Committee

Program Chairs

Caetano Traina Jr. : Computer Science Department, University of Sao Paulo at Sao Carlos, Brazil
Pedro Pereira Rodrigues : University of Porto, Portugal

Area Chairs

A - Big and Everywhere Data Management
Carolyn McGregor : University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada
Ernestina Menasalvas : Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain

B - Data Analysis and Knowledge Discovery
Jaakko Hollmén : Aalto University, Finland
Myra Spiliopoulou : Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany

C - Knowledge Representation
Tony Solomonides : Northshore University HealthSystem, USA
Marcello H. Nogueira-Barbosa - Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto, Brazil

D - Decision Support and Recommendation Systems
Ines Dutra : University of Porto, Portugal
Paolo Soda : Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy

E - Systems Integration and Security
Konstantinos Patsakis : Trinity College, Ireland
Ricardo Cruz-Correia : University of Porto, Portugal

F - Signal and Image Processing and Analysis
Aldo von Wangenheim : Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Hernâni Gonçalves : University of Porto, Portugal

G - Clinical and Healthcare Services Research
Adele Marshall : Queen's University Belfast, UK
Marco Antonio Gutierrez : Heart Institute - University of Sao Paulo Medical School, Brazil

H - Medical Education and Collaboration
Bridget Kane : Trinity College, Ireland
Panagiotis Bamidis : Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

