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            | CONFERENCE 
              CHAIR |   
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            |  | Joaquim Filipe, 
              Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Setúbal, Portugal |   
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            | PROGRAM 
              CO-CHAIRS |   
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            |  | Jean-Louis Ferrier, 
              University of Angers, France Juan Andrade Cetto, 
              Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
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            | PROGRAM 
              COMMITTEE |   
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            |  | Chaouki Abdallah, 
              University of Mew Mexico, U.S.A. Metin Akay, 
              Dartmouth College, U.S.A.
 Fouad M. AL-sunni, 
              KFUPM, Saudi Arabia
 Aníbal Traça de Almeida, 
              University of Coimbra, Portugal
 Eugenio Aguirre, 
              University of Granada, Spain
 Frank Allgower, 
              University of Stuttgart, Germany
 Peter Arato, 
              Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
 Helder 
              Araújo, University of Coimbra, Portugal
 Gustavo 
              Arroyo-Figueroa, Instituto de Investigaciones Electricas, 
              Mexico
 Artur Arsenio, MIT CSAIL, U.S.A.
 Marco Antonio Arteaga, Universidad Nacional Autonoma 
              de Mexico, Mexico
 Nikolaos A. Aspragathos, 
              University of Patras, Greece
 Robert Babuska, 
              TU Delft, Netherlands
 Mark Balas, University 
              of Wyoming, U.S.A.
 Aldo Balestrino, University 
              of Pisa, Italy
 Bijnan Bandyopadhyay, IIT Bombay, 
              India
 Victor Barroso, ISR/IST - Technical University 
              of Lisbon, Portugal
 Ruth Bars, Budapest University 
              of Technology and Economics, Hungary
 Mike Belmont, 
              Exeter University, U.K.
 Alberto Bemporad, University 
              of Siena, Italy
 Karsten Berns, University of 
              Kaiserslautern, Germany
 David Bonyuet, Delta 
              Search Labs, U.S.A.
 Patrick Boucher, SUPELEC, 
              France
 Guido Bugmann, University of Plymouth, 
              U.K.
 Kevin Burn, University of Sunderland, 
              U.K.
 Edmund Burke, University of Nottingham, 
              U.K.
 Clifford Burrows, CPTMC University of 
              Bath, U.K.
 Martin Buss, Technical University 
              of Munich, Germany
 Terri Caelli, University 
              of Alberta, Canada
 Luis M. Camarinha-Matos, 
              New University of Lisbon / Uninova, Portugal
 Marco 
              Campi, University of Brescia, Italy
 Xiren Cao, 
              HKUST, Hong Kong
 Jorge Martins de Carvalho, 
              FEUP, Portugal
 Christos Cassandras, Boston 
              University, U.S.A.
 Raja Chatila, LAAS-CNRS, 
              France
 Tongwen Chen, University of Alberta, 
              Canada
 Albert M. K. Cheng, University of Houston, 
              U.S.A.
 Graziano Chesi, University of Siena, 
              Italy
 Sung-Bae Cho, Yonsei University, Korea
 Ryszard S. Choras, University of Technology & 
              Agriculture, Poland
 Krzysztof Cios, University 
              of Colorado, U.S.A.
 Carlos A. Coello Coello, 
              CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico
 Luís Correia, University 
              of Lisbon, Portugal
 António Dourado Correia, 
              University of Coimbra, Portugal
 Yechiel Crispin, 
              Embry-Riddle University, U.S.A.
 Luis Custódio, 
              ISR/IST - Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
 Keshav 
              Dahal, University of Bradford, U.K.
 Guilherme 
              Nelson DeSouza, University of Western Australia, Australia
 Rüdiger Dillmann, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
 Denis Dochain, Catholic University of Louvain, 
              Belgium
 Alexandre Dolgui, Ecole des Mines de 
              Saint Etienne, France
 Marco Dorigo, Université 
              Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
 Wlodzislaw Duch, 
              Nicolaus Copernicus University & NTU, Poland
 Heinz H. 
