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            | CONFERENCE 
              CHAIR |   
            | Joaquim 
              Filipe, Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Setúbal, 
              Portugal |  |   
            | HONORARY 
              CHAIR |   
            | Hojjat 
              Adeli, The Ohio State University, U.S.A. |  |   
            | PROGRAM 
              CO-CHAIRS |  |   
            | Juan 
              Andrade Cetto, Universitat Autňnoma de Barcelona, Spain Jean-Louis Ferrier, University of Angers, France
 José Dias Pereira, E.S.T. Setúbal, Portugal
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            | PROGRAM 
              COMMITTEE |  |   
            |  | Eugenio Aguirre, 
              University of Granada, Spain Frank Allgower, 
              University of Stuttgart, Germany
 Fouad AL-Sunni, 
              KFUPM, Saudi Arabia
 Yacine Amirat, University 
              Paris 12, France
 Luis Antunes, GUESS/Universidade 
              de Lisboa, Portugal
 Peter Arato, Budapest University 
              of Technology and Economics, Hungary
 Helder Araújo, 
              University of Coimbra, Portugal
 Gustavo Arroyo-Figueroa, 
              Instituto de Investigaciones Electricas, Mexico
 Marco 
              Antonio Arteaga, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 
              Mexico
 Nikos Aspragathos, University of Patras, 
              Greece
 Miguel Ayala Botto, Instituto Superior 
              Técnico, Portugal
 Robert Babuska, TU Delft, 
              Netherlands
 Mark Balas, University of Wyoming, 
              U.S.A.
 Bijnan Bandyopadhyay, IIT Bombay, India
 Ruth Bars, Budapest University of Technology and 
              Economics, Hungary
 Karsten Berns, University 
              Kaiserslautern, Germany
 Patrick Boucher, SUPELEC, 
              France
 Guido Bugmann, University of Plymouth, 
              U.K.
 Edmund Burke, University of Nottingham, 
              U.K.
 Kevin Burn, University of Sunderland, 
              U.K.
 Clifford Burrows, Innovative Manufacturing 
              Research Centre, U.K.
 Luis M. Camarinha-Matos, 
              New University of Lisbon, Portugal
 Marco Campi, 
              University of Brescia, Italy
 Jorge Martins de Carvalho, 
              FEUP, Portugal
 Alicia Casals, Technical University 
              of Catalonia, Spain
 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.
 Sung-Bae Cho, Yonsei University, Korea
 Ryszard S. Choras, University of Technology & Agriculture, 
              Poland
 Carlos Coello Coello, CINVESTAV-IPN, 
              Mexico
 António Dourado Correia, University 
              of Coimbra, Portugal
 Yechiel Crispin, Embry-Riddle 
              University, U.S.A.
 Keshav Dahal, University 
              of Bradford, U.K.
 Danilo De Rossi, University 
              of Pisa, Italy
 Angel P. del Pobil, Universitat 
              Jaume I, Spain
 Guilherme DeSouza, University 
              of Missouri, U.S.A.
 Rüdiger Dillmann, University 
              of Karlsruhe, Germany
 Denis Dochain, Université 
              catholique de Louvain, Belgium
 Alexandre Dolgui, 
              Ecole des Mines de Saint Etienne, France
 Marco Dorigo, 
              Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
 Wlodzislaw Duch, 
              Nicolaus Copernicus University & NTU, Singapore, Poland
 Heinz-Hermann 
              Erbe, TU Berlin, Germany
 Gerardo Espinosa-Perez, 
              Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico
 Simon 
              Fabri, University of Malta, Malta
 Jean-Louis 
              Ferrier, Université d'Angers, France
 Florin 
              Gheorghe Filip, The Romanian Academy & The National Institute 
              for R&D in Informatics, Romania
 Manel Frigola, 
              Thecnical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain
 Colin 
              Fyfe, university of paisley, U.K.
 Dragan Gamberger, 
              Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Croatia
 Lazea Gheorghe, 
              Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
 Maria Gini, 
              University of Minnesota, U.S.A.
