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. Jair Minoro Abe | Paulista University and Institute For Advanced Studies - University of Sao Paulo, Brazil |
| Prof. Ana, de Almeida | ISCTE Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal |
| Assoc. Prof. Alina Barbulescu | Ovidius University of Constanta, Romania |
| Prof. Dariusz Barbucha | Gdynia Maritime University, Poland |
| Prof. Mokhtar Beldjehem | University of Ottawa, Ontario |
| Prof. Monica Bianchini | Department of Information Engineering and Mathematics, Italy |
| Dr. Gloria Bordogna | CNR - National Research Council, Italy |
| Dr. Janos Botzheim | Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan |
| Prof. Jerzy W. Grzymala-Busse | Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of Kansa, USA |
| Prof. Antonio Fernández-Caballero | Unversidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain |
| Prof. Alfonso Mateos Caballero | Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain |
| Dr. Wei Cao | School of Economics, HeFei University of Technology, China |
| Prof. Michele Ceccarelli | Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU |
| Dr. Marco Cococcioni | Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa, Italy |
| Prof. Mihaela Luca (Costin) | Institute of Computer Science, Romanian Academy, Iasi Branch. |
| Dr. Paolo Crippa | Department of Information Engineering, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy |
| Prof. Alfredo Cuzzocrea | University of Trieste, Italy |
| Prof. Ireneusz Czarnowski | Gdynia Maritime University, Poland |
| Prof. Margarita Favorskaya | Siberian State Aerospace University, Russian Federation, Russia |
| Dr. Wojciech Froelich | Institute of Computer Science, University of Silesia, Sosnowiec, Poland |
| Dr. Mauro Gaggero | National Research Council of Italy |
| Dr. Raffaele Gravina | DIMES, University of Calabria, Italy |
| Prof. Daniela Godoy | Unicen University, Argentina |
| Prof. Christos Grecos | Sohar University, Oman |
| Dr. Katarzyna Harezlak | Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland |
| Prof. Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis | University of Patras, Dept of Computer Engineering & Informatics, Greece |
| Dr.Dawn E.Holmes | University of California, USA |
| Prof. Katsuhiro Honda | Osaka Prefecture University, Japan |
| Prof. Dr. Daocheng Hong | Fudan University, China |
| Prof. Tzung-Pei Hong | National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan |
| Assoc. Prof. Dr. Petia Koprinkova-Hristova | Bulgarian Academy of Science |
| Prof. Yuh-Jong Hu | National Chengchi University, Taiwan. |
| Prof. Mika Sato-Ilic | University of Tsukuba, Japan |
| Prof. Yuji Iwahori | Chubu University, Japan |
| Prof. Dr. Piotr Jedrzejowicz | Gdynia Maritime University, Poland |
| Dr. Vyacheslav Kalashnikov | Tecnologico de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey, Mexico |
| Prof. Nikos Karacapilidis | University of Patras, Greece |
| Dr. Pawel Kasprowski | Silesian University of Technology, Poland |
| Prof.Hideki Katagiri | Hiroshima University , Japan |
| Prof. Eizo Kinoshita | Meijo University, Japan |
| Prof. Boris Kovalerchuk | Central Washington University, USA |
| Prof. Marek Kretowski | Faculty of Computer Science, Bialystok University of Technology, Poland |
| Dr. Vladimir Kurbalija | Department of Mathematics and Informatics, Faculty of Science, University of Novi Sad, Serbia |
| Prof. Kazuhiro Kuwabara | Ritsumeikan University, Japan |
| Prof. Chee Peng Lim | Deakin University, Australia |
| Prof. Ivan Luković | University of Novi Sad, Serbia |
| Dr. Ewa Magiera | Institute of Computer Science, University of Silesia, Sosnowiec, Poland |
| Mr. Neel Mani | ADAPT Centre for Digital Content Technology, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland |
| Prof. Shimpei Matsumoto | Hiroshima Institute of Technology, Japan |
| Dr. Mohamed Arezki Mellal | M'Hamed Bougara University, Boumerdes, Algeria |
| Assoc. Prof. Lyudmila Mihaylova | University of Sheffield, UK |
| Prof. Toshiro Minami | Kyushu Institute of Information Sciences and Kyushu University Library, Japan |
| Dr. Daniel Moldt | University of Hamburg, Department of Informatics, Germany |
| Prof. Stefania Montani | Universita' del Piemonte Orientale, Italy |
| Prof. Mikhail Moshkov | King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia |
| Prof. Fionn Murtagh | University of Derby & Goldsmiths University of London, UK |
| Prof. Kazumi Nakamatsu | University of Hyogo, Japan |
| Prof. Eugénio Oliveira | LIACC/DEI, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal |
| Prof. Marek Ogiela | AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland |
| Dr. Elpiniki Papageorgiou | Technological Education Institute (TEI) of Central Greece, Lamia, Greece |
| Dr. Mario Pavone | University of Catania, Italy |
| Prof. Petra Perner | Institute of Computer Vision and applied Computer Sciences, IBaI |
| Prof. Dr. Georg Peters | Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany |
| Dr. Camelia Pintea | UT Cluj-Napoca Romania |
| Dr. Clara Pizzuti | Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking (ICAR) National Research Council of Italy (CNR) |
| Dr. Bhanu Prasad | Florida A&M University, USA |
| Prof. Radu-Emil Precup | Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania |
| Prof. Jim Prentzas | Democritus University of Thrace, Greece |
| Prof. Dr. Marcos G. Quiles | Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP) |
| Dr. Milos Radovanovic | University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Mathematics and Informatics, Russia |
| Prof. Sheela Ramanna | University of Winnipeg, Canada |
| Dr. Ana Respício | Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal |
| Dr. John Ronczka | SCOTTYNCC Independent Research Scientist |
| Prof. Jose L. Salmeron | Computational Intelligence Lab, Univesity Pablo de Olavide, Spain |
| Dr. Miloš Savić | Department of Mathematics and Informatics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia |
| Prof. Rafał Scherer | Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland |
| Dr. Hirosato Seki | Osaka University, Japan |
| Mr. Bharat Singh | Big Data Analyst, Hildesheim, Germany |
| Dr. Urszula Stańczyk | Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland |
| Dr. Catalin Stoean | University of Craiova, Romania |
| Dr. Ruxandra Stoean | University of Craiova, Romania |
| Dr. Mika Sulkava | Natural Resources institute, Finland |
| Dr. Shing Chiang Tan | Multimedia University, Malaysia |
| Mr. Dilhan J. Thilakarathne | VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| Prof. Claudio Turchetti | Department of Information Engineering, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy |
| Dr. Pandian Vasant | PETRONAS University of Technology |
| Prof. Zeev Volkovich | ORT Braude College Karmiel, Israel |
| Dr. Helene S. Wallach | Department of Psychology, University of Haifa, Israel |
| Assoc. Prof. Fen Wang | Central Washington University, USA |
| Prof. Junzo Watada | Waseda University, Japan |
| Prof. Snejana Yordanova | Faculty of Automation, Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria |
| Prof. Dmitry Zaitsev | International Humanitarian University, Odessa, Ukraine |
| Prof. Danuta Zakrzewska | Lodz University of Technology, Institute of Information Technology, Poland |
| Dr. Beata Zielosko | University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland |
| Prof. Alfred Zimmermann | Reutlingen University, Germany |