Honorary Chair
David B. Fogel, Natural Selection Inc, USA

General Chairs
Ajith Abraham, Oklahoma State University, USA
Mario Köppen, Fraunhofer IPK Berlin, Germany

Program Chairs
Kate Smith, Monash University, Australia
Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia

Advisory Board
Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Universidad de Chile, Chile
Fabio Abbattista , Universita di Bari, Italy
Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Antony Satyadas, IBM Corporation, Cambridge, USA

Local Organizing Committee
Damminda Alahakoon, Monash University, Australia
Vincent Lee, Monash University, Australia
Ai Cheo Yeo, Monash University, Australia

Web Chair
Fabio Zambetta, Universita di Bari, Italy

Special Sessions Chair
Xiao-Zhi Gao , Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

Finance Coordinator
Diane West, Monash University, Australia

International Technical Committee
Janos Abonyi, University of Veszprem, Hungary
Jose Ramon Alvarez Sanchez, UNED, Spain
Bruno Apolloni, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Akira Asano, Hiroshima University, Japan
Vijayan Asari, Old Dominion University, USA
Bernard de Baets, Ghent University, Belgium
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Sung Bae Cho, Yonsei University, Korea
Vic Ciesielski, RMIT University, Australia
Carlos A. Coello Coello, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico
David W. Corne, University of Reading, UK
Paulo Jose da Costa Branco, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal
Evgenia Dimitriadou, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Yasuhiko Dote, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan
Mark Embrechts, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Anna Maria Fanelli, Universita' degli Studi di Bari, Italy
Luciano da Fontoura Costa, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Katrin Franke, Fraunhofer IPK Berlin, Germany
Matjaz Gams, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Xiao-Zhi Gao, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Tom Gedeon, Murdoch University, Australia
Jerzy W. Grzymala-Busse, University of Kansas, USA
Saman K. Halgamuge, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Tim Hendtlass, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Francisco Herrera, University of Granada, Spain
Frank Hoffmann, University Dortmund, Germany
Ravi Jain, James Cook University, Australia
Robert John, De Montfort University, UK
Janusz Kacprzyk, Systems Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland
Etienne Kerre, Ghent University, Belgium
Frank Klawonn, University of Applied Sciences Braunschweig/Wolfenbuettel, Germany
Andreas Koenig, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Amit Konar, Jadavpur University, India
William B. Langdon, University College, London, UK
Andre Ponce de Leon Ferreira de Carvalho, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Sebastian Lozano, Escuela Superior de Ingenieros, Sevilla, Spain
Luis Magdalena, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Maria do Carmo Nicoletti, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil
Erkki Oja, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Antônio de Pádua Braga, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Sankar K. Pal, Indian Statistical Institute, India
Nikhil R. Pal, Indian Statistical Institute, India
Marcin Paprzycki, Oklahoma State University, USA
Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada
Guenther Raidl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Rajkumar Roy, Cranfield University, UK
Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Jose Manuel Benitez Sanchez, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain
Antony Satyadas, IBM Corporation, Cambridge, USA
Udo Seiffert, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, Gatersleben, Germany
Giovanni Semeraro, Universita' degli Studi di Bari, Italy
Dharmendhra Sharma, University of Canberra, Australia
Clarence W. de Silva, University of British Columbia, Canada
Aureli Soria Frisch, Fraunhofer IPK Berlin, Germany
Branko Soucek, Iris, Bari, Italy
Martin Stytz, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Andrew Sung, New Mexico Tech, USA
Jarno Tanskanen, University of Kuopio, Finland
Hamid R. Tizhoosh , University of Waterloo, Canada
Olgierd Unold, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Marley Maria B.R. Vellasco, PUC-Rio, Brasilia
Lipo Wang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Geoffrey Webb, Monash University, Australia
Richard Weber, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Graham Williams, CSIRO, Canberra, Australia
Kaori Yoshida, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Chengqi Zhang, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Zili Zhang, Deakin University, Australia
Vasile Palade, Oxford University, UK
Damminda Alahakoon, University of Colombo, Australia
Vincent Lee, Monash University, Australia
Gary Yen, Oklahoma State University, USA
Yanqing Zhang, Georgia State University, USA
Violetta Galant, Wroclaw University of Economics, Poland
Janina Jakubczyc, Wroclaw University of Economics, Poland
Mieczyslaw Owoc, University of Economics, Poland
Halina Kwasnicka, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Louis Vuurpijl, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Merijn Erp, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Rene Thomsen, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Christian Veenhuis, Fraunhofer IPK Berlin, Germany
Wiliam Browne, University of Reading, UK
Jacek Wachowicz, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland
Krzysztof Wecel, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
Wojciech Zalech, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
Kelly Newton-Kranzler, KANconsulting, USA
Daniel Kottow, Fraunhofer IPK Berlin, Germany