Honorary General Chair

Lotfi Zadeh
University of California, Berkeley, USA
zadeh@cs.berkeley.edu

     

General Chairs

Stuart Rubin
SPAWAR Systems Center, USA
Stuart.rubin@navy.mil


Shu-Ching Chen
Florida International University, USA
chens@cs.fiu.edu

  Program Chairs
Kang Zhang

University of Texas at Dallas, USA
kzhang@utdallas.edu

Reda Alhajj
University of Calgary
alhajj@ucalgary.ca

     

Program Vice-Chairs

Mei-Ling Shyu

University of Miami, USA
shyu@miami.edu

Gary D. Boetticher
University of Houston - Clear Lake, USA
boetticher@cl.uh.edu

  Publicity Chairs
Chengcui Zhang
University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
zhang@cis.uab.edu

 

James B. D. Joshi

University of Pittsburgh, USA

jjoshi@mail.sis.pitt.edu

Workshop Chair
Du Zhang
California State University,USA
zhangd@ecs.csus.edu

Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar
Florida Atlantic University, USA
taghi@cse.fau.edu


Eric Gregoire
Universiti d'Artois, France
gregoire@cril.univ-artois.fr

Finance/Registration/Local Arrangement Chair 
Suresh Vadhva
California State University, USA
vadhva@ecs.csus.edu

Publications Chair
Min-Yuh Day
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
myday@iis.sinica.edu.tw

     
Asian Liaison 
Wen-Lian Hsu
Academia Sinica, Taiwan, R.O.C.
hsu@iis.sinica.edu.tw

Althea Liang Qianhui
SMU, Singapore
althealiang@smu.edu.sg
 

 Industry/Canadian Liaison, Editor 
June R. Massoud
Genesis Consulting Inc., Canada
junermassoud@hotmail.com

Entertainment Chair
Louellen McCoy
SPAWAR Systems Center, USA
louellen.mccoy@navy.mil

     

Webmaster
Reda Alhajj
University of Calgary
alhajj@ucalgary.ca

   

 

Program Committee

   

Ajith

Abraham

Chung-Ang University , South Korea

Gail-Joon

Ahn

University of North Carolina , USA

Massimiliano

Albanese

University of Maryland, College Park, USA

Davide

Ancona

University of Genova, Italy

Walid

Aref

Purdue University, USA

Vijay

Atluri

Rutgers University, USA

Costin Badica University of Craiova , Romania

Elena

Baralis

Politecnico di Torino , Italy

George

Bebis

University of Nevada at Reno, USA

Manuel F.

Bertoa

University of Malaga , Spain

Bharat K

Bhargava

Purdue University , USA

Marcello M.

Bonsangue

LIACS-Leiden University, The Netherlands

David

Bonyuet

Precisive, LLC, USA

Gloria

Bordogna

University of Bergamo, Italy

Dumitru D. Burdescu University of Craiova, Romania

Longbing

Cao

University of Technology , Australia

Richard

Chbeir

Bourgogne University, France

Yi-Shin

Chen

National Tsing Hua University , Taiwan , R.O.C.

Chia -Chu

Chiang

University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA

William Cheng-Chung

Chu

Tunghai University, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Jen-Yao

Chung

IBM , NY, USA

Peter J.

Clarke

Florida International University , USA

Serhan

Dagtas

University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA

Wei

Dai

Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

Min-Yuh

Day

National Taiwan University , Taiwan R.O.C.

Rogerio Atem

de Carvalho

CEFET Campos, Brazil

Jing

Dong

University of Texas at Dallas, USA

Schahram

Dustdar

Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Mohammad

Elhajj

University of Alberta , Canada

Mohamed

Eltoweissy

Virginia Tech., USA

Rasit

Eskicioglu

University of Manitoba, Canada

Behrouz H.

Far

University of Calgary , Canada

Csilla

Farkas

University of South Carolina , USA

Elena

Ferrari

University of Insubria , Como, Italy

Farshad

Fotouhi

Wayne State University, USA

Yongjian

Fu

Cleveland State University , USA

Rose F.

Gamble

University of Tulsa , OK, USA

Maria

Ganzha

Polish Academy of Science, Poland

Kehan

Gao

Eastern Connecticut State University, USA

Laxmi P.

Gewali

University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA

Aditya

Ghose

University of Wollongong , Australia

Guido

Governatori

University of Queensland , Australia

William I. Grosky University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA

Eric

Gregoire

Universite d'Artois, France

Takahiro

Hara

Osaka University , Japan

Choochart Haruechaiyasak NECTEC, Thailand

Ramzi A.

Haraty

Lebanese American University, Lebanon 

Xudong

He

Florida International University , USA

Hoda M.

Hosny

American University in Cairo, Egypt  

Wen-Lian

Hsu

Academia Sinica, Taiwan, R. O. C.

