COMMITTEES

Honorary Chair

Brij Bhooshan Gupta, NIT Kurukshetra, India

General Chair

Teresa Guarda, CIST Research and Innovation Center

Universidad Estatal Peninsula de Santa Elena, Ecuador

Filipe Portela, Algoritmi Research Centre

Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Steering Committee

Andrei Tchernykh, CICESE Research Center, Mexico

Beatriz De La Iglesia, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom

Bruno Sousa, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Enrique Carrera, Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE, Ecuador

Ricardo Vardasca, ISLA Santarem, Portugal

Wolfgang Hofkirchner, Technische Universität Wien, Austria

Special Sessions Chair

Abrar Ullah, Heriot-Watt University, Dubai

Teresa Guarda, Universidad Estatal Peninsula de Santa Elena, Ecuador

Organizing Chair

Maria Fernanda Augusto, Universidad Estatal Peninsula de Santa Elena, Ecuador

Washington Torres Gui, Universidad Estatal Peninsula de Santa Elena, Ecuador

Jorge Oliveira e Sá, Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Jose Maria Diaz, Universidad a Distancia de Madrid, Spain

Program Committee

TBA

Abbas Aljuboori, University of Information Technology and Communications/Vice President for Administrative Affairs, Iraq

Alberto Simões, Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e Ave, Portugal

Alejandro Hossian, Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Argentina

Alejandro Rodriguez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

Alexandros Tzallas, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Ioannina, Greece, Greece

Alexis Matheu Pérez, Universidad Bernardo O´Higgins, Chile

Alfonso González-Briones, University of Salamanca, Spain

Ana Azevedo, CEOS.PP / ISCAP / P.PORTO, Portugal

Andrei Tchernykh, CICESE Research Center, Mexico

Ângelo Costa, University of Minho, Portugal

Anne Laurent, LIRMM - Laboratoire d'informatique, de robotique et de microélectronique, Université de Montpellier, France

Antonio Dourado, University of Coimbra, Portugal

António Fernandes, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal

António Andrade, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal

Arminda Lopes, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal

Arnulfo Alanis Garza, Instituto Tecnologico de Tijuana, Mexico

Beatriz De La Iglesia, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom

Bertil P. Marques, ISEP/IPP / GILT - Games, Interaction and Learning Technologies, Portugal

Bruno Sousa, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Carlos Balsa, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal

Carlos Fajardo, Fundación Universitaria Konrad Lorenz, Colombia, Colombia

Carlos Lopezosa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona, Spain

Chiara Braghin, Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Informatica, Italy

Christoph Schütz, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

Daniel Castro Silva, FEUP-DEI / LIACC, Portugal

Domenico Vito, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Domingos Martinho, ISLA Santarém, Portugal

Dustin Van Der Haar, University of Johannesburg, South Africa

Enrique Carrera, Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE, Ecuador

Eugen Rusu, Dunarea de Jos University of Galati, Romania

Fabio Alberto Schreiber, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Fabrizio Messina, University of Catania, Italy

Felipe S. Semaan, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil

Felix Härer, Digitalization and Information Systems Group, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

Felix J. Garcia Clemente, Universidad de Murcia, Spain

Filipe Mota Pinto, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal

Filipe Portela, University of Minho, Portugal

Francisco Javier Álvarez Rodriguez, Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, Mexico

Frederico Lopes, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

Gabriel Gomes de Oliveira, University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil

Gabriel Hornink, Federal University of Alfenas, Brazil

George Stalidis, Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece

Göran Falkman, School of Informatics, University of Skövde, Sweden

Gustavo Gatica, Universidad Andrés Bello - Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Chile

Heba Farooq, The University of Auckland, New Zealand

Helder Quintela, Escola Superior de Tecnologia, Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave, Portugal

Helia Guerra, University of Azores, Portugal

Henrique Vicente, Universidade de Évora, Portugal

Hugo Peixoto, University of Minho, Portugal

Inna Skarga-Bandurova, Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom

Ioan Ciumasu, Cultures, Environnements, Arctique, Représentations, Climat, France

