Scientific Committee

 General Conference Co-Chairs

Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University), Portugal

Miguel Baptista Nunes, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

Antonio Palma dos Reis, ISEG - Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal

Committee Members *

Abdulkadir Hussein, University of Windsor, Canada

Adel M. Alimi, University of Sfax, Tunisia

Adriano Di Pasquale, University of L'Aquila, Italy

Adnan Ali, University of Windsor, Canada

Ahmed Mehaoua, University of Versailles, France

Ai-Chun Pang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Akinori Abe, ATR Intelligent Robotics & Communication Laboratories, Japan

Albertas Caplinskas, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Lithuania

Alex Sánchez, University of Barcelona, Spain

Alexander Zipf, University of Applied Sciences, Mainz, Germany

Alexandros Potamianos, Technical University of Crete, Greece

Alex Rusli, University of Indonesia, Indonesia

Alexander Gelbukh, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico

Alexei Tretiakov, Massey University, New Zealand

Alessandro Ricci, Università di Bologna in Cesena, Italy

Amar Ramdane-Cherif, University of Versailles, France

Amy Hauth, University of Montreal, Canada

Andrea Omicini, Universita' degli Studi di Bologna, Italy

Andreas Hotho, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

Andrei Stoica, George Mason University, USA

Andrew M. Gravell, University of Southampton, United Kingdom

Anecita Gigi Lim, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Anna Tzanakaki, Athens Information Technology Center, Greece

Anthi Iliopoulou, Greece

Anthony Savidis, ICS-FORTH, Greece

Anton Nijholt, University of Twente, The Netherlands

Antonija Mitrovic, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

Antonio Pescapè, University of Napoli "Federico II", Italy

Anupriya Ankolekar, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Arif Djunaidy, Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology, Indonesia

Artem Cherkasov, University of British Columbia, Canada

Athanasios Douitsis, NTUA NMC, Greece

Audrone Lupeikiene, Institute of Mathematic and Informatics, Lithuania

Baowen Xu, Southeast University, China

Behrouz Homayoun Far, University of Calgary, Canada

Bénédicte Talon, Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale, France

Benyamin Kusumoputro, University of Indonesia, Indonesia  

Bernd E. Wolfinger, University of Hamburg, Germany

Bernhard Bauer, University of Augsburg, Germany

Berthe Y. Choueiry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

Bharat Bhargava, Purdue University, USA

Bin Cong, California State University - Fullerton, USA

Birgit Brigl, University of Leipzig, Germany

Boris Rachev, Technical University of Varna, Bulgaria

Bronius Paradauskas, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania

Bruno Warin, IUT Informatique de Calais-Boulogne, France

Carlo Giovannella, University of Rome, Italy

Carlo Mastroianni, ICAR-CNR, Italy

Carlos Cruz Corona, University of Granada, Spain

Carmine Gravino, University of Salerno, Italy

Catherine Bounsaythip, VTT Information Technology, Finland

Cécile Paris, CSIRO, Australia

Chris Hunt, Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom

Chris Rensleigh, University of Johannesburg, South Africa

Christian Koncilia, Klagenfurt University, Austria

Christos Bouras, University of Patras, Greece

Christos Papadelis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Chunsheng Yang, National Research Council of Canada, Canada

Claudine Toffolon, Université du Littoral - Côte d'Opale, France

Corrado Santoro, University of Catania, Italy

Dana Indra Sensuse, University of Indonesia, Indonesia

Daniel Grosu, Wayne State University, USA

Daniela Giordano, University of Catania, Italy

Daniela Trevisan, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium

Dave Augustyn, Technikon Witwatersrand, South Africa

David A. Pelta, University of Granada, Spain

David Camacho, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

David Guralnick, Kaleidoscope Learning, USA

David L. Hicks, Aalborg University Esbjerg, Denmark

David M. Kennedy, Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong

David Taniar, Monash University, Australia

Davide Bolchini, University of Lugano, Switzerland

Demetrios Sampson, ITI, Greece

Dickson K.W. Chiu, Dickson Computer Systems, Hong Kong

Dimitris Papadias, Hong-Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

Dunja Mladenic, J. Stefan Institute, Slovenia

Dunwei Wen, Central South University, China

Edward Wantuch, Cracow University of Technology, Poland

Edwin Gray, Glasgow Caledonian University, United Kingdom

Elisabeth Métais, CNAM, France

Elske Ammenwerth, University for Health Sciences, Austria

Emad Abuelrub, Zarka Private University, Jordan

Enn Õunapuu, Talinn University of Technology, Estonia

Enrico Blanzieri, University of Trento, Italy

Enrique Areizaga Sanchez, Robotiker Telecom, Tecnalia, Spain

Esma Aimeur, University of Montréal, Canada

Eva Heinrich, Massey University, New Zealand

Fahim Akhter, Zayed University, United Arab Emirates

Federico Bergenti, Universita' degli Studi di Parma, Italy

Fernando Fernández Rebollo, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

Filomena Ferrucci, University of Salerno, Italy

Flavius Frasincar, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

Floriana Esposito, University of Bari, Italy

Francesca Toni, Imperial College London, UK

Francesco Amigoni, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Francesco Guerra, University of Modena, Italy

