KES2014 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.

KES2014 IPC Members

Name	Affiliation
Dr. Akinori Abe	Chiba University, Japan
Prof. Yoshinori Adachi	Chubu University, Japan
Dr. Masayoshi Aritsugi	Kumamoto University, Japan
Dr. Ahmad Taher Azar	Faculty of computers and Information, Benha University, Egypt.
Prof. Zbigniew Banaszak	Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Dr. Vivek Bannore	Alphawest Services Pty Ltd, Australia
Dr. Grzegorz Bocewicz	Koszalin University of Technology, Poland
Dr. Gloria Bordogna	CNR - National Research Council, Italy
Dr. Janos Botzheim	Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
Dr. Zaki Brahmi	RIADI-Lab, Tunisia
Dr. Krzysztof Bzdyra	Koszalin University of Technology, Poland
Dr. Frantisek Capkovic	Institute of Informatics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia
Prof. Andre Ponce de Leon F de Carvalho	Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil
Prof. Michele Ceccarelli	University of Sannio, Italy
Prof. Mu-Song Chen	Da-Yeh University, Taiwan
Dr. Darya Chyzhyk	University of Basque Country
Prof. Alfredo Cuzzocrea	ICAR-CNR & University of Calabria, Italy
Dr. Liya Ding	Institute of Systems Science, National University of Singapore
Prof. Barbara Dunin-Kęplicz	University of Warsaw, Poland
Prof. Richard Duro	Universidade da Coruña, Spain
Prof. Colette Faucher	AMU (Aix-Marseille Université) France
Prof Margarita N. Favorskaya	Siberian State Aerospace University, Russia
Dr. Muhammad Marwan Muhammad Fuad	The University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway
Prof. Yoshimi Fukumura	Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan
Prof. Maria Ganzha	System Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Prof. Manuel Graña	University of the Basque Country, Spain
Prof. Hiroshi Hasegawa	Graduate School of Engineering and Science, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan
Prof. Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis	University of Patras, Greece
Dr. Yuki Hayashi	Seikei University, Japan
Prof. Atsuo Hazeyama	Tokyo Gakugei University, Japan
Prof. Francisco Herrera	University of Granada, Spain
Prof. Wei-Chiang Hong	School of Information, Zhejiang University of Finance & Economics, China
Dr. Mrs. Shraddha Ingale	Pune University, India
Prof. Nobuhiro Inuzuka	Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
Prof. Naohiro Ishii	Aichi Institute of Technology, Japan
Prof. Dr. Yoshiteru Ishida	Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan
Prof. Yuji Iwahori	Chubu University, Japan
Prof. Ryszard Janicki	McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Prof. Joanna Jedrzejowicz	University of Gdansk, Institute of Informatics, Poland
Dr. Ivan Jordanov	University of Portsmouth, UK
Prof. Vladimir Jotsov	ULSIT-Sofia, Bulgaria
Prof. Joanna Józefowska	Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Prof. Hideyuki Kanematsu	Suzuka National College of Tecnology, Japan
Dr. Anastasia N. Kastania	Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Dr. Hideki Katagiri	Hiroshima University, Japan
Dr. Arkadiusz Kawa	Poznan University of Economics, Poland
Dr. Hiroharu Kawanaka	Mie University, Japan
Prof. Syoji Kobashi	University of Hyogo, Japan
Prof. Tomoko KOJIRI	Kansai University, Japan
Dr. Michał Kozielski	Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland
Dr. Dariusz Krol	Bournemouth University, UK
Prof. Yasuo Kudo	Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan
Dr. Konrad Kułakowski	AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
Prof. Mario Kusek	University of Zagreb, Croatia
Prof. Tobias Ley	Institute for Informatics, Tallinn University
Prof. Ignac Lovrek	University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Croatia
Dr. Kenji Matsuura	The University of Tokushima, Japan
Prof. Radko Mesiar	STU Bratislava, Slovakia
Dr. Motoki Miura	Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Prof. Stefania Montani	University of Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria, Italy
Dr. Esmiralda Moradian	Stockholm University, Sweden
Dr. Antonio Moreno	Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) Tarragona, Spain
Prof. Mikhail Moshkov	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
Prof. Jun Munemori	Wakayama University, Japan
Prof T. Murai	Hokkaido University, Japan
Prof. Andrew Nafalski	University of South Australia, Australia
Prof. Edward Nawarecki	AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
Prof. Kazumi Nakamatsu	University of Hyogo, Japan
Dr. Zorica Nedic	University of South Australia, Australia
Dr. Sergey Nesterov	University of South Australia, Australia
Prof. Kazunori Nishino	Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Prof. Ioannis K. Nikolos	School of Production Engineering and Management, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece.
Dr. Maria do Carmo Nicoletti	FACCAMP, C. L. Paulista, SP, Brazil
Dr. Yoko Nishihara	Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Prof. Roy Oberhauser	Aalen University, Germany
Dr. Carlos Ocampo-Martinez	Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) Spain
Dr. Yukio Ohsawa	The University of Tokyo
Prof. Eugénio Oliveira	Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto; LIACC, Portugal
Dr. Osvaldo Oliveira	Faculty Campo Limpo Paulista, Brazil
Prof. Cezary Orłowski	Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland
Prof. Marcin Paprzycki	Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Prof. Paweł Pawlewski	Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Prof. Petra Perner	Institute of Computer Vision and applied Computer Sciences, IBaI
Prof. Lech T. Polkowski	Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Warszawa, Poland
Prof. Jim Prentzas	Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Prof. Zbigniew W. Ras	University of North Carolina, USA & Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Assoc. Prof. Nancy E. Reed	University of Hawaii, Information and Computer Sciences Dept.
Dr. Przemysław Różewski	West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, Poland
Dr. Rajesh Reghunadhan	Central University of Bihar, India
Prof. Marcello Sanguineti	University of Genova, Italy
Prof. Mika Sato-Ilic	University of Tsukuba, Japan
Dr. Alexandre Manhães Savio	University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)
Dr. Rainer Schmidt	University of Rostock, Institute for Biostatistics and Informatics in Medicine and Aging Research
Dr. Friedhelm Schwenker	Ulm University, Germany
Prof. Udo Seiffert	Fraunhofer IFF Magdeburg, Germany
Prof. Kazuhisa Seta	Graduate School of Science, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
Prof. Dr. Hisao Shiizuka	Kogakuin University, Japan
Prof. Miguel-Angel Sicilia	University of Alcalá, Spain
Prof. Andrzej Skowron	The University of Warsaw, Poland
Prof. Adam Słowik	Koszalin University of Technology, Poland
Prof. Roman Słowiński	Poznań University of Technology, Poland
Assoc. Prof. Andrzej Sluzek	Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi
Assoc. Prof. Masato Soga	Wakayama University, Japan
Assist. Prof. Roman Šperka	Silesian University in Opava, Czech Republic
Dr. Urszula Stańczyk	Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland
Dr. Nobuo Suzuki	KDDI Corporation, Japan
Dr. Piotr Szczuko	Multimedia Systems Department, Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland
Prof. Edward Szczerbicki	The University of Newcastle, Australia
Prof. Masakazu Takahashi	University of Yamaguchi, Japan
Prof. Hirokazu Taki	Wakayama University, Japan
Dr. Steve Thatcher	University of South Australia, Australia
Dr. Carlos Toro	Vicomtech-IK4 Research Centre, Spain
Prof. Kazuhiko Tsuda	The University of TSUKUBA, Tokyo
Dr. Jeffrey W. Tweedale	University of South Australia and Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Australia
Prof. Eiji Uchino	Yamaguchi University, Japan
Prof. Taketoshi Ushiama	Kyushu University, Japan
Prof. Junzo Watada	Waseda University, Japan
Prof. Toyohide Watanbe	Nagoya Industrial Science Rseach Institute, Japan
Prof. Katsutoshi Yada	Kansai University, Japan
Prof. Takahira Yamaguchi	Keio University, Japan
Dr. Atsuko K. Yamazaki	Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan
Prof. Dr. Hidetoshi Yoshimura	The University of Kitakyushu, Japan
Dr. Takaya Yuizono	Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Prof. Dr. Oleg Zaikin	Warszawska Wyższa Szkoła Informatyki, Poland
Dr. Gregory Zacharewicz	IMS University of Bordeaux, France
Dr. Cecilia Zanni-Merk	ICube Laboratory / INSA de Strasbourg, France
Prof. Arkady Zaslavsky	Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia
Prof. Wen-Ran Zhang	Georgia Southern University, USA
Prof. Alfonso Mateos Caballero	Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Dr. Matteo Cristani	Universita di Verona, Italy
Prof. Adam Grzech	Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Prof. Radoslaw Piotr Katarzyniak	Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Dr. Przemyslaw Kazienko	Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Dr. Daniel Moldt	University of Hamburg, Germany
Prof. Grzegorz Nalepa	AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
Prof. Rafal Scherer	Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland
Dr. Alexei Sharpanskykh	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Prof. Michal Wozniak	Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Prof. Danuta Zakrzewska	Lodz University of Technology, Poland
Prof. Krzysztof Zatwarnicki	Opole University of Technology, Poland
Prof. Maria Bielikova	Slovak University of Technology, Slovakia
Prof. Jozef Korbicz	University of Zielona Gora, Poland
Prof. Jacek Koronacki	Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Dr. Bogdan Trawinski	Wroclaw University of Technology