COMMITTEES

General Chair

Teresa Guarda,

Universidad a Distancia de Madrid, Spain

Universidad Estatal Peninsula de Santa Elena, Ecuador

Filipe Portela

Algoritmi Research Centre, Portugal

Universidade do Minho,  Portugal

Steering Committee

Andrei Tchernykh, CICESE Research Center, Mexico

Beatriz De La Iglesia, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom

Bruno Sousa, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Enrique Carrera, Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE, Ecuador

Modestos Stavrakis, University of the Aegean, Greece

Ricardo Vardasca, ISLA Santarem, Portugal

Wolfgang Hofkirchner,  Technische Universität Wien, Austria 

Special Session Chair

Abrar Ullah, Heriot-Watt University, Dubai

Teresa Guarda,  Universidad Estatal Peninsula de Santa Elena, Ecuador

Organizing Chair

Isaac Seoane Pujol, Universidad a Distancia de Madrid, Spain

Jorge Morato Lara, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

Jose Maria Diaz,  Universidad a Distancia de Madrid, Spain

Maria Fernanda Augusto, BITrum Research Group,  Spain

Silvia Prieto Preboste,  Universidad a Distancia de Madrid, Spain

Program Committee 

A. Manuela Gonçalves, University of Minho, Portugal

Abbas Aljuboori, Al Zahra College for Women, Oman

Alberto Simões, Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave, Portugal

Aldina Correia, Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Portugal

Alejandro Rodriguez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

Aleksandra Djordjevic, University of Belgrade Faculty of Architecture, Serbia

Alfonso González Briones, University of Salamanca, Spain

Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria, Italy

Alfredo Milani, University of Perugia, Italy

Ana Azevedo, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal

Ana Cláudia Campos, University of Algarve, Portugal

Ana Paula Teixeira, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal

Ana Pereira, Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Portugal

Ana Ramires, Universidade Europeia, Portugal

Anacleto Correia, CINAV/Escola Naval, Portugal

Andreas Fricke, University of Potsdam, Germany

Andrei Tchernykh, CICESE Research Center, Mexico

Angel Dacal-Nieto, CTAG Centro Tecnologico de Automocion de Galicia, Spain

Anisha Kumari, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India

Antonio Dourado, University of Coimbra, Portugal

António Fernandes, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal

Antonio Jesús Muñoz-Montoro, Universidad de Málaga, Spain

Antonio Silva Sprock, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Venezuela

António Trigo, Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra, ISCAC, Portugal

Arcangelo Castiglione, University of Salerno, Italy

Arnulfo Alanis Garza, Instituto Tecnologico de Tijuana, Mexico

Asma Patel, Staffordshire University, United Kingdom

Asrat Mulatu Beyene, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia

Atallah Al-Shatnawi, Al-albayt University, Jordan

Attila Körei, University of Miskolc, Hungary

Augusto Montisci, Università degli studi di Cagliari, Italy

Babar Shah, Zayed University, United Arab Emirates

Barna Iantovics, University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science, and Technology of Targu Mures, Romania

Beatriz De La Iglesia, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom

Benedetto Barabino, Università degli Studi di Brescia, Italy

Bertil P. Marques, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal

Biswajeeban Mishra, University of Szeged, Hungary

Bruno Sousa, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Camille Salinesi, CRI, Université de Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France

Carina Pimentel, University of Aveiro, Portugal

Carina Silva, Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde de Lisboa, Portugal

Carla Cavallo, University of Naples Federico II, Italy

Carlos Balsa, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal

Carlos Costa, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Carlos Fajardo, Fundación Universitaria Konrad Lorenz, Colombia

Carlos H F Alves, Federal Center of Technological Education, Brazil

Carlos Lopezosa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona, Spain

Carlos R. Cunha, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal

Carmen Guida, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy

Cecilia Avila, Fundación Universitaria Konrad Lorenz, Colombia

Cecilia Castro, Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Celia Ramos, University of the Algarve, Portugal

Chien-Sing Lee, Sunway University, Malaysia

Christian Grévisse, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Christoph Schütz, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

Christos Anagnostopoulos, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

Clara Bento Vaz, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal

Clarice Maraschin, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Claudia Seabra, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Corrado Rindone, Università degli studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Italy

Daniele Bartoli, University of Perugia, Italy

Daniele Granata, Università della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Italy

Dasa Munkova, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia

Deepraj Chowdhury, International Institute of Information Technology, India

Diana Janeth Lancheros-Cuesta, Universidad de La Salle, Colombia

Dimos Pantazis, Technological Education Institution of Athens, Greece

Elena Cantatore, Politecnico di Bari, Italy

Elena Cocuzza, University of Catania, Italy

Elisabetta Ronchieri, INFN CNAF, Italy

Elisete Mourão, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro , Portugal

Emmanuel Okewu, University of Lagos, Nigeria

Enrique Carrera, Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas, Ecuador

Erica Isa Mosca, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Ester Scotto di Perta, University of Naples Federico II, Italy

Estrella Diaz, Castilla La Mancha University , Spain

Eugen Rusu, Dunarea de Jos University of Galati, Romania

Fabio Alberto Schreiber, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Fabio Rocha, Universidade Tiradentes, Brazil

Fabio Silveira, Federal University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

Fakhri Alam Khan, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia

Federica Gaglione, Università degli Studi del Sannio, Italy

Felipe S. Semaan, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil

Felix Härer, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

Fernanda A. Ferreira, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal

Fezile Ozdamli, Near East University, Turkey

Filipe Mota Pinto, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal

Filipe Portela, University of Minho, Portugal

Flavia Marzano, Link Campus University, Italy

Flora Ferreira, University of Minho, Portugal

Florin Pop, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania

Francesco Mercaldo, University of Sannio, Italy

Francesco Palmieri, University of Salerno, Italy

Francesco Santini, Università di Perugia, Italy

Francisco Alvarez, Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, Mexico

Francisco Novillo, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, Ecuador

Frederico Branco, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal

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

Gabriel Hornink, Federal University of Alfenas, Brazil

Geert Poels, Ghent University, Belgium

Gennaro Ciccarelli, inBlenda, Italy

George Stalidis, Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki , Greece

Georgios Georgiadis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Gerardo Carpentieri, University of Naples Federico II, Italy

Gianluigi De Mare, University of Salerno, Italy

Gianni D'Angelo, University of Salerno, Italy

Giovanni Paragliola, ICAR-CNR, Italy

Guillermo Rodriguez, ISISTAN-UNICEN, Argentina

Gustavo Gatica, Universidad Andrés Bello, Chile

Héctor Bedón, Universidad a Distancia de Madrid, Spain

Helia Guerra, University of Azores, Portugal

Henrique Vicente, Universidade de Évora, Portugal

Hugo Peixoto, University of Minho, Portugal

Humberto Rocha, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Huseyin Bicen, Near East University, Cyprus

Ilaria Matteucci, IIT-CNR, Italy

Inna Skarga-Bandurova, Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom

Ioan Ciumasu, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin , France

Ioannis Politis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Ioannis Vrellis, University of Ioannina, Greece