Francisca Losavio, Venezuela Central University, Venezuela

Franck Tetard, Abo Akademi University, Finland

Frank X. Liu, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA

Franziska Klügl, Universität Würzburg, Germany

Fuhua Lin, Athabasca University, Canada

Gang Zhao, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

Gearoid O`Suilleabhain, Cork Institute of Technology, United Kingdom

Gene Cooperman, Northeastern University, USA

George A. Gravvanis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

George Margelis, Macquarie Health Corporation, Australia

George Tsihrintzis, University of Piraeus, Greece

German Gutierrez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

Gertraud Burger, University of Montreal, Canada

Giancarlo Mauri, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy

Giasemi Vavoula, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

Giorgio Delzanno, University of Genova, Italy

Giovanna Guerrini, University of Pisa, Italy

Giovanni Semeraro, University of Bari, Italy

Giulio Pavesi, University of Milan, Italy

Giuseppe Amato, ISTI-CNR, Italy

Giuseppe Lancia, University of Udine, Italy

Grazione Pesole, University of Milan, Italy

Gregory Alexander, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA

Grigori Sidorov, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico

Gunter Saake, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Germany

Hai Wang, University of Manchester, United Kingdom

Han Roeters, Reevedon Elderly Care, New Zealand

Haralambos Mouratidis, University of East London, United Kingdom

Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Henrik Linderoth, Umeå Business School, Sweden

Hernán J. Dopazo, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas, Spain

Hervé Debar, France Telecom R&D, France

Herve Philippe, University of Montreal, Canada

Hiram Calvo, National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico

Ho-fung Leung, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Hong Lin, University of Houston-Downtown, USA

