Patrick Siarry is a Professor of Automatics and Informatics at the University of Paris-Est Crรฉteil, where he leads the Image and Signal Processing team in the Laboratoire Images, Signaux et Systรจmes Intelligents (LiSSi). He has considerable teaching, research and writing experience in the areas of signal processing, control, artificial intelligence, operations research, and optimization. He presently serves as an Associate Editor of the journal Information Sciences and the journal Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence.