General Chair

Ljiljana Trajkovic

Professor, Simon Fraser University, Canada.

Research field： Communication network, nonlinear circuits and systems.

Ljiljana Trajkovic received the Dipl. Ing. degree from University of Pristina, Yugoslavia, the M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering and computer engineering from Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from University of California at Los Angeles. She is currently a professor in the School of Engineering Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. Her research interests include communication networks and dynamical systems. She served as IEEE Division X Delegate/Director, President of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, and President of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. Dr. Trajkovic serves as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems and Associate Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Open Journal of Systems Engineering. She served as a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Circuits and System Society and a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society. She is a Fellow of the IEEE.

Huosheng Hu

Professor, University of Essex, UK.

Research field： Robotics, Embedded systems, Mechatronics.

Huosheng Hu is a professor in School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, UK, leading the Robotics Research Group. His research interests include autonomous mobile robots, human-robot interaction, evolutionary robotics, embedded systems, pervasive computing, data fusion, multi-robot collaboration, and networked robotics. He has published over 450 papers in journals, books and conferences in these areas. He received the MSc degree from the Central South University, China in 1982, and the PhD degree from the University of Oxford, U.K. in 1993. He is Editor-in-Chief for International Journal of automation and Computing, Editor-in-Chief of Robotics Journal, Editor-in-Chief of Digital Communications & Networks, and Executive Editor of International Journal of Mechatronics and Automation. He is Fellow of IET and InstMC and senior member of IEEE.

Co-Chair

Schahram Dustdar, Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies, Spain

Debao Zhou, University of Minnesota Duluth, USA

Jinsong Wu, University of Chile, Chile

Smain Femmam, UHA University, France

Sos Agaian, City University of New York, USA

Organizing Committee Chair

Gordana Jovanovic Dolecek, Institute INAOE, Mexico

Rong Fei, Xi'an University of Technology, China

Xinguo Yu, Central China Normal University, China

Zhiyong Zhang, Henan University of Science and Technology, China

Organizing Committee Member

Jasmine Seng Kah Phooi, UNITAR International University, Malaysia

Jayaprakash Kar, The LNM Institute of Information Technology, India

Jinfeng Wang, Zhengzhou University, China

João Manuel R. S. Tavares, Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Lorna Uden, Staffordshire University, UK

Luisa Maria Arvide Cambra, University of Almeria, Spain

Maki Habib, The American University in Cairo, Egypt

Muazzam Ali Khan Khattak, Quaid-i-Azam University, Pakistan

Muhammad Adil, Central Connecticut State University, USA

Nasir Saeed, United Arab Emirates University, UAE

Nebojsa Bacanin-Dzakula, Singidunum University, Serbia

Patrick Siarry, University Paris-Est Creteil, France

Qasem Abu Al-Haija, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan

Shabir Ahmad Parah, University of Kashmir, India

Subhashini Peneti, MLR Institute of Technology, India

Valentina Emilia Balas, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania

Vatsal Gupta, Apple Inc., USA

Vijayaprabhuvel Rajavel, HCL America Inc., USA

Publicity Chair

Jingsha He, Beijing University of Technology, China