Organizing Comittee

Honorary Chair

Makoto Takizawa, Hosei University, Japan

Mao-Jiun Wang, Tunghai University, Taiwan

Jyh-Cheng Chen, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

General Co-Chairs

Li-Chih Wang, Tunghai University, Taiwan

Fang-Yie Leu, Tunghai University, Taiwan

Leonard Barolli, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan

Program Committee Co-Chairs

Chao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University, Taiwan

Massimo Ficco, Campania University L. Vanvitelli, Italy

Marcello Luiz Brocardo, Santa Catarina State University, Brazil

Workshop Co-Chairs

Der-Jiunn Deng, National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan

Rubem Pereira, Liverpool John Moores University, UK

Juggapong Natwichai, Chiang Mai University, Thailand

International Liaison Co-Chairs

Andrew W. Ip, Saskatchewan University, Canada

Santi Caballé, Open University of Catalonia, Spain

Hsing-Chung Chen, Asia University, Taiwan

Finance Chairs

Makoto Ikeda, FIT, Japan

Web Administrator Chairs

Kevin Bylykbashi, FIT, Japan

Donald Elmazi, FIT, Japan

Miralda Cuka, FIT, Japan

Yi Liu, FIT, Japan

Kosuke Ozera, FIT, Japan

Local Organizing Co-Chairs

Chin-Tsun Tsai, Tunghai University, Taiwan

Yu-Chen Hu, Providence University, Taiwan

Steering Committee Co-Chairs

Fatos Xhafa, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain

Leonard Barolli, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan

Track Areas

1. Data Intensive Computing, Data Mining, Semantic Web and Information Retrieval

Chairs:

Nicola Capuano, University of Salerno, Italy
Roberto Pietrantuon, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy

PC Members:

Daniel Rodriguez, Univeristy of Alcalà, Spain
Francisco Gortazar, Bellas Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
Ivano Malavolta, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Annibale Panichella, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Pasqualina Potena, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden
Rocco Aversa, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy
Jun-Wei Hsieh, National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan

2. Data Storage in Distributed Computation and Cloud Systems, Edge and Fog Computing

Chairs:

Mario Dantas, Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil
Francesco Orciuoli, Università di Salerno, Italy

PC Members:

Massimiliano Rak, University of Campania, Italy
Jorji Nonaka, Riken, Japan
Bruno Richard Shulze, University of Campinas, Brazil
Stefano Chessa, University the Pisa, Italy
Jose Ruizr External, ATOS, Spain
Angelo Gaeta, Università di Salerno, Italy
Sergio Miranda, Università di Salerno, Italy
Nicola Capuano, Università di Salerno, Italy
Mariacristina Gallo, Università di Salerno, Italy
Carmen De Maio, Università di Salerno, Italy
Ching-Hsien Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan

3. Secure Technology for Distributed Computation, Cloud and Sensor Networks

Chairs:

Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, Italy
Michal Choras, University of Bydgoszcz, Poland

PC Members:

Wojciech Mazurczyk, Technical University Warsaw, WUT, Poland
Joerg Keller, University of Hagen, Germany
Rafal Kozik, University of Science and Technology, Poland
Manuel Grana, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Spain
Davide Ariu, University of Cagliari, Italy
Alex Galis, University College London, UK
Noel Crespi, Institut Mines-Telecom, France
Christian Borcea, University Heights, USA
Haiping Xu, University of Massachusetts, USA
Jerry Gao, San Jose State University, USA
Roberto Minerva, Telecom Italia Mobile, Italy

4. High Performance and Scalable Computing

Chairs:

Lidia Ogiela, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
Ugo Fiore, Università degli studi di Napoli Parthenope, Italy

PC Members:

Ismail Hakki Toroslu, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Adrian Florea, University "Lucian Blaga" of Sibiu, Romania
Paolo Zanetti, Università degli studi di Napoli Parthenope, Italy
Gangadharan GR, Institute for Development & Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT), India
David Sembroiz, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain

5. Distributed Algorithms and Models for P2P, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing

Chairs:

