KES2018 International Programme Committee

The role of the IPC is as follows:-

To advise on the organisation of the conference;
To promote the conference and bring it to the attention of other researchers;
To advise on the topics of the conference;
To help with the paper review process
To assist in monitoring overall quality.

We are grateful for their valuable assistance.

The IPC consists of the following members and, in addition, all Invited Session Chairs.

KES2018 IPC Members

Name	Affiliation
Prof. Akinori Abe	Chiba University, Japan
Prof. Dr. Jair M. Abe	Paulista University, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Prof. Yoshinori Adachi	Chubu University, Japan
Dr. Alessia Amelio	DIMES University of Calabria, Italy
Prof. Kyota Aoki	Utsunomiya University, Japan
Dr. Piotr Artiemjew	University of Warmia and Mazury, Poland
Prof. Dr. Masayoshi Aritsugi	Kumamoto University, Japan
Dr. Ahmad Taher Azar	Benha University, Egypt
Prof. Dr. Valentina E. Balas	Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania
Prof. Zbigniew Banaszak	Koszalin Technical University, Poland
Assist. Prof. Manish Bhardwaj	SRM University, India
Prof. Monica Bianchini	Università degli Studi di Siena, Italy
Dr. Gloria Bordogna	National Research Council of Italy, Italy
Dr. Janos Botzheim	Szechenyi Istvan University, Hungary
Prof. Sadok Bouamama	University of Manouba, Tunisia
Dr. Zaki Brahmi	Taibah University, KAS
Assoc. Prof. Darko Brodić	University of Belgrade, Technical Faculty in Bor, Serbia
Prof. Dumitru Dan Burdescu	University of Craiova, Romania
Prof. Alfonso Mateos Caballero	Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Prof. Giacomo Cabri	University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Prof. Maria Caliusco	CIDISI - UTN, Argentina
Assoc. Prof. Frantisek Capkovic	Institute of Informatics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia
Prof. Andre Ponce de Leon F. de Carvalho	Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil
Prof. Giovanna Castellano	University of Bari, Italy
Dr. Subhash Chandra	University of Delhi, India
Prof. Dr. Fi John Chang	National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Prof. Mu-Chen Chen	National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Adrian-Gabriel Chifu	Aix-Marseille Université, France
Prof. Stelvio Cimato	Università degli studi di Milano, Italy
Dr. Angela Consoli	Defence, Science and Technology (DST) Group, Australia
Dr. Paulo Cortez	University of Minho, Portugal
Dr. Paolo Crippa	Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
Dr. Matteo Cristani	Universita di Verona, Italy
Prof. Alfredo Cuzzocrea	ICAR-CNR & University of Calabria, Italy
Dr. Ireneusz Czarnowski	Gdynia Maritime University, Poland
Dr. Narayan Debnath	International Society for Computers and their Applications, USA
Mr. Pankaj Deshwal	Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, India
Prof. Mark Embrechts	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Prof. Anna Esposito	Università della Campania “Luigi Venvitelli”, Caserta, Italy
Dr. Amira Essaid	INSA de Strasbourg/ICube Laboratory, France
Dr. Alena V. Favorskaya	Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia
Prof. Margarita N. Favorskaya	Reshetnev Siberian State University of Science and Technology, Russian Federation
Dr. Muhammad Marwan Muhammad Fuad	Aarhus University, Denmark
Dr. Foteini Grivokostopoulou	University of Patras, Greece
Prof. Dr. Natacha Gueorguieva	CUNY (City University of NY), USA
Prof. Anne Hakansson	KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Prof Saman K. Halgamuge	Melbourne School of Engineering, Australia
Prof. Ralf-Christian Härting	University of Aalen, Germany
Prof. Ronald Hartung	Franklin University and The Design Knowledge Company, USA
Prof. Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis	University of Patras, Greece
Prof. Tessai Hayama	Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan
Dr. Teruaki Hayashi	The University of Tokyo, Japan
Prof. Atsuo Hazeyama	Tokyo Gakugei University, Japan
Prof. Pilar Herrero	Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Dr. Dawn Holmes	University of California, USA
Prof. Katsuhiro Honda	Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Daocheng Hong	East China Normal University, China
Prof. Tzung-Pei Hong	National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Prof. Wei-Chiang Hong	School of Education Intelligent Technology, Jiangsu Normal University, China
Assoc. Prof. Chia-Ling Hsu	Tamkang University, Taiwan
Dr. Gongzhu Hu	Central Michigan University, USA
Prof. Xiangpei Hu	Dalian University of Technology, China
Prof. Ryutaro Ichise	National institute of Informatics, Japan
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Radu Tudor Ionescu	University of Bucharest, Romania
