International Programme Committee
The role of the IPC is as follows:-- To advise on the organisation of the symposium;
- To promote the conference and bring it to the attention of other researchers;
- To advise on the topics of the symposium;
- 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. Canicious Abeynayake  | Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Australia  |
Dr. Ahmad Taher Azar  | Faculty of Engineering, Misr University for Science and Technology, Egypt.  |
Prof. Hyerim Bae  | Pusan National University, Busan, Korea  |
Ass. Prof. Valentina Emilia Balas  | Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania  |
Dr. Bala M.Balachandran  | University of Canberra, Australia  |
Prof. Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay  | Indian Statistical Institute, India  |
Monica Bianchini  | Italy  |
Dr. Gloria Bordogna  | CNR IDPA ,Italy  |
Assistant Prof. Zoran Bosnic  | University of Ljubljana, Slovenia  |
Dr. Janos Botzheim  | Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan  |
Ass. Prof. Zoran Bosnic  | University of Ljubljana, Slovenia  |
Dr. Marcus Butavicius  | DSTO  |
Prof. Giovanna Castellano  | University of Bari, Italy  |
Prof. Michele Ceccarelli  | University of Sannio, Italy  |
Prof. Chen-Fu Chien  | National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan  |
Prof. Marina Cicin-Sain  | University of Rijeka, Rijeka  |
Dr. Mario Giovanni C.A. Cimino  | University of Pisa, Italy  |
Prof. Liya Ding  | NUS Singapore, Singapore  |
Prof. Dr. Neven Duic  | University of Zagreb, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture  |
Prof. Antonio Fernandez-Caballero  | Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain  |
Dr. Wojciech Froelich  | Institute of Computer Science, University of Silesia, Sosnowiec, Poland  |
Dr. Petia Georgieva  | University of Aveiro, Portugal  |
Prof. Christos Grecos  | University of the West of Scotland, UK  |
Ass. Prof. Mohamed A. Moustafa Hassan  | Cairo University, Giza, Egypt  |
Prof. Enrique Herrera-Viedma  | University of Granada, Spain  |
Dr. Dawn E.Holmes  | University of California, USA  |
Dr. Katsuhiro Honda  | Osaka Prefecture University, Japan  |
Prof. Tzung-Pei Hong  | National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan  |
Ass. Prof. Daocheng Hong  | Fudan University, China  |
Prof. Hiroaki Ishii  | Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan  |
Prof. Naohiro Ishii  | Aichi Institute of Technology, Japan  |
Prof. Mirjana Ivanovic  | University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Sciences, Serbia  |
Prof. Yuji Iwahori  | Chubu University, Japan  |
Dr. Ivan Jordanov  | University of Portsmouth, UK  |
Dr. Vyacheslav Kalashnikov  | ITESM, Campus Monterrey, Mexico  |
Dr. Anastasia N. Kastania  | Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece  |
Prof. Hideki Katagiri  | Hiroshima University, Japan  |
Prof. Eizo Kinoshita  | Meijo University, Japan  |
Assoc. Prof. Petia Koprinkova-Hristova  | Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences  |
Prof. Boris Kovalerchuk  | Central Washington University, USA  |
Ass. Prof. Young-Chan Lee  | Dongguk University, South Korea  |
Prof. Huey-Ming Lee  | Chinese Culture University, Taiwan  |
Prof. Chee-Peng Lim  | University of Science, Malaysia  |
Prof. Marco Maggini  | University of Siena, Italy  |
Dr. Maria Marques  | UNINOVA, Institute for the Development of New Technologies, Portugal  |
Dr. Kenji Matsuura  | The University of Tokushima, Japan  |
Dr. Marco Mesiti  | Department of Computer Science, University of Milano, Italy  |
Dr. Lyudmila (Mila) Mihaylova  | Lancaster University, UK  |
Prof. Toshiro Minami  | Kyushu Institute of Information Sciences, Japan  |
Dr. Stefania Montani  | Computer Science Institute, University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy  |
Prof. Manuel Mora  | Autonomous University of Aguascalientes  |
Prof. Mikhail Moshkov  | King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia  |
Prof. Fionn Murtagh  | Royal Holloway, University of London  |
Prof. Kazumi Nakamatsu  | University of Hyogo, Japan  |
Dr. Yoko Nishihara  | The University of Tokyo, Japan  |
Prof. Marek Ogiela  | AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland  |
Prof. Takao Ohya  | Kokushikan University, Tokyo  |
Prof. Eugenio Oliveira  | LIACC/DEI, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto  |
Prof. Dr. Georg Peters  | Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany  |
Prof. Tuan Pham  | The University of Aizu , Japan  |
Dr. Bhanu Prasad  | Florida A&M University, USA  |
Prof. Radu-Emil Precup  | Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania  |
Ass. Prof.Jim Prentzas  | Democritus University of Thrace, Greece  |
Prof. Anca Ralescu  | University of Cincinnati, USA  |
Prof. Germano Resconi  | Catholic University  |
Prof. Ana Respicio  | University of Lisbon, Portugal  |
Dr. John Ronczka  | University of Tasmania, Australia  |
Prof. Hiroshi Sakai  | Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan, Japan  |
Ass. Prof. Hiroshi Sakamoto  | Kyushu Institute of Technology (KIT) & PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Japan  |
Dr. Mika Sato-Ilic  | University of Tsukuba, Japan  |
Dr. Hirosato Seki  | Osaka Institute of Technology, Japan  |
Prof. Peng Shi  | Indian Statistical Institute, India  |
Prof. Hisao Shiizuka  | Kogakuin University, Japan  |
Prof. Andrzej Skowron  | Warsaw University, Poland  |
Prof. Marina Sokolovai  | Instituto de Investigación en Informática de Albacete, Spain  |
Dr. Urszula Stanczyk  | Silesian University of Technology, Institute of Informatics, Poland  |
Assoc. Prof. Shing Chiang Tan  | Multimedia University Melaka Campus, Malaysia.  |
Prof. Mieko Tanaka-Yamawaki  | Tottori University, Japan  |
Prof. Gheorghe Tecuci  | George Mason University  |
Prof. Andreas Tolk  | Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA  |
Prof. Edmondo Trentin  | University of Siena, Italy  |
Prof. Eiji Uchino  | Yamaguchi University, Japan  |
Prof. Dr. Rainer Unland  | University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany  |
Prof. Junzo Watada  | Graduate School of Information, Waseda University, Japan  |
Prof. Hu Xiangpei  | Dalian University of Technology, China  |
Prof. Takahira Yamaguchi  | Keio University, Japan  |
Prof. Dr. Mrs. Snejana Yordanova  | Technical University, Sofia, Bulgaria  |
Prof. Hiroyuki Yoshida  | Harvard Medical School, USA  |
Prof. Gian Pierro Zarri  | Sorbonne University, LaLIC/STIH Laboratory  |
Dr. Lindu Zhao  | Southeast University, China  |