KES2019 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.

KES2019 IPC Members

Name	Affiliation
Prof. Akinori Abe	Chiba University, Japan
Dr. Jair Minoro Abe	Paulista University & University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Prof. Yoshinori Adachi	Chubu University, Japan
Prof. Flora Amato	University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Prof. Alonso-Betanzos Amparo	University of A Coruna, Spain
Assoc. Prof. Peter Antal	Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Prof. Kyota Aoki	Utsunomiya University, Japan
Prof. Masayoshi Aritsugi	Kumamoto University, Japan
Prof. Piotr Artiemjew	University Warmia and Mazury, Poland
Prof. Ahmad Taher Azar	Benha University, Egypt
Dr. Hajer Baazaoui	University of Manouba, Tunisia
Prof. Valentina Balas	Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania
Prof. Zbigniew Banaszak	Koszalin Technical University, Poland
Dr. Vivek Bannore	KES UniSA, Australia
Prof. Dana M. Barry	Clarkson University, USA
Prof. Monica Bianchini	University of Siena, Italy
Assist. Prof. Manish Bhardwaj	KIET Group of Institutions, India
Dr. Bence Bolgar	Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Dr. Janos Botzheim	Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Prof. Sadok Bouamama	Higher College of Technology, DMC, Dubai
Prof. Dumitru Dan Burdescu	University of Craiova, Romania
Prof. Alfonso Mateos Caballero	Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Assoc. Prof. Frantisek Capkovic	Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia
Prof. Giovanna Castellano	University of Bari, Italy
Dr. Nathalie Chaignaud	LITIS - INSA Rouen Normandie, France
Assist. Prof. Jyotir Moy Chatterjee	Asia Pacific University of Technology & Innovation, Nepal
Prof. Mu-Chen Chen	National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Prof. Mu-Song Chen	Da-Yeh University, Taiwan
Prof. Stelvio Cimato	University of Milan, Italy
Dr. Angela Consoli	Defence Science and Technology Group, Australia
Dr. Paulo Cortez	University of Minho, Portugal
Dr. Giovanni Cozzolino	University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Dr. Paolo Crippa	Universita Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
Assoc. Prof. Gloria Cerasela Crisan	Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacau, Romania
Prof. Alfredo Cuzzocrea	University of Trieste & ICAR-CNR, Italy
Dr. Niladri Shekhar Dash	Indian Statistical Institute, India
Dr. Pankaj Deshwal	University of Delhi, India
Prof. Liya Ding	Meiji University, Japan
Prof. Tadeusz P. Dobrowiecki	Technical University of Budapest, Hungary
Prof. Jozsef Dombi	University of Szeged, Hungary
Prof. Mark Embrechts	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Prof. Anna Esposito	Università della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Italy
Dr. Amira Essaid	CESI, engineering school, France
Dr. Alena V. Favorskaya	Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia
Prof. Margarita N. Favorskaya	Reshetnev Siberian State University of Science and Technology, Russia
Prof. Gianluigi Ferrari	University of Parma, Italy
Dr. Muhammad Marwan Muhammad Fuad	Coventry University, UK
Prof. Maria Ganzha	Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Prof. Faiez Gargouri	University of Sfax, Tunisia
Dr. Kam Meng Goh	Tunku Abdul Rahman University College, Malaysia
Prof Anne Hakansson	IFI, UIT, Tromso, Norway
Prof. Saman K. Halgamuge	The University of Melbourne, Australia
Dr. Moez Hammami	University of Tunis, Tunisia
Prof. Ralf-Christian Harting	University of Aalen, Germany
Prof. Ronald Hartung	Franklin University, USA
Prof. Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis	University of Patras, Greece
Dr. Teruaki Hayashi	University of Tokyo, Japan
Prof. Tessai Hayama	Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan
Dr. Yuki Hayashi	Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
Prof Atsuo Hazeyama	Tokyo Gakugei University, Japan
Dr. Dawn E.Holmes	University of California, USA
Prof. Katsuhiro Honda	Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
Assoc. Prof. Daocheng Hong	East China Normal University, China
Prof. Tzung-Pei Hong	National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Prof. Wei-Chiang Hong	Jiangsu Normal University, China
Prof. Xiangpei Hu	Dalian University of Technology, China
Assoc. Prof. Gabor Hullam	Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Dr. Shraddha Ingale	Pune University, India
Dr. Radu Tudor Ionescu	University of Bucharest, Romania
Prof. Nor Ashidi Mat Isa	Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
Prof. Dr. Yoshiteru Ishida	Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan
Prof. Nobuhiro Inuzuka	Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
Prof. Mirjana Ivanovic	University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Prof. Yuji Iwahori	Chubu University, Japan
