Valeriy Vyatikn received the Ph.D. degree in applied computer science from the University of Radio Engineering, Taganrog, Russia, in 1992, the Dr.Eng. degree in electrical engineering from the Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan, in 1999, and the Habilitation degree in engineering from the Ministry of Science and Technology of Sachsen-Anhalt, Magdeburg, Germany, in 2002. He is currently the Chaired Professor with the Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden, and a Full Professor with Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland. He was a Visiting Scholar with Cambridge University, Cambridge, U.K., and had permanent academic appointments with New Zealand, Germany, Japan, and Russia. His research interests include dependable distributed automation and industrial informatics, software engineering for industrial automation systems, artificial intelligence, distributed architectures, and multiagent systems applied in various industry sectors, including smart grids, material handling, building management systems, data centres, and reconfigurable manufacturing.
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