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

Program Chairs
Catarina Silva, Politécnico de Leiria, 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
TBA

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
A. Galicia, Pablo de Olavide University, Spain
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
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 
Antonio Bahamonde, Artificial Intelligence Center. Universidad de Oviedo at Gijón, Asturias, Spain 
Arun Kumar Sangaiah, Vellore Institute of Technology, India
Aswani Kumar Cherukuri, Vellore Institute of Technology, India
Atta Rahman, University of Dammam, Dammam, Saudi Arabia
Azah Muda, UTeM, Malaysia
Catarina Silva, CISUC, IPLeiria, Portugal
Christian Veenhuis, HELLA Aglaia Mobile Vision GmbH, Germany
Corrado Mencar, University of Bari "A. Moro", Italy
Daniela Zaharie, West University of Timisoara, Romania
Dilip Pratihar, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Eiji Uchino, Yamaguchi University, Japan
Elizabeth Goldbarg, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Francisco Chicano, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
Gregorio Sainz-Palmero, Dpto. Ingeniería de Sistemas y Automática. Universidad de Valladolid, Spain
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
Joana Costa, CISUC, IPLeiria, Portugal
José Everardo Bessa Maia, State University of Ceará, Brazil 
José F. Torres, Pablo de Olavide University, 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 
Kin Keung Lai,  International Business School, Shaanxi Normal University, Xian, China 
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 
Mário Antunes, Politécnico de Leiria, Portugal
Mario Giovanni C.A. Cimino, University of Pisa, Italy
Martin Lukac, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
Michal Wozniak, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Mohammad Shojafar, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Niketa Gandhi, Machine Intelligence Research Labs, United States
Oscar Castillo, Tijuana Institute of Technology, Tijuana
Oscar Gabriel Reyes Pupo, UCO, Spain
Patrick Siarry, Université Paris-Est Créteil, France
Pedro Gago, Politécnico de Leiria, Portugal
Pedro Gonzalez, Universidad de Jaén, Spain
Prabukumar Manoharan, Vellore Institute of Technology, India
Radu-Emil Precup, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania
Ricardo Tanscheit, PUC-Rio, Brazil 
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
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