Dong Shen is a Professor at the School of Mathematics, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China. His research interests include iterative learning control, stochastic optimization, and distributed artificial intelligence. Xinghuo Yu is the Distinguished Professor, a Vice-Chancellor's Professorial Fellow, and an Associate Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University), Melbourne, Australia. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, an Honorary Fellow of Engineers Australia, and a Fellow of the IEEE and several other professional associations.