Committee
Program Chairs
Caetano Traina Jr. : Computer Science Department, University of Sao Paulo at Sao Carlos, Brazil Pedro Pereira Rodrigues : University of Porto, Portugal
Area Chairs
A - Big and Everywhere Data Management Carolyn McGregor : University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada Ernestina Menasalvas : Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain
B - Data Analysis and Knowledge Discovery Jaakko Hollmén : Aalto University, Finland Myra Spiliopoulou : Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
C - Knowledge Representation Tony Solomonides : Northshore University HealthSystem, USA Marcello H. Nogueira-Barbosa - Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
D - Decision Support and Recommendation Systems Ines Dutra : University of Porto, Portugal Paolo Soda : Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy
E - Systems Integration and Security Konstantinos Patsakis : Trinity College, Ireland Ricardo Cruz-Correia : University of Porto, Portugal
F - Signal and Image Processing and Analysis Aldo von Wangenheim : Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Hernâni Gonçalves : University of Porto, Portugal
G - Clinical and Healthcare Services Research Adele Marshall : Queen's University Belfast, UK Marco Antonio Gutierrez : Heart Institute - University of Sao Paulo Medical School, Brazil
H - Medical Education and Collaboration Bridget Kane : Trinity College, Ireland Panagiotis Bamidis : Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
I - Robotics Arturo Forner-Cornero : University of São Paulo, Brazil
Program Committee
Adele Marshall : Queen's University Belfast, UK Adilson Gonzaga : University of São Paulo, Brazil Agma Traina : University of São Paulo, Brazil Aisha Naseer : Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe Limited Albert Bifet : University of Waikato, New zealand Alberto Freitas : University of Porto, Portugal Aldo von Wangenheim : Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Alfredo Tirado-Ramos : University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, USA Álvaro Rocha : University of Coimbra, Portugal Ana Paula Rocha : University of Porto, Portugal Anca Bucur : Philips Research Andre Balan : Universidade Federal do ABC, Brazil Andreas Pashalidis : K.U.Leuven, Belgium Andreas Uhl : University of Salzburg, Austria Andrei Vasilateanu : Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania Arturo Forner-Cornero : University of Sao Paulo, Brazil Bartlomiej Papiez : University of Oxford, UK Benyun Shi : Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Bo Yang : Jilin University, China Bridget Kane : Trinity College and St. James’s Hospital, Ireland Bruce Davidson : Hoag Health System Caetano Traina : University of Sao Paulo, Brazil Carlo Sansone : University of Naples "Federico II", Italy Carlo Combi : Universita' degli Studi di Verona, Italy Carolyn McGregor : University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada Cecile Paris : Computational Informatics (CCI), Australia Cesar Ferri : DSIC, Universitat Politcnica de València Charlotte Tang : University of Michigan Flint, USA Chongsheng Zhang : INRIA, France Chris Nugent : University of Ulster, UK Christoph Schommer : University of Luxembourg Christos Moridis : University of Macedonia, Greece Cinzia Cappiello : Politecnico di Milano, Italy Claudio Marrocco : Università degli Studi di Cassino, Spain Concetto Spampinato : University of Catania, Italy D. J. Lee : Brigham Young University, USA Daniel Sonntag : German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) Daniel Katz : Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA Daniela Raicu : DePaul University, USA Danielle Sent : Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands David Chadwick : University of Kent, UK David Riaño : Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain Dimitrios Fotiadis : University of Ioannina, Greece Dimitris Maroulis : University of Athens, Greece Dimitris Iakovidis : Technological Educational Institute of Lamia, Greece Ernestina Menasalvas : University Politécnica of Madrid, Spain Fabio Bellavia : Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy Fátima Nunes : Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil Felipe Orihuela-Espina : National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics, Mexico Filiz Bunyak : University of MIssouri-Columbia, USA Francesco Isgro : Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy Gang Luo : University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Gennaro Percannella : Università di Salerno, Italy Gianluigi Me : Luiss Guido Carli University, Italy Giovanni Maria Farinella : University of Catania, Italy Giulio Iannello : Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy Guenter Schreier : AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Austria Guillermo Navarro-Arribas : Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain Helena Galhardas : University of Lisbon, Portugal Henning Müller : University of Geneva, Switzerland Henrique Santos : Universidade do Minho, Portugal Herna Viktor : University of Ottawa, Canada Hernâni Gonçalves : University of Porto, Portugal Huseyin Seker : The University of Northumria, New Zealand Ines Dutra : University of Porto, Portugal Ioannis Apostolakis : National School of Public Health, Greece Ioannis Stamelos : Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Irene Ong : University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Isabelle