Program Committee

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Víctor Méndez Muñoz
IUL, S.A. & Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, UAB
Spain

Brief Bio
Dr. Víctor Méndez Muñoz has a main background in big data management and distributed systems. He participated in scientific international projects in physics and bioinformatics like AGATA, LHCb, ENRM and EISCAT, collaborating with several more. Currently, he is Head of Software Development at Mind the Byte, a bioinformatics company specializing in computational drug discovery using a pay-per-use SaaS platform (Software as a Service). He also works in the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) as a part time professor. He holds the program chair in INSTICC conferences in the fields of cloud computing, big data, complexity and the internet of things, as well as editorial collaboration in some journals of high impact. ... More >>

Muthu Ramachandran
Integrated Cloud Solutions, AI Tech North and Public Intelligence
United Kingdom
https://www.linkedin.com/in/muthuuk/

Brief Bio
Dr Muthu Ramachandran is currently a CEO and an Independent Educational and Research Consultant and an AI Ethics Research Consultant at AI Tech North, and a visiting Research Fellow at University of Southampton. Previously, Muthu was a Principal Lecturer (Associate Professor) for more than 19+ years in the School of Built Environment, Engineering, and Computing at Leeds Beckett University in the UK. Muthu has more than thirty years of teaching and research experience both in academia and in industrial research settings. Prior to this, he spent eight years in industrial research at Philips Research Labs and subsequently at Volantis Systems Ltd, Surrey, UK where Muthu has worked on various research projects for Software Engineering Applications for Consumer Electronics including software architecture design and reuse for large scale telecommunication, multi-media and car navigation systems. Currently, Muthu is leading research in the areas of Cloud Software Engineering, Big Data Software Engineering, IoT Software Engineering, Software Security Engineering, SOA, Cloud Computing, and in the main areas of Software Engineering on RE, CBSE, software architecture, reuse, quality and testing. Muthu’s first career started as a research scientist where Muthu has worked on large scale high integrity real-time systems for Aerospace industrial applications. Muthu is the author of books: Software Components: Guidelines and Applications (Nova Publishers, NY, USA, 2008) and Software Security Engineering: Design and Applications (Nova Publishers, NY, USA, 2011). He has also widely authored and published over 10 books, 100s of journal articles, over 50 book chapters and 200 conferences papers on various advanced topics in software engineering, software security, cloud computing and education. Muthu has been leading conferences as chairs and as keynote speakers on global safety, security and sustainability, emerging services, IoTBDS, Complexis, Big Data, and Software Engineering for Service and Cloud Computing (SE-CLOUD 2018). Muthu is a member of various professional organizations and computer societies: IEEE, ACM, Fellow of BCS, and a Senior Fellow of HEA. Muthu’s had worked on several research projects including all aspects of software engineering, SPI for SMEs (known as a Prism model), emergency and disaster management systems, software components and architectures, good practice guidelines on software developments, software security engineering, and service and cloud computing. Project details can be accessed at: LeedsBeckett: http://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/staff/dr-muthu-ramachandran/ Scopus profile: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=8676632200 Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=KDXE-G8AAAAJ&hl=en ... More >>

