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Organizing Committee

Honorary Co-Chairs

Makoto Takizawa, Seikei University, Japan
makoto.takizawa{at}st.seikei.ac.jp

Jorgaq Kacani, Rector of Tirana Polytechnic University, Albania
jorkaqkacani{at}yahoo.com

General Co-Chairs

Nik Bessis, University of Derby (also at University of Bedfordshire), UK
nik.bessis{at}beds.ac.uk

Fatos Xhafa, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
fatos{at}lsi.upc.edu

Leonard Barolli, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan
barolli{at}fit.ac.jp

PC Co-Chairs

Ching-Hsien (Robert) Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan
robertchh{at}gmail.com

Miltos Petridis, University of Greenwich, UK
m.petridis{at}gre.ac.uk

Workshop Co-Chairs

Florin Pop, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
florin.pop{at}cs.pub.ro

Eleana Asimakopoulou, University of Bedfordshire, UK
eleana.asimakopoulou{at}googlemail.com

Award Co-Chairs

Hui-Huang Hsu, Tamkang University, Taiwan
h_hsu{at}mail.tku.edu.tw

Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan
hara{at}ist.osaka-u.ac.jp

Publicity Co-Chairs

Dritan Nace, Universite de Technologie de Compiegne, France
dritan.nace{at}hds.utc.fr

Markus Aleksy, ABB AG Corporate Research Center, Germany
aleksy{at}uni-mannheim.de

International Liaison Co-Chairs

David Taniar, Monash University, Australia
dtaniar{at}gmail.com

Beniamino Di Martino, Seconda Universita' di Napoli, Italy
beniamino.dimartino{at}unina.it

Publication Co-Chairs

Tomoya Enokido, Rissho University, Japan
eno{at}ris.ac.jp

Valentin Cristea, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
valentin{at}cs.pub.ro

Local Arrangement Co-Chairs

Vladi Kolici, Tirana Polytechnic University, Albania
vkolici{at}fti.edu.al

Bexhet Kamo, Tirana Polytechnic University, Albania
bkamo{at}fti.edu.al

Olimpjon Shurdi, Tirana Polytechnic University, Albania
oshurdi{at}fti.edu.al

Treasure Chair

Valbona Barolli, Seikei University, Japan
valbona.barolli{at}gmail.com

Web Administrators

Elis Kulla, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan
eliskulla{at}yahoo.com

Evjola Spaho, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan
evjolaspaho{at}hotmail.com

Track Area Co-Chairs

1. Virtual Communities and Organizations

Chairs:

• Jemal Abawajy, Deakin University, Australia
  jemal{at}deakin.edu.au
• Mukaddim Pathan, CSIRO ICT Center, Australia
  Mukaddim.Pathan{at}csiro.au

Topics of Interest:

• Internet-based virtual communities and applications
• Middleware and platforms for virtual communities
• Social aspect of virtual communities and organizations
• Virtual world and social network services
• Marketing perspective of virtual communities
• Distributed network protocols for virtual communities and organizations
• Pervasive and Contextual Computing Systems in Practice
• 'Green' and Environmentally-conscious Design and virtual community
• Authentication, Authority and Auditing for virtual communities
• Entertainment Networks and multimedia playback in virtual communities
• E-Health and Mobile Health Technologies in virtual communities
• Human Computer Interaction in virtual communities and organizations

PC Members:

• Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, Italy
  g.fortino{at}unical.it
• Carlo Mastroianni, ICAR-CNR, Italy
  mastroianni{at}icar.cnr.it
• Ragib Hasan, Johns Hopkins University, USA
  rhasan7{at}jhu.edu
• Rajiv Ranjan, University of New South Wales, Australia
  rajiv{at}unsw.edu.au
• George Pallis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
  gpallis{at}cs.ucy.ac.cy
• Ram Krishnan, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
  ram.krishnan{at}utsa.edu
• Ekow Otoo, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
  ekow{at}cs.wits.ac.za
• Mukaddim Pathan, CSIRO, Australia
  Mukaddim.Pathan{at}csiro.au
• Ruppa K. Thulasiram, University of Manitoba, Canada
  tulsi{at}cs.umanitoba.ca
• Abdelkarim Erradi, Qatar University, Qatar
  erradi{at}qu.edu.qa
• Parimala Thulasiraman, University of Manitoba, Canada
  thulasir{at}cs.umanitoba.ca
• Michael Hobbs, Deakin Uinversity, Australia
  m.hobbs{at}deakin.edu.au
• Mustafa Mat Deris, UTHM, Malaysia
  mmustafa{at}uthm.edu.my
• Sameer Bataineh, UAE
  samir.b{at}uaeu.ac.ae

2. Social Networking and Mining

Chairs:

• Carson K. Leung, University of Manitoba, Canada
  kleung{at}cs.umanitoba.ca
• Paul Sant, University of Bedfordshire, UK
  paul.sant{at}beds.ac.uk

Topics of Interest:

• Emerging intelligent social network data and web technologies
• Emerging data mining applications
• Social networks, Web 2.0, social search and mining
• Social network/media analysis, analysis on social interaction,
• Social reputation, influence, trust, privacy, risk and security
• Business intelligence (BI) solutions in social contexts.
• User profiling, recommendation systems, personalized search and ranking
• Web search, Web information management, Web mining, Web services
• Data mining, knowledge discovery in databases (KDD), text mining
• Frequent pattern mining, clustering, classification, anomaly detection
• Data stream, click stream, data annotation, data architecture, data capture
• Data integration, data cleaning, data quality
• Information retrieval, data management, knowledge engineering
• Visual analytics, data and result visualization, human-computer interaction

PC Members:

• Jose Alfredo F Costa, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Brazil
  jafcosta{at}gmail.com
• Hamido Fujita, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan
  HFujita-799{at}acm.org
• Benjamin C.M. Fung, Concordia University, Canada
  fung{at}ciise.concordia.ca
• Qi He, Pennsylvania State University, USA
  qhe{at}ist.psu.edu
• Richard McClatchey, University of the West of England (UWE) - Bristol, UK
  Richard.McClatchey{at}uwe.ac.uk
• Victor Muntes-Mulero, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain
  vmuntes{at}ac.upc.edu
• Eric Pardede, La Trobe University, Australia
  E.Pardede{at}latrobe.edu.au
• Bin Zhou, Simon Fraser University, Canada
  bzhou{at}cs.sfu.ca

3. Natural Inspired Computing for Collective Intelligence

Chairs:

• Lei Shu, Osaka University, Japan
  lei.shu{at}ist.osaka-u.ac.jp
• Zhangbing Zhou, Institute Telecom & Management SudParis, France
  zhangbing.zhou{at}gmail.com

Topics of Interest:

• Social computing and social intelligence
• Service oriented computing and applications
• Service science
• Cyber physical systems and society
• Cognition and semantics
• Interactive semantics
• Human & social -level AI systems and methods
• Collaborative innovation
• Web of things

PC Members:

• Sami Bhiri, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Ireland
  sami.bhiri{at}deri.org
• Quang Trung Duong, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
  trung.q.duong{at}gmail.com
• Xiaoping Sun, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
  sunxp{at}kg.ict.ac.cn
• Hong Wu, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
  hwu{at}uestc.edu.cn
• Maciej Zaremba, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Ireland
  maciej.zaremba{at}deri.org
• Walid Gaaloul, Institute Telecom & Management SudParis, France
  walid.gaaloul{at}it-sudparis.eu
• Jeffrey Chan, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Ireland
  jkc.chan{at}deri.org
• Brahmananda Sapkota, University of Twente, The Netherlands
  b.sapkota{at}utwente.nl
• Bin Guo, Institute Telecom & Management SudParis, France
  guobin.keio{at}gmail.com
• Hongguang Zhang, Institute Telecom & Management SudParis, France
  hongguang.zhang{at}it-sudparis.eu
• Lu Liu, University of Derby, UK
  l.liu{at}derby.ac.uk
• Yishuai Chen, Beijing Jiaotong University, China
  chenyishuai{at}gmail.com

