Alexey KashevnikAlexey Kashevnik received his B.Sc. (2003) and M.Sc (2005) degrees in Automated Systems for Information Processing and Control from the Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (POLYTECH, Russia). He received a Ph.D. degree in Technical cience from the St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPIIRAS, Russia) in 2008. He is a Senior Researcher at the Laboratory of Computer Aided Integrated Systems (since 2003) and an Associate Professor (since 2014) at the Saint Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (ITMO University, Russia). He is part-time Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science of PetrSU (since 2012). Alexey Kashevnik is an associate editor of the International Journal of Embedded and Real-Time Communication Systems (IJERTCS); advisory board member in Association of Open Innovations FRUCT; Expert of Russian Science Foundation; Expert of National Center of Science and Technology Evaluation JSC, Republic of Kazakhstan, and serves on technical program committees and editorial boards of a number of international conferences. His research interests include smart spaces, Internet of Things, service-based systems, knowledge and context management, ontologies, user profiling, competency management, robotics systems. He is an author and co-author of more than 200 research and educational publications. Read More Read Less