CONFERENCE COMMITTEES
Jerome H. Friedman, Stanford University, USA Michalski Ryszard, George Mason University, USA Tom Mitchell, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Kurt VanLehn, University of Pittsburgh, USA David McAllester, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago Robert Schapire, Princeton University, USA Yao Xin, University of Birmingham, UK Lofti Zadeh, University of California Berkeley, USA
Technical Meeting Committee
General Chair
M. Arif Wani, California State University Bakersfield
Conference Chair
Mehmed M. Kantardzic, University of Louisville
Program Co-Chairs
Tao Li, Florida International University
Ying Liu, University of Texas at Dallas
Special Sessions Co-Chairs
Vasile Palade, Oxford University, UK
Lukasz Kurgan, University of Alberta, Canada
Sushmita Mitra, Indian Statistical Institute, India
Jieping Ye, Arizona State University, USA
Mitsunori Ogihara, University of Rochester, USA
Raj Bhatnagar, University of Cincinnati, USA
Seref Sagiroglu, University of Gazi, Turkey
Workshops Co-Chairs
Xue-Wen Chen, University of Kansas, USA
Leif Peterson, Methodist Hospital, USA
Publicity Chair
Khalid Hafeez, University of Bradford, UK
Registration Chair
Adel Elmaghraby, University of Louisville
Awards Co-Chairs
Hui Xiong, Rutgers University, USA
Sponsorship Chair
Ray R. Hashemi Armstrong Atlantic State University, USA
Local Arrangements Chair
Raj Bhatnagar, University of Cincinnati, USA
International Program Committee
Janusz Kacprzyk Polish Academy of Sciences Krysia Broda Imperial College London Radhakrishnan Nagarajan University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Abdelhamid Bouchachia Alps-Adriatic University of Klagenfurt Abdennour El Rhalibi Liverpool John Moores University Alan Sprague University of Alabama at Birmingham Alina Lazar Youngstown State University Charles Perng IBM Research Chengcui Zhang University of Alabama at Birmingham Chris Ding Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Chunmei Liu Howard University Cristina Boicu George Mason University Daniel Neagu University of Bradford Daoqiang Zhang Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China Don Sofge Naval Research Laboratory Du Zhang California State University Sacramento, USA" Etienne Schneider University Petronas of Technology Fei Wang Tsinghua University Francois Jacquenet Universite Jean Monnet de Saint-Etienne Giri Narasimhan Florida International University Glenn Fung Siemens Graham Kendall University of Nottingham UK Guizhen Yang SRI International, USA" Iren Valova University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Iryna Skrypnyk University of Jyvaskyla James Tin-Yau Kwok Hong Kong University, Hong Kong" Ji Xiang Yahoo! Inc Jianhui Chen Arizona State University Jianping Fan UNC-Charlotte, USA" Jingbo Xu Toyota Institute of Technology John Anderson University of Manitoba, Canada" Jun Liu Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics Jungpil Shin The University of AIZU , Japan" Kim Seungchan Arizona State University Larry Hall University of South Florida Liang Sun Arizona State University Marek Reformat University of Alberta, Canada" Maumita Bhattacharya Charles Sturt University , Australia" Mihai Boicu George Mason University, USA" Min-Ling Zhang Nanjing University, China" Minoo Aminian Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Mohammad Reza Daliri SISSA/ISAS Petia Radeva University Autonomic Barcelona, Spain" Petr Ekel University of Minas Gerais, Brazil" Petra Perner Institute of Computer Vision and Applied Computer Science, Germany" Qi Li Western Kentucky University Ryszard Tadeusiewicz AGH University Krakow Poland Sargur Srihari University at Buffalo Shenghuo Zhu NEC Laboratories America, USA" Shi Zhong Yahoo! Inc Shuiwang Ji Arizona State University Song Joe New Mexico State University Stuart Rubin SPAWAR, Navy, San Diego , USA" Taghi Khoshgoftaar Florida Atlantic University Tao Xiong Ebay Inc. Tie Wang Yahoo! Intl Social Search Team Tomasz Smolinski Emory University, USA" Vandana Janeja University of Maryland at Baltimore County Vasile Palade Oxford University, UK" Weichuan Yu Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Xiao-Lin Li Nanjing University, China" Xiaotong Shen University of Minnesota Xin Zhang Arizona State University Xutao Deng Cedars-Sinai Medical Center /UCLA Yan Huang University of North Texas Yangqiu Song Tsinghua University Yixin Chen University of Mississippi Yonghong Peng University of Bradford, UK" Yu Jiao Oak Ridge National Laboratory Zaidi Sahnoun University Mentouri of Constantine , Algeria" Zhi-Hua Zhou Nanjing University, USA" Zhonghang Xia Western Kentucky University Luke Huan University of Kansas Yu-Ping Wang University of Missiouri-Kansas City Dongyi Ye Fuzhou University, China" Janez Brank Jozef Stefan Institute,Slovenia" Li Liao University of Delaware