CONFERENCE CHAIRPERSONS

Honorary Chairs
Makoto Takizawa, Hosei University, Japan

General Co-Chairs
Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy
Fatos Xhafa, Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain

Programme Co-Chairs
Francesco Palmieri, Second University of Naples, Italy
Mario Koppen, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan

International Advisory Committee
Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada
Xiaofeng Chen, Xidian University, China
Masato Tsuru,Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan

Workshop Co-Chairs
Matteo Gaeta, University of Salerno, Italy
Duncan S. Wong, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Special Issues Chair
Domenico Parente, University of Salerno, Italy

International Liaison Chair
Francesco Marcelloni, University of Pisa, Italy

Award Chairs
Pierangela Samarati, University of Milano, Italy

Web Administrators
Evjola Spaho, Polytechnic University of Tirana, Albania
Elis Kulla, Okayama University of Science, Japan
Shinji Sakamoto, Fukuoka Institute of Technology (FIT), Japan

Finance Chair
Makoto Ikeda, 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

TRACKS & PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

- Track 1: CLOUD COMPUTING: SERVICES, STORAGE, SECURITY and PRIVACY

Track Co-Chairs:

Massimo Ficco, Second University of Naples, Italy
Nik Bessis, School of Computing & Maths, University of Derby, Derby, United Kingdom

PC Members:

Salvatore di Stefano, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Salvatore D'Antonio, University "Parthenope" of Napoli, Italy
Mirco Musolesi, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
Antonio Pecchia, Federico II University of Naples, Italy
Alexandros Preventis, Technical University of Crete
Ashiq Anjum, University of Derby, UK
Ciprian Dobre, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Flora Amato, University of Naples "Federico II", Italy
Florin Pop, University Politechnica of Bucharest, Romania
Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania
Jose Carlos Martins Delgado, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Kostas Stravoskoufos, Technical University of Crete, Greece
Lu Liu, University of Derby, UK
Maozhen Li, Brunel University, UK
Stelios Sotiriadis, Technical University of Crete, Greece

-Track 2: DATA MINING, MACHINE LEARNING AND COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE

Track Co-Chairs:

Vaclav Snasel, VSB-TU Ostrava, Czech Republic
Pavel Kromer, VSB Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic

PC Members:

Petr Musilek, University of Alberta, Canada
Ivan Zelinka, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Jouni Lampinen, University of Vaasa, Finland
Eliska Ochodkova, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Eshetie Berhan, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
Milos Kudelka, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Jie Wu, Hubei University of Technology, China
Jan Platos, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Suhail Owais, Applied Science University, Jordan
Petr Gajdos, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Emilio Corchado, University of Salamanca, Spain
Pavel Moravec, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Tibebe Beshah, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
Sebastian Basterrech, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Konrad Jackowski, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland

-Track 3: FUZZY SYSTEMS AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

Track Chair:

Marek Ogiela, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland

PC Members:

Tomasz Hachaj, Pedagogical University of Cracow, Poland
Marcin Piekarczyk, Pedagogical University of Cracow, Poland
Lidia Ogiela, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
Ching-Hsien Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan
Hoon Ko, J. E. Purkinje University, Czech Republic
Goreti Marreiros, ISEP/IPP, Portugal
Yucong Duan, Hainan University, China
Dusan Husek, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

- Track 4: GRID AND P2P DISTRIBUTED INFRASTRUCTURE FOR INTELLIGENT NETWORKING AND COLLABORATIVE SYSTEMS

Track Co-Chairs:
Florin Pop, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Ciprian Dobre, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania

PC Members:

Ashiq Anjum, University of Derby, UK
Catalin Leordeanu, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Dhiya Al-Jumeily, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Dorian Gorgan, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Fatos Xhafa, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Gabriel Neagu, National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics, Romania
Joanna Kolodziej, Cracow University of Technology, Poland
Evjola Spaho, Polytechnic University of Tirana, Albania
Lucian Vintan, Lucian Blaga University, Sibiu, Romania
Maria Potop-Butucaru, University Paris 6, France
Nicolae Tapus, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Nik Bessis, University of Derby, UK
Richard Hill, University of Derby, UK
Rodica Potolea, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Stelios Sotiriadis, Technical University of Crete, Greece
Valentin Cristea, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Vasile-Ion Manta, Gheorghe Asachi, Technical University, Iasi, Romania
Vladimir-Ioan Cretu, University Politehnica of Timisoara, Romania

