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

Program Chairs
Maria Leonilde Varela, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Oscar Castillo, Tijuana Institute Technology, Mexico
Simone Ludwig, North Dakota State University, USA

Advisory Board members
Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia
Andre Ponce de Leon F. de Carvalho, University of Sao Paulo at Sao Carlos, Brazil
Bruno Apolloni, University of Milano, Italy
Imre J. Rudas, óbuda University, Hungary
Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Marina Gavrilova, University of Calgary, Canada
Patrick Siarry , Université Paris-Est Créteil, France
Ronald Yager, Iona College, USA
Salah Al-Sharhan, Gulf University of Science and Technology, Kuwait
Sebastian Ventura, University of Cordoba, Spain
Vincenzo Piuri , Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Francisco Herrera, University of Granada, Spain
Sankar Kumar Pal, ISI, Kolkota, India

Tutorials/Workshops and Special Sessions Chair
Eduardo Solteiro Pires, Universidade Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro

Publication Chair
Azah Kamilah Muda, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Malaysia
Niketa Gandhi, Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), USA

Web Services
Kun Ma, University of Jinan, China

Publicity Committee
Bruno Cunha, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
Diogo Braga, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
Santoso Wibowo, CQUniversity Melbourne, Australia
Nesrine BAKLOUTI, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Isabel Jesus, Institute of Engineering of Porto, Portugal
Marjana Prifti Skenduli,University of New York, Tirana

Local Organizing Committee
Ana Maria Madureira
Diogo Braga
Duarte Coelho
André Santos
Judite Ferreira
Luis Coelho
Isabel Sampaio
Ricardo Almeida
Marina Sousa

Technical Program Committee
Ajith Abraham, Machine Intelligence Research Labs, United States
Akira Asano, Kansai University, Japan
Alberto Cano, University of Córdoba, Spain
Alberto Fernández, University of Granada, Spain
Aldina Correia, CIICESI-ESTG-IPP, Portugal
Alexander Dockhorn, Institute for Intelligent Cooperating Systems (IKS), Germany
Alicia Troncoso, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain
Amparo Fuster-Sabater, Institute of Physical and Information Technologies (CSIC), Spain
Ana Madureira, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
Andries Engelbrecht, University of Pretoria, South Africa 
Andrii Shalaginov, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Antonio Bahamonde, Artificial Intelligence Center. Universidad de Oviedo at Gijón, Asturias, Spain
Arpad Kelemen, University of Maryland, United States
Aswani Kumar Cherukuri, Vellore Institute of Technology , India
Atta Rahman, University of Dammam, Dammam, Saudi Arabia
Boldizsar Kurilla, University of Pécs, Hungary
Cesar Hervas, University of Córdoba, Spain
Christian Veenhuis, HELLA Aglaia Mobile Vision GmbH, Germany
Corrado Mencar, University of Bari "A. Moro", Italy
Daniel Valcarce, University of A Coruna, Spain
Daniela Zaharie, West University of Timisoara, Romania
Davide Carneiro, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal
Dilip Pratihar, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
Eiji Uchino, Yamaguchi University, Japan
Eliana Costa E Silva, ESTGF/IPP, Portugal
Elizabeth Goldbarg, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Fátima Rodrigues, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
Francesca Alessandra Lisi, Università degli Studi di Bari, Italy
Francisco Chicano, University of Málaga, Spain
Francisco Martínez Estudillo, ETEA, Spain
Giovanna Castellano, Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Bari, Italy
Gonçalo Figueira, University of Porto, Portugal
Ilkka Havukkala, IPONZ, New Zealand
Isaac Chairez, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico
Isabel S. Jesus, Institute of Engineering of Porto, Portugal
Jerry Chun-Wei Lin, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL), Bergen, Norway 
Jerzy Grzymala-Busse, University of Kansas, United States
Jesus Alcala-Fdez, University of Granada, Spain
José C. Riquelme, University of Seville, Spain 
José Everardo Bessa Maia, State University of Ceará, Brazil 
Jose M Puerta, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
José Ramón Villar, University of Oviedo, Spain
José Raúl Romero, University of Cordoba, Spain 
Jose Santos, University of A Coruña, Spain 
Jose Tenreiro Machado, ISEP, Portugal 
Joseph Alexander Brown, Innopolis University, Canada 
Juan A. Nepomuceno, University of Seville, Spain 
Kazumi Nakamatsu, University of Hyogo, Japan 
Krishnendu Rarhi, Institute of Engineering & Management, India
Leandro Maciel Almeida, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
Lin Wang, University of Jinan, China 
M. C. Nicoletti, FACCAMP and UFSCar, Brazil
M.J. Ramírez, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Manuel Grana, University of Basque Country, Spain 
Maria Ganzha, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland 
Maria José Angélico Gonçalves, Polytechnic Institute of Porto (ISCAP/IPP), Portugal
Mário Antunes, Polytechnic of Leiria - ESTG; INESC-TEC (CRACS) - University of Porto, Portugal
Mario Giovanni C.A. Cimino, University of Pisa, Italy
Martin Lukac, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
Martin Middendorf, University of Leipzig, Germany
Matheus Pires, State University of Feira de Santana, Brazil
Meera Ramadas, University College of Bahrain, India
Michal Wozniak, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Mohammad Shojafar, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Niketa Gandhi, Machine Intelligence Research Labs, USA
Oscar Castillo, Tijuana Institute of Technology, Tijuana
Oscar Gabriel Reyes Pupo, UCO, Spain
Ozgur Koray Sahingoz, Istanbul Kultur University, Turkey
Pablo Castro, University of Campinas, Brazil
Pedro Gago, Politécnico de Leiria, Portugal
Pedro Gonzalez, Universidad de Jaén, Spain
Radu-Emil Precup, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania
Ricardo Santos, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal
Ricardo Tanscheit, PUC-Rio, Brazil
Richard Duro, Universidade da Coruna, Spain
Rudolf Kruse, University of Magdeburg, Germany
Rui Borges Lopes, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Sabri Pllana, Linnaeus University, Sweden
Simone Ludwig, North Dakota State university, USA
Stefano Cagnoni, University of Parma, Italy
Sylvain Piechowiak, LAMIH, University of Valenciennes, France
Thanasis Daradoumis, Open University of Catalonia, Greece
Thomas Hanne, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland
Varun Ojha, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
Victor Manuel Rivas Santos, University of Jaen, Spain