Professor Giuseppe Carlo Marano Politecnico di Torino (Italy) giuseppe.marano@polito.it Professor Domenico Asprone Universita’ degli Studi di Napoli Federico II (Italy) domenico.asprone@unina.it Professor Xinzheng Lu Tsinghua University, Beijing (China) luxz@tsinghua.edu.cn Professor Nikos D. Lagaros National Technical University of Athens (Greece) nlagaros@central.ntua.gr