Committees

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General Chair

• Ju-Jang Lee (KAIST, Korea)
• Masanori Sugisaka (Alife Robotics Co., Ltd., Japan)

Vice-Chair

• John L. Casti (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria)
• Yingmin Jia (Beihang University, China)
• Henrik Hautop Lund (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)
• Hiroshi Tanaka (Tokyo Medical & Dental University, Japan)
• Yong-Guang Zhang (Academia Sinica, China)

Advisory Committee Chair

• Fumio Harashima (Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan)

Program Chair

• Hiroshi Tanaka (Tokyo Medical & Dental University, Japan)

Assistant General Chair

• Takao Ito (Ube National College of Technology, Japan)

Advisory Committee

• Bruce Eisenstein (Drexel University, Former IEEE President, USA)
• Robert Fischl (Drexel University, USA)
• Toshio Fukuda (Nagoya University, Japan)
• Fumio Harashima (Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan)
• Paul Kalata (Drexel University, USA)
• Moshe Kam (Drexel University, IEEE President, USA)
• Hidenori Kimura (RIKEN, Japan)
• Paul Oh (Drexel University, USA)
• Masayoshi Tomizuka (University of California Berkeley, USA)

International Organizing Committee

• Hussein Abbass (University of New South Wales, Australia)
• Kazuyuki Aihara (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
• Takaya Arita (Nagoya University, Japan)
• Christopher L. Barrett (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA)
• Mark A. Bedau (Reed College, USA)
• Malachy Eaton (University of Limerick, Ireland)
• Joshua M. Epstein (The Johns Hopkins University, USA)
• Adam Grzech (Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland)
• Hideki Hashimoto (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
• Yoshiteru Ishida (Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan)
• David John Glyndwyr James (Coventry University, UK)
• Takashi Kohno (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
• Michio Kono (University of Miyazaki, Japan)
• Kazuo Kyuma (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan)
• Man Hyung Lee (Pusan National University, Korea)
• Kenneth James Mackin (Tokyo University of Information Sciences, Japan)
• Fumitoshi Matsuno (Kyoto University, Japan)
• Masatoshi Nakamura (Research Institute of Systems Control, Saga University, Japan)
• Marion Oswald (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
• Steen Rasmussen (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)
• Thomas S. Ray (University of Oklahoma, USA)
• Shinichi Sagara (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
• Katsunori Shimohara (Doshisha University, Japan)
• Hideyuki Suzuki (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
• Jerzy Świątek (Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland)
• Charles Taylor (University of California-Los Angeles, USA)
• Toshio Tsuji (Hiroshima University, Japan)
• Jiwu Wang (Beijing Jiaotong University, China)
• Keigo Watanabe (Okayama University, Japan)
• Kazuko Yamasaki (Tokyo University of Information Sciences, Japan)
• Masao Yokota (Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan)
• Changshui Zhang (Tsinghua University, China)

International Program Committee

• Richard K. Belew (University of California-San Diego, USA)
• Shyi-Ming Chen (National Taichung University of Education, Taiwan)
• Young Im Cho (The University of Suwon, Korea)
• Mo-Yuen Chow (North Carolina State University, USA)
• Fengzhi Dai (Tianjin University of Science & Technology, China)
• Yueyue Fan (University of California-Davis, USA)
• Takayasu Fuchida (Kagoshima University, Japan)
• Ivan Godler (The University of Kitakyushu, Japan)
• Sung Hyun Han (Kyungnam University, Korea)
• Noriyasu Homma (Tohoku University, Japan)
• Zunaidi bin Ibrahim (TATi University College, Malaysia)
• Seiji Ishikawa (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
• Takashi Iwamoto (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Advanced Technology R&D Center, Japan)
• Kiyotaka Izumi (Saga University, Japan)
• Jeff Johnson (The Open University, UK)
• Sanjay S. Joshi (College of Engineering University of California, USA)
• Hiroshi Kinjo (University of the Ryukyus, Japan)
• Kentarou Kurashige (Muroran Institute Technology, Japan)
• Hee-Hyol Lee (Waseda University, Japan)
• Yong Liu (University of Aizu, Japan)
• Kathryn Elizabeth Merrick (University of New South Wales and ADFA, Australia)
• Chris Mi (University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA)
• Kazushi Nakano (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
• Tomoharu Nakashima (Osaka Prefecture University, Japan)
• Walter Nistico (University of Dortmund, Germany)
• Harutoshi Ogai (Waseda University, Japan)
• Shigeru Omatu (Osaka Institute of Technology, Japan)
• Luigi Pagliarini (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)
• Rolf Pfeifer (University of Zurich-Irchel, Switzerland)
• Mohd Rizon (University of Malaysia Perlis, Malaysia)
• Peter S. Sapaty (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine)
• Jeong-Yon Sim (Kangnam University, Korea)
• Ken Sugawara (Tohoku Gakuin University, Japan)
• Mikhail Svinin (Kyushu University, Japan)
• Ivan Tanev (Doshisha University, Japan)
• Hiroshi Umeo (Osaka Electro-Communication University, Japan)
• Katsuji Uosaki (Fukui University of Technology, Japan)
• Mutsumi Watanabe (Kagoshima University, Japan)
• Hidekazu Yanagimoto (Osaka Prefecture University, Japan)
• Ikuo Yoshihara (University of Miyazaki, Japan)
• Yong Yu (Kagoshima University, Japan)
• Tao Zhang (Tsinghua University, China)
• Huailin Zhao (Shanghai Institute of Technology, China)

Local Arrangement Committee

• Sung Hyun Han (Kyungnam University, Korea)
• Jang Myung Lee (Pusan National University, Korea)
• Jin Bae Park (Yonsei University, Korea)
• Jeong Yon Shim (Kangnam University, Korea)