Mario KöppenMario Köppen is a professor at the Network Design and Reserach Center (NDRC) of the Kyushu Institute of Technology, where he is conducting research in the fields of multi-objective optimization, digital convergence, and multimodal content manaement. He studied physics at the Humboldt-University of Berlin and received his master's degree in solid state physics in 1991. He has published around 100 peer-reviewed papers in conference proceedings, journals and books and was active in the organization of various conferences as chair or member of the program committee, including the WSC on-line conference series on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications, and the HIS conference series on Hybrid Intelligent Systems. He is founding member of the World Federation of Soft Computing, editorial board member of the Applied Soft Computing journal, the International Journal on Hybrid Intelligent Systems and the International Journal on Computational Intelligence Research. Read More Read Less