 Alessandro Giua, 
              University of Cagliari, Italy
 Luis Gomes, Universidade 
              Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
 John Gray, University 
              of Salford, U.K.
 Dongbing Gu, University of 
              Essex, U.K.
 José J. Guerrero, University of 
              Zaragoza, Spain
 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, Germany
 J. Hallam, University 
              of Southern Denmark, Denmark
 Riad Hammoud, 
              Delphi Corporation , U.S.A.
 Uwe D. Hanebeck, 
              Institute of Computer Science and Engineering, Germany
 John 
              Harris, University of Florida, U.S.A.
 Dominik 
              Henrich, University of Bayreuth, Germany
 Francisco 
              Herrera, University of Granada, Spain
 Gábor 
              Horváth, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 
              Hungary
 Weng HO, National University of Singapore, 
              Singapore
 Alamgir Hossain, Bradford University, 
              U.K.
 Marc Van Hulle, K.U.Leuven, Belgium
 Atsushi Imiya, IMIT Chiba Uni, Japan
 Sirkka-Liisa 
              Jämsä-Jounela, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
 Ray Jarvis, Monash University, Australia
 Ivan 
              Kalaykov, Örebro University, Sweden
 Nicos Karcanias, 
              City University, London, U.K.
 Fakhri Karray, 
              University of waterloo, Canada
 Dusko Katic, 
              Mihailo Pupin Institute, Serbia & Montenegro
 Kazuhiko 
              Kawamura, Vanderbilt University, U.S.A.
 Nicolas 
              Kemper, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
 Graham Kendall, The University of Nottingham, U.K.
 Uwe Kiencke, University of Karlsruhe (TH), 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. Kovács, Hungarian 
              Academy of Sciences, Hungary
 Krzysztof Kozlowski, 
              Poznan University of Technology, Poland
 Gerhard Kraetzschmar, 
              Fraunhofer Institute for Autonomous Intelligent Systems, Germany
 Anton Kummert, University of Wuppertal, Germany
 Jean-Claude Latombe, Stanford University, U.S.A.
 Loo Hay Lee, National University of Singapore, 
              Singapore
 Graham Leedham, Nanyang Technological 
              University, Singapore
 Kauko Leiviskä, University 
              of Oulu, Finland
 Zongli Lin, University of 
              Virginia, U.S.A.
 Cheng-Yuan Liou, National 
              Taiwan University, Taiwan
 Brian Lovell, The 
              University of Queensland, Australia
 Peter Luh, 
              University of Connecticut, U.S.A.
 Anthony Maciejewski, 
              Colorado State University, U.S.A.
 N. P. Mahalik, 
              Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
 Frederic 
              Maire, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
 Bruno Maione, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
 Om 
              Malik, University of Calgary, Canada
 Jacek 
              Mandziuk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
 Philippe 
              Martinet, LASMEA, France
 Aleix Martinez, 
              Ohio State University, U.S.A.
 Rene V. Mayorga, 
              University of Regina, Canada
 Gerard McKee, 
              The University of Reading, U.K.
 Seán McLoone, 
              National University of Ireland (NUI) Maynooth, Ireland
 Basil 
              Mertzios, (1)Thessaloniki Institute of Technology (2) Democritus 
              University, Greece
 Shin-ichi Minato, Hokkaido 
              University, Japan
 José Mireles Jr., Universidad 
              Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
 Vladimir Mostyn, 
              VSB - Technical University Ostrava, Czech Republic
 Kenneth 
              Muske, Villanova University, U.S.A.
 Ould Khessal 
              Nadir, Okanagan College, Canada
 Fazel Naghdy, 
              University of Wollongong, Australia
 Sergiu Nedevschi, 
              Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
 Maria Neves, 
              Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
 Hendrik 
              Nijmeijer, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
 Urbano Nunes, University of Coimbra, Portugal
 José Valente de Oliveira, Universidade do Algarve, 
              Portugal
 Andrzej Ordys, University of Strathclyde, 
              U.K.