4. Groupware and Online Campuses

Chairs:

• Judy C. R. Tseng, Chung Hua University, Taiwan
  judycrt{at}gmail.com
• Jia-Jiunn Lo, Chung Hua University, Taiwan
  jlo{at}chu.edu.tw

Topics of Interest:

• Social computing
• Social learning networks
• Collaborative e-Learning
• Cooperative e-Learning
• Communities of practice
• Web 2.0 Technology and e-learning
• Mobile learning/Ubiquitous Learning
• Game-based learning

PC Members:

• Stephen J.H. Yang, National Central University, Taiwan
  jhyang{at}csie.ncu.edu.tw
• Gang Kou, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
  kougang{at}yahoo.com
• Gwo Haur Hwang, Ling Tung University, Taiwan
  ghhwang{at}mail.ltu.edu.tw
• Hung-Chi Su, Arkansas State University, USA
  suh{at}cs.astate.edu
• Chin-Chih Chang, Chung-Hua University, Taiwan
  changc{at}chu.edu.tw
• Wen-Chih Chang, Chung-Hua University, Taiwan
  earnest{at}chu.edu.tw
• Carol H.C. Chu, Soochow University, Taiwan
  carolhcchu{at}gmail.com
• Peter Norrington, University of Bedfordshire, UK
  peter.norrington{at}beds.ac.uk

5. Ontologies and Metadata Representation

Chairs:

• Kuan-Chou Lai, National Taichung University, Taiwan
  kclai{at}mail.ntcu.edu.tw
• Jason Chi-Shun Hung, Overseas Chinese University, Taiwan
  jhung{at}ocu.edu.tw

Topics of Interest:

• Infrastructures, systems and services for knowledge organization
• Knowledge acquisition and extraction
• Knowledge repositories and archives
• Metadata generation, harvesting and exchange
• Metadata schemas and application profiles
• Ontology approaches, models, theories and languages
• Ontology development, integration and evaluation
• Ontology engineering
• RDF and OWL applications
• Semantic web and web services

PC Members:

• Artem Chebotko, University of Texas - Pan American, USA
  artem{at}cs.panam.edu
• Brahim Medjahed, University of Michigan, USA
  brahim{at}umd.umich.edu
• Chouyin Hsu, Overseas Chinese University, Taiwan
  hkelly{at}ocu.edu.tw
• Dimitris Kanellopoulos, University of Patras, Greece
  d_kan2006{at}yahoo.gr
• Giovanni Semeraro, University of Bari, Italy
  semeraro{at}di.uniba.it
• Gottfried Vossen, University of Muenster, Germany
  vossen{at}helios.uni-muenster.de
• Stelios Sotiriadis, University of Bedfordshire, UK
  stelios.sotiriadis{at}beds.ac.uk
• Joseph T. Tennis, University of Washington, USA
  jtennis@uw.edu
• Panayiota Polydoratou, London City University, UK
  panayiota_polydoratou@yahoo.com
• Josep Domenech, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
  jdomenech@upvnet.upv.es

6. Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Chairs:

• Alfredo Cuzzocrea, ICAR-CNR and University of Calabria, Italy
  cuzzocrea{at}si.deis.unical.it
• George Karypis, University of Minnesota, MN, USA
  karypis{at}cs.umn.edu

Publicity Chairs:

• Cristian Molinaro, University of Calabria, Italy
  cmolinaro{at}deis.unical.it

Topics of Interest:

