Committees
Honor General Chairs
• Ruqian Lu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
• Dimitris Karagiannis (Chair), University of Vienna, Austria
General Co-Chairs
• Yonghao Leo Wang, Birmingham City University, UK
• Gerard Memmi, Telecom Paris, France
• Meikang Qiu, Augusta University, USA
PC Co-Chairs
• Sun-Yuan Kung, Princeton University, USA
• Junaid Arshad, Birmingham City University, UK
• Taufiq Asyhari, Monash University, Australia
Steering Committees
• Ruqian Lu (Honorary Chair), Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
• Dimitris Karagiannis (Chair), University of Vienna, Austria
• Bo Yang, Jilin University, China
• Chengqi Zhang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
• Christos Douligeris, University of Piraeus, Greece
• Claudiu Kifor, "Lucian Blaga" University of Sibiu, Romania
• Gang Li, Deakin University, Australia
• Hui Xiong, The State University of New Jersey, USA
• Jörg Siekmann, German Research Centre of Artificial Intelligence, Germany
• Martin Wirsing, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
• Meikang Qiu, Augusta University, USA
• Xiaoyang Wang, Zhejiang Gongshang University, China
• Yaxin Bi, Ulster University, UK
• Yoshiteru Nakamori, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
• Yuncheng Jiang, South China Normal University, China
• Zhi Jin, Peking University, China
• Zili Zhang, Southwest University, China
Publication Chair
• Han Qiu, Tsinghua University, China
Publicity Co-Chairs
• Hua Zhou, UCLA, USA
• Yu Huang, Peking University, China
• De Mi, Birmingham City University, UK
Local Co-Chairs
• Rehan Bhana, Birmingham City University, UK
• Peggy Zhu, Birmingham City University, UK
Web Co-Chairs
• Luna Li, Adelphi University, USA
• Ron Austin, Birmingham City University, UK
Technical Committee
• A Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
• Achim D. Brucker, University of Exeter, UK
• Achim Hoffmann, The University of New South Wales, Australia
• Adina Magda Florea, University Politehnica of Bucharest, AI-MAS Laboratory, Romania
• Adrian Groza, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• Agostino Cortesi, Universita' Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Italy
• Andrea Polini, University of Camerino, Italy
• Andreas Martin, FHNW University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland
• Aniello Castiglione,Department of Management and Innovation Systems, University of Salerno, Italy
• Ben Roelens, Open Universiteit, Ghent University, Netherlands
• Bo Luo, The University of Kansas, USA
• Bowen Zhao, School of Computing and Information Systems, Singapore Management University, Singapore
• Carmine Gravino, Department of Computer Science - University of Salerno, Italy
• Cheng Huang, Sichuan University, China
• Chunxia Zhang, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
• Claudiu Kifor, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania
• Cungen Cao, Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing , China
• Dan Oleary, University of Southern California, USA
• Daniel Volovici, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania
• Dantong Ouyang, Jilin University, China
• Dimitris Apostolou, University of Piraeus, Greece
• Ding Wang, Nankai University, China
• Dominique Blouin, Telecom Paris, France
• Dongning Liu, Guangdong University of Technology, China
• Emanuele Laurenzi, FHNW, Switzerland
• Florin Leon, "Gheorghe Asachi" Technical University of Iasi, Romania
• Giancarlo Guizzardi, Ontology and Conceptual Modeling Research Group (NEMO)/Federal University of Espirito Santo (UFES), Brazil
• Guangxia Xu, Chongqing University, China
• Haibo Zhang, University of Otago, New Zealand
• Han Qiu, Tsinghua University, China
• Hans Friedrich Witschel, Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz, Switzerland
• Hansi Jiang, SAS Institute Inc, USA
• Hao Tang, City University of New York, USA
• Hechang Chen, Jilin University, China
• Haitham Mahmoud, Birmingham City University, UK
• Jiahao Cao, Tsinghua University, China
• Jan Vanthienen, KU Leuven, Belgium
• Jia-Huai You, University of Alberta, Canada
• Jianfei Sun, University of Science and Technology of China, China
• Jiangning Wu, Dalian University of Technology, China
• Jianquan Ouyang, Xiangtan University, China
• Jianting Ning, Singapore Management University, Singapore
• Jiaqi Zhu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
• Jinguang Gu, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, China
• Jose Emilio Labra Gayo, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain
• Juan Manuel Vara, University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
• Jue Wang, Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
• Jun Zheng, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, USA
• Junwei Zhang, Xidian University, China
• Kewei Sha, University of Houston – Clear Lake, USA
• Krzysztof Kluza, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
• Leilei Sun, Beihang University, China
• Liang Chang, Guilin University of Electronic Science and Technology, China
• Luca Cernuzzi, Universidad Católica, Chile
• Man Zhou, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
• Marite Kirikova, Riga Technical University, Latvia
• Marta Fernández-Diego, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
• Maurice Pagnucco, The University of New South Wales, Australia
• Maya Daneva, University of Twente, Netherlands
• Md Ali, Rider University, USA
• Meiyong Liu, Sun Yat-sen University, China
• Meng Li, Hefei University of Technology, China
• Mouna Kamel, IRIT - Université Paul Sabatier - Toulouse, France
• Naveed Khan, Ulster University, UK
• Nhien-An Le-Khac, University College Dublin, Ireland
• Nick Bassiliades Aristotle, University of Thessaloniki, Greece
• Norbert Pataki, Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Informatics, Department of Programming Languages and Compilers, Hungary
• Olga Korableva, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia
• Ovidiu Noran, Griffith University, Australia
• Pengfei Wu, National University of Singapore, Singapore
• Pietro Ferrara Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy
• Priscila Cedillo, Universidad de Cuenca, Ecuador
• Qiang Gao, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China
• Qianli Ma, South China University of Technology, China
• Qingtian Zeng, Shandong University of Science and Technology, China
• Radu Tudor Ionescu, University of Bucharest, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Romania
• Rainer Telesko, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland
• Remus Brad, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania
• Robert Woitsch, BOC Asset Management, China
• Ruisheng Shi, Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications, China
• Salem Benferhat, University d'Artois, France
• Serge Autexier, DFKI, Germany
• Shaojing Fu National, University of Defense Technology, China
• Shengmin Xu, Singapore Management University, Singapore
• Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
• Stewart Massie, Robert Gordon University, UK
• Sunet Eybers, University of South Africa (UNISA), South Africa
• Suqin Tang, Guangxi Normal University, China
• Takayuki Ito, Kyoto University, Japan
• Takeshi Morita, Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan
• Van Nam Huynh, JAIST, Japan
• Wei Luo, Deakin University, Australia
• Weina Niu, UESTC, China
• Weipeng Cao, Guangdong Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Economy (Shenzhen), China
• Xiang Zhao, National University of Defense Technology, China
• Xiangyu Wang, Xidian University, China
• Xiaohui Tao, University of Southern Queensland, Austeralia
• Xiaotie Deng, Peking University, China
• Ximing Li, Jilin university, China
• Xingfu Wu, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
• Ye Zhu, Deakin University, Australia
• Yiming Li, Tsinghua University, China
• Yong Tang, South China Normal University, China
• Yuan Zhang, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
• Yunxia Liu, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
• Yuxin Ye, Jilin University, China
• Zehua Guo, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
• Zengpeng Li, Lancaster University, England
• Zheng Wang, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
• Zhiping Shi, Capital Normal University, China
• Zhisheng Huang, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Zhiwen Yu, South China University of Technology, China
• Zhiyuan Tan, Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland
• Zili Zhang, Deakin University, Australia
• Zongming Fei, University of Kentucky, USA
• Imran Jokhio, Birmingham City University, UK
• Muhammad Ajmal Azad, Birmingham City University, UK
keynote Coordinator
• Haitham Mahmoud, Birmingham City University, UK