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.

We are grateful for their valuable assistance.

The IPC consists of the following members and, in addition, all Invited Session Chairs:-

KES-IDT-17 IPC Members

Name	Affiliation
Dr. Jair Minoro Abe	Paulista University & University of São Paulo, Brazil
Prof Witold Abramowicz	Poznan University Economics, Poland
Prof Dr Stefan Aier	University of St Gallen, Germany
Prof Dr Rainer Alt	Universitat Leipzig, Germany
Prof Dr Colin Atkinson	University of Mannheim, Germany
Dr. Ahmad Taher Azar	Benha University, Egypt
Dr. Dariusz Barbucha	Gdynia Maritime University, Poland
Assoc. Prof. Alina Barbulescu	Higher Colleges of Technology, Sharjah, UAE
Prof. Monica Bianchini	Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione e Scienze Matematiche, Italy
Dr. Andreas Behrend	University of Bonn, Germany
Prof. Mokhtar Beldjehem	University of Ottawa, Canada
Dr. Gloria Bordogna	CNR IDPA, Italy
Oliver Bossert	McKinsey & Co Inc, Germany
Dr. János Botzheim	Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
Prof Dr Lars Brehm	University of Munich, Germany
Assoc. Prof. Wei Cao	School of Economics, HeFei University of Technology, China
Assoc. Prof. Frantisek Capkovic	Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia
Dr. Mario Giovanni C.A. Cimino	University of Pisa, Italy
Dr. Marco Cococcioni	University of Pisa, Italy
Dr. Angela Consoli	Defence Science and Technology Group, Australia
Assoc. Prof. Paulo Cortez	University of Minho, Portugal
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. Eman El-Sheikh	University of West Florida, USA
Prof. Margarita N. Favorskaya	Siberian State Aerospace University, Russia
Prof Dr Michael Fellmann	University of Rostock, Germany
Dr. Raquel Florez-Lopez	University Pablo Olavide of Seville, Spain
Prof Dr Bogdan Franczyk	Universitat Leipzig, Germany
Dr Ulrik Franke	KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Dr. Wojciech Froelich	University of Silesia, Poland
Dr. Mauro Gaggero	National Research Council of Italy, Italy
Prof. Mauro Gaspari	Universita' di Bologna, Italy
Prof. Marina Gavrilova	University of Calgary, Canada
Dr Michael Gebhart	Iteratec GmbH, Germany
Dr. Raffaele Gravina	University of Calabria, Italy
Prof. Christos Grecos	Central Washington University, USA
Dr. Foteini Grivokostopoulou	University of Patras, Greece
Prof. Jerzy W. Grzymala-Busse	University of Kansas, USA
Prof. Ralf-Christian Härting	Hochschule Aalen, Germany
Dr. Katarzyna Harezlak	Silesian University of Technology, Poland
Dr. Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis	University of Patras, Dept of Computer Engineering & Informatics, Greece
Prof Dr Robert Hirschfeld	University of Potsdam, Germany
Dr. Dawn E.Holmes	University of California, USA
Dr. Katsuhiro Honda	Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
Ass. Prof. Dr. Daocheng Hong	Fudan University & Victoria University, China
Prof. Tzung-Pei Hong	National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Prof. Yuh-Jong Hu	Dept. of Computer Science, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan
Prof. Yuji Iwahori	Chubu University, Japan
Prof. Joanna Jedrzejowicz	Institute of Informatics, University of Gdansk, Poland
Prof. Piotr Jędrzejowicz	Gdynia Maritime University, Poland
Associate Professor Björn Johansson	Lund University, Sweden
Prof. Nikos Karacapilidis	University of Patras, Greece
Prof Dr Dimitris Karagiannis	Universitat Wien, Germany
Dr. Pawel Kasprowski	Silesian University of Technology, Poland
Prof. Radosław Katarzyniak	Wrocław University of Technology and Science, Poland
Prof. Eizo Kinoshita	Meijo University, Japan
Prof. Frank Klawonn	Ostfalia University, Germany
Assoc. Prof. Petia Koprinkova-Hristova	Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Prof. Marek Kretowski	Bialystok University of Technology, Poland
Dr. Vladimir Kurbalija	University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Mathematics and Informatics, Serbia
Prof. Kazuhiro Kuwabara	Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Dr Birger Lantow	University of Rostock, Germany
Prof Dr Frank Leymann	Universitat Stuttgart, Germany
Prof. Chee Peng Lim	Deakin University, Australia