• Knowledge Discovery Fundamentals
• Knowledge Discovery Methods
• Knowledge Discovery Algorithms
• Knowledge Discovery Applications
• Data Mining Fundamentals
• Data Mining Methods
• Data Mining Algorithms
• Data Mining Applications

PC Members:

• Fabrizio Angiulli, University of Calabria, Italy
  f.angiulli{at}deis.unical.it
• Michelangelo Ceci, University of Bari, Italy
  ceci{at}di.uniba.it
• Marco Fisichella, L3S Research Center, Germany
  fisichella{at}L3S.de
• Francesco Gullo, University of Calabria, Italy
  fgullo{at}deis.unical.it
• Wook-Shin Han, Kyungpook National University, Korea
  wshan{at}knu.ac.kr
• Jae-Gil Lee, KAIST, Korea
  jglee{at}mozart.kaist.ac.kr
• Apostolos Papadopoulos, Aristotle University, Greece
  papadopo{at}csd.auth.gr
• Robert Wrembel, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
  Robert.Wrembel{at}cs.put.poznan.pl
• Eiko Yoneki, University of Cambridge, UK
  eiko.yoneki{at}cl.cam.ac.uk
• Xiaofang Zhou, The University of Queensland, Australia
  zxf{at}itee.uq.edu.au
• Jerome Darmont, University of Lyon 2, France
  jerome.darmont{at}univ-lyon2.fr
• Pat Martin, Queen's University, ON, Canada
  martin{at}cs.queensu.ca
• Stephane Bressan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
  steph{at}nus.edu.sg
• Ranga Vatsavai, Oak Ridge Lab, TN, USA
  vatsavairr{at}ornl.gov
• Cristian Molinaro, University of Calabria, Italy
  cmolinaro{at}deis.unical.it

7. Data Centers and Cloud Computing

Chairs:

• Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK
  o.f.rana{at}cs.cardiff.ac.uk
• Richard Hill, University of Derby, UK
  r.hill{at}derby.ac.uk

Topics of Interest:

• Software as a Service (SaaS)
• Virtualization technologies
• Web services
• Peer to peer computing
• Middleware frameworks
• IT Service and Relationship Management
• Fault tolerance and reliability
• Autonomic Computing
• Auditing, monitoring and scheduling
• Hardware as a Service (HaaS)
• Scalable Scheduling on Heterogeneous Architectures

PC Members:

• Simon Caton, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
  simon.caton{at}kit.edu
• Kyle Chard, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
  kyle{at}ci.uchicago.edu
• Mazin Yousif, IBM, Canada
  myousif100{at}gmail.com
• Shantenu Jha, LSU (CCT), USA
  sjha{at}cct.lsu.edu
• Lee Gillam, University of Surrey, UK
  L.Gillam{at}surrey.ac.uk
• Xiaoyu Chen, Brunel University, UK
  xc2{at}ecs.soton.ac.uk
• Rajiv Ranjan, Melbourne University, Australia
  rranjans{at}gmail.com
• Sai Narasimhamurty, Xyratex, UK
  Sai_Narasimhamurthy{at}xyratex.com
• George Pallis, University of Cyprus
  gpallis{at}ccf.auth.gr
• Rafael Tolosana, University of Zaragoza, Spain
  rafaelt.unizar{at}gmail.com
• Mark Baker, University of Reading, UK
  mark.baker{at}computer.org

8. Security, Trust and Reputation

Chairs:

• Guojun Wang, Central South University, China
  csgjwang{at}gmail.com
• Gregorio Martinez, University of Murcia, Spain
  gregorio{at}um.es

Topics of Interest:

• Identity management, authentication and access control
• Data and system integrity and confidentiality
• Definition and management of security policies
• Key distribution and management
• Prevention, detection and reaction design
• Privacy and anonymity technologies
• Secure cross-layer protocols and servicesIoannis
• Smart cards and secure hardware
• Trust and reputation models and theories
• Trust establishment
• Trust and reputation applied to distributed communication scenarios
• Risk analysis and management

