COMMITTEES

General Chair

Teresa Guarda

Universidad Estatal Peninsula de Santa Elena, Ecuador

Algoritmi Research Centre, Portugal

Universidade do Minho,  Portugal

Filipe Portela

Algoritmi Research Centre, Portugal

Universidade do Minho,  Portugal

Steering Committee

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

Bruno Sousa, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Modestos Stavrakis, University of the Aegean, Greece

Ricardo Vardasca, ISLA Santarem, Portugal

Simon Rogerson, De Montfort University, UK 

Wolfgang Hofkirchner,  Technische Universität Wien, Austria 

Special Session Chair

Abrar Ullah, Heriot-Watt University, Dubai

Teresa Guarda,  Universidad Estatal Peninsula de Santa Elena, Ecuador

Communication Chair

Maria Fernanda Augusto, BITrum Research Group,  Spain 

Local Organizing Chair

Jairo Coronado-Hernandez, Universidad de la Costa, Colombia (Chair)

Ivan Portnoy, Universidad de la Costa, Colombia

Jairo Acosta Solano, Universidad Rafael Nuñez, Colombia

Miguel Caro, Universidad Rafael Nuñez, Colombia

Gustavo Gatica, Universidad Andrés Bello, Chile

Program Committee 

TBA

A. Manuela Gonçalves, University of Minho, Portugal

Abbas Aljuboori, Al Zahra College for Women, Oman

Aldina Correia, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal

Alexandra María León Jacobus, Universidad Metropolitana, Colombia

Alfonso González Briones, University of Salamanca, Spain

Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria, Italy

Alfredo Milani, University of Perugia, Italy

Ana Azevedo, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal

Ana Cláudia Campos, University of Algarve, Portugal

Ana Dopico, Universidade de Vigo, Spain

Ana Paula Teixeira, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal

Ana Pereira, Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Portugal

Ana Ramires, Universidade Europeia, Portugal

Ana Sofia Carreira Duque, Universidade Europeia, Portugal

Anacleto Correia, CINAV/Escola Naval, Portugal

Andreas Fricke, University of Potsdam, Germany

Andrei Tchernykh, CICESE Research Center, Mexico

Andres Muñoz, Universidad de Cádiz, Spain

Angel Dacal-Nieto, CTAG - Centro Tecnologico de Automocion de Galicia, Spain

Angel Recalde, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, Ecuador

Angel Torres Toukoumidis, Universidad Politécnica Salesiana, Ecuador

Anisha Kumari, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India

Antonio Dourado, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Antonio Moreira, Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave, Portugal

Antonio Silva Sprock, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Venezuela

António Trigo, Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra, Portugal

Arcangelo Castiglione, Department of Computer Science, University of Salerno, Italy

Arnulfo Alanis, Instituto Tecnologico de Tijuana, Mexico

Atallah Al-Shatnawi, Al-albayt University, Jordan

Augusto Montisci, Università degli studi di Cagliari, Italy

Babar Shah, Zayed University, United Arab Emirates

Barna Iantovics, umfst, Romania

Barna Iantovics, University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science, and Technology of Targu Mures, Romania

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

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

Benedetto Barabino, Università degli Studi di Brescia, Italy

Benito Mendoza Trujillo, Universidada Nacional de Chimborazo, Ecuador

Bertil P. Marques, Instituro Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal

Biswajeeban Mishra, University of Szeged, Hungary

Bogart Yail Marquez, Instituto Tecnológico Tijauna, Mexico

Bráulio Alturas, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal

Bruno Sousa, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Camille Salinesi, Université de Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France

Carina Pimentel, University of Aveiro, Portugal

Carina Silva, ESTeSL_IPL  and CEAUL, Portugal

Carla Cavallo, University of Naples Federico II, Italy

Carlos Balsa, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal

Carlos Costa, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Carlos Fajardo, Escuela Superior de Administración Públicva, Colombia

Carlos Gordon, Universidad Técnica de Ambato, Ecuador

Carlos H F Alves, Federal Center of Technological Education, Brazil

Carlos Lopezosa, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain

Carlos Peñafiel, Universidad Nacional del Chimborazo, Ecuador

Carlos R. Cunha, UNIAG; Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal

Carmen Guida, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy

Cecilia Avila, Fundación Universitaria Konrad Lorenz, Colombia

Cecilia Castro, Centre of Mathematics, University of Minho, Portugal

Celia Ramos, University of the Algarve, Portugal

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

Chien-Sing Lee, Sunway University, Malaysia

Christoph Schütz, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

Christos Anagnostopoulos, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

Clara Bento Vaz, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal

Claudia Seabra, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Corrado Rindone, Università degli studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Italy