Dr. Shraddha Ingale	Pune University, India
Prof. Nobuhiro Inuzuka	Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
Prof. Yoshiteru Ishida	Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan
Prof. Yuji Iwahori	Chubu University, Japan
Prof. Mirjana Ivanovic	University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Prof Lakhmi Jain	Bournemouth University, UK and Canberra University, Australia
Prof. Piotr Jedrzejowicz	Gdynia Maritime University, Poland
Prof. Girish Jha	Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Prof. Vladimir Jotsov	ULSIT, Bulgaria
Prof. Hideyuki Kanematsu	National Institute of Technology, Suzuka College, Japan
Assoc. Prof. Hiroko Kanoh	Yamagata University, Japan
Prof. Nikos Karacapilidis	University of Patras, Greece
Dr. Arkadiusz Kawa	Poznan University of Economics, Poland
Prof. Hiroharu Kawanaka	Mie University, Japan
Dr. Shubhalaxmi Kher	Arkansas State University, USA
Dr. Cheonshik Kim	Sejong University, Korea
Prof. Kathrin Kirchner	Berlin School of Economics and Law, Germany
Prof. Frank Klawonn	Ostfalia University, Germany
Assoc. Prof. Constantinos Koutsojannis	Technological Educational Institute of Western Greece, Greece
Prof. Boris Kovalerchuk	Central Washington University, USA
Dr. Konrad Kułakowski	AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
Dr. Ritesh Kumar	Agra University, India
Prof. Mario Kusek	University of Zagreb, Croatia
Prof. Noriyuki Kushiro	Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Prof. Kazuhiro Kuwabara	Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Prof. Chee Peng Lim	Deakin University, Australia
Prof. Chengjun Liu	New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Prof. Ignac Lovrek	University of Zagreb, Croatia
Prof. Jie Lu	Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia
Prof. Ivan Luković	University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Prof. Federica Mandreoli	University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Dr. Fiammetta Marulli	National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Italy
Dr. Riccardo Martoglia	University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Prof. Alfonso Mateos	Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Assoc. Prof. Yukiko Maruyama	Tokai University, Japan
Prof. Manuel Mazzara	Innopolis University, Russia
Dr. Francesco Mercaldo	National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Italy
Prof Radko Mesiar	Slovak University of Technology Bratislava, Slovakia
Prof. Maureen Metcalf	Ohio State University, USA
Prof. Lyudmila Mihaylova	University of Sheffield, UK
Assist. Prof. Hirokazu Miura	Wakayama University, Japan
Prof. Stefania Montani	University of Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria, Italy
Dr. Esmiralda Moradian	Stockholm University, Sweden
Dr. Antonio Moreno	University Rovira i Virgili, Spain
Prof. Mikhail Moshkov	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
Prof. Andrew Nafalski	University of South Australia, Australia
Prof Shin'ya Nagasawa	Waseda University, Japan
Prof. Katsuko Nakahira	Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan
Prof. Dr. Kazumi Nakamatsu	University of Hyogo, Japan
Prof. Grzegorz Nalepa	AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
Prof. Ioannis K. Nikolos	Technical University of Crete, Greece
Dr. Piotr Nikończuk	West Pomeranian University of Technology, Faculty of Maritime Technology and Transport, Poland
Prof. Kazunori Nishino	Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Dr. Houssem Eddine Nouri	SOIE-COSMOS, École Nationale des Sciences de l'Informatique, Université de la Manouba, Tunisia
Prof. Dr. Vilem Novak	University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Prof. Hironari Nozaki	Aichi University of Education, Japan
Prof. Roy Oberhauser	Aalen University, Germany
Prof. Nobuyuki Ogawa	National Institute of Technology, Gifu College, Japan
Prof. Yukio Ohsawa	University of Tokyo, Japan
Prof. Takeshi Okamoto	Kanagawa Institute of Technology, Japan
Dr. Osvaldo Luiz Oliveira	Faccamp, Brazil
Assist. Prof. Wieslaw Paja	University of Rzeszow, Poland
Assoc. Prof. Stefan Panić, PhD	Faculty of Natural Science and Mathematics, University of Pristina, Kosovska Motrovica
Prof. Marcin Paprzycki	Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Assoc. Prof. Krzysztof Pancerz	University of Rzeszow, Poland
Dr. Pierre Parrend	Université de Strasbourg, France
Dr. Isidoros Perikos	University of Patras, Greece
Prof. Petra Perner	Institute of Computer Vision and applied Computer Sciences Leipzig, Germany
Prof. Georg Peters	Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Prof. Alfredo Petrosino	Università di Napoli Parthenope, Italy
Assist. Prof. Francesco Piccialli	University of Naples Federico II , Italy
Prof. Vincenzo Piuri	University of Milan, Italy
