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-InMed-17 IPC Members

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