CONFERENCE CHAIRPERSONS

Honorary Chairs
Nicolae Tapus, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Makoto Takizawa, Seikei University, Japan

General Co-Chairs
Valentin Cristea, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Fatos Xhafa, Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain
Leonard Barolli, Fukuoka Institute of Technology (FIT), Japan

Programme Co-Chairs
Florin Pop, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Xiaofeng Chen, Xidian University, China
Ajith Abraham, MIR Labs, USA

International Advisory Committee
Mario Köppen, Kyushu Institute of Technology (KIT), Japan (Co-Chair)
Masato Tsuru, Kyushu Institute of Technology (KIT), Japan (Co-Chair)
Janusz Kacpryzk, Polish Academy of Science, Poland
Santi Caballé, Open University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain
Kaori Yoshida, Kyushu Institute of Technology (KIT), Japan
Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia
Kin Fun Li, University of Victoria, Canada

Workshop Co-Chairs
Costin Raiciu, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Stavros Demetriadis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Kin Fun Li, University of Victoria, Canada

Posters Chair
Masato Tsuru, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan (Track chair)

Special Issues Chair
Farookh Hussain, Curtin University, Australia

Publication and Proceedings Chairs
Ajith Abraham, MIR Labs, USA
Andrei Mogos, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania

International Liaison Chair
Santi Caballé, Open University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain
Kaori Yoshida, Kyushu Institute of Technology (KIT), Japan

Award Chairs
Thanasis Daradoumis, Open University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain
Adina-Magda Florea, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania

Local Organizing Committee
Catalin Leordeanu, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Eliana Tirsa, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Eleana Apostol, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Mihai Dascalu, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania

Web Administrators
Evjola Spaho, Fukuoka Institute of Technology (FIT), Japan
Elis Kulla, Fukuoka Institute of Technology (FIT), Japan

Steering Committee
Fatos Xhafa, Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain (Chair)
Leonard Barolli, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, (FIT), Japan
Valentin Cristea, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania

TRACKS & PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

- CLOUD COMPUTING: SERVICES, STORAGE, SECURITY and PRIVACY

Jin Li, Guangzhou University, China (Track Co-Chair)
Qiang Tang, University of Twente, the Netherlands, (Track Co-Chair)

PC Members:
Hoon Wei Lim, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Raymond Choo, University of South Australia, Australia
Sherman Chow, University of Waterloo, Canada
Liqun Chen, HP Labs, Bristol, UK
Cheng-Kang Chu, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Svetla Petkova-Nikova, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Man Ho Au, University of Wollongong
Haojin Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Licheng Wang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

-DATA MINING, MACHINE LEARNING AND COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE

Pavel Krömer, VSB Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic (Track Co-Chair)
Václav Snásel, VSB-TU Ostrava, Czech Republic (Track Co-Chair)

PC Members:
Ivan Zelinka, VSB-TU Ostrava, Czech Republic
Eliska Ochodková, VSB-TU Ostrava, Czech Republic
Milos Kudelka, VSB-TU Ostrava, Czech Republic
Jan Platos, VSB-TU Ostrava, Czech Republic
Petr Gajdos, VSB-TU Ostrava, Czech Republic
Pavel Moravec, VSB-TU Ostrava, Czech Republic
Emilio Corchado, University of Salamanca, Spain
Tibebe Beshah, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia

- FUZZY SYSTEMS AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

Eulalia Szmidt, Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland (Track Chair)

PC Members:
Edurne Barrenechea, Public University of Navarra, Spain
Javier Montero, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Bustince Humberto, Public University of Navarra, Spain
Vladik Kreinovich, University of Texas at El Paso, USA
Krassimir Atanassov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
Guy De Tré, Ghent University, Belgium
Ketty Peeva, Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria
Slawomir Zadrozny, Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Marek Reformat, University of Alberta, Canada
Vicenc Torra, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain
Ban Adrian, University of Oradea, Romania
Wygralak Maciej , Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
Panagiotis Chountas, University of Westminster, England
Maciej Krawczak, Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

- GRID AND P2P DISTRIBUTED INFRASTRUCTURE FOR INTELLIGENT NETWORKING AND COLLABORATIVE SYSTEMS

Richard Hill, University of Derby, UK (Track Chair)
Mugurel Andreica, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania

PC Members:
Pilar Herrero, Technical University of Madrid, Spain
Antonio la Torre de la Fuente, CESVIMA, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Jose Luis Vazquez Poletti, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Santiago Gonzalez Tortosa, CESVIMA, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Oscar David Robles Sanchez, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
Jesus Montes Sanchez, CESVIMA, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Ashiq Anjum, University of Derby, UK
Mo Rezai, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Nik Bessis, University of Derby (also at University of Bedfordshire), UK

- INTELLIGENT COLLABORATIVE SYSTEMS FOR WORK AND LEARNING, VIRTUAL ORGANIZATION AND CAMPUSES

Chih-Chun Chen, French National Centre for Scientific Research, France (Track Co-Chair)
Viorel Negru, West University of Timisoara, Romania (Track Co-Chair)

PC Members:
Alastair Gill, Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, UK
Matus Medo, Department of Physics, University of Fribourg, Swatirland
Mohammed Syed, Department of Psychology and Department of Computer Science, University of Cambridge, UK
Thomas Gottron, Computer Science, Universitat Koblenz-Landau, Doitchland
Inbal Ronen, Collaboration Technologies, IBM Haifa Research Labs, IBM
Konstantinos Tserpes, Computer Science, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Tao Zhou, Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology in China, P.R. China
Key Pousttchi, Wi-mobile Research group, University of Augsburg, Deutschland
Zike Zhang, Department of Physics (Theoretical Interdisciplinary Physics), University of Fribourg, Switzerland

- METHODOLOGY, ANALYSIS, & SUSTAINABILITY OF INTELLIGENT NETWORKING AND COLLABORATIVE SYSTEMS

Murat Cakir, METU Informatics Institute, Turkey (Track Co-Chair)
Thanasis Daradoumis, University of the Aegean, Greece (Track Co-Chair)

PC Members:
Stephen Benton, University of Westminster, UK
Yannis Dimitriadis, University of Valladolid, Spain
Javier Faulin, University of Navarra, Spain
Michael Feidakis, University of the Aegean, Greece
Scott Grasman, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
Angel Juan, Open University of Catalonia, Spain
Charalampos Karagiannidis, University of Thessaly, Greece
Maria Kordaki, University of the Aegean, Greece
Simos Retalis, University of Piraeus, Greece

- NATURE'S INSPIRED MULTI-AGENT COLLABORATIVE SYSTEMS

Crina Grosan, Techinical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania (Track Co-Chair)
Hisayuki Sasaoka, Asahikawa National College of Technology, Japan (Track Co-Chair)

PC Members:
Koichi Yamada, Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan
Ohshima Kohzoh , Asahikawa National College of Technology, Japan
Tomoharu Nakashima, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
Iguchi Masaru, Asahikawa National College of Technology, Japan
Hidehisa Akiyama, Fukuoka University, Japan
Muneyuki Unehara, Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan

- NETWORKING AND COLLABORATION AT SCHOOL (Special track)

Tharrenos Bratitsis, University of Western Macedonia, Greece (Track Co-Chair)
Costin Boiangiu, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania (Track Co-Chair)

PC Members:
Maria Grigoriadou, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Eric Bruillard, STEF - Ecole normale supérieure de Cachan (ENS Cachan), France
Vasileios Komis, University of Patras, Greece
Nikolaos Tselios, University of Patras, Greece
Katerina Zourou, University of Luxemburg, Luxemburg, Luxemburg
Charoula Angeli, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Patrick Jermann, EPFL-CRAFT Lausanne, Switzerland
Ilias Karasavvidis, University of Thessaly, Greece
Anastasios Mikropoulos, University of Ioannina, Greece
Demetrios Sampson, University of Piraeus, Greece
Kyparisia Papanikolaou, School of Pedagogical & Technological Education, Greece
Davinia Hernandez-Leo, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain
Yannis Dimitriadis, University of Valladolid, Spain
Simos Retalis, University of Piraeus, Greece
Therese Laferriere, Laval University, Canada
Stephane Allaire, Université du Québec à Chicoutim, Canada
Alain Mille, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France

- NEXT GENERATION NETWORK PROTOCOLS AND COMPONENTS

Dirceu Cavendish, UCLA, USA (Track Co-Chair)
Emil Cebuc,Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania (Track Co-Chair)

PC Members:
Florian Mircea Boian, UBB Cluj, Romania
Paul Gasner, UAIC Iasi, Romania
Remus Brad, ULB Sibiu, Romania
Adrian Peculea, UT Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Bogdan Iancu, UT Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Mario Gerla, UCLA, USA
Damien Magoni, University of Bordeaux, Talence, France
Masato Tsuru, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Kenji Kawahara, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Masayoshi Shimamura, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Hiroaki Yamanaka, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan

-POSTER PAPERS TRACK

Masato Tsuru, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan (Track Chair)

PC Members:
Dirceu Cavendish, UCLA, USA
Yoshiaki Hori, Kyushu University, Japan
Hideaki Iiduka, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Manabu Kato, Ariake National College of Technology, Japan
Hiroyuki Koga, The University of Kitakyushu, Japan
Kaori Yoshida, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Neng-Fa Zhou, Brooklyn College the City University of New York, USA
Razvan Beuran, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan
Bob Apduhan, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan
Rodrigo Verschae, Universidad de Chile, Chile

- SECURITY, ORGANIZATION, MANAGEMENT AND AUTONOMIC COMPUTING FOR INTELLIGENT NETWORKING AND COLLABORATIVE SYSTEMS

Joonsang Baek, KUSTAR, UAE (Track Co-Chair)
Xinyi Huang, Fujian Normal University, China (Track Co-Chair)

PC Members:
Boyeon Song, NIMS (National Institute for Mathematical Science), Korea
Hui Li, Xidian University, China
Qianhong Wu, Universitat Rovira i Vergili, Spain
Fangguo Zhang, Sun Yat-Sen Univeristy, China
Ashley Chonka, Deakin University/INRIA, Australia
Bo Qin, Universitat Rovira i Vergili, Spain
Lei Zhang, East China Normal University, China
Jian Weng, Jinan University, China
Qiong Huang, City University of Hong Kong, China
Shengli Liu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

-SEMANTICS AND ONTOLOGIES FOR NETWORKING AND COLLABORATIVE SYSTEMS

Jordi Conesa, Open University of Catalonia, Spain (Track Co-Chair)
Santi Caballé, Open University of Catalonia, Spain (Track Co-Chair)

PC Members:
Sinuhe Arroyo, Playence, Austria
David Bañeres, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
Joan Casas, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
Robert Clarisó, Open University of Catalonia, Spain
Laia Descamps, I.C.A. Informática y Comunicaciones Avanzadas, Spain
David Gañan, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
Antoni Perez Navarro, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
Josep Prieto, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
Angels Rius, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
Elena Rodriguez, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
Antonio Villegas, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
Jong Woo Kim, University of Massacusetts Boston, USA

- SOFTWARE ENGINEERING FOR INTELLIGENT NETWORKING AND COLLABORATIVE SYSTEMS

Santi Caballé, Open University of Catalonia, Spain (Track Co-Chair)
Robert Clarisó, Open University of Catalonia, Spain(Track Co-Chair)

PC Members:
Daniel Riera, Open University of Catalonia, Spain
Jordi Conesa, Open University of Catalonia, Spain
Àngels Rius, Open University of Catalonia, Spain
Elena Planas, Open University of Catalonia, Spain
Isabel Guitart, Open University of Catalonia, Spain
Antonio Vallecillo, Universidad de Malaga, Spain
Javier Troya, Universidad de Malaga, Spain
Macario Polo, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Francisco José García Peñalvo, University of Salamanca, Spain
Thuy-Linh Nguyen, Australian Catholic University, Australia

- WIRELESS AND SENSOR SYSTEMS FOR INTELLIGENT NETWORKING AND COLLABORATIVE SYSTEMS

Razvan Rughinis, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania (Track Co-Chair)
Hiroyoshi Miwa, Kwansei University, Japan (Track Co-Chair)

PC Members:
Wen-Ping Lai, Yuan Ze University, Taiwan
Fujihara Akihiro, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan
Kamiyama Noriaki, NTT, Japan
Uchida Masato, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Ueda Hirofumi, NEC, Japan
Takaoka Masanori, NEC Communication Systems, Japan
Kawanishi Ken'ichi, Gumma University, Japan
Miyoshi Takumi, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan
Masaki Aida, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
Matsuda Takahiro, Osaka University, Japan
Yamamura Shinya, NICT, Japan
Nagata Akira, Fujitsu Kyushu Network Technologies Limited, Japan
Bin Hu, Vienna University of Technology, Austria