Bichindaritz : State University of New York at Oswego, USA Ismael Caballero : University of Castilla - La Mancha, Spain Jaakko Hollmén : University of Aalto, Finland Jan Ramon : K.U.Leuven, Belgium Jens Lüssem : FH Kiel, Germany Joao Paulo Papa : UNESP - University Estadual Paulista, Brazil Joaquim Felipe : University of São Paulo, Brazil Johan Montagnat : CNRS, I3S unit, France Jose Crespo : Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain José Farinha : ISCTE-IUL / ADETTI, Portugal Jose Fernando Rodrigues Junior : University of Sao Paulo, Brazil Josep Roure : Tecnocampus Mataro, Spain Julio Facelli : University of Utah, USA Junghwan Oh : University of North Texas, USA Ken-Ichi Yamakoshi : Kanazawa University, Japan Konstantinos Patsakis : Trinity College, Ireland Kristina Groth : KTH - The Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Lenka Lhotska : Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic Lenzini Gabriele : SnT/University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Line Melby : SINTEF, Department of Health Research, Norway Luca Pollonini : University of Houston, UK Luca Vollero : Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy Lucy Hederman : Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Marcela Ribeiro : Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil Marcello Nogueira-Barbosa : Ribeirão Preto Medical School, USP, Brazil Marco Gutierrez : Heart Institute, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil Marek Wojciechowski : Poznan University of Technology, Poland Marina Velikova : Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands Mario Molinara : University of Cassino, Italy Mark Last : Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Masood Masoodian : The University of Waikato, New Zealand Massimo Cafaro : Center for Advanced Computational Technologies of the National Nanotechnology Laboratory and the University of Salento, Italy Matthew Levin : Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA Maurice Hendrix : The University of Northampton, UK Michael Zhang : Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, Canada Michael A. Shifrin : N.N.Burdenko Neurosurgical Institute, Russia Michela Goffredo : University Roma TRE, Italy Miguel Coimbra : University of Porto, Portugal Milan Zorman : University of Maribor, Slovenia Mohamed Gaber : Robert Gordon University Murthy Devarakonda : IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Mykola Pechenizkiy : Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Myra Spiliopoulou : University of Magdeburg, Germany Niels Peek : Centre for Health Informatics, Manchster, UK Oleksiy Mazhelis : University of Jyvskyl, Finland Omer Inan : Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Panagiotis Bamidis : Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Panagiotis Antoniou : Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Paolo Soda : Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy Pascal Staccini : Université Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France Patrick Mccormick : Mount Sinai Medical Center, USA Paulo Azevedo-Marques : FMRP - University of Sao Paulo, Brazil Pedro Pereira Rodrigues : University of Porto, Portugal Peng Shao : University of Alberta, Canada Peter Lucas : Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands Petr Berka : University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic Petra Perner : Institute of Computer Vision and Applied Computer Sciences, Germany Pierangelo Veltri : University of Catanzaro, Italy Pieter Toussaint : Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Rainer Schmidt : University of Rostock, Germany Ricardo Cruz-Correia : University of Porto, Portugal Richard Sinnott : University of Glasgow, UK Rodney Long : National Library of Medicine, USA Rogerio Richa : Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Rute Almeida : CMUP, Portugal Sally Mcclean : Ulster University, UK Sameer Antani : National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA Sami Laine : Aalto University, Finland Sandra Geisler : RWTH Aachen University, Germany Sebastian Hegenbart : University of Salzburg, Austria Sebastiano Battiato : University of Catania, Italy Seppo Puuronen : University of Jyväskylä, Finland Sergi Robles : Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain Silvia Olabarriaga : University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Sonja Zillner : Siemens, Germany Sophia Katrenko : Utrecht University, The Netherlands Stathis Th. Konstantinidis : Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Stephen Pennington : University College Dublin, Ireland Taridzo Chomutare : University Hospital of North Norway Thomas M. Deserno : WTH Aachen University, Germany Tim Clark Harvard : Medical School, USA Tony Solomonides : Northshore University HealthSystem, UK Václav Chudáček : CTU in Prague, Czech Republic Vit Novacek DERI, : National University of Ireland, Galway Vlado Stankovski : University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Wei Chen Eindhoven : University of Technology William Thompson : Northwestern University, USA Wu-Chen Su : National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Xiaolei Huang : Lehigh University, USA Xuning Tang : Drexel University, USA Yannick Legre : CNRS, France Yefim Kats : CHC, USA Young-Rae Cho : Baylor University, USA Yuanyuan Wang : Fudan University, China Zilma Reis : Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil