General Chairs
Hujun Yin, University of Manchester, UK
Richard Allmendinger, University of Manchester, UK
Luis Martínez, Universidad de Jaén, Spain
David Camacho, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Programme Chairs
Truong Dinh, University of Warwick, UK
Antonio Tallón-Ballesteros, University of Huelva, Spain
Juan Moreno Garcia, University of Castilla–La Mancha, Spain
Ke Tang, Southern University of Science and Technology, China
Sung-Bae Cho, Yonsei University, South Korea
Special Session Chairs
Antonio Tallón-Ballesteros, University of Huelva, Spain
Princy Johnson, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Teresa Gonçalves, University of Évora, Portugal
Vítor Nogueira, University of Évora, Portugal
Fernando Nuñez Hernandez, University of Seville, Spain
Local Organising Committee
Liaisons
Bin Li, University of Science and Technology of China, China
Guilherme Barreto, Federal University of Ceará, Brazil
Yimin Wen, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, China
Susana Nascimento, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal
International Advisory Committee
Lei Xu
Shun-ichi Amari
Nick Jennings
Erkki Oja
Burkhard Rost
Francisco Herrera
Yaser Abu-Mostafa
Michael Dempster
Soo-Young Lee
Latit M. Patnaik
Xin Yao
Steering Committee
Hujun Yin
Guilherme Barreto
Laiwan Chan
Yiu-ming Cheung
Emilio Corchado
Jose A. Costa
Colin Fyfe
Marc van Hulle
Samuel Kaski
John Keane
Jimmy Lee
Malik Magdon-Ismail
Vic Rayward-Smith
Zheng Rong Yang
Peter Tino
Ning Zhong
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