              Erbe, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
 Simon 
              Fabri, University of Malta, Malta
 Ali Feliachi, 
              West Virginia University, U.S.A.
 Jean-Louis Ferrier, 
              Université d'Angers, France
 Nicola Ferrier, 
              University of Wisconsin-Madison, U.S.A.
 Florin Gheorghe 
              Filip, The Romanian Academy & The National Institute for 
              R&D in Informatics (ICI), Romania
 Bruce Francis, 
              University of Toronto, Canada
 Toshio Fukuda, 
              Nagoya University, Japan
 Colin Fyfe, University 
              of Paisley, U.K.
 Dragan Gamberger, Rudjer Boskovic 
              Institute, Croatia
 Lazea Gheorghe, Technical 
              University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
 Fathi Ghorbel, 
              Rice University, U.S.A.
 Maria Gini, University 
              of Minnesota, U.S.A.
 Alessandro Giua, University 
              of Cagliari, Italy
 Luis Gomes, New University 
              of Lisbon / Uninova, Portugal
 Oscar Gonzalez, 
              Old Dominion University, U.S.A.
 John Gray, 
              University of Salford, U.K.
 Thomas Gustafsson, 
              Luleĺ University of Technology, Sweden
 Maki K. Habib, 
              Swinburne University of Technology, Malaysia
 Hani Hagras, 
              University of Essex, U.K.
 Wolfgang Halang, 
              Fernuniversitaet in Hagen, Germany
 John Hallam, 
              The University of Edinburgh, U.K.
 Riad Hammoud, 
              Delphi Corporation , U.S.A.
 Uwe D. Hanebeck, 
              Institute of Computer Design and Fault Tolerance, Germany
 John 
              Harris, University of Florida, U.S.A.
 Robert 
              Harrison, The University of Sheffield, U.K.
 Dominik 
              Henrich, University of Bayreuth, Germany
 Francisco 
              Herrera, University of Granada, Spain
 Weng 
              Ho, National University of Singapore, Singapore
 Gábor 
              Horváth, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 
              Hungary
 Alamgir Hossain, Bradford University, 
              U.K.
 Felix von Hundelshausen, Carnegie Mellon 
              University, U.S.A.
 Amir Hussain, University 
              of Stirling, U.K.
 Carlos Aguilar Ibańez, Center 
              for Computing Research , Mexico
 Atsushi Imiya, 
              IMIT Chiba University, Japan
 Sirkka-Liisa Jämsä-Jounela 
              , Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
 Ray 
              Jarvis, Monash University, Australia
 Ben Jonker, 
              University of Twente, The Netherlands
 Visakan Kadirkamanathan, 
              The University of Sheffield, U.K.
 Ivan Kalaykov, 
              Örebro University, Sweden
 Nicos Karcanias, 
              City University, U.K.
 Fakhri Karray, University 
              of Waterloo, Canada
 Nik Kasabov, Auckland University 
              of Technology, New Zealand
 Dusko Katic, Mihailo 
              Pupin Institute, Serbia & Montenegro
 Kazuhiko Kawamura, 
              Vanderbilt University, U.S.A.
 Graham Kendall, 
              The University of Nottingham, U.K.
 Uwe Kiencke, 
              University of Karlsruhe, Germany
 Rudibert King, 
              Technical University of Berlin, Germany
 Jozef Korbicz, 
              University of Zielona Gora, Poland
 Israel Koren, 
              University of Massachusetts, U.S.A.
 Bart Kosko, 
              University of Southern California, U.S.A.
