Laurence Tianruo YangLaurence T. Yang is a professor with the Department of Computer Science at St Francis Xavier University (Canada). His research includes high performance computing and networking, embedded systems, ubiquitous/pervasive computing, and intelligence. He as published around 300 papers (including over 80 international journal papers such as IEEE and ACM Transactions) in refereed journals, conference proceedings, and book chapters in these areas. He has been involved in more than 100 conferences and workshops as a program/general/steering conference chair and more than 300 conference and workshops as a program committee member. He served as the vice-chair of IEEE Technical Committee of Supercomputing Applications (TCSA) until 2004, currently is the chair of IEEE Technical Committee of Scalable Computing (TCSC), and the chair of IEEE Task force on Ubiquitous Computing and Intelligence. In addition, he is the editor-in-chief of several international journals and a few book series. He is serving as an editor for numerous international journals. He has been acting as an author/co-author or an editor/co-editor of 25 books from Kluwer, Springer, IGI Global, Nova Science, American Scientific Publishers, and John Wiley & Sons. He has won 5 Best Paper Awards (including the IEEE 20th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-06)) and 1 Best Paper Nomination in 2007; as well as a Distinguished Achievement Award, 2005; and Canada Foundation for Innovation Award, 2003. Read More Read Less