Prof. Ryszard Janicki	McMaster University, Canada
Prof. Jaroslaw Jankowski	West Pomeranian University of Technology, Poland
Prof. Reza Jazar	RMIT University, Australia
Prof. Piotr Jedrzejowicz	University of Gdansk, Poland
Prof. Mark Jelasity	University of Szeged, Hungary
Prof. Girish Nath Jha	Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Prof. Vladimir Jotsov	ULSIT-Sofia, Bulgaria
Prof. Joanna Jozefowska	Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Prof. Haruhiko Kaiya	Kanagawa University, Japan
Prof. Hideyuki Kanematsu	Suzuka National College of Technology, Japan
Assoc. Prof. Da-Yu Kao	Central Police University, Taiwan
Prof. Nikos Karacapilidis	University of Patras, Greece
Prof. Hedi Karray	University of Toulouse, France
Dr. Arkadiusz Kawa	Poznan University of Economics, Poland
Dr. Cheonshik Kim	Sejong University, Korea
Prof. Frank Klawonn	Ostfalia University, Germany
Prof. Tomoko Kojiri	Kansai University, Japan
Assoc. Prof. Constantinos Koutsojannis	Western Greece University of Applied Sciences, Greece
Prof. Boris Kovalerchuk	Central Washington University, USA
Prof. Dr. Laszlo Koczy	Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Assist Prof. Krzysztof Pancerz	University of Rzeszow, Poland
Dr. Konrad Kulakowski	AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
Prof. Mario Kusek	University of Zagreb, Croatia
Prof. Noriyuki Kushiro	Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Prof. Kazuhiro Kuwabara	Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Prof. Halina Kwasnicka	Wroclaw University of Science and Technology (WUST), Poland
Dr. Giorgio Leonardi	Universita degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale, Italy
Prof. Chee Peng Lim	Deakin University, Australia
Prof. Chengjun Liu	New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Prof. Jie Lu	University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Assoc. Prof. Istvan Majzik	Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Dr. Francesco Malandrino	Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Prof. Federica Mandreoli	University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Dr. Christos Makris	University of Patras, Greece
Neel Mani	Amity University, India
Prof. Eleni Mangina	University College Dublin, Ireland
Dr. Riccardo Martoglia	University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Prof. Manuel Mazzara	Innopolis university, Russia
Prof. Giovanni Mazzeo	University of Naples “Parthenope”, Italy
Dr. Lin Meng	Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Dr. Francesco Mercaldo	National Council Research of Italy, Italy
Assoc. Prof. Zoltan Micskei	Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Prof. Lyudmila Mihaylova	University of Sheffield, UK
Prof. Victor Mitrana	Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain
Dr. Hiroyuki Mitsuhara	Tokushima University, Japan
Assist. Prof. Hirokazu Miura	Wakayama University, Japan
Prof. Panchanan Mohanty	University of Hyderabad, India
Prof. Stefania Montani	Universita' del Piemonte Orientale, Italy
Dr. Esmiralda Moradian	Stockholm University, Sweden
Prof. Mikhail Moshkov	KAUST, Saudi Arabia
Prof. Andrew Nafalski	University of South Australia, Australia
Prof Shin'ya Nagasawa	Waseda University, Japan
Assist. Prof. Katsuko T. Nakahira	Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan
Prof. Jun Nakamura	Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan
Prof. Grzegorz Nalepa	AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
Dr. Piotr Nikonczuk	West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, Poland
Dr. Shastri L. Nimmagadda	Curtin University, Australia
Prof. Kazunori Nishino	Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Prof. Vilem Novak	University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Prof. Roy Oberhauser	Aalen University, Germany
Prof. Nobuyuki Ogawa	National Institute of Technology, Japan
Prof. Yukio Ohsawa	University of Tokyo, Japan
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Takeshi Okamoto	Kanagawa Institute of Technology, Japan
Dr. Osvaldo Luiz Oliveira	UNIFACCAMP, Brazil
Assist. Prof. Wieslaw Paja	University of Rzeszow, Poland
Prof. Stefan Panic	University of Pristina, Serbia
Prof. Marcin Paprzycki	Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Prof. Andras Pataricza	Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Prof. Andrei Paun	University of Bucharest and National Research Institute for Biological Sciences, Romaina
Prof. Pawel Pawlewski	Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Prof. Manuel Gonzalez Penedo	Research Center CITIC; University of Coruna, Spain
Prof. Petra Perner	Institute of Computer Vision and applied Computer Sciences Leipzig, Germany
Prof.Georg Peters	Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Prof. Alfredo Petrosino	University of Napoli Parthenope, Italy
Dr. Clara Pizzuti	National Research Council of Italy, Italy
Prof. Lech T. Polkowski	University of Warmia and Mazury, Poland
Prof. Oliver Popov	Stockholm University, Sweden
Prof. Luigi Portinale	University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy
Prof. Chinthaka Premachandora	Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan
Prof. Jim Prentzas	Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Prof. Elisabeth Rakus-Andersson	Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Dr. Abolfazl Razi	Northern Arizona University, USA
Dr. Traian Rebedea	University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Dr. Marina Resta	University of Genova, Italy
Dr. Fernando Roda	SIRIS Academic SL, Spain
Dr. Jose Hiroki Saito	UFSCar/UNIFACCAMP, Brazil
Dr. Wojciech Salabun	West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, Poland
Dr. Cesar Sanin	University of Newcastle, Australia
Prof. Suresh Chandra Satapathy	KIIT, Bhubaneswar, India
Prof. Mika Sato-Ilic	University of Tsukuba, Japan
Dr. Claudio Savaglio	University della Calabria, Italy
Prof. Rafal Scherer	Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland
Dr. Rainer Schmidt	University of Rostock, Germany
Dr. Friedhelm Schwenker	Ulm University, Germany
Prof. Dharmendra Sharma	Canberra University, Australia
Dr. Umar Shoaib	University of Gujrat, Pakistan
Prof. Miguel-Angel Sicilia	University of Alcala, Spain
Assist. Prof. Ingo Siegert	Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
Dr. Leslie F. Sikos	Edith Cowan University, Australia
Dr. Milan Simic	RMIT University, Australia
Prof. Andrzej Sluzek	Khalifa University, UAE
Dr. Eng. Annalisa Socievole	National Research Council of Italy, Italy
Assoc. Prof. Masato Soga	Wakayama University, Japan
Prof. Michael Soltys	California State University at Channel Islands, USA
Prof. Roman Sperka	Silesian University in Opava, Czech Republic
Dr. Maria Spichkova	RMIT University, Australia
Dr. Urszula Stanczyk	Silesian University of Technology, Poland
Assoc. Prof. Catalin Stoean	University of Craiova, Romania
Assoc.Prof. Ruxandra Stoean	University of Craiova, Romania
Prof. Toshiharu Sugawara	Waseda University, Japan
Prof. Lijun Sun	Dalian University of Technology, China
Dr. Nobuo Suzuki	Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International, Japan
Prof. Edward Szczerbicki	University of Newcastle, Australia
Prof. Eulalia Szmidt	Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Prof. Masakazu Takahashi	University of Yamaguchi, Japan
Prof. Hirokazu Taki	Wakayama University, Japan
Assoc. Prof. Shing Chiang Tan	Faculty of Information Science and Technology,Multimedia University, Malaysia
Prof. Takao Terano	Chiba University of Commerce, Japan
Dr. Dilhan J. Thilakarathne	VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands
Dr. Masahiro Tokumitsu	National Institute of Technology, Yonago College, Japan
Dr. Arkadiusz Tomczyk	Lodz University of Technology, Poland
Dr. Carlos Toro	A Star, Singapore
Prof. Ljiljana Trajkovic	Simon Fraser University, Canada
Dr. Edmondo Trentin	University of Siena, Italy
Assis. Prof. Fuching Tsai	Central Police University, Taiwan
Prof. Kazuhiko Tsuda	University of Tsukuba, Japan
Prof. Eiji Uchino	Yamaguchi University, Japan
Prof. Hiroshi Ueda	Kyoto University, Japan
Prof. Taketoshi Ushiama	Kyushu University, Japan
Prof. Laurent Vercouter	INSA Rouen, France
Dr. Goyal Vishal	Panjabi University Patiala, India
Prof. Zeev Volkovich	ORT Braude College Karmiel, Israel
Prof. Junzo Watada	Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Malaysia
Prof. Toyohide Watanabe	Nagoya University, Japan
Assoc. Prof. Jaroslaw Watrobski	University of Szczecin, Poland
Assoc. Prof. Marcin Wozniak	Silesian University of Technology, Poland
Prof. Yoshiyuki Yabuuchi	Shimonoseki City University, Japan
Prof. Katsutoshi Yada	Kansai University, Japan
Prof. Kuniaki Yajima	National Institute of Technology, Japan
Prof. Takahira Yamaguchi	Keio University, Japan
Prof. Shuichiro Yamamoto	Nagoya University, Japan
Assoc. Prof. Ryosuke Yamanishi	Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Prof. James C.N. Yang	National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan
Prof. Takashi Yukawa	Nagaoka Institute of Technology, Japan
Prof. Takaya Yuizono	Advance Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Prof. Danuta Zakrzewska	Lodz University of Technology, Poland
Dr. Cecilia Zanni-Merk	ICube Laboratory / INSA de Strasbourg, France
Dr. Mahdi Zargayouna	IFSTTAR, France
Prof. Krzysztof Zatwarnicki	Opole University of Technology, Poland
Dr. Li Zhang	Northumbria University, UK
Dr. Beata Zielosko	University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland
Prof. Ewa Ziemba	University of Economics in Katowice, Poland
Prof. Alfred Zimmermann	Reutlingen University, Germany
Prof. Dr. Sergey Zykov	National Research University Higher School of Economics - and - National Research University MEPhI, Russia