|  | The First International Conference on Advanced Cognitive Technologies  and  Applications  COGNITIVE 2009 November 15-20, 2009 - Athens/Glyfada, Greece | 
     
     
     COGNITIVE Advisory Chairs 
     Petre Dini, Cisco  Systems, Inc.,  USA   /   Concordia University,   Canada
Paul J. Geraci, Technology Survey Group, USA
Hermann Kaindl,   TU-Wien,  Austria
  Inès Saad, MIS Laboratory-  University  of Picardie Jules Vernes,  France
  Vladimir Stantchev, Berlin  Institute of   Technology,   Germany
Shinji Sugawara, Nagoya Institute of   Technology,  Japan
     COGNITIVE 2009 Technical Program Committee 
     Rajendra Akerkar, Technomathematics  Research Foundation-Kolhapur, India
       Abdeltouab Belbekkouche, University of Montreal,  Canada
       Ateet Bhalla, Technocrats Institute of  Technology - Bhopal, India
       Cagatay Catal, TUBITAK-Marmara Research Center, Turkey
         François Charpillet, LORIA-Vandoeuvre lès Nancy, France
       Po-Hsun Cheng, National Kaohsiung Normal  University, Taiwan
       Paolo Ciancarini, University of Bologna, Italy
       Darryl N. Davis, University of Hull, UK
          Vinu V Das, ACEEE-NSG-Trivandrum, India
Leonardo Dagui de Oliveira, Escola Politécnica  da Universidade de São Paulo (EPUSP), Brazil
Ed de Quincey, City University/Keele University, UK
Fernando Ciriaco Dias Neto, Polytechnic School  of São Paulo University/Pitágoras University, Brazil
Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA/ Concordia University, Canada
Lars Fredrik Høimyr Edvardsen, Intelligent  Communication AS/Norwegian University of Science and Technology,Norway
Simon Fong, University of Macau, Macao SAR.  China
Aldo Franco Dragoni, Università Politecnica delle Marche. Italy
Hervé Frezza-Buet, Supélec,  France
          Alfredo Garro, Università della Calabria, Italy
       Paul J. Geraci, Technology Survey Group, USA
       Alain Giboin, INRIA   Sophia-Antipolis,  France
         Abdelhakim Hafid, University of Montreal, Canada
         Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis,  University of Patras,   Greece  (Hellas)
         Giner Alor Hdez, Instituto Tecnologico de  Orizaba, Mexico
         Jianmin Jiang, University of Bradford, UK
         Lu Jiang, Xi’an Jiaotong University, P. R. China
       Hermann  Kaindl,   TU-Wien,  Austria
       Kavi Khedo, University of Mauritius, Mauritius
       K. Lal Kishore, JNTU, Hyderrabad, India
       Narayanan Kulathuramaiyer, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak,  Malaysia
       Jian Qiang Li, NEC Labs, China
       Sven Lilienthal, RWTH Aachen University,  Germany
       Athanassios  Manikas, Imperial College London, UK
         Ghassan Mourad, Lebanese University &   LaLIC Paris-Sorbonne,  France
         Naser Movahhedinia, University of Isfahan, Isfahan,  Iran
         Yiannis Papadopoulos, University of Hull, UK
       Rafael Ramirez, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
       
       Alejandro Rodríguez González, Universidad Carlos  III de Madrid, Spain
       Francis Rousseaux, IRCAM, France
       Inès Saad, MIS Laboratry- University of Picardie  Jules Vernes, France
       Fariba Sadri, Imperial College London, UK
       Abdel-Badeeh M. Salem, Ain Shams University, Egypt
       Olivier Simonin, Université Henri Poincaré, INRIA Nancy Grand Est, France
       Abrão Taufik, State University of Londrina - UEL, Brazil
       Sugat Sanyal, Tata Institute of Fundamental  Research-Mumbai, India
       Uma Shanker Tiwary, Indian Institute of  Information Technology, Allahabad, India
       Sofia Stamou, Patras University, Greece
       Vladimir  Stantchev, Berlin Institute of   Technology,  Germany
       Shinji Sugawara, Nagoya Institute of Technology,  Japan
       Antonio J. Tallón-Ballesteros, University of  Seville, Spain
       G.S. Tomar, Vikrant Institute of Technology  & Management - Indore, India
     Siba Kumar Udgata, University of Hyderabad, India
     Shirshu Varma, Institute of Information  Technology-Allahabad, India
     Thomas  Voegtlin, INRIA Lorraine - Vandoeuvre lès   Nancy,  France
     Qin Xin, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway
     Abdul Yarali, Murray State University, USA