KES2015 International Programme Committee

The role of the IPC is as follows:-

To advise on the organisation of the conference;
To promote the conference and bring it to the attention of other researchers;
To advise on the topics of the conference;
To help with the paper review process
To assist in monitoring overall quality.

We are grateful for their valuable assistance.

The IPC consists of the following members and, in addition, all Invited Session Chairs.

KES2015 IPC Members

Name	Affiliation
Prof. Dr. Akinori Abe	Chiba University, Japan
Dr. Jair Minoro Abe	Graduate Program in Production Engineering, ICET - Paulista University & Institute For Advanced Studies, University of São Paulo
Prof. Yoshinori Adachi	Chubu University, Japan
Prof. Dr. Sreenatha Gopalarao Anavatti	UNSW Canberra at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Australia
Prof. Dr. Masayoshi Aritsugi	Kumamoto University, Japan
Dr. Piotr Artiemjew	Univ. Warmia and Mazury, Poland
Dr. Ahmad Taher Azar	Faculty of Computers and Information, Benha University, Egypt
Dr. Walid Adly Atteya	University of Bradford, UK
Prof. Valentina E. Balas	Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania
Dr. Mitu Bannore	Technical Expert Telstra Corp, Australia
Dr. Vivek Bannore	KES UniSA Austalia, Australia
Dr. Francesco Bianconi	University of Perugia, Italy
Dr. Gloria Bordogna	National Research Council of Italy, Italy
Dr. Grażyna Brzykcy	Poznań University of Technology, Institute of Control and Information Engineering, Poland
Assoc. Prof. Frantisek Capkovic	Institute of Informatics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
Prof. Michele Ceccarelli	Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar
Assist. Prof. Dr. Chih-Hung Chen	National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Assoc. Prof. Hsing-Chung Chen	Asia University, Taiwan
Assoc. Prof. Doug Creighton	Centre for Intelligent Systems Research, Deakin University, Australia
Prof. Boguslaw Cyganek	AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
Prof. Irek Czarnowski	Gdynia Maritime University, Poland
Assist. Prof. Chintan Bhatt	Charotar University of Science And Technology (CHARUSAT), India
Dr. Janos Botzheim	Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
Prof. Sadok Bouamama	University of Manouba, Tunisia
Prof. Dr. Thomas Braunl	The University of Western Australia, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Australia
Prof. Mu-Chen Chen	National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Prof. Richard Duro	Universidade da Coruna, Spain
Prof. Irraivan Elamvazuthi	Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Tronoh, Malaysia
Prof. Mark Embrechts	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Dr. Zhu Fangming	Institute of Systems Science, National University of Singapore
Prof. Margarita N. Favorskaya	Siberian State Aerospace University, Russia
Prof. Dr. Hamido Fujita	Iwate Prefectural University, Japan
Prof. Timothy Ganesan	Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Tronoh, Malaysia
Prof. António Grilo	UNIDEMI, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon
Prof. Adam Grzech	Wrocław University of Technology, Poland
Prof. Anne Hakansson	KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Prof Saman K. Halgamuge	The University of Melbourne, Australia
Dr. Moez Hammami	University of Tunis, Tunisia
Dr. Carol Anne Hargreaves	Institute of Systems Science, National University of Singapore
Prof. Ronald Hartung	Franklin University, USA
Prof. Hiroshi Hasegawa	Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan
Dr. Khairunnisa Hasikin	Universiti Malaya, Malaysia
Prof. Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis	University of Patras, Greece
Prof. Yuki Hayashi	Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
Prof. Atsuo Hazeyama	Tokyo Gakugei University, Japan
Dr. Yulia A Hicks	Cardiff University, UK
Prof. Katsuhiro Honda	Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
Assoc.Prof.Dr. Daocheng Hong	Fudan University & Victoria University, China
Prof. Tzung-Pei Hong	National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Prof. Wei-Chiang Hong	Oriental Institute of Technology, Taiwan
