Committee

• General Chairs
• Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada
• Behrouz Far, University of Calgary, Canada
• Program Chairs
• Academic Track: Mehmet Kaya, Firat University, Turkey
• Industry Track: Mohammad Moshirpour, University of Calgary, Canada
• Thesis Track: Elham Akhond Zadeh Noughabi, University of Calgary, Canada
• Communications Chair
• Jalal Kawash, University of Calgary, Canada
• Registration Chairs
• Omar AddamUniversity of Calgary, Canada
• Yasaman Amannejad, University of Calgary, Canada
• Local Arrangement Chairs
• Sepideh Afkhami Goli, University of Calgary, Canada
• Gabi Jurca, University of Calgary, Canada
• Raoufeh Hashemian, University of Calgary, Canada
• Web Chair
• Tamer JaradaUniversity of Calgary, Canada
• Program Committee
• Mohammad Moshirpour,University of Calgary, Canada
• Reda Alhajj,University of Calgary, Canada
• Behrouz Far,University of Calgary, Canada
• Annalisa Appice,University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
• Valentina Emilia Balas,Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania
• Mustafa Canim,IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
• Linchuan Chen,The Ohio State University, USA
• Keke Chen,Wright State University, USA
• Schahram Dustdar,Vienna University of Technology, Austria
• Geoffrey C. Fox,Indiana University, USA
• Manolis Gergatsoulis,Ionian University, Greec
• Tor-Morten Grønli,Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Norway
• Henric Johnson,Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
• Niklas Lavesson,Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
• Carson K. Leung,University of Manitoba, Canada
• Zhiqiang Lin,University of Texas at Dallas, USA
• Marco Netto,IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Brazil
• Omair Shafiq,University of Calgary, Canada
• Abdullah Uz Tansel,Baruch College CUNY, USA
• Liqiang Wang,University of Wyoming, USA
• Abdelaziz Bouras,Qatar University, Qatar
• Alfredo Cuzzocrea,University of Trieste, Italy
• Luigi Di Caro,U. of Torino, Italy
• Zhihui Du,Tsinghua University, China
• Amir Hossein Gandomi,Michigan State University, USA
• Keman Huang,Tianjin University, China
• Cheng-Te Li,Academia Sinica, Taiwan
• Gang Li,Deakin University, Australia
• Weifeng Liu,China University of Petroleum (East China), China
• Lin Liu,Tsinghua University, China
• Zaki Malik,Wayne State University, USA
• Hamid Mcheick,University of Quebec At Chicoutimi, Canada
• Ningfang Mi,Northeastern University, IUSA
• Zbigniew Ras,University of North Carolina, USA
• Yinglong Xia,IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
• Chao-Tung Yang,Tunghai University, Taiwan 
• Geng Yang,Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications, China
• Ying Zhao,Tsinghua University, China
• Riccardo Albertoni,National Research Council, Australia
• Basem Alkazemi,Umm Al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia
• Antonio Badia,University of Louisville, USA
• Mohamed Bakhouya,International University of Rabat, Morocco
• Sadok Ben Yahia,Faculty of Sciences of Tunis, Tunisia
• Konstantinos Blekas,University of Ioannina, Greece
• Tania Cerquitelli,Politecnico di Torino, Italy
• W. Art Chaovalitwongse,University of Washington, USA
• Pietro Colombo,Università dell'Insubria, Italy
• Jérôme Darmont,Université de Lyon, France
• Raj Das,University of Auckland, New Zealand
• Pasquale De Meo,VU University, Amsterdam, Netherland
• Roberto Di Pietro,Bell Labs, Italy
• Chen Ding,Ryerson University, Canada
• Samhaa El-Beltagy,Nile University, Egypt
• Xiaoliang Fan,Lanzhou University, China
• Elena Ferrari,University of Insubria, Italy
• Simon Fong,University of Macau, Macao
• Paolo Garza,Politecnico di Torino, Italy
• Theodore Johnson,AT&T Labs, USA
• David Kaeli,Northeastern University, USA
• Konstantin Kuzmin,Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), USA
• Dong Li,University of California, Merced, USA
• Mohamed Nadif,university paris descartes, France
• Mirco Nanni,Istituto I.S.T.I., Italy
• Dana Petcu,West University of Timisoara, Romania
• Fabrizio Riguzzi,University of Ferrara, Italy
• Fabrice Rossi,SAMM - Université Paris 1, France
• Alessandro Rozza,Università degli Studi di Napoli - Parthenope, Italy
• Nick Sahinidis,Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Claudio Sartori,DISI - University of Bologna, Italy
• Giorgio Valentini,The University of Milan, Italy
• Iraklis Varlamis,Harokopio University of Athens, Greece
• Jianwu Wang,University of Maryland, USA
• Toyohide Watanabe,Nagoya University, Japan
• Qi Yu,Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
• Lijun Chang,University of New South Wales, Australia
• Maria Luisa Damiani,University of Milan, Italy
• Aris Gkoulalas-Divanis,IBM Research, Ireland
• Bahman Javadi,University of Western Sydney, Australia
• Michal Kozielski,Silesian University of Technology, Poland
• Sanjay Madria,Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA
• Suzanne Mcintosh,NYU Courant Institute, and Cloudera Inc., USA
• Christoph Schommer,University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
• Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz,Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
• Theodoros Tzouramanis,University of the Aegean, Greece
• Mahmood Moussavi,University of Calgary, Canada
• Muhammad Ahmad,University of Minnesota, USA
• Roberto Battiti,Università degli Studi di Trento , Italy
• Aniruddha Bhattacharjya,Tsinghua University, Beijing , China, China
• Flavia Bonomo,CONICET, Depto de Computacion-FCEyN-UBA-Buenos Aires-Argentina, Argentina
• Haopeng Chen,Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
• Silvia Chiusano,Politecnico di Torino, Italy
• Enrique Frias-Martinez,Telefonica Investigacion y Desarrollo, Spain
• Matteo Magnani,Uppsala University, Sweden
• Noman Mohammed,University of Manitoba, Canada
• Samia Oussena,University of West London, UK
• Florin Rusu,University of California, USA
• Giovanni Semeraro,University of Bari 'Aldo Moro' , Italy
• Pierre Sutra,Télécom SudParis, France
• Toshiyuki Amagasa,University of Tsukuba, Japan
• Xue-Wen Chen,Wayne State University, USA
• Hesham Hallal,Fahd Bin Sultan University, Saudi Arabia
• Xumin Liu,ROCHESTER INSTITUTE, USA
• Man-Kwan Shan,OF TECHNOLOGY, Taiwan
• Guillermo Taboada,University of A Coruña, Spain
• Domenico Talia,University of Calabria, Italy
• Aditya Tulsyan,Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
• Bin Zhou,University of Maryland, USA