Organizing Committee

Honorary Chair
Carolina Blasco – Director of Telecommunication, Regional Goverment of Castilla y León, Spain
Manuel Castro – IEEE Sección España (Chairman), Spain
Jacinto Canales, President of CCII-Spain, Colegios de Ingeniería en Informática, spain
Pilar Molina IEEE Sección España (Vice-Chairman), Spain
Juan M. Corchado Dean of Faculty of Science. University of Salamanca -Spain.

 
Honorary Co-Chair
Antonio Bahamonde – President of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence (AEPIA)

 

General Chairs
Ajith Abraham, Machine Intelligence Research Labs, EU
Emilio Corchado, University of Salamanca, Spain
Robert Berwick, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

 

Program Chairs
Andre de Carvalho, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia
Ronald Yager, Iona College, USA

 

Workshops and Special Events Chairs

Aboul Ella Hassanien, Cairo University, Egypt
Bernard De Baets, Belgium
Dominik Slezak, Poland
Mario Koeppen, Japan

 

Advisory Board
Sankar K. Pal, India
Müller-Schloer Christian, Germany
Janusz Kacprzyk, Poland
Hideyuki Takagi , Japan
Nikhil R. Pal,India
Václav Sná?el, Czech Republic
Shun-ichi Amari, Japan

 

Local Organizing Committee

Amer Laham, University of Salamanca
Fernando la Pietra, University of Salamanca
Araceli Sánchez Sánchez, University of Salamanca
Ana Gil, University of Salamanca
Emilio Corchado, University of Salamanca

  

Webmaster

Zhenxiang Chen , University of Jinan , China
Kun Ma ,Shandong University, China

  

