General Chair:
Prof. Dr. Madjid Tavana
Professor and Distin guished Chair of Business Analytics Chairman of the Business Systems and Analytics Department
La Salle University ● Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19141 ● USA
Phone: (215) 951-1129 ● Fax: (267) 295-2854 ● Skype: madjidtavana
Email: tavana@lasalle.edu ● Web: http://tavana.us
Editor-in-Chief：
International Journal of Management and Decision Making
International Journal of Applied Decision Sciences
International Journal of Knowledge Engineering and Data Mining
International Journal of Strategic Decision Sciences
International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems
International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems
Dr. Madjid Tavana is Professor and Lindback Distinguished Chair of Business Analytics at La Salle University, where he serves as Chairman of the Business Systems and Analytics Department. He also holds an Honorary Professorship in Business Information Systems at the University of Paderborn in Germany. Dr. Tavana is Distinguished Research Fellow at the Kennedy Space Center, the Johnson Space Center, the Naval Research Laboratory at Stennis Space Center, and the Air Force Research Laboratory. He was recently honored with the prestigious Space Act Award by NASA. He holds an MBA, PMIS, and PhD in Management Information Systems and received his Post-Doctoral Diploma in Strategic Information Systems from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published 12 books and over 250 research papers in international scholarly academic journals. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Decision Analytics, International Journal of Applied Decision Sciences, International Journal of Management and Decision Making, International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems, International Journal of Knowledge Engineering and Data Mining, International Journal of Strategic Decision Sciences and International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems.
Program Chair:
Prof. Dr.Srikanta Patnaik
Department of Computer Science and EngineeringFaculty of Engineering and Technology
SOA University, Bhubaneswar- 751030 ORISSA
Dr. Srikanta Patnaik is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, SOA University, Bhubaneswar, India. He has received his Ph. D. (Engineering) on Computational Intelligence from Jadavpur University, India in 1999 and supervised 12 Ph. D. theses and more than 30 M. Tech theses in the area of Machine Intelligence, Soft Computing Applications and Re-Engineering. Dr. Patnaik has published more than 60 research papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He is author of 2 text books and edited 12 books and few invited book chapters, published by leading international publisher like Springer-Verlag, Kluwer Academic, etc.. Dr. Patnaik was the Principal Investigator of TAPTEC project “Building Cognition for Intelligent Robot” sponsored by All India Council for Technical Education, New Delhi and Major Research Project “Machine Learning and Perception using Cognition Methods” sponsored by University Grant Commission. He is the Editors-in-Chief ofInternational Journal of Information and Communication Technology and International Journal of Computational Vision and Robotics published from Inderscience Publishing House,England and also Editors-in-chief of Book Series on “Modeling and Optimization in Science and Technology” published from Springer, Germany.
Organising Chair:
Prof.Dr. Xilong Qu
School of Information Technology and Management
Hunan University of Finance and Economics,Changsha,Hunan,China
Prof. Xilong Qu is the dean of School of Information Technology and Management, Hunan University of Finance and Economics, he is also the master degree student advisor for both Xiangtan University and Hunan Institute of Engineering. Prof. Xilong Qu received his Ph.D on Southwest Jiaotong University, he finished his post-doctor study in Post-doctoral Research Center of Computer Science and Technology, South China University of Technology. Prof. Xilong Qu is the young core teacher of Hunan and a member of “121” talents program of Hunan. Prof.Xilong Qu joined 4 projects from the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 Program) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China, also he led the National Natural Science Foundation of Hunan, the Research Foundation of Education Bureau of Hunan Province, China and the National Science Foundation for Post-doctoral Scientists of China for 3, 1 and 1 times respectively. Prof. Xilong Qu published 4 books 35 articles (5 articles are indexed by SCI and the rest are indexed by EI). Prof. Xilong Qu is also invited for chairs and keynote speakers of numerous conferences and forums in China.
