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 |
Prof. Dr. Jair M. Abe  | Paulista University, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil  |
Prof. Witold Abramowicz  | Poznan University of Economics and Business, Poland  |
Assoc Prof. Alireza Ahrary  | Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences, Sojo University, Japan  |
Dr. Piotr Artemjew  | University of Warmia and Mazury, Poland  |
Dr. Ahmad Taher Azar  | Faculty of Computers and Information, Benha University, Egypt  |
Prof. Hyerim Bae  | Pusan National University, Korea  |
Prof. Valentina Emilia Balas  | Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania  |
Assoc. Prof. Alina Barbulescu  | Ovidius University of Constanta, Romania  |
Dr. Dariusz Barbucha  | Gdynia Maritime University, Poland  |
Dr. Andreas Behrend  | University of Bonn, Germany  |
Prof. Mokhtar Beldjehem  | University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada  |
Prof. Monica Bianchini  | Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione e Scienze Matematiche, Università degli Studi di Siena, Italy  |
Dr. Gloria Bordogna  | CNR IREA, Italy  |
Dr. Oliver Bossert  | McKinsey & Co. Inc, Germany  |
Dr. János Botzheim  | Szechenyi Istvan University, Hungary  |
Prof. Lars Brehm  | University of Munich, Germany  |
Dr. Alfonso Mateos Caballero  | Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain  |
Assoc. Prof. Frantisek Capkovic  | Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia  |
Prof. Shyi-Ming Chen  | National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan  |
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Adrian-Gabriel CHIFU  | Aix-Marseille Université (FEG/LSIS), France  |
Prof. Mario G. C. A. Cimino  | University of Pisa, Italy  |
Dr. Marco Cococcioni  | University of Pisa, Italy  |
Dr. Angela Consoli  | Defence, Science and technology Group, Australia  |
Dr. Paolo Crippa  | Department of Information Engineering, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy  |
Dr. Matteo Cristani  | Universita di Verona, Italy  |
Prof. Alfredo Cuzzocrea  | University of Trieste, Italy  |
Prof. Bogdan Cyganek  | AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland  |
Prof. Dr. Irek Czarnowski  | Gdynia Maritime University, Poland  |
Prof. Eman El-Sheikh  | University of West Florida, USA  |
Prof. Margarita N. Favorskaya  | Reshetnev Siberian State University of Science and Technology, Russia  |
Michael Fellmann  | University of Rostock, Germany  |
Prof. Bogdan Franczyk  | Universitat Leipzig, Germany  |
Dr. Ulrik Franke  | RISE SICS Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden  |
Dr. Mauro Gaggero  | National Research Council of Italy, Italy  |
Prof. Mauro Gaspari  | Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna, Italy  |
Dr. Bogdan Gliwa  | AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland  |
Prof. Christos Grecos  | Central Washington University, USA  |
Dr. Foteini Grivokostopoulou  | University of Patras, Greece  |
Prof. Jerzy Grzymala-Busse  | University of Kansas, USA  |
Assoc. Prof. Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis  | University of Patras, Greece  |
Prof. Enrique Herrera-Viedma  | University of Granada, Spain  |
Dr. Dawn E.Holmes  | University of California, Santa Barbara, USA  |
Prof. Katsuhiro Honda  | Osaka Prefecture University, Japan  |
Prof. Chia-ling Hsu  | TKU, Taiwan  |
Prof. Yuh-Jong Hu  | National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan  |
Prof. Dr. Yoshiteru Ishida  | Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan  |
Prof. Naohiro Ishii  | Aichi Institute of Technology, Japan  |
Prof. Mirjana Ivanovic  | University of Novi Sad, Serbia  |
Prof. Yuji Iwahori  | Chubu University, Japan  |
Prof. Lakhmi Jain  | Bournemouth University, UK / University of Canberra, Australia  |
Nikita Jain  | Rajasthan Technical University, India  |
Dr. Jacqueline Jarvis  | Central Queensland University, Australia  |
Prof. Dr. Piotr Jedrzejowicz  | Gdynia Maritime University, Poland  |
Assoc. Prof Björn Johansson  | Lund University, Sweden  |
Prof. Nikos Karacapilidis  | University of Patras, Greece  |
Dr. Pawel Kasprowski  | Silesian University of Technology, Poland  |
Prof. Radoslaw Piotr Katarzyniak  | Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland  |
Prof. Dr. Eizo Kinoshita  | Meijo University, Japan  |
Prof. Frank Klawonn  | Ostfalia University, Germany  |
Prof. Boris Kovalerchuk  | Central Washington University, USA  |
Dr. Petia Koprinkova-Hristova  | Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia  |
Prof. Marek Kretowski  | Bialystok University of Technology, Poland  |
Prof. Dr. Dalia Kriksciuniene  | Vilnius University, Lithuania  |
Dr. Vladimir Kurbalija  | University of Novi Sad, Serbia  |
Prof. Kazuhiro Kuwabara  | Ritsumeikan University, Japan  |
Prof. Chee Peng Lim  | Deakin University, Australia  |
Assist. Prof. Pei-Chun Lin  | Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, Feng Chia University, Taiwan  |
Prof. Ivan Luković  | University of Novi Sad, Serbia  |
