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ABOUT THE EDITORS 
Masoud Nikravesh received his BS from Abadan Institute of Technology, MS and 
PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of South Carolina. He is BISC 
(Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing) Associate Director and BT Senior Research 
Fellow in the Computer Science Division, Department of Electrical Engineering and 
Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley and Visiting Scientist in 
the Imaging and Collaborative Computing Group at the Lawrence Berkeley National 
Laboratory. In addition, he is serving as Associate Director (Co-founder) of Zadeh 
Institute for Information Technology (Information Technology and Chairs of B ISC- 
Earth Sciences, BISC-Fuzzy Logic and Internet, and BISC-Recognition Technology 
Groups). He has over 10 years research and industrial experience in soft computing and 
artificial intelligence. He worked as a consultant to over 10 major companies and funded 
several key projects in the area of soft computing, data mining and fusion, control, 
and earth sciences through US government and major oil companies. He published and 
presented over 100 articles on diverse topics and served as SPE Technical Editor and 
several national and international technical committees and technical chairs. He served 
as member of IEEE, SPE, AICHE, SEG, AGU, and ACS. His credentials have led to 
front-page news at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory News and headline news at 
the Electronics Engineering Times. 
Fred Aminzadeh received his BSEE from University of Tehran, MSEE and PhD from 
the University of Southern California. He is the President of dGB-USA and FACT 
(Houston, Texas, faz@dgbusa.com) since 1999. He held various technical and man- 
agement positions at Unocal and Bell Laboratories. Fred also had different academic 
positions at University of Tabriz, USC, and Rice. Among areas of his technical contribu- 
tions are: elastic seismic modeling, seismic attribute analysis, reservoir characterization, 
signal processing, artificial intelligence, Kalman filtering and soft computing applica- 
tions. He has published over 100 articles and 7 books. He is the co-inventor of three 
US patents on AVO modeling, seismic while drilling and hybrid reservoir characteriza- 
tion. He served as the chairman of the SEG Research Committee 1994-1996 and vice 
president of SEG, 2001-2002. He has served as a member of the National Research 
Council's Committee on Seismology, Foreign Member of Russian Academy of Natural 
Sciences, an honorary member of Azerbaijan Oil Academy, and the Scientific Advisory 
Board of the Center for Engineering Systems Advanced Research of Oak Ridge National 
Laboratory. He is a Fellow of IEEE for his contributions to the application of modeling, 
signal processing, pattern recognition and expert systems in the analysis of seismic and 
acoustic data. He is Associate Editor of various journals. 
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Lotfi A. Zadeh is a Professor in the Graduate School, Computer Science Division, 
Department of EECS, University of California, Berkeley. In addition, he is serving as the 
Director of BISC (Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing). Lotfi Zadeh is an alumnus of 
the University of Teheran, MIT and Columbia University. He held visiting appointments 
at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ; MIT; IBM Research Laboratory, San 
Jose, CA; SRI International, Menlo Park, CA; and the Center for the Study of Language 
and Information, Stanford University. His earlier work was concemed in the main with 
systems analysis, decision analysis and information systems. His current research is 
focused on fuzzy logic, computing with words and soft computing, which is a coalition 
of fuzzy logic, neurocomputing, evolutionary computing, probabilistic computing and 
parts of machine learning. The guiding principle of soft computing is that, in general, 
better solutions can be obtained by employing the constituent methodologies of soft 
computing in combination rather than in stand-alone mode. Lotfi Zadeh is a Fellow of 
the IEEE, AAAS, ACM, AAAI, and IFSA. He is a member of the National Academy 
of Engineering and a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences 
and an honorary member of Azerbaijan Oil Academy. He is a recipient of the IEEE 
Education Medal, the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal, the IEEE Medal of Honor, 
the ASME Rufus Oldenburger Medal, the B. Bolzano Medal of the Czech Academy 
of Sciences, the Kampe de Feriet Medal, the AACC Richard E. Bellman Central 
Heritage Award, the Grigore Moisil Prize, the Honda Prize, the Okawa Prize, the AIM 
Information Science Award, the IEEE-SMC J.P. Wohl Career Achievement Award, the 
SOFT Scientific Contribution Memorial Award of the Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory, 
the IEEE Millennium Medal, the ACM 2000 Allen Newell Award, and other awards and 
honorary doctorates. He has published extensively on a wide variety of subjects relating 
to the conception, design and analysis of information/intelligent systems, and is serving 
on the editorial boards of over fifty journals.