 Elias Kosmatopoulos, 
              Technical University of Crete, Greece
 George L. Kovacs, 
              Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
 Krzysztof Kozlowski, 
              Poznan University of Technology, Poland
 Gerhard Kraetzschmar, 
              University of Ulm, Germany
 A. Kummert, Universität 
              Wuppertal, Germany
 Kostas Kyriakopoulos, National 
              Technical University of Athens, Greece
 Jean-Claude 
              Latombe, Stanford University, U.S.A.
 Loo Hay 
              Lee, National University of Singapore, Singapore
 Graham 
              Leedham, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
 W. E. Leithead, University of Strathclyde, U.K.
 Kauko Leiviskä, University of Oulu, Finland
 Jadran Lenarcic, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
 Frank Lewis, The University of Texas at Arlington, 
              U.S.A.
 Gordon Lightbody, University College 
              Cork, Ireland
 Jan Ligus, Technical University 
              of Kosice, Slovenia
 Zongli Lin, University 
              of Virginia, U.S.A.
 Cheng-Yuan Liou, National 
              Taiwan University, Taiwan
 Brian Lovell, The 
              University of Queensland, Australia
 Joachim Lückel, 
              University of Paderborn, Germany
 Peter Luh, 
              University of Connecticut, U.S.A.
 Anthony A. Maciejewski, 
              Colorado State University, U.S.A.
 Bruno Maione, 
              Politecnico di Bari, Italy
 Frederic Maire, 
              Queensland University of Technology, Australia
 Om Malik, 
              University of Calgary, Canada
 Jacek Mañdziuk, 
              Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
 Ognyan Manolov, 
              LAMOR, ICSR-BAS, Bulgaria
 Philippe Martinet, 
              UBP-CNRS, France
 Aleix M. Martinez, Ohio State 
              University, U.S.A.
 Rene Mayorga, University 
              of Regina, Canada
 Gerard McKee, University 
              of Reading , U.K.
 Seán McLoone, NUI Maynooth, 
              Ireland
 Basil Mertzios, Thessaloniki Institute 
              of Technology / Democritus University, Greece
 Shin-Ichi 
              Minato, Hokkaido University, Japan
 José Mireles 
              Jr., University of Texas at Arlington, U.S.A.
 Manfred Morari, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, 
              Switzerland
 Vladimir Mostyn, VSB - Technical 
              University Ostrava, Czech Republic
 Leo Motus, 
              Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
 David Murray-Smith, 
              University of Glasgow, U.K.
 Giovanni Muscato, 
              University of Catania, Italy
 Kenneth R. Muske, 
              Villanova University, U.S.A.
 Ould Khessal Nadir, 
              Vaasa Polytechnic, Finland
 Fazel Naghdy, University 
              of Wollongong, Australia
 Sergiu Nedevschi, 
              Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
 Hendrik 
              Nijmeijer, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
 Urbano Nunes, University of Coimbra, Portugal
 José Valente de Oliveira, Universidade do Algarve, 
              Portugal
 Andrzej Ordys, University of Strathclyde, 
              U.K.
 Djamila Ouelhadj, ASAP GROUP, U.K.
 Michel Parent, INRIA, France
 Thomas 
              Parisini, University of Trieste, Italy
 Gabriella 
              Pasi, ITC-CNR, Italy
 Witold Pedrycz, 
              University of Alberta, Canada
 Carlos Pereira, 
              UFRGS, Brazil
 Gerardo Espinosa Pérez, Autonomous 
              Nacional University of Mexico, Mexico
 Maria Petrou, 
              University of Surrey, U.K.
 J. Norberto Pires, 
              University of Coimbra, Portugal
 Angel P. del Pobil, 
              Universitat Jaume I, Spain
 Marios Polycarpou, 
              University of Cyprus, Cyprus
 Marie-Noelle Pons, 
              Lab. Chemical Engineering Sciences/CNRS, France
 Josep 
              M. Porta, Institut de Robotica Industrial, Spain
 Libor 
              Preucil, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
 José C. Principe, University of Florida, U.S.A.
