Honorary Chairs
Dr. Eddie Tunstel, President-IEEE
Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, USA
Prof. C. L. Philip Chen, University of Macau SAR, China
(former President, 2012-13, lEEE Systems, Man &
Cybernetics Society)
General Chair
Suash Deb, Secretary General - India Intl. Congress on Computational Intelligence,
India
International Advisory Board
Punam Bedi, University of Delhi, India
Sung-Bae Cho, Yonsei University, South Korea
G. A. Chukwudebe, Pro-term Chair, IEEE African Council,
(Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Nigeria)
Nigeria
Andries P. Engelbrecht, Stellenbosch University, South
Africa
Tzung-Pei Hong, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Sardar M. N. Islam, Victoria University, Melbourne,
Australia
Mohamed Habib Kammoun, Secretary, lEEE Africa Council
(University of Sfax, Tunisia)
Robert Kozma, University of Memphis, USA
Javier Montero, President, Intl. Fuzzy Systems
Association (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain),
Spain
Mammo Muchie, Tshwane University of Technology,
South Africa
Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada
Marios M. Polycarpou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Rajkumar Roy, Cranfield University, UK
Patrick Siarry, Université Paris-Est Créteil, France
Hideyuki Takagi, Kyushu University, Japan
Lipo Wang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Organizing Chairs
Wesley Doorsamy, University of Johannesburg, South
Africa
Barnabas Gatsheni, University of Johannesburg, South
Africa
Oluseye Jegede, Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa
Vukosi Marivate, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Nnamdi Nwulu, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Swapan Kumar Patra, Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa
Babu Sena Paul, University of Johannesburg,
South Africa
Surafel Luleseged Tilahun, University of Zululand, South
Africa
Program Chairs
Thomas Hanne, University of Applied
Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland
Mohamed Habib Kammoun, Secretary, lEEE Africa Council
(University of Sfax, Tunisia)
G A Vijayalakshmi Pai, PSG College of Technology,
Coimbatore, India
Ka-Chun Wong, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Publications Chairs
Zhihua Cui, Taiyuan University of
Science & Technology, China
Xiao-Zhi Gao, University of Eastern Finland, Finland
Xin-She Yang, Middlesex University,
UK
Publicity Co Chairs
Monica Chis, Planet Group
International, Romania
Amir H. Gandomi, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
Robert Oboko, University of Nairobi , Kenya
Sunday O. Ojo, Tshwane University of Technology, South
Africa
Sameerchand Pudaruth, University of Mauritius, Mauritius
Sriparna Saha, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India
Dipti Srinivasan, National University of Singapore,
Singapore
International Program Committee
Debashree Guha Adhya, Indian Institute of Technology
Kharagpur, India
Dileep A. D., Indian Institute of Technology Mandi,
India
Monowar H. Bhuyan, Umea University, Sweden
Junyi Chen, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Monica Chis, Planet Group International, Romania
Todsanai Chumwatana, Rangsit University, Thailand
Mohammed ElAbd, American University of Kuwait, Kuwait
Mohamed Elkhouli, Sadat Academy for Management Science,
Cairo, Egypt
Iztok Fister Jr, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Simon Fong, University of Macau, Macau
Roselyn Isimeto, University of Lagos, Nigeria
Tee Yee Kai, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia
Somveer Kishnah, University of Mauritius, Mauritius
Jiecong Lin, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Maba B. Matadi, University of Zululand, South Africa
Hector D. Menendez, University College London, UK
Avinash Mungur, University of Mauritius, Mauritius
Elisha Opiyo, University of Nairobi, Kenya
Sameerchand Pudaruth, University of Mauritius, Mauritius
S. Ravi, Pondicherry University, India
Sriparna Saha, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India
G. Shobha, R V College of Engineering, Bengaluru, India
Antonio Sze-To, University of Waterloo, Canada
Shahrel Azmin Suandi, Universiti Sains Malaysia,
Malaysia
Nawdha Thakoor, University of Mauritius, Mauritius
Surafel Luleseged Tilahun, University of Zululand, South
Africa
Xin-She Yang, Middlesex University, UK
Wuyi Yue, Konan Unversity, Japan
Shi-Xiong Zhang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong