General Chair

Roger Lee, Central Michigan University, USA

Naohiro Ishii, Aichi Institute of Technology, Japan


Program Chair

Tokuro Matsuo, Yamagata University, Japan / University of California, Irvine, USA


Local Arrangement Chair

Takanori Terashima, Miyagi University, Japan


Local Arrangement Co-Chair

Masaaki Tanaka, Suzuka Junior College, Japan


Workshop Organizers

Takayuki Fujimoto, Toyo University, Japan

Yeong-tae Song, Towson University, USA


Program Committee

Ahmad Kamran Malik, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Aicha-Nabila Benharkat, Universite de Lyon, France
Akihiro Ogino, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan
Akinori Minazuki, Kushiro Public University of Economics, Japan
Akio Koyama, Yamagata University, Japan
Alberto Trombetta, University of Insubria, Italy
Althaff Irfan, Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan
Andrew H. Sung, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, USA
Anh T. Pham, Aizu University, Japan
Chikara Hashimoto, NICT, Japan
Christoph Lattemann, University of Potsdam, Germany
Cuauhtemoc Lopez-Martin, Guadalajara University, Mexico
Daniele Nardi, Sapienza University, Italy
Danilo Caivano, University of Bari, Italy
Dauw-Song Zhu, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan
Dimitris Rigas, University of Bradford, United kingdom
Dinh Khoa Nguyen, European Research Institute in Service Science, The Netherlands
Giuseppe Visaggio, University of Bari, Italy
Hamido FUJITA, Iware Pref. University, Japan
Handri Santoso, Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan
Hidehiko Hayashi, Naruto University of Education, Japan
Hideki Kozima, Miyagi University, Japan
Hideo Hirose, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Hiroki Hasegawa, Mukogawa Women's University, Japan
Hiroki Ogawa, Gifu City Women's College, Japan
Hiroshi Nunokawa, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan
Hiroshi Ohkama, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan
Hitomi Nakamura, Kinki University, Japan
Hong Zhu, Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom
Ibrahim Ibrahim, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany
Jingzhi Guo, University of Macau, Macau
Jinhui Qin, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Juichi Takahashi, Sony Corporation, Japan
Jun Wang, Waseda University, Japan
Junichi Imai, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan
Jurgen Dunkel, University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Germany
K. S. Senthilkumar, King Saud University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Katsuhide Fujita, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
Kazuko Takahashi, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan
Keiichi Kaneko, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan
Ken-ichi Iwata, Fukui University, Japan
Kensuke Baba, Kyushu University, Japan
Kimihito Ito, Hokkaido University, Japan
Kohki Satoh, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan
Kunihiko Higa, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Laurent Vercouter, Ecole des Mines de Saint Etienne, France
Leif Singer, Leibniz Universitat at Hannover Software Engineering Group, Germany
Lijun Shan, National Digital Switching System Engineering and Technological Research Center, China
Lina Wakako, Nara Prefectural Institute of Industrial Technology, Japan
Lu Xiaodong, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Luis Iribarne, University of Almeria, Spain
Makoto Fukumoto, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan
Marco Aiello, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Mario Piattini, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Masa-aki Fukase, Hirosaki University, Japan
Masashi Toda, Future University-Hakodate, Japan
Matthias Weidlich, Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany
Mehmet Sayal, Hewlett Packard Laboratories, USA
Michio Yokoyama, Yamagata University, Japan
Mika Morishima, Gifu City Women's College, Japan
Min-Shiang Hwang, National Chung Hsing University, China
Miroslav Kulich, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
Natascha Hoebel, Goethe-University, Germany
Nobuyuki Masuda, Chiba University, Japan
Perttu Laurinen, University of Oulu, Finland
Qiangfu Zhao, Aizu University, Japan
Qiming Chen, HP Labs, USA
Qingzhong Liu, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, USA
Reijer Grimbergen, Tokyo University of Technology, Japan
Reem Bahgat, Cairo University, Egypt
Ricardo Campos, Polytechnic Institute of Tomar, Portugal
Samantha Thelijjagoda, Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology, Sri Lanka
Sang-Do Noh, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
Satoshi Takahashi, Tsukuba University, Japan
Sergio Pozo, University of Seville, Spain
Shinichi Ohnishi, Hokkai-Gakuen University, Japan
Simon Fong, University of Macau, Macau
Stefan Fischer, Lubeck University, Germany
Stefan Sackmann, University of Freiburg, Germany
Susanne Robra-Bissantz, University of Braunschweig, Germany
Syusaku Nomura, Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan
Sungwon Kang, KAIST, Korea
Takaaki Yamada, Hitachi ltd, Japan
Takeshi Nagasaki, Future University-Hakodate, Japan
Tao Yu, HP Labs China, China
Thomas Way, Villanova University, USA
Thomas Weise, Universityof Kassel, Germany
Tiko Iyamu, Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa
Tomoyuki Ohta, Hiroshima City University, Japan
Toshio Kawashima, Future University-Hakodate, Japan
Toyohide Watanabe, Nagoya University, Japan
Wei Jiang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Wei Liu, Chongqing University, China
Welf Lowe, Vaxjo University, Sweden
Wladyslaw Homenda, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Yasuki Yamauchi, Yamagata University, Japan
Yasuo Kudo, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan
Yoshifumi Okada, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan
Yoshitaka Shibata, Iware Pref. University, Japan
Yung-Mu Chen, Yuan Ze University, Taiwan
Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, United Arab Emirates
Zhenqiu Huang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Zhu Hui, Waseda University, Japan
Zhuang Yan, University of Macau, Macau