Honorary General Chair

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

   
     

General Chair

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


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

   
     

Program Chair
Weide Chang
California State University, USA
changw@ecs.csus.edu

James B. D. Joshi
University of Pittsburgh
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

   
     

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

   
     

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


Althea Liang Qianhui
Singapore Management University, Singapore
althealiang@smu.edu.sg

   
     

South American Liaison 
María Pérez
Universidad Simón Bolívar, Venezuela
movalles@usb.ve


Maryoly Ortega
Universidad Simón Bolívar, Venezuela
marortega@usb.ve

   
     
Finance & Registration Chair 
Ju-Yeon Jo
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA
jo@egr.unlv.edu
   
     
Publications Chair
Min-Yuh Day
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
myday@iis.sinica.edu.tw
   
     
Local Arrangements Chair 
Louellen McCoy
SPAWAR Systems Center, USA
louellen.mccoy@navy.mil
   
     

Webmaster
Saubhagya Ram Joshi
University of Pittsburgh, USA
srjoshi@mail.sis.pitt.edu

   
     
Program Committee    
  Ajith Abraham, Chung-Ang University, South Korea
  Gail-Joon Ahn, University of North Carolina, USA
  Wasfi G.  Al-Khatib, King Fahd Univ. of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia
  Colin Atkinson, University of Mannheim, Germany
  Vijay Atluri, Rutgers University, USA
  George Bebis, University of Nevada at Reno, USA
  Boualem Benatallah, University of New South Wales, Australia
  Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA
  Bharat K Bhargava, Purdue University, USA
  Gary D. Boetticher, University of Houston-Clear Lake, USA
  Marcello M. Bonsangue, LIACS-Leiden University, The Netherlands
  David Bonyuet, Delta Search Labs, MA, USA
  Athman Bouguettaya, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA
  Rafael Capilla, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain
  Stefano Carpin, University of California, Merced, USA
  LiWu Chang, Naval Research Laboratory, USA
  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.
  Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
  Mohamed Eltoweissy, Virginia Tech., USA
  Behrouz Homayoun Far, University of Calgary, Canada
  Csilla Farkas, University of South Carolina, USA
  Elena Ferrari, University of Insubria, Como, Italy
  Andres Folleco, Florida Atlantic University, USA
  Yongjian Fu, Cleveland State University, USA
  Rose F.  Gamble, University of Tulsa, OK, USA
  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
  Eric Gregoire, Universite d'Artois, France
  Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan
  Choochart Haruechaiyasak, NECTEC, Thailand
  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
  Baback Izadi, State University of New York, New Paltz, USA
  Ying Jin, California State University, Sacramento, USA
  Ju-Yeon Jo, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA
  Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Florida Atlantic University, USA
  Hiroyuki Kitagawa, University of Tsukuba, Japan
  Mitch Kokar, Northeastern University, USA
  Aneesh Krishna, University of Wollongong, Australia
  Gordon Lee, San Diego State University, USA
  Michael Lewis, University of Pittsburgh, USA
  Sheng-Tun Li, National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan, R.O.C.
  Althea Qianhui Liang , Singapore Management University, Singapore 
  Yi Liu, Georgia College and State University, USA
  Ling Liu, Georgia Tech, USA
  Chang-Tien Lu, Virginia Tech, USA
  Wanli Ma, University of Canberra, Australia
  Sanjay Kumar Madria, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA
  June R. Massoud, (Independent, Montreal, Canada)
  Bertrand Mazure, Universite d'Artois, France 
  Dennis Mcleod, University of Southern California, USA
  Brahim Medjahed, The University of Michigan, USA
  Eduardo Mena, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
  Mariofanna Milanova, University of Arkansas, USA
  Ali Mili, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
  Marvin Minsky, MIT, USA
  Tom Mitchell, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
  Riichiro Mizoguchi, Osaka University, Japan
  Srinivas Mukkamala, New Mexico Tech, USA
  Jay Murthy, Central Michigan University, USA   
  Abhaya Nayak, Macquarie University, Australia
  Chris Nowak, DSTO, Australia
  Mehmet Orgun, Macquarie University, Australia
  Maryoly Ortega, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Venezuela
  Michael J. Oudshoorn, Montana State University, USA
  Mourad Oussalah, University of Birmingham, UK 
  Anna C. Grimán Padua, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Venezuela
  Joon S.  Park, Syracuse University, USA
  Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada
  María Pérez, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Venezuela
  Evaggelia Pitoura, University of IOAnnina, Greece
  Beth A. Plale, Indiana University, USA
  Setlur Pradeep, California State University, Sacramento, USA
  Indrakshi Ray, Colorado State University, USA
  Marek Reformat, University of Alberta, Canada 
  Robert Reynolds, Wayne State University, USA 
  Lakhdar Sais, Universite d'Artois, France
  Jim Seliya, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA
  H. Shahriar Shahhoseini, Iran University of Science & Technology, Iran
  Weisong Shi, Wayne State University, USA
  Mei-Ling Shyu, University of Miami, USA
  Waleed W. Smari, University of Dayton, USA
  Yuqing Song, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA
  Marcus Stumptner, University of South Australia, Australia
  Andrew H. Sung, New Mexico Tech, USA
  Li Tan, University of Pennsylvania, USA
  Douglas Thain, University of Notre Dame, UK
  Richard Tzong-Han Tsai, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
  Antonio Vallecillo, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
  Jason van Hulse, First Data  Corp., USA
  Michael VanHilst, Florida Atlantic University, USA
  Cho-Li Wang, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  Pei-fang Wang, SPAWAR Systems Center, USA
  Huaqiang Wei, University of Idaho, USA
  Eric Wong, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
  Shih-Hung Wu, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taiwan R.O.C.
  Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA
  Tao Xie, San Diego State University, USA
  Baowen Xu, Southeast University, P. R. China
  Hongji Yang, De Montfort University, UK
  Jian Yang, Macquarie University, Australia
  Meng Yu, Monmouth University, USA
  Vladimir Zadorozhny, University of Pittsburgh, USA
  Arkay Zaslavsky, Monash University, Australia
  Chengcui Zhang, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
  Chengqi Zhang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
  Kang Zhang, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
  Du Zhang, California State University, USA
  Youtao Zhang, University of Pittsburgh, USA
  Shi Zhong, Yahoo, USA
  Zhi-Hua Zhou, Nanjing University, China
  Xingquan Zhu, Florida Atlantic University, USA