Program Committee

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Elhadj Benkhelifa
Staffordshire University
United Kingdom

Brief Bio
Elhadj Benkhelifa is a Full Professor of Computer Science and the Head of Professoriate at Staffordshire University. He is also the founding Director of the Smart Systems, AI and Cybersecurity Research Centre. Elhadj research areas cover cloud computing and applications in its centralised and decentralised forms (Fog/Edge computing, Cloudlet, Blockchain etc), Software Defined Systems. Service Computing, Cybersecurity, Data (Governance, Semantics, analytics, Social Networks), Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering methods. Elhadj has been a keynote speaker to many international venues and has edited a number of conference proceedings and special editions of Scientific Journals. He has published 150+ research papers in conferences and journals and has been the Principal Investigator of a number of collaborative projects and chaired many prominent IEEE conferences. Elhadj is the Chair of the IEEE UK&I Section’s Education office and sits on the West Midland Cyber Resilience Centre’s Advisory Board. Elhadj is Senior Member of IEEE, a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy and Prince2 Practitioner. ... More >>

Xin-She Yang
Middlesex University London
United Kingdom

Brief Bio
Xin-She Yang obtained his DPhil in Applied Mathematics from the University of Oxford. He then worked at Cambridge University and then later at National Physical Laboratory (UK) as a Senior Research Scientist. Now he is Reader in Modelling and Optimization at Middlesex University London, and a co-Editor of the Springer Tracts in Nature-Inspired Computing. He is also an elected Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (FIMA), UK. He was the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) chair for the Task Force on Business Intelligence and Knowledge Management (2015 to 2020). He has published more than 40 books and more than 350 peer-reviewed research papers with more than 90,000 citations, and he has been on the prestigious list of most influential researchers or highly-cited researchers (Web of Sciences) for eight consecutive years since 2016. ... More >>

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Bernd Amann, Sorbonne Université, France
Theodoros Anagnostopoulos, University of the Aegean, Greece
Hamid R. Arabnia, University of Georgia, United States
André Bauer, Illinois Institute of Technology, United States
Josep Maria Carmona Leyva, Independent Researcher, Spain
Gianni Costa, ICAR-CNR, Italy
Rebeca P. Díaz Redondo, University of Vigo, Spain
Fabien Duchateau, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 / LIRIS, France
Luiz Paulo Fávero, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Luis Lino Ferreira, School of Engineering of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal
Sandra Geisler, Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology FIT, Germany
Fabio Grandi, University of Bologna, Italy
Jukka Heikkonen, University of Turku, Finland
Andreas Henrich, University of Bamberg, Germany
Jang-Eui Hong, Chungbuk National University, Korea, Republic of
Nadeem Iftikhar, University College of Northern Denmark, Denmark
Herbert Jodlbauer, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Austria
Nawsher Khan, King Khalid University Abha, Saudi Arabia
Praveen Kumar, Astana IT University, Kazakhstan
Arijit Laha, Infosys, India
Christos Makris, University of Patras, Greece
Paulo Martins, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD), Portugal
John A. Miller, University of Georgia, United States
Helmi Zulhaidi Mohd Shafri, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
Arghir-Nicolae Moldovan, National College of Ireland, Ireland
José Maria Monteiro, Federal University of Ceara, Brazil
Erich Neuhold, University of Vienna, Austria
Alex Norta, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Riccardo Ortale, ICAR-CNR, Italy
Marcin Paprzycki, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Jorge Poco, Fundação Getulio Vargas, Brazil
André Pomp, University of Wuppertal, Germany
Piotr Porwik, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland
Hamidreza Rabiei-Dastjerdi, School of History and Geography, Dublin City University College (DCU), Ireland
Mercedes Ruiz, University of Cadiz, Spain
Friedemann Schwenkreis, Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University Stuttgart (DHBW Stuttgart), Germany
Diego Seco, Universidade da Coruña, Spain
Dragan Stojanovic, University of Nis, Serbia
Sergey Stupnikov, Federal Research Center "Computer Science and Control", Russian Federation
Horia-Nicolai Teodorescu, Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iasi, Romania
Jari Veijalainen, Univ. of Jyvaskyla, Finland
Yolanda Vidal, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Gianluigi Viscusi, Linkoping University, Sweden
Qingguo Wang, Meharry Medical College, United States
Shengkun Xie, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada
Cleber Zanchettin, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
Congcong Zhou, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, Zhejiang University, China
Marta Zorrilla, University of Cantabria, Spain

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