International Programme Committee
The role of the IPC is as follows:-- To advise on the organisation of the conference;
- To promote the conference and bring it to the attention of other researchers;
- To advise on the topics of the conference;
- To help with the paper review process
- To assist in monitoring overall quality.
The IPC consists of the following members and, in addition, all Invited Session Chairs:-
| Name | Affiliation |
| Dr. Jair Minoro Abe | Paulista University ,Brazil |
| Assis. Prof. Miltos Alamaniotis | Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Texas at San Antonio, USA |
| Prof. Ana Maria de Almeida | Iscte Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal |
| Prof. Piotr Artiemjew | University of Warmia and Mazury in Olszty, Poland |
| Prof. Ahmad Taher Azar | Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia |
| Prof. Valentina Emilia Balas | Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania |
| Prof. Andrzej Banaszek | West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin, Poland |
| Prof. Dariusz Barbucha | Gdynia Maritime University, Poland |
| Dr. Hab. Alina Barbulescu | Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania |
| Prof. Monica Bianchini | University of Siena, Italy |
| Dr. Janos Botzheim | Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary |
| Prof. Adriana Burlea-Schiopoiu | University of Craiova, Romania |
| Dr. PhD Vladimir V. Buryachenko | Reshetnev Siberian State University of Science and Technology, Russian Federation |
| Prof.Alfonso Mateos Caballero | Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain |
| Dr. Lelio Campanile | University of Campania, in Caserta, Italy |
| Assoc. Prof. Frantisek Capkovic | Institute of Informatics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia |
| Prof. Giovanna Castellano | University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy |
| Prof. Katarzyna Cheba | West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin, Poland |
| Prof. Shyi-Ming Chen | National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan |
| Prof. Yen-Wei Chen | Ritsumeikan University, Japan |
| Dr. Tan Choo Jun | Wawasan Open University, Malaysia |
| Prof. Marco Cococcioni | Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa, Italy |
| Dr. Angela Consoli | Department of Defence, Australia |
| Dr. Paolo Crippa | Department of Information Engineering, Universitŕ Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy |
| Assoc Prof. Gloria Cerasela Crisan | Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacau, Romania |
| Dr. Ireneusz Czarnowski | Gdynia Maritime University, Poland |
| Dr. Vladimir Dimitrieski | University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technical Sciences, Serbia |
| Dr. Dinu Dragan | University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technical Sciences, Computer and Control Department, Serbia |
| PhD. DSc.Agnieszka Duraj | Institute of Information Technology, Lodz University of Technology, ul. Wolczanska 215, 90-924 Lodz, Poland |
| Prof. Margarita N. Favorskaya | Reshetnev Siberian State University of Science and Technology, Russian Federation |
| Dr. Mayssa Frikha | Faculty of Sciences of Sfax, University of Sfax, Tunisia |
| Prof. Raquel Florez-Lopez | University Pablo Olavide of Seville |
| Dr. Keisuke Fukui | Hiroshima University, Japan |
| Dr. Mauro Gaggero | National Research Council of Italy, Italy |
| Prof. Mauro Gaspari | University of Bologna, Italy |
| Prof. Christos Grecos | Arkansas State University, USA |
| Assist Prof. Zhaojun Han | Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China |
| Prof. Dr. Ralf-Christian Härting | Hochschule Aalen University, Germany |
| Prof. Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis | University of Patras, Greece |
| Dr. Dawn E.Holmes | University of California, USA |
| Prof. Katsuhiro Honda | Osaka Prefecture University, Japan |
| Prof. Tzung-Pei Hong | National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan |
| Prof. Petia Koprinkova-Hristova | IICT, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia |
| Prof. Mirjana Ivanovic | University of Novi Sad, Serbia |
| Prof. Yuji Iwahori | Chubu University, Japan |
| Prof. Lakhmi Jain | KES International and Liverpool Hope University, UK |
| Prof. Joanna Jedrzejowicz | Institute of Computer Science, University of Gdansk, Poland |
| Prof. Piotr Jedrzejowicz | Gdynia Maritime University, Poland |
| Prof. Dragan Jevtic | University of Zagreb, Croatia |
| Prof. Nikos Karacapilidis | University of Patras, Greece |
| Dr. Małgorzata Przybyła-Kasperek | University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland |
| Prof. Radosław Katarzyniak | Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wrocław, Poland |
| Prof. Roumen Kountchev | Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria |
| Prof. Aleksandar Kovačević | Faculty of technical sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia |
| Prof. Boris Kovalerchuk | Dept. of Computer Science Central Washington University, USA |
| Prof. Marek Kretowski | Bialystok University of Technology, Poland |
| Prof. Vladimir Kurbalija | University of Novi Sad, Serbia |
| Prof. Kazuhiro Kuwabara | Ritsumeikan University, Japan |
| Dr. Giorgio Leonardi | Universitŕ del Piemonte Orientale, Italy |
| Prof. Jerry Chun-Wei Lin | Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway |
| Dr. Pei Chun Lin | Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, Feng Chia University |
| Dr. Mika Sato-Ilic | Faculty of Engineering, Information and Systems, University of Tsukuba, Japan |
| Prof. Ivan Luković | University of Belgrade, Faculty of Organizational Sciences |
| Dr. Fiammetta Marulli | University of Campania, in Caserta, Italy |
| Prof. Lyudmila Mihaylova | The University of Sheffield, UK |
| Assoc. Prof. Polina Mihova | Health care and social work department, New Bulgarian University, 1618, Sofia, Bulgaria |
| Assoc. Prof. Yasser Mohammad | Assiut University, Egypt |
| Prof. Mikhail Moshkov | KAUST, Saudi Arabia |
| Prof. Tetsuya Murai | Chitose Institute of Science and Technology, Japan |
| Prof. Vesa A. Niskanen | Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas |
| Assoc. Prof. Agnieszka Nowak-Brzezińska | Institute of Computer Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Silesia |
| Dr. Takao Ohya | Kokushikan University, Japan |
| Prof. Eugenio Oliveira | LIACC/DEI, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto |
| Dr. Mrutyunjaya Panda | Utkal University, Bhubaneswar India |
| Prof. Petra Perner | FutureLab Artificial Intelligence IBaI-2 Radeberg, Germany |
| Prof. Dr. Anitha S Pillai | Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science, Chennai, India |
| Assoc. Prof. Camelia Pintea | TU Cluj-Napoca, Romania |
| Prof. Bhanu Prasad | Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA |
| Prof. Radu-Emil Precup | Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania |
| Prof. Jim Prentzas | Democritus University of Thrace, Greece |
| Dr. Marcos G. Quiles | Federal University of Sao Paulo (UNIFESP) |
| Dr. Hana Rabbouch | University of Tunis, Tunisia |
| Dr. Ewa Ratajczak-Ropel | Gdynia Maritime University, Poland |
| Prof. Alvaro Rocha | ISEG, University of Lisbon, Portugal |
| Prof. Foued Saadaoui | King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia |
| Prof. Anatoliy Sachenko | West Ukrainian National University |
| Dr. Hadi Saleh | Vladimir State University. Vladimir, Russian Federation |
| Prof. Jose L. Salmeron | Computational Intelligence Lab, Univesity Pablo de Olavide, Spain |
| Dr. Milos Savic | University of Novi Sad, Serbia |
| Assoc Prof. Md Shohel Sayeed | Faculty of Information Science & Technology, Multimedia University, Malaysia |
| Prof. Mikhail Sergeev | Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation, Russian Federation |
| Assoc Prof. Marek Sikora | Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland |
| Dr. Aleksander Skakovski | Gdynia Maritime University, Poland |
| Prof. Margarita Stankova | New Bulgarian University, Bulgaria |
| Dr. Catalin Stoean | University of Craiova, Romania |
| Prof. Masakazu Takahashi | Yamaguchi University, Japan |
| Dr. Shing Chiang Tan | Multimedia University, Malaysia |
| Dr. Dilhan Thilakarathne | ING Bank, Netherlands |
| Prof. Shusaku Tsumoto | Shimane University, Japan |
| Prof. Claudio Turchetti | Department of Information Engineering, Universitŕ Politecnica delle Marche, Italy |
| Prof. Eiji Uchino | Yamaguchi University, Japan |
| Dr. Marco Vannucci | Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy |
| Dr.Laura Verde | University of Campania, in Caserta, Italy |
| Dr. Fen Wang | Central Washington University, USA |
| PhD. Gloria Phillips-Wren | Sellinger School of Business and Management Loyola University Maryland, USA |
| Dr. Hu Xiangpei | Dalian University of Technology, China |
| Prof. Yoshiyuki Yabuuchi | Shimonoseki City University, Japan |
| Dr. Mariko Yamamura | Department of Statistics, Radiation Effects Research Foundation, Japan |
| Prof. Dmitry Zaitsev | Odessa State Environmental University, Ukraine |
| Prof. Cecilia Zanni-Merk | Normandie Université, INSA Rouen, LITIS, France |
| Prof. Gian Piero Zarri | Sorbonne University, LaLIC/STIH Laboratory |
| Prof. Lindu Zhao | School of Economics and Management, Southeast University, China |
| Dr. hab. Beata Zielosko | University of Silesia in Katowice, Faculty of Science and Technology, Institute of Computer Science, Poland |
| Prof. Dr. Alfred Zimmermann | Reutlingen University Faculty of Informatics Doctoral Program Services Computin, Germany |
| Dr. Aleksandr G. Zotin | Reshetnev Siberian State University of Science and Technology, Russian Federation |
| Prof. Dr. Sergey V. Zykov | National Research University Higher School of Economics - and - National Research University MEPhI |