Isabel Lopes, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal

Ivan Mura, Duke Kunshan University, China

Jakub Swacha, University of Szczecin, Poland

Javier Bravo-Agapito, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

Johannes Winter, National Academy of Science and Engineering, Germany

Jorge Oliveira e Sá, University of Minho, Portugal

Jorge Luis Bacca Acosta, University of Girona, Spain

José Rufino, Polytechnic Institute of Braganca, Portugal

José Machado, University of Minho, Portugal

José María Díaz-Nafría, Madrid Open University, Spain

José Ramón Méndez Reboredo, University of Vigo, Spain

Juan V. Capella, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

Juan-Ignacio Latorre-Biel, Public University of Navarre, Spain

Júlio Duarte, University of Minho, Portugal

Josué Aarón López-Leyva, CETyS Universidad, Center for Innovation and Design, México

Kamlesh Dutta, National Institute of Technology Hamirpur (HP) India, India

Karolina Baras, University of Madeira, Portugal

Luis Gomes, Universidade dos Açores, Portugal

Manuel Filipe Santos, University of Minho, Portugal

Manuele Kirsch-Pinheiro, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France

Maria Fernanda Augusto, Universidad Estatal Peninsula, Ecuador

Maria Isabel Ribeiro, Instituto Politécnico Bragança, Portugal

Maria José Abreu, Universidade do Minho, Department of Textile Engineering, Portugal

Maria José Sousa, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Portugal

Maria Olivia Pereira, University of Minho, Centre of Biological Engineering, Portugal

Mario Pinto, ESMAD.IPP, Portugal

Marisa Carvalho, Universidade Catolica do Porto, Portugal

Maritza Placencia, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marco, Peru

Michal Baczynski, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland

Modestos Stavrakis, University of the Aegean, Greece

Mónica Pinto, Universidad de Málaga, Spain

Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom

Neelam Gohar, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto women university, Pakistan

Nikolaos Matsatsinis, Technical University of Crete, Greece

Nishu Gupta, Chandigarh University, India

Nuno Pombo, University of Beira Interior, Portugal

Omid Fatahi Valilai, Department of Mathematics & Logistics, Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH, Germany

Oscar Dias, University of Minho, Portugal

Pankaj Mishra, G.B. Pant University of Agricultural and Technology, India

Patricia Cano-Olivos, UPAEP, Mexico

Paulo Novais, University of Minho, Portugal

Pedro Oliveira, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal

Pedro Gago, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal

Rafal Scherer, Częstochowa University of Technology, Polamd

Rajeev Kanth, Turku Centre for Computer Science,Department of Information Technology,University of Turku, Finland

Raphael Gomes, Instituto Federal de Goiás, Brazil

Ricardo Martinho, School of Technology and Management, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal

Ricardo Queirós, ESMAD- P.PORTO & CRACS - INESC TEC, Portugal

Ricardo Vardasca, ISLA Santarem, Portugal

Robertas Damasevicius, Silesian University of Technology, Poland

Rytis Maskeliunas, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania

Sergio Ilarri, University of Zaragoza, Spain

Shelly Sachdeva, NIT, DELHI, India

Silvia Araújo, Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Sofia Almeida, Universidade Europeia, Portugal

Sonia Casillas Martín, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain

Spyros Panagiotakis, Hellenic Mediterranean University, Greece

Sunny Joseph Kalayathankal, Jyothi Engineering College, India

Tapiwa Gundu, Sol Plaatje University, South Africa

Teresa Guarda, Universidad Estatal Peninsula de Santa Elena, Ecuador

Tetiana Biloborodova, Volodymyr Dahl East Ukraine National University, Ukraine

Vicente Ferreira De Lucena Jr, Federal University of Amazonas, Brazil

Wilfrid Utz, OMILAB NPO, Austria

Wolfgang Hofkirchner, The Institute for a Global Sustainable Information Society, Austria

Zornitsa Yordanova, University of National and World Economy, Bulgaria