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 - Brazil  |
| Prof. Miltos Alamaniotis  | University of Texas at San Antonio  |
| Prof. Valentina Emilia Balas  | Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania  |
| Prof. Dariusz Barbucha  | Gdynia Maritime University  |
| Prof. Monica Bianchini  | Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione e Scienze Matematiche  |
| Professor. Adriana Burlea-Schiopoiu  | University of Craiova, Romania  |
| Dr. Amine Chohra  | Paris-East University (UPEC),  |
| Dr. Paolo Crippa  | Department of Information Engineering, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona  |
| Dr. Vladimir Dimitrieski  | University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technical Sciences  |
| Prof. Margarita Favorskaya  | Reshetnev Siberian State University of Science and Technology, Russian Federation  |
| Prof. Tzung-Pei Hong  | National University of Kaohsiung  |
| Prof. Dragan Jevtic  | Univeristy of Zagreb  |
| Prof. Shyi-Ming Chen  | Asia University, Taiwan  |
| Dr Dinu Dragan  | University of Novi Sad, Serbia  |
| Prof. Christos Grecos  | University of Wisconsin, USA  |
| Prof. Ralf-Christian Härting  | Hochschule Aalen  |
| Prof. Katsuhiro Honda  | Osaka Metropolitan University  |
| Assoc. Prof. Daocheng Hong  | East China Normal University, China  |
| Prof. Tzung-Pei Hong  | National University of Kaohsiung  |
| Prof. Dragan Jevtic  | University of Zagreb, Croatia  |
| Prof. Nikos Karacapilidis  | University of Patras, Greece  |
| Prof. Aleksandar Kovačević  | University of Novi Sad, Serbia  |
| Prof. Boris Kovalerchuk  | Central Washington University, USA  |
| Prof. Marek Kretowski  | Bialystok University of Technology, Poland  |
| Prof. Alfonso Mateos Caballero  | Universidad Politécnica de Madrid  |
| Prof. Lyudmila Mihaylova  | The University of Sheffield, UK  |
| Dr. Takafumi Mizuno  | Meijo University, Japan  |
| Prof. Vesa Niskanen  | University of Helsinki  |
| Dr. Shunei Norikumo  | Doshisha University, Japan  |
| Prof. Dr. Takao Ohya  | Kokushikan University, Japan  |
| Prof. Bhanu Prasad  | Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, Florida  |
| Prof. Radu-Emil Precup  | Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania  |
| Prof. Jim Prentzas  | Democritus University of Thrace, Greece  |
| Prof. Małgorzata Przybyła-Kasperek  | University of Silesia in Katowice  |
| Dr. Hadi Saleh  | HSE University  |
| Prof. Cesar Sanin  | University of New England, Australia  |
| Prof. Carlo Sansone  | Universita' degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy  |
| Prof. Marek Sikors  | Silesian Universuty of Technolgy  |
| Dr. Urszula Stańczyk  | Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland  |
| Prof. Ruxandra Stoean  | University of Piraeus, Athens  |
| Prof. Dr. Masakazu Takahashi  | Yamaguchi University, Japan  |
| Prof. Junzo Watada  | Shimonoseki City University and Waseda University  |
| Prof. Yoshiyuki Yabuuchi  | Shimonoseki City University, Japan  |
| Assoc. Prof. Beata Zielosko  | University of Silesia, Katowice  |
| Dr. Sergey Zykov  | National Research University Higher School of Economics - and - National Research University MEPhI  |
