General Chairs
Ana Maria Madureira, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
Ajith Abraham, Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), USA

Program Chairs
Mário Antunes, Politécnico de Leiria, Portugal
Oscar Castillo, Tijuana Institute Technology, Mexico
Simone Ludwig, North Dakota State University, USA

Advisory Board members
Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia
Andre Ponce de Leon F. de Carvalho, University of Sao Paulo at Sao Carlos, Brazil
Bruno Apolloni, University of Milano, Italy
Imre J. Rudas, óbuda University, Hungary
Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Marina Gavrilova, University of Calgary, Canada
Patrick Siarry , Université Paris-Est Créteil, France
Ronald Yager, Iona College, USA
Salah Al-Sharhan, Gulf University of Science and Technology, Kuwait
Sebastian Ventura, University of Cordoba, Spain
Vincenzo Piuri , Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Francisco Herrera, University of Granada, Spain
Sankar Kumar Pal, ISI, Kolkota, India

Tutorials/Workshops and Special Sessions Chair
TBA

Publication Chair
Azah Kamilah Muda, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Malaysia
Niketa Gandhi, Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), USA

Web Services
Kun Ma, University of Jinan, China

Publicity Committee
Bruno Cunha, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
Diogo Braga, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
Santoso Wibowo, CQUniversity Melbourne, Australia
Nesrine BAKLOUTI, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Isabel Jesus, Institute of Engineering of Porto, Portugal
Marjana Prifti Senduli,University of New York, Tirana

Local Organizing Committee
Ana Maria Madureira
Diogo Braga
Duarte Coelho
André Santos
Judite Ferreira
Luis Coelho
Isabel Sampaio
Ricardo Almeida
Marina Sousa

Technical Program Committee
Ahmad Samer Wazan, Paul Sabatier University, France
Ajith Abraham, Machine Intelligence Research Labs, United States
Alessio Merlo, DIBRIS- University of Genoa, Italy
Amparo Fuster-Sabater, Institute of Physical and Information Technologies (CSIC), Spain
Ana I. González-Tablas, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Ana Madureira, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
Angel Arroyo, UBU, Spain 
Arash Habibi Lashkari, University New Brunswick (UNB), Canada
Azah Muda, UTeM, Malaysia
Candelaria Hernández-Goya, Departamento de Estadística, I.O. y Computación, Universidad de La Laguna, Spain 
Carlos Pereira, ISEC, Portugal 
Chian C. Ho, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Clay Palmeira, Francois Rabelais University of Tours, France 
Constantino Malagón, Nebrija University, Spain 
Donato Impedovo, Dipartimento di Informatica - UNIBA, Italy 
Fernando Tricas, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain 
Ficco Massimo, Second University of Naples (SUN), Italy
Francisco Valera, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain 
Gabriel López, Department of Information and Communications Engineering, University of Murcia, Spain 
Gustavo Isaza, University of Caldas, Colombia
Intan Ermahani A. Jalil, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM), Malaysia 
Joan Borrell, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain 
João Paulo Magalhaes, ESTGF, Porto Polytechnic Institute, Portugal
Jose Luis Imana, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain 
Jose M. Molina, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Jose Vicent, Universidad de Alicante, Spain
Jose-Luis Ferrer-Gomila, University of the Balearic Islands, Spain
Juan Jesús Barbarán, University of Granada, Spain 
Juan Pedro Hecht, Information Security Mastership - University of Buenos Aires - FCE/FCEyN/FI, Argentina 
Jung-San Lee, Feng Chia University, Taiwan
Kun Ma, University of Jinan, China
Leocadio G. Casado, University of Almeria, Spain
Manuel Grana, University of Basque Country, Spain
Miguel Frade, Politécnico de Leiria, Portugal
Mohd Faizal Abdollah, University Technical Malaysia Melaka, Malaysia
Niketa Gandhi, Machine Intelligence Research Labs, United States
Ramon Rizo, Universidad de Alicante, Spain 
Rolf Oppliger, eSECURITY Technologies, Switzerland
Romain Laborde, IRIT/SIERA, France 
Rosaura Palma-Orozco, CINVESTAV - IPN, Mexico 
Salvador Alcaraz, Miguel Hernandez University, Spain
Salvatore Venticinque, Seconda Università di Napoli, Italy 
Sorin Stratulat, Université de Lorraine, Metz, France
Sye Loong Keoh, University of Glasgow, Singapore 
Umberto Villano, University of Sannio, Italy
Wenjian Luo, University of Science and Technology of China, China