TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS

Ashwin Ram
College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), Atlanta, USA

Dominik Slezak
Department of Computer Science, University of Regina, Regina, Canada

Bhanu Prasad
Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL, USA

Pawan Lingras
Department of Math & Computing Science, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Canada


TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Abdennour El Rhalibi
School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK

Ajay Kumar
Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India

Alexander Gelbukh
Natural Language Laboratory, Center for Computing Research (CIC), National Polytechnic Institute (IPN), Mexico

Alistair Knott
Department of Computer Science, University of Otago, Otago, New Zealand

Ana Lúcia C. Bazzan
Institute of Informatics, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil

Andrzej Szalas
Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Linköping, Sweden

Andreas Becks
Fraunhofer-Institute for Applied Information Technology, Sankt Augustin, Germany

Andrzej Skowron
Institute of Mathematics, Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland

Anoop Chawla
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India

Anoop M. Namboodiri
International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India

Arantza Aldea
Department of Computing, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK

Arkadiusz G. Wojna
Institute of Informatics, Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland

Arul Siromoney
School of Computer Science and Engineering, Anna University, Chennai (Madras), India

Arunava Banerjee
Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA

Ashok Goel
College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA

Ashok W. Deshpande
Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing ( BISC)- Special Interest Group (SIG)- Environment Management Systems (EMS), India; Department of Bioinformatics, University of Pune, Pune, India

Ashraf Kassim
Dept of Electrical & Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Ashu Jain
Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India

Ashwin Ram
College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA

B. Yegnanarayana
International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India

B.V. Babu
Chemical Engineering Group , Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, India

Bhanu Prasad
Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, USA

Bobby Granville
Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Florida A & M University, Tallahassee, USA

Carlos Artemio Coello Coello
Depto. de Ingeniería Eléctrica, Sección de Computación, Av. Instituto Politécnico Nacional No. 2508, Col. San Pedro Zacatenco, Mexico

Chayan Chakrabarti
Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics, University of California, Irvine, USA

Chittaranjan Ray
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA

Christine W. Chan
Software Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Regina, Regina, Canada

Chunping Li
School of Software, Tsinghua University, Peking, China

Cory J. Butz
Department of Computer Science, University of Regina, Regina, Canada

D. Nagesh Kumar
Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, Bangalore, India

Dan Wu
School of Computer Science, University of Windsor, Windsor, Canada

David B. Leake
Computer Science Department, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA

Debashis Ghosh
Faculty of Engineering & Technology, Multimedia University (Melaka Campus), Melaka, Malaysia

Dominik Slezak
Department of Computer Science, University of Regina, Regina, Canada

Elena Zudilova-Seinstra
Scientific Visualisation and Virtual Reality Group, Section Computational Science, Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Etienne E. Kerre
Department of Applied Mathematics & Computer Science, Fuzziness and Uncertainty Modelling Research Unit, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

Eugene Eberbach
Computer and Information Science Department, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, North Dartmouth , USA

Eugene Santos Jr.
Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA

Fengzhan Tian
School of Computer & Information Technology, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China

Francesco Masulli
Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

G. Hemantha Kumar
Department of Studies in Computer Science, University of Mysore, Mysore, India

Gabriella Sanniti di Baja
Istituto di Cibernetica "E. Caianiello", CNR, Napoli, Italy

Gang Xie
Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEP), Institute of Policy and Management, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Gary Livingston
Computer Science Department, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, USA

Gautam Das
Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, USA

Gauthier Picard
IRIT - University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse Cedex, France

Graham Kendall
School of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

Gregor Rozinaj
Department of Telecommunications, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Guoyin Wang
Institute of Computer Science and Technology, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing, China

Gustavo Olague
Department of Computer Science, CICESE Research Center, Ensenada, Mexico

Hai-Bin Duan
School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China

Hajime Nobuhara
Department of Computational Intelligence and Systems Science, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan

Hector Gomez Gauchia
Department of Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain

Hideaki Goto
Information Synergy Organization, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

Hideyuki Sawada
Department of Intelligent Mechanical Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kagawa University, Kagawa, Japan

Hisao Ishibuchi
Department of Computer Science and Intelligent Systems, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka, Japan

Hung Son Nguyen
Institute of Mathematics, Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland

Jiman Hong
School of Computer Science and Engineering, Kwangwoon University, Seoul, South Korea

Jiming Liu
Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China

Jing Peng
Electrical engineering and Computer Science, Tulane University, New Orleans, USA

JingTao Yao
Department of Computer Science, University of Regina, Regina, Canada

Jitender Singh Deogun
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, USA

Joerg Laessig
Department of Computer Science, Chemnitz University of Technology, Chemnitz, Germany

John R. Rose
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA

Juan E. Vargas
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA

K. Sreenivasa Rao
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, India

K.S. Easwarakumar
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Anna University, Chennai (Madras), India

Kavi Narayana Murthy
Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India

Ken Kaneiwa
Knowledge Creating Communication Research Center, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Tokyo, Japan

Ken Roger Riggs
Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, USA

Kenneth Revett
Harrow School of Computer Science, University of Westminster, London, UK

Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Wright State University, Dayton, USA

Kristian Olesen
Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University, Denmark

Laxmidhar Behera
Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India

Leszek J. Chmielewski
Department of Computational Science, Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

Linda M. See
School of Geography, University of Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK

M.A. Sadiq
Applied Research Group, Satyam Computer Services Ltd., IISc Campus, Bangalore, India

Malek Mouhoub
Department of Computer Science, University of Regina, Regina, Canada

Marasek Krzysztof
Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Warsaw, Poland

Marcin S. Szczuka
Institute of Mathematics, Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland

Marco Valtorta
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA

Marie- Pierre Gleizes
IRIT - University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse Cedex, France

Masoud Nikravesh
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California Berkeley, USA

Michael Redmond
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, La Salle University, Philadelphia, USA

Michele Missikoff
LEKS - Lab for Enterprise Knowledge and Systems IASI - CNR, Rome, Italy

Mike Nachtegael
Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

Mike Shepherd
Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

Mikhail Ju. Moshkov
Institute of Computer Science, University of Silesia, Sosnowiec, Poland

Mohammed J. Zaki
Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA

Ngoc Thanh Nguyen
Institute of Control and Systems Engineering, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland

Nicolas Lachiche
Machine Learning and Data Mining Research Group; Image Sciences, Computer Sciences and Remote Sensing Laboratory (LSIIT), University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg Cedex, France

P. Viswanath
Department of Computer Science Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, India

Padmanabhan Soundararajan
Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, USA

Parag Kulkarni
Capsilon India Private Limited, Pune, India

Paul F. Whelan
School of Electronic Engineering, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

Pawan Lingras
Department of Math & Computing Science, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Canada

Pawan Sinha
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

Pei Wang
Department of Computer and Information Sciences, College of Science & Technology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Peter Struss
Model-based Systems and Qualitative Reasoning Group, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Pradeep P. Mujumdar
Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, Bangalore, India

Pradipta Maji
Machine Intelligence Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India

Prashant Doshi
Department of Computer Science, The University of Georgia, Athens, USA

Prem K. Kalra
Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Delhi, India

R.K. Shyamasundar
School of Technology and Computer Science, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai (Bombay), India

Raj K. Bhatnagar
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering & Computer Science, University of Cincinnati, USA

Raja Sooriamurthi
Information Systems Department, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA

Rajni Jain
National Centre for Agricultural Economics and Policy Research, IASRI Campus, New Delhi, India

Sattiraju Prabhakar
Department of Computer Science, Wichita State University, Wichita, USA

Sheela Ramanna
Department of Applied Computer Science, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Shailendra Singh
Samsung India Software R &D Center, Noida, India

Shoji Hirano
Department of Medical Informatics, School of Medicine, Shimane University, Shimane, Japan

Shusaku Tsumoto
Department of Medical Informatics, School of Medicine, Shimane University, Shimane, Japan

Sim-Heng ONG
Biomedical Engineering Group, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Sisil Kumarawadu
Intelligent Transportation Systems Research Center, Department of Electrical and Control Engineering, National Chiao-Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Song Wang
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA

Stefano Rovetta
Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Genova, Genova, Italy

Sudha Natarajan
Division of Computing Systems, School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Sudhirkumar V. Barai
Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India

Sunilkumar S. Manvi
Department of Electronics and Communication, Basaveshwar Engineering College, Bagalkot, India

Suryakanth V Gangashetty
International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India

Tarik Chowdhury
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Tetsuo Shibuya
Human Genome Center, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Tiecheng Liu
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA

Tsau Young Lin
Department of Computer Science, San Jose State University, San Jose, USA

Umberto Straccia
The Institute of Information Science and Technologies (ISTI), Italian National Research Council (CNR), Pisa, Italy

Vlado Keselj
Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

Walter D. Potter
Artificial Intelligence Center, The University of Georgia, Athens, USA

Wang Hai
Department of Finance and Management Sciences, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Canada

Wing-Kin Sung
Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore; Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore

Witold Kosinski
Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Warsaw, Poland

Xiaoqin Zhang
Computer and Information Science Department, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, North Dartmouth, MA, USA

Xue-wen Chen
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA

Yang Dai
Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA

Yenumula B. Reddy
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Grambling State University, Grambling, USA

Yiyu Yao
Department of Computer Science, University of Regina, Regina, Canada

Zbigniew Bonikowski
Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, University of Opole, Opole, Poland

Zbigniew Michalewicz
School of Computer Science, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

Zhang Bo
Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Zhi-Hua Zhou
Department of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Zong Woo Geem
Environmental Planning and Management Program, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Zoran Majkic
Jumper Consulting Investment Limited, Dublin, Ireland

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Amol S. Wagholikar (co-chair)
School of Information and Communication Technology, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia         

Chayan Chakrabarti
Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics, University of California, Irvine, USA

Ganesh D. Bhutkar
Department of Computer Engineering, Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Bibwewadi, Pune, India

Mohan Krishna (co-chair)
Technology AI, India/USA

Nishant Kumar
Leuven Institute for Research on Information Systems, K.U.Leuven, Belgium

Parag Kulkarni
Capsilon India Private Limited, Pune, India

R. Das
National Insurance Academy, Pune, India

Rahul Raj (chair)
Triangle Soft Systems, Hyderabad, India

S. D. Page
National Insurance Academy, Pune, India

Santosh Walke
Department of Chemical Engineering, MGM College of Engineering & Technology, Navi Mumbai, Bombay, India

Smita Totade (co-chair)
National Insurance Academy, Pune, India

BUDGET, FINANCE AND REGISTRATION COMMITTEE

M.A. Sadiq
Applied Research Group, Satyam Computer Services Ltd., IISc Campus, Bangalore, India

Mohan Krishna
Technology AI, India/USA

Praveen Sukla (Chair)
Fort Travels & Tours, Hyderabad, India

TECHNICAL HELP FOR ONLINE SUBMISSIONS

Tokuyo Mizuhara
Department of Math & Computing Science, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Canada

REVIEWERS

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