PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Patron
Prof. Dr. Ahmad Yusoff bin Hassan
(Vice Chancellor, UTeM)
Honorary Chair
Lotfi A. Zadeh
(Professor Emeritus, University of California Berkeley)
Advisors
Datuk Prof. Dr. Mohd Nor bin Husain
(Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic and International) UTeM)
Datuk Prof. Madya Dr. Abu Bakar bin Mohamad Diah
(Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research & Innovation) UTeM)
Prof. Dr. Shahrin Bin Sahib@Sahibuddin
(Dean of FTMK, UTeM)
General Chairs
Nanna Suryana Herman
(Deputy Dean of Postgraduate and Research, UTeM)
Siti Mariyam Hj. Shamsuddin
(SCRG Chair)
Ajith Abraham
(MIR Labs)
Program Chairs
Azah Kamilah Muda (UTeM)
Hisao Ishibuchi (Osaka Prefecture University)
International Co-Chairs
Andre de Carvalho (Brazil)
Mario Koeppen, (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
Advisory Board Member
Takeshi Yamakawa (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
Nikhil R. Pal (Indian Statistical Institute, India)
Witold Pedrycz (University of Alberta, Canada)
Albert Zomaya (The University of Sydney, Australia)
Diane J. Cook (Washington State University, USA)
Larry Hall (University of South Florida, USA)
Imre J. Rudas (Budapest Tech, Hungary)
Hideyuki Takagi (Kyushu University , Japan)
Joydeep Ghosh (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Janusz Kacprzyk (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)
Special Session Chair
Muhammad Sarfraz (Kuwait University)
Workshop Chair
Mochamad Hariadi (Surabaya Institute of Technology, Indonesia)
Student Symposium Chair
Siti Mariyam Shamsuddin (SCRG Chair)
Secretary
Choo Yun Huoy (UTeM)
Treasurer
Burairah Hussin (UTeM)
Committees
Financial and Sponsorship Committee
Muhammad Haziq Lim Abdullah (UTeM)
Abdul Samad Hassan Basari (UTeM)
Ummi Rabaah Hashim (UTeM)
Burhanuddin Mohd. Aboobaider (UTeM)
Technical and Facilities Committee
Emaliana Kasmuri (UTeM)
Kamal Tarmizi (UTeM)
Khairul Nizam (UTeM)
Nizam Said (UTeM)
Publication Committee
Abdul Razak Hussain (UTeM)
Registration, Certification and Souvenirs Committee
Noorazilah Mohamed (UTeM)
Nurazlina Sanusi (UTeM)
Marliza Ramly (UTeM)
Irda Roslan (UTeM)
Venue and Accomodations Committee
Intan Ermahani Abd Jalil (UTeM)
Siti Mastura Baharuddin (UTeM)
Mohd Rady Ab Karim (UTeM)
Protocol and Conference Program Committee
Norasiken Bakar (UTeM)
Nor Haslinda Ismail (UTeM)
Nuridawati Mustafa (UTeM)
Logistic, Security and Transport Committee
Abdul Samad Shibghatullah (UTeM)
Mohd Zaki Mas’ud (UTeM)
WebMaster and Promotion
Shahril Parumo (UTeM)
Zurina Saaya (UTeM)
Designer
Shahril Parumo (UTeM)
Mohd Zulhilmi Rosnin (UTeM)
INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Eduardo Raul Hruschka, University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil
Yusuki Nojima, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria, Italy
Gabrie Luque, University of Málaga, Spain
Sebastian Ventura, University of Cordoba, Spain
Emilio Corchado, University of Burgos, Spain
Patrick Siarry, University de Paris 12, France
Chia-Chen Lin, Providence University, Taiwan
Kubilay Ecerkale, Turkish Air Force, Turkey
Chin-Shiuh Shieh, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Taiwan
Yuanning Liu, Jilin University, Taiwan
Mohammad Daliri, Cognitive Neuroscience Lab., DPZ, Germany
Debaets Bernard, Ghent University, Belgium
Jose Costa, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Paulo Branco, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Nakamatsu Kazumi, University of Hyogo, Japan
Vaclav Snasel, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Debajyoti Mukhopadhyay, Calcutta Business School, India
Kamran Fatahi, Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran
Maolin Tang, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Hashomoto Shuji, Waseda University, Japan
Ke Zhang, Shanghai Institute of Technology, China
Javier Medina, CICEI – ULPGC, Spain
Yen-Wei Chen, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Zhigang Zeng, Wuhan University of Technology, China
Fatos Xhafa, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain
Blumenstein Michael, Griffith University, Australia
Oscar Castillo, Tijuana Institute of Technology, Mexico
Georgios Sirakoulis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Paulo Carrasco, Universidade Do Algarve, Portugal
MacDonell Stephen, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Kin-Fun Li, University of Victoria, Canada
Dilip Pratihar, Indian Institute of Technology, India
Akshai Aggarwal, University of Windsor, Canada
Sabri Pllana, University of Vienna, Austria
Pierre-François Marteau, Universite de Bretagne Sud, France
Chuan-Kang Ting, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
Roman Neruda, Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
Keshav Dahal, University of Bradford, UK
Shahid Butt, National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan
Adil Baykasoglu, University of Gaziantep, Turkey
Daniela Zaharie, West University of Timisoara, Romania