Assoc. Prof. Vedran Podobnik	University of Zagreb, Croatia
Prof. Lech T. Polkowski	Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Warszawa, Poland
Prof. Oliver Popov	Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University, Sweden
Prof. Luigi Portinale	University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy
Prof. Jim Prentzas	Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Prof. Elisabeth Rakus-Andersson	Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Prof. Zbigniew Ras	University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA & Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Prof. Ana Respício	Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Dr. Marina Resta	University of Genova, Italy
Dr. Goce Ristanoski	Data61, CSIRO, Australia
Dr. Fernando Roda	SIRIS Academic SL, Spain
Dr. Jose Hiroki Saito	Sao Carlos Federal University and Faculty of Campo Limpo Paulista, Brazil.
Dr. Wojciech Sałabun	West Pomeranian University of Technology, Poland
Prof. Hironori Sasaki	Chugokugakuen University, Japan
Prof. Suresh Chandra Satapathy	PVP Siddhartha Institute of Technology, Vijayawada, India
Prof. Mika Sato-Ilic	University of Tsukuba, Japan
Prof. Rafał Scherer	Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland
Dr. Rainer Schmidt	University of Rostock, Germany
Dr. Friedhelm Schwenker	University of Ulm Institute of Neural Information Processing, Germany
Dr. Hirosato Seki	Osaka University, Japan
Prof. Miguel-Angel Sicilia	University of Alcalá, Spain
Dr. Milan Simic	RMIT University, School of Engineering, Melbourne, Australia
Prof. Andrzej Sluzek	Khalifa University, UAE
Assoc. Prof. Masato Soga	Wakayama University, Japan
Prof. Petar Spalevic	Faculty of Technical Science, University of Pristina, Serbia
Prof. Roman Sperka	Silesian University in Opava, Czech Republic
Dr. Maria Spichkova	RMIT University, Australia
Dr. Urszula Stanczyk	Silesian University of Technology, Poland
Assoc. Prof. Catalin Stoean	University of Craiova, Romania
Assoc. Prof. Ruxandra Stoean	University of Craiova, Romania
Prof. Toshiharu Sugawara	Waseda University, Japan
Prof. Lijun Sun	Dalian University of Technology, China
Dr. Nobuo Suzuki	Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International, Japan
Prof. Edward Szczerbicki	University of Newcastle, Australia
Prof. Eulalia Szmidt	Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
Dr. Sarosh Tahir	University Politechnique of Tourin, Italy
Prof. Dr. Masakazu Takahashi	Yamaguchi University, Japan
Prof. Yasufumi Takama	Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
Prof. Hirokazu Taki	Wakayama University, Japan
Prof. Dr. Takao Terano	Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Dr. Dilhan J. Thilakarathne	VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands
Dr. Masahiro Tokumitsu	National Institute of Technology, Yonago College, Japan
Dr. Carlos Toro	A*, Singapore
Dr. Arkadiusz Tomczyk	Institute of Information Technology, Lodz University of Technology, Poland
Assist. Prof. Thrasyvoulos Tsiatsos	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Prof. Kazuhiko Tsuda	Graduate School of Business Sciences, The University of TSUKUBA, Tokyo
Prof. Ljiljana Trajkovic	Simon Fraser University, Canada
Prof. Claudio Turchetti	Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione Università, Italy
Dr. Angelina Tzacheva	University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
Prof. Eiji Uchino	Yamaguchi University, Japan
Prof. Hiroshi Ueda	Kyoto University, Japan
Prof. Taketoshi Ushiama	Kyushu University, Japan
Prof. Zeev Volkovich	ORT Braude College Karmiel, Israel
Prof. Junzo Watada	Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Malaysia
Prof. Toyohide Watanabe	Nagoya Industrial Science Research Institute, Japan
Dr. Jarosław Wątróbski	University of Szczecin, Poland
Prof. Yoshiyuki Yabuuchi	Shimonoseki City University, Japan
Prof. Katsutoshi Yada	Kansai University, Japan
Prof. Kuniaki Yajima	National Institute of Technology, Sendai College, Japan
Prof. Takahira Yamaguchi	Keio University, Japan
Prof. Shuichiro Yamamoto	Nagoya University, Japan
Assist. Prof. Ryosuke Yamanishi	Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Dr. Mieko Tanaka-Yamawaki	Meiji University, Japan
Dr. Atsuko K. Yamazaki	Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan
Dr. Ong Yew-Soon	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Prof. Takaya Yuizono	Japan Advanced Institute Science and Technology, Japan
Prof. Takashi Yukawa	Nagaoka Institute of Technology, Japan
Dr .Cecilia Zanni-Merk	ICube Laboratory / INSA de Strasbourg, France
Dr. Beata Zielosko	: University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland
Prof. Alfred Zimmermann	Reutlingen University, Germany
Dr. Sergey V. Zykov	National Research University – Higher School of Economics, Russia