KES2013 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.

KES2013 IPC Members

Name	Affiliation
Prof. Akinori Abe	NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan
Dr. Jair Minoro Abe	Paulista University and Institute For Advanced Studies, University of Sao Paulo - Brazil
Prof. Yoshinori Adachi	Chubu University, Japan
Prof. Andrew Adamatzky	Unconventional Computing Centre, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
Prof. Dr. Masayoshi Aritsugi	Kumamoto University, Japan
Dr. Ahmad Taher Azar	Misr University for Science and Technology, Egypt.
Mitu Bannore	Telstra, Australia
Dr. Vivek Bannore	Optus Business - Alphawest, Australia
Dr. Mihai Boicu	George Mason University
Dr. Gloria Bordogna	CNR IDPA, Italy
Dr. Janos Botzheim	Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
Dr. Zaki Brahmi	Riadi Laboratory-ENSI-Tunisia
Prof. Andre Ponce de Leon F. de Carvalho	University of Sao Paulo, Sao Carlos, Brazil
Prof. Michele Ceccarelli	University of Sannio, Italy
Prof. Dr. Fi-John Chang	National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Dr. Igor Chikalov	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
Ms. Darya Chyzhyk	University of Basque Country
Prof. Alfredo Cuzzocrea	ICAR-CNR & University of Calabria
Prof. Ireneusz Czarnowski	Gdynia Maritime University, Poland
Prof. Philippe De Wilde	Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
Dr. Liya Ding	National University of Singapore
Prof. Richard J. Duro	Universidade da Coruña, Spain
Dr. Tomoe Entani	Kochi University, Japan
Prof. Colette Faucher	LSIS, AMU (Aix-Marseille University), Marseille, FRANCE
Prof. Margarita Favorskaya	Siberian State Aerospace University, Russian Federation
Dr. Arthur Filippidis	DSTO
Dr. Peter Foldesi	Szechenyi Istvan University, Hungary
Dr. Tetsuo Fuchino	Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Prof. Colin Fyfe	University of the West of Scotland
Dr. Maria Ganzha	System Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences (short form SRI PAS) and University of Gdansk
Prof. Weijun Gao	Kitakyushu City University, Japan
Prof. Juan M. Górriz	University of Granada, Spain
Prof. Manuel Graña	University of the Basque Country
Prof. Dr. Barbara Hammer	Bielefeld University
Dr. Takashi Hamaguchi	Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
Dr. Alex Hariz	University of South Australia
Dr. Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis	Dept of Computer Engineering & Informatics, University of Patras, Greece
Prof. Dr. Atsuo Hazeyama	Tokyo Gakugei University, Japan
Prof. Francisco Herrera	University of Granada, Spain
Prof. Katsuhiro Honda	Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
Prof. Wei-Chiang Hong	School of Information, Zhejiang University of Finance & Economics, China
Dr. Nikhil Ichalkaranje	Government of South Australia, Adelaide SA
Dr. Mrs. Shraddha Ingale	Pune University, India
Prof. Dr. Yoshiteru Ishida	Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan
Prof. Naohiro Ishii	Aichi Institute of Technology, Japan
Prof. Yuji Iwahori	Chubu University, Japan
Prof. Piotr Jedrzejowicz	Gdynia Maritime University, Poland
Dr. Ivan Jordanov	University of Portsmouth, UK
Prof. Vladimir Jotsov	SULSIT - Sofia, Bulgaria, EU
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
Prof. Hiroharu Kawanaka	Mie University, Japan
Dr. Naoki Kimura	Kyushu University, Japan
Prof. Syoji Kobashi	University of Hyogo, Japan
Dr. Tomoko Kojiri	Kansai University, Japan
Assistant Prof. Constantinos Koutsojannis	Technological Educational Institute of Patras
Prof. Ryszard Kowalczyk	Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Prof. Mario Kusek	University of Zagreb, Croatia
Prof. Dr. Halina Kwasnicka	Institute of Informatics, Worclaw University of Technology, Poland
Prof. Kathy Liszka	The University of Akron
Director Chengjun Liu	New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark
Prof. Ignac Lovrek	University of Zagreb, Croatia
Dr. Minhua Ma	Glasgow School of Art, University of Glasgow
Dr. Hideyuki Matsumoto	Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Prof. Yoshiyuki Matsumoto	Shimonoseki City University, Japan
Dr. Kenji Matsuura	The University of Tokushima, Japan
Prof. Radko Mesiar	Slovak University of Technology Bratislava, Slovakia
Prof. Jose M. Molina	University Carlos III of Madrid
Dr. Antonio Moreno	University Rovira i Virgili (URV)
Dr. Esmiralda Moradian	Stockholm University, Sweden
Assoc Prof. Stefania Montani, Ph.D.	Universita' del Piemonte Orientale, Italy
Prof. Naoto Mukai	Sugiyama Jogakuen University, Japan
Prof. Jun Munemori	Wakayama University, Japan
Prof. Andrew Nafalski	University of South Australia/Lublin University of Technology
Prof. Shin'ya Nagasawa	Waseda University, Japan
Prof. Hirofumi Nagashino	The University of Tokushima, Japan
Prof. Dr. Kazumi Nakamatsu	University of Hyogo, Japan
Dr. Sergey Nesterov	University of South Australia
Dr. Maria Nicoletti	UFSCar & FACCAMP - S. Paulo, Brazil
Dr. Ioannis K. Nikolos	Technical University of Crete, Greece
Prof. Dr. Yoko Nishihara	Ritsumeikan University
Prof. Nobuhiro Inuzuka	Nagoya Inst. of Technology, Japan
Dr. Peter Novak	Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Prof. Roy Oberhauser	Aalen University, Germany
Dr. Osvaldo Luiz Oliveira	Faculty of Campo Limpo Paulista, Brazil.