Daniel Aguayo, Universidad Andrés Bello, Chile

Daniel Rees, Swansea University, United Kingdom

Daniele Bartoli, University of Perugia, Italy

Daniele Granata, Università della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Italy

Dasa Munkova, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia

David Lizcano Casas, Madrid Open University, UDIMA, Spain

Deepraj Chowdhury, International Institute Of Information Technology, India

Diana Janeth Lancheros-Cuesta, Universidad de La Salle, Bogota, Colombia

Dimos Pantazis, Technological Educational Institute of Athens TEI, Greece

Douglas Plaza, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral ESPOL, Ecuador

Efraín R. Fonseca C., Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE, Ecuador

Elena Cantatore, Politecnico di Bari, Italy

Elena Cocuzza, University of Catania, Italy

Eleni Christopoulou, Ionian University, Greece

Elisabetta Ronchieri, INFN CNAF, Italy

Emanuele Frontoni, Università di Macerata UNIMC, Italy

Emmanuel Okewu, University of Lagos, Nigeria

Erika Tatiana Ruiz Orjuela, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia

Enrique V. Carrera, Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE, Ecuador

Enrique-Javier Díez-Gutiérrez, Universidad de León, Spain

Ester Scotto di Perta, University of Naples Federico II, Italy

Estevan Gomez, Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE, Ecuador

Estrella Diaz, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

Eugen Rusu, Dunarea de Jos University of Galati, Romania

Fabio Alberto Schreiber, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Fabio Silveira, Federal University of Sao Paulo UNIFESP, Brazil

Fabrizio Messina, University of Catania, Italy

Fakhri Alam Khan, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia

Federica Gaglione, Università degli Studi del Sannio, Italy

Felipe Semaan, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil

Felix Härer, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

Fernanda A. Ferreira, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal

Fernando Rodríguez Varela, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain

Fezile Ozdamli, Near East University, Turkey

Filipe Pinto, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal

Filipe Portela, University of Minho, Portugal

Flora Ferreira, University of Minho, Portugal

Florin Pop, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania

Francesco Cauteruccio, Polytechnic University of Marche, Italy

Francesco Mercaldo, University of Sannio, Italy

Francesco Palmieri, University of Salerno, Italy, Italy

Francesco Santini, Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università di Perugia, Italy, Italy

Francisco Alvarez, Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, Mexico

Francisco Javier Diaz, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina

Francisco Jones, Universidad Andrés Bello, Chile

Francisco Novillo, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral ESPOL, Ecuador

Frederico Branco, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal

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

George Stalidis, Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki , Greece

Georgios Georgiadis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Geovanni Ninahualpa, Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE, Ecuador

Gerardo Carpentieri, University of Naples Federico II, Italy

Gerhard Chroust, Johannes Kepler University, Austria

Giada Gasparini, Department DICAM, University of Bologna, Italy

Gianluigi De Mare, University of Salerno, Italy

Gianni D'Angelo, University of Salerno, Italy

Giovanni Paragliola, Istituto di Calcolo e Reti ad Alte Prestazioni, Italy

Giuseppe Festa, University of Salerno, Italy

Guillermo Rodriguez, Instituto Superior de Ingeniería de Software de Tandil, Argentina

Gunta Grinberga-Zalite, University of Life Sciences and Technologies, Latvia

Gustavo Gatica, Universidad Andrés Bello, Chile

Hector Bedon, Universidad a Distancia de Madrid UDIMA, Spain

Helia Guerra, University of Azores, Portugal

Henrique Vicente, Universidade de Évora, Portugal

Hugo Moreno Aviles, Escuela Superior Politecnica de Chimborazo, Ecuador

Hugo Peixoto, University of Minho, Portugal

Humberto Rocha, FEUC, CeBER, Coimbra, Portugal, Portugal

Huseyin Bicen, Near East University, Cyprus

Ilaria Matteucci, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche IIT-CNR, Italy

Ingars Eriņš, Riga Technical University, Latvia

Inna Skarga-Bandurova, Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom

Ioan Ciumasu, University of Paris-Saclay, France

Ioannis Politis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Ioannis Vrellis, University of Ioannina, Greece

