• Prof. Jose L. Salmeron University Pablo de Olavide - Global optimization of fuzzy cognitive maps for time series forecasting

Prof. Jose L. Salmeron has almost twenty years experience in research and teaching. Experience includes academic positions at several universities, consulting in ICT industry and a broad spectrum of collaborations with private and public organizations. He has been actively involved (as leader and team member) in several research projects, funded from national and international organizations, including the European Union framework and national science programs. He participates in EU projects, working with the development of intelligent algorithms based on computational intelligence, machine learning, and artificial intelligence techniques for complex diagnostic, decision support, and quantitative methods (including multicriteria and computational ones). He belongs to the editorial board of Applied Soft Computing and others top-tier journals and conferences. Prof. Salmeron is Co-Chair of the 2015 IEEE In- ternational Conference on Grey Systems and Intelligent Services (GSIS) and he has recently organized FCM special sessions at FUZZ-IEEE from 2011 to 2016 conferences. He has served on organizing and program committees of a number of conferences and workshops. His papers have been published in IEEE Transactions of Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Expert Systems with Applications, Knowledge-Based Systems, Applied Intelligence, Communications of the ACM, Journal of Systems and Software, Computer Standards & Interfaces, Interacting with Computers, International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, European Journal of Operational Research, Scientometrics, International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, and so on. He is an ACM lifetime member and he is doing research in Computational Intelligence, Reasoning in Autonomous Systems, and Decision Support Systems.