Committees

Honorary General Chairs

Junliang Chen, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Antonio Laganà, University of Perugia, Italy
Norio Shiratori, Tohoku University, Japan
Kenneth C. J. Tan, Qontix, UK

General Chairs

Shanguang Wang,  Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Osvaldo Gervasi, University of Perugia, Italy
Bernady O. Apduhan, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan

Program Committee Chairs

Sen Su, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Beniamino Murgante, University of Basilicata, Italy
Ana Maria A.C. Rocha, University of Minho, Portugal
David Taniar, Monash University, Australia

International Advisory Committee

Jemal Abawajy, Daekin University, Australia
Dharma P. Agrawal, University of Cincinnati, USA
Marina L. Gavrilova, University of Calgary, Canada
Claudia Bauzer Medeiros, University of Campinas, Brazil
Manfred M. Fisher, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
Yee Leung, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

International Liaison Chairs

Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Trieste and ICAR-CNR, Italy
Maria Irene Falcão, , University of Minho, Portugal
Robert C. H. Hsu, Chung Hua University,Taiwan
Tai-Hoon Kim, Hannam University, Korea
Sanjay Misra, Covenant University, Nigeria
Takashi Naka, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan
Rafael D.C. Santos, National Institute for Space Research, Brazil
Maribel Yasmina Santos, University of Minho, Portugal

Workshop and Session Organizing Chairs

Beniamino Murgante, University of Basilicata, Italy
Sanjay Misra, Covenant University, Nigeria
Jorge Gustavo Rocha, University of Minho, Portugal

Award Chair

Wenny Rahayu, La Trobe University, Australia

Publicity Committee

Zibing Zheng, Sun Yat-Sen University, China
Mingdong Tang, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China
Yutao Ma, Wuhan University, China
Ao Zhou, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Ruisheng Shi, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

Local Organizing Committee

Bo Cheng, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Lingyan Zhang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
JiaLei Liu, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Qiliang Zhu, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

Program Committee

Jemal Abawajy, Daekin University, Australia
Kenny Adamson, University of Ulster, United Kingdom
Filipe Alvelos, University of Minho, Portugal
Paula Amaral, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Hartmut Asche, University of Potsdam, Germany 
Md. Abul Kalam Azad, University of Minho, Portugal
Michela Bertolotto, University College Dublin,  Ireland
Sandro Bimonte, CEMAGREF, TSCF, France 
Rod Blais, University of Calgary, Canada
Ivan Blečić, University of Sassari, Italy 
Giuseppe Borruso, University of Trieste, Italy 
Yves Caniou, Lyon University, France
Jose' A. Cardoso e Cunha, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Rui Cardoso, University of Beira Interior, Portugal
Leocadio G. Casado , University of Almeria, Spain
Carlo Cattani, University of Salerno, Italy
Mete Celik, Erciyes University, Turkey
Alexander Chemeris, National Technical University of Ukraine "KPI", Ukraine
Min Young Chung, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
Gilberto Corso Pereira, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil 
M. Fernanda Costa, University of Minho, Portugal
Gaspar Cunha, University of Minho, Portugal
Alfredo Cuzzocrea, ICAR-CNR and University of Calabria, Italy
Carla Dal Sasso Freitas, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Pradesh Debba, The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR),  South Africa
Hendrik Decker, Instituto Tecnológico de Informática, Spain 
Frank Devai, London South Bank University, UK
Rodolphe Devillers, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Prabu Dorairaj, NetApp, India/USA
M. Irene Falcao, University of Minho, Portugal
Cherry Liu Fang, U.S. DOE Ames Laboratory, USA
Edite M.G.P. Fernandes, University of Minho, Portugal
Jose-Jesus Fernandez, National Centre for Biotechnology, CSIS, Spain
Maria Antonia Forjaz, University of Minho, Portugal
Maria Celia Furtado Rocha, PRODEB–PósCultura/UFBA, Brazil 
Akemi Galvez, University of Cantabria, Spain
Paulino Jose Garcia Nieto, University of Oviedo, Spain
Marina Gavrilova, University of Calgary, Canada
Jerome Gensel, LSR-IMAG, France
Maria Giaoutzi, National Technical University, Athens, Greece
Andrzej M. Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia
Alex Hagen-Zanker, University of Cambridge, UK
Malgorzata Hanzl, Technical University of Lodz, Poland
Shanmugasundaram Hariharan, B.S. Abdur Rahman University, India
Eligius M.T. Hendrix, University of Malaga/Wageningen University, Spain/Netherlands
Tutut Herawan, Universitas Teknologi Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Hisamoto Hiyoshi, Gunma University, Japan
Fermin Huarte, University of Barcelona, Spain
Andres Iglesias, University of Cantabria, Spain
Mustafa Inceoglu, EGE University, Turkey
Peter Jimack, University of Leeds, UK
Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan
Farid Karimipour, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Baris Kazar, Oracle Corp., USA
Maulana Adhinugraha Kiki, Telkom University, Indonesia
DongSeong Kim, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Taihoon Kim, Hannam University, Korea
Ivana Kolingerova, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic
Dieter Kranzlmueller, LMU & LRZ Munich, Germany
Antonio Laganà, University of Perugia, Italy
Rosa Lasaponara, National Research Council, Italy
Maurizio Lazzari, National Research Council, Italy
Cheng Siong Lee, Monash University, Australia
Sangyoun Lee, Yonsei University, Korea
Jongchan Lee, Kunsan National University, Korea
Clement Leung, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Chendong Li, University of Connecticut, USA
Gang Li, Deakin University, Australia
Ming Li, East China Normal University, China
Fang Liu, AMES Laboratories, USA
Xin Liu, University of Calgary, Canada
Savino Longo, University of Bari, Italy
Tinghuai Ma, NanJing University of Information Science & Technology, China
Sergio Maffioletti, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Ernesto Marcheggiani, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium 
Antonino Marvuglia, Research Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg     
Nicola Masini National Research Council, Italy
Nirvana Meratnia, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Alfredo Milani, University of Perugia,  Italy
Sanjay Misra, Federal University of Technology Minna, Nigeria
Giuseppe Modica, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy
Josè Luis Montaña, University of Cantabria, Spain
Beniamino Murgante, University of Basilicata, Italy
Jiri Nedoma, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic
Laszlo Neumann, University of Girona, Spain
Kok-Leong Ong, Daekin University, Australia
Belen Palop, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain
Marcin Paprzycki, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Eric Pardede, La Trobe University, Australia
Kwangjin Park, Wonkwang University, Korea
Ana Isabel Pereira, Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Portugal
Maurizio Pollino, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, Italy
Alenka Poplin, University of Hamburg, Germany
Vidyasagar Potdar, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
David C. Prosperi, Florida Atlantic University, USA
Wenny Rahayu, La Trobe University, Australia
Jerzy Respondek, Silesian University of Technology Poland
Ana Maria A.C. Rocha, University of Minho, Portugal
Humberto Rocha, INESC-Coimbra, Portugal
Alexey Rodionov, Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics, Russia
Cristina S. Rodrigues, University of Minho, Portugal
Jon Rokne, University of Calgary, Canada
Octavio Roncero, CSIC, Spain
Maytham Safar, Kuwait University, Kuwait
Chiara Saracino, A.O. Ospedale Niguarda Ca' Granda - Milano, Italy
Haiduke Sarafian, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Jie Shen, University of Michigan, USA
Qi Shi, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Dale Shires, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, USA
Takuo Suganuma, Tohoku University, Japan
Sergio Tasso (University of Perugia, Italy)
Ana Paula Teixeira, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Portugal
Senhorinha Teixeira, University of Minho, Portugal
Parimala Thulasiraman, University of Manitoba, Canada
Carmelo Torre, Polytechnic of Bari, Italy
Javier Martinez Torres, Centro Universitario de la Defensa Zaragoza, Spain
Giuseppe A. Trunfio, University of Sassari, Italy
Unal Ufuktepe, Izmir University of Economics, Turkey
Toshihiro Uchibayashi (Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan)
Mario Valle, Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, Switzerland
Pablo Vanegas, University of  Cuenca, Equador
Piero Giorgio Verdini, INFN Pisa and CERN, Italy  
Marco Vizzari,  University of Perugia, Italy 
Koichi Wada, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Krzysztof Walkowiak, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Zequn Wang, Intelligent Automation Inc, USA
Robert Weibel, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Roland Wismüller, Universität Siegen, Germany
Mudasser Wyne, SOET National University, USA
Chung-Huang Yang, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan
Xin-She Yang, National Physical Laboratory, UK
Salim Zabir, France Telecom Japan Co., Japan
Haifeng Zhao, University of California, Davis, USA
Kewen Zhao, University of Qiongzhou, China
Albert Y. Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia