Committees
General Chairs
Paulo Quaresma, University of Évora, Portugal
David Camacho, Technical University of Madrid, Spain
Hujun Yin, The University of Manchester, UK
Programme Chairs
Teresa Gonçalves, University of Évora, Portugal
Vicente Julian, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Antonio Tallón-Ballesteros, University of Huelva, Spain
Special Session Chairs
Vítor Beires Nogueira, University of Évora, Portugal
Fernando Nuñez Hernandez, University of Seville, Spain
Susana Nascimento, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal
Steering Committee
Hujun Yin, University of Manchester, UK
Colin Fyfe, University of the West of Scotland, UK
Guilherme Barreto, Federal University of Ceará, Brazil
Jimmy Lee, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
John Keane, University of Manchester, UK
Jose A. Costa, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Juan Manuel Corchado, University of Salamanca, Spain
Laiwan Chan, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Malik Magdon-Ismail, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Marc van Hulle, KU Leuven, Belgium
Ning Zhong Maebashi, Institute of Technology, Japan viii Organization
Paulo Novais, University of Minho, PT
Peter Tino, University of Birmingham, UK
Samuel Kaski, Aalto University, Finland
Vic Rayward-Smith, University of East Anglia, UK
Yiu-ming Cheung, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China
Zheng Rong Yang, University of Exeter, UK
Publicity and Liaisons Chairs
Bin Li, University of Science and Technology of China, China
Guilherme Barreto, Federal University of Ceará, Brazil
Jose A. Costa, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Yimin Wen Guilin, University of Electronic Technology, China
Programme Committee
Hector Alaiz Moreton
Richardo Aler
Romis Attux
Carmelo Bastos Filho
Riza T. Batista-Navarro
Lordes Borrajo
Vicent Botti
Federico Bueno de Mata
Robert Burduk
Anne Canuto
Roberto Carballedo
Joao Carneiro
Mercedes Carnero
Pedro Castillo
Luís Cavique
Songcan Chen
Xiaohong Chen
Stelvio Cimato
Manuel Jesus Cobo Martin
Leandro Coelho
Carlos Coello Coello
Roberto Confalonieri
Paulo Cortez
Jose Alfredo F. Costa
Carlos Cotta
Raúl Cruz-Barbosa
Ernesto Damiani
Andre de Carvalho
Dalila A. Durães
Bruno Fernandes
João Ferreira
Joaquim Filipe
Felipe M. G. França
Pedro Freitas
Dariusz Frejlichowski
Hamido Fujita
Marcus Gallagher
Isaias Garcia
María José Ginzo Villamayor
Teresa Goncalves
Anna Gorawska
Marcin Gorawski
Manuel Graña
Maciej Grzenda
Pedro Antonio Gutierrez
Barbara Hammer
J. Michael Herrmann
Wei-Chiang Hong
Jean-Michel Ilie
Dariusz Jankowski
Vicente Julian
Jason Jung
Rushed Kanawati
Bin Li
Victor Lobo
Wenjian Luo
Jesús López
José Machado
Rui Neves Madeira
José F. Martínez-Trinidad
Cristian Mihaescu
José M. Molina
Paulo Moura Oliveira
Tatsuo Nakajima
Susana Nascimento
Grzegorz J. Nalepa
Antonio Neme
Vitor Nogueira
Fernando Nuñez
Eva Onaindia
Eneko Osaba
Jose Palma
Angel Panizo
Carlos Pereira
Radu-Emil Precup
Héctor Quintián
Kashyap Raiyani
Izabela Rejer
Matilde Santos
Richardo Santos
Jose Santos
Fábio Silva
Ivan Silva
Dragan Simic
Marcin Szpyrka
Murat Caner Testik
Qing Tian
Stefania Tomasiello
Alexandros Tzanetos
Eiji Uchino
José Valente de Oliveira
Alfredo Vellido
Gianni Vercelli
Tzai-Der Wang
Dongqing Wei
Michal Wozniak
Hua Yang
Xin-She Yang
Local Organizing Committee
Leonel Corado
Teresa Gonçalves
Javier Lamer Léon
Daniel Santos
Vítor Beires Nogueira