Dr. Neel Mani  | ADAPT Centre for Digital Content Technology, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland  |
Dr. Raimundas Matulevičius  | University of Tartu, Estonia  |
Prof. Dr. Lyudmila Mihaylova  | University of Sheffield, UK  |
Assoc. Prof. Mohamed Arezki Mellal  | M'Hamed Bougara University, Algeria  |
Mr. Michael Möhring  | Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany  |
Dr. Daniel Moldt  | University of Hamburg, Germany  |
Dr. Stefania Montani  | DISIT, Computer Science Institute, University of Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria, Italy  |
Prof. Mikhail Moshkov  | King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia  |
Prof. Fionn Murtagh  | University of Huddersfield, UK  |
Prof. Kazumi Nakamatsu  | University of Hyogo, Japan  |
Prof. Tomoharu Nakashima  | Osaka Prefecture University, Japan  |
Dr. Shastri L Nimmagadda  | Curtin Business School, Curtin University, Perth, Australia  |
Mr. Takahiro Niwa  | Aichi Institute of Technology, Japan  |
Prof. Selmin Nurcan  | University of Paris, France  |
Prof. Marek Ogiela  | AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland  |
Prof. Dr. Takao Ohya  | Kokushikan University, Japan  |
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Takeshi Okamoto  | Kanagawa Institute of Technology, Japan  |
Dr. Tomasz Orzechowski  | AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland  |
Prof. Dr. Georg Peters  | Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany  |
Dr. Camelia Pintea  | Technical University Cluj-Napoca, Romania  |
Dr. Clara Pizzuti  | National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Italy  |
Prof. Petra Perner  | Institut of Computer Vision and Applied Computer Sciences, Germany  |
Dr. Isidoros Perikos  | University of Patras & TEI of Western Greece, Greece  |
Prof. Dr. Georg Peters  | Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany  |
Prof. Gunther Piller  | University of Mainz, Germany  |
Prof. Radu-Emil Precup  | Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania  |
Prof. Jim Prentzas  | Democritus University of Thrace, Greece  |
Dr. Małgorzata Przybyła-Kasperek  | University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland  |
Dr. Seema Purohit  | Kirti College, Mumbai, India  |
Dr. Marcos Quiles  | Federal University of Sao Paulo (UNIFESP), Brazil  |
Dr. Milos Radovanovic  | University of Novi Sad, Serbia  |
Dr. Hirosato Seki  | Osaka University, Japan  |
Prof. Dr. Sheela Ramanna  | University of Winnipeg, Canada  |
Dr. Torsten Reiners  | Curtin Business School, Curtin University, Perth, Australia  |
Prof. Paolo Remagnino  | Kingston University Surrey, UK  |
Dr. Ana Respicio  | Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal  |
Dr. John Ronczka  | SCOTTYNCC Independent Research Scientist, Australia  |
Prof. Mika Sato-Ilic  | University of Tsukuba, Japan  |
Prof. Dr. Kurt Sandkuhl  | University of Rostock, Germany  |
Dr. Miloš Savić  | University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Mathematics and Informatics, Serbia  |
Prof. Rainer Schmidt  | Munich University, Germany  |
Dr. Christian Schweda  | Technical University of Munich, Germany  |
Prof. Dr. Ralf Seepold  | HTWG Konstanz, Germany  |
Dr. Aleksander Skakovski  | Gdynia Maritime University, Poland  |
Dr. Marina Sokolova  | Southwest State University, Russia  |
Dr. Urszula Stańczyk  | Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland  |
Prof. Dr. Ulrike Steffens  | Hambury Uni of Applied Sciences, Germany  |
Prof. Janis Stirna  | Stockholm University, Sweden  |
Dr. Ruxandra Stoean  | University of Craiova, Romania  |
Dr. Mika Sulkava  | Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), Finland  |
Dr. Shing Chiang Tan  | Multimedia University, Malaysia  |
Prof. Maasnori Takagi  | Iwate Prefectural University, Japan  |
Dr. Dilhan J. Thilakarathne  | VU University Amsterdam / ING Bank Personeel BV, The Netherlands  |
Prof. Ippei Torii  | Aichi Institute of Technology, Japan  |
Jeffrey W. Tweedale  | DST Group, Australia  |
Prof. Eiji Uchino  | Yamaguchi University, Japan  |
Dr. Marco Vannucci  | Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy  |
Dr. Pandian Vasant  | Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia  |
Prof. Fen Wang  | Central Washington University, USA  |
Prof. Junzo Watada  | Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia  |
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Yuji Watanabe  | Nagoya City University, Japan  |
Dr. Ing Matthias Wissotzki  | University of Rostock, Germany  |
Prof. Dr. Gloria Wren  | Loyola University Maryland, USA  |
Assoc. Prof. Celimuge Wu  | The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan  |
Prof. Yoshiyuki Yabuuchi  | Shimonoseki City University, Japan  |
Prof. Takahira Yamaguchi  | Keio University, Japan  |
Prof. Hiroyuki Yoshida  | Harvard Medical School, USA  |
Dr. Beata Zielosko  | University of Silesia in Katowice, Institute of Computer Science, Poland  |
Prof. Alfred Zimmermann  | Reutlingen University, Germany  |
Dr. Sergey Zykov  | National Research University Higher School of Economics - and - National Research University MEPhI, Russia  |