Gabriella Sanniti-di-Baja, Institute of Cybernetics "E.Caianiello", Italy
Lozano Sebastian, University of Seville, Spain
Uchino Eiji, Yamaguchi University, Japan
Massimo DeGregorio, Istituto di Cibernetica "Eduardo Caianiello", Italy
Aurora Pozo, Federal University of Paraná, Brazil
Rudolf Kruse, University of Magdeburg, Germany
Juan Flores, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo, Mexico
Jerzy Grzymala-Busse, University of Kansas, US
Wen-Yang Lin, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Graham Kendall, University of Nottingham, UK
Abdelhamid Bouchachia, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Brijesh Verma, Central Queensland University, Australia
Shyue-Liang Wang, National.University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Chin-Chen Chang, Feng Chia University, Taiwan
Ozgur Koray Sahingoz, Turkish Air Force Academy, Turkey
Andri Riid, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Asano Akira, Hiroshima University, Japan
Estevam Hruschka, UFSCar - Federal University of Sao Carlos, Brazil
Heitor Lopes, UTFPR, Brazil
Thanh Ha-Dang, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6, France
Jorge Núñez Mc Leod, Institute of C.E.D.I.A.C, Argentina
Selva Rivera, Institute of C.E.D.I.A.C, Argentina
Isabel Jesus, ISEP - Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
Amparo Fuster-Sabater, Institute of Applied Physics (C.S.I.C.), Spain
Thomas Hanne, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland
Nakashima Tomoharu, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
Antonio Gaspar-Cunha, University of Minho, Portugal
Julio Cesar Hernandez-Castro, School of Computing, Portsmouth University, UK
Anna Bartkowiak, University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw
Tsung-Che Chiang, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan
Izzettin Temiz, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey
Ayeley Tchangani, Universite Paul Sebatier, France
Pei-Yi Hao, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Taiwan
Crina Grosan, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Seppo Ovaska, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Ramiro Barbosa, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
Pascal Bouvry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Jyh-Horng Chou, National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Frank Klawonn, University of Applied Sciences Baunschweig / Wolfenbuettel, Germany
David Monismith, Oklahoma State University Computer Science, USA
Engelbrecht Andies, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Ruqiang Yan, University of Massachusetts, USA
Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan
Chin-Feng Lee, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taiwan
Chao-Chun Chen, Southern Taiwan University, Taiwan
Enrique Herrera-Viedma, Universidad de Granada, Spain
Kun Gao, Zhejiang Wanli, China
Angelov P, Lancaster University, UK
Woei-Wan Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Richard Jensen, Aberystwyth University, UK
Christian Schuh, Medizinische Universitat Wien, Austria
Ponnambalam S, Monash University Sunway Campus, Malaysia
Anna-Mari Rusanen, University of Helsinki, Finland
Jun Tanimoto, Kyushu University, Japan
Andrea Arcuri, University of Birmingham, UK
Daniel Howard, QinetiQ Group PLC, UK
Aladdin Ayesh, De Montfort University, UK
Kevin Guelton, Universite De Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France
Shengxiang Yang, University of Leicester, UK
Ferrante Neri, University of Jyvaskyla,Finland
Mike Nachtegael, Ghent University, Belgium
Juli-cesar Hernandez, Carlos III University, Spain
Uday Chakraborty, University of Missouri - St. Louis, US
Xin Xu, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China
Faisal Khan, Portland State University, US
Dongbing Gu, University of Essex, UK
Jorge Tavares, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Anthony Brabazon, University College Dublin, Ireland
Jorge Casillas, University of Granada, Spain
Yingjie Yang, De Montfort University, UK
Weimin Ma, Tongji University, China
Wojciech Stach, University of Alberta, Canada
Anca Ralescu, University of Cincinnati US
Ying Tan, Peking University, China
Steven Guan, Xian Jiatong-Liverpool University,China
Ying-Ping Chen, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
William Hung, Portland State University, US
Arosha Senanayake, Monash University Malaysia, Malaysia
Naoki Wakamiya, Osaka University, Japan
Sameulson Hong, Oriental Institute of Technology, Taiwan
Ashutosh Tiwari, Cranfield University, UK
Tao Gong, Donghua University, China
Preeti Bajaj, G.H.Raisoni College of Engineering, India
Eulalia Szmidt, Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Radim Belohlavek, Palacky University Olomouc, Czech Republic
Pei-Chann Chang, Yuan Ze University, Taiwan
Man-Leung Wong, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
Hani Hagras, University of Essex, UK
Rene Mayorga, University of Regina, Canada
Vic Ciesielski, RMIT University, Australia
Michael Gromiha, CBRC, AIST, Japan
