Committees

Honorary General Chairs

Norio Shiratori, Chuo University, Japan
Kenneth C. J. Tan, Sardinia Systems, UK

General Chairs

Osvaldo Gervasi, University of Perugia, Italy
Eligius Hendrix, University of Malaga, Spain
Bernady O. Apduhan, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan

Program Committee Chairs

Beniamino Murgante, University of Basilicata, Italy
Inmaculada Garcia Fernandez, University of Malaga, Spain
Ana Maria A.C. Rocha, University of Minho, Portugal
David Taniar, Monash University, Australia

International Advisory Committee

Jemal Abawajy, Deakin University, Australia
Dharma P. Agrawal, University of Cincinnati, USA
Rajkumar Buyya, Melbourne University, Australia
Claudia Bauzer Medeiros, University of Campinas, Brazil
Manfred M. Fisher, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
Marina L. Gavrilova, University of Calgary, Canada
Sumi Helal, University of Florida, USA & University of Lancaster, UK
Yee Leung, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

International Liaison Chairs

Workshop and Session Organizing Chairs

Beniamino Murgante, University of Basilicata, Italy
Chiara Garau, University of Cagliari, Italy
Sanjay Misra, Ostfold University, Halden, Norway

Award Chair

Wenny Rahayu, La Trobe University, Australia

Publicity Committee Chairs

Elmer Dadios, De La Salle University, Philippines
Natalia Kulabukhova, Saint Petersburg University, Russia
Daisuke Takahashi, Tsukuba University, Japan
Shangwang Wang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

Local Organizing Committee Chairs

Eligius Hendrix, University of Malaga, Spain
Inmaculada Garcia Fernandez, University of Malaga, Spain
Salvador Merino Cordoba, University of Malaga, Spain
Pablo Guerrero-García, University of Malaga, Spain

Technology Chairs

Damiano Perri, University of Florence, Italy
Marco Simonetti, University of Florence, Italy 

