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Special Issue Introduction

Education for Development Group EDETIC, affiliated
with the Innovation and Technology for Development
Center of the Technical University of Madrid.

Celia Fernández-Aller received the Ph.D.
degree in law and technology from the Universidad
Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Madrid,
Spain, in 1998.
She is a Lecturer of Ethical and Legal Aspects
with the Department of Computer Systems, Technical
University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain. She has been
a Visiting Scholar at José Simeón Cañas Central
American University (UCA), San Salvador, El
Salvador, and Bristol University, Bristol, U.K. She is
one of the experts who will draw up the charter of
digital rights for the Spanish government. She has
several papers and books related to her area of
interest. Her research interests focus on the human
rights approach to technology, mainly privacy.
Maite López-Sánchez received the Ph.D.
degree in artificial intelligence from the Artificial
Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA), Spain.
She was the Research Manager with the
Innovation Department of a iSOCO: Intelligent
Software Components company, and a Visitor
Researcher with the University of Southern California
(USC), Los Angeles, CA, USA. She is an Associate
Professor (TU) with the University of Barcelona
(UB), Barcelona, Spain, and Adjunct Scientist
with the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute
(IIIA-CSIC), Bellaterra, Spain. Moreover, she is the
Coordinator at UB of the interuniversitary master on
Artificial Intelligence (UPC-UB-URV), member of a
consolidated research group, and one of the board
directors of the European Association for Multi-Agent
Systems (EURAMAS). During her academic career,
she has published nearly 150 scientific publications

in indexed journals, books, and ranked international
conferences. Her current interests focus on the
inclusion of moral values within autonomous systems,
social deliberation, and DSGs.

Juan Antonio Rodríguez-Aguilar received
the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the
Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona,
Spain, in 2001.
He is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence with the
Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA-CSIC),
Bellaterra, Spain. His research interests encompass
multiagent optimization, artificial intelligence and
ethics, industrial applications of artificial intelligence,
and artificial social systems.
Dr. Rodríguez-Aguilar is also a fellow of the
European Association for Artificial Intelligence.
Manuel Sierra Castañer was born in
Zaragoza, Spain, in 1970. He received the degree
of telecommunication engineering in 1994 and
the Ph.D. degree in 2000, both from the Technical
University of Madrid (UPM), Madrid, Spain.
He has been a Full Professor at UPM since 2017.
He has been a Visitor Researcher at Tokyo Tech, Tokyo, Japan (September-December 1998) and École
polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland (September-December 1999) during the Ph.D. degree and Visitor Professor in Tokyo
Tech during the summers of 2012 and 2013.
Dr. Sierra Castañer is currently a Senior Member
of IEEE and Fellow of the AMTA Society. He has been
the UPM Director for International Cooperation from
2010 to 2020. Since January 2016, he has been a
member of the European Association on Antennas
and Propagation (EurAAP) board of directors, where
he is currently the vice-chair.

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