SOTICS Steering Committee
Lasse Berntzen, University College of Southeast Norway, Norway
Nitin Agarwal, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA
Andrea Nanetti, School of Art, Design, and Media | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

SOTICS Industry/Research Advisory Committee
Roman Shtykh, Yahoo Japan Corporation, Japan
Xin Shuai, Thomson Reuters, USA
Andrea Cimino, Institute for Computational Linguistics (ILC-CNR), Pisa, Italy

SOTICS 2018 Technical Program Committee

Witold Abramowicz, Poznan University of Economics and Business, Poland  
Nitin Agarwal, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA  
Swati Agarwal, BITS Pilani, Goa Campus, India
Ahmet Aker, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany / University of Sheffield, UK  
Sultana Lubna Alam, University of Canberra, Australia  
Frédéric Amblard, IRIT | Université Toulouse 1 Capitole, France  
Esther Andrés Pérez, ISDEFE / Technical University of Madrid, Spain
Mehdi Asgarkhani, Ara Institute of Canterbury, New Zealand  
Liz Bacon, University of Greenwich, UK  
Grigorios N. Beligiannis, University of Patras, Greece  
Gerardo Berbeglia, Melbourne Business School, Australia
Lasse Berntzen, University College of Southeast Norway, Norway
Brian Blake, University of Arkansas at Little Rock / Harding University / Acxiom Corporation, USA  
Christos Bouras, University of Patras | Computer Technology Institute & Press «Diophantus», Greece  
Piotr Bródka, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland  
María Luisa Carrió Pastor, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain  
Ilknur Celik, Cyprus International University, Northern Cyprus
Subrata Chakraborty, University of Southern Queensland, Australia  
Manoj K. Chinnakotla, Artificial Intelligence and Research (AI & R), Microsoft, India  
Christina Christodoulakis, University of Toronto, Canada  
Andrea Cimino, Institute for Computational Linguistics (ILC-CNR), Pisa, Italy  
Francesco Corcoglioniti, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - Trento, Italy  
Alejandro Cortiñas, University of A Coruña, Spain  
Jay Daniel, University of Derby, UK
Gert-Jan de Vreede, University of South Florida, USA / Management Center Innsbruck, Austria
Arianna D'Ulizia, National Research Council - IRPPS, Italy  
Sourav Dutta, Nokia Bell Labs, Ireland
Aviad Elyashar, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
Larbi Esmahi, Athabasca University, Canada  
Svitlana Galeshchuk, Université Paris Dauphine, France
Angel Luis Garrido, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Bogdan Gliwa, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland  
Apostolos Gkamas, University Ecclesiastical Academy of Vella of Ioannina, Greece
William Grosky, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA  
Shyam S. Gouri Suresh, Davidson College, USA
Asmelash Teka Hadgu, L3S - Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany  
Aaron Harwood, University of Melbourne, Australia  
Gy R. Hashim, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia  
Tzung-Pei Hong, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan  
Hana Horak, University of Zagreb, Croatia  
Sergio Ilarri, University of Zaragoza, Spain  
Roberto Interdonato, Cirad, Montpellier, France 
Sampath Jayarathna, California State Polytechnic University Pomona, USA  
Qiong Jia,  Hohai University, Nanjing, China  
Wei Jiang, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA  
Maria João Simões, University of Beira Interior (UBI) / Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences (CICS.NOVA.UMINHO) / LABCOM, Portugal  
Osden Jokonya, North-West University, South Africa  
Hanmin Jung, Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Korea  
Charalampos Karagiannidis, University of Thessaly, Greece  
Tiffany Hyun-Jin Kim, HRL Laboratories, USA
Jarosław Koźlak, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland  
Konstantin Kuzmin, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), USA
Carla Lopes Rodriguez, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Computing and Cognition of the Federal University of ABC, Brazil  
Aleksander Lubarski, University of Bremen, Germany  
Heide Lukosch, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands  
Baojun Ma, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China  
Arnaud Martin, Univ. Rennes - IRISA, France
Federico Martín Alconada Verzini, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina  
Philippe Mathieu, CRIStal | University of Lille, France  
Radoslaw Michalski, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland  
Fionn Murtagh, University of Huddersfield, UK
Andrea Nanetti, School of Art, Design, and Media | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Cuong Nguyen, Allrecipes.com, USA  
Michel Occello, University Grenoble Alpes | LCIS, France  
Tatyana Pashnyak, Bainbridge State College, USA  
Kiriakos Patriarcheas, Hellenic Open University, Greece  
Luigi Patrono, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy  
Mick Phythian, Centre for Computing & Social Responsibility | De Montfort University, UK  
Scott Piao, Lancaster University, UK  
Claudio Pinhanez, IBM Research, Brazil  
Agostino Poggi, Università degli Studi di Parma, Italy
Elaheh Pourabbas, National Research Council | Institute of Systems Analysis and Computer Science "Antonio Ruberti", Rome, Italy  
Michael Alexander Riegler, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway  
Susanne Robra-Bissantz, TU Braunschweig, Germany  
Mohamed M. Sabri, University of Waterloo, Canada  
Waseem Safi, Caen Université, France  
Luis Enrique Sánchez Crespo, University of Castilla-la Mancha & Sicaman Nuevas Tecnologías Ciudad Real, Spain
Ali Shahrabi, Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland, UK
Roman Shtykh, Yahoo Japan Corporation, Japan  
Xin Shuai, Thomson Reuters, USA  
Juan Soler Company, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Spain  
Raquel Trillo Lado, University of Zaragoza, Spain  
Wencan Luo, University of Pittsburgh, USA  
Taketoshi Ushiama, Kyushu University, Japan  
Davide Vega D'aurelio, Uppsala University, Sweden  
Paula Viana, INESC TEC / Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal  
Nikos Vrakas, University of Piraeus, Greece  
Stefanos Vrochidis, ITI-CERTH, Greece  
Gang Wang, HeFei University of Technology, China
Junzo Watada, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia
Huadong Xia, Microstrategy Inc., USA  
Fouad Zablith, American University of Beirut, Lebanon