Organizing Comittee

Honorary Chair

Makoto Takizawa, Hosei Univ., Japan

Michal Sliwa, Rector of the Pedagogical University of Cracow.

General Co-Chairs

Leonard Barolli, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan
barolli at fit.ac.jp

Fatos Xhafa, Universitat Politčcnica de Catalunya, Spain
fatos at lsi.upc.edu

Marek R. Ogiela, AGH, Poland
mogiela at agh.edu.pl

Program Committee Co-Chairs

Lidia Ogiela, AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland

Fabrizio Messina, University of Catania, Italy

Tetsuya Sakurai, University of Tsukuba, Japan

Workshop Co-Chairs

Tomasz Hachaj, Pedagogical University of Krakow,Poland

Takayuki Nishio, Kyoto University, Japan

Jan Platos, Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic

Finance Chairs

Makoto Ikeda, FIT, Japan

International Advisory and Liaison Chair

Kuan-Ching Li, Providence University,Taiwan

Web Administrator Chair

Joan Arnedo Moreno, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
jarnedo at uoc.edu

Track Areas

1. Data intensive computing, data mining, semantic web and information retrieval

Chairs:

Lars Braubach, Hamburg University, Germany
Giuseppe Di Fatta, University of Reading, UK

PC Members:

  1. Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania
  2. David Camacho, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
  3. Mario Cannataro, University Magna Grćcia of Catanzaro, Italy
  4. Mehmet Cudi Okur, Yasar University, Turkey
  5. Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, Italy
  6. Sule Gunduz Oguducu, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
  7. Franziska Klügl, Örebro University, Sweden
  8. Marco Lützenberger, DAI Labor Berlin, Germany
  9. Mohamed Medhat Gaber, Robert Gordon University, UK
  10. Paulo Novais, University of Minho, Portugal
  11. Alexander Pokahr, University of Hamburg, Germany
  12. Daniel Rodríguez, University of Alcalá, Spain
  13. Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy
  14. Can Wang, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia
  15. Ran Wolff, Yahoo Labs, Israel

2. Data Storage in Distributed Computation and Cloud Systems

Chairs:

Douglas Macedo, Federal University of Sergipe, Brazil
Bogdan Nicolae, IBM, Ireland

PC Members:

  1. Mario Dantas, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
  2. Michael Bauer, University of Western Ontario, Canada
  3. Eduardo Camilo, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
  4. Rodrigo Righi, University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Brazil
  5. Edward Moreno, Federal University of Sergipe, Brazil
  6. Mathias Steinbauer, Johannes Kepler University, Austria
  7. Katarina Grolinger, University of Western Ontario, Canada
  8. Diego Kreutz, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
  9. Tiago Coelho, University of Western Ontario, Canada
  10. Vinicius Borges, Federal University of Goias, Brazil
  11. Andrzej Kochut, IBM Research, US
  12. Samer Al-Kiswany, University of Wisconsin, US
  13. Alexandru Costan, INSA Rennes, France
  14. Ioan Raicu, Illinois Institute of Technology, US
  15. Kyle Chard, University of Chicago, US

3. Secure Technology for Distributed Computation and Sensor Networks

Chairs:

Zheng Gong, South China Normal University, China
Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, Italy

PC Members:

  1. Changshe Ma, South China Normal University, China
  2. Yee Wei Law, University of South Australia, Australia
  3. Weidong Qiu, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
  4. Libin Wang, South China Normal University, China
  5. Jian Weng, Jinan University, China
  6. Daojing He, South China University of Technology, China
  7. Shaohua Tang, South China University of Technology, China
  8. Henricksen Matt, I2R, Astar, Singapore, Singapore
  9. Wentao Zhang, IIE, CAS, China
  10. Junfeng Fan, NationZ, ZTE, China
  11. Yiyuan Luo, Shanghai Dian Ji University, China
  12. Raffaele Gravina, University of Calabria, Italy
  13. Antonio Liotta, Technical University of Eindhoven, Netherlands
  14. Giuseppe DiFatta, University of Reading, UK
  15. Weiming Shen, National Research Council of Canada, Canada

4. High Performance and Scalable Computing

Chairs:

Jose Luis Vazquez-Poletti, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Corrado Santoro, University of Catania, Italy

PC Members:

  1. Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
  2. Rui Han, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
  3. Volodymyr Turchenko, Research Institute for Intelligent Computer Systems Ternopil National Economic University, Ukraine
  4. Mario Cannataro, University of Catanzaro, Italy
  5. Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania
  6. Mehdi Sheikhalishahi, CREATE-NET Research Center, Italy
  7. Domenico Talia, Universitŕ della Calabria, Italy
  8. Jianfeng Zhan, ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
  9. Florin Pop, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
  10. Patrick Martin, Queen's University, Canada
  11. Marcin Paprzycki, Polish Academia of Science, Poland
  12. Maria Ganzha, Polish Academia of Science, Poland
  13. Agostino Poggi, University of Parma, Italy
  14. Costin Badica, University of Craiova, romania
  15. Fabrizio Messina, University of Catania, Italy
  16. Giovanni Morana, C3DNA, Italy
  17. Daniele Zito, C3DNA, Italy

