals and is the leader of the well-known SPMF project, which provides more than 190 data mining algorithms and has been widely cited in many different applications (around 900 citation). He is also the founder and the leader of PPSF project. Moreover, he has been awarded as the Most Cited Chinese Researcher in 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021 by Elsevier/Scopus and Top-2% Scientist in 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022 respectively by Stanford University. He is the Fellow of IET (FIET), ACM Distinguished Member (Scientist), and IEEE Senior Member.

Chin-Shiuh Shieh received the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the National Taiwan University, Taiwan, in 1991, and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan, in 2009. In August 1991, he joined the faculty of the Department of Electronic Engineering at the National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan, where he currently serves as a full professor. His research interests include computer networking, embedded systems, computational intelligence, and information security.


Mong Fong Horng received his B.S., Ms. and Ph.D degrees from National Chiao Tung University and National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan in 1989, 1991 and 2003, respectively. He now is a jointly-appointed professor with the department of Electronics Engineering at National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, and Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan. Till 2022, Dr. Horng had published 141 academic papers, 6 textbooks, about his research. There are 65 papers indexed by Web of Service (WoS), 116 papers indexed by EI and 125 papers indexed by Scopus. He served as the president of Taiwanese