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 & University of Sao Paulo, Brazil  |
Prof. Witold Abramowicz  | Poznan University of Economics, Poland  |
Dr. Piotr Artiemjew  | University of Warmia and Mazury, Poland  |
Prof. Ahmad Taher Azar  | Prince Sultan University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia  |
Prof. Valentina Emilia Balas  | Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania  |
Prof. Dariusz Barbucha  | Gdynia Maritime University, Poland  |
Prof. Andreas Behrend  | University of Bonn, Germany  |
Dr. Mokhtar Beldjehem  | University of Ottawa, Canada  |
Prof. Monica Bianchini  | University of Siena, Italy  |
Dr. Gloria Bordogna  | CNR IREA, Italy  |
Prof. Leszek Borzemski  | Wrocław University of Technology, Poland  |
Dr. Janos Botzheim  | Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary  |
Prof. Adriana Burlea-Schiopoiu  | University of Craiova, Romania  |
Prof. Alfonso Mateos Caballero  | Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain  |
Assoc. Prof. Frantisek Capkovic  | Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovak Republic  |
Prof. Shyi-Ming Chen  | National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan  |
Prof.Chen-Fu Chien  | National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan  |
Dr. Amine Chohra  | Paris-East University (UPEC), France  |
Prof. Marco Cococcioni  | University of Pisa, Italy  |
Dr. Angela Consoli  | DST Group, Australia  |
Dr. Paulo Cortez  | University of Minho, Portugal  |
Dr. Paolo Crippa  | Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy  |
Dr. Dinu Dragan  | University of Novi Sad, Serbia  |
Prof. Margarita Favorskaya  | Reshetnev Siberian State University of Science and Technology, Russia  |
Assoc. Prof. Raquel Florez-Lopez  | University Pablo Olavide of Seville, Spain  |
Dr. Wojciech Froelich  | University of Silesia, Poland  |
Prof. Rocco Furferi  | University of Florence, Italy  |
Dr. Mauro Gaggero  | National Research Council, Italy  |
Prof. Mauro Gaspari  | University of Bologna, Italy  |
Prof. Christos Grecos  | National College of Ireland, Ireland  |
Dr. Foteini Grivokostopoulou  | University of Patras, Greece  |
Prof. Jerzy W. Grzymala-Busse  | University of Kansas, USA  |
Dr. Katarzyna Harezlak  | Silesian University of Technology, Poland  |
Assoc. 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. Dosam Hwang  | Yeungnam University, South Korea  |
Prof Dr Anca Ignat  | Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Romania  |
Prof. Yuji Iwahori  | Chubu University, Japan  |
Prof. Piotr Jedrzejowicz  | Gdynia Maritime University, Poland  |
Prof. Dragan Jevtic  | University of Zagreb, Croatia  |
Dr. Ivan Jordanov  | University of Portsmouth, UK  |
Prof. Frank Klawonn  | Ostfalia University, Germany  |
Prof. Nikos Karacapilidis  | University of Patras, Greece  |
Dr. Pawel Kasprowski  | Silesian University of Technology, Poland  |
Prof. Roumen Kountchev  | Technical University Sofia, Bulgaria  |
Prof. Kazuhiro Kuwabara  | Ritsumeikan University, Japan  |
Assoc. Prof. Aleksandar Kovačević  | University of Novi Sad, Serbia  |
Prof. Boris Kovalerchuk  | Central Washington University, USA  |
Prof. Marek Kretowski  | Bialystok University of Technology, Poland  |
Dr. Vladimir Kurbalija  | University of Novi Sad, Serbia  |
Prof. Noriyuki Kushiro  | Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan  |
Dr. Birger Lantow  | University of Rostock, Germany  |
Dr. Pei-Chun Lin  | Feng Chia University, Taiwan  |
Prof. Ivan Luković  | University of Novi Sad, Serbia  |
Assoc. Prof. Mohamed Arezki Mellal  | M'Hamed Bougara University, Algeria  |
Prof. Mikhail Moshkov  | KAUST, Saudi Arabia  |
Prof. Tetsuya Murai  | Chitose Institute of Science and Technology, Japan  |
