Honorary Chair
R. Rudramoorthy, PSG College of Technology, INDIA

General Chairs
Suash Deb, C. V. Raman College of Engineering, INDIA
Ajith Abraham, Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs)
Francisco Herrera, University of Granada, SPAIN

Program Chairs
Vijayalakshmi Pai, PSG College of Technology, INDIA
Chandrasekharan Rajendran, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, INDIA
Andre Carvalho, University of Sao Paulo at Sao Carlos, BRAZIL

International Co-Chairs
Kalyanmoy Deb, Indian Institute of Technology, INDIA
Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, POLAND
Takeshi Yamakawa, Kyushu Institute of Technology, JAPAN
Nikhil R. Pal, Indian Statistical Institute, INDIA
Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, CANADA
Ashraf Saad, Armstrong Atlantic State University, USA
Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, AUSTRALIA
Amit Konar, Jadavpur University, INDIA
Dipti Srinivasan, National University of Singapore, SINGAPORE
Mo Jamshidi, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
Andries P Engelbrecht, University of Pretoria , SOUTH AFRICA
John MacIntyre, University of Sunderland, UK

International Advisory Board
Dharma P. Agrawal, University of Cincinnati, USA
David Al-Dabass, Nottingham Trent University, UK
Bruno Apolloni,University of Milano, ITALY
Yuehui Chen, University of Jinan, CHINA
Diane J. Cook, Washington State University, USA
Sunil R. Das, University of Ottawa, CANADA
P. K . Dash, Silicon Institute of Technology, INDIA
Joydeep Ghosh, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Saman K. Halgamuge, University of Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
Lawrence Hall, University of South Florida, USA
Aboul Ella Hassanien, Cairo University, EGYPT
Hisao Ishibuchi, Osaka Prefecture University, JAPAN
Etienne E. Kerre, Ghent University, BELGIUM
Sukanta K. Mohapatra, VPI systems, USA
Sudarshan Padhy, Utkal University, INDIA
Sankar K. Pal, Indian Statistical Institute, INDIA
Imre J. Rudas, Budapest Tech, HUNGARY
Vaclav Snasel, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, CZECH REPUBLIC
Patrick Siarry, Université Paris 12 (LiSSi), FRANCE
Hideyuki Takagi, Kyushu University , JAPAN
Preeti Bajaj, G.H.Raisoni College of Engineering, INDIA

Workshop Chair
Daniela Zaharie, West University of Timisoara, ROMANIA 

Registration Chair
Bernadetta Kwintiana Ane, Universität Stuttgart, GERMANY

Special Session Chairs
X. Z. Gao, Helsinki University of Technology, FINLAND
Mario Koeppen, Kyushu Institute of Technology, JAPAN 

Student Symposium Chair
Basabi Chakraborty, Iwate Prefectural University, JAPAN

Sponsorship Chair
B. K. Panigrahi, Indian Institute of Technology, NEW DELHI

Publicity Chairs
Kusum Deep, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee , INDIA
Muhammad Sarfraz, Kuwait University, KUWAIT
Xin-She Yang, University of Cambridge, UK
Mokhtar Beldjehem, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal , CANADA
Longbing Cao, Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre , AUSTRALIA
Gerald Schaefer, University of Aston, UK

Local Organizing Committee
Anitha R, PSG College of Technology, INDIA
Arumuganathan R, PSG College of Technology, INDIA
Jayaraman S, PSG College of Technology, INDIA
Kandaswamy A, PSG College of Technology, INDIA
Nadarajan R, PSG College of Technology, INDIA
Navaneethan P, PSG College of Technology, INDIA
Prabhakar R, Coimbatore Institute of Technology, INDIA
Sankar A, PSG College of Technology, INDIA
Sivanandam S N, PSG College of Technology, INDIA
Soman K P, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University, INDIA
Subramanyan S, Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology, INDIA
Ragupathy R, PSG College of Technology, INDIA
Rajasekaran S, PSG College of Technology, INDIA
Rajesh R, Bharathiar University, INDIA
Venkatesan R, PSG College of Technology, INDIA
Partha S Mallick, Vellore Institute of Technology, India , INDIA

International Programme Committee

Akira Asano, Hiroshima University, Japan
Youakim Badr, National Institute of Applied Sciences, France
Raquel Barco, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
Anna Bartkowiak, University of Wroclaw, Poland
Ramiro S. Barbosa, ISEP, Portugal
Mahua Bhattacharya, Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, India
Maumita Bhattacharya, Charles Sturt University, Australia
Gabriella Sanniti di Baja, Italian National Research Council, Italy
Bernard De Baets, Ghent University, Belgium
Michael Blumenstein, Griffith University, Australia
Abdelhamid Bouchachia, Alps-Adriatic University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Silvio Bortoleto, Positivo University, Brazil

Radim Belohlavek, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
Julio Cesar Hernandez-Castro, Portsmouth University, UK
Uday Chakraborty, University of Missouri, USA
Marco Paulo Carrasco, University of Algarve, Portugal
Stefano Cagnoni, CagnoniUniversity of Parma, Italy
Heloisa de Arruda Camargo, Federal University of SãoCarlos, Brazil
Andre Carvalho, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Basabi Chakraborty, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan
Tsung-Che Chiang, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan
Oscar Castillo, Tijuana Institute of Technology , Mexico
Sung-Bae Cho, Yonsei University, Korea

