Honorary Chairs
Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada
Enrique Ruspini, European Centre for Soft Computing, Spain

General Chairs
Vincenzo Di Lecce, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Evangelia Micheli-Tzanakou, Rutgers University, USA

Program Co-Chairs
Fabio Scotti, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Serge Demidenko, Monash University, Malaysia
Slawomir Wesolkowski, DRDC, Canada

Publicity Chair
Francesco Bellocchio, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

Publication Chairs
Alberto Amato, Università degli Studi di Milano and Politecnico di Bari, Italy

Local Arrangement Co-Chairs
Alessandro Quarto, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Domenico Soldo, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Antonella Giove, Politecnico di Bari, Italy

Steering Committee
Cesare Alippi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
David Braudaway, USA
Evangelia Micheli-Tzanakou, Rutgers University, USA
Vincenzo Piuri, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Enrique Ruspini, SRI, USA
Mel Siegel, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Technical Program Committee
Cesare Alippi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Marco Calabrese, Università degli Studi di Milano e Politecnico di Bari, Italy
W. Art Chaovalitwongse, Rutgers University, USA
Ana-Maria Cretu, University of Ottawa, Canada
Serge Demidenko, Massey University, New Zealand
Richard J. Duro, Universidade da Coruna, Spain
Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, University of Ottawa, Canada
Jerry Fuh, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Antonio Galeone, Sincon, Italy
Alexander I. Galushkin, Scientific Center of Neurocomputers, Russia
Andrea Guerriero, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Yong Hu, The University of Hong Kong, China
Okyay Kaynak, Bogazici University, Turkey
Lazlo Koczy, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Ye-Chow Kuang, Monash University, Malaysia
Han-Xiong Li, City University of Hong Kong, China
Erik Liau, Infineon, Germany
Fernando Lopez Pena, Universidade da Coruna, Spain
Gilles Mauris, Universite de Savoie, France
Christopher Messom, Monash University, Malayasia
Dong Ming, Tianjin University, China
Robert Newman, Coventry University, UK
Costantinos Pattichis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Leonid Perlovsky, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Emil M. Petriu, University of Ottawa, Canada
Giuseppe Pirlo, Universita’ degli Studi di Bari, Italy
Vincenzo Piuri, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Radu-Emil Precup, Politechica University of Timisoara, Romania
Stefan Preitl, Politechnica University of Timisoara, Romania
Lucia Rapanotti, The Open University, U.K.
Rauf Kh. Sadykhov, Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics, Belarus
Gabriella Sanniti di Baja, Institute of Cybernetics "E.Caianiello", CNR, Italy
Roberto Sassi, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Hydeyuki Sawada, Kagawa University, Japan
Gianluca Selicato, Università’ degli Studi di Bari, Italy
Ian Sillitoe, University of Bor, Sweden
Vito Felice Uricchio, CNR-Irsa, Bari, Italy
Annamaria R. Varkonyi-Koczy, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Slawomir Wesolkowski, DRDC, Canada
Yong Yan, University of Kent, UK
Mehmet Emin Yuksel, Erciyes University, Turkey
Tulay Yildirim, Yildiz Technical University, Turkey
David Zhang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China