Florin Pop, Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania
Francesco Moscato, Second University of Naples
Xu An Wang, CAPF University, China

PC Members:

Luca Foschini, University of Bologna, Italy
Francesco Palmieri, Università di Salerno, Italy
Mauro Iacono, Università degli studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy
Valentina Casola, Università Federico II, Italy
Vincenzo Moscato, Università Federico II, Italy
Antonio Balzanella, Università degli studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy
Giovanni Cozzolino, Università Federico II, Italy
Giusy di Lorenzo, Vodafone Italia and IBM Dublin, Ireland

6. Bio-Inspired Computing and Pattern recognition

Chairs:

Geir Horn, University of Oslo, Norway
Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania

PC Members:

Hector Menendez Benito, University College London, UK
Tero Kokkonen, University of Applied Sciences, Finland
Feoz Zahidi, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway
Anis Yazidi, Institutt for informasjonsteknologi, Norway
Paweł Skrzypek, 7bulls.com, Poland
Kyriakos Kritikos, Istitute of Computer Science, Norway

7. Cognitive Systems

Chairs:

Gianni D'Angelo University of Benevento, Italy
Alisson Brito, Universidade Federal da Paraiba, Brasil

PC Members:

Mario Molinara, University of Cassino, Italy
Massimo Tipaldi, University of Benevento, Italy
Flora Amato, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy
Arcangelo Castiglione, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy
Salvatore Venticinque, Università degli studi della Campania Luigi Vamvitelli, Italy
Rodríguez García Daniel, University of Alcalá, Spain

8. Adaptive Web-based, distributed and ubiquitous eLearning systems

Chairs:

Wen-Chung Shih, Asia University, Taiwan
Tzung-Shi Chen, National University of Tainan, Taiwan

PC Members:

Julibio Ardigo, Santa Catarina State University, Brazil

9. Knowledge-based Stream Processing and Analytics

Chairs:

Salvatore D'antonio, University of Naples Parthenope, Italy
Tzung-Pei Hong, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan

PC Members:

Valerio Formicola, Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per l'Informatica, Italy
Luigi Sgaglione, University of Naples Parthenope, Italy
Giovanni Mazzeo, University of Naples Parthenope, Italy
Andrea Ceccarelli, University of Florence, Italy

10. IoT Computing Systems

Chairs:

Pere Tuset, Open University of Catalonia, Spain
Tudor Cioara, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Der-Jiunn Deng, National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan

PC Members:

Tengfei Chang, INRIA-EVA, France
Ferran Adelantado, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
Chen-Fu Chiang, State University of New York Polytechnic Institute, USA
Francisco Vazquez, Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya, Spain
Xavier Vilajosana, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
Marius Monton, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
Der-Jiunn Deng, National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan

11. Blockchain

Chairs:

Sherif Saad, University of Windsor, Canada
Ali Tekeoglu, State University of New York Polytechnic Institute, USA

PC Members:

Julio da Silva Dias, Santa Catarina State University, Brazil
Ricardo Felipe Custódio Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Sam Sengupta, State University of New York Polytechnic Institute, USA
Bruno Andriamanalimanana, State University of New York Polytechnic Institute, USA
Jorge Novillo, State University of New York Polytechnic Institute, USA
Jean Martina, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil

12. Cloud Enterprise Systems or Cloud Transactional Management Systems

Chairs:

Carlos Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Fernando Luiz Koch, Melbourne University, Australia

PC Members:

Abdulaziz Aldribi, University of Victoria, Canadá
Macedo Douglas, Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil
Carlos Roberto De Rolt, Santa Catarina State University, Brazil
Jéferson Campos Nobre, Unisinos University, Brazil
Daniel Stefani Marcon, Unisinos University, Brazil

13. Space Informatics

Chairs:

Andrew W. Ip, Polytechnic University of Hong Kong, China
Jack Wu, Hang Seng Management College, Hong Kong, China

PC Members:

Na Dong, Tianjin University, China
Mike Tse, University of York, UK
Kuo-Kun Tseng, Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen Graduate School, China
Chris Zhang, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Fatos Xhafa, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain