Organization committee


Honorary General Chair

Setsuo Ohsuga University of Tokyo, Japan

Conference General Chairs

Andrzej Skowron Warsaw University, Poland
Jian-Nong Cao Hong Kong Polytechnic University, SAR China

Program Chairs

Tetsuya Yoshida Hokkaido University, Japan
Gang Kou University of Electronic Science and Technology, China

Workshop/Special Session Chair

Hakim Hacid Bell Labs, France

Organizing Chairs

Kazuyuki Imamura Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
Tetsumi Harakawa Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
Ning Zhong Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan

Panel Chair

Stephen S. Yau Arizona State University, USA

Journal Special Issue Chairs

Xin Yao University of Birmingham, UK
Runhe Huang Hosei University, Japan

Publication Chair

Ning Zhong Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan

Publicity Chairs

Shinichi Motomura Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
Dominik Slezak Infobright Inc., Canada & Univ. of Warsaw, Poland
Jian Yang Beijing University of Technology, China

IEEE-CIS-TFBI Chair

Ning Zhong Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan

WIC Co-Chairs/Directors

Ning Zhong Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
Jiming Liu Hong Kong Baptist University, HK

WIC Advisory Board

Edward A. Feigenbaum Stanford University, USA
Setsuo Ohsuga University of Tokyo, Japan
Benjamin Wah University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
Philip Yu University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
L.A. Zadeh University of California, Berkeley, USA


WIC Technical Committee

Jeffrey Bradshaw UWF/Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA
Nick Cercone York University, Canada
Dieter Fensel University of Innsbruck, Austria
Georg Gottlob Oxford University, UK
Lakhmi Jain University of South Australia, Australia
Jianchang Mao Yahoo! Inc., USA
Jianhua Ma Hosei University, Japan
Pierre Morizet-Mahoudeaux Compiegne University of Technology, France
Hiroshi Motoda Osaka University, Japan
Toyoaki Nishida Kyoto University, Japan
Andrzej Skowron Warsaw University, Poland
Jinglong Wu Okayama University, Japan
Xindong Wu University of Vermont, USA
Yiyu Yao University of Regina, Canada