Etienne Dombre is Director of Research at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and is a researcher within the Laboratoire de Recherche en 'Informatique, Robotique et Microelectronique de Montpellier at the University of Montpellier, France.
Wisama Khalil is Professor at the Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France, and is a researcher at the Institute of Research in Communication and Cybernetics.