Organizing Committees

General Chairs
Ana Maria Madureira, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
Ajith Abraham, Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), USA

Program Chairs
Emilio Corchado, University of Salamanca, Spain
Leonilde Varela, Leonilde Varela, Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Workshops and Special Sessions Chairs
Amélia Loja , Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon, Portugal
Eduardo Solteiro Pires, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Portugal

Publication Chair
Azah Kamilah Muda, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Malaysia

Publicity Chair
Choo yun Huoy, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Malaysia

Local Organizing Committee
Luis Coelho, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Porto, Portugal
Judite Ferreira, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Porto, Portugal
João Paulo Pereira, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Porto, Portugal
Jorge Santos, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Porto, Portugal
Ivo Pereira, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Porto, Portugal

International Advisory Board
Aboul Ella Hassanien, University of Cairo, Egypt
Adel Alimi, Universit de Sfax, Sfax – Tunisia
André Ponce de Leon F de Carvalho, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Emilio Corchado, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
Francisco Herrera,University of Granada, Spain
Hideyuki Takagi, Kyushu University, Japan
Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Jeng-Shyang Pan, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Jun Wang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Krzysztof Cios, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
Mario Koeppen, KyushuInstitute of Technology, Japan
Oscar Castillo, Tijuana Institute of Technology, Mexico
Ronald R. Yager, Machine Intelligence Institute, IONA College, USA
Sankar Pal, Indian Statistical Institute, India
Sebastián Ventura, University of Cordoba, Spain
Vaclav Snasel, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic

 

