Advisory Committee Jerome H. Friedman, Stanford University, USA David McAllester, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, USA Tom Mitchell, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Stephen Muggleton, Imperial College London, UK Robert Schapire, Princeton University, USA Gheorghe Tecuci, George Mason University, USA Kurt VanLehn, University of Pittsburgh, USA Yao Xin, University of Birmingham, UK Lofti Zadeh, University of California Berkeley, USA Technical Meeting Committee General Chair: Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada Conference Co-chairs: Sorin Draghici, Wayne State University, USA Vasile Palade, Oxford University, UK Progran Committee Co-chairs: Taghi Khoshgoftaar, Florida Atlantic University, USA Xingquan (Hill) Zhu, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Publications Chair: M. Arif Wani, California State University Bakersfield, USA Local Arrangements Chair: Mihai Boicu, George Mason University, USA Special Session/Workshop Organizers: Moamar Sayed-Mouchaweh, University of Reims, France Edwin Lughofer, University of Linz, Austria Issam El Naqa, McGill University, Canada Ilhami Colak, Gazi University, Turkey Gerald Schaefer, Aston University, UK Ramazan Bayindir, Gazi University, Turkey Asim Roy, Arizona State University, USA Xuewen Chen, University of Kansas, USA Bo Luo, University of Kansas, USA Wei Peng, Xerox Corporation, USA Tao Li, Florida International University, USA Jens Grivolla, Barcelona Media Innovation Centre, Spain Cyril Laurier, University Pompeu Fabra, Spain Rafael Banchs, Barcelona Media Innovation Centre, Spain Lana Yeganova, National Institutes of Health, USA Rezarta Islamaj Dogan, National Institutes of Health, USA ICMLA Challenge Organizers: Darío García-García, University Carlos III Madrid, Spain Raúl Santos-Rodríguez, University Carlos III Madrid, Spain International Program Committee Name Affiliation John Anderson University of Manitoba, Canada Peter Andreae Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand James Bailey The University of Melbourne, Australia Adrian Barb Penn State Great Valley, USA Ramazan Bayindir Gazi University, Turkey Maumita Bhattacharya Charles Sturt University, Australia Chiranjib Bhattacharyya Indian Institute of Science, India Mihai Boicu George Mason University, USA Abdelhamid Bouchachia University of Klagenfurt, Austria Krysia Broda Imperial College London, UK Xianbin Cao Beihang University, China Philip Chan Florida Institute of Technology, USA Dechang Chen Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, USA Jianhui Chen Arizona State University, USA Mark Clement Brigham Young University, USA Nigel Crook Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK Mohammad Reza Daliri SISSA/ISAS, Germany Anne Denton North Dakota State University, USA Dejing Dou University of Oregon, USA Haimonti Dutta Columbia University, USA Petr Ekel Pontifical Catholic Univ of Minas Gerais Belo Horizonte, Brazil Glenn Fung Siemens Medical Solutions, USA Artur Avila Garcez City University London, UK Barbara Hammer Clausthal University of Technology, Germany David Hardoon University College London, UK Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis University of Patras, Greece Yuancheng Huang Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Vandana Janeja University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Shuiwang Ji Arizona State University, USA Ruoming Jin Kent State University, USA Mark Kon Boston University, USA Alina Lazar Youngstown State University, USA Tao Li Florida International University, USA Qi Li Western Kentucky University, USA Xuelong Li University of London, UK Jessica Lin George Mason University, USA Xiaodong Lin Rutgers University, USA Chunmei Liu Howard University, USA Jun Liu Arizona State University, USA Li Liao University of Delaware, USA Feng Luo Clemson University, USA YingHua Ma Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Francesco Masulli University of Genova, Italy Radhakrishnan Nagarajan University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, USA Daniel Neagu University of Bradford, UK See-Kiong Ng Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Mitsunori Ogihara University of Miami, USA Yanwei Pang Tianjin University, China Vladimir Pavlovic Rutgers University, USA Guangzhi Qu Oakland University, USA Marek Reformat University of Alberta, Canada Chandan Reddy Wayne State University, USA Qiu Robin Pennsylvania State University, USA Seref Sagiroglo Gazi University, Turkey Etienne Schneider University Petronas of Technology, Germany Kim Seungchan Arizona State University, USA Jialie Shen Singapore Management University, Singapore Li Sheng Drexel University, USA Simeon Simoff University of Western Sydney, Australia Jungpil Shin University of AIZU, Japan Don Sofge Naval Research Laboratory, USA Yangqiu Song IBM Research, China Adrian Stoica NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA Liang Sun Arizona State University, USA Ryszard Tadeusiewicz AGH University Krakow, Poland Dacheng Tao Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Yicheng Tu University of South Florida, USA George Tzanetakis University of Victoria, Canada Iren Valova University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA Juan Velasquez Universidad de Chile, Chile Douglas Vieira University of Minas Gerais, Brazil Dianhui Wang La Trobe University, Australia Huanjing Wang Western Kentucky University, USA Haixun Wang Microsoft Asia, China Lipo Wang Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Fei Wang Cornell University, USA Yu-Ping Wang University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA Zhonghang Xia Western Kentucky University, USA Tao Xiong Ebay Inc, USA Jingbo Xu Toyota Institute of Technology, USA Pingkun Yan Philip Research, USA Guizhen Yang Facebook, USA Peng Yu Eli Lilly and Company, USA An Zeng Guangdong University of Technology, China Chengcui Zhang University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA Dell Zhang University of London, UK Du Zhang California State University Sacramento, USA Jun Zhang Waseda University, Japan Min-Ling Zhang Hohai University, China Peng Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Qieshi Zhang Wasade University, Japan Xin Zhang Cisco Systems Inc., USA Huiyu Zhou Queens University, UK Zhi-Hua Zhou Nanjing University, China