5. Distributed Algorithms and Models for P2P, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing

Chairs:

Osamu Tatebe, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Gabriel Antoniu, INRIA, France

  1. Robert Ross, ANL, US
  2. Kenjiro Taura, University of Tokyo, Japan
  3. Ryousei Takano, AIST, Japan
  4. Kohei Ichikawa, NAIST, Japan
  5. Shadi Ibrahim, Inria, Rennes, France
  6. Luc Bougé, ENS Rennes, France
  7. Valentin Cristea, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
  8. Alexandra Carpen-Amarie, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
  9. Jesus Montes Sanchez, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
  10. Sébastien Monnet, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
  11. Gael Thomas, Telecom SudParis, Paris, France
  12. Nicolae Tapus, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
  13. Shadi Ibrahim, Inria, France
  14. Luc Bougé, ENS Rennes, France
  15. Valentin, Cristea, Politechnical University of Bucharest, Romania
  16. Nicolae Tapus, Politechnical University of Bucharest, Romania
  17. Alexandra Carpen-Amarie, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
  18. Jesus Montes Sanchez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
  19. Sébastien Monnet, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France
  20. Gaël Thomas, Telecom SudParis, France
  21. Robert Ross, Argonne National Laboratory, US
  22. Kenjiro Taura, University of Tokyo, Japan
  23. Ryousei Takano, AIST, Japan
  24. Kohei Ichikawa, NAIST, Japan
  25. Renato Figueiredo, University of Florida, US

6. P2P, Ad-Hoc and Mobile Networking

Chairs:

Majed Haddad, Professor, University of Avignon, France
Jie Li, Professor, University of Tsukuba, Japan

  1. Ruidong Li, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan
  2. Zaixin Lu, Marywood University, US
  3. Li Xu, Fujian Normal University, China
  4. Xiaoyan Wang, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
  5. Afef Feki, Huawei, France
  6. Essaid SABIR, Hassan II University of Casablanca, Morocco
  7. Issam Mabrouki, University of Manouba, Tunisia
  8. Min Ju University of Avignon, France
  9. Alexandre Reiffers, INRIA, France
  10. Xiaohong Jiang, Future University-Hakodate, Japan
  11. Aymen Hafsaoui, ESME Sudria, France

7. Virtual Organizations and Federations, Cloud provisioning, management and programming

Chairs:

Salvatore Venticinque, Second University of Naples, Italy
Beniamino Di Martino, Second University of Naples, Italy

PC Members:

  1. Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania
  2. Massimiliano Rak, Second University of Naples, Italy
  3. Antonio Puliafito, University of Messina, Italy
  4. Florin Fortis, West University of Timisoara, Romania
  5. Umberto Villano, University of Sannio, Italy
  6. Dimosthenis Kyriazis, University of Piraeus, Grece
  7. Joanna Kolodzeij,Cracow University of Technology, Poland
  8. Thomas Faringher, University of Innsbruck, Austria

8. Cryptographic Technologies for Information Security

Chairs:

Jiqiang Lu, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Yong Ding, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, China

PC Members:

  1. Xiaofeng Chen, Xidian University, China
  2. Pooya Farshim, Queen's University of Belfast, UK
  3. Praveen Gauravaram, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
  4. Jongsung Kim, Kookmin University, Korea
  5. Joseph Liu, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
  6. Souradyuti Paul, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, India
  7. Geongsen Poh, University Malaysia of Computer Science & Engineering, Malaysia
  8. Meiqin Wang, Shandong University, China
  9. Yongzhuang Wei, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, China
  10. Toshihiro Yamauchi, Okayama University, Japan
  11. Wun She, Yap Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia
  12. Wentao Zhang, Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

9. Security Schemes and Methods in Distributed Systems

Chairs:

Sung-Ki Kim Sun Moon University, Korea
Cheonshik Kim University of Anyang, Korea

PC Members:

  1. Jinsuk Baek, University of Winston Salem State, US
  2. Urszula Ogiela, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
  3. You-Sik Hong, University of Sangji, Korea
  4. Raylin Tso, University of Chengchi, Taiwan
  5. Ching-Nung Yang, University of Dong-Hwa, Taiwan
  6. Andy K. Yoon, University of San Martin, Peru
  7. Namje Park, Jeju National University, Korea
  8. Eui-Nam Huh, Kyung Hee University, Korea
  9. Jinil Kim, University of Hannam, Korea
  10. Jung-Soon Kim, National Security Research Institute, Korea

10. Security, Dependability and Reliability in Grids and Clouds

Chairs:

Hsing-Chung (Jack) Chen, Asia University, Taiwan
Jyh-Horng Wen, Tunghai University, Taiwan
Cheng-Ying Yang, University of Taipei

PC Members:

