José Luís Sousa de Magalhães Lima (male) received the M.Sc. and PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering on Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto, Portugal in 2001 and 2009. He joined the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança in 2002, and currently he is a Coordinator Professor and head of the Electrical Engineering Department of that school. He is also a vice coordinator of the Research Centre in Digitalization and Intelligent Robotics, and Member of the coordination council of the Centre for Robotics in Industry and Intelligent Systems group of the INESC TEC (Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering of Porto, Portugal). He has published more than 200 papers in international scientific journals and conference proceedings. In addition, he participated and juried some autonomous mobile robotics competitions and developed industrial applications. Moreover, his research interests are in the field of mobile robotics, simulation and IoT. He participated as researcher or PI in some national, FP7 and H2020 funded projects. He supervised more than 60 Master degree students and is actually supervising 8 PhD. 

Fabio Andrade is an associate professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway and a research scientist at NORCE Norwegian Research Centre. He was an adjunct professor at the Federal Center of Technological Education of Rio de Janeiro and a technical advisor at TracSense. Former Chair of the IEEE Norway Chapter of Robotics and Control Systems and co-founder of Umaker. He has a PhD in Engineering Cybernetics from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and has several published works on Robotics and Machine Learning. He worked at the Brazilian Department of Airspace Control and was an assistant professor at the Brazilian Naval Academy.

Mario Dantas is a Full Professor (Visiting) in the Graduate Program in Computer Science (PPGCC) at the Institute of Exact Sciences (ICE) of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF). With a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Southampton (1997 - UK), a postdoctoral stage (2008-2009), and a visiting professorship (2012) at the University of Western Ontario (Canada), and a Senior Visiting Researcher at Riken (2017-2018 - Japan). Professor Dantas is the author of three books and hundreds of scientific articles published in Brazil, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Cyprus, Croatia, the United States, Finland, France, Greece, the Netherlands, England, Italy, Japan, Morocco, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Switzerland, Thailand, Taiwan, and Tunisia in the areas of IoT, computer networks, mobile computing, and high-performance parallel and distributed computing. In addition to the articles, he has thirteen chapters in books edited in Germany, Canada, the USA, the Netherlands, and England on the topics of distributed computing. These works have earned him three international awards and five national awards. Prof. Dantas is an Associate Editor of the journals ACM Computing Surveys and International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing. Mario Dantas was a Professor-Researcher for 20 years in the Graduate Program in Computer Science (PPGCC) at the Technology Center (CTC) of the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC). Professor Dantas also served for 14 years in the Graduate Program in Knowledge Engineering (EGC) at UFSC and four years in the Graduate Program in Informatics (PPGI) at the University of Brasília (UnB), in addition to having worked for more than ten years at Petrobras (Production Department) and the Army Technology Center (Ctex), supporting computational architectures, network environments, and the development of distributed applications. Prof. Dantas has supervised hundreds of undergraduate, specialization, master's, and doctoral works on topics related to the area of computing systems, besides being honored twenty-one times for his undergraduate performance at UnB and UFSC. In addition, Prof. Dantas has acted as a consultant on various research projects with the industry in the areas of e-Health, Data Intensive Scalable Computing (DISC), Distributed Systems, High-Performance Environments, and the Internet of Things (IoT). 

Andre Marcato is a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (1995), and his M.Sc. and D.Sc. is in Electrical Engineering from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (1998 and 2002 respectively). He is a senior member of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) - Minas Gerais Section - "Robotics and Automation Society" and "Power and Energy Society." Since 1994, he is with Federal University of Juiz de Fora where is, currently, Associate Professor II and Coordinator of Post-graduation Program in Electrical Engineering. He has teaching and researching in the areas of energy planning, control theory and robotics. Its main activities have been related to the optimization techniques applied to hydrothermal coordination, operation and expansion planning electrical systems. He coordinates or coordinated research projects with many companies in the Brazilian Electrical Sector, for example, CEPEL, Light, CESP, Cemig and Duke Energy.