Prof. Ivan Luković	University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Mr. Neel Mani	ADAPT Centre for Digital Content Technology, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland
Prof. Alfonso Mateos-Caballero	Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Prof. Shimpei Matsumoto	Hiroshima Institute of Technology, Japan
Assistant Prof. Raimundas Matulevicius	University of Tartu, Estonia
Dr. Mohamed Arezki MELLAL	M'Hamed Bougara University, Algeria
Dr. Lyudmila Mihaylova	University of Sheffield, UK
Dr. Yasser Mohammad	ASSIUT University and EJUST, Egypt
Assoc. Prof. Masoud Mohammadian	University of Canberra, Australia
Michael Möhring	University of Munich, Germany
Dr. Stefania Montani	DISIT, Computer Science Institute, University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy
Dr. Daniel Moldt	University of Hamburg, Germany
Prof. Mikhail Moshkov	KAUST, Saudi Arabia
Prof. Kazumi Nakamatsu	University of Hyogo, Japan
Prof Selmin Nurcan	University of Paris, France
Prof. Marek Ogiela	AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland
Prof. Dr. Takao Ohya	Kokushikan University, Japan
Dr. Isidoros Perikos	University of Patras, Greece
Prof. Petra Perner	Institute of Computer Vision and applied Computer Sciences IBaI, Germany
Prof. Dr. James F Peters	University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Prof Dr Gunther Piller	University of Mainz, Germany
Dr. Camelia-M. Pintea	UT Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Dr. Clara Pizzuti	National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Italy
Dr. Bhanu Prasad	Florida A&M University, USA
Prof. Jim Prentzas	Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Prof. Radu-Emil Precup	Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania
Prof.Georg Peters	Munich University of Applied Sciences
Prof. Dr. Marcos Quiles	Federal University of São Paulo - UNIFESP
Dr. Miloš Radovanović	University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Dr. Sheela Ramanna	The University of Winnipeg, Canada
Dr. Ewa Ratajczak-Ropel	Gdynia Maritime University, Poland
Prof Dr Manfred Reichert	Universitat Uulm, Germany
Dr. John Ronczka	SCOTTYNCC Independent research Scientist, Australia
Prof Dr Kurt Sandkuhl	University of Rostock, Germany
Dr. Mika Sato-Ilic	University of Tsukuba, Japan
Dr. Miloš Savić	Department of Mathematics and Informatics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Prof. Rafał Scherer	Częstochowa University of Technology, Poland
Prof. Rainer Schmidt	Munich University, Germany
Dr Christian Schweda	Technical University Munich, Germany
Dr. Hirosato Seki	Osaka Institute of Technology, Japan
Mr. Bharat Singh	Big Data Labs, Hamburg, Germany
Dr. Urszula Stańczyk	Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland
Prof Dr Ulrike Steffens	Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Prof Janis Stirna	Stockholm University, Sweden
Dr. Catalin Stoean	University of Craiova, Romania
Assoc. Prof. Ruxandra Stoean	University of Craiova, Romania
Dr. Mika Sulkava	Natural Resources Institute Finland
Keith Swenson	Fujitsu America Inc, USA
Assoc. Prof. Shing Chiang Tan	Multimedia University
Prof. Mieko Tanaka-Yamawaki	Institute of Statistical Matehmatice, and (ex) Tottori University, Japan
Dr. Dilhan J. Thilakarathne	VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands
Prof. Claudio Turchetti	Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
Prof. Eiji Uchino	Yamaguchi University, Japan
Dr. Pandian Vasant	Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Tronoh, Malaysia
Prof. Dr Ljubo Vlacic	Griffith University, Gold Coast Australia
Prof. Zeev Volkovich	Ort Braude College, Karmiel, Israel
Prof Dr Gottfried Vossen	WWU Munster, Germany
Prof. Junzo Watada	Waseda University, Japan
Assoc. Prof. Fen Wang	Central Washington University, USA
Dr Ing Matthias Wissotzki	University of Rostock, Germany
Prof. Dmitry Zaitsev	International Humanitarian University, Odessa, Ukraine
Dr. Prof. Gian Piero Zarri	University Paris sorbonne, France
Dr. Beata Zielosko	University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
Prof. Alfred Zimmermann	Reutlingen University, Germany