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 to initiate and assess 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 Paris in 2006 by Zeger Karssen. Zeger graduated in both philosophy and in 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 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 and operates as publisher in the computer science and engineering area.
Arjen Sevenster	Arjen Sevenster studied matematics at Leiden University. After a five year stay in Japan Arjen joined Elsevier, where for some 2 decades he has been responsible for the mathematics and computer science programme, incl. Elsevier's worldclass book series in mathematics. Arjen has 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 book programme.

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 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.
Prof. Reind van de Riet	Professor van de Riet (1939) was since 1970 professor in Computer Science at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam; he retired as of August 2000. He founded the Computer Science Department at the Vrije Universiteit, the Dutch Foundation for Research in Computer Science (SION) and the Research School. His research areas include: Databases and Knowledge bases; the use of Linguistics; Security and Privacy problems; Computational Auditing. He is Editor for Europe of Data and Knowledge Engineering (Elsevier). He wrote 4 books, edited 6 books and published over 120 papers in journals and conference proceedings.
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 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 since 1997 has become the international editor-in-chief of an international book series on "Advance in Fuzzy Mathematics and Engineering" from Beijing Normal University Press, Beijing. Since 1998 he has been named as an advisory professor to the Department of Applied Mathematics of Southwest Jiaotong University in Chengdu, Sichuan (China). Since 2004 he has 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 The Ohio State University and is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University in 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 an EiC of the Information Sciences Journal (Elsevier) for two decades and he is the managing editor of the New Mathematics & Natural Computing (World Scientific Press) at present. In addition, he is the founder of JCIS, Inc. and the Society for Mathematics of Uncertainty in 2006.