Conference Committees
Conference Chair
Philip McCarthy (Decooda Marketing Insights, USA)
Conference Program Cochairs
Chutima Boonthum-Denecke (Hampton University, USA)
G. Michael Youngblood (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)
Conference Special Tracks Coordinator
William Eberle (Tennessee Technological University, USA)
General Conference Program Committee
David Aha (Naval Research Laboratory, USA)
Roman Barták (Charles University, Czech Republic)
Ralph Bergmann (Universität Trier, Germany)
Ateet Bhalla (NRI Institute of Information Science and Technology, India)
Mehul Bhatt (University of Bremen, Germany)
Nik Nailah Binti Abdullah (Mimos Berhad, Malaysia)
Ismail Biskri (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada)
John Champaign (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Maher Chaouachi (University of Montreal, Canada)
Soon Ae Chun (City University of New York, USA)
Vincent Cicirello (Richard Stockton College, USA)
Diane Cook (Washington State University, USA)
Douglas Dankel (University of Florida, USA)
William Eberle (Tennessee Technological University, USA)
Aymen Elkhlifi (Université Paris Sorbonne, France)
Philippe Fournier-Viger (University of Moncton, Canada)
Susan Fox (Macalester College, USA)
Reva Freedman (Northern Illinois University, USA)
James Geller (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)
Jesus A. Gonzalez (National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics, and Electronics, Mexico)
Catherine Havasi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
Christian F. Hempelmann (Purdue University, USA)
Imène Jraidi (University of Montreal, Canada)
Joseph Kendall-Morwick (DePauw University, USA)
Taghi Khoshgoftaar (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
Ziad Kobti (University of Windsor, Canada)
Othalia Larue (GDAC Research Laboratory, Canada)
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Nguyen-Thinh Le (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Florian Lemmerich (University of Würzburg, Germany)
Jeremy Ludwig (Stottler Henke Associates, Inc., USA)
Zdravko Markov (Central Connecticut State University, USA)
Takunari Miyazaki (Trinity College, USA)
Hien Nguyen (University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, USA)
Michael O’Mahony (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Hassab Elgawai Osman (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Wuillemin Pierre-Henri (Laboratoire d’Informatique de Paris 6, France)
Crystal Redman (Colorado State University, USA)
Hana Rudová (Masaryk University, Czech Republic)
Vasile Rus (The University of Memphis, USA)
Ingrid Russell (University of Hartford, USA)
Stephan Schulz (Technische Universität München, Germany)
Khaled Shaalan (Cairo University, Egypt)
Fahad Shah (University of Central Florida, USA)
Dan Simovici (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA)
David Stracuzzi (Arizona State University, USA)
Matthias Thimm (Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany)
Rosina Weber (Drexel University, USA)
Yang Xiang (University of Guelph, Canada)
Additional Reviewers
Brad Aimone (Sandia National Laboratory, USA)
John Doucette (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Reinhard Hatko (University of Würzburg, Germany)
Hadi Hosseini (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Sebastian Görg (Universität Trier, Germany)
Gessinger (Universität Trier, Germany)
Tommi Junttila (Aalto University School of Science and Technology, Finland)
Adam Pease (Articulate Software, USA)
Mohammad Raeesi (University of Windsor, Canada)
Markus Schaal (Germany)
Carl Schultz (University of Bremen, Germany)
Special Track on Applied Natural Language Processing
Track Chairs
Mihai Linten (University of Memphis, USA)
Chutima Boonthum-Denecke (Hampton University, USA)
Program Committee
Sivaji Bandyopadhyay (Jadavpur University, India)
Cosmin Adrian Bejan (University of Southern California, USA)
Eric Bell (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA)
Justin Brunelle (Old Dominion University, USA)
Nicoletta Calzolari (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Italy)
Andrea Corradini (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)
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Anna Feldman (Montclair State University, USA)
Katherine M. Forbes Riley (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Christian Hempelmann (RiverGlass Inc. and Purdue University, USA)
Verena Henrich (University of Tubingen, Germany)
Diana Inkpen (University of Toronto, Canada)
Christel Kemke (University of Manitoba, Canada)
Fazel Keshtkar (University of Memphis, USA)
Xiaofei Lu (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Phil McCarthy (Decooda, USA)
Manish Mehta (Accenture Technology Labs, USA)
Cristina Nicolae (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
Nobal Niraula (University of Memphis, USA)
Constantin Orasan (University of Wolverhampton, UK)
Shiyan Ou (University of Wolverhampton, UK)
Gilles Richard (Paul Sabatier University, France)
Vasile Rus (University of Memphis, USA)
Hansen A. Schwartz (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Rene Venegas (Pontificia University, Chile)
Michael Wiegand (Saarland University, Germany)
Alistair Willis (The Open University, UK)
Additional Reviewers
Somnath Banerjee (Jadavpur University, India)