Iqbal H. Sarker, Edith Cowan University, Australia

Isaac Seoane Pujol, Universidad a Distancia de Madrid, Spain

Isabel Lopes, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal

Isabel Pedrosa, Coimbra Business School - ISCAC-IPC, Portugal

Ivan Mura, Duke Kunshan University, China

J. Luis Luviano-Ortiz, University of Guanajuato, Mexico

Jakub Swacha, University of Szczecin, Poland

Jan Stejskal, University of Pardubice, Czechia

Jaroslav Dvorak, Klaipeda university, Lithuania

Jessica S. Ortiz, Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE, Ecuador

Jezreel Mejía Miranda, CIMAT, Mexico

Jhonattan Javier Barriga Andrade, IT Systems Security, Ecuador

João Cordeiro, University of Beira Interior, Portugal

Jordi Vallverdú, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

Jorge Bernardino, Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, Portugal

Jorge Buele, Universidad Tecnológica Indoamerica, Ecuador

Jorge Herrera-Tapia, Universidad Laica Eloy Alfaro de Manabí, Ecuador

Jorge L. Hernandez-Ambato, Escuela Superior Politécnica de Chimborazo, Ecuador

Jorge Luis Bacca Acosta, Fundación Universitaria Konrad Lorenz, Colombia

Jorge Morato, Universidad Carlos III, Spain

Jorge Oliveira E Sá, University of Minho, Portugal

José Carlos Paiva, University of Porto, Portugal

Jose Guillermo Guarnizo Marin, Universidad Distrital Francisco Jose de Caldas, Colombia

José Machado, University of Minho, Portugal

José María Díaz Nafría, Madrid Open University, Spain

José María Díaz-Nafría, Madrid Open University, Spain

José Matos, University of Porto, Portugal

José Ramón Méndez Reboredo, Universidade de vIgo, Spain

José Rufino, Polytechnic Institute of Braganca, Portugal

Juan Pablo Ciafardini, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina

Juan V. Capella, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

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

Júlio Duarte, University of Minho, Portugal

Kalinka Kaloyanova, University of Sofia, Bulgaria

Kanchana Rajaram, SSN College of Engineering, Kalavakkam , India

Karine Ferreira, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Brazil

Karolina Baras, University of Madeira, Portugal

Kazuaki Tanaka, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan

Lasma Licite-Kurbe, Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies, Latvia

Laura Verde, Università degli studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy

Lelio Campanile, Università degli studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy

Leonardo Chancay-García, Universidad Técnica de Manabí, Ecuador

Leonardo Renteria, Universidad Nacional de Chimborazo UNACH, Ecuador

Leticia Vaca-Cardenas, Universidad Técnica de Manabí, Ecuador

Lidice Haz, Universidad Estatal Peninsula de Santa Elena, Ecuador

Ľubomír Benko, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia

Luciano Galone, University of Malta, Malta

Luís Carlos Pires, UNIAG, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal

Luis Gomes, Universidade dos Açores, Portugal

Luís Matos, Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Luiza de Macedo Mourelle, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

M. Filomena Teodoro, Portuguese Naval Academy, Portugal

M. Irene Falcão, University of Minho, Portugal

Manuele Kirsch Pinheiro, Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne University, Paris, France, France

Marcelo Fajardo-Pruna, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, Ecuador

Marcelo Leon, Universidad Estatal Peninsula de Santa Elena, Ecuador

Marcelo Zambrano, Universidad Técnica del Norte, Ecuador

Marcin Woźniak, Silesian University of Technology, Poland

Marco Gribaudo, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Marco Zucca, University of Cagliari, Italy

Marcos Cabezas González, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain

Margherita Lasorella, Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy

Maria Fernanda Augusto, BiTrum Research Group, Spain

Maria José Abreu, Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Maria José Sousa, CIEO Centre for Spatial and Organizational Dynamics, Portugal

Maria Macchiaroli, University of Salerno, Italy

Maria Mourão, Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo, Portugal

María Verdeja Muñiz, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain

Marílio Cardoso, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal

Marilisa Botte, University of Naples Federico II, Italy

Marina Alexandra Andrade, ISCTE-IUL, Portugal

Mario Pérez-Montoro, University of Barcelona, Spain

Mario Pinto, Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Portugal

Martinha Piteira, Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal, Portugal

Mauro Iacono, Università degli Studi della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Italy

Michal Baczynski, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland

Michal Munk, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia

Michele Mastroianni, University of Salerno, Italy

Mirka Mobilia, University of Salerno, Italy

Mirna Muñoz Mata, CIMAT Unidad Zacatecas, Mexico

Modestos Stavrakis, University of the Aegean, Greece

Mohamad Molaei Qelichi, University of Tehran, Iran

Mohd Adil, Department of Management & Humanities National Institute of Technology Hamirpur Himachal Pradesh, India

Monalisa Jena, Fakir Mohan University, India

Mónica Pinto, Universidad de Málaga, Spain

Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom

Naveed Abbas, University Technology Malaysia, Malaysia

Naveenbalaji Gowthaman, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Neelam Gohar, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto women university, Pakistan

Nguyen D. Thanh, Banking University of Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam

