Organizing Committee

General Chair

Ganesh Kumar Venayagamoorthy
Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO, USA

Program Co-Chairs

Robert Reynolds
Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA
Salman Mohagheghi
Corporate Research Center, ABB, Raleigh, NC, USA

Special Sessions Chair

Andries Engelbrecht
University of Pretoria, South Africa

Tutorial/Workshop Chair

Yuhui Shi
Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China

Publicity Chair

Xiaohui Hu
Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, USA

Registration/Publication Chair

R Kulkarni
Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO, USA

Finance Chair

Keith Corzine
Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO, USA

Local Organizing Chair

Uday Chakraborty
University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO, USA

    Program Committee

  • Ashraf Abdelbar, American Univ. Cairo, Egypt
  • Carlos A. Coello Coello, CINVESTAV Mexico
  • Oscar Cordon, European Centre for Soft Computing, Mieres, Spain
  • Yamille del Valle, GIT, Atlanta, GA, USA
  • Marco Dorigo, Universite Libre De Bruxelles, Belgium
  • Russell Eberhart, IUPUI, USA
  • M. A. El-Sharkawi, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
  • David Fogel, Natural Selection Inc, CA, USA
  • Komla Folly, Univ. of Cape Town, South Africa
  • Yoshikazu Fukuyama, Fuji Electric Co., Japan
  • Walter Gutjahr, University of Vienna, Austria
  • Ron Harley, GIT, Atlanta, GA, USA
  • Jim Kennedy, Bureau of Labor Statistics, USA
  • Renato A. Krohling, Federal University of Espirito Santo, UFES, Brazil
  • Xiaodong Li, RMIT University, Australia
  • Alcherio Martinoli, EPFL, Switzerland
  • Clerc Maurice, France Telecom R&D, France
  • Sukumar Mishra, IIT, Delhi India
  • Thomas Potok, Oak Ridge National Lab., USA
  • Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Suganthan, Nanyang Technology University, Singapore
  • Daniel Tauritz, Missouri S & T, Rolla, MO, USA
  • Donald Wunsch, Missouri S & T, Rolla, MO, USA
  • Yusuf Yare, Missouri S & T, Rolla, MO, USA
  • F. Zambonelli, University of Modena Italy