- Track 5: INTELLIGENT COLLABORATIVE SYSTEMS FOR WORK AND LEARNING, VIRTUAL ORGANIZATION AND CAMPUSES

Track Co-Chairs:

Nicola Capuano , University of Salerno, Italy
Thanasis Daradoumis, University of the Aegean, Greece

PC Members:

Yannis Dimitriadis, University of Valladolid, Spain
Javier Faulin, University of Navarra, Spain
Michael Feidakis, University of the Aegean, Greece
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
Jordi Conesa, Open University of Catalonia, Spain
Tzung-Pei Hong, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Giuseppina Rita Mangione, University of Salerno, Italy
Riichiro Mizoguchi, Osaka University, Japan
Anna Pierri, Centre for Research in Pure and Applied Mathematics, Italy
Darina Dicheva, Winston-Salem State University, US
Stephen Benton, University of Westminster, UK
Teruhisa Hochin, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan

- Track 6: NATURE'S INSPIRED MULTI-AGENT COLLABORATIVE SYSTEMS

Track Co-Chairs:

Hisayuki Sasaoka Asahikawa National College of Technology, Japan
Mauro Iacono, Second University of Naples, Italy

PC Members:

Nobuhiro Ito, Aichi Institute of Technology, Japan
Tomoharu Nakashima, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
Hidehisa Akiyama, Fukuoka University, Japan
Tomomi Kawarabayashi-Kubo, Fukui National College of Technology/University Koblenz-Landau, Japan/Germany
Takeshi UCHITANE, RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computation Science, Japan
Marco Gribaudo DEIB Politecnico di Milano
Andrea Marin DAIS Universita Ca' Foscari di Venezia

-Track 7: NEXT GENERATION NETWORK PROTOCOLS AND COMPONENTS

Track Co-Chairs:

Sergio Ricciardi, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Davide Careglio, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain

PC Members:

Jordi Perello, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya - Barcelonatech (UPC), Spain
Miroslaw Klinkowski, National Institute of Telecommunications (NIT), Poland
Anna Vizziello, University of Pavia, Italy
Luca Chiaraviglio, Universita di Roma "La Sapienza", Italia
Paolo Monti, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
Xavier Gelabert, Huaweii, Stockholm, Sweden
Siamak Azodolmolky, Gesellschaft fur Wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Gottingen (GWDG), Germany

-Track 8: SECURITY, ORGANIZATION, MANAGEMENT AND AUTONOMIC COMPUTING FOR INTELLIGENT NETWORKING AND COLLABORATIVE SYSTEMS

Track Co-Chairs:

Mauro Migliardi: University of Padua, Italy
Fang-Ye Leu: Thungai University, Taiwan (ROC)

PC Members:

Aniello Castiglione: University of Salerno, Italy
Francesco Palmieri: Second University of Naples, Italy
Fuw-Yi Yang: Chaoyang University of Technology, Taiwan
Jung-Chun Liu: TungHai University, Taiwan
Sergio Ricciardi, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Shyhtsun Felix Wu: University of California, Davis, USA
Ugo Fiore: University of Naples, Italy
Yi-Li Huang: Tunghai University, Taiwan

-Track 9: SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, SEMANTICS AND ONTOLOGIES FOR INTELLIGENT NETWORKING AND COLLABORATIVE SYSTEMS

Track Co-Chairs:

Jordi Conesa, Open University of Catalonia, Spain
Santi Caballe, Open University of Catalonia, Spain

PC Members:

Nestor Mora, Open University of Catalonia, Spain
Jorge Moneo, Open University of Catalonia, Spain
David Ganan , Open University of Catalonia, Spain
Robert Clariso, Open University of Catalonia, Spain
Jordi Casas, Open University of Catalonia, Spain
Macario Polo, University of Castile-La Mancha, Spain
David Baneres, Open University of Catalonia, Spain
Elena Planas, Open University of Catalonia, Spain
Antoni Perez, Open University of Catalonia, Spain
Xiaodong Liu, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
Ricardo Martin, University of Valladolid, Spain
Elena Rodriguez, Open University of Catalonia, Spain
Isabel Guitart, Open University of Catalonia, Spain