Coordinator:
Bin Hu
Co-founder and contacting chair of IRNet
International Advisory Committee:
Prof.Dr. Kun Zhang, Dalian Maritime University, China
Prof.Dr. Yongfan Li, Hunan First Normal University,China
Popentiu Vladicescu, Florin, City University, UK
Qu, Guangzhi, Oakland University, USA Yu, Zhengtao, Kunming University of Science and Technology, China Yadavalli, V.S.S., University of Pretoria, South Africa
Apolloni, Bruno, Universit degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Chen, Shyi-Ming, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Coulibaly, Yahaya, University Technology Malaysia, Malaysia
Cui, Zhihua, Taiyuan University of Science and Technology, China
Das, B.K., Government of India, India
Davis, Joseph, The University of Sydney, Australia
De La Escalera Hueso, Arturo, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
El Mohajir, Mohammed, Dhar Mahraz University, Morocco
Hessami, Ali, Vega Systems, UK
Hsu, Yen-Tseng, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Jain, Lakhmi C., Bournemouth University, UK
Jain, Sanjay, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Khatua, Chidananda, Intel Corporation Inc., USA
Kiper, Ayse, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Kohout, Ladislav J., Florida State University, USA
Koukam, Abderrafiaa, Universit de Technologie de Belfort Montbliard, France
Langari, Reza, Texas A&M University, USA
Liu, Feng, Wuhan University, China
Ma, Maode, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Mahalik, N. P., California State University, Fresno, USA
Mahapatra, Rabi N, Texas A&M University, USA
Misra, Subhas C., IIT Kanpur, India
Mitra, Pabitra, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India
Phillips-Wren, Gloria, Loyola University Maryland, USA
Reddy, P. Krishna, International Institute of Information Technology, India
Serhani, M. Adel, United Arab Emirates University, United Arab Emirates
Shafazand, M. Hassan, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Iran
Shan, Tony C., Wachovia Bank, USA
Shukla, Anupam, Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior (ABV-IIITM), India
Soto Acosta, Pedro, University of Murcia, Spain
Trappl, Robert, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI), Austria
Tzafestas, Spyros, National Technical University, Greece
Yeap, Wai-Kiang, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Zhang, Yudong, Nanjing Normal University, China
Zorat, Alessandro, University of Trento, Italy
Prof.Dr. Tongliang Fan, China Maritime Police Academy, China
Prof.Dr. Junjie Lv, University of Wuhan Polytechnic, China
Prof.Dr. Hao Wang, State Key Laboratory of Rolling and Automation, Northeastern University, China
Prof.Dr. Imran Memon, Zhejiang University, China
Prof.Dr. Xinqiang Chen, Shanghai Maritime University, China
Prof.Dr. Krzysztof Koszela, Poznan University, Poland
Prof.Dr. Loc Nguyen, Ho Chi Minh University of Science, Vietnam
Dr. Biju Theruvil Sayed, Dhofar University, P.O. Box 2509, P.Code 211, Salalah, Sultanate of Oman
Dr.Marko Krstić, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Electrical Engineering,Republic of Serbia
Prof.Jianyi Lin, Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates
Prof.Dr. Qiao Guo, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
Dr.Srijita Bharti ,Deemed University, India
Prof.Dr. Juan Manuel Carrillo de Gea , University of Murcia, Spain
Prof.Dr. K.Martin Sagayam, Karunya University, India
Prof.Dr. Guodong Wang , South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, USA
Prof.Dr. Vladicescu Popentiu, Florin, City University, UK
Prof.Dr. Guangzhi Qu, Oakland University, USA
Prof.Dr. V.S.S. Yadavalli, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Prof.Dr. Bruno Apolloni, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Prof.Dr. Harry Bouwman, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Prof.Dr. Shyi-Ming Chen, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Prof.Dr. Yahaya Coulibaly, University Technology Malaysia, Malaysia
Prof.Dr. Ing Kong, RMIT University, Australia
Prof.Dr. Gerald Midgley, Centre for Systems Studies, Business School, University of Hull, UK
Prof.Dr. Khubaib Ahmed, Hamdard University, Pakistan
Prof.Dr. Moustafa Mohammed Eissa, Faculty of Engineering-Helwan University, Egypt
Dr. Liang Zong, Shaoyang University, China
Dr. Xilang Tang, Airforce Engineering University, China
Dr. Fernando Boronat Seguí, UNIVERSIDAD POLITéCNICA DE VALENCIA, SPAIN
Dr. Alexandros Fragkiadakis, Institute of Computer Science (FORTH-ICS), Greece
Dr. Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain
Dr. Mohamed Atef, Assiut University, Egypt
Dr. Weilin Wang , University of Georgia, USA
Dr. Bensafi Abd-Ei-Hamid, World Islamic Sciences and Education University, Jordan
Dr. Yudi Gondokaryono, Institute of Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia
Dr. Hadi Arabshahi, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran
Dr. Qian Lv , Western Digital, USA
Dr. Alojz Poredo, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Dr. Mohamed F. El-Santawy, Cairo University, Egypt
Dr. Tongpin Liu, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Dr. Seema Verma, Banasthali University, India
Prof. Zhengtao Yu, Kunming University of Science and Technology, China
Prof. Dr. Syed Abdul Rehman Khan, Chang’an University, China
Dr. Hao Wang, State Key Laboratory of Rolling and Automation, Northeastern University, China
Prof. Harry Bouwman, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Prof. Shyi-Ming Chen, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Prof. Yahaya Coulibaly, University Technology Malaysia, Malaysia