Prof. Marek Ogiela  | AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland  |
Prof. Yukio Ohsawa  | The University of Tokyo, Japan  |
Prof. Dr. Takao Ohya  | Kokushikan University, Japan  |
Dr. Mrutyunjaya Panda  | Utkal University, India  |
Prof. Georg Peters  | Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany  |
Prof. Isidoros Perikos  | University of Patras, Greece  |
Prof. Petra Perner  | Institut of Computer Vision and Applied Computer Sciences, Germany  |
Prof. Gloria Phillips-Wren  | Loyola University Maryland, USA  |
Prof. Anitha S. Pillai  | Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science, India  |
Assoc. Prof. Camelia Pintea  | Technical University Cluj-Napoca, Romania  |
Prof. Dilip Kumar Pratihar  | Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India  |
Prof. Bhanu Prasad  | Florida A&M University, USA  |
Prof. Jim Prentzas  | Democritus University of Thrace, Greece  |
Prof. Radu-Emil Precup  | Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania  |
Dr. Małgorzata Przybyła-Kasperek  | University of Silesia, Poland  |
Dr. Marcos Quiles  | UNIFESP, Brazil  |
Dr. Milos Radovanovic  | University of Novi Sad, Serbia  |
Dr. Azizul Azhar Ramli  | Universiti Tun Hussein Onn, Malaysia  |
Prof. Ewa Ratajczak-Ropel  | Gdynia Maritime University, Poland  |
Prof. Paolo Remagnino  | University of Kingston, UK  |
Prof. Ana Respício  | University of Lisbon, Portugal  |
Prof. Marina Resta  | University of Genoa, Italy  |
Prof. Alvaro Rocha  | University of Coimbra, Portugal  |
Dr. John Ronczka  | Independent Research Scientist (SCOTTYNCC), Australia  |
Prof. Anatoliy Sachenko  | Ternopil National Economic University, Ukraine  |
Prof. Wojciech Sałabun  | West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, Poland  |
Prof. Mika Sato-Ilic  | University of Tsukuba, Japan  |
Dr. Milos Savic  | University of Novi Sad, Serbia  |
Prof. Rainer Schmidt  | Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany  |
Prof. Ralf Seepold  | HTWG Konstanz, Germany  |
Dr. Hirosato Seki  | Osaka Institute of Technology, Japan  |
Mr. Bharat Singh  | Big Data Labs, Hamburg, Germany  |
Assoc. Prof. Margarita Stankova  | New Bulgarian University, Bulgaria  |
Dr. Aleksander Skakovski  | Gdynia Maritime University, Poland  |
Dr. Urszula Stanczyk  | Silesian University of Technology, Poland  |
Assoc. Prof. Catalin Stoean  | University of Craiova, Romania  |
Assoc. Prof. Ruxandra Stoean  | University of Craiova, Romania  |
Dr. Shing Chiang Tan  | Multimedia University, Malaysia  |
Dr. Shing Chiang Tan  | Multimedia University, Malaysia  |
Prof. Claudio Turchetti  | Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy  |
Prof. Mieko Tanaka-Yamawaki  | Meiji University, Japan  |
Dr. Dilhan J. Thilakarathne  | VU University Amsterdam / ING Bank, Netherlands  |
Prof. Edmondo Trentin  | University of Siena, Italy  |
Dr. Jeffrey Tweedale  | DST Group, Australia  |
Prof. Eiji Uchino  | Yamaguchi University, Japan  |
Dr. Marco Vannucci  | Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy  |
Prof. Zeev Volkovich  | ORT Braude College, Israel  |
Prof. Fen Wang  | Central Washington University, USA  |
Prof. Dr. Gloria Wren  | Loyola University Maryland, USA  |
Prof. Beata Konikowska  | University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland  |
Prof. Yoshiyuki Yabuuchi  | Shimonoseki City University, Japan  |
Prof. Hiroyuki Yoshida  | Harvard Medical School, USA  |
Prof. Dmitry Zaitsev  | Odessa State Environmental University, Ukraine  |
Prof. Lindu Zhao  | Southeast University, China  |
Dr. Min Zhou  | Hunan University of Commerce, China  |
Dr. Beata Zielosko  | University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland  |
Prof. Alfred Zimmermann  | Reutlingen University, Germany  |
Prof. Sergey Zykov  | National Research University, Russia  |