International Programme Committee
The role of the IPC is as follows:-- To advise on the organisation of the symposium;
- To promote the conference and bring it to the attention of other researchers;
- To advise on the topics of the symposium;
- To help with the paper review process
- To assist in monitoring overall quality.
The IPC consists of the following members and, in addition, all Invited Session Chairs:-
| Name | Affiliation |
| Associate Professor Valentina Emilia Balas | Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania |
| Dr Mario Giovanni C.A. Cimino | University of Pisa, Italy |
| Professor Antonio Fernández-Caballero | Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain |
| Professor Christos Grecos | University of the West of Scotland, UK |
| Associate Professor Dr. Mohamed A. Moustafa Hassan | Cairo University, Giza, Egypt |
| Professor Enrique Herrera-Viedma | University of Granada, Spain |
| Dr Dawn E. Holmes | University of California, USA |
| Professor Tzung-Pei Hong | National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan |
| Dr Ivan Jordanov, | University of Portsmouth, UK |
| Prof. Eizo Kinoshita | Meijo University, Japan |
| Professor Boris Kovalerchuk | Central Washington University, USA |
| Assoc. Prof. Young-Chan Lee | Dongguk University, South Korea |
| Dr Kenji Matsuura | The University of Tokushima, Japan |
| Associate Professor Lyudmila Mihaylova | School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University, UK |
| Professor Toshiro Minami | Kyushu Institute of Information Sciences & Kyushu University Library, Japan |
| Professor Mikhail Moshkov | King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia |
| Professor Fionn Murtagh | Science Foundation, Ireland |
| Dr Yoko Nishihara | The University of Tokyo, Japan |
| Professor Marek R. Ogiela | AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland |
| Professor Georg Peters | Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany |
| Assistant Professor Jim Prentzas | Democritus University of Thrace, Greece |
| Professor Ana Respício. | University of Lisbon, Portugal |
| Professor Hiroshi Sakai | Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan |
| Professor Hiroshi Sakamoto | Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan |
| Professor Marina V. Sokolova | Instituto de Investigación en Informática de Albacete, Spain |
| Dr Urszula Stañczyk | Silesian University of Technology, Institute of Informatics, Poland |
| Professor Andreas Tolk | Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA |
| Professor Edmondo Trentin | University of Siena, Italy |
| Professor Takahira Yamaguchi | Keio University, Japan |
| Associate Professor Snejana Yordanova | Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria |