Organizing Committee


Honorary Chair

Makoto Takizawa, Hosei University, Japan

General Co-Chairs

Mario Vento, University of Salerno, Italy

Leonard Barolli, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan

Program Co-Chairs

Ugo Fiore, University of Naples, Italy

Santi Caballe, Open University of Catalonia, Spain

International Advisory Committee

Saverio Salerno, University of Salerno, Italy

Carlo Cecati, University of l'Aquila, Italy

Hiroaki Kikuchi, Meiji University, Japan

Fang-Ye Leu, Tunghai University, Taiwan ROC

Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milano, Italy

Workshop Co-Chairs

Roberto De Prisco, University of Salerno, Italy

Jin Li, Guangzhou University, China

International Liaison Chairs

Pierluigi Ritrovato, University of Salerno, Italy

Paolo D'Arco, University of Salerno, Italy

Award Chair

Giuseppe Cattaneo, University of Salerno, Italy

Special Issue Chair

Sabrina Senatore, University of Salerno, Italy

Web Administrators

Elis Kulla, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan

Evjola Spaho, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan

Shinji Sakamoto, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan

Finance Chair

Makoto Ikeda, Fukuoka Institute of Technology (FIT), Japan

Steering Committee

Leonard Barolli, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan (Chair)

Fatos Xhafa, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain

Nik Bessis, University of Derby, UK

Track Area Co-Chairs

  1. Knowledge Discovery and Mining
  2. Data Centers and Cloud Computing
  3. Secure Clouds and Big Data
  4. Web Science and Business Intelligence
  5. Data Management and Information Retrieval
  6. Social Networking and Mining
  7. Collective Intelligence for Competence Development
  8. Cryptographic Techniques for Data Security
  9. Data Mining and Analytics
  10. Data Modelling, Visualisation and Representation Tools
  11. Data Security, Trust and Reputation
  12. Ubiquitous Intelligence and Reality Mining
  13. Data-aware Green Computing
  14. Data Sensing and Processing

1. Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Chair:

  • Jordi Nin, Technical UNiversity of Catalonia, Spain

PC Members:

  • Stan Matwin, Dalhousie University, Canada
  • Victor Muntes-Mulero, CA Labs, Spain
  • Marc Sole, CA Labs, Spain
  • Meritxell Vinyals, Southampton University, UK
  • Dino Ienco, IRSTEA, France
  • Pascal Poncelet, CNRS, France
  • Daniel Villatoro, BDigital, Spain
  • David Carrera, BSC, Spain
  • Elena Ferrari, Insubria University, Italy
  • Vicenc Torra, CSIC, Spain

2. Data Centers and Cloud Computing

Chairs:

  • Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria, Italy

3. Secure Clouds and Big Data

Chairs:

  • Hiroaki Kikuchi, Meiji University, Japan

PC Members:

  • Keisuke Takemori, KDDI R&D Labs. Inc., Japan
  • Masakatsu Nishigaki, Shizuoka University, Japan
  • Yasuharu Katsuno, IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory, Japan
  • Isao Echizen, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
  • Jaipal Singh, Curtin University, Australia
  • Vidyasagar Potdar, Curtin University, Australia
  • Pedram Radman, Curtin University, Australia
  • Marc Domingo-Prieto, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
  • Jordi Herrera-Joancomarti, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain

4. Web Science and Business Intelligence

Chairs:

  • Michael Mrissa, LIRIS, France
  • Khalid Belhajjame, University of Paris Dauphine, France

PC Members:

  • Pierre-Antoine Champin, Lyon 1 University, France
  • Maria Maleshkova, Karlsruhe IT, Germany
  • Lionel Medini, Lyon 1 University, France
  • Carlos Pedrinaci, Knowledge Media Institute, United Kingdom
  • Adam Belloum, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Carole Goble, University of Manchester, UK
  • Paul Groth, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • David Koop, NYU-Poly, USA
  • Bertram Ludaescher, UC Davis, USA
  • Marta Mattoso, COPPE/UFRJ, Brazil
  • Paolo Missier, University of NewCastle, UK
  • Johan Montagnat, CNRS, France

5. Data Management and Information Retrieval

Chairs:

  • Hui Ma, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
  • Ciprian Dobre University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania

PC Members:

  • Nik Bessis, University of Derby, UK
  • Sergio L. Toral Marin, University of Seville, Spain
  • Valentin Cristea, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
  • Rossitza Ivanova Goleva, Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria
  • Florin Pop, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
  • Joanna Kolodziej, Cracow University of Technology, Poland
  • Dhiya Al-Jumeily, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
  • Gabriel Neagu, National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics, Romania

6. Social Networking and Mining

Chairs:

