Prof. Jozo Dujmovic

(San Francisco State University, USA)

Bio: Jozo Dujmović was born in Dubrovnik, Croatia. He received the Dipl. Ing. degree in electronic and telecommunication engineering and the M.Sc. and Sc.D. degrees in computer engineering, all from the University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.
Since 1994, he has been a Professor of computer science with San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, USA, where he served as the Chair of the Computer Science Department from 1998 to 2002. His teaching and research activities are in the areas of soft computing, software metrics, and computer performance evaluation. In 1973, he introduced the soft computing concepts of andness and orness and logic aggregators based on continuous transition from conjunction to disjunction. He used these concepts to develop the Logic Scoring of Preference (LSP) method for evaluation, selection, and optimization of complex systems. He is the author of more than 170 refereed publications, including 19 books and book chapters. His latest book entitled Soft Computing Evaluation Logic was published by John Wiley and IEEE Press in October 2019.
Before his current position with San Francisco State University, he was the Professor of computer science with the University of Belgrade; the University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA; the University of Texas, Dallas, TX, USA; and Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester, MA, USA. In addition, he taught in graduate Computer Science programs with the National Universities of San Luis and Jujuy (both in Argentina). With the University of Belgrade, where he taught from 1968 to 1992, he also served as the Chairman of the Computer Science Department and the founding Director of the Belgrade University Computing Center. His industrial experience includes work in the Institute “M. Pupin,” Belgrade, and consulting in the areas of decision methods, performance evaluation, and software design. In 1997, he founded System Evaluation & Selection (SEAS), a San Francisco-based company specializing in soft computing decision models and software support for the LSP method. He currently serves as a Principal with SEAS.
Prof. Dujmović received three best paper awards. He served an Editor of Informatica and served as the General Chair of the Eighth IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2000) and as the General Chair of the Fourth ACM International Workshop on Software and Performance (WOSP 2004).

Dr. Gus Hanna

(San Diego State University, USA)