International Programme Committee
The role of the IPC is as follows:-- To advise on the organisation of the conference;
- To promote the conference and bring it to the attention of other researchers;
- To advise on the topics of the conference;
- To help with the paper review process
- To assist in monitoring overall quality.
The IPC consists of the following members and, in addition, all Invited Session Chairs:-
| Name | Affiliation |
| Dr. Farshad Badie  | Aalborg University, Denmark  |
| Prof. Jeffrey P. Bakken  | Bradley University, USA  |
| Prof. Elena Barbera  | Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain  |
| Dr. Janos Botzheim  | Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary  |
| Prof. Dumitru Dan Burdescu  | University of Craiova, Romania  |
| Prof. Adriana Burlea-Schiopoiu  | University of Craiova, Romania  |
| Prof. Nunzio Casalino  | Gugliemo Marconi University, Italy  |
| Prof. Michele Cole  | Robert Morris University, USA  |
| Prof. Robertas Damasevicius  | Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania  |
| Dr. Jean-Pierre Gerval  | ISEN - Yncréa Ouest, France  |
| Dr. Foteini Grivokostopoulou  | University of Patras, Greece  |
| Dr.-Ing. Karsten Henke  | Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany  |
| Dr. Alexander Ivannikov  | Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia  |
| Prof. Aleksandra Klasnja-Milicevic  | University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Sciences, Serbia  |
| Prof. Andrew Nafalski  | University of South Australia, Australia  |
| Prof. Toshio Okamoto  | Kyoto College, Japan  |
| Dr. Mrutyunjaya Panda  | Utkal University, India  |
| Prof. Ekaterina Prasolova-Forland  | Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway  |
| Prof. Isidoros Perikos  | University of Patras, Greece  |
| Assoc. Prof. Danguole Rutkauskiene  | Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania  |
| Prof. Demetrios Sampson  | University of Piraeus, Greece  |
| Prof. Natalia Serdyukova  | Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Russia  |
| Prof. Anna Sherstobitova  | Togliatti State University, Russia  |
| Prof. Cristi Spulbar  | University of Craiova, Romania  |
| Assoc. Prof. Ruxandra Stoean  | University of Craiova, Romania  |
| Prof. Maasnori Takagi  | Iwate Prefectural University, Japan  |
| Prof. Vladimir Uskov  | Bradley University, USA  |
| Dr. Gara Miranda Valladares  | Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife  |
| Prof. Toyohide Watanabe  | Nagoya Industrial Science Reserach Institute, Japan  |
| Prof. Yoshiyuki Yabuuchi  | Shimonoseki City University, Japan  |
| Prof. Larissa Zaitseva  | Riga Technical University, Latvia  |
| Prof. Lyudmila V. Glukhova  | Volzhsky University, Russia  |
| Assoc. Prof. Svetlana A. Gudkova  | Togliatti State University, Russia  |
| Prof. Vladimir I. Serdyukov  | Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Russia  |
| Assoc. Prof. Vladimir N. Zhukov  | Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Russia  |
| Prof. Alexander D. Nemtsev  | Volzhsky University, Russia  |
| Dr. Valery M. Kaziev  | Kabardino-Balkar State University, Russia  |
| Prof. Natalya O. Mikhalenok  | Samara State University of Railways, Russia  |
| Assoc. Prof. Yana S. Mitrofanova  | Togliatti State University, Russia  |
| Prof. Dmitry L. Savenkov  | Togliatti State University, Russia  |