Roman Barták (Charles University, Czech Republic)
Ralph Bergmann (Universität Trier, Germany)
Jesus Gonzalez (NIAOE, Mexico)
Anup Kolya (Jadavpur University, India)
Fadi Abu Sheikha (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Special Track on Artificial Intelligence and Cyber Security
Track Chairs
Gerald M. Knapp (Louisiana State University, USA)
Ricardo A. Calix (Purdue University Calumet, USA)
Mehdi Khazaeli (Louisiana State University, USA)
Leili Javadpour (Louisiana State University, USA
Program Committee
Brian Auslander (Knexus Research Corporation, USA)
Bahadir K. Gunturk (Louisiana State University, USA)
Ge Jin (Purdue University Calumet, USA)
Stephen Johnson (Baker Hughes, USA)
Tae-Hoon Kim (Purdue University Calumet, USA)
Weiru Liu (Queen's University Belfast, UK)
Roberto Perdisci (University of Georgia, USA)
Rajesh Sankaran (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)
Amin Shah-hosseini (CamStar Systems, USA)
Brygg Ullmer (Louisiana State University, USA)
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John Usher (Mississippi State University, USA)
Michel Valstar (University of Nottingham, UK)
Additional Reviewers
Larone Banks (Hampton University, USA)
Yen-Hung Hu (Hampton University, USA)
Zdarvko Markov (Central Connecticut State University, USA)
Milan Petkovic (Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands))
Special Track on Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Semantics,
Computational Linguistics, and Logic
Track Chairs
Ismail Biskri (Université de Québec à Trois Rivières, Canada)
Adel Jebali (Concordia University, Canada)
Florence Le Priol (Université de Paris-Sorbonne, France)
Anca Pascu (Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France)
Program Committee
Maryvonne Abraham (TELECOM-Bretagne, France)
David Banks (Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France)
Jean-Yves Beziau (University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Walter Carnielli (University of Campinas, Brazil)
François-Gilles Carpentier (Université de Brest, France)
Richard Dapoigny (Université de Savoie, France)
Jean-Pierre Desclés (Université de Paris-Sorbonne, France)
Rim Faiz (Université du 7 novembre à Carthage, Tunisia)
TZU-Keng Fu (The University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic)
Boris Galitsky (Knowledge Trail, USA)
Vera Goodacre (George Mason University, USA)
Eva Hajiova (Charles University, Czech Republic)
Christophe Jouis (Universié Pierre et Marie Curie, France)
Peter Lazarov (Université de Sofia, Bulgaria)
Leila Kosseim (Concordia University, Montreal, Canada)
Jean-Guy Meunier (Université de Québec à Montréal,Canada)
Ghassan Mourad (Université de Beyrouth, Lebanon)
Patrice Pognan (INALCO, Paris, France)
Christophe Roche (Université de Savoie, France)
Benoît Sauzay (France TELECOM, France)
Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield, UK)
Additional Reviewers
Ateet Bhalla (NRI Institute of Information Science and Technology, India)
Florian Lemmerich (University of Würzburg, Germany)
Takunari Miyazaki (Trinity College, USA)
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Special Track on Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Informatics
Track Chairs
Doug Talbert (Tennessee Technological University, USA)
Steve Talbert (University of Central Florida, USA)
Program Committee
William Eberle (Tennessee Technological University, USA)
Lewis Frey (University of Utah, USA)
David Kong (Duke University, USA)
Russ Waitman (University of Kansas Medical Center, USA)
Special Track on Case-Based Reasoning
Track Chairs
Michael W. Floyd (Carleton University, Canada)
Santiago Ontañón (Drexel University, USA)
Program Committee
David W. Aha (Naval Research Laboratory, USA)
Isabelle Bichindaritz (State University of New York at Oswego, USA)
Bill Cheetham (GE Global Research, USA)
Sarah Jane Delany (Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland)
Belén Díaz-Agudo (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
Mehmet H. Göker (Salesforce.com, USA)
Pedro Antonio González-Calero (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
Luc Lamontagne (Laval University, Canada)
David B. Leake (Indiana University, USA)
Hector Muñoz-Avila (Lehigh University, USA)
Ashwin Ram (PARC, USA)
Juan A. Recio-García (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
Thomas Roth-Berghofer (University of West London, UK)
Antonio A. Sánchez Ruiz-Granados (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
Ian Watson (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Rosina Weber (Drexel University, USA)
David C. Wilson (University of North Carolina - Charlotte, USA)
Nirmalie Wiratunga (The Robert Gordon University, UK)
Additional Reviewers
Sidath Gunawardena (Drexel University, USA)
Joseph Kendall-Morwick (DePauw University, USA)
Saurav Sahay (Intel Labs, USA)
Imene Jraidi (University of Montreal, Canada)
Saurav Sahay (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
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Special Track on Data Mining
Track Chairs
David Bisant (The Laboratory for Physical Sciences, USA)
William Eberle (Tennessee Technological University, USA)
Program Committee
Rafal Angryk (Montana State University, USA)
Martin Atzmueller (University of Kassel, Germany)
Jim Austin (The University of York, United Kingdom)
Juan Banda (Montana State University, USA)