David Corne, Heriot-Watt University, UK
Emilio Corchado, Universidad de Burgos, Spain
Oscar Cordon, European Centre for Soft Computing, Spain
Jose Alfredo F. Costa, Federal University, Brazil

António Gaspar-Cunha, University of Minho, Portugal

Keshav Dahal, University of Bradford, UK

Swagatam Das, Jadavpur University , India
Martine De Cock, Ghent University, Belgium
M.R.Daliri, Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, Germany
Son Doan, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan
Richard J. Duro, Universidade da Coruna, Spain
Kubilay Ecerkale, Air Force Academy Industrial Engineering Department, Turkey
Wilfried Elmenreich, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Mark Embrechts, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Antonio Carneiro de Mesquita Filho, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Aureli Soria-Frisch, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Kumkum Garg, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorke, India
Alexander Gelbukh, National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico
Elizabeth Goldbarg, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte , Brazil

Tao Gong, Donghua University, China
Steven Guan, Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China

Kevin Guelton, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France

M. Gopal, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India
Massimo De Gregorio, Istitute di Cibernetica CNR, Italy
Crina Grosan, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania

Ramin Halavati, Sharif University of Technology, Iran
Thomas Hanne, Institute of Information Systems, Switzerland

Hani Hagras, University of Essex, UK
Daniel Howard, The University of Colorado, USA
Ilkka Havukkala, Iponz, Med, New Zealand
Cesar Hervas, University of Cordoba, Spain
Christian Igel, Ruhr-Universität Bochum , Germany
Isabel M. S. Jesus, Institute of Engineering of Porto, Portugal
Ivan Jordanov, University of Portsmouth, UK

Richard Jensen, Aberystwyth University, UK
Nikola Kasabov, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Frank Klawonn, University of Applied Sciences Braunschweig, Germany
Andreas Koenig, Technische Universitaet Kaiserslautern , Germany
Jong-Hyouk Lee, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
Priscila M. V. Lima, UFRJ - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
Jose A. Lozano, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Sebastian Lozano, Ets Ingenieros, Spain
Stephen G. MacDonell, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Luis Magdalena, European Centre for Soft Computing , Spain
Ana Maria Madureira, Institute Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
Jorge McLeod, Cuyo National University, Argentina
Roberto Miranda, University of Brasilia, Brazil

Weimin Ma, Tongji University, P. R. China
Rene Mayorga, University of Regina, Canada
Ferrante Neri, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
Danny van Noort, Inst. Of Bioengineering & Nanotechnology, Singapore
Jorge Núñez Mc Leod, Cuyo National University, Argentina
Kazumi Nakamatsu, University of Hyogo, Japan
Viorel Negru, West University, Romania
Roman Neruda, Academy of Science of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic
Julio Cesar Nievola, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Brazil
Yusuke Nojima, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
Isabel Nunes, New University of Lisbon, Portugal
Seppo J. Ovaska, Helsinki University of Technology , Finland
Sabri Pllana, University of Vienna, Austria
Aurora Pozo, Federal University of Parana, Brazil
Radu-Emil Precup, Politehnica University of Timisoara , Romania

S. G. Ponnambalam, Monash University, Malaysia
Abdennour El Rhalibi, UK Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Andri Riid, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Lofti Ben Romdhane, faculty of Sciences of Monastir , Tunisia
N. C. Sahoo, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
Luciano Sanchez, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain

Giovanni Semeraro, Universita' degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro", Italy
Patrick Siarry, Université Paris, France

Ramon Sagarna, The University of Birmingham, UK
Arosha Senanayake, Monash University, Malaysia
Eulalia Szmidt, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Georgios Ch. Sirakoulis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Ayeley P. Tchangani, Université de Toulouse, France
Izzettin Temiz, Gazi University, Turkiye Olgierd Unold
Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Gancho Vachkov, Kagawa University, Japan
Christian Veenhuis, Fraunhofer IPK, Germany
Eiji Uchino, Yamaguchi University, Japan

Massimiliano Vasile, University of Glasgow, UK
Mario Ventresca, University of Waterloo, Canada
Sebastian Ventura, University of Cordoba, Spain
Marley Maria B.R. Vellasco, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro , Brazil
Michael N. Vrahatis, University of Patras, Greece
Lipo Wang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Fatos Xhafa, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

Xin Xu, National University of Defense Technology, China
Ronald R. Yager, Machine Intelligence Institute, Iona Colllege, NY, USA
Ruqiang Yan, Univerisity of Massachusetts, USA
Daniela Zaharie, West University of Timisoara , Romania
Zhigang Zeng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Xiao-Jun Zeng, University of Manchester, UK
Liang Zhao, University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil

Yunong Zhang, Sun Yat-Sen University, China
Shang-Ming Zhou, De Montfort University, UK