Editors

Editor-in Chief
Yong Shi
Research Center on Fictitious Economy & Data Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
and
College of Information Science and Technology, University of Nebraska at Omaha, NE 68182, USA

Managing Editor
Yingjie Tian
Research Center on Fictitious Economy & Data Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China

Editing Office Address
Tianfu Institute of International Big Data Strategy and Technology, Floor 22, Building 12 Tianfu JingTong Center District D, Tianfu New District, Chengdu, Sichuan 610042, China

Advisory Board
Vassil Alexandrov, Hartree Centre – STFC, United Kingdom
Ricardo Ambrocio Ramírez Mendoza, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico
Dan Berg, University of Miami, USA
Chris Ding, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Shu Cherng Fang, North Carolina State University, USA
Florin Gheorghe Filip, The Romanian Academy, Romania
Masao Fukushima, Kyoto University, Japan
Fred Glover, OptTek System, Inc., USA
Luiz F. Autran M. Gomes, IBMEC, Brazil
Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China
Zhiming Ma, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Svetozar Margenov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
Hugo Terashima Marín, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico
Andrew Rau-Chaplin, Dalhousie University, Canada
Peizhuang Wang, Liaoning University of Technology, China
Shouyang Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Yingluo Wang, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
Zongben Xu, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
Philip S. Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Po-Lung Yu, University of Kansas, USA
Milan Zeleny, Fordham University, USA
Chengqi Zhang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
Yangyong Zhu, Fudan University, China

Section and Associate Editors
Section: Data Science Theory and Advances
Xiaodong Lin, Rutgers University, USA
Associate Editors:
Longbing Cao, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Xiaojun Chen, Poly-Tech University, Hong Kong, China
Saiji Fu, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Enrique Herrera-Viedma, University of Granada, Spain
Gary Kochenberger, University of University of Colorado at Denver, USA
Tie Li, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
Lingfeng Niu, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Zhihua Zhou, Nanjing University, China

Section: Probability and Statistics
Section Co-Editors:
Sanku Dey, King Abdulaziz University, Suadi Arabia
Wen Long, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Associate Editors:
Wei Dai, Shanghai University, China
Amal S. Hassan, Cairo University, Egypt
Devendra Kumar, Central University of Haryana, India
Fangyao Liu, Southwest Minzu University, China
Xiaohui Liu, Brunel University London, United Kingdom
Ping Ma, University of Georgia, USA

Section: Machine Learning Theory and Methods
Section Editor:
Zhiquan Qi, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Associate Editors:
Zhengxin Chen, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA
Saiji Fu, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Masato Koda, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Aihua Li, China Central University of Finance and Economics, China
Biao Li, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China
Xingsen Li, Guangdong University of Technology, China
Pei Quan, Capital University of Economics and Business, China
Yun Xiong, Fudan University, China

Section: Data Mining Theory and Methods
Section Co-Editors:
Bjoern Schuller, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Peng Zhang, Guangzhou University, China
Associate Editors:
Iván Mauricio Amaya-Contreras, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico
Marco Xaver Bornschlegl, University of Hagen, Germany
Xiangrui Chao, Sichuan University, China
Musa Mammadov, University of Ballarat, Australia
Yi Peng, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
Jingjing Tang, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China
Yao Zhang, Fudan University, China

Section: Big Data Applications
Section Co-Editors:
Zhengsong Chen, Capital University of Economics and Business, China
André van Zundert, University of Queensland, Australia
Associate Editors:
Zhensong Chen, Capital University of Economics and Business, China
Wei Deng, Guizhou University of Finance and Economics, China
Ying Liu, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Paulo de Souza, Griffith University, Australia
Stan Matwin, Dalhousie University, Canada
Shusaku Tsumoto, Shimane University, Japan
Hui Xiong, Rutgers University, USA

Section: Cross Research Fields
Section Editor:
Lean Yu, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China
Associate Editors:
Fuad Aleskerov, Institute for Control Sciences of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Na Li, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Gang Kou, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China
David L. Olson, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, USA
Xin Tian, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Zenonas Turskis, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania
Xiaodan Yu, University of International Business and Economics, China
Lingling Zhang, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Section: Interdisciplinary Areas
Section Editor:
Fan Meng, Peking University, China
Associate Editors:
Seyed Mojtaba Hosseini Bamakan, Yazd University, Iran
Kun Guo, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Wei Huang, South China University of Science and Technology, China
Heeseok Lee, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Jianping Li, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Jin Li, Xian Jiaotong University, China
Jianyu Miao, Henan University of Technology, China
Tetsuzo Tanino, Osaka University, Japan
Dengsheng Wu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Xingquan (Hill) Zhu, Florida Atlantic University, USA