International Programme Committee
Abdel-Badeeh Salem, Professor, Egypt
Abdelhamid Bouchachia, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Abdullah Uz Tansel, Baruch College CUNY, United States
Adel Alimi, REGIM, Tunisia
Adnan Khashman, The Intelligent Systems Research Group (ISRG), Near East University Lefkosa, Turkey
Agapito Ledezma, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Spain
Ahmad Banakar, Mechanical Agriculture Department, Iran,  Islamic Republic of
Alan Barton, National Research Council Canada, Canada
Alberto Bugarín, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Alberto Fernández,  University of Granada, Spain
Alberto Guillen, University of Granada, Spain
Alberto Ochoa O.Zezzatti, Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
Alejandro Ceccatto,  UNR,  Argentina
Alexander Gelbukh, CIC-IPN, Mexico
Alexis Bondu, EDF R&D, France
Alfredo Cuzzocrea, ICAR-CNR and University of Calabria, Italy
Alicia D’Anjou, universidad del pais vasco, Spain
Alicia Troncoso Lora, Pablo de Olavide University, Spain
Alma Y. Alanis, Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico
Amelia Zafra Gómez, Department of Computer Sciences and Numerical Analysis, Spain
Amit Konar, javavpur university., India
Ana Belén Gil González, University of Salamanca, Spain
Ana M. Bernardos, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Ana Madureira, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
Anastassia Angelopoulou, Univ. of Westminster, United Kingdom
Andre Carvalho, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil
Andrea Corradini, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Andres Ortiz, University of Malaga, Spain
Andry Rakotonirainy, QUT, Australia
Angelo Cangelosi, University of Plymouth, United Kingdom
Aníbal R. Figueiras-Vidal, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Anthony Brabazon, University College Dublin, Ireland
Antonio Bahamonde, Artificial Intelligence Center. Universidad de Oviedo at Gijón, Spain
Antonio Braga, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Antonio Chella,  Università di Palermo, Italy
Antonio Dourado, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Araceli Sanchis,Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Spain
Aris Ouksel, The University of Illinois at Chicago, United States
Artur Garcez, City University London, United Kingdom
Arturo Hernandez-Aguirre, Centre for Research in Mathematics, Mexico
Ascensión Gallardo Antolín, Departamento de Teora de la Seal y Comunicaciones. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Arash Shaban-Nejad, McGill University, Canada
Arash Habibi-Lashkari, University Technology Malaysia (UTM), Malaysia
Ashraf Darwish, Lecturer of Computer Science, Egypt
Ashraf Saad, Armstrong Atlantic State University, United States
Athanasios Vasilakos, Prof. NTUA, Greece
Athena Vakali, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Ayan Datta, Research & Development Engineer, India
Bogdan Trawinski,  Institute of Informatics, Poland
Bruno Rossi, FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN-BOLZANO, Italy
Carlos Carrascosa, GTI-IA DSIC Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Carlos Henrique Forster, Technological institute of Aeronautics, Brazil
Carlos Pereira, ISEC, Portugal
Carlos Soares,  Universidade do Porto,  Portugal
Cerasela Crisan, Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacau, Romania
Cesar Torres, LTI, Mexico
Charles Anderson, Colorado State University, United States
Cheng-Hsiung Hsieh, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taiwan
Chia-Feng Juang, National Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan
Christophe Giraud-Carrier, Brigham Young University, United States
Christos Dimitrakakis, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany
Corrado Di Natale, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy
Dante Tapia, University of Salamanca, Spain
Dario Landa-Silva, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Darya Chyzhyk, University of Basque Country, Spain
David Elizondo, Centre for Computational Intelligence, United Kingdom
David Hoyle, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
David Kaeli, Northeastern University, United States
Davide Bacciu, University of Pisa, Italy
Diego Pablo Ruiz, University of Granada. Department of Applied Physics, Spain
Diptiman Dasgupta, IBM India Private Limited, India
Dominik Slezak, Infobright Inc., Poland
Dou Shen, Microsoft Adcenter Labs, United States
Dragan Simic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Dusan Husek, Institute of Computer Science, Czech Republic
Eiji Uchino, Yamaguchi University, Japan
Ekaterina Komendantskaya, School of Computing, United Kingdom
Elbert E. N. Macau, Laboratório Associado de Computao e Matemática Aplicada, Brazil
