Atlantis Press

Atlantis Press consists of a small group of experienced publishers working in the fields of computer science, mathematics and physics. In order to guarantee a high scientific quality of our publications, we have set up an 'advisory board' which can help us initiate and assess not only new publishing projects, including new journals, books and proceedings, but also new projects aiming at further developing techniques for publishing on the Internet.

Publishing group
Zeger Karssen	Atlantis Press was founded in 2006 by Zeger Karssen. Zeger graduated in both philosophy and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Amsterdam. Since then he has gained extended experience in scientific research, publishing and internet-technology. Earlier occupations include work as senior researcher in Artificial Intelligence for the University of Amsterdam and for a private lab in Paris. Since 2000, he has worked as scientific publisher for a major publishing house (Elsevier) where he created 4 new scientific journals and 2 major book series, and managed a portfolio of 15 internationally renowned journals in the field of Artificial Intelligence. For links to his earlier publishing work, see here. Zeger also regularly works as advisor to the European Commission regarding scientific publishing and the creation of electronic content in general. Zeger manages Atlantis Press from its office in Paris, France, and operates as publisher in the computer science and engineering area.
Arjen Sevenster	Arjen Sevenster studied mathematics at Leiden University, the Netherlands. After a five-year stay in Japan, Arjen joined Elsevier, where for some two decades he has been responsible for the mathematics and computer science programme, including Elsevier's world-class book series in mathematics. Arjen retired as a publisher at Elsevier in 2006 and is now working as a freelance publisher for Atlantis Press where he is in charge of the mathematics and theoretical computer science book programmes.
Keith Jones	Following studies in the UK at Bristol, Cambridge, and Durham Universities, Keith Jones graduated with a PhD in Theoretical Physics from the Department of Mathematics, Durham University, in 1970. Following postdoctoral research in theoretical physics at the Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen University, Denmark, 1970-1973, he joined North-Holland Publishing Company, already a part of Elsevier. Early editorial office activities in Copenhagen involving the world-reknown journal, Nuclear Physics B, were followed by management of a publishing program in physics and materials science in Amsterdam, leading to secondment to Elsevier KK, Tokyo, to shape and implement Elsevier acquisition plans for Japan and eastern Asia. Returning from Tokyo in early 2000, he has had management responsibility for the Elsevier publishing program in Applied Mathematics and Statistics. Relinquishing this post at the end of 2008, he has now joined Atlantis Press to continue his publishing activities from his office in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Keith's responsibilities include the areas of Applied Mathematics, Statistics and Physics.
Inés Médina Fernández	Inés Medina Fernández studied Physics and Astrophysics at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia in Madrid and at the University of Kent in Canterbury. As part of her studies, she also did research at the Royal Greenwich Observatory in Cambridge. After spending some time writing popular science, Inés worked for Elsevier in Amsterdam as Executive Editor of Nuclear Physics B and later, as Publishing Editor for Materials Science. During her 8 years of experience in publishing, she has managed some 20 different journals. Inés left Elsevier in March 2010 and has joined Atlantis Press as a publisher for Materials Science, Surface Science and Engineering. Inés is based in Oxford, UK.

Scientific advisory board
Prof. Frank van Harmelen	Frank van Harmelen (1960) is a professor in Knowledge Representation & Reasoning in the AI department (Faculty of Science) at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. After studying mathematics and computer science in Amsterdam, he moved to the Department of AI in Edinburgh, where he was awarded a PhD in 1989 for his research on meta-level reasoning. While in Edinburgh, he worked with Dr. Peter Jackson on Socrates, a logic-based toolkit for expert systems, and with Prof. Alan Bundy on proof planning for inductive theorem proving. After his PhD research, he moved back to Amsterdam where he worked from 1990 to 1995 in the SWI Department under Prof. Wielinga. He was involved in the REFLECT project on the use of reflection in expert systems, and in the KADS project, where he contributed to the development of the (ML)² language for formally specifying Knowledge-Based Systems. In 1995 he joined the AI research group at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, where he was appointed professor in 2002, and is currently leading the Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Group.
Prof. John Taylor	Professor John Taylor has been Professor Emeritus at the Department of Mathematics at King's College, London since 1996. He has had a distinguished career in neural nets, and is now engaged in neural modelling of higher-order cognitive processes including consciousness and mulitmodular nets for action, emotion and early processing. He has published over 450 scientific papers, authored 12 books and edited 13 others including The Promise of Neural Networks (Springer 1993), Mathematical Approaches to Neural Networks (Editor, Elsevier, 1994) and The Race for Consciousness (MIT Press, 1999). He is currently involved in two EU funded projects under the IST 5th Framework – ORESTEIA (as part of the Disappearing Computer Initiative) and ERMIS.
Dr. Da Ruan	Da Ruan is a scientific staff member at the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK•CEN). He has authored and/or co-authored over 70 peer-reviewed journal articles, two text books, and about 100 book chapters and conference papers on his research topics. He has (co-)edited multiple research books and also (co) guest-edited 12 Special Issues. Dr. Ruan has chaired the International Conference series FLINS (from the originally Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Technologies in Nuclear Science to presently as Applied Computational Intelligence) since 1994. He received an honorary doctoral degree from the Nuclear Power Institute of China for his research achievements including intelligent control for nuclear reactors in 1995. He was appointed as a concurrent Professor at the Institute of Resource and Environmental Science of the Beijing Normal University from 1995-98 and in 1997 became the International Editor-in-Chief of an International Book Series on "Advances in Fuzzy Mathematics and Engineering" from Beijing Normal University Press, Beijing. In 1998, he was named as an Advisory Professor to the Department of Applied Mathematics of Southwest Jiaotong University in Chengdu, Sichuan (China). In 2004, he was been appointed as a Guest Professor in Xihua University in Chengdu and Donghua University in Shanghai (China), respectively.
Prof. Paul Wang	Paul Wang received his doctorate from Ohio State University and is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. He has published extensively in the fields of mathematical systems modeling, fuzzy logic, pattern recognition, intelligent systems, managements of economical systems and computational biology and bioinformatics. His works with his student Dr.Masaki Togai during the 1980s led to the fabrication of the very first fuzzy logic chips. Dr.Wang has been a co-founder of several corporations including Intelligent Machines Inc. He has served as EiC of the Information Sciences Journal (Elsevier) for two decades and is currently the Managing Editor of the New Mathematics & Natural Computing (World Scientific Press). In addition, he is the founder of JCIS, Inc., and the Society for Mathematics of Uncertainty (2006).