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  |