Iqbal H. Sarker, Edith Cowan University, Australia

Isabel Lopes, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal

Ivan Mura, Duke Kunshan University, China

J. Luis Luviano-Ortiz, University of Guanajuato, Mexico

Jakub Swacha, University of Szczecin, Poland

Jan Stejskal, University of Pardubice, Czechia

Jaroslav Dvorak, Klaipeda university, Lithuania

Joanna Kolodziej, NASK Warsaw and Cracow University of Technology, Poland

Jordi Vallverdú, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

Jorge Buele, Universidad Tecnológica Indoamerica, Ecuador

Jorge Herrera-Tapia, Universidad Laica Eloy Alfaro de Manabí, Ecuador

Jorge Luis Bacca Acosta, University of Girona, Spain

Jorge Oliveira e Sá, University of Minho, Portugal

José Carlos Paiva, University of Porto, Portugal

Jose Guillermo Guarnizo Marin, Santo Tomas University, Colombia

José Machado, University of Minho, Portugal

José María Díaz-Nafría, Madrid Open University, Spain

José Ramón Méndez Reboredo, University of Vigo, Spain

José Rufino, Polytechnic Institute of Braganca, Portugal

Juan V. Capella, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

Juan-Ignacio Latorre-Biel, Public University of Navarre, Spain

Júlio Duarte, University of Minho, Portugal

Kalinka Kaloyanova, University of Sofia, Bulgaria

Kanchana Rajaram, SSN College of Engineering, Kalavakkam, India

Karine Ferreira, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Brazil

Kazuaki Tanaka, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan

Laura Verde, Università della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy

Lelio Campanile, Università degli studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy

Leonardo Soto-Sumuano, Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico

Leticia Vaca-Cardenas, Universidad Técnica de Manabí, Ecuador

Ľubomír Benko, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia

Luciano Galone, University of Malta, Malta

Luigi Piero Di Bonito, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy

Luis Gomes, Universidade dos Açores, Portugal, Portugal

Luís Matos, Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Luiza de Macedo Mourelle, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

M. Filomena Teodoro, Portuguese Naval Academy, Portugal

M. Irene Falcão, University of Minho, Portugal

Manuela Cañizares Espada, Universidad a Distancia de Madrid, Spain

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

Marcelo Fajardo-Pruna, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, Ecuador

Marcelo Leon, Universidad Tecnológica Empresarial de Guayaquil, Ecuador

Marcin Woźniak, Institute of Mathematics, Silesian University of Technology, Poland

Marco Gribaudo, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Marco Zucca, University of Cagliari, Italy

Marco Cabezas González, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain

Margherita Lasorella, Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy

Maria Fernanda Augusto, BiTrum Research Group, Spain

Maria Isabel Ribeiro, Instituto Politécnico Bragança, Portugal

Maria João Fernandes Polidoro, Politécnico do Porto, Portugal

Maria João Rodrigues, Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Maria José Abreu, Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Maria Macchiaroli, University of Salerno, Italy

Maria Mourão, Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo, Portugal

Maria Sousa, CIEO Centre for Spatial and Organizational Dynamics, Portugal

Maria Stella de Biase, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy

Mariapia Raimondo, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy

Marílio Cardoso, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal

Marilisa Botte, University of Naples Federico II, Italy

Marina Alexandra Andrade, ISCTE Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal

Mario Pérez-Montoro, University of Barcelona, Spain

Mario Pinto, Politécnico do Porto , Portugal

Maritza Placencia, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marco, Peru

Martinha Piteira, Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal, Portugal

Mauro Iacono, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy

Michal Baczynski, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland

Michal Munk, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia

Michel Soares, Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Brazil

Michele Mastroianni, University of Salerno, Italy

Mirka Mobilia, university of salerno, Italy

Modestos Stavrakis, University of the Aegean, Greece

Mohamad Molaei Qelichi, University of Tehran, Iran

Mohammadsadegh Mohagheghi, Vali-e-Asr Rafsanjan University, Iran

Monalisa Jena, Fakir Mohan University, India

Mónica Pinto, Universidad de Málaga, Spain

Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom

Naveed Abbas, Islamia College, Peshawar, Malaysia

Naveenbalaji Gowthaman, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Neelam Gohar, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto women university, Peshawar, Pakistan, Pakistan

Nguyen D. Thanh, Banking University of Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam

Nikolaos Matsatsinis, Technical University of Crete, Greece

Nishu Gupta,  Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Gjøvik, Norway

Nuno C. Marques, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Nuno Pombo, University of Beira Interior, Portugal

Olivier Parisot, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg

Omar Castellanos, Universidad Estatal Peninsula de Santa Elena, Ecuador

Omid Fatahi Valilai, Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH, Germany

