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