International Program Committee

Conference Chair

Gongzhu Hu Central Michigan University, USA

Program Chair

Takaaki Goto Ryutsu Keizai University, Japan

Program Committee Members

Abdullah Al-Shoshan Qassim University, Saudi Arabia George Anderson University of Botswana, Botswana Zhang Bin Wuchang University of Technology, China Antoine Bossard Kanagawa University, Japan Jim Buchan Auckland University of Technol, New Zealand Stuart Cunningham Glyndwr University, UK Sergiu Dascalu University of Nevada, Reno, USA Katsuhide Fujita University of Tokyo, Japan Said Ghoniemy Ain Shams University, Egypt Hiroaki Hashiura Nippon Institute of Technology, Japan Hidehiko Hayashi Hokusei Gakuen University, Japan James Hearne Western Washington University, USA Yuki Hirai Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan Teruhisa Hochin Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan Wladyslaw Homenda Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Donna Hudson University of California San Francisco, USA Min-Shiang Hwang Asia University, Taiwan Junichi Imai Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan Naohiro Ishii Aichi Institute of Technology, Japan Ying Jin California State University, USA Norhaslinda Kamaruddin Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia Keiichi Kaneko Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan Jung-Sook Kim Kimpo University, Korea Tadaaki Kirishima Toyo University, Japan Angkul Kongmunvattana Clayton State University, USA Miroslav Kulich Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic Haesun Lee The University of Texas of the Permian Basin, USA Ilhyun Lee The University of Texas of the Permian Basin, USA Meilin Liu Wright State University, USA Ziping Liu Southeast Missouri State University, USA Wenbin Luo St. Mary’s University, USA Deok Nam Wilberforce University, USA Hao Qian Rovi Corporation, USA Guangzhi Qu Oakland University, USA Soumya Sen University of Calcutta, India Yong Shi Kennesaw State University, USA Yasunori Shiono Yokohama National University, Japan Tomoo Sumida Toyo University, Japan Masashi Toda Kumamoto University, Japan Alberto Trombetta University of Insubria, Italy Honoriu Valean Technology University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania

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