Organizers

Steering Committee Chair

  • Zbigniew Ras, UNC-Charlotte, USA & Polish-Japanese Academy of IT, Poland

Symposium Chair

  • George Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Program Committee Co-Chairs

  • Michelangelo Ceci, Universita degli Studi di Bari, Italy
  • Nathalie Japkowicz, American University, USA
  • Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

Special Sessions Chair

  • Stefano Ferilli, University of Bari, Italy

Steering Committee

  • Troels Andreasen, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark
  • Annalisa Appice, Universita degli Studi di Bari, Italy
  • Jaime Carbonell, CMU, USA
  • Li Chen, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
  • Henning Christiansen, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark
  • Juan Carlos Cubero, University of Granada, Granada, Spain
  • Floriana Esposito, Universita degli Studi di Bari, Italy
  • Alexander Felfernig, Graz University of Technology, Austria
  • Mohand-Saïd Hacid, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
  • Marzena Kryszkiewicz, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
  • Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
  • Olivier Pivert, Université Rennes 1, France
  • Zbigniew Ras, UNC-Charlotte, USA & Polish-Japanese Academy of IT, Poland
  • Henryk Rybinski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
  • Lorenza Saitta, University Piemonte Orientale, Italy
  • Andrzej Skowron, University of Warsaw, Poland
  • Dominik Slezak, University of Warsaw, Poland
  • Maria Zemankova, NSF, USA