 Djamila Ouelhadj, University of Nottingham, 
              ASAP GROUP, U.K.
 Michel Parent, INRIA, France
 Thomas Parisini, University of Trieste, Italy
 Gabriella Pasi, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, 
              Italy
 Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, 
              Canada
 Carlos Eduardo Pereira, Federal University 
              of Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS, Brazil
 Maria Petrou, 
              Imperial College, U.K.
 J. Norberto Pires, University 
              of Coimbra, Portugal
 Marios Polycarpou, University 
              of Cyprus, Cyprus
 Marie-Noëlle Pons, CNRS, 
              France
 Libor Preucil, Czech Technical University 
              in Prague, Czech Republic
 Bernardete Ribeiro, 
              University of Coimbra, Portugal
 M. Isabel Ribeiro, 
              Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
 Robert Richardson, 
              University of Manchester, U.K.
 John Ringwood, 
              National University of Ireland (NUI), Maynooth, Ireland
 Juha 
              Röning, University of Oulu, Finland
 Agostinho 
              Rosa, IST, Portugal
 Hubert Roth, University 
              Siegen, Germany
 António Ruano, CSI, Portugal
 Erol Sahin, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
 Antonio Sala, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, 
              Spain
 Abdel-Badeeh M. Salem, Ain Shams University, 
              Egypt
 Ricardo Sanz, Universidad Politécnica 
              de Madrid, Spain
 Medha Sarkar, Middle Tennessee 
              State University, U.S.A.
 Nilanjan Sarkar, Vanderbilt 
              University, U.S.A.
 Jurek Sasiadek, Carleton 
              University, Canada
 Carlos Sagüés, 
              University of Zaragoza, Spain
 Daniel Sbarbaro, 
              Universidad de Concepcion, Chile
 Klaus Schilling, 
              Bayerische Julius-Maximilians Universität Würzburg, Germany
 Chi-Ren Shyu, University of Missouri-Columbia, 
              U.S.A.
 Bruno Siciliano, Universitŕ di Napoli 
              Federico II, Italy
 Joăo Silva Sequeira, Instituto 
              Superior Técnico, Portugal
 Mark Spong, University 
              of Illinois, U.S.A.
 Tarasiewicz Stanislaw, 
              Université Laval, Canada
 Aleksandar Stankovic, 
              Northeastern University, U.S.A.
 Gerrit van Straten, 
              Wageningen University, Netherlands
 Raúl Suárez, 
              Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain
 Ryszard 
              Tadeusiewicz, AGH University of Science and Technology, 
              Poland
 Tianhao Tang, Shanghai Maritime University, 
              China
 Daniel Thalmann, EPFL, Switzerland
 Gui Yun Tian, University of Huddersfield, U.K.
 Ivan Tyukin, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan
 Cees van Leeuwen, RIKEN BSI, Japan
 Annamaria 
              R. Varkonyi-Koczy, Budapest University of Technology and 
              Economics, Hungary
 Bernardo Wagner, University 
              of Hannover, Germany
 Axel Walthelm, Sepp Med 
              GmbH, Germany
 Jun Wang, Chinese University 
              of Hong Kong, China
 Lipo Wang, Nanyang Technological 
              University, Singapore
 Alfredo Weitzenfeld, 
              ITAM, Mexico
 Dirk Wollherr, Technische Universität 
              München, Germany
 Sangchul Won, Pohang University 
              of Science and Technology, Korea
 Kainam Thomas Wong, 
              University of Waterloo, Canada
 Jeremy Wyatt, 
              University of Birmingham, U.K.
 Alex Yakovlev, 
              University of Newcastle, U.K.
 Hujun Yin, University 
              of Manchester, U.K.
 Anibal Zanini, Universidad 
              Nacional de Buenos Aires, Argentina
 Yanqing Zhang, 
              Georgia State University, U.S.A.
 Dayong Zhou, 
              University of Oklahoma, U.S.A.
 Albert Zomaya, 
              The University of Sydney, Australia
 Detlef Zuehlke, 
              Technical University Kaiserslautern, Germany
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