Keshav Dahal, (Senior Member, IEEE) received the master’s and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, U.K., in 1996 and 2000, respectively. He is a Professor of Intelligent Systems and the Leader of the Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Communication and Network (AVCN) Research Institute, University of the West of Scotland (UWS), Paisley, U.K. Before joining UWS, he was with the University of Bradford and University of Strathclyde, U.K. He has published extensively with award-winning papers and has sat on organizing/program committees of over 65 international conferences including as the General Chair, the Program Chair, and Technical Program Committee member. His research interests include applied AI to intelligent systems, trust and security modeling in distributed systems, and scheduling/optimization problems.