Program Committee

  • Annalisa Appice, University of Bari, Italy
  • Martin Atzmueller, Tilburg University, Netherlands
  • Colin Bellinger, University of Alberta, Canada
  • Robert Bembenik, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
  • Salima Benbernou, Université Paris Descartes, France
  • Petr Berka, University of Economics, Czech Republic
  • Marenglen Biba, University of New York in Tirana, Albania
  • Maria Bielikova, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia
  • Jerzy Błaszczyński, Poznań University of Technology, Poland
  • Gloria Bordogna, National Research Council, Italy
  • Jose Borges, University of Porto, Portugal
  • Ivan Bratko, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • Jianhua Chen, Louisiana State University, USA
  • Roberto Corizzo, University of Bari, Italy
  • Germán Creamer, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
  • Bruno Cremilleux, Universite de Caen, France
  • Claudia d’Amato, University of Bari, Italy
  • Marcilio De Souto, LIFO/University of Orleans, France
  • Luigi Di Caro, University of Turin, Italy
  • Nicola Di Mauro, University of Bari, Italy
  • Stephan Doerfel, University of Kassel, Germany
  • Brett Drury, Scicrop, Brazil
  • Saso Dzeroski, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
  • Christoph F. Eick, University of Houston, USA
  • Tapio Elomaa, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
  • Floriana Esposito, University of Bari, Italy
  • Hadi Fanaee-T, University of Oslo, Norway
  • Nicola Fanizzi, University of Bari, Italy
  • Stefano Ferilli, University of Bari, Italy
  • Sebastien Ferre, Universite de Rennes 1, France
  • Carlos Ferreira, LIAAD INESC Porto LA, Portugal
  • Jørgen Fischer Nilsson, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
  • Naoki Fukuta, Shizuoka University, Japan
  • Fabio Fumarola, University of Bari, Italy
  • Mohamed Gaber, Birmingham City University, UK
  • Chao Gao, Southwest University, USA
  • Paolo Garza, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
  • Laura Giordano, DISIT, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italy
  • Michael Granitzer, University of Passau, Germany
  • Jacek Grekow, Bialystok Technical University, Poland
  • Hakim Hacid, Zayed University, UAE
  • Mohand-Said Hacid, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 – UCBL, France
  • Allel Hadjali, LIAS/ENSMA, France
  • Maria Halkidi, University of Pireas, Greece
  • Jaakko Hollmén, Aalto University, Finland
  • Lothar Hotz, University of Hamburg, Germany
  • Dino Ienco, IRSTEA, France
  • Mieczysław Kłopotek, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
  • Dragi Kocev, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
  • Bozena Kostek, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland
  • Lars Kotthoff, University of Wyoming, USA
  • Marzena Kryszkiewicz, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
  • Dominique Laurent, Université Cergy-Pontoise, France
  • Anne Laurent, LIRMM – UM, France
  • Marie-Jeanne Lesot, LIP6 – UPMC, France
  • Rory Lewis, University of Colorado, USA
  • Antoni Ligeza, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
  • Pawan Lingras, Saint Mary’s University, Nova Scotia, Canada
  • Yang Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
  • Zhen Liu, American University, USA
  • Corrado Loglisci, University of Bari, Italy
  • Henrique Lopes Cardoso, University of Porto, Portugal
  • Donato Malerba, University of Bari, Italy
  • Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
  • Elio Masciari, ICAR-CNR, Italy
  • Florent Masseglia, INRIA, France
  • Paola Mello, University of Bologna, Italy
  • Corrado Mencar, University of Bari, Italy
  • João Mendes-Moreira, University of Porto, Portugal
  • Anna Monreale, Computer Science Dep., University of Pisa, Italy
  • Luis Moreira-Matias, NEC Laboratories Europe, Portugal
  • Neil Murray, ILS Institute, University at Albany – SUNY, USA
  • Mirco Nanni, KDD-Lab ISTI-CNR Pisa, Italy
  • Amedeo Napoli, LORIA Nancy (CNRS – Inria – Université de Lorraine), France
  • Pance Panov, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
  • Ioannis Partalas, Expedia LPS, USA
  • Ruggero G. Pensa, University of Torino, Italy
  • Jean-Marc Petit, Université de Lyon, INSA Lyon, France
  • Gianvito Pio, University of Bari, Italy
  • Olivier Pivert, IRISA-ENSSAT, France
  • Marc Plantevit, LIRIS – Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
  • Lubos Popelinsky, KD Lab, Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
  • Henri Prade, IRIT – CNRS, France
  • Ronaldo Prati, Universidade Federal do ABC – UFABC, Brazil
  • Grzegorz Protaziuk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
  • Chedy Raïssi, INRIA, France
  • Jan Rauch, University of Economics, Czech Republic
  • Christophe Rey, LIMOS – Université Clermont Auvergne, France
  • Rita P. Ribeiro, University of Porto, Portugal
  • Przemyslaw Rokita, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
  • André L.D. Rossi, Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho”, Brazil
  • Salvatore Ruggieri, Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Pisa, Italy
  • Henryk Rybiński, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
  • Hiroshi Sakai, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
  • Yacine Sam, University of Tours, France
  • Jose Salvador Sanchez, Universitat Jaum I, Spain
  • Christoph Schommer, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
  • Marian Scuturici, LIRIS-INSA de Lyon, France
  • Hamida Seba, University Lyon1, France
  • Nazha Selmaoui-Folcher, University of New Caledonia, Caledonia, Noumea
  • Giovanni Semeraro, University of Bari, Italy
  • Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw UIniversity, Poland
  • Dominik Slezak, University of Warsaw & Infobright, Poland
  • Gregory Smits, IRISA-IUT de Lannion, France
  • Arnaud Soulet, Université François Rabelais Tours, France
  • Urszula Stanczyk, Silesian University of Technology, Poland
  • Jerzy Stefanowski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
  • Marcin Sydow, PJIIT and ICS PAS, Warsaw, Poland
  • Xiaohui Tao, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
  • Vicenc Torra, University of Skövde, Sweden
  • Theodoros Tzouramanis, University of the Aegean, Greece
  • Julien Velcin, Université de Lyon 2, France
  • Herna Viktor, University of Ottawa, Canada
  • Yang Wang, Dalian University of Technology, China
  • Guoyin Wang, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
  • Alicja Wieczorkowska, Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Poland
  • Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada
  • Jure Zabkar, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • Bernard Zenko, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
  • Xiaofeng Zhu, Guangxi Normal University, China