IAENG Transactions on Engineering Technologies: Special Issue of the World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science 2012

Dr. Haeng-Kon Kim is currently a Dean of engineering college and a professor in the Department of Computer Engineering Catholic University of Daegu, in Korea. He has been a research staff member in Bell Lab. and NASA center in U.S.A. Professor Kim is chief editor of KIPS SE-Sig journal and Korea Multimedia Society, an editorial board of KISS (Korea Information Science Society), and a steering committee of KIPS (Korea Information Processing Society).

Dr. Sio-Iong Ao finished his doctoral research in The University of Hong Kong and postdoctoral researches in the University of Oxford and Harvard University.

Dr. Mahyar A. Amouzegar is Dean and a professor of the College of Engineering, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, USA.

Dr. Burghard B. Rieger, Professor of Computational Linguistics and former Head of Department of Linguistic Computing at the University of Trier, Germany, has been a researcher and academic teacher for more than three decades. He was president of the German Society for Linguistic Computing GLDV (1989-93) and vice-president of the International Society for Terminology and Knowledge Engineering TKE (1990-94), served as Dean and Vice-Dean of his Faculty (1997-2001).