Atilla ELÇI is full professor and chairman of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Aksaray University, Turkey. He served as full professor of computer engineering, the founding director of the Graduate School of Science and Technology, and the dean of Engineering Faculty at Toros University, Mersin, Turkey (July 2010 - June 2011) and at various other universities. He has organized or served in the committees of numerous international conferences. He has published over a hundred journals and conference papers; co-authored Composition of OWL-S based Atomic Processes - Towards a Semantic-based Workflow Model (LAP Lambert, 2011); edited Semantic Agent Systems (Springer, 2011), Theory and Practice of Cryptography Solutions for Secure Information Systems (IGI, 2013) and Handbook of Applied Learning Theory and Design in Modern Education (IGI, 2016); proceedings SIN 2007, 2009 - 2015 by ACM, ESAS 2006-15 by IEEE CS, and IJRCS 2009; and various special issues and book chapters. He was the program chair for the 36th IEEE CS COMPSAC (2012) and standing committee member since then. He is an associate editor of Expert Systems: The Journal of Knowledge Engineering and editorial board member of several other journals. He obtained B.Sc. in Computer/Control Engineering at METU, Ankara, Turkey (1970), M.Sc. & Ph.D. in Computer Sciences at Purdue University, USA (1973, 1975).