PC Members:

• Fei Wang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
  wangfei{at}hust.edu.cn
• Felix Gomez, NEC Europe, Germany
  felixgomez18{at}gmail.com
• Gaocai Wang, Guangxi University, China
  wanggcgx{at}gmail.com
• Jorge Bernal Bernabe, University of Murcia, Spain
  jorgebernal{at}um.es
• Jose M. Alcaraz, HP Labs, UK
  jose.alcaraz-calero{at}hp.com
• Juan M. Marin Perez, University of Murcia, Spain
  juanmanuel{at}um.es
• Kenji Saito, Keio University, Japan
  ks91{at}sfc.wide.ad.jp
• Longxiang Gao, Deakin University, Australia
  longx.gao{at}gmail.com
• Nicolai Kuntze, Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology, Germany
  nicolai.kuntze{at}sit.fraunhofer.de
• Sherali Zeadally, University of the District of Columbia, USA
  szeadally{at}udc.edu

9. Web Science and Business Intelligence

Chairs:

• Ioannis E. Anagnostopoulos, University of Central Greece, Greece
  janag{at}ucg.gr
• Michalis Vafopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
  vafopoulos{at}gmail.com

Topics of Interest:

• Web Science
• Web Intelligence
• Web Evolution
• Web Economics
• Mathematical Modeling of the Web
• Game Theory and the Web
• Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
• Semantic Knowledge Representation and Reasoning

PC Members:

• Charalambos Bratsas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
  mpampis{at}med.auth.gr
• Daniela Giordano, University of Catania, Italy
  dgiordan{at}diit.unict.it
• Panagiotis Bamidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
  bamidis{at}med.auth.gr
• Stefan Dietze, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK
  s.dietze{at}open.ac.uk
• Angelos Michalas, Technological Educational Institute of Western Macedonia, Greece
  amichalas{at}kastoria.teikoz.gr
• Maria Bielikova, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia
  bielik{at}fiit.stuba.sk
• Vassili Loumos, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
  loumos{at}cs.ntua.gr

10. Data Management and Information Retrieval

Chairs:

• Yue-Shan Chang, National Taipei University, Taiwan
  ysc{at}mail.ntpu.edu.tw
• Wei-Jen Wang, National Central University, Taiwan
  wjwang{at}csiencu.edu.tw

Topics of Interest:

• Data as a Service⁄Data Service Architecture
• Context-Aware Data integration⁄Privacy-Aware Data Storage on grid⁄Cloud environment
• Meta-data management
• Data clustering, Data partitioning, Data cleansing
• Data⁄Information query scheme⁄NoSQL
• Big data store techniques
• Framework, Architecture, Modeling, and Ranking Algorithms of Information Retrieval
• Web IR, Distributed IR, peer to peer IR, Mobile IR, Multimedia IR, Fusion⁄Combination
• Cross-language retrieval, Multilingual retrieval, Machine translation for IR
• Intelligent data⁄information management

PC Members:

• Jason J. Jung, Yeungnam University, Korea
  j2jung{at}gmail.com
• Jyh-Jian Sheu, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan
  jjsheu{at}mail.ndhu.edu.tw
• Ying Liu, National University of Singapore, Singapore
  mpeliuy{at}nus.edu.sg
• Lizhe Wang, Indiana University, USA
  lizhe.wang{at}gmail.com
• Chung-Ming Ou, Kainan University, Taiwan
  cou077{at}mail.knu.edu.tw
• Yo-Ping Huang, National Taipei University of Technolog, Taiwan
  yphuang{at}ntut.edu.tw
• Chao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University, Taiwan
  ctyang{at}thu.edu.tw
• Shyan-Ming Yuan, Providence University, Taiwan
  smyuan{at}gmail.com
• Min Chen, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
  minchen{at}ece.ubc.ca