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Enrique Abad, University of Extremadura, Spain
Eleonora Alfinito, Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell`Innovazione, Università del Salento, Italy
Tomaso Aste, Computer Science, University College London, United Kingdom
Ganesh Bagler, Center for Computational Biology, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT-Delhi), India
Daniele Barettin, Unicusano - University Nicolò Cusano Rome, Italy
Matteo Beccaria, Università del Salento, Italy
Christophe Berenguer, GIPSA-lab, Grenoble Institute of Technology, France
Gilles Bernot, I3S laboratory, Université Côte d'Azur, France
Ghassan Beydoun, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Vincenza Carchiolo, Dipartimento di Matematica ed Informatica,, Università degli Studi di Catania, Catania, Italy
Guoqian Chen, Peking University, China
Richard Clegg, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom
Manuel Clergue, Learning, Data and Robotic Lab., Ecole Supérieure d'Informatique, d'Electronique et Applications, France
Mario G. Cosenza, Centro de Fisica Fundamental, Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela
Carmen-Eugenia Costea, Piata Romana 6, sector 1 ASE Bucharest, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania
Martin Crane, School of Computing, Dublin City University, Ireland
Regino Criado, Applied Mathematics, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
Andrew Crooks, Department of Computational and Data Sciences, George Mason University, United States
Cihan Dagli, Missouri University of Science & Technology, United States
Francesco Di Maio, Energy Department, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Aquino L. Espindola, Física, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil
Duccio Fanelli, Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
Harold Fellermann, School of Computing Sciences, Newcastle University, United Kingdom
Francesco Fontanella, DIEI, Università di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, Italy
Luigi Fortuna, Dieei, University of Catania, Italy
Didier Georges, GIPSA-lab, Grenoble Institute of Technology - Grenoble INP, France
Jean-Marc Girault, Electronic and Energy Department, Tours University, France
Alex Graudenzi, Informatics, Systems and Communication, Univ. of Milan-Bicocca, Italy
Dilek Günneç, Ozyegin University, Turkey
Mirsad Hadzikadic, Software and Information Systems, University of North Carolina Charlotte, United States
Steve Homer, Computer Science, Boston University, United States
Edward Huang, Systems Engineering and Operations Research Department, George Mason University, United States
Christopher Hudson, School of Social Work, Salem State University, United States
Jose R. Iglesias, Physics, Instituto de Física, UFRGS, Brazil
George Kampis, Eotvos University (Hungary), DFKI (Germany), ITMO University (Russia), Hungary
Rushed Kanawati, LIPN CNRS UMR 7030, France
Jasleen Kaur, Philips Research North America, United States
Helena Knyazeva, Faculty of the Humanities, School of Philosophy, Higher School of Economics, Russian Federation
Igor Kotenko, Research Laboratory of Computer Security Problems, St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPIIRAS), Russian Federation
Ladislav Kristoufek, Econometrics, Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
Jiri Kroc, Charles University in Prague, Biomedical Center (Pilsen), Czech Republic
Tyll Krüger, Institute of Computer Engineering, Control and Robotics, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland
Krzysztof Kulakowski, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
Zoran Levnajic, Faculty of Information Studies in Novo mesto, Slovenia
Tao Li, Computer Science, Nankai University, China
Krzysztof Malarz, Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, AGH University of Kraków, Poland
Byungjoon Min, Physics, Chungbuk National University, Korea, Republic of
Víctor Méndez Muñoz, Department of Computer Architecture and Operating Systems (CAOS), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
Jinzhong Niu, City University of New York, United States
Massimo Panella, DIET, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy
Abani K. Patra, The State University of New York at Buffalo, United States
Faustino Prieto, Department of Economics, University of Cantabria, Spain
Francisco Prieto-Castrillo, MediaLab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
Denise Pumain, University Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne, France
Derek Raine, Physics, University of Leicester, United Kingdom
Muthu Ramachandran, Independent Researcher, United Kingdom
Andrea Rapisarda, Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia , University of Catania and INFN - Unict, Italy
Martín G. Ravetti, Production Engineering, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Grzegorz Redlarski, Electrical and Control Engineering, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland
Francesca Saglietti, Chair of Software Engineering (Informatik 11), University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Ricardo Sanz, Automatica, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Satu E. Schaeffer, Facultad de Ingeniería Mecánica y Eléctrica , Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Mexico
Cristina Seceleanu, IDT, Mälardalen University, Sweden
Roberto Serra, Physics, Informatics and Mathematics, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Horst D. Simon, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States
Samir Suweis, University of Padova, Italy
Mahbubur R. Syed, Computer Information Science, Minnesota State University, United States
Katarzyna Sznajd-Weron, Department of Theoretical Physics, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland
Bosiljka Tadic, Theoretical Physics, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Misako Takayasu, Advanced Data Analysis and Modeling Unit, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Esteban Tlelo-Cuautle, INAOE, Mexico
Imre Varga, Department of IT Systems and Networks, University of Debrecen, Hungary
Huijuan Wang, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Sandro Wimberger, Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science, Parma University, Italy
Tarynn Witten, Center for the Study of Biological Complexity, Virginia Commonwealth University, United States
Wei-Chang Yeh, Department of industrial engineering and engineering management, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, Republic of China
Muhittin Yilmaz, Texas A&M University-Kingsville (TAMUK), United States
Soon-Hyung Yook, Physics, Kyung Hee University, Korea, Republic of
Massimiliano Zanin, Instituto de Física Interdisciplinar y Sistemas Complejos IFISC-CSIC, Spain
Dmitry Zinoviev, Math and Computer Science, Suffolk University, United States

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