  1. Makoto Ikeda, Seikei University, Japan
  2. Baojiang Cui, Beijing University of Posts And Telecommunications, China
  3. China Zheli, Liu Nankai University, China
  4. Tainhan Gao, National Pilot Software College, China
  5. Yung-Fa Huang, Huang Chaoyang University of Technology, Taiwan
  6. Chia-Hsin Cheng, National Formosa University Yunlin County, Taiwan
  7. Tzu-Liang Kung, Asia University, Taiwan
  8. Shu-Hong Lee, Chienkuo Technology University, Taiwan
  9. Ho-Lung Hung, Chienkuo Technology University, Taiwan
  10. Gwo-Ruey, Lee Lung-Yuan Research Park, Taiwan
  11. Chung-Wen Hung, National Yunlin University of Science & Technology University, Taiwan

11. Bio-Inspired Computing and Pattern recognition

Chairs:

Lidia Ogiela, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
Ugo Fiore, Information Services Center of University of Naples - Federico II, Italy

PC Members:

  1. Hoon Ko, J.E. Purkinje University, Czech Republic
  2. Goreti Marreiros, ISEP/IPP, Portugal
  3. Maria Victoria Moreno-Cano, University of Murcia, Spain
  4. Giovanni Acampora, Nottingham Trent University, UK
  5. Ji-Jian Chin, Multimedia University, Malaysia
  6. Ki-tae Bae, Korean German Institute of Technology, Korea
  7. Jongsun Choi, Soongsil University, Korea
  8. Jongmyung Choi, Mokpo National University, Korea
  9. Libor Mesicek, J.E. Purkinje University, Czech Republic

12. e-Health Technologies for Patient Monitoring (ETPM)

Chairs:

Philip Moore, Lanzhou University / The Normal University of Shandong, China
George Tadros, Warwick University, UK

PC Members:

  1. Bhogal Bhogal, Birmingham City University, UK
  2. Tarik Qassem, University of Warwick, UK
  3. Swaran Singh, Warwick University, UK
  4. Andrew Thomas, University of Birmingham, UK
  5. Mak Sharma, Birmingham City University, UK
  6. Nik Bessis, Derby University, UK
  7. Marcello, Trovati Derby University, UK
  8. Bogdan Manate, West University of Timisoara, Romania
  9. Hai V. Pham Hanoi, Univ. of Sicience & Technology/ Ritsumeikan University, Vietnam-Japan
  10. Nial Fergusson, National Health Service, UK
  11. Nikila. Deshpande, National Health Service, UK
  12. Farooq Khan, National Health Service, UK
  13. Afrin Ahmed, National Health Service, UK
  14. Raafat Labib, Mishriky National Health Service, UK

13. Secure Methods and Services in Clouds

Chairs:

Joonsang Baek Khalifa Universty of Science, Technology and Research, AE

PC Members:

  1. Young-ji Byon, Khalifa Universty of Science, Technology and Research, AE
  2. Sara Foresti, University of Milan, Italy
  3. Xinyi Huang, Fujian Normal University, China
  4. Mu Yi, University of Wollongong, Australia
  5. Joseph Liu, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
  6. Xiaoqing Tan, Jinan University, China
  7. Shaohua Tang, South China University of Technology, China
  8. Jin Li, Guangzhou University, China
  9. Taeshik Shon, Ajou University, Korea
  10. Chunhua Su, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
  11. Willy Susilo, University of Wollongong, Australia
  12. Guomin Yang, University of Wollongong, Australia
  13. Ilsun You, Bible University, Korea

14. Adaptive Web-based, distributed and ubiquitous eLearning systems

Chairs:

Nicola Capuano, University of Salerno, Italy
Santi Caballé, Open University of Catalonia, Spain

PC Members:

  1. Jordi Conesa, Open University of Catalonia, Spain
  2. Thanasis Daradoumis, University of the Aegean, Greece
  3. Darina Dicheva, Winston-Salem State University, USA
  4. Michalis Feidakis, University of the Aegean, Greece
  5. Angelo Gaeta, University of Salerno, Italy
  6. David Gańán, Open University of Catalonia, Spain
  7. Agathe Merceron, Beuth University of Applied Sciences, Germany
  8. Jorge Miguel, Open University of Catalonia, Spain
  9. Nestor Mora, Open University of Catalonia, Spain
  10. Francesco Orciuoli, University of Salerno, Italy

15. Big Data, Data Management and Analytics

Chairs:

Corrado Aaron Visaggio, University of Sannio, Italy
Mario Piattini, Univeristy of Castilla-la-Mancha, Spain

PC Members:

  1. Danilo Caivano, University of Bari, Italy
  2. Nikolaos Georgantas, Inria, France
  3. Lech Madeyski, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
  4. Eric Medvet, University of Trieste, Italy
  5. Francesco Mercaldo, University of Sannio, Italy
  6. Jelena Milosevic, Universitŕ della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
  7. Ilia Petrov, Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany
  8. Dimitris Sacharidis, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
  9. Alberto Sillitti, Free University of Bozen, Italy
  10. Juan carlos Trujillo, Alicante University, Spain
  11. Giorgio Ventre, Universitŕ di Napoli Federico II, Italy
  12. Martin Shepperd, Brunel University, UK