Lam Bui, University of New South Wales, Australia
Yew-Soon Ong, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Bo Yuan, Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, China
Sato-Ilic Mika, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Hai-Bin Duan, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
Luigi Troiano, Univesity of Sannio, Italy
Sadok Ben-Yahia, Faculty of Sciences, Tunis, Tunisia
Sung-Bae Cho, Yonsei University, Korea
Tzung-Pei Hung, National Univesity of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Janos Abonyi, University of Pannonia, Hungary
Yaochu Jin, Honda Research Institute Europe, Germany
Gabriel Luque, University of Málaga, Spain
Jon Timmis, University of York, UK
Till Steiner, Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH, Germany
Javier Medina, CICEI – ULPGC, Spain
Paulo Moura Oliveira, UTAD University, Portugal
Meng-Hiot Lim, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Shang-ming Zhao, De Montfort University, UK
Gloria Bordogna, CNR IDPA, Italy
Mehmet Aydin, University of Bedfordshire, UK
Herrera Francisco, University of Granada, Spain
Liliana Ironi, IMATI-CNR, Italy
deCarvalho Andre, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil
Magdalena Luis, ECSC Mieres, Spain
Liang Zhao, University of Săo Paulo, Brazil
Hai Qiu, GE Global Research, US
Mihali Popesco, University of Missouri, US
Andreas König, TU Kaiserslautern, ISE, Germany
Elizabeth Goldbarg, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Heloisa Camargo, UFSCar, Brazil
Jae Oh, Syracuse University, US
Tanveer Siddiqui, Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad, India
Claudia Dinapoli, C.N.R. - Istituto di Cibernetica "E. Caianiello", Italy
Ramon Sagarna, University of Birmingham, UK
Chu-Hsing Lin, Tunghai University, Taiwan
Ivan Jordanov, University of Portsmouth, UK
Qinghan Xiao, Defence Research and Development Canada, Canada
Ke Tang, University of Science and Technology of China, China
Mohsen Askari, Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran
Patricia Melin, Tijuana Institute of Technology, Mexico
Bob Reynolds, Wayne State University, US
Alberto Souza, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brazil
Cagnoni Stefano, University of Parma, Italy
Antonio Mesquita, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Wei-Bin Lee, Feng Chia University, Taiwan
Chin-Feng Lee, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taiwan
Ming-Hung Su, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences
Sandeep Paul, Dayalbagh Educational Institute (Deemed University), Agra
Xiao-Zhi Gao, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Jong-Hyouk Lee, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
Zongmin Ma, Northeastern University, China
Gabriella Pasi, Universita Degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy
Chao Lu, Tsinghua University, China
Kevin Seppi, Brigham Young University, US
Marco Pagani, CNR IDPA, Italy
Kang Tai, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Sylvain Piechowiak, Universite Valenciennes et du Hainaut Cambrésis, France
Yun-Chia Liang, Yuan Ze University, Taiwan
David Coronforth, UNSW@ADFA, Australia
Fernando Nino, National University of Colombia, Colombia
Ramin Halavati, Sharif University of Technology, Iran
Dominik Slezak, Infobright Inc., Canada
Dusan Husek, Institute of Computer Science, Czech Republic
Wenjia Wang, University of East Anglia, UK
Son Doan, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Uzay Kaymak, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands
Meng Er, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Ilkka Havukkala, IPONZ (Patent Office in NZ), New Zealand
Seiji Yamada, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Ana Madureira, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
Carlos deMoura, Instituto De Matematica E Estatistica, Portugal
Ludemir Teresa, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
Dipankar Dasgupta, University of Memphis, USA
Isabel Nunes, UNL/FCT, Portugal
Shandar Ahmad, National Institute of Biomedical Innovation, Japan
Matt-Mouley Bouamrane, University of Manchester, UK
Weiping Liu, Eastern Connecticut State University, USA
Hartmut Schmeck, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Arturo Hernandez-Aguirre, Centre for Research in Mathematics, Mexico
Hideyasu Sasaki, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Yoshida Kaori, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Weiping Liu, Eastern Connecticut State University, USA
Hartmut Schmeck, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Arturo Hernández-Aguirre, Centre for Research in Mathematics, Mexico
Ganriella Sanniti-di-Baja, Institute of Cybernetics "E.Caianiello", CNR, Italy
Shyue_Liang Wang, National.University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Seija Yamada, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Philip Hingston, Edith Cowan University, Australia
Wilfried Elmenreich, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Aboul Ella Lassanien, Cairo University, Egypt
