COMMITTEES

Honorary Chair

Brij Bhooshan Gupta, NIT Kurukshetra, India

General Chair

Teresa Guarda, CIST Research and Innovation Center, Universidad Estatal Peninsula de Santa Elena, Ecuador

Filipe Portela, Algoritmi Research Centre, Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Steering Committee

Bruno Sousa, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Ricardo Vardasca, ISLA Santarem, Portugal

Valentina Lenarduzzi, LUT University, Finland

Wolfgang Hofkirchner, Technische Universität Wien, Austria 

Organizing Chair

Maria Fernanda Augusto, Universidad Estatal Peninsula de Santa Elena, Ecuador

Marcelo Leon, Universidad Tecnológica Empresarial de Guayaquil, Ecuador

Jose Maria Diaz, Universidad a Distancia de Madrid, Spain

Isabel Lopes, UNIAG, Portugal

Domingos Martinho, ISLA Santarem, Portugal

Sajid Anwar, Institute of Management Sciences Peshawar, Pakistan

Workshops Committee

Teresa Guarda, Universidad Estatal Peninsula de Santa Elena, Ecuador

Sajid Anwar, Institute of Management Sciences, Pakistan

Jose Maria Diaz, Universidad a Distancia de Madrid, Spain 

Program Committee

Manuel Filipe Santos, Minho University, Portugal (Chair)

Abbas Aljuboori, University of Information Technology and Communications, Iraq

Alberto Simões, Instituto Politécnico Cávado do Ave, Portugal

Alejandro Hossian, Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Argentina

Alexandros Tzallas, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Ioannina.Greece

Antonio Dourado, University of Coimbra, Portugal

António Vieira de Castro, SIIS / ISEP / P.PORTO, Portugal

Ana Azevedo, CEOS.PP / ISCAP / P.PORTO, Portugal

Andrei Tchernykh, CICESE Research Center, Mexico 

Ângelo Costa, Universidade do Minho, Portugal

António Andrade, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal

António Fernandes, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal

Arminda Lopes,Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, Portugal

Arnulfo Alanis Garza, Instituto Tecnologico de Tijuana, Mexico

Asad Khattak, Zayed University, United Arab Emirates

Atallah Al-Shatnawi, Al Al-Bayt University, Jordan

Athanasios Zolotas, University of York, United Kingdom

Babar Shah, Zayed University, United Arab Emirates

Bruno Sousa, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Carlos Balsa, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal

Carlos Fajardo, Fundación Universitaria Konrad Lorenz, Colombia

Claudio Arcos, San Francisco Global, Ecuador

Christoph Schütz, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria 

Cristina Alcaraz, Universidad de Malaga, Spain

Daniele Riboni,University of Cagliari, Italy

Diana Lancheros-Cuesta, Universidad de la Salle, Colombia 

Domingos Martinho, ISLA Santarém, Portugal

Paramesha Chari, GSSS Institute of Engineering & Technology for Women, India

Eugen Rusu, Dunarea de Jos University of Galati , Romania

F. S. Semaan, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil

Fakhri Alam, Institute of Management Sciences Peshawar, Pakistan

Fezile Özdamlı, Near East University, Turkey

Filipe Mota Pinto, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal

Filipe Portela, Algoritmi Research Centre, Portugal 

Francisco Alvarez, Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, Mexico 

Frederico Lopes, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte , Brazil

Gabriel Hornink, Federal University of Alfenas, Brazil

Gustavo Gatica, Universidad Andrés Bello - Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Chile

Härer Felix, Digitalization and Information Systems Group, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

Hélder Quintela, Instituto Politécnico Cávado do Ave, Portugal

Henrique Vicente, Universidade de Évora, Portugal

Hugo Peixoto, Centro de Investigação Algoritmi, Universidade do Minho, Portugal 

Inna Skarga-Bandurova, Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom

Isabel Lopes, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal 

Ivan Mura, Duke Kunshan Unievrsity, China 

Jakub Swacha, University of Szczecin, Poland

Javier Pereira, Universidad Tecnologica de Chile, Chile

Jorge Luis Bacca Acosta, University of Girona, Spain

Jorge Oliveira e Sá, University of Minho, Portugal

Jose Guillermo Guarnizo Marin, Santo Tomas University,

Jose Luis Martinez Flores,Centro Interdisciplinario de Postgrados Investigación y Consultoría-UPAEP, Mexico

