Organizing Committees
General Chairs
Simone Ludwig, North Dakota State University, USA
Patricia Melin, Tijuana Institute of Technology, Mexico
Ajith Abraham, Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), USA
Technical Program Committee Chairs
Ana Maria Madureira, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
Kendall Nygard, North Dakota State University, USA
Oscar Castillo, Tijuana Institute of Technology, Mexico
Publication Chair
Azah Kamilah Muda, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Malaysia
International Advisory Board
Aboul Ella Hassanien, University of Cairo, Egypt
André Ponce de Leon F de Carvalho, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Bruno Apolloni, University of Milano, Italy
Emilio Corchado, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
Francesco Marcelloni, University of Pisa, Itlay
Francisco Herrera, University of Granada, Spain
Hideyuki Takagi, Kyushu University, Japan
Hisao Ishibuchi, Osaka Perfecture University, Japan
Imre J Rudas, Obuda University, Hungary
Javier Montero, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Jun Wang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Krzysztof Cios, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
Mario Koeppen, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Mo Jamshidi , University of Texas, San Antonio, TX, USA
Nikola Kasabov, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Sankar Pal, Indian Statistical Institute, India
Sebastián Ventura, University of Cordoba, Spain
Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada
Local Organizing Committee
Nailah Al-Madi, North Dakota State University, USA
Min Chen, North Dakota State University, USA
Ibrahim Aljarah, North Dakota State University, USA
Stephanie Sculthorp, North Dakota State University, USA
Web Administrator
Kun Ma, University of Jinan, China
International Program Committee
A. Sima Etaner-Uyar, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
Abdelhamid Bouchachia, Bournemouth University, United Kingdom
Abel Garcia Najera, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico
Aboul Ella Hassanien, University of Cairo, Egypt
Afonso Lemonge, Universidade Federal de Juiz de For a, Brazil
Ahmad Banakar, Mechanical Agriculture Department, Iran
Akira Hara, Hiroshima City University, Japan
Alberto Bugarín, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Alex James, Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, India
Alexander Mendiburu, The University of the Basque Country, Spain
Alexandrova-Kabadjova Biliana, Banco de México, Mexico
Alicia D'Anjou, The University of the Basque Country, Spain
Alicia Troncoso, Pablo de Olavide University, Spain
Amelia Zafra Gómez, University of Córdoba, Spain
Amitava Chatterjee, Jadavpur University, India
Ana Belén Gil González, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
Ana Madureira, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
Andre Carvalho, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
André Ponce de Leon F de Carvalho, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Andrea Corradini, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Andrea mambrini, University of Birmingham, UK
Andres Ortiz, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
Andrew L. Nelson, Androtics LLC, United States
Andries Engelbrecht, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Angelo Cangelosi, University of Plymouth, United Kingdom
Anna Jordanous, King's College London, United Kingdom
Annabel Latham, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Antonio Dourado, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Antonio J. Fernández Leiva, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
Antonio Latorre, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Arash Shaban-Nejad, McGill University, Canada
Ashutosh Tiwari, Cranfield University, United Kingdom
Ata Kaban, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
Azah Kamilah Muda, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Malaysia
Banharnsakun Anan, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand
Benjamin Doerr, Max-Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany
Bogdan Trawinski, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Botzheim Janos, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
Bruno Apolloni, University of Milano, Italy
Bruno Rossi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
C. Alberto Ochoa-Zezatti, Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
Cameron Browne, Imperial College, United Kingdom
Carlos Azevedo, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
carlos Corbos, Universidad del Cauca, Colombia
Carlos Fernandes, Universidad de Granada, Spain
Carlos Pereira, Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra, Portugal
Cem Celal Tutum, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Cerasela Crisan, "Vasile Alecsandri" University of Bacau, Romania
Cesar Andres, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Cesar Torres, CINVESTAV, Mexico
Chin-Shiuh Shieh, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Taiwan
Christophe Giraud-Carrier, Brigham Young University, United States
Chuan-Kang Ting, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
Daniela Zaharie, West University of Timisoara, Romania
Dante Tapia, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
Dario Landa-Silva, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Darya Chyzhyk, The University of the Basque Country, Spain
David Pelta, University of Granada, Spain
Diaf Moussa, Université Mouloud Mammeri, Algeria
Dragan Simic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
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
Emilio Corchado, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
Emmanouil Hourdakis, Foundation for Research and Technology, (FORTH) Hellas, Greece
Ender Ozcan, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Eric Fraga, University College London, United Kingdom
Eulanda Santos, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Brazil
Eva Gibaja, University of Córdoba, Spain
Fabrício Olivetti De França, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
Fatih Tasgetiren, Yasar University, Turkey
Fermin Segovia, Universidad de Granada, Spain
Fernando Corinto, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Fernando Montes, Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico
Francesco Marcelloni, University of Pisa, Itlay
Francisco Bellas, Universidad de A Coruña, Spain
Francisco Chicano, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
Francisco Herrera, University of Granada, Spain
Francisco Martínez Estudillo, ETEA, Spain
Frank Moore, University of Alaska Anchorage, USA
Gai-Ge Wang, Jiangsu Normal University, China
George D. C. Cavalcanti, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
George Papakostas, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Georgios Dounias, University of the Aegean, Greece
Georgy Sofronov, Macquarie University, Australia
Gerald Schaefer, Loughborough University, United Kingdom
Giancarlo Mauri, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Gilberto Reynoso-Meza, Universitat Politèctica de València, Spain