Program Committee

Vera Afreixo, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Filipe Alvelos, University of Minho, Portugal
Hartmut Asche, Hasso-Plattner-Institut FüR Digital Engineering Ggmbh, Germany
Ginevra Balletto, University of Cagliari, Italy
Michela Bertolotto, University College Dublin, Ireland
Sandro Bimonte, CEMAGREF, TSCF, France
Rod Blais, University of Calgary, Canada
Ivan Blečić, University of Sassari, Italy
Giuseppe Borruso, University of Trieste, Italy
Ana Cristina Braga, University of Minho, Portugal
Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Italy
Yves Caniou, Lyon University, France
Ermanno Cardelli, University of Perugia, Italy
José A. Cardoso e Cunha, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Rui Cardoso, University of Beira Interior, Portugal
Leocadio G. Casado , University of Almeria, Spain
Carlo Cattani, University of Salerno, Italy
Mete Celik, Erciyes University, Turkey
Maria Cerreta, University of Naples "Federico II", Italy
Hyunseung Choo, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
Rachel Chieng-SIng Lee, Sunway University, Malaysia
Min Young Chung, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
Florbela Maria da Cruz Domingues Correia, Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo, Portugal
Gilberto Corso Pereira, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil
Alessandro Costantini, INFN, Italy
Carla Dal Sasso Freitas, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Pradesh Debba, The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), South Africa
Hendrik Decker, Instituto Tecnológico de Informática, Spain
Robertas Damaševičius, Kausan University of Technology, Lithuania
Frank Devai, London South Bank University, UK
Rodolphe Devillers, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Joana Matos Dias, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Paolino Di Felice University of L'Aquila, Italy
Prabu Dorairaj, NetApp, India/USA
M. Noelia Faginas Lago, University of Perugia, Italy
M. Irene Falcao, University of Minho, Portugal
Cherry Liu Fang, U.S. DOE Ames Laboratory, USA
Florbela P. Fernandes, Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Portugal
Jose-Jesus Fernandez, National Centre for Biotechnology, CSIS, Spain
Paula Odete Fernandes, Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Portugal
Adelaide de Fátima Baptista Valente Freitas, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Manuel Carlos Figueiredo, University of Minho, Portugal
Maria Celia Furtado Rocha, PRODEB–PósCultura/UFBA, Brazil
Chiara Garau, University of Cagliari, Italy
Paulino Jose Garcia Nieto, University of Oviedo, Spain
Raffaele Garrisi, Polizia di Stato, Italy
Jerome Gensel, LSR-IMAG, France
Maria Giaoutzi, National Technical University, Athens, Greece
Arminda Manuela Andrade Pereira Gonçalves, University of Minho, Portugal
Andrzej M. Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia
Sevin Gümgüm, Izmir University of Economics, Turkey
Alex Hagen-Zanker, University of Cambridge, UK
Shanmugasundaram Hariharan, B.S. Abdur Rahman University, India
Eligius M.T. Hendrix, University of Malaga/Wageningen University Spain/Netherlands
Hisamoto Hiyoshi, Gunma University, Japan
Mustafa Inceoglu, EGE University, Turkey
Peter Jimack, University of Leeds, UK
Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan
Yeliz Karaca, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, USA
Farid Karimipour, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Baris Kazar, Oracle Corp., USA
Maulana Adhinugraha Kiki, Telkom University, Indonesia
DongSeong Kim, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Taihoon Kim, Hannam University, Korea
Ivana Kolingerova, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic
Nataliia Kulabukhova, St.~Petersburg University, Russia
Vladimir Korkhov, St.~Petersburg University, Russia
Rosa Lasaponara, National Research Council, Italy
Maurizio Lazzari, National Research Council, Italy
Cheng Siong Lee, Monash University, Australia
Sangyoun Lee, Yonsei University, Korea
Jongchan Lee, Kunsan National University, Korea
Chendong Li, University of Connecticut, USA
Gang Li, Deakin University, Australia
Fang Liu, AMES Laboratories, USA
Xin Liu, University of Calgary, Canada
Andrea Lombardi, University of Perugia, Italy
Savino Longo, University of Bari, Italy
Tinghuai Ma, NanJing University of Information Science & Technology, China
Ernesto Marcheggiani, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Antonino Marvuglia, Research Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg
Nicola Masini National Research Council, Italy
Ilaria Matteucci, National Research Council, Italy
Nirvana Meratnia, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Fernando Miranda, University of Minho, Portugal
Giuseppe Modica, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy
Josè Luis Montaña, University of Cantabria, Spain
Maria Filipa Mourão, IP from Viana do Castelo, Portugal
Louiza de Macedo Mourelle, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Nadia Nedjah, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Laszlo Neumann, University of Girona, Spain
Kok-Leong Ong, Daekin University, Australia
Belen Palop, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain
Marcin Paprzycki, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Eric Pardede, La Trobe University, Australia
Kwangjin Park, Wonkwang University, Korea
Ana Isabel Pereira, Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Portugal
Massimiliano Petri, University of Pisa, Italy
Telmo Pinto, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Maurizio Pollino, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, Italy
Alenka Poplin, University of Hamburg, Germany
Vidyasagar Potdar, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
David C. Prosperi, Florida Atlantic University, USA
Wenny Rahayu, La Trobe University, Australia
Jerzy Respondek, Silesian University of Technology Poland
Humberto Rocha, INESC-Coimbra, Portugal
Jon Rokne, University of Calgary, Canada
Octavio Roncero, CSIC, Spain
Maytham Safar, Kuwait University, Kuwait
Chiara Saracino, A.O. Ospedale Niguarda Ca' Granda - Milano, Italy
Marco Paulo Seabra dos Reis, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Jie Shen, University of Michigan, USA
Qi Shi, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Dale Shires, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, USA
Inês Soares, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Elena Stankova, Saint Petersburg University, Russia
Takuo Suganuma, Tohoku University, Japan
Eufemia Tarantino, Polytechnic of Bari, I
Sergio Tasso, University of Perugia, Italy
Ana Paula Teixeira, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Portugal
M. Filomena Teodoro, Portuguese Naval Academy and University of Lisbon, Portugal
Parimala Thulasiraman, University of Manitoba, Canada
Carmelo Torre, Polytechnic of Bari, Italy
Javier Martinez Torres, Centro Universitario de la Defensa Zaragoza, Spain
Giuseppe A. Trunfio, University of Sassari, Italy
Pablo Vanegas, University of Cuenca, Equador
Marco Vizzari, University of Perugia, Italy
Varun Vohra, Merck Inc., USA
Koichi Wada, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Krzysztof Walkowiak, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Zequn Wang, Intelligent Automation Inc, USA
Robert Weibel, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Frank Westad, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Roland Wismüller, Universität Siegen, Germany
Mudasser Wyne, SOET National University, USA
Chung-Huang Yang, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan
Xin-She Yang, National Physical Laboratory, UK
Salim Zabir, France Telecom Japan Co., Japan
Haifeng Zhao, University of California, Davis, USA
Fabiana Zollo, University of Venice "Cà Foscari", Italy
Albert Y. Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia