Organizers

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Honorary Chairs
Evangelia Micheli-Tzanakou, Rutgers University, USA
Richard J. Duro, Universidade da Coruna, Spain

General Chairs
Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada
Enrique Ruspini, European Centre for Soft Computing, Spain
Fabio Scotti, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

Technical Program Chairs
Fernando Lopez Pena, Universidade da Coruna, Spain
Gourab Sen Gupta, Massey University, New Zealand
Slawomir Wesolkowski, DRDC, Ottawa, Canada

Local Arrangement Chairs
Shervin Shirmohammadi, University of Ottawa, Canada
Daniel Godfrey, University of Ottawa, Canada

Conference Management

Chris Dyer, Conference Catalysts, LLC, USA

Technical Program Committee
Alberto Amato, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Salvatore Baglio, Università di Catania, Italy
Francesco Bellocchio, University of Milan, Italy
Marco Calabrese, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Yonghua Chen, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Rita Dario, ASL-Bari, Italy
Emilio Del Moral Hernandez, USP, Brazil
Serge Demidenko, RMIT Vietnam University, Vietnam
Vincenzo Di Lecce, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Ruggero Donida Labati, University of Milan, Italy
Richard J. Duro, Universidade da Coruna, Spain
Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, University of Ottawa, Canada
Stefano Ferrari, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Jerry Fuh, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Alexander I. Galushkin, Scientific Center of Neurocomputers, Russia
Andrea Guerriero, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Yong Hu, The University of Hong Kong, China
Dan Ionescu, University of Ottawa, Canada
Okyay Kaynak, Bogazici University, Turkey
Ye-Chow Kuang, Monash University, Malaysia
Erik Liau, Infineon, Germany
Gilles Mauris, Universite de Savoie, France
Costantinos Pattichis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada
Leonid Perlovsky, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Emil M. Petriu, University of Ottawa, Canada
Giuseppe Pirlo, Universita’ degli Studi di Bari, Italy
Vincenzo Piuri, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Radu-Emil Precup, Politechica University of Timisoara, Romania
Enrique Ruspini, European Centre for Soft Computing, Spain
Rauf Kh. Sadykhov, Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics, Belarus
Roberto Sassi, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Hydeyuki Sawada, Kagawa University, Japan
Fabio Scotti, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Ian Sillitoe, University of Bor, Sweden
Yizhong Wang, Tianjing University of Science and Technology, China
Mehmet Emin Yuksel, Erciyes University, Turkey
David Zhang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China