CBMS 2018 Program Committee

Mark Ackerman, Dept. of EECS and School of Information, University of Michigan Stefan Alfredsson, , Sweden Sameer Antani, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA Panagiotis Antoniou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Panagiotis Bamidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Forrest Sheng Bao, University of Akron, USA Fabio Bellavia, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy Linda Bergkvist, Karlstad University, Sweden Petr Berka, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic Isabelle Bichindaritz, State University of New York at Oswego, USA Jorunn Bjerkan, Nord University, Norway Alessandro Bria, Universita di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, Italy Matt-Mouley Bouamrane, University of Strathclyde, Scotland, UK Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Italy Cinzia Cappiello, Politecnico di Milano, Italy David Chadwick, , England, UK Miguel Coimbra, FCUP, David Coyle, University College Dublin, Ireland Jose Crespo, Universidad Politécnica de , Spain Bruce Davidson, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, USA Thomas M. Deserno, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Murthy Devarakonda, Arizona State University, USA Ines Di Loreto, Université de Technologie de Troyes, France John Dinsmore, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Julio Facelli, University of Utah, USA Cesar Ferri, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain Simone Fischer-Hübner, Karlstad University, Sweden Alberto Freitas, University of , Portugal Lothar Fritsch, Karlstad University, Sweden Mohamed Gaber, Birmingham City University, England, UK Sandra Geisler, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Michela Goffredo, Roma Tre University, Italy Hernâni Gonçalves, , Portugal Kristina Groth, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden Tomas Gustavsson, Karlstads Universitet, Sweden Lucy Hederman, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Jaakko Hollmén, , Finland Isto Huvila, Uppsala University, Sweden Dimitris Iakovidis, University of Thessaly, Greece Omer Inan, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Francesco Isgro, University of Naples Federico II, Italy Bridget Kane, Karlstad University, Sweden Daniel Katz, Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York, USA Alison Kay, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Peter Kokol, University of Maribor, Slovenia

xxii Stathis Th. Konstantinidis, University of Nottingham, England, UK Fátima L. S. Nunes, University of São Paulo, Brazil D.J. Lee, Brigham Young University, USA Lenka Lhotska, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic Jane Li, CSIRO, Australia Gang Luo, University of Washington, USA Saturnino Luz, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK Monika Magnussen, Karlstad University, Sweden Claudio Marrocco, Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, Italy Adele Marshall, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK Masood Masoodian, Aalto University, Finland Richard McClatchey, University of the West of England, England, UK Sally McClean, Ulster University, Northern Ireland, UK Carolyn McGregor, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada Line Melby, SINTEF, Norway Ernestina Menasalvas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain Andrew Miller, University of Wollongong, Australia Maria Mirto, National Nanotechnology Laboratory & the University of Lecce, Italy Jonas Moll, Uppsala University, Sweden Henning Müller, HES-SO Valais, Sierre, Switzerland Gunilla Myreteg, Örebro University, Sweden Giulio Napolitano, Fraunhofer Institute, Germany Vit Novacek, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland Brian Nutter, Texas Tech University, USA Junghwan Oh, University of North Texas, USA Silvia Olabarriaga, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Ilídio C Oliveira, , Portugal Felipe Orihuela-Espina, National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics, Mexico Joao Paulo Papa, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Brazil Bartlomiej Papiez, University of Oxford, England, UK Constantinos Patsakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Bertrand Pauget, Karlstad University, Sweden Niels Peek, MRC Health e-Research Centre, England, UK Gennaro Percannella, Università di Salerno, Italy Pedro Pereira Rodrigues, University of Porto, Portugal Petra Perner, Institute of Computer Vision and Applied Computer Sciences, Germany John Sören Pettersson, Karlstad University, Sweden Alphonsaa Pius, National Maternity Hospital, Ireland Paulo Quaresma, Universidade de Evora, Portugal Daniela Raicu, DePaul University, USA Hanife Rexhepi, University of Skövde, Sweden David Riaño, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia Sergi Robles, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Catalonia Álvaro Rocha, , Portugal Ana Paula Rocha, University Porto, Portugal Pedro Rodrigues, University Porto, Portugal Carlo Sansone, University of Naples Federico II, Italy Rainer Schmidt, University of Rostock, Germany Christoph Schommer, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

xxiii Guenter Schreier, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Austria Bruno Schulze, LNCC, Brazil Huseyin Seker, The University of Northumbria, England, UK Danielle Sent, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Peng Shao, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA Benyun Shi, Nanjing University of Finance & Economics, China Mikhail A. Shifrin, N.N. Burdenko National Medical Research Centre of Neurosurgery, Russia Richard Sinnott, The University of Melbourne, Australia Paolo Soda, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy Tony Solomonides, Research Institute / NorthShore University Health System, USA Daniel Sonntag, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Germany Ioannis Stamelos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Vlado Stankovski, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Jing Su, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Wu Chen Su, University of Kentucky, USA Javid Taheri, Karlstad University, Sweden Charlotte Tang, University Michigan, Flint, USA Hilda Tellioglu, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Alfredo Tirado-Ramos, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, USA Agma Traina, University of São Paulo, Brazil Caetano Traina, University of São Paulo, Brazil Andreas Uhl, University of Salzburg, Austria Andrei Vasilateanu, University Politehnica Bucuresti, Romania Herna Viktor, University of Ottawa, Canada Molly Vinu, National Maternity Hospital, Ireland Luca Vollero, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy Yuanyuan Wang, Fudan University, China Stephanie Wilson, City, University of London, UK Rose-Mharie Åhlfeldt, University of Skövde, Sweden

Student Committee

Leonardo Iwaya, Karlstad University, Sweden Fabian Jaskotka, Cooperative State University Stuttgart (DHBW), Germany Kai Langenekert, Cooperative State University Stuttgart (DHBW), Germany Elin Nilsson, Karlstad University, Sweden Gudrún Thorsteinsdóttir, Karlstad University, Sweden

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