Sebastian Conrad, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Jörg H. Gleiter, Berlin Institute of Technology (TU Berlin), Germany SukJung Han, DongA University in Pusan, South Korea Volodymyr Kravchenko, University of Alberta, Canada Hiroko Mizuno, Osaka University, Japan Naoki Sakai, Cornell University, USA Michael Schoenhals, Lund University, Sweden