Emre Celebi (Louisiana State University, Shreveport, USA)
Diane Cook (Washington State University, USA)
Serge Dolenko (D. V. Skobeltsyn Nuclear Physics Institute, Russian Federation)
Olac Fuentes (University of Texas at El Paso, USA)
Jesus Gonzalez (NIAOE, Mexico)
Steven Gutstein (University of Texas at El Paso, USA)
Hyoil Han (Drexel University, USA)
Lawrence Holder (Washington State University, USA)
Mike James (Infomax Group, United Kingdom)
Jacek Kukluk (Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, USA)
Seungjin Lim (Marshall University, USA)
Eduardo Morales (NIAOE, Mexico)
Jeff Pittges (Radford University, USA)
Roberto Santana (University of Basque Country, Spain)
Douglas Talbert (Tennessee Technological University, USA)
Jierui Xie (Oracle, USA)
Slawomir Zadrozny (Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)
Additional Reviewers
Syed Shah (University of Central Florida, USA)
Khaled Shaalan (Cairo University, Egypt)
Jacek Kukluk (Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, USA)
Special Track on Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Track Chairs
G. Tanner Jackson (Arizona State University)
Rod Roscoe (Arizona State University)
Program Committee
Robert Hausmann (Carnegie Learning, Inc., USA)
Carole Beal (University of Arizona, USA)
Paul Brna (University of Leeds, UK)
Chad Lane (University of Southern California, USA)
Reva Freedman (Northern Illinois University, USA)
Niels Pinkwart (Clausthal University of Technology, Germany)
Steven Ritter (Carnegie Learning, Inc., USA)
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Ryan Baker (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA)
Art Ward (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Amy Ogan (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Chas Murray (Carnegie Learning, Inc., USA)
Mark Core (University of Southern California, USA)
Scotty Craig (Arizona State University Polytechnic, USA)
Erin Walker (Arizona State University, USA)
Ruth Wylie (Arizona State University, USA)
Kasia Muldner (Arizona State University, USA)
Jim Segedy (Vanderbilt University, USA)
Additional Reviewers
Philipper Fournier-Viger (University of Moncton, Canada)
Nguyen-Thinh Le (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Keith Shubeck (University of Memphis, USA)
Erica Snow (Arizona State University, USA)
Laura Varner (Arizona State University, USA)
Yutao Wang (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA)
Art Ward (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Special Track on Robotics and Human-Robot Interaction
Track Chairs
Rebecca Caldwell (Winston Salem State University, USA)
LaVonne Manning (University of the District of Columbia, USA)
Program Committee
David Barnett (University of the District of Columbia, USA)
Gail Finley (University of the District of Columbia, USA)
Thorna Humphries (Norfolk State University, USA)
Elva Jones (Winston Salem State University, USA)
Briana Wellman (University of the District of Columbia, USA)
Additional Reviewers
Douglas Dankel (University of Florida, USA)
Susan Fox (Macalester College, USA)
Nguyen-Thinh Le (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Sergey Maydebura (University of the District of Columbia, USA)
Glenn Nickens (University of the District of Columbia, USA)
Crystal Redman (Colorado State University, USA)
Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning
Track Chairs
Christoph Beierle (University of Hagen, Germany)
Souhila Kaci (University of Montpellier 2, France)
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Program Committee
Xiangdong An (York University, Canada)
Christoph Beierle (University Hagen, Germany)
Richard Booth (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Cory Butz (University of Regina, Canada)
Fabio Cuzzolin (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
Sylvie Doutre (University of Toulouse, France)
Marek Druzdzel (University Pittsburgh, USA)
Love Ekenberg (Stockholm University, Sweden)
Konstantinos Georgatos (The City University of New York, USA)
Lluis Godo (IIIA, Spanish National Research Council, Spain)
Kevin Grant (University Lethbridge, Canada)
Gabriele Kern-Isberner (University Dortmund, Germany)
Pawan Lingras (Saint Mary's University, Canada)
Weiru Liu (Queen’s University Belfast, UK)
Tsai-Ching Lu (HRL Laboratories, USA)
Anders Madsen (HUGIN Expert, Denmark)
Cristina Manfredotti (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Nicholas Mattei (NICTA and University of New South Wales, Australia)
Malek Mouhoub (University Regina, Canada)
Eric Neufeld (University Saskatchewan, Canada)
Thomas Nielsen (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Laurent Perrussel (IRIT - Universite de Toulouse, France)
Eugene Santos (Dartmouth College, USA)
Guillermo Simari (Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina)
Paul Snow (New Hampshire, USA)
Luis Enrique Sucar (NIAOE, Mexico)
Choh-Man Teng (Institute for Human & Machine Cognition, USA)
Dan Wu (University of Windsor, Canada)
Yang Xiang (University Guelph, Canada)
Changhe Yuan (Queens College, City University of New York, USA)
Additional Reviewers
Eisa Alanazi (University of Regina, Canada)
Douglas Dankel (University of Florida, USA)
Zdravko Markov (Central Connecticut State University, USA)
Matthias Thimm (Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany)
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