Elmar Lang, University of Regensburg, Germany
Emilia Barakova, Einhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Emilio Ortiz-García, Universidad de Alcala, Spain
Emmanouil Hourdakis, Institute of Computer Science, Greece
Enhong Chen, University of Science & Technology of China, China
Erik Duval, Departement Computerwetenschappen,  K.U.Leuven, Belgium
Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy
Eva Gibaja, Departmen of Computer Science and Numerical Analysis, Spain
Fabrice Rossi, Télécom ParisTech, France
Fabrício Olivetti De Frana, State University of Campinas – UNICAMP, Brazil
Fatos Xhafa, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain
Fermin Segovia, University of Granada, Spain
Federico Alvarez, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Fernando B. De Lima Neto, University of Pernambuco, Brazil
Fernando Corinto, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Fermin Segovia, University of Granada, Spain
Fidel Aznar, Universidad de Alicante, Spain
Flavio Bezerra Costa, Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil
Francisco Bellas, Universidade da Coruna, Spain
Francisco De A. T. De Carvalho, Centro de Informatica – CIn/UFPE, Brazil
Francisco Escolano, University of Alicante, Spain
Francisco Martínez Estudillo, Department of Management and Quantitative Methods, Spain
Frank Klawonn, University of Applied Sciences Braunschweig/Wolfenbuettel, Germany
Gábor Horváth, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
George D. C. Cavalcanti, UFPE, Brazil
George Papakostas, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Georgios Dounias,  University of the Aegean, Greece
Gerardo M. Mendez, Instituto Tecnologico de Nuevo Leon, Mexico
German Gutierrez, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain
Germán Gutiérrez,Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Spain
Giorgio Fumera, University of Cagliari, Italy
Guilherme Barreto, Federal University of Ceará, Brazil
Guiomar Corral Torruella, Enginyeria i Arquitectura La Salle, Spain
Guoyin Wang, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Ghassan Qadah, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Gonzalo A. Aranda-Corral, Universidad de Huelva, Spain
Guiomar Corral Torruella, Enginyeria i Arquitectura La Salle, Spain
Hai Li, Polytechnic Institute of NYU, United States
Hai Zhao, Shanghai JiaoTong University, China
Hamed Shah-Hosseini, Professor, Iran,  Islamic Republic of
Hana Rezankova, University of Economics, Czech Republic
Hanane Azzag, Laboratoire d’Informatique de l’Université de Paris-Nord, France
Hazem Abbas, Mentor Graphics, Egypt
Honghai Liu, University of Portsmouth UK, United Kingdom
Huanhuan Chen, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
Hugo Jair Escalante, Instituto Nacional de Astrofsica Optica y Electrónica, Mexico
Irene Diaz, Dr, Spain
Irwin King, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Isaac Chairez, UPIBI-IPN, Mexico
Isabel Barbancho, Universidad of Málaga, Spain
Igor Ruiz-Agundez, University of Deusto, Spain
Ioan Toma, STI Innsbruck, Austria
Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis, University of Patras, Greece
Jaber Jemai, Laboratoire Larodec Institut Supérieur de Gestion de Tunis, Tunisia
Jacinto Mata Vázquez, University of Huelva, Spain
Jaroslav Pokorny, University of Prague, Czech Republic
James Chen, Hsiuping Institute of Technology, Taiwan
Jaydip Sen, Tata Consultancy Services, India
Javier Bajo, Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, Spain
Javier De Lope, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Javier Sánchez-Monedero, Departamento de Informática y Análisis Numérico, Spain
Javier Sedano, University of Burgos, Spain
Jayadeva Prof, Indian Institute of Technology, India
Jih Fu Tu,  St. Johns University, Taiwan
Jinglu Hu, Waseda University, Japan
Jinhyuk Choi, KAIST, Korea
Jesus Alcala-Fdez, University of Granada, Spain
Jianwu Xu, university of chicago, United States
Jie Tang, Tsinghua University, China
Joan Cabestany, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya – UPC, Spain
Joao Gama,  Universidade do Porto,  Portugal
Joaquin Derrac, University of Granada, Spain
Jonathan Chan,  King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand
Jong Kyoung Kim, POSTECH, Korea,  Republic of
Jorge Azorín-López, University of Alicante, Spain
Jose Alfredo Ferreira Costa, UFRN – Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Jose Garcia-Rodriguez, University of Alicante, Spain
José Iria, IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland
Jose L. Calvo, University of Coruna, Spain
Jose Luís lvarez, Universidad de Huelva, Spain
José M. Benítez,  University of Granada, Spain
José Manuel Molina, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain
José María Armingol, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