-Track 10: WIRELESS AND SENSOR SYSTEMS FOR INTELLIGENT NETWORKING AND COLLABORATIVE SYSTEMS

Track Co-Chairs:

Hiroyoshi Miwa, Kwansei University, Japan
Gianmarco Romano, Second University of Naples, Italy

PC Members:

Akihiro Fujihara, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan
Noriaki Kamiyama, NTT, Japan
Masato Uchida, Chiba institute of technology, Japan
Hirofumi Ueda, NEC, Japan
Masanori Takaoka, NEC Communication Systems, Japan
Elis Kulla, Okayama University of Science, Japan
Ken'ichi Kawanishi, Gumma University, Japan
Takumi Miyoshi, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan
Aida Masaki, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
Takahiro Matsuda, Osaka University, Japan
Shinya Yamamura, Fujitsu, Japan
Akira Nagata, Network Application Engineering Laboratories, Japan
Bin Hu, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Yusuke Sakumoto, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan

- Track 11: SOCIAL NETWORKING AND COLLABORATIVE SYSTEMS

Track Co-Chairs:

Antonio J. Jara, University of Applied Sciences (HES-SO) Western Switzerland
Antonio Skarmeta, University of Murcia, Spain

PC Members:

Pedro J Martinez Munoz, U3CM, Spain
Hans Schaffers Aalto University, Finland
Wolfgang Prinz, FhG, Germany
Rob van Kranenburg, RD, Netherlands
Michele Nati, University of Surrey, UK
M.Antonia Martinez Carreras, Univ. Murcia, Spain
Davide Carboni, CRS4, Italy
Victoria Cano Moreno, Univ. Murcia, Spain
Antonio Iera, Universita degli Studi Mediterranea Calabria, Italy
Yann Bocchi, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO), Switzerland

- Track 12: BIG DATA ANALYTICS FOR NETWORKING AND COLLABORATIVE SYSTEMS

Track Co-Chairs:

Jun Zhang, Deakin University, Australia
Alfredo Cuzzocrea, ICAR-CNR & University of Calabria, Italy

PC Members:

Silvio Cesare, Deakin University, Australia
Jinguang Han, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, China
Yonggang Huang, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
Yongli Ren, RMIT University, Australia
Dayong Ye, University of Wollongong, Australia

- Track 13: MOBILE AND ENTERPRISE COLLABORATIVE SYSTEMS

Track Co-Chairs:

Alessio Merlo, Genoa University, Italy
Gianluca Rizzo, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland

PC Members:

Felipe Beato, ESAT/COSIC, KU Leuven, Belgium
Roberto Carbone, Security and Trust Unit, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy
Valentina Casola, Federico II University, Naples, Italy
Gabriele Costa, University of Genova, Italy
Paolo Gasti, New York Institute of Technology, US
Marco Gaudina, University of Genova, Italy
Artsiom Yautsiukhin, IIT-CNR, Italy
Chiara Boldrini, IIT-CNR, Italy
Antonio Jara University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland
Yann Bocchi University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland

- Track 14: SERVICE-BASED SYSTEMS FOR ENTERPRISE ACTIVITIES PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT

Track Co-Chairs:

Natalia Kryvinska, University of Vienna, Austria
Walter Schwaiger, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

PC Members:

Abazi Florin, Webster University Vienna, Austria
Bauer Christine, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
Bohdalova Maria, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia
Demydov Ivan, Lviv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine
Gregus Michal, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia
Klymash Mychailo, Lviv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine
Laurier Wim, Facultes Universitaires Saint-Louis, Brussels, Belgium
Lavriv Orest, Lviv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine
Lepmets Marion, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland
Pardede Eric, La Trobe University, Australia
Strauss Christine, University of Vienna, Austria
Stummer Christian, Bielefeld University, Germany
Sushil, Indian Institute of Technology, India
Amato Flora, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Khalil Ismail, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
van Thanh Do, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway
Indrawan-Santiago Maria, Monash University, Australia