Miguel A. Patricio received his BSc in Computer Science in 1991, his MSc in Computer Science in 1995 and his PhD in Artificial Intelligence in 2002 all from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. He has held an administrative position at the Computer Science Department of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid since 1993. He is currently Associate Professor at the Escuela Politécnica Superior of the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and research fellow of the Applied Artificial Intelligence Group (GIAA). He has leaded several Artificial Intelligence research projects sponsored by public and private institutions and has supervised ten PhD. students, some of them related to information fusion and distributed sensor networks. He is the co-author of over 100 books, book chapters, journal papers, technical reports, etc. published by organizations such as Elsevier, IEEE, ACM, AAAI, Springer Verlag, Kluwer, etc., most of these present practical and theoretical achievements of computer vision and distributed systems. He has carried out a number of consulting activities in the areas of automatic visual inspection systems, video-surveillance systems, texture recognition, neural networks and industrial applications.