General Chairs
Ana Maria Madureira, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
Ajith Abraham, Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), USA

Program Chairs
Dorabela Gamboa, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Porto, Portugal
Paulo Novais, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

Tutorials/Workshops and Special Sessions Chair
Amélia Loja , Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon, Portugal
Eduardo Solteiro Pires, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Portugal
Leonilde Varela, Minho University, Portugal

Publication Chair
Azah Kamilah Muda, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Malaysia

Advisory Board members
Aboul Ella Hassanien, University of Cairo, Egypt
André Ponce de Leon F de Carvalho, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Andries Engelbrecht, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Emilio Corchado, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
Francisco Herrera, University of Granada, Spain
Francesco Marcelloni, University of Pisa, Italy
Hideyuki Takagi, Kyushu University, Japan
Imre J Rudas, Obuda University, Hungary
Jeng-Shyang Pan, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Krzysztof Cios, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
Mario Koeppen, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Sebastián Ventura, University of Cordoba, Spain

Web Master
Kun Ma, Unversity of Jinan, China

Local Organizing Committee
Ana Madureira, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Porto, Portugal
Judite Ferreira, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Porto, Portugal
Ivo Pereira, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Porto, Portugal
Bruno Cunha, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Porto, Portugal
André Gomes, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Porto, Portugal
José Ricardo Puga, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Porto, Portugal
Luis Coelho, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Porto, Portugal

Technical Program Committee
Ajith Abraham, Machine Intelligence Research Labs, United States
Alberto Cano, Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia 
Alex James, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
Amelia Zafra Gómez, University of Córdoba, Spain
Amit Dutta, Barkatullah University, India
Andrew L. Nelson, Androtics LLC, United States
Antonio J. Tallón Ballesteros, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
Antonio LaTorre, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Azah Kamilah Muda, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Malaysia
Biju Issac, Teesside University, United Kingdom
Cerasela Crisan, "Vasile Alecsandri" University of Bacau, Romania
Chi Kin Chow, University of Hong Kong, China
Chu Hsing Lin, Tunghai University, Taiwan
Diaf Moussa, Université Mouloud Mammeri, Algeria
Eiji Uchino, Yamaguchi University, Japan
Elpida Tzafestas, University of Athens, Greece
El-Sayed M. El-Alfy, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia
Ender Ozcan, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Firkhan Ali Hamid Ali, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, Malaysia
Franco Frattolillo, Università degli Studi del Sannio, Italy
Gai Ge Wang, Jiangsu Normal University, China
Gazi Erkan Bostanci, University of Ankara, Turkey
Georg Peters, Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Georgy Sofronov, Macquarie University, Australia
Ghanshyam Thakur, National Institute of Technology, India
José Raúl Romero, University of Córdoba, Spain
Jose Santos, Universidad de A Coruña, Spain
Keun Ho Ryu, Chungbuk National University, South Korea
Konstantinos Parsopoulos, University of Ioannina, Greece
Korhan Karabulut, Yaşar Üniversitesi, Turkey
Kun Ma, University of Jinan, China
Luigi Benedicenti, University of Regina, Canada
Mario Koeppen, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Nareli Cruz Cortés, National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico
Ricardo Landa, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico
Roberto Antonio Vázquez Espinoza De Los Monteros, Lasallistas de Corazón, Mexico
Tatiana Kalganova, Brunel University London, United Kingdom
Thomas Hanne, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland
Victor Manuel Landassuri Moreno, Centro Universitario UAEM Valle de México, Mexico
Wei Chiang Hong, Oriental Institute of Technology, Taiwan
Yun Huoy Choo, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Malaysia