From the Founding Editor, Dr. Spyros G. Tzafestas
Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10846
From the Founding Editor, Dr. Spyros G. Tzafestas
thYear Anniversary of JINT 0
Spyros G. Tzafestas 0
0 Emeritus Professor National Technical University of Athens , Athens , Greece
I am really very pleased to write this editorial for the 30thYear Anniversary Special Issue of the Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems (JINT). The Journal was founded and launched in 1988 with the aim to provide a forum for exchange of ideas, concepts, and techniques merging systems, control, and robotics science and engineering with AI and other related Computer Science concepts such as intelligent agent theory, distributed intelligence, computational intelligence, etc. Specifically, the motivation for founding the Journal was to provide a common forum for all fields where 'system intelligence' plays a central role, and to stimulate fruitful interaction among researchers and practitioners in the field of intelligent and robotic systems (mechatronic systems, manufacturing systems, automation systems, bioengineering systems, knowledge-based systems, etc.). I acted as editor of JINT up to August 2006, passing this task to the present Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Kimon Valavanis, an enthusiastic educator and eminent researcher in the field with an extraordinary contribution to the control and robotics societies. He gave immediately a new shape to the journal including a section dedicated to Unmanned Systems with special issues on this subject, and a classification of the submitted papers as Regular, Technical Correspondence, Survey Papers, Invited Papers, and Special Issue Papers. At that time the submission of papers started to be done through the Editorial Manager, an advanced manuscript handling
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Spyros G. Tzafestas was born in Corfu, Greece on December 3, 1939.
He earned a B.Sc. in Physics (1962) and a Postgraduate Diploma
in Electronics and Communications (1963) from Athens University,
D.I.C in Electrical Engineering-Automatic Control Systems from
Imperial College of London, M.Sc. (Eng.) in Control from London
University in 1967, and Ph.D. in Systems and Control from
Southampton University of the United Kingdom in March 1969.
He worked at ?Demokritos? Nuclear Research Center as a research
leader of the Computer Control and Automation Group of the
Computer Science Division from April 1969 to September 1973. From
October 1973 to March 1985 he served as a Professor of Control
Systems, Director of the Automatic Control Systems Laboratory, at the
Electrical Engineering Department of the University of Patras, Patras,
Greece. He then gained a position at the School of Electrical and
Computer Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens
(NTUA) where he served as Professor of Control and Robotics. He
founded the Intelligent Robotics and Automation Laboratory of which
was the Director up to his retirement on August 31, 2006. From 1999
to 2009 he was the Director of the NTUA Institute of Communication
and Computer Systems (ICCS). He holds a D.Sc. (Southampton
University, 1978) and two honorary doctorates in engineering (Dr.-Ing.
Eh., TU Munich, Germany, 1997, and Docteur ( Honoris Causa), EC
Lille France, 2003).
Over the years he worked in the following areas: 1. Distributed
parameter control systems, 2. Computing and micro-processor
systems, 3. Multivariable and multidimensional systems, 4. Walsh
seriesbased modeling and control, 5. Robotic systems, 6. AI, KB, and
computational intelligence control techniques, 7. Applications to
nuclear reactors and manufacturing systems, and 8. Roboethics/
robophilosophy. He is known for important contributions in the above
areas. He is a LIFE FELLOW of IEEE and a FELLOW of IET
(IEE). He served as the founding editor of the Journal of Intelligent
and Robotic Systems (1988-2006), and he is the Chief Editor of the
Springer book series on Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation.
He has edited 30 research books, 20 Conference Proceedings, and
26 journal special issues in his fields of expertise. He has organized
and/or chaired many international conferences (IEEE CDC, EUCA,
IMACS, IASTED, etc.). He has served as President of EUCA and
Vice President of IMACS, and has been the scientific coordinator of
many national and European projects in IT, CIM, Robotics,
Intelligent Systems, and Control. He is the author of seven international
books and seven Greek books on automation, control, robotics and
Artificial/Computational Intelligence. He has received many
worldwide scientific awards and his biography is included in more than 20
international biographical volumes. Currently, Dr. Tzafestas continues
his scientific work at NTUA as a Professor Emeritus-Senior Research
Associate of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. (...truncated)