TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE  CO-CHAIRS
          
          Bhanu Prasad
          Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA 
          
  Pawan Lingras
  Department of Math and Computing Science, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 3C3, Canada
        Ramakant Nevatia (Ram Nevatia)
          Institute for Robotics and Intelligence Systems;  
 Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California, 
 Los Angeles, CA, USA 
        
         
        TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
            
Abdennour El Rhalibi
          School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK 
        Ajay Kumar
          Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India 
        Alexander Bolotov
          Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Westminster, UK
        Amit Awekar
          Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, India 
        Andrzej Skowron
          Institute of Mathematics, Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland 
        Andrzej Szalas
          Institute of Informatics, Department of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics, University of Warsaw, Poland 
        Ángel Goñi Moreno
          Novel Computation Group, School of Computing, Mathematics and Digital Technology, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK 
        Antonio De Nicola
 Computing and Technological Infrastructures Laboratory, ENEA, Italy
        Arijit Sur
          Department of Computer Science and Engineering , Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, India 
        Arvin Agah 
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Kansas 
Lawrence, KS, USA 
        Ashish Anand
          Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, India 
        Ashish M Gujarathi
          Chemical Engineering Department, BITS Pilani, Pilani, India 
        Ashish Sureka
            Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi, India 
        Ateet Bhalla
          Department of Computer Science and Engineering, NRI Institute of Information Science and Technology, Bhopal, India
          
          Attilio Giordana
          Department of Computer Science, University of Torino, Alessandria, Italy
        Bo Zhang
          Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
        Chandra Sekhar Seelamantula
          Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India 
        Daniel Berrar
 Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan
        Debashis Ghosh
          Department of Electronics & Computer Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India 
        Diptesh Ghosh
Production and Quantitative Methods Area, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Ahmedabad, India
        Elpida Tzafestas
            Cognitive Science Laboratory
            Department of History and Philosophy of Sciences (M.I.Th.E.), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece 
        Eyke Hullermeier 
 Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany 
        Fernando Bobillo
          Departament of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain 
        Frank Klawonn
          Department of Computer Science, Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Wolfenbüttel, Germany 
        Gauthier Picard 
IRIT - University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse Cedex, France 
         Gleizes Marie-Pierre 
IRIT - University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse Cedex, France 
        Goloka Behari Sahoo
          Dept of Civil & Environmental Engineering and TERC, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA 
        Guido Bugmann
          Centre for Robotics and Neural Systems & Centre for Robotics and Intelligent Systems, School of Computing and Mathematics, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK
        Gustavo Batista 
Department of Computer Science, University of São Paulo, São Carlos, SP, Brazil 
        Haimonti Dutta
          Center for Computational Learning Systems (CCLS), Columbia University, NY, USA 
        Hector Gomez-Gauchia
          Department of Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain 
        Igor Kotenko
          St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia 
        James Peters
          Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
        Jingtao Yao
          Department of Computer Science, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada 
        Jiri Klema
          Department of Cybernetics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic 
        Joachim Stahl 
Department of Computer Science, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, USA 
        Joerg Laessig
            Department of Computer Science, Chemnitz University of Technology, Chemnitz, Germany 
        Kaninda Musumbu
          Labri - Université Bordeaux 1, Cedex, France
        Ken Kaneiwa
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Iwate University, Iwate Japan 
        Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan
          Kno.e.sis - Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge-enabled Computing, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, USA 
        Lin Feng
          College of Computer Science, Sichuan Normal University, China 
        Lipika Dey
 Tata Consultancy Services
 Innovations Lab, Delhi, India 
        Krzysztof Marasek 
          Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technologies, Warszawa, Poland 
        Luo Delin 
Center for Systems and Control, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China 
        Lovekesh Vig 
          Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Center, School of Computational and Integrative Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India 
          
          M.A. Jayaram 
          Siddaganga Institute of Technology, Tumkur, India 
        M.A. Karim Sadiq 
          Ministry of Higher Education, College of Applied Sciences, Sultanate of Oman 
        Maleq Khan
          Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA
        Manish R. Joshi
          Department of Computer Science, North Maharshtra University, Jalgaon, India
        Manjunath Aradhya 
Department of Information Science and Engineering, Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, Bangalore, India 
            
            Marco Valtorta 
            Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA 
            
            Maria-Carolina Monard 
            Department of Computer Science, Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of São Paulo, Brazil 
        Michael Redmond
          Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, La Salle University, Philadelphia, USA 
        Michele Missikoff 
          LEKS - Lab for Enterprise Knowledge and Systems IASI - CNR, Rome, Italy 
        Mohua Banerjee
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India
        Muhammad Abulaish 
Center of Excellence in Information Assurance, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 
Muhammad Tanvir Afzal
Centre for Distributed and Semantic Computing, Mohammad Ali Jinnah University, Islamabad, Pakistan
        Narendra Chaudhari 
          Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India 
        Nicolas Lachiche 
          Machine Learning and Data Mining Research Group; Image Sciences, Computer Sciences and Remote Sensing Laboratory (LSIIT), University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg Cedex, France 
          
          Oliver Kutz 
          SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany 
          
          Pahal Dalal
          Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA 
        Pankaj Kumar Sa
          Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Rourkela, India
            
            Pawan Sinha
            Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA 
            
            Peter Struss 
          Model-Based Systems & Qualitative Reasoning Group of the Technical University of Munich, Germany 
        Pilar Herrero 
  Departamento de Lenguajes y Sistemas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain 
        Pradipta Kumar Nanda
Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, Institute of Technical Education & Research, Siksha 'O' Anusandhan University, Bhubaneswar, India 
        Probir Saha 
          Department Of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, Patna, India 
        Punam Bedi 
          Department of Computer Science, University of Delhi, Delhi, India 
        Raj Sunderraman
          Department of Computer Science, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA
        Rajaraman Kanagasabai
          Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Data Mining Department, Singapore 
        Rajni Jain
          National Centre for Agricultural Economics and Policy Research, New Delhi, India
          
            Ram Bilas Pachori 
          Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India 
        Richi Nayak
          School of Information Systems, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
            
            Robert Abrahart 
            School of Geography, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK 
            
            Roman P. Bazylevych
          Software Engineering Department, Lviv Polytechnic National University, Lviv, Ukraine
        Ronaldo Prati
          Centro de Matemática, Computação e Cognição, Universidade Federal do ABC, Santo André, São Paulo, Brazil 
        Samrat L. Sabat
          School of Physics, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India 
        Sandip Aine 
          Mentor Graphics (India) Private Limited, Logix Techno Park, Noida, India
        Shailendra Singh
          Technology Planning Group, Samsung India Software Center, Samsung India Electronics Pvt. Ltd., Noida, India
        Shamik Sural 
          School of Information Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India 
        Shivam Tripathi 
          Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India
            
            Sim-Heng Ong 
          Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 
        Sivaji Bandyopadhyay 
  Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
        Sounaka Mishra
          Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India
          
            Sriraam Natarajan
          Translational Sciences Institute, Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, Winston Salem, NC, USA 
        Sukhomay Pal
          Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, India 
        Suresh Sundaram
          School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
        Surya Prasath 
          Departamento de Matemática, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
        Thomas O'Connell
  Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA 
        Trapti Jain 
            School of Computing and Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Mandi, India 
        Vijay Kumar Mago
          The IRMACS Centre, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada 
        Vijaya Saradhi 
          Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, India 
        Vineet Padmanabhan
          Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India
            
            Viswanath Pulabaigari 
          Rajeev Gandhi Memorial College of Engineering and Technology, Nandyal, A.P., India 
        Xun Gong 
          Southwest Jiaotong University, China 
        Wing-Kin Sung 
          School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Genome Institute of Singapore, Genome, Singapore 
          
          Yang Dai 
          Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA 
        Zoran Majkic
          International Society for Research in Science and Technology, 
 Roma, Italy
    
          
        
          ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
          
        Ashish M Gujarathi
          Chemical Engineering Department, BITS Pilani, Pilani, India 
        M.A. Jayaram (co-chair) 
  Siddaganga Institute of Technology, Tumkur, India 
        M.A. Karim Sadiq 
Ministry of Higher Education, College of Applied Sciences, Sultanate of Oman
        Manjunath Aradhya 
Department of Information Science and Engineering, Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, Bangalore, India 
            
            Mohan Krishna (co-chair) 
            Technology AI, India/USA
        Mrutyunjaya Panda
          Department of Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, Gandhi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Gunupur, Orissa, India
            
            Venkateswara  Rao 
          Byte Infotech, Mumbai, India 
         
        ADDITIONAL REVIEWERS 
        Alka Arora
          Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, Pusa, New Delhi, India
          
          Anand Prakash Ruhil
          National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal, Haryana, India
        Azeddine Chikh
            Information Systems Department, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
            
            Fokrul Alom Mazarbhuiya
            College of Computer Science, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia
            
            G.S. Mahalakshmi
          Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Anna University, Chennai, India
        Igor Assis Braga
          Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of São Paulo, Brazil 
        Jingsong Wang
          Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA
        Lucas Vendradim
          Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of São Paulo, Brazil 
        Ogier Maitre
          Machine Learning and Data Mining Research Group; Image Sciences, Computer Sciences and Remote Sensing Laboratory (LSIIT), University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France
        Samit Bhattacharya 
          Department of Computer science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, India
          
            Savita Kolhe
          Directorate of Soybean Research, Khandwa Road, Indore, India 
        Savitha Ramasamy
          School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 
        Suash Deb
          Department of Computer Science and Engineering, C.V. Raman College of Engineering, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India
        Sudeep Marwaha
          Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, Pusa, New Delhi, India
        Surajit Chattopadhyay
          Pailan College of Management and Technology, Kolkata, India