  • Stefano Marrone, Seconda Universita di Napoli, Italy

PC Members:
  • Valeria Vittorini, Universita Federico II di Napoli, Italy
  • Marco Gribaudo, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
  • Kumiko Tadano, NEC, Japan
  • Alessandro Abbagnano, Accenture Technology Solutions, Italy
  • Licramioara Dranca, Centro Universitario de la Defensa de Zaragoza, Spain
  • Luigi Castiglione, European Space Agency, Netherlands

7. Collective Intelligence for Competence Development

Chairs:

  • Paul Lefrere, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden

8. Cryptographic Techniques for Data Security

Chairs:

  • Fang-Yie Leu, Tunghai University, Taiwan
  • Hsing-Chung Chen, Asia University, Taiwan

PC Members:
  • Jyh-Horng Wen, Tunghai University, Taiwan
  • Yung-Fa Huang, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taiwan
  • Chien-Erh Weng, National Kaohsiung Marine University, Taiwan
  • Hui-Kai Su, National Formosa University, Yunlin, Taiwan
  • Shu-Hong Lee, Chienkuo Technology University, Taiwan
  • Ho-Lung Hung, Chienkuo Technology University, Taiwan

9. Data Mining and Analytics

Chairs:

  • Sabine Mc Connell, Trent University, Canada
  • Salvatore Vitabile, University of Palermo, Italy

10. Data Modelling, Visualisation and Representation Tools

Chairs:

  • Igor Kotenko, St.Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

PC Members:
  • Dumitru Burdescu, University of Craiova, Romania
  • Gregorio Martinez Perez, University of Murcia, Spain
  • Evgenia Novikova, SPIIRAS, Russia
  • Luigi Coppolino, Parthenope University of Naples, Italy
  • Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria, Italy
  • Maria Ganzha, University of Gdansk, Poland
  • Alexei Sourin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  • Roland Rieke, Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology, Germany

11. Data Security, Trust and Reputation

Chairs:

  • Fagen Li, Kyushu University, Japan
  • Barbara Masucci, Universita di Salerno, Italy

PC Members:
  • Anna Lisa Ferrara, Bristol University, UK
  • Matthew Green, Johns Hopkins University, USA
  • Federica Paci, Universita di Trento, Italy
  • Paolo Gasti, New York Institute of Technology, USA
  • Emmanuela Orsini, Bristol University, UK

12. Ubiquitous Intelligence and Reality Mining

Chairs:

  • Antonio J. Jara, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Switzerland

PC Members:
  • Dominique Genoud, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Switzerland
  • Andrej Kos, LTFE, Slovenia
  • Maria Fazio, University of Messina, Italy
  • Stelios Sotiriadis, Technical University of Crete, Greece
  • Nik Bessis, University of Derby, UK
  • Francisco Blaya, Zuhlke Engineering Ltd, UK
  • Massimo Villari, University of Messina, Italy
  • Yann Bocchi, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Switzerland
  • Latif Ladid, IPv6 Forum and University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
  • Diego Lopez de Ipina, University of Deusto (DuestoTech), Spain
  • Yunchuan Sun, Beijing Normal University, China
  • Maria Concepcion Parra, San Antonio Catholic University of Murcia, Spain
  • Srdjan Krco, Ericsson Serbia / Dunavnet, Serbia
  • Ramon Alcarria, Univ. Politecnica Madrid, Spain
  • Carlos Lamsfus, CICTourGUNE, Spain
  • Maria Jose Santofimia, UCLM, Spain
  • Charalampos Doukas, CREATE-NET, Italy

13. Data-aware Green Computing

Chairs:

  • Sergio Ricciardi, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
  • Paolo Monti, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden

PC Members:
  • German Santos-Boada, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
  • Aruna Prem Bianzino, Linkoping University, Sweden
  • George Koutitas, University of Thessaly, Greece
  • Massimo Tornatore, Politecnico di Milano
  • Filip Idzikowski, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
  • Slavisa Aleksic, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
  • Sara Ruepp, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
  • Isabella Cerutti, Scuola Superiore Sant Anna, Italy

14. Data Sensing and Processing

Chairs:

  • Xavier Vilajosana Guillen, UC Berkeley, USA

PC Members:
  • Marc Domingo Prieto, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
  • Marius Monton, Worldsensing S.L
  • Pere Tuset, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
  • Fabien Chraim, UC Berkeley, USA
  • David Burnett, UC Berkeley, USA
  • Ferran Adelantado, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
  • Tengfei Chang, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China
  • Maria Rita Palattella, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
  • Alfredo Grieco, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
  • Gennaro Boggia, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
  • Diego Dujovne, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile