Proposed Invited Sessions
An invited session consists of a presentation session of six to 12 or more papers on a specific conference topic, organised as half or full day mini-conference.
Details of proposed invited sessions are shown below.
IS01: Knowledge-based Learning and Education Support System: Design and Function
Chair: Prof. Tomoko Kojiri
Kansai University, Japan
kojiri@kansai-u.ac.jp
Co-chaired by
Dr. Yuki Hayashi
Seikei University
hayashi@st.seikei.ac.jp
Co-chaired by
Prof. Toyohide Watanabe
Nagoya Industrial Science Rseach Institute, Japan
watanabe@is.nagoya-u.ac.jp
IS02: Security Engineering for Knowledge-based & Intelligent Systems & Applications
Chair: Dr. Esmiralda Moradian
Stockholm University, Sweden
esmirald@dsv.su.se OR moradian@kth.se
IS03: Advances in Visual Intelligent Systems
Chair: Prof. Margarita N. Favorskaya
Siberian State Aerospace University, Russia
favorskaya@gmail.com / favorskaya@sibsau.ru
Co-chaired by
Prof. Lakhmi Jain
Lakhmi.Jain@unisa.edu.au
IS04: Innovation, Creative-Class and QOL
Chair: Prof. Dr. Hidetoshi Yoshimura
The University of Kitakyushu, Japan
hyoshimura@kitakyu-u.ac.jp
IS05: Knowledge-Based Systems for e-Business
Chair: Prof. Kazuhiko Tsuda
Graduate School of Business Sciences, The University of TSUKUBA, Tokyo
tsuda@gssm.otsuka.tsukuba.ac.jp
Co-chaired by
Dr. Nobuo Suzuki
KDDI Corporation, Japan
nu-suzuki@kddilabs.jp
Co-chaired by
Prof. Masakazu Takahashi
University of Yamaguchi, Japan
masakazu@yamaguchi-u.ac.jp
IS06: Chance Discovery and Market of Data
Chair: Dr. Akinori Abe
Chiba University, Japan
ave@ultimaVI.arc.net.my
Co-chaired by
Dr. Yukio Ohsawa
The University of Tokyo
ohsawa@sys.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
IS07: Intelligent Human-Computer Interaction
Chair: Prof. Kazuhisa Seta
Graduate School of Science, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
seta [@] mi.s.osakafu-u.ac.jp
IS08: Recent Advances in Knowledge Engineering and Soft Data Paradigms
Chair: Prof. Mika Sato-Ilic
University of Tsukuba, Japan
mika@sk.tsukuba.ac.jp
Co-chaired by
Lakhmi C. Jain
University of South Australia, Australia
Lakhmi.Jain@unisa.edu.au
IS09: Innovation in Automation and Autonomy using Soft Computing Techniques
Chair: Dr. Jeffrey Tweedale
University of South Australia and Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Australia
Jeffrey.tweedale@unisa.edu.au or jeffrey.tweedale@dsto.defence.gov.au
IS10: Culturally-Aware AI Systems
Chair: Prof. Colette Faucher
AMU – Domaine Universitaire de Saint-Jérôme, France
Colette.Faucher@lsis.org
IS11: Competence management systems: design and application
Chair: Dr. Przemysław Różewski
West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, Poland
prozewski@wi.zut.edu.pl
Co-chaired by
Prof. Miguel-Angel Sicilia
Computer Science Department, University of Alcalá, Spain
msicilia@uah.es
Co-chaired by
Prof. Tobias Ley
Institute for Informatics, Tallinn University
tley@tlu.ee
Co-chaired by
Prof. Oleg Zaikin
Warsaw School of Computer Science, Poland
ozaikin@poczta.wwsi.edu.pl
IS12: Intelligent Data Analysis in Applications
Chair: Dr. Urszula Stańczyk
Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland
urszula.stanczyk@polsl.pl
Co-chaired by
Dr. Michał Kozielski
Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland
michal.kozielski@polsl.pl
IS13: Modelling with Qualitative and Quantitative Pairwise Comparisons.
Chair: Prof. Ryszard Janicki
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
janicki@cas.mcmaster.ca
Co-chaired by
Dr. Konrad Kułakowski
AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
IS14: Natural computing
Chair: Prof. Lech T. Polkowski
Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Warszawa Poland
polkow@pjwstk.edu.pl
IS15: Methods and Applications of Intelligent Multimodal data processing
Chair: Dr. Piotr Szczuko
Multimedia Systems Department, Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland
szczuko@multimed.org
IS16: Application of semantic technologies to decision making
Chair: Dr. Cecilia Zanni-Merk
ICube Laboratory / INSA de Strasbourg, France
cecilia.zanni-merk@unistra.fr
Co-chaired by
Dr. Colette Faucher
LSIS & Aix-Marseille University, France
colette.faucher@lsis.org
IS17: Knowledge-Based Intelligent System and Application
Chair: Prof. Yuji Iwahori
Chubu University, Japan
iwahori@cs.chubu.ac.jp
Co-chaired by
Prof. Yoshinori Adachi
Chubu University, Japan
adachiy@isc.chubu.ac.jp
Co-chaired by
Prof. Nobuhiro Inuzuka
Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
inuzuka@nitech.ac.jp
IS18: E-learning as cooperation among higher education institutions
Chair: Prof. Hideyuki Kanematsu
Suzuka National College of Tecnology, Japan
kanemats@mse.suzuka-ct.ac.jp
Co-chaired by
Prof. Kazunori Nishino
Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
nishino@lai.kyutech.ac.jp
Co-chaired by
Prof. Yoshimi Fukumura
Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan
fukumura@oberon.nagaokaut.ac.jp
IS19: Skill Acquisition and Ubiquitous Human Computer Interaction
Chair: Prof. Hirokazu TAKI
Wakayama University, Japan
taki@sys.wakayama-u.ac.jp
Co-chaired by
Assoc. Prof. Masato Soga
Wakayama University, Japan
oga@sys.wakayama-u.ac.jp
IS20: Fuzzy Sets, Fuzzy Logic and its Applications
Chair: Dr. Mrs. Shraddha Ingale
Pune University, India
ingaleshraddha01@gmail.com
IS21: Artificial Intelligence techniques for Business Process Management
Chair: Prof. Stefania Montani
DISIT, University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy
stefania.montani@unipmn.it
IS22: Intelligent solutions in network economy and manufacturing (ISNEM 2014)
Chair: Dr. Arkadiusz Kawa
Poznan University of Economics, Poland
arkadiusz.kawa@ue.poznan.pl
Co-chaired by
Prof. Paweł Pawlewski
Poznan University of Technology, Poland
pawel.pawlewski@put.poznan.pl
IS23: Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems
Chair: Prof. Kazumi Nakamatsu
University of Hyogo, Japan
nakamatu@shse.u-hyogo.ac.jp
Co-chaired by
Prof. Dr. Jair M. Abe
Paulista University, Brazil
IS24: Immunity-Based Systems: Resilient Computing
Chair: Prof. Dr. Yoshiteru Ishida
Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan
is14@sys.cs.tut.ac.jp
Co-Chaired by:
Prof. Joerg Rainer Noennig,
Technical University of Dresden (TUD)
IS25: Remote and virtual laboratories for e-learning
Chair: Prof. Andrew Nafalski
University of South Australia, Australia
nafalski@unisa.edu.au
Co-chaired by
Zorica Nedic
University of South Australia, Australia.
Zorica.nedic@unisa.edu.au
Co-chaired by
Jose Ferreira
Buskerud University College, Norway
josemmf@hibu.no
IS26: Modelling biological vision
Dr. Zorica Nedic
University of South Australia, Australia
Zorica.nedic@unisa.edu.au
IS27: Complex systems
Chair: Assist. Prof. Roman Šperka
Silesian University in Opava, Czech Republic
sperka@opf.slu.cz
IS28: Data Science for Big Data
Chair: Prof. Katsutoshi Yada
Kansai University, Japan
yadalab.conf@gmail.com
Co-chaired by
Takahira Yamaguchi
Keio University, Japan
IS29: Human factors for communication & intelligent systems
Chair: Prof. Atsuko K. Yamazaki
Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan
atsuko@sic.shibaura-it.ac.jp
Co-chaired by
Prof. Hiroshi Hasegawa
Graduate School of Engineering and Science, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan
IS30: Artificial Intelligence Methods in Optimization, Scheduling and Planning
Chair: Prof. Adam Słowik
Koszalin University of Technology, Poland
aslowik@ie.tu.koszalin.pl
Co-chaired by
Prof. Zbigniew Banaszak
Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Z.Banaszak@wz.pw.edu.pl
Co-chaired by
Dr. Grzegorz Bocewicz
Koszalin University of Technology, Poland
bocewicz@ie.tu.koszalin.pl
Co-chaired by
Dr. Krzysztof Bzdyra
Koszalin University of Technology, Poland
krzysztof.bzdyra@tu.koszalin.pl
IS31: Intelligent Network and Service
Chair: Dr. Takaya Yuizono
Japan Advanced Institute Science and Technology, Japan
yuizono@jaist.ac.jp
Co-chaired by
Dr. Motoki Miura
Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
miuramo@mns.kyutech.ac.jp
Co-chaired by
Prof. Jun Munemori
Wakayama University, Japan
munemori@sys.wakayama-u.ac.jp
IS32: Web and Social Intelligence for Supporting Creative Human Activities
Chair: Prof. Taketoshi Ushiama
Kyushu University, Japan
ushiama@design.kyushu-u.ac.jp
Co-chaired by
Prof. Naoto Mukai
Sugiyama Jogakuen University, Japan
nmukai@sugiyama-u.ac.jp
Co-chaired by
Prof. Toyohide Watanabe
Nagoya Industrial Science Research Institute
watanabe@is.nagoya-u.ac.jp
IS33: Knowledge Sharing Network
Chair: Prof. Dr. Shuichiro Yamamoto
Department of Information Science, Tokyo Gakugei University, Japan
yamamotosui@icts.nagoya-u.ac.jp