Giorgio Fumera, University of Cagliari, Italy
Giovanni Iacca, INCAS3, Netherlands
Gregor Papa, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Hana Rezankova, University of Economics, Czech Republic
Hanane Azzag, Université Paris 13, France
Hannes Muehleisen, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Netherlands
Hans-Georg Beyer, Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences, Austria
Heder Bernardino, Universidade Federal de Juiz de For a, Brazil
Hideyuki Takagi, Kyushu University, Japan
Hisao Ishibuchi, Osaka Perfecture University, Japan
Hisashi Handa, Kindai University, Japan
Hugo Jair Escalante, Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, óptica y Electrónica, Mexico
Imre J Rudas, Obuda University, Hungary
International Program Committee
J.D. Biamonte, Oxford University Computing Laboratory, United Kingdom
J.J. Merelo, Universidad de Granada, Spain
Jaber Jemai, Larodec Laboratory and Imam University, Saudi Arabia
Javier Bajo, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Javier Montero, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Javier Sánchez-Monedero, University of Córdoba, Spain
Javier Sedano, Technological Institute of Castilla y Leon, Spain
Jih Fu Tu, St. Johns University, United States
Jim Torresen, University of Oslo, Norway
Jinglu Hu, Waseda University, Japan
Jinhyuk Choi, KAIST, Korea
Joaquin Derrac, Universidad de Granada, Spain
John Crawford, The University of Sydney, Australia
José Carlos Ortiz-Bayliss, University of Nottingham, UK
José Ramón Villar, University of Oviedo, Spain
Joseph Alexander Brown, Brock University, Canada
Jose-Raul Romero, University of Córdoba, Spain
Juan Carlos Gomez, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Juan Francisco De Paz Santana, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
Juan J. Flores, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo, Mexico
Juan Luis Jiménez Laredo, Universidad de Granada, Spain
Julio Ponce, Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, Mexico
Jun Wang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Katsuhiro Honda, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
Khalid Benabdeslem, Claude Bernard University of Lyon I, France
Krzysztof Cios, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
Krzysztof Walkowiak, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Kuo-Sheng Cheng, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Kyriakos Kritikos, Foundation for Research and Technology, (FORTH) Hellas, Greece
Kyung-Joong Kim, Sejong University, Korea
Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
Lenka Lhotska, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
Leocadio G. Casado, University of Almería, Spain
Li Jingpeng, The University of Nottingham Ningbo China, China
Liu Chien-Hung, Taiwan
Lluís Belanche, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Ludwig Simone, North Dakota State University, United States
Luis Hernandez Gomez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Lustiana Pratiwi, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Malaysia
Ly Daniel, Cornell University, United States
Maiga Chang, Athabasca University, Canada
Manuel Gra˜na, The University of the Basque Country, Spain
Mario Koeppen, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Mark Embrechts, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, United States
Martine De Cock, Ghent University, Belgium
Mashinchi Hadi, Simavita Ltd., Australia
Mauricio Ayala-Rincon, Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil
Mehmet Emin Aydin, University of Bedfordshire, United Kingdom
Michael Blumenstein, Griffith University, Australia
Michal Wozniak, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Miguel ángel Veganzones, Universidad del País Vasco, Spain
Miguel Cazorla, Universidad de Alicante, Spain
Mo Jamshidi , University of Texas, San Antonio, TX, USA
Nikola Kasabov, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Nohe Ramon Cazarez-Castro, Instituto Tecnologico de Tijuana, Mexico
Noor Azilah Muda, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Malaysia
Norashikin Ahmad, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Malaysia
Noraswaliza Abdullah, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Malaysia
Oscar Castillo, Instituto Tecnologico de Tijuana, Mexico
Otoniel Lopez Granado, Miguel Hernandez University, Spain
Pablo Castro, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
Parimala Thulasiraman, University of Manitoba, Canada
Paulo Cortez, University of Minho, Portugal
Pedro Castillo, Universidad de Granada, Spain
Petrica Claudiu Pop, North University of Baia Mare, Romania
Petro Gopych, Universal Power Systems USA-Ukraine LLC, Ukraine
Pietro Ducange, University of Pisa, Italy
Ping Guo, Beijing Normal University, China
Piotr Porwik, University of Silesia, Poland
Qi Kang, Tongji University, China
Rafael Alcala, Universidad de Granada, Spain
Rafael Corchuelo, University of Seville, Spain
Raghavendra Kulkarni, Missouri University of Science and Technology, India
Raghavendra Kulkarni, Missouri University of Science and Technology, United States
Richard Duro, Universidad de A Coruña, Spain
Robiah Yusof, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Malaysia
Ryotaro Kamimura, Tokai Univerisity, Japan
Sabrina Ahmad, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Malaysia
Sakinah Ahmad, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Malaysia
Sankar Pal, Indian Statistical Institute, India
Sarjoun Doumit, University of Cincinnati, United States
Schahram Dustdar, Technische Universität Wien, Austria
Sebastián Ventura, University of Cordoba, Spain
Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, United States
Siti Rahayu Selamat, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Malaysia
Suicheng Gu, University of Pittsburgh, United States
Susana C. Esquivel, Universidad Nacional de San Luis, Argentina
Swati V. Chande, International School of Informatics and Management, India
Takio Kurita, Hiroshima Universiy, Japan
Toshiharu Hatanaka, Osaka University, Japan
Tsai-Rong Chang, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Vicente Julian, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Vitorino Ramos, Technical University of Lisbon, PORTUGAL.
Vladik Kreinovich, University of Texas at El Paso, United States
Wei-Chiang Hong, Oriental Institute of Technology, Taiwan
Wei-Neng Chen, Sun Yat-Sen University, China
Wenjian Luo, University of Science and Technology of China, China
Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada
Wladyslaw Homenda, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Wu-Chih Hu, National Penghu University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Yannis Marinakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece
Yau-Hwang Kuo, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Yu Jian-Qiao, The University of Hong Kong, China
Yun-Huoy Choo, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Malaysia
Zeratul Izzah Mohd. Yusof, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Malaysia