Gongzhu

Hu

Central Michigan University , USA

Shihong

Huang

Florida Atlantic University , USA

Patrick C. K.

Hung

University of Ontario , Canada

Fuyuki Ishikawa National Institute of Informatics, Japan

Baback

Izadi

State University of New York, New Paltz , USA

Ying

Jin

California State University, Sacramento, USA

Achilles

Kameas

Hellenic Open University, Greece

Ibrahim

Kamel

University of Sharjah, U.A.E.

Mehmed

Kantardzic

University of Louisville , USA

Mehmet

Kaya

Firat University , Turkey

Taghi M.

Khoshgoftaar

Florida Atlantic University , USA

Seung-yun

Kim

Shepherd University, USA

Hiroyuki

Kitagawa

University of Tsukuba , Japan

Mitch

Kokar

Northeastern University, USA

Jun

Kong

North Dakota State University, USA 

Roumen

Kountchev

University of Sophia, Bulgaria

Aneesh

Krishna

University of Wollongong , Australia

Adam

Krzyzak

Concordia University , Montreal/Canada

Gordon

Lee

San Diego State University , USA

Yung-Chuan Alex

Lee

Southern Illinois University, USA

Sheng-Tun

Li

National Cheng-Kung University , Taiwan , R.O.C.

Anthony Y. H.

Liao

Asia University , Taiwan

Xuemin

Lin

University of New South Wales , Australia

Yi

Liu

Georgia College and State University, USA

Chang-Tien

Lu

Virginia Tech, USA

Sanjay Kumar

Madria

University of Missouri-Rolla , USA

Lorenzo

Martino

Purdue University, USA 

Bertrand

Mazure

Universite d'Artois, France

Dennis

Mcleod

University of Southern California , USA

Brahim

Medjahed

University of Michigan-Dearborn , USA

nasrullah

Memon

Aalborg University Esbjerg, Denmark

Eduardo

Mena

Universidad de Zaragoza , Spain

Mariofanna

Milanova

University of Arkansas , USA

Riichiro

Mizoguchi

Osaka University , Japan

Malek

Mouhoub

University of Regina, Canada

Mohamed F.

Mokbel

University of Minnesota Twin Cities, USA

Chris

Nowak

DSTO, Australia

Mehmet

Orgun

Macquarie University , Australia

Mourad

Oussalah

University of Birmingham , UK

Tansel

Ozyer

TOBB, Turkey

Apostolos N.

Papadopoulos

Aristotle University, Greece

Marcin

Paprzycki

Polish Academy of Science, Poland

Joon S.

Park

Syracuse University , USA

Gabriella

Pasi

University of Milano Bicocca, Italy

Witold

Pedrycz

University of Alberta , Canada

Beth A.

Plale

Indiana University , USA

Faruk

Polat

Middle East Technical University , Turkey

Ghassan

Qadah

American University of Sharjah, UAE

Althea Liang

Qianhui

Singapore Management University , Singapore

Shahram Rahimi Southern Illinois University, USA

Marek

Reformat

University of Alberta , Canada

Robert

Reynolds

Wayne State University , USA

Jon

Rokne

University of Calgary , Canada

Jose R.

Romero

University of Cordoba , Spain

George

Roussos

University of London, UK

Lakhdar

Sais

Universite d'Artois, France

Jim

Seliya

University of Michigan-Dearborn , USA

H. Shahriar

Shahhoseini

Iran University of Science & Technology, Iran

Sule

Simsek

University of Missouri-Rolla, USA

Waleed W.

Smari

University of Dayton , USA

Jaideep

Srivastava

University of Minnesota , USA

Nenad

Stankovic

Aizu University , Japan

Marcus

Stumptner

University of South Australia , Australia

Junping

Sun

Nova Southeastern University, USA

Li

Tan

Washington State University , USA

Ozgur

Ulusoy

Bilkent University, Turkey

Jason

van Hulse

First Data  Corp., USA

Michael

VanHilst

Florida Atlantic University , USA

Cho-Li

Wang

University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Eric

Wong

University of Texas at Dallas, USA

Xindong

Wu

University of Vermont , USA

Shih-Hung

Wu

Chaoyang University of Technology, Taiwan R.O.C.

Tao

Xie

San Diego State University , USA

Jeffrey

Xu Yu

The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Hongji

Yang

De Montfort University, UK

JingTao

Yao

University of Regina , Canada

Meng

Yu

Western Illinois University , USA

Weihai

Yu

  University of Tromsø, Norway

Mohammed

Zaki

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute , USA

Youtao

Zhang

University of Pittsburgh , USA

Chengcui

Zhang

University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA

Mingjun

Zhang

Agilent Technologies, USA

Shichao

Zhang

Guangxi Normal University , China

Zhi-Hua

Zhou

Nanjing University , China

Xingquan

Zhu

Florida Atlantic University , USA