Oscar Dias, University of Minho, Portugal

Pankaj Mishra, G b Pant University of Agricultural and Technology, India

Paola Britos, Universidad Nacional de Río Negro - Sede Andina/Atlántica, Argentina

Paolino Di Felice, University of L'Aquila, Italy

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

Paula Amaral, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Paula Odete Fernandes, UNIAG; Instituto Politécnico de Bragança (IPB), Portugal

Paulo Piloto, Polytechnic Institute of Braganza, Portugal

Paulo Vasconcelos, University of Porto, Portugal

Pedro Gago, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal

Pedro Gago, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal

Piedade Carvalho, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal

Rafal Scherer, Częstochowa University of Technology, Polamd

Raffaele Montella, University of Naples Parthenope, Italy

Rajeev Kumar Kanth, University of Turku, Finland

Raphael Gomes, Instituto Federal de Goiás, Brazil

Ricardo Cajo, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, Ecuador

Ricardo Correia, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal

Ricardo Martinho, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal

Ricardo Queirós, Politécnico do Porto, Portugal

Ricardo Vardasca, ISLA Santarem, Portugal

Robertas Damasevicius, Silesian University of Technology, Poland

Roberto Andrade, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Ecuador

Roberto Nardone, University of Naples "Parthenope", Italy

Rodrigo Olivares, Universidad Valparaíso, Chile

Roman Chertovskih, University of Porto, Portugal

Ronan Guivarch, Université de Toulouse, France

Rosa Reis, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal

Rytis Maskeliunas, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania

S. B. Kulkarni, SDMCET, India

Said Broumi, Hassan II University  Mohammedia-Casablanca, Morocco

Samson Oruma, Østfold University College, Norway

Sanjay Misra, Østfold University, Norway

Sanket Mishra, BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus, India

Sara Paiva, Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Portugal

Saverio De Vito, ENEA, Italy

Sergio Cappucci, ENEA, Italy

Sergio Ilarri, University of Zaragoza, Spain

Shelly Sachdeva, National Institute of Technology Delhi, India

Sherali Zeadally, University of Kentucky, United States

Shuhei Kimura, Tottori University, Japan

Silvia Araújo, University of Minho, Portugal

Silvia Rossetti, Università degli Studi di Parma, Italy

Sílvio Gama, Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Simone Belli, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

Simone Corrado, Università degli Studi della Basilicata, Italy

Smriti Agrawal, Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, India

Socrates Basbas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Sofia Almeida, Universidade Europeia, Portugal

Sonia Casillas Martín, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain

Spyros Panagiotakis, Hellenic Mediterranean University, Greece

Stefania Regalbuto, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy

Stefano Falcinelli, University of Perugia, Italy

Stephan Scheele, Fraunhofer IIS, Germany

Sumit Babu, Harcourt Butler Technical University, India

Syeda Sumbul Hossain, Daffodil International University, Bangladesh

Sylwia Krzysztofik, Lodz University of Technology, Poland

Tapiwa Gundu, Sol Plaatje University, South Africa

Telmo Pinto, University of Minho, Portugal

Tengku Adil Tengku Izhar, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia

Teresa Guarda, Universidad Estatal Peninsula de Santa Elena, Ecuador

Tetiana Biloborodova, Volodymyr Dahl East Ukraine National University, Ukraine

Tiziana Campisi, University of Enna KORE, Italy

Ugo Fiore, Federico II University, Italy

Ulises Ruiz, Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica Optica y Electronica, Mexico

Vanda Lourenco, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal

Vasileios Gkioulos, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Vicente Ferreira De Lucena Jr, Federal University of Amazonas, Brazil

Victor Alves, University of Minho, Portugal

Victor Darriba, Universidade de Vigo, Spain

Virginie Felizardo, Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal

Vitor Monteiro, University of minho, Portugal

Vladimir Tcheverda, Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics, Russia

Walter Lopes Neto, Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

Zekeng Ndadji Milliam Maxime, University of Dschang, Cameroon