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. Ahmad Taher Azar  | Faculty of Computers and Information, Benha University, Egypt  |
Prof. Vitoantonio Bevilacqua  | DEI - Politecnico di Bari, Italy  |
Prof. Isabelle Bichindaritz  | State University of New York at Oswego, USA  |
Dr. Giosue' Lo Bosco  | University of Palermo, Italy  |
Dr. Christopher Buckingham  | Aston University, UK  |
Dr. Luis Enrique Sánchez Crespo  | Grupo de Investigación GSyA, Universidad de Castilla-la Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain  |
Prof. Yen-Wei Chen  | Ritsumeikan University, Japan  |
Dr. Alex Dickinson  | Faculty of Engineering and the Environment, University of Southampton, UK  |
Prof. Nashwa El-Bendary  | College of Management and Technology, Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, Egypt  |
Prof. Dr. Inger Ekman  | University of Gothenburg, Sweden  |
Dr. Massimo Esposito  | Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking (ICAR) of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Italy  |
Prof. Gianluigi Ferrari  | University of Parma, Italy  |
Dr. Amir Hossein Foruzan  | Biomedical Engineering Group, Faculty of Engineering, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran  |
Dr. Luigi Gallo  | National Research Council of Italy, Italy  |
Dr. Arnulfo Alanis Garza  | Instituto Tecnológico de Tijuana. México  |
Dr. Arfan Ghani  | Coventry University, Coventry, United Kingdom  |
Prof. Manuel Grana  | Universidad del Pais Vasco, Spain  |
Prof. Aboul Ella Hassanien  | Cairo University, Egypt  |
Dr. Elena Hernández-Pereira  | University of A Coruña, Spain  |
Dr. Monica Huerta  | Universidad Politécnica Salesiana, Ecuador  |
Prof. Dr. Dalia Kriksciuniene  | Vilnius University, Lithuania  |
Dr. Vijay Mago  | Lakehead University, Canada  |
Dr .Bogart Yail Márquez Lobato  | Instituto Tecnológico de Tijuana. México  |
Prof. Rashid Mehmood  | King Abdul Aziz University Jeddah, Saudi Arabia  |
Dr. Cheryl Metcalf  | Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Southampton, UK  |
Prof. Stefania Montani  | University of Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria, Italy  |
Dra. Hilda Beatriz Ramírez Moreno  | Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, México  |
Dr. Aniello Minutolo  | Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking, ICAR-CNR; Italy  |
Prof. Kazumi Nakamatsu  | School of Human Science and Environment, University of Hyogo, JAPAN  |
Prof. Dr. Marek Ogiela  | AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland  |
Dr. Andres Ortiz  | Universidad de Malaga, Spain  |
Dr. José Sergio Magdaleno Palencia  | Instituto Tecnológico de Tijuana. México  |
Prof. Dorin Popescu  | University of Craiova, Romania  |
Prof. Luigi Portinale  | University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy  |
Dr. Marco Pota  | National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Institute of High Performance Computing and Networking (ICAR), Italy  |
Dra. Margarita Ramírez Ramírez  | Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, México  |
Dra. Esperanza Manrique Rojas  | Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, México  |
Dr. John Ronczka  | SCOTTYNCC Independent Research Scientists, Australia  |
Prof. Yves Rybarczyk  | Nova University of Lisbon (FCT/UNL), Portugal  |
Prof. Dr. Virgilijus Sakalauskas  | Vilnius University, Lithuania  |
Dr. Cesar Sanin  | The University of Newcastle (UoN), Australia  |
Assoc. Prof. Catalin Stoean  | University of Craiova, Romania  |
Assoc. Prof. Ruxandra Stoean  | University of Craiova, Romania  |
Prof. Satoshi Tanaka  | Ritsumeikan University, Japan  |
Tomoko Tateyama  | Hiroshima Institute of Technology, Intelligent Visual analytics Lab, Japan  |
Prof. Manolis Tsiknakis  | TEI Crete and FORTH, Greece  |
Dr. Carlos Toro  | Vicomtech-ik4, Spain  |
Prof. Eiji Uchino  | Yamaguchi University, Japan  |
Dr. Eloisa Vargiu  | Eurecat Technology Center, Barcelona, Spain  |
Prof. Junzo Watada  | Waseda University, Japan  |
Dr. Wei Xiong  | Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore  |
Prof. Yoshiyuki Yabuuchi  | Shimonoseki City University, Japan  |