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Commitees

General Chairs

• Nadia Nedjah, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Ajith Abraham, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Program Chairs

• Luiza de Macedo Mourelle, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

Workshop Chairs

• Maria do Carmo Nicoletti, Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil
• Jeng-Shyang Pan, National Kaohsiung University, Taiwan

Tutorial Chairs

• Estevam Rafael Hruschka Junior, Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil
• Jose Ernesto de Araujo Filho, National Institute of Space Research, Brazil
• Khalid Saeed, Bialystok Technical University, Poland

Steering Commitee

• Ajith Abraham, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway(Chair)
• Nadia Nedjah, State University of Rio de Janerio (chair)
• Janos Abonyi, University of Veszprem, Hungary
• Yuehui Chen, Jinan University, Jinan, China
• Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia
• Halina Kwasnicka, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
• Etienne Kerre, Ghent University, Belgium
• Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
• Marcin Paprzycki, SWPS, Poland
• Jeng-Shyang Pan, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Taiwan
• P. Saratchandran, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Publicity Committee

• Ivan Nunes da Silva, São Paulo University, Brazil
• José Alfredo F. Costa, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
• Eduardo Raul Hruschka, Catholic University of Santos, Brazil
• Aboul Ella Hassanien, Cairo University, Egypt
• Arpad Kelemen, Niagara University, USA
• Crina Grosan, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania
• Fatos Xhafa, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
• Keshav Dahal, University of Bradford, UK

Local Organizing Committee

• Nival Nunes de Almeida, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Marley Maria B. R. Vellasco, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Carlos de Moura, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Maria Luiza Fernandez Velloso, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Priscila Machado Vieira Lima, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

International Program Committee

Abdelhamid Bouchachia, Austria Adil Baykasoglu, Turkey Ajith Abraham, South Korea Akshai Aggarwal, Canada Albert Zomaya, Australia Alexey Rodionov, Russia Alireza Rashidi Komijan, Iran Amin Milani Fard, Iran Amparo Fuster-Sabater, SPAIN Ana Madureira, PORTUGAL Andreas König, Germany Andrew Nelson, USA Andri Riid, Estonia Anna Bartkowiak, Poland Anthony Brabazon, Ireland Antonio Gaspar-Cunha, Portugal Antonio Mesquita, Brazil Aristides Hatjimihail, Greece Arun Khosla, India Ashish Umre, United Kingdom Ayeley Tchangani, France Bagus Arthaya, Indonesia Baikunth Nath, Australia Bernadetta Kwintiana Ane, Indonesia Bing Nan LI, China Brijesh Verma, Australia Broderick Crawford, Chile Carlos deMoura, Brazil Chao-Chun Chen, Taiwan Chin-Wei Bong, Malaysia Chiu-Ching Tuan, Taiwan Christian Blum, Spain Chuan-Kang Ting, Taiwan Costin Badica, Romania Crina Grosan, Romania Damminda Alahakoon, Australia Daniel Merkle, Germany Daniela Zaharie, Romania David Monismith, USA Debajyoti Mukhopadhyay, INDIA Dilip Pratihar, India Dongwon Kim, KOREA Eduardo Hruschka, Brazil Eduardo J. Solteiro Pires, Portugal El-Ghazali TALBI, France Elizabeth Goldbarg, Brasil Emilio Corchado, Spain Emmanuel Munguia Tapia, USA Estevam Rafael Hruschka Jr., Brazil Fernando Lyardet, Germany Frank Klawonn, Germany Gabriella Kokai, Germany Georgios Sirakoulis, Greece Grabot Bernard, France Graham Kendall, UK Gregg Vesonder, USA Hae-Duck Joshua Jeong, South Korea Halina Kwasnicka, Poland He Guo, P.R.China Hector Fraire, Mexico Hongbo Liu, China Hoon Joon Kouh, Republic of Korea Huayang Xie, New Zealand Hui Li, China Ignacio Ponzoni, Argentina Isabel S. Jesus, Portugal