Prof. Eugénio Oliveira	University of Porto, Portugal
Prof. Marcin Paprzycki	Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences
Dr. eng. Pawel Pawlewski	Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Prof. Jim Prentzas	Democritus University of Thrace, School of Education Sciences, Dept. of Education Sciences in Pre-School Age
Prof. Anca Ralescu	University of Cincinnati, USA
Prof. Nancy Reed	University of Hawaii
Dr. Jose Hiroki Saito	Federal University of Sao Carlos, Brazil
Prof. Marcello Sanguineti	University of Genova, Italy
Prof. Hiroshi Sakai	Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Prof. Mika Sato-Ilic	University of Tsukuba, Japan
Dr. Rainer Schmidt	University of Rostock, Germany
Dr. Friedhelm Schwenker	University of Ulm, Institute of Neural Information Processing, Germany
Prof. Dr. Udo Seiffert	Fraunhofer-Institute IFF Magdeburg, Germany Expert Group Manager, Biosystems Engineering
Prof. Kazuhisa Seta	Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
Prof. Hisao Shiizuka	Kogakuin University, Japan
Prof. Andrzej Skowron	University of Warsaw, Poland
Dr. Andrzej Stefan Sluzek	Khalifa University of Science, Abu Dhabi
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Masato Soga	Wakayama University, Japan
Dr. Nobuo Suzuki	KDDI Corporation, Japan
Prof. Eulalia Szmidt	Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences
Prof. Masakazu Takahashi	Yamaguchi University, Japan
Dr. Kazuhiro Takeda	Shizuoka University, Japan
Prof. Dr. Hirokazu Taki,	Wakayama University, Japan
Dr. Yasuhisa Tamura	Sophia University, Japan
Prof. Dr. Mieko Tanaka-Yamawaki	Tottori University, Japan
Dr. Peter Tino	University of Birmingham, UK
Prof. Andreas Tolk	Old Dominion University, Norfolk
Dr. Carlos Toro	Vicomtech-IK4 Research centre, Spain
Prof. Kazuhiko Tsuda	The University of Tsukuba,Tokyo, Japan
Prof. Shusaku Tsumoto	Shimane University, Japan
Dr. Jeffrey W. Tweedale	University of South Australia and Defence Science and Technology Organisation
Prof. Eiji Uchino	Yamaguchi University, Japan
Prof. Taketoshi Ushiama	Kyushu University, Japan
Assistant Prof. Juan D. Velásquez	Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Chile
Dr. Piotr Wasilewski	University of Warsaw, Poland
Prof. Toyohide Watanabe	Nagoya University, Japan
Prof. Yoshiyuki Yabuuchi	Shimonoseki City University, Japan
Prof. Katsutoshi Yada	Kansai University, Japan
Prof. Dr. Shuichiroh Yamamoto	Nagoya University, Japan
Prof. Hidetoshi Yoshimura	Kitakyushu City University, Japan
Assoc. Prof. Takaya Yuizono	Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Prof Cecilia Zanni-Merk, PhD	INSA de Strasbourg, France
Prof. Guangquan Zhang,	University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Dr. Beata Zielosko	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Saudi Arabia)
Prof. Dr. Rodolfo Zunino	Genoa University, Italy