Committees

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

• 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

• 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