I - Robotics
Arturo Forner-Cornero : University of São Paulo, Brazil

Program Committee

Adele Marshall : Queen's University Belfast, UK
Adilson Gonzaga : University of São Paulo, Brazil
Agma Traina : University of São Paulo, Brazil
Aisha Naseer : Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe Limited
Albert Bifet : University of Waikato, New zealand
Alberto Freitas : University of Porto, Portugal
Aldo von Wangenheim : Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Alfredo Tirado-Ramos : University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, USA
Álvaro Rocha : University of Coimbra, Portugal
Ana Paula Rocha : University of Porto, Portugal
Anca Bucur : Philips Research
Andre Balan : Universidade Federal do ABC, Brazil
Andreas Pashalidis : K.U.Leuven, Belgium
Andreas Uhl : University of Salzburg, Austria
Andrei Vasilateanu : Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania
Arturo Forner-Cornero : University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Bartlomiej Papiez : University of Oxford, UK
Benyun Shi : Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Bo Yang : Jilin University, China
Bridget Kane : Trinity College and St. James’s Hospital, Ireland
Bruce Davidson : Hoag Health System
Caetano Traina : University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Carlo Sansone : University of Naples "Federico II", Italy
Carlo Combi : Universita' degli Studi di Verona, Italy
Carolyn McGregor : University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada
Cecile Paris : Computational Informatics (CCI), Australia
Cesar Ferri : DSIC, Universitat Politcnica de València
Charlotte Tang : University of Michigan Flint, USA
Chongsheng Zhang : INRIA, France
Chris Nugent : University of Ulster, UK
Christoph Schommer : University of Luxembourg
Christos Moridis : University of Macedonia, Greece
Cinzia Cappiello : Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Claudio Marrocco : Università degli Studi di Cassino, Spain
Concetto Spampinato : University of Catania, Italy
D. J. Lee : Brigham Young University, USA
Daniel Sonntag : German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)
Daniel Katz : Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA
Daniela Raicu : DePaul University, USA
Danielle Sent : Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands
David Chadwick : University of Kent, UK
David Riaño : Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
Dimitrios Fotiadis : University of Ioannina, Greece
Dimitris Maroulis : University of Athens, Greece
Dimitris Iakovidis : Technological Educational Institute of Lamia, Greece
Ernestina Menasalvas : University Politécnica of Madrid, Spain
Fabio Bellavia : Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
Fátima Nunes : Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Felipe Orihuela-Espina : National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics, Mexico
Filiz Bunyak : University of MIssouri-Columbia, USA
Francesco Isgro : Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy
Gang Luo : University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Gennaro Percannella : Università di Salerno, Italy
Gianluigi Me : Luiss Guido Carli University, Italy
Giovanni Maria Farinella : University of Catania, Italy
Giulio Iannello : Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy
Guenter Schreier : AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Austria
Guillermo Navarro-Arribas : Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
Helena Galhardas : University of Lisbon, Portugal
Henning Müller : University of Geneva, Switzerland
Henrique Santos : Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Herna Viktor : University of Ottawa, Canada
Hernâni Gonçalves : University of Porto, Portugal
Huseyin Seker : The University of Northumria, New Zealand
Ines Dutra : University of Porto, Portugal
Ioannis Apostolakis : National School of Public Health, Greece
Ioannis Stamelos : Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Irene Ong : University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Isabelle Bichindaritz : State University of New York at Oswego, USA
Ismael Caballero : University of Castilla - La Mancha, Spain
Jaakko Hollmén : University of Aalto, Finland
Jan Ramon : K.U.Leuven, Belgium
Jens Lüssem : FH Kiel, Germany
Joao Paulo Papa : UNESP - University Estadual Paulista, Brazil
Joaquim Felipe : University of São Paulo, Brazil
Johan Montagnat : CNRS, I3S unit, France
Jose Crespo : Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
José Farinha : ISCTE-IUL / ADETTI, Portugal
Jose Fernando Rodrigues Junior : University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Josep Roure : Tecnocampus Mataro, Spain
Julio Facelli : University of Utah, USA
Junghwan Oh : University of North Texas, USA
Ken-Ichi Yamakoshi : Kanazawa University, Japan
Konstantinos Patsakis : Trinity College, Ireland
Kristina Groth : KTH - The Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Lenka Lhotska : Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
Lenzini Gabriele : SnT/University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Line Melby : SINTEF, Department of Health Research, Norway
Luca Pollonini : University of Houston, UK
Luca Vollero : Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy
Lucy Hederman : Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Marcela Ribeiro : Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil
Marcello Nogueira-Barbosa : Ribeirão Preto Medical School, USP, Brazil
Marco Gutierrez : Heart Institute, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Marek Wojciechowski : Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Marina Velikova : Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Mario Molinara : University of Cassino, Italy
Mark Last : Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Masood Masoodian : The University of Waikato, New Zealand
Massimo Cafaro : Center for Advanced Computational Technologies of the National Nanotechnology Laboratory and the University of Salento, Italy
Matthew Levin : Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA
Maurice Hendrix : The University of Northampton, UK
Michael Zhang : Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, Canada
Michael A. Shifrin : N.N.Burdenko Neurosurgical Institute, Russia
Michela Goffredo : University Roma TRE, Italy
Miguel Coimbra : University of Porto, Portugal
Milan Zorman : University of Maribor, Slovenia
Mohamed Gaber : Robert Gordon University
Murthy Devarakonda : IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Mykola Pechenizkiy : Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Myra Spiliopoulou : University of Magdeburg, Germany
Niels Peek : Centre for Health Informatics, Manchster, UK
Oleksiy Mazhelis : University of Jyvskyl, Finland
Omer Inan : Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Panagiotis Bamidis : Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Panagiotis Antoniou : Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Paolo Soda : Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy
Pascal Staccini : Université Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France
Patrick Mccormick : Mount Sinai Medical Center, USA
Paulo Azevedo-Marques : FMRP - University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Pedro Pereira Rodrigues : University of Porto, Portugal
Peng Shao : University of Alberta, Canada
Peter Lucas : Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Petr Berka : University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic
Petra Perner : Institute of Computer Vision and Applied Computer Sciences, Germany
Pierangelo Veltri : University of Catanzaro, Italy
Pieter Toussaint : Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Rainer Schmidt : University of Rostock, Germany
Ricardo Cruz-Correia : University of Porto, Portugal
Richard Sinnott : University of Glasgow, UK
Rodney Long : National Library of Medicine, USA
Rogerio Richa : Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Rute Almeida : CMUP, Portugal
Sally Mcclean : Ulster University, UK
Sameer Antani : National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA
Sami Laine : Aalto University, Finland
Sandra Geisler : RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Sebastian Hegenbart : University of Salzburg, Austria
Sebastiano Battiato : University of Catania, Italy
Seppo Puuronen : University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Sergi Robles : Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
Silvia Olabarriaga : University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Sonja Zillner : Siemens, Germany
Sophia Katrenko : Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Stathis Th. Konstantinidis : Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Stephen Pennington : University College Dublin, Ireland
Taridzo Chomutare : University Hospital of North Norway
Thomas M. Deserno : WTH Aachen University, Germany
Tim Clark Harvard : Medical School, USA
Tony Solomonides : Northshore University HealthSystem, UK
Václav Chudáček : CTU in Prague, Czech Republic
Vit Novacek DERI, : National University of Ireland, Galway
Vlado Stankovski : University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Wei Chen Eindhoven : University of Technology
William Thompson : Northwestern University, USA
Wu-Chen Su : National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Xiaolei Huang : Lehigh University, USA
Xuning Tang : Drexel University, USA
Yannick Legre : CNRS, France
Yefim Kats : CHC, USA
Young-Rae Cho : Baylor University, USA
Yuanyuan Wang : Fudan University, China
Zilma Reis : Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

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