A.E. Ruano

Antonio Ruano received his First Degree in Electronic and Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Aveiro, Portugal, in 1982, his MSc in Electrothecnic Engineering from the University of Wales in 1992. In 1992 he joined the Departmentof Electronic Engineering and Informatics of the University of Algarve, where in 1996 he became Associate Professor of Automatic Control. He is Associate Editor for Automatica, a member of the Editorial Board of International Journal of Systems Science, and serves a reviewer for several journals and international conferences. He is a senior member of the IEE and a member of the Cognition for Control, Real-Time Computing and Control and Computer Control for Agricultural Applications TCs of IFAC.