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.

We are grateful for their valuable assistance.

The IPC consists of the following members and, in addition, all Invited Session Chairs:-

KES-IDT-18 IPC Members

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