Ian Douglas, Florida State University, USA

Ignacio Aedo Cuevas, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

Igor Timko, Aalborg University, Denmark

Ilhem Kallel, University of Sfax, Tunisia

Irene Arkhangelskaja, Moscow State Engineering Physics Institute, Russia

Isaac Pak-Wah Fung, Massey University, New Zealand

Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau, CNAM, France

Ismail Guven, Ankara University, Turkey

Ismail Khalil Ibrahim, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

J.A. Magnuson, Oregon Health Services, USA

J. Michael Spector, Florida State University, USA

J. P. Shim, Mississippi State University, USA

Jaak Tepandi, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia

Jacek Unold, Wroclaw University of Economics, Poland

Jaime Delgado, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain

Jake Chen, Purdue University Indianapolis, USA

Jarinee Chattratichart, London Metropolitan University, United Kingdom

Jaroslav Pokorný, Charles University, Czech Republic

Jean Vanderdonckt, University of Louvain, Belgium

Jean-Claude Junqua, Panasonic Speech Technology Laboratory, USA

Jean-Luc Dugelay, Institut Eurecom, France

Jennifer Leopold, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA

Jens H. Jahnke, University of Victoria, Canada

Jerzy Kisielnicki, Warsaw University, Poland

Jesualdo Tomás Fernández Breis, University of Murcia, Spain

Jin-Tan Yang, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan

Jinan Fiaidhi, Lakehead University, Canada

Joan Ballantine, Queens University Belfast, United Kingdom

Joaquín Dopazo, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas, Spain

John B. Stav, Sor-Trondelag University College, Norway

John Debenham, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

John-Jules Meyer, Utrecht University, The Netherlands  

Jordan Dimitrov, De Montfort University, United Kingdom

Jordi Palet Martinez, Consulintel, Spain

Jorge A. Ramírez-Uresti, ITESM-CEM, Mexico

José Luis Verdegay, Universidad de Granada, Spain

José  M. Valls, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

Juan Carlos Augusto, University of Ulster at Jordanstown, UK

Jun Ni, The University of Iowa, USA

Kalle Juuti, University of Helsinki, Finland

Karin Coninx, Limburgs Universitair Centrum, Belgium

Kate Lennon, Glasgow Caledonian University, United Kingdom

Katerina Kabassi, University of Piraeus, Greece

Katia Passerini, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

Keyur Patel, University of Ballarat, Australia

Kinshuk, Massey University, New Zealand

Klaus Meyer-Wegener, University of Erlangen and Nuremberg, Germany

Kok-Leong Ong, Deakin University, Australia

Kostas Stathis, City University London, United Kingdom

Kris Luyten, Limburgs Universitair Centrum, Belgium

Krzysztof Cios, University of Colorado at Denver, USA

Kuldar Taveter, The University of Melbourne, Australia

Larbi Esmahi, Athabasca University, Canada

Lea Kutvonen, University of Helsinki, Finland

Leon Sterling, Melbourne University, Australia

Leonardo Garrido, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico

Leszek Lilien, Purdue University, USA

Lily Sun, The University of Reading, United Kingdom

Lina Nemuraite, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania

Ljiljana Trajkovic, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Longbing Cao, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

Louis Fourie, Institute for Human & Machine Cognition, USA

Louxin Zhang, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Luigi Lavazza, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Lusheng Wang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Manuel Montes-y-Gomez, Inst. Nac. de Astrofísica, Optica y Electrónica, Mexico

Manuel Mora, Universidad Autonoma de Aguascalientes, Mexico

Ma. de los Angeles Junco Rey, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico

Marc Swerts, Tilburg University, The Netherlands

Marcello Dalpasso, University of Padova, Italy

Marcelo Pimenta, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Marco Winckler, IRIT, France

Margherita Antona, ICS-FORTH, Greece

Maria Bielikova, Slovak University of Technology, Slovakia

Maria Gini, University of Minnesota, USA

Maria Moundridou, University of Piraeus, Greece

María S. Pérez-Hernández, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

Maria Vargas-Vera, Open University, United Kingdom

Maria Virvou, University of Piraeus, Greece

Mariagrazia Fugini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Maricela Quintana López, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico

Marinos Themistocleous, Brunel University, United Kingdom

Marius C. Silaghi, Florida Institute of Technology, USA

Martin Gaedke, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

Matej Oresic, VTT: Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland

Matjaz Gams, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia

Matteo Baldoni, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy

Matthias Rauterberg, Technical University Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Matti Lattu, University of Helsinki, Finland

Mauricio Varea, University of Southampton, UK

Maurizio Martelli, University of Genoa, Italy

Maurizio Vincini, University of Modena, Italy

Mauro Pezzè, University of Milan – Bicocca, Italy

Mehdi Dastani, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Mengjie Zhang, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Michael Weiss, Carleton University, Canada

Michael Worzyk, Hochschule Anhalt, Germany

Michela Bertolotto, University College Dublin, United Kingdom

Michelle Honey, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Mieczysław Drabowski, Krakow University of Technology, Poland

Miguel A. Jimenez-Montano, University of Veracruz, Mexico

Mikael Collan, Abo Akademi University, Finland

Mikhail Mikhailov, University of Tampere, Finland

Mikko Koivisto, University of Helsinki, Finland

Mirjana Ivanovic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro

Mirko Viroli, Università degli Studi di Bologna a Cesena, Italy

Mohamed Ally, Athabasca University, Canada

Mohammad A. Radaideh, UAE University, United Arab Emirates

Monica Landoni, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom

Murray Scott , NUI Galway, Ireland

Nadia El-Mabrouk, University of Montreal, Canada

Nancy Reed, University of Hawaii, USA

Neeraj Suri, Technical University of Damstadt, Germany

Nicola Beasley, Napier University, United Kingdom

Nicola Gatti, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Nicole Lévy, Université de Versailles St-Quentin en Yvelines, France

Nigel Collier, National Institute of Informatics, Japan

Noëlle Carbonell, LORIA, France

Norbert M. Seel, Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg, Germany

Nuria Oliver, Microsoft Research, USA

Oleg Sokolsky, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Pabitra Mitra, Indian Institute of Technology, India

Päivi Onkamo, University of Helsinki, Finland

Panagiota Fatourou, University of Ioannina, Greece

Panagiotis D. Bamidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Panos Kalnis, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Paolo Giorgini, University of Trento, Italy

Paolo Petta, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Austria

Paolo Trunfio, University of Calabria, Italy

Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France

Patrick Grossetete, CISCO Systems, USA

Pavlos Moraitis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Pavol Návrat, Slovak University of Technology, Slovakia

Pedro Fernandes, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal

 Peng Liu, Pennsylvania State University, USA

Pericles Loucopoulos, UMIST, UK

Peter Langendörfer, IHP, Germany

Peter Love, Edith Cowan University, Australia

Peter Spyns, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

Peter Zentel, Knowledge Media Research Centre, Germany

Petr Holub, Masaryk University, Czech Republic

Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands

Pietro Mazzoleni, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy

Pilar Herero, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

Pirkko Walden, Abo Akademi University, Finland

Przemyslaw Kaszubski, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland

Quentin Limbourg, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium

Qingping Lin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Quan Long, United Nations University, China