Nikolaos Matsatsinis, Technical University of Crete, Greece

Nishu Gupta, Norwegian University of Science and Technology NTNU, Norway

Nuno C. Marques, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal

Nuno Pombo, University of Beira Interior, Portugal

Olivier Parisot, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg

Omar Castellanos, Universidad Estatal Península de Santa Elena, Ecuador

Omid Fatahi Valilai, Constructor University Bremen, Germany

Oscar Dias, University of Minho, Portugal

Panos Fitsilis, University of Thessaly, Greece

Paola Britos, Universidad Nacional de Río Negro, Argentina

Paolino Di Felice, University of L'Aquila, Italy

Patricia Cano-Olivos, Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla UPAEP, Mexico

Paul Diaz, Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas, Ecuador

Paula Amaral, Uninersidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal

Paula Odete Fernandes,  UNIAG, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal

Paulo Piloto, Polytechnic Institute of Braganza, Portugal

Paulo Vasconcelos, University of Porto, Portugal

Pedro Aguado, Universidad de León, Spain

Pedro Gago, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal

Pedro Oliveira, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal

Piedade Carvalho, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal

Radmila Jankovic, Mathematical Institute of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Serbia

Rafal Scherer, Częstochowa University of Technology, Poland

Raffaele Montella, University of Naples Parthenope , Italy

Rajeev Kumar Kanth, University of Turku, Finland

Raphael de Aquino Gomes, Instituto Federal de Goiás, Brazil

Ricardo Cajo, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral ESPOL, Ecuador

Ricardo Correia, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal

Ricardo Godinho Bilro, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal

Ricardo Martinho, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal

Ricardo Queirós, Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Portugal

Ricardo Vardasca, ISLA Santarem, Portugal

Robertas Damasevicius, Silesian University of Technology, Poland

Roberto Andrade, Escuela Politécnica Nacional EPN, Ecuador

Roberto Ivo Fernandes Vaz, UNIAG, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal

Roberto Nardone, University of Naples "Parthenope", Italy

Roderick Thomas, Swansea University, United Kingdom

Rodrigo Linfati, Universidad del Bío Bío, Chile

Rodrigo Olivares, Universidad Valparaíso, Chile

Roman Chertovskih, University of Porto, Portugal

Ronan Guivarch, Université de Toulouse, France

Rosa María Martínez, University of Almeria, Spain

Rosa Reis, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto ISEP, Portugal

Rui Carvalho,  ISLA Santarem, Portugal

Rytis Maskeliunas, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania

S. B. Kulkarni, SDM College of Engineering and Technology, India

Said Broumi, Hassan II University  Mohammedia-Casablanca, Morocco

Sang Guun Yoo, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Korea, The Democratic People's Republic of

Sanjay Misra, Institute For Energy Technology, Norway

Sara Paiva, Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Portugal

Saverio De Vito, ENEA - Agenzia per le Nuove Tecnologie, Italy

Sebastião Pais, University of Beira Interior, Portugal

Sergio Cappucci, ENEA - Agenzia per le Nuove Tecnologie, Italy

Sergio Ilarri, University of Zaragoza, Spain

Shelly Sachdeva, NIT, DELHI, India

Sherali Zeadally, University of Kentucky, United States

Shuhei Kimura, Tottori University, Japan

Silvia Araújo, University of Minho, Portugal

Silvia Rossetti, Università degli Studi di Parma DIA, Italy

Sílvio Gama, Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Simone Belli, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

Siu Ming Yiu, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Smriti Agrawal, Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, India

Socrates Basbas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Sofia Almeida, Universidade Europeia, Portugal

Sonia Casillas Martín, Universidad de Salamanca USAL, Spain

Spyros Panagiotakis, Hellenic Mediterranean University, Greece

Stefania Regalbuto, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy

Stefano Falcinelli, University of Perugia, Italy

Stephan Scheele, Fraunhofer IIS, Germany

Syeda Sumbul Hossain, Daffodil International University, Bangladesh

Sylwia Krzysztofik, Technical University of Lodz, Poland

Tapiwa Gundu, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa

Telmo Pinto, University of Minho, Portugal

Tengku Adil Tengku Izhar, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia

Teresa Guarda, Universidad Estatal Península de Santa Elena, Ecuador

Tiziana Campisi, University of Enna KORE, Italy

Ulises Ruiz, INAOE, Mexico

Vanda Lourenco, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal

Vasileios Gkioulos, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Verónica Crespo, Universidade da Coruña, Spain

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

Victor Alves, University of Minho, Portugal

Victor Darriba, University of Vigo, Spain

Victor Huilcapi, Universidad Politécnica Salesiana, Ecuador

Victoria Otero-Espinar, Galician Center for Mathematical Research and Technology CITMAga, Spain

Virginie Felizardo, Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal

Virgnine Felizardo, Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal

Vitor Monteiro, University of Minho, Portugal

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