José Ramón Villar, University of Oviedo, Spain
Jose Santamaria, Department of Computer Science, Spain
Joses Ranilla, Phd, Spain
Juan Arturo Nolazco Flores, ITESM, Mexico
Juan Besada, UPM, Spain
Juan Botia, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
Juan Francisco De Paz Santana, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
Juan Gorriz, University of Granada, Spain
Juan J. Flores,  Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo, Mexico
Juan Jose del Coz, University of Oviedo, Spain
Juan lvaro Muoz Naranjo, Universidad de Almería, Spain
Juan Pavón, Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain
Julio Ponce, Universidad Autnoma de Aguascalientes, Mexico
Justin Dauwels, M.I.T., Singapore
K. Khorasani, Concordia University, Canada
Kai-Uwe Kuehnberger, University of Osnabrck, Germany
Karmele Lopez De Ipia Pea, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Kasia Wegrzyn-Wolska, ESIGETEL, France
Katsuhiro Honda, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
Keeley Crockett, Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
Khalid Benabdeslem,  Claude Bernard University of Lyon I, France
Kimmo Raivio, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Komla Folly, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Kostadin Koroutchev, EPS/UAM, Spain
Kuo-Sheng Cheng,  National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Krzysztof Walkowiak, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Kyriakos Kritikos, Institute of Computer Science, Greece
Kyung-Joong Kim, Yonsei University, Korea
Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada
Leila Shila Shafti, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Lenka Lhotska, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
Leocadio G. Casado, University of Almeria, Spain
Leonardo Franco, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
Liane Gabora Gabora, Neological / UBC, Canada
Lin Gao,  XiDian University, China
Lluís Belanche, UPC, Spain
Lotfi Ben Romdhane, FSM, Tunisia
Luciano Baresi, DEI – Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Luciano Sanchez, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain
Luis Hernandez Gomez, UPM, Spain
Luis Herrera, University of Granada, Spain
lvaro Herrero, University of Burgos, Spain
Maciej Grzenda, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Maiga Chang, Athabasca University, Canada
Maite Garcia-Sebastian, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Manjaiah D H, Mangalore University, India
Manuel Grana, University of Basque Country, Spain
Marcel Jirina, Institute of Computer Science AS CR, Czech Republic
Marcilio Souto, DIMAp/UFRN, Brazil
Marc Esteva, IIIA-CSIC, Spain
Mariano Rivera, CIMAT, Mexico
Maribel García-Arenas, Universidad de Granada, Spain
Mark Bernstein, Eastgate Systems, United States
Mark Embrechts, RPI, United States
Marco Mora, Catholic University of Maule, Chile
Mária Bieliková, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia
Martí Navarro, GTI -IA DSIC UPV, Spain
Martin Gaedke, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany
Martine De Cock, Ghent University, Belgium
Matjaz Gams, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Mehmet Emin Aydin, University of Bedfordshire, United Kingdom
Michael Blumenstein, Griffith University, Australia
Michael Resch, HLRS university of Stuttgart, Germany
Michal Wozniak, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Miguel Angel Patricio, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Miguel Atencia, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
Miguel Cazorla, University of Alicante, Spain
Miguel ngel Veganzones, Universidad del País Vasco, Spain
Mohamed Elgendi, Charles Darwin University, Australia
Murat Demirer, Istanbul Kültür nivrsitesi, Turkey
Mustapha Lebbah, Université Paris, France
Mrutyunjaya Panda, Gandhi Institute of Engg and Tech, India
N Kumarappan, Annamalai University, India
Naveen Kumar, University of Delhi, India
Nader Mohamed, College of Information Technology, United Arab Emirates
Nicola Di Mauro, Università di Bari, Italy
Nicolás García-Pedrajas, University of Córdoba, Spain
Nohe Ramon Cazarez-Castro, Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Mexico
Ohbyung Kwon, Kyung Hee University, Korea,  Republic of
Oscar Castillo, Tijuana Institute of Technology, Mexico
Oscar Luaces, University of Oviedo, Spain
Otoniel Lopez Granado, Miguel Hernandez University, Spain
Pablo Castro, University of Campinas, Brazil
Panagiotis Papazoglou, Lamia Institute of Technology, Greece
Paola Mello, University of Bologna, Italy
Paolo Gastaldo, University of Genoa, Italy
Paulo Cortez, University of Minho, Portugal
Pascal Bouvry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Pedro Antonio Gutierrez, Universidad de Cordoba, Spain
Pedro Castillo, UGR, Spain