Rainer Breitling, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

Rajit Gadh, UCLA, USA

Ramón Díaz-Uriarte, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas, Spain

Ramon F. Brena Pinero, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico

Ray Kemp, Massey University, New Zealand

Razvan Andonie, Central Washington University, USA

Reagan Moore, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA

Rebeca Cortazar, Universidad de Deusto, Spain

Rein Kuusik, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia

Remigijus Gustas, Karlstad University, Sweden

Reuven Aviv, The Open University of Israel, Israel

Rimantas Butleris, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania

Robert Milne, Sermatech Intelligent Applications, United Kingdom

Robert Wrembel, Poznan University of Technology, Poland

Roger Hartley, University of Leeds, United Kingdom

Roland Blomer, UMIT, Austria

Roland Kaschek, Massey University, New Zealand

Rosa Maria Bottino, CNR, Italy

Rose Luckin, University of Sussex, United Kingdom

Russell Schwartz, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Ryan Brinkman, BC Cancer Research Centre, Canada

Saad Harous, University of Sharjah, UAE

Sam Makki, University of Toledo, USA 

Sang-Yup Lee, KAIST, Korea

Sarah Zelikovitz, College of Staten Island, USA

Sasha Dekleva, DePaul University, USA

Saulius Gudas, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania

Saulius Maskeliunas, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Lithuania

Selim Aissi, Intel Corporation, USA

Sergio Di Martino, University of Salerno, Italy

Seshadri Mohan, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA

Shamima Paurobally, University of Southampton, United Kingdom

Sherman Shen, University of Waterloo, Canada

Shirley Williams, The University of Reading, United Kingdom

Shonali Krishnaswamy, Monash University, Australia

Siu-Ming Yiu, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Sourav S. Bhowmick, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Spiridon Bakiras, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

Stan Kurkovsky, Columbus State University, USA

Stanislaw Wrycza, University of Gdansk, Poland

Stéphane Faulkner, University of Namur, Belgium

Stephane Lo Presti, University of Southampton , UK

Stephen J.H. Yang, National Central University, Taiwan

Steven A. Demurjian, The University of Connecticut, USA

Sung Y. Shin, South Dakota State University, USA

Sven Ubik, CESNET, Czech Republic

Sviatoslav Braynov, University of Illinois at Springfield, USA

Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan

Tei-Wei Kuo, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Tetsuo Shibuya, University of Tokyo, Japan

Thomas C. Schmidt, University of Applied Sciences, Germany

Thomas Schwotzer, TU Berlin, Germany

Timothy B. Patrick, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA

Tomaz Amon, Center for Scientific Visualization, Slovenia

Tomi Pasanen, University of Helsinki, Finland

Toshio Okamoto, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan

Tran Khanh Dang, Middlesex University, United Kingdom

Turgay Korkmaz, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA

Ueng-Cheng Yang, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan

Vaclav Snasel, Technical University Ostrava, Czech Republic

Veijo Meisalo, University of Helsinki, Finland

Victor Robles, Brigham & Womens Hospital, USA

Vineesh Khanna, WWW Machealth Pty Ltd, Australia

Viviana Mascardi, University of Genoa, Italy

Vladimir Oleshchuk, Agder University College, Norway

Volker Linnemann, Universität zu Lübeck, Germany

W. Lewis Johnson, University of Southern California/ ISI, USA

Walt Truszkowski, NASA, USA

Werner Beuschel, University of Applied Sciences Brandenburg, Germany

Wiebe van der Hoek, University of Liverpool, UK

Willem Jonker, Philips Research Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Wojciech Penczek, IPI PAN, Poland

Wolfgang Deiters, Fraunhofer ISST, Germany

Wolfgang Minker, University of Ulm, Germany

Wolfram Bartussek, PROSYS, Germany

Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University, Greece

Yubin Yang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Yufei Tao, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Xiang Gao,Tilburg University, The Netherlands

Xiaoying Gao, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Xuemin Lin, University of New South Wales, Australia

Zaher Al Aghbari, University of Sharjah, UAE

Zahir Irani, Brunel University, United Kingdom

Zainal A. Hasibuan, University of Indonesia, Indonesia

Zbigniew Kokosinski, Cracow University of Technology, Poland

Zicheng Liu, Microsoft Research, USA

Ziga Turk, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Zoran Budimac, University of Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro

Zoubir Mammeri, IRIT - Paul Sabatier University, France

* members are still being invited. List not complete.

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