Isabel S. Jesus, Portugal Isabel Lopes Nunes, Portugal Ivan Jordanov, UK izzettin Temiz, Turkey JACQUES FACON, BRAZIL Jaime Davila, USA Jaime Mora-Vargas, México Jairo R. Montoya-Torres, Colombia Janardan Misra, India Janusz Kacprzyk, Poland Javier Jesus Sanchez Medina, Spain Jerzy Grzymala-Busse, USA Jerzy Duda, Poland Jessica Carballido, Argentina Johann Dréo, France Jong-Hyouk Lee, Korea Jorge Núñez Mc Leod, Argentina Jorge Amaral, BRAZIL José Amaral, Brazil Jose Alfredo F. Costa, Brazil José Paulo Cunha, Brazil Juan Flores, Mexico Kamran Fatahi, IRAN Kaori Yoshida, Japan Katrin Franke, Germany Ke Zhang, P. R. China Keshav Dahal, United Kingdom Khalid Saeed, Poland Kiam Heong Ang, Singapore Kin Fun Li, Canada Kubilay Ecerkale, Turkey Lahcene MITICHE, Algeria Laura Diosan, Romania Leandro Coelho, Brazil Liang GAO, China Lihe Zhang, China Lino Costa, Portugal Lisandro Lovisolo, Brazil Lotfi Ben Romdhane, TUNISIA Luiza Mourelle, Brazil Lukas Sekanina, Czech Republic Maolin Tang, Australia Marcin Paprzycki, Poland Marco Paulo Carrasco, Portugal Maria Ganzha, Poland Maria Blesa, Spain Maria do Carmo Nicoletti, Brazil Maria Luiza F. Velloso, Brazil Mario Ventresca, Canada Mario Koeppen, Japan Mariusz Paradowski, Poland Marley Vellasco, Brazil Martine De Cock, Belgium Masri Ayob, Malaysia Matjaz Gams, Slovenia Matteo Gagliolo, Switzerland Maurice Clerc, France Mehmet Aydin, UK Mengjie Zhang, New Zealand Michael O'Neill, Ireland Michael Gourley, USA MIHAI GAVRILAS, ROMANIA Mohammad Reza Daliri, Italy Mohd Helmy Abd Wahab, Malaysia Monica Chis, Romania Mustafa Mat Deris, Malaysia

Nadia Nedjah, Brazil Nicomedes Cavalcanti, Brazil omar al jadaan, india Oscar Castillo, Mexico Oscar Cornejo, Chile Oscar Corcho, United Kingdom Pandian Vasant, Malaysia Patrick Siarry, France Paulo Branco, Portugal Paulo Moura Oliveira, Portugal Petr Pošík, Czech Republic Phuc Hiep Luong, France Pierre-François Marteau, France PRABHAT MAHANTI, Canada Prof. Dr. Nouri Taoufik, Switzerland Qinglei Hu, China Qinjun Du, china Rajesh R, India Ramin Halavati, Iran Ramiro Barbosa, Portugal Raquel Barco, Spain René Witte, Germany Reza Ebrahimpour, Iran ROBERTO MIRANDA, BRASIL Roman Neruda, Czech Republic Ruibin Bai, UK Ruqiang Yan, USA Rustem Popa, Romania Sadok BEN YAHIA, Tunisia Selva Rivera, Argentina Sezgin Kilic, Turkey Shahid Butt, Pakistan Sharon Cox, UK Son Doan, Japan Sorinel Oprisan, USA SOUMYA BANERJEE, India Suash Deb, India Sugata Sanyal, INDIA Sung-Bae Cho, Korea Swagatam Das, India Sylvain Piechowiak, France Tanveer Siddiqui, India Tarek Bouktir, Algeria Thanasis Daradoumis, Spain Thanh Ha Dang, France Thomas Hanne, Germany Tsung-Che Chiang, Taiwan, R.O.C. Urszula Markowska-Kaczmar, Poland Vaclav Snasel, Czech Republic Venkata Reddy Muppani, India Viorel Negru, Romania Weiwu Wang, China Wilfried Elmenreich, Austria xiangguang zhang, China Xiao-Jun Zeng, U.K. Xiao-Zhi Gao, Finland Xiyu Liu, PR China Yan Yang, P. R. China yan peng, china Yiliang Han, China Yu-Jiu Yang, China Yuehui Chen, China Yun-Chia Liang, Taiwan Yusuke Nojima, Japan Zhigang Zeng, Wuhan University of Technology Özgür Yeniay, Turkey