José Lencastre, University of Minho, Portugal

José Machado, University of Minho, Portugal

Jose Maria Diaz, Universidad a Distancia de Madrid, Spain 

José Rufino, Polytechnic Institute of Braganca, Portugal

Juan Capella, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain 

Júlio Duarte, University of Minho, Portugal

Luca Anselma, Università di Torino, Italy

Luciana Peixoto, University of Minho, Portugal

Luis Gomes, Universidade dos Açores, Portugal

Kamlesh Dutta,National Institute of Technology Hamirpur, India

Karolina Baras, Universidade da Madeira, Portugal

M. Teresa Monteiro, University of Minho, Portugal

Manik Sharma,DAV University, India

Manuele Kirsch-Pinheiro, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France

Marcelo Leon, Universidad Tecnológica Empresarial de Guayaquil, Ecuador

Maria Fernanda Augusto, Universidad Estatal Peninsula de Santa Elena, Ecuador

Maria Isabel Ribeiro, Instituto Politécnico Bragança, Portugal

Maria José Abreu, University of Minho, Portugal

Maria Sousa,CIEO, Portugal

Marisa Simões Carvalho, Universidade Católica Portuguesa - Porto, Portugal

Maritza Placencia, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Peru

Mario Pérez-Montoro, Universidad de Barcelona, Spain 

Modestos Stavrakis, University of the Aegean, Greece

Mohammad Shahadat Hossain, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh

Mónica Pinto, Universidad de Malaga, Spain

Naveen Balaji Gowthaman, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Neelam Gohar, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Women University Peshawar, Pakistan

Nervo Verdezoto, Cardiff University, United Kingdom

Nishu Gupta,Vaagdevi College of Engineering, India

Nuno C. Marques, Nova School of Sciences & Technologies, Portugal

Nuno Mateus-Coelho, Isla Gaia - Instituto Politécnico de Gestão e Tecnologia, Portugal

Nuno Pombo, University of Beira Interior, Portugal

Olívia Pereira, University of Minho, Portugal

Oscar Dias, University of Minho, Portugal

Patricia Cano-Olivos, Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla, Mexico 

Paula Odete Fernandes, UNIAG - Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal

Paulo Cortez, University of Minho, Portugal

Paulo Novais, University of Minho, Portugal

Pedro Gago, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal

Pedro Olivaira, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal

Ran Wei, Dalian University of Technology, China

Raphael de Aquino Gomes, Instituto Federal de Goiás, Brazil 

Ricardo Martinho, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria

Ricardo Queirós, ESMAD, P. Porto, Portugal

Ricardo Vardasca, ISLA Santarem, Portugal

Robson Pacheco, PhD. Instituto Militar, Brazil

Rytis Maskeliunas, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania

Sajid Anwar, Institute of Management Sciences, Pakistan

Santiago Caballero, Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla, Mexico 

Sara Paiva, Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Portugal

Sergio Ilarri, University of Zaragoza, Spain

Sílvia Araújo, Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Silvia Fajardo-Flores, Universidad de Colima, Mexico

Simone Belli, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

Sofia Almeida, Universidade Europeia, Portugal

Sonia Casillas-Martín, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain

Spyros Panagiotakis, Hellenic Mediterranean University, Greece

Sunny Joseph Kalayathankal, Jyothi Engineering College, India

Tapiwa Gundu, Sol Plaatje University, South Africa

Tetiana Biloborodova, Volodymyr Dahl East Ukraine National University, Ukraine

Valentina Lenarduzzi, LUT University, Finland, Finland

Varun Gupta, Universidade daBeira Interior, Portugal

Victor Alves, University of Minho, Portugal

Wilfrid Utz, OMILAB NPO, Austria

Wolfgang Hofkirchner, Technische Universität Wien, Austria 

Zdzislaw Polkowski, Jan Wyzykowski University, Poland