Prof. Xiangpei Hu	Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China
Dr. (Mrs) Shraddha Ingale,	Pune University, India
Prof. Nobuhiro Inuzuka	Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
Prof. Florin Ionescu	Steinbeis University Berlin, Germany
Assoc. Prof. Dr Nor Ashidi Mat Isa	Universiti Sains Malaysia
Prof. Dr. Yoshiteru Ishida	Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan
Prof. Naohiro Ishii	Aichi Institute of Technology, Poland
Prof. Mirjana Ivanovic	University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Prof. Yuji Iwahori	Chubu University, Japan
Prof. Lakhmi C. Jain	University of South Australia, Australia
Prof. Yichuan Jiang	Southeast University, China
Prof. Ivan Jordanov	School of Computing, University of Portsmouth, UK
Prof. Dr. D.Sc. Vladimir Jotsov	ULSIT, Sofia, Bulgaria
Prof. Ahamed Khan	Universiti Selangor, Malaysia
Prof. Hideyuki Kanematsu	National Institute of Technology, Suzuka College, Japan
Dr. Hideki Katagiri	Hiroshima University, Japan
Dr. Arkadiusz Kawa	Poznan University of Economics, Poland
Prof. Kazuhiro Kuwabara	Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Assistant Prof. Dr. Hiroharu Kawanaka	Mie University, Japan
Prof. Frank Klawonn	Ostfalia University, Germany
Dr. Syoji Kobashi	University of Hyogo, Japan
Dr. Tomoko Kojiri	Kansai University, Japan
Prof. Boris Kovalerchuk	Dept. of Computer Science, Central Washington University, USA
Dr. Konrad Kułakowski	AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland
Prof. Mario Kusek	University of Zagreb, Croatia
Prof. Noriyuki Kushiro	Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Dr. C.P Lim	Deakin University, Australia
Prof. Chengjun Liu	New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark
Prof. Ho-fung Leung	The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Prof. Ignac Lovrek	University of Zagreb, Croatia
Dr. Alfonso Mateos	Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Dr. Kenji Matsuura	Tokushima University, Japan
Prof. Jun Munemori	Wakayama University, Japan
Prof. Radko Mesiar	Slovak University of Technology Bratislava, Slovakia
Assist. Prof. Hirokazu Miura	Wakayama University, Japan
Assoc. Prof. Motoki Miura	Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Prof. Hongwei Mo	Harbin Engineering University, China
Dr. Daniel Moldt	University of Hamburg, Department of Informatics, Germany
Prof. Stefania Montani	University of Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria, Italy
Dr. Esmiralda Moradian	Stockholm University, Sweden
Dr. Antonio Moreno	Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV)
Dr. Muhammad Marwan Muhammad Fuad	The University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Prof. Narasimha Murty Musti	Dept. of CSA, IISc, Bangalore, India
Prof. Andrew Nafalski	University of South Australia, Australia
Prof. Reza Nakhaie Jazar	RMIT University School of Aerospace, Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering, Australia
Dr. Grzegorz J. Nalepa	AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland & Jagiellonian University
Prof. Toyoaki Nishida	Kyoto University, Japan
Prof. Yoko Nishihara	Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Prof. Kazunori Nishino	Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Prof. Roy Oberhauser	Aalen University, Germany
Prof. Dr. Shin-ichi Ohnishi	Hokkai-Gakuen University, Japan
Prof. Yukio Ohsawa	The University of Tokyo, Japan
Prof. Kenta Oku	Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Prof. Eugénio Oliveira	Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto; LIACC, Portugal
Dr. Osvaldo Luiz Oliveira	Faccamp, Brazil
Prof. Cezary Orlowski	Gdansk University of Technology, Poland
Prof. Yen-Chieh Ouyang	Department of Electrical Engineering, National Chung Hsing University (NCHU), Taiwan
Prof. Marcin Paprzycki	Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Dr. Pawel Pawlewski	Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Prof. Petra Perner	Institute of Computer Vision and Applied Computer Sciences IBaI Leipzig, Germany
Prof. Dr. Georg Peters	Munich University of Applied Sciences, Munich
Prof. Alfredo Petrosino	Università di Napoli, Parthenope, Italy
Prof. Lech T. Polkowski	Polish-Japanese Institute of IT
Prof. Luigi Portinale	University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy
Prof. Anca Ralescu	University of Cincinnati, EECS Department, USA
Prof. Zbigniew W. Ras	University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Dr. Goce Ristanoski	National ICT Australia (NICTA)
Dr. Przemysław Różewski	West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, Poland
Prof. Hiroshi Sakai	Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Prof. Virgilijus Sakalauskas	Vilnius University, Department of Informatics
Dr. Rainer Schmidt	University of Rostock, Germany
Dr. Friedhelm Schwenker	University of Ulm Institute of Neural Information Processing, Germany
Dr. Hirosato Seki	Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan
Prof. Mikhail Sergeev	SUAI, Russia
Prof. Udo Seiffert	Fraunhofer IFF Magdeburg, Deutschland
Prof. Barry G. Silverman	University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Dr. Milan Simic	SAMME RMIT University, Australia
Prof. Vedpal Singh	Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Tronoh, Malaysia
Prof. Roman Slowinski	Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Assoc. Prof. Andrzej Sluzek	Khalifa University, UAE
Assoc. Prof. Masato Soga	Wakayama University, Japan
Dr. Ong Yew Soon	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Dr. Roman Sperka	Silesian University in Opava, Czech Republic
Dr. Urszula Stanczyk	Silesian University of Technology, Poland
Prof. Toshiharu Sugawara	Waseda University, Japan
Assoc. Prof. Lijun Sun	Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China
Prof. Dr.ir. Johan Suykens	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Prof. Eulalia Szmidt	Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Prof. Edward Szczerbicki	The University of Newcastle, Australia
Dr. Piotr Szymczyk	AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
Dr. Nobuo Suzuki	KDDI Corporation, Japan
Prof. Masakazu Takahashi	University of Yamaguchi, Japan
Prof. Hirokazu Taki	Wakayama University, Japan
Prof. Keiichi Tamura	Hiroshima City University, Japan
Prof. Dr. Mieko Tanaka-Yamawaki	Tottori University, Japan
Dr. Wojciech Thomas	Wroclaw University of Technology, Institute of Informatics, Poland
Dr. Carlos Toro	Industry and Advanced Manufacturing, Vicomtech, San-Sebastian
Prof. Ljiljana Trajkovic	Simon Fraser University
Prof. Kazuhiko Tsuda	Graduate School of Business Sciences, The University of TSUKUBA, Tokyo
Dr. Jeff Tweedale	University of South Australia
Prof. Eiji Uchino	Yamaguchi University, Japan
Prof. Taketoshi Ushiama	Kyushu University, Japan
Prof. Dr. Arien J. van der Wal	Netherlands Defence Academy NLDA, Faculty of Sciences, The Netherlands
Prof. Pandian Vasant	Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Tronoh, Malaysia
Prof. Wilson Wang	Lakehead University, Canada
Prof. Justin Wang	Latrobe University, Australia
Prof. Dr. Junzo Watada	Waseda University, Japan
Prof. Toyohide Watanabe	Nagoya Industrial Science Rseach Institute, Japan
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kevin Wong	Murdoch University, Western Australia
Prof. Michal Wozniak	Department of Systems and Computer Networks, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Prof. Katsutoshi Yada	Kansai University, Japan
Prof. Dr. Shuichiro Yamamoto	Nagoya University, Japan
Prof. Takahira Yamaguchi	Keio University, Japan
Prof. Atsuko K. Yamazaki	Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan
Dr. Takaya Yuizono	Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Dr. Cecilia Zanni-Merk	ICube Laboratory / INSA de Strasbourg, France
Prof. Danuta Zakrzewska	Lodz University of Technology, Institute of Information Technology, Poland
Prof. Arkady Zaslavsky	CSIRO, Australia
Prof. Wen-Ran Zhang	Computer Science, Georgia Southern University, USA
Fan Zhenzhen	Institute of Systems Science, National University of Singapore
Dr. Fangming Zhu	National University of Singapore, Institute of Systems Science
Prof. Alfred Zimmermann	Reutlingen University, Germany