Web Administrator
Kun Ma, University of Jinan, China

International Program Committee

Adel Al-Jumaily, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Ajay Somkuwar, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, India Ajith Abraham, Machine Intelligence Research Labs, United States Alex James, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan Alexander Mendiburu, The University of the Basque Country, Spain Alicia Troncoso, Pablo de Olavide University, Spain Amélia Loja, Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Portugal Amelia Zafra Gómez, University of Córdoba, Spain Amit Dutta, Barkatullah University, India Amitava Chatterjee, Jadavpur University, India Ana Madureira, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal Anália Lourenço, Universidade do Minho, Portugal Anan Banharnsakun, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand Anand Kulkarni, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Andrea Corradini, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Andrei Petrovski, Robert Gordon University, United Kingdom Andres Ortiz, Universidad de Málaga, Spain Andrew L. Nelson, Androtics LLC, United States Anna Jordanous, King's College London, United Kingdom Antonio Latorre, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain Arshin Rezazadeh, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Iran Arturo Hernández-Aguirre, Centre for Research in Mathematics, Mexico Asoke Nath, St. Xaviers College (Autonomous), India Assel Akzhalova, Kazakh British Technical University, Kazakhstan Ata Kaban, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom Atta Rahman, ISRA University, Pakistan Azah Kamilah Muda, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Malaysia Bahareh Asadi, Islamic Azad University, Iran Bharanidharan Shanmugam, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia Biju Issac, Teesside University, United Kingdom Bingwei He, Fuzhou University, China Binod Kumar Prasad, Maharastra Academy of Engineering, India Bruno Rossi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy C. Alberto Ochoa-Zezatti, Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, Mexico Carlos Fernandez-Llatas, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Carlos Pereira, Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra, Portugal Céline Rouveirol, Université Paris 13, France Cerasela Crisan, "Vasile Alecsandri" University of Bacau, Romania Cesar Torres, CINVESTAV, Mexico Chi Kin Chow, City University of Hong Kong, China Chillarige Raghavendra Rao, Hyderabad Central University, India Chin-Shiuh Shieh, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Taiwan Chun-Wei Lin, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan Crina Grosan, Babes-Bolyai University, Norway Daniela Zaharie, West University of Timisoara, Romania Dante Tapia, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain Darya Chyzhyk, The University of the Basque Country, Spain Diaf Moussa, Université Mouloud Mammeri, Algeria Dragan Simic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia Eduardo Solteiro Pires, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Portugal Eiji Uchino, Yamaguchi University, Japan Eliska Ochodkova, VSB – Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic Elpida Tzafestas, University of Athens, Greece Ender Ozcan, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom Erkan Bostancı, University of Essex, United Kingdom Eulanda Dos Santos, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Brazil Fernando Corinto, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Fukuyama Yoshikazu, Nguyen Tat Thanh University, Vietnam Gai-Ge Wang, Jiangsu Normal University, China George D. C. Cavalcanti, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil George Papakostas, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Ghanshyam Thakur, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, India Giancarlo Mauri, Università di Milano Bicocca, Italy Giovanni Iacca, INCAS³, Netherlands Habib M. Kammoun, Université de Sfax, Tunisia Halizah Basiron, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Malaysia Hana Rezankova, University of Economics, Czech Republic Heder Bernardino, Universidade Federal de Juiz de For a, Brazil Hendrik Richter, Leipzig University of Applied Sciences, Germany Hisashi Handa, Kindai University, Japan Holger Morgenstern, Sachverstaendigenbuero Morgenstern, Germany I.G.P. Asto Buditjahjanto, Universitas Negeri Surabaya, Indonesia Imre Lendák, University of Novi Sad, Serbia Ivo Pereira, Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Portugal Jan Platoš, VSB – Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic János Botzheim, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan Javier Sedano, Technological Institute of Castilla y Leon, Spain Jean-Loup Guillaume, Laboratoire d'informatique de Paris 6, France Jeng-Shyang Pan Pan, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Taiwan Jer Lang Hong, Taylors University, Malaysia Jih Fu Tu, St. Johns University, United States João Calado, Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Portugal João Paulo Pereira, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal Joaquin Derrac, Universidad de Granada, Spain Jorge Bernardino, Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra, Portugal José Carlos Ortiz-Bayliss, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom José M. Merigó, University of Barcelona, Spain José Ramón Villar, University of Oviedo, Spain Jose Santos, Universidad de A Coruña, Spain Joseph Alexander Brown, University of Guelph, Canada Joseph Spring, University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom Julio Ponce, Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, Mexico Junzo Watada, Waseda University, Japan Katsuhiro Honda, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan Keeley Crockett, Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom Komal Kumar Bhatia, YMCA Institute of Engineering, India Kononova Anna, Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom Konstantinos Parsopoulos, University of Ioannina, Greece Korhan Karabulut, Yaşar Üniversitesi, Turkey Kun Ma, Jinan University, China Laurence Amaral, Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Leocadio G. Casado, University of Almería, Spain Leonilde Varela, Universidade do Minho, Portugal Long-Thành Ngô, Le Quy Don Technical University, Vietnam Luis Coelho, Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Portugal Manlio De Domenico, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain Manuel Graña, The University of the Basque Country, Spain Marde Helbig, CSIR: Meraka Institute, South Africa Maria José Angélico, Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Portugal Marjan Kuchaki Rafsanjani, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Iran Mark Embrechts, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, United States Matteo Magnani, Università di Bologna, Italy Mauricio Ayala-Rincon, Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil Michael Epitropakis, University of Stirling, United Kingdom Michele Coscia, Harvard Kennedy School, United States Mohamed Shojafar, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Mohd Faizal Abdollah, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Malaysia Mourad Abbas, Centre de Recherche Scientifique et Technique sur le Développement de La Langue Arabe, Algeria Mrutyunjaya Panda, Gandhi Institute for Technological Advancement, India Muhammad Sarfraz, Kuwait University, Kuwait Navin Kumar Agrawal, Sagar Institute of Research Technology and Science, India Nelishia Pillay, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Nohe Ramon Cazarez-Castro, Instituto Tecnologico de Tijuana, Mexico Noor Azilah Muda, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Malaysia Otoniel Lopez Granado, Miguel Hernandez University, Spain Paulo Gonçalves, Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, Portugal Petro Gopych, Universal Power Systems USA-Ukraine LLC, Ukraine Ping Guo, Beijing Normal University, China Piotr Porwik, University of Silesia, Poland Punam Bedi, University of Delhi, India Quang Uy Nguyen, University College Dublin, Ireland Rafael Corchuelo, University of Seville, Spain Ramachandram Sirandas, Osmania University, India Razib Hayat Khan, Norwegian Univeristy of Science and Technology, Norway Renaud Lambiotte, Université de Namur, Belgium Robiah Yusof, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Malaysia Rodica Ioana Lung, Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania Rushed Kanawati, Université Paris 13, France S. Ramakrishnan, Dr. Mahalingam College of Engineering and Technology, India Saber Elsayed, Australian Defence Force Academy, Australia Sabrina Ahmad, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Malaysia Sabu M Thampi, Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, India Sanjay Dhar Roy, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India Seema Purohit, Navinchandra Mehta Institute of Technology and Development, India Shing Chiang Tan, Multimedia University, Malaysia Shinichi Shirakawa, Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, United States Siby Abraham, University of Mumbai, India Siddhivinayak Kulkarni, University of Ballarat, Australia Siti Rahayu Selamat, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Malaysia Sudhanshu Joshi, Doon University, India Suhas Chelian, HRL Laboratories LLC, United States Suicheng Gu, University of Pittsburgh, United States Sumithra Devi K A, Rashtreeya Vidyalaya College of Engineering, India Sung-Bae Cho, Yonsei University, Korea Susana C. Esquivel, Universidad Nacional de San Luis, Argentina Sushil Kulkarni, University of Mumbai, India Sven Tomforde, Universität Augsburg, Germany Thomas Hanne, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland Tibebe Beshah, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia Toshiharu Hatanaka, Osaka University, Japan Vidya Dhamdhere, GHRACM, India Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milan, Italy Vivek Deshpande, MIT College of Engineering, India Vn Manjunath Aradhya, Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, India Wei-Chiang Hong, Oriental Institute of Technology, Taiwan Wing-Kuen Ling, University of Lincoln, United Kingdom Wladyslaw Homenda, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Wu-Chih Hu, National Penghu University of Science and Technology, Taiwan Xianneng Li, Waseda University, Japan Yannis Marinakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece Yau-Hwang Kuo, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Yong Wang, Central South University, China Yuan Haibin, Beihang University, China Yun-Huoy Choo, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Malaysia Zhanghui Chen, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

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