Pasquale Meo, VU University,  Amsterdam, Netherlands
Paul Mueller, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany
Paula M. Castro Castro, University of A Cordoba, Spain
Pedro Antonio Gutierrez, Universidad de Cordoba, Spain
Petrica Claudiu Pop, North University of Baia Mare, Romania
Petro Gopych, Universal Power Systems USA-Ukraine LLC, Ukraine
Petros Daras, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece
Pietro Ducange,  University of Pisa, Italy
Ping Guo,  Beijing Normal University, China
Plamen Angelov, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
Przemyslaw Kazienko, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Qiang Tang, University of Twente, Netherlands
Qi Kang, Tongji University, China
Qinghua Hu, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Rafael Alcala, University of Granada, Spain
Rafael Corchuelo, University of Seville, Spain
Raghavendra Kulkarni, Missouri University of Science and Technology, United States
Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada
Reza Derakhshani, University of Missouri at Kansas City, United States
Ricardo Araujo, UFRGS, Brazil
Richard Duro, Universidade da Coruna, Spain
Roberto Uribeetxeberria, mondragon unibertsitatea, Spain
Rocio Alaiz-Rodriguez, UNIVERSITY OF LEON, Spain
Ronald Yager, Machine Intelligence Institute – Iona College, United States
Rosangela Ballini, IE – DTE – UNICAMP, Brazil
Roque Marín, University of Murcia, Spain
Ryotaro Kamimura, Tokai University, Japan
Salvador García, University of Jaén, Spain
Sandra Bringay, LIRMM, France
Sang Yong Han, Chung-Ang University, Korea,  Republic of
Sara Rodríguez, University of Salamanca, Spain
Satchidananda Dehuri,  Fakir Mohanh University, India
Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria
Sean Holden, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, United States
Seyed Babamir, Computer Department,  University of Kashan,  Kashan,  Iran, Iran,  Islamic Republic of
Shailendra Singh, Rajiv Gandhi Technological University, Bhopal, India
Sooyoung Lee, KAIST, Korea,  Republic of
Sung-Bae Cho, Yonsei University, Korea,  Republic of
Stella Heras, GTI-IA DSIC UPV, Spain
Subhadip Bandyopadhyay, Infosys Technologies Ltd., India
Suhas Chelian, HRL Laboratories LLC, United States
Suicheng Gu, Temple University, United States
Sung-Bae Cho, Yonsei University, Korea,  Republic of
Susana Nascimento, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Talbi El-Ghazali, University of Lille, France
Takio Kurita, Hiroshima Universiy, Japan
Teresa Ludermir,  CIn-UFPE,  Brazil
Terje Kristensen, Bergen University College, Norway
Theodore Zahariadis, Synelixis Ltd., Greece
Theodoros Semertzidis, Informatics and Telematics Institute-CERTH, Greece
Timothy Andersen, Boise State University, United States
Tom Erez, Washington University in St. Louis, United States
Toshiharu Hatanaka, Osaka University, Japan
Tsai-Rong Chang, Southern Taiwan University, Taiwan
Ulf Johansson, University of Bors, Sweden
Uzay Kaymak, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands
Urko Zurutuza, Mondragon University, Spain
Valentina Colla, Scuola Superiore S. Anna, Italy
Valeriu Beiu, UAE University – College of Information Technology, United Arab Emirates
Vaclav Snasel, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Vassilis Syrris, Joint Research Centre, Italy
Vicente Julian, GTI-IA DSIC UPV, Spain
Vitoantonio Bevilacqua, Polytechnic of Bari, Italy
Vladik Kreinovich, University of Texas at El Paso, United States
Vittorio Scarano, niversità di Salerno, Italy
Wael Elmedany, University of Bahrain, Bahrain
Wei-Chiang Hong, Oriental Institute of Technology, Taiwan
Wenjian Luo, University of Science and Technology of China, China
Werner Retschitzegger, Information Systems Group, Austria
William Grosky, University of Michigan, United States
Witold Abramowicz, The Poznan University of Economics, Poland
Wladyslaw Homenda, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Wu-Chih Hu,  National Penghu University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Xinbo Gao,  Xidian University, China
Yannis Kopsinis,  The University of Edinburgh, Greece
Yannis Marinakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece
Yo Horikawa,  Kagawa University, Japan
Zeng-Guang Hou,  Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
ZhenxiangChen ,  University of Jinan ,  China
Zvi Boger, OPTIMAL – Industrial Neural Systems Ltd., Israel
Yacine Atif, UAE University, United Arab Emirates
Yannis Marinakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece
Ying Tan, Peking University, China
Yusuke Nojima, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
Yuzhe Liu, University of Notre Dame, United States
Zhuhadar Leyla, University of Louisville, United States
Zongmin Ma, Northeastern University,  China, China