General Co-Chairs
Otmane Ait Mohamed (CA)
Moonis Ali (US)
Important Dates
Paper Submission: November 27, 2017 December 11, 2017
Notification of Acceptance: February 5, 2018
Camera Ready Paper: February 26, 2018
Conference Dates: June 25-28, 2018
Program co-chairs
Malek Mouhoub (CA)
Samira Sadaoui (CA)
Organization co-chairs
Ghaith Bany Hamad (CA)
Malek Mouhoub (CA)
Special Session co-chairs
Mohamed El Bachir Menai (KSA)
Workshop co-chairs
Eisa Alanazi, Umm Al-Qura University (KSA)
Social events & Local arrangements co-chairs
Leila Kosseim (CA)
Marie-Jean Meurs (CA)
Web co-chairs
Marwan Ammar (CA)
Paulo R. M. de Andrade (CA)
Shubhashis Kumar Shil (CA)
Publicity co-chairs
Fatiha Sadat (CA)
Paulo R. M. de Andrade (CA)
Program Committee
Amine Abdelmalek
Yamine Ait-Ameur
Xiangdong An
Zaman Ank
Ebrahim Bagheri
Ghalem Belalem
Hafida Belbachir
Jamal Bentahar
Ismail Biskri
Karim Bouamrane
Lars Braubach
Andres Bustillo
Cory Butz
Ghaith Bany Hamad
Francisco Campa
Joao Paulo Carvalho
Allaoua Chaoui
Shyi-Ming Chen
Salim Chikhi
Samira Chouraqui
Flavio S Correa Da Silva
Mahieddine Djoudi
Andy Dong
Georgios Dounias
Gerard Dreyfus
Zakaria Elberrichi
Larbi Esmahi
Ahmed Esmin
Mourad Bouneffa
Sultan Ahmed
Ayahiko Niimi
Boufaida Zizette
Samir Loudni
Eric Poirier
Leszek Borzemski
Maher Elshakankiri
Adel Bouhoula
Jocelyne Faddoul
Behrouz Far
Atefeh Farzindar
Enrico Francesconi
Hamido Fujita
Michel Gagnon
Yong Gao
Nicolas Garcia-Pedrajas
Nacira Ghoualmi-Zine
Hans W. Guesgen
Zahia Guessoum
Tim Hendtlass
Reda-Mohamed Hamou
Francisco Herrera
Mark Hoogendoorn
Wen-Juan Hou
Jimmy Huang
Diana Inkpen
Aminul Islam
He Jiang
Vicente Julian
Tetsuo Kinoshita
Frank Klawonn
Leila Kosseim
Lars Kotthoff
Dariusz Krol
Adam Krzyzak
Jingtao Yao
Abdelkader Dekdouk
Mehdi Sadeqi
Samir Ouchani
Yan Zhang
Allel Hadjali
Liang Dong
Ahmed Tawfik
Yacine Atif
Guy Lapalme
Fuhua Lin
Pawan Lingras
Mohamed El Bachir Menai
Marie-Jean Meurs
Shamima Mithun
Abidalrahman Moh'D
Malek Mouhoub
Roger Nkambou
Seyednaser Nourashrafeddin
Barbara Pes
Dilip Pratihar
Sheela Ramanna
Robert Reynolds
Samira Sadaoui
Fatiha Sadat
Gregorio Sainz-Palmero
Weiming Shen
Shubhashis Kumar Shil
Marina Sokolova
Joao Sousa
Bruce Spencer
Xin Wang
Dan Wu
Yang Xiang
Ying Zhang
Bing Zhou
Eugene Santos
Adlane Habed
Robert Mercer
Trevor Tomesh
Maciej Grzenda
Mohamed El-Darieby
Richard Dosselmann
Rim Faiz
International Advisory Committee
Prof. Hamido Fujita, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan (Chair)
Prof. Enrique Herrera-Viedma, University of Granada, Spain
Prof. Francisco Chiclana, De Montfort University, UK
Prof. Yinglin Wang, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China
Prof. Love Ekenberg, Stockholm University, Sweden
Prof. Imre Rudas, Obuda University, Hungry
Prof. Shiliang Sun, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
Prof. Vincenzo Loia, UNISA, Italy
Prof. Ali Selamat, UTM, Malaysia
Prof. Bipin Indurkhya, Agh University of Science and Technology, Poland
Prof. Chris Bowman, UTS, Australia,
Prof. Jun Sasaki, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan
Prof. Ligang Zhou, Macao University of Science and Technology, Macao
Prof. Rajendra Acharya, Ngee Polytechnic, Singapore
Prof. Levente Kovacs, Obuda University, Hungary