Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy;

University of Koblenz, Dept. and Institute of Computer Science Working group Practical Computer Science, Universitätsstr. 1, 56070 Koblenz, Germany;Dr. Stefan Bosse studied physics at the University of Bremen. He received a PhD/doctoral degree (Dr. rer. nat.) in physics in the year 2002 at the University of Bremen, and the post-doctoral degree (Habilitation) and the Venia Legendi in Computer Science in the year 2016 at the University of Bremen. Since 2016 he is teaching and researching as a Privatdozent at the University of Bremen, Department of Computer Science, University of Siegen, Department of Mechanical Enginerring, and in the years 2018 and 2019 he was an interim professor at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Faculty Computer Science, Institute of Software Technologies. He published more than 100 journal and conference papers and acts as a reviewer and a guest editor for several international journals and is a member of a broad range of international conference programme and organizing committees. His main research areas are Distributed Artificial Intelligence and Sensor Data Science, addressing modern computing environments like IoT, Edge Computing, Cloud and material-integrated intelligent systems. He is an expert in Multi-agent System technologies, Machine Learning combined with Simulation, and design of and computing on low-resource embedded systems. With his work he closes the gap between hardware, software, and applications with a strong technology and engineering focus.

Department of Electrical, Electronic and Communication Engineering & Institute for Smart Cities (ISC), Public University of Navarre, Spain;School of Engineering and Sciences, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico;Dr. Francisco Falcone received his Telecommunication Engineering Degree (1999) and PhD in Communication Engineering (2005), both at the Public University of Navarre in Spain. From 1999 to 2000 he worked as Microwave Commissioning Engineer, Siemens-Italtel. From 2000 to 2008 he worked as Radio Network Engineer, Telefónica Móviles. In 2009 he co-founded Tafco Metawireless. From 2003 to 2009 he was also Assistant Lecturer at UPNA, becoming Associate Professor in 2009. His research area is artificial electromagnetic media, complex electromagnetic scenarios and wireless system analysis, with applications to context aware environments, Smart Cities and Smart Regions. He has over 500 contributions in journal and conference publications. He has been recipient of the CST Best Paper Award in 2003 and 2005, Best PhD in 2006 awarded by the Colegio Oficial de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación, Doctorate award 2004-2006 awarded by UPNA, Juan Lopez de Peñalver Young Researcher Award 2010 awarded by the Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain and Premio Talgo 2012 for Technological Innovation.

Laboratory of Electronics, SYstèmes de COmmunications and Microsystems, Université Gustave Eiffel, France;Dr. Jean-Marc Laheurte received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and the Habilitation to Supervise Research from the University of Nice, France, in 1989, 1992 and 1997, respectively. From 1989 to 1990, he was a research assistant at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. In 1992, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. From 1993 to 2002, he was an Associate Professor at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France. Since 2002, he has been a Professor at the University Gustave Eiffel, France. In 2012, he spent a year as a senior RF engineer at Tagsys, La Ciotat, France. For the past 8 years, he has been the director of the 75-member Electronics, SYstèmes de COmmunications and Microsystems Laboratory (ESYCOM Laboratory). He is the author or co-author of two books, two book chapters, more than 80 technical papers in international journals and 90 conference papers. He holds two patents on RFID technologies. His current research interests include antennas in matter, RFID technologies, RFID localization, body array antennas (BANs) and channel modeling.