 M. Isabel Ribeiro, ISR/IST - Technical University 
              of Lisbon, Portugal
 Bernardete Ribeiro, University 
              of Coimbra, Portugal
 Robert Richardson, University 
              of Manchester, U.K.
 John Ringwood, National 
              University of Ireland, Ireland
 Juha Röning, 
              University of Oulu, Finland
 Lluis Ros, Institut 
              de Robotica Industrial, Spain
 Agostinho Rosa, 
              ISR/IST - Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
 Danilo 
              De Rossi, University of Pisa, Italy
 Hubert 
              Roth, University Siegen, Germany
 António E. 
              B. Ruano, University of Algarve, Portugal
 Riko 
              Safaric, University of Maribor, Slovenia
 Erol 
              Sahin, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
 Antonio Sala, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
 Erik Sandewall, Linköping University , Sweden
 Ricardo Sanz, Polytechnical University of 
              Madrid, Spain
 Nilanjan Sarkar, Vanderbilt University, 
              U.S.A.
 Jurek Sasiadek, Carleton University, 
              Canada
 Daniel Sbarbaro, Universidad de Concepcion, 
              Chile
 Carsten W. Scherer, Delft University 
              of Technology, The Netherlands
 Klaus Schilling, 
              Bayerische Julius-Maximilians Universität Würzburg, Germany
 Joăo Sentieiro, ISR/IST - Technical University 
              of Lisbon, Portugal
 Joăo Sequeira, Instituto 
              Superior Técnico, Portugal
 Wei-Min Shen, University 
              of Southern California, U.S.A.
 Chi-Ren Shyu, 
              University of Missouri, U.S.A.
 Bruno Siciliano, 
              Universitŕ di Napoli Federico II, Italy
 Rodolfo Soncini-Sessa, 
              Politecnico di Milano, Italy
 Mark Spong, University 
              of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A.
 Aleksandar 
              Stankovic, Northeastern University, U.S.A.
 Raúl Suárez, Universitat Politčcnica de Catalunya, Spain
 Ryszard Tadeusiewicz, AGH University of Science 
              and Technology, Poland
 Stanislaw Tarasiewicz , 
              Université Laval, Canada
 Daniel Thalmann, 
              EPFL, Switzerland
 Gui Yun Tian, University 
              of Huddersfield, U.K.
 Ivan Tyukin, RIKEN Brain 
              Science Institute, Japan
 Lena Valavani, National 
              and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
 Nicolas 
              Kemper Valverde, Autonomous Nacional University of Mexico, 
              Mexico
 Marc van Hulle, K.U.Leuven, Belgium
 Cees van Leeuwen, Laboratory for Perceptual Dynamics 
              - BSI RIKEN, Japan
 Gerrit van Straten, Wageningen 
              University, Netherlands
 Annamaria R. Varkonyi-Koczy, 
              Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
 Jose 
              Vidal, University of South Carolina, U.S.A.
 Bernardo 
              Wagner, University of Hanover, Germany
 Axel 
              Walthelm, Sepp Med GmbH, Germany
 Hong Wang, 
              Wright State University, U.S.A.
 Jun Wang, The 
              Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
 Lipo Wang, 
              Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
 Alfredo 
              Weitzenfeld, ITAM, Mexico
 Sangchul Won, 
              Pohang University of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea
 Kainam Thomas Wong, University of Waterloo, Canada
 Jeremy Wyatt, Birmingham University , U.K.
 Alex Yakovlev, University of Newcastle, U.K.
 Hujun Yin, University of Manchester Institute of 
              Science and Technology, U.K.
 Franco Zambonelli, 
              University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
 Anibal 
              Zanini, Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires, Argentina
 Yanqing Zhang, Georgia State University, U.S.A.
 Cezary Zielinski, Warsaw University of Technology, 
              Poland
 Albert Y. Zomaya, The University of 
              Sydney, Australia
 Detlef Zuehlke, Technical 
              University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
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