KES2026 International Programme Committee

The role of the IPC is as follows:-

To advise on the organisation of the conference;
To promote the conference and bring it to the attention of other researchers;
To advise on the topics of the conference;
To help with the paper review process
To assist in monitoring overall quality.

We are grateful for their valuable assistance.

The IPC consists of the following members and, in addition, all Invited Session Chairs.

KES2026 IPC Members

Name	Affiliation
Dr. Noramalina Abdullah	Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM)
Dr. Jair Minoro Abe	Graduate Program in Production Engineering, ICET - Paulista University & Institute For Advanced Studies, University of São Paulo
Prof. Jesus Almendros-Jimenez	Universidad de Almería
Assoc. Prof. Alessia Amelio	ICAR National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Italy
Dr. Sabeur Aridhi	LORIA, University of Lorraine, France
Prof. Masayoshi Aritsugi	Kumamoto University
Prof. Piotr Artiemjew	University Warmia and Mazury
Dr. Ali Ayadi	University of Strasbourg - ICube laboratory
Prof. Anis Bach-Tobji	ESEN, University of Manouba
Prof. Valentina E. Balas	Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad
Prof. Andrzej Banaszek	West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin, Poland
Prof. Dariusz Barbucha	Gdynia Maritime University, Poland
Prof. Alina Barbulescu	Translvania University of Brasov, Romania
Prof. Smaranda Belciug	University of Craiova
Dr. Mohamed Bennasar	The Open University
Dr. Jose Blanco	Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Dr. Gloria Bordogna	National Research Council of Italy, CNR IREA
Prof. Alfonso Mateos Caballero	Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Prof. Giacomo Cabri	University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Dr. Grzegorz Chmileraz	Czestochowa University of Technology, Faculty of Management, Department of Management Information Systems
Dr. Tanupriya Choudhury	University of Petroleum and Energy Studies
Prof. Massimo Conti	Universita' Politecnica delle Marche
Prof. Gennaro Cordasco	Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy
Dr. Paulo Cortez	University of Minho, Campus de Azurem, 4804-533 Guimaraes
Prof. Paolo Crippa	Università Politecnica delle Marche
Dr. Gloria Cerasela Crisan	Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacau
Prof. Ireneusz Czarnowski	Gdynia Maritime University
Dr. Rafał Deja	WSB University
Dr. Rocco di Filippo	University of Trento
Prof. Olfa Driss	University of Manouba, Tunisia
Dr. Dariusz Dudek	Czestochowa University of Technology, Faculty of Management, Department of Management Information Systems
Assoc. Prof. Agnieszka Duraj	Lodz University of Technology
Dr. Krzysztof Ejsmont	Warsaw University of Technology
Prof. Margarita Favorskaya	Reshetnev Siberian State University of Science and Technology, Russia
Prof. Marcin Fojcik	Western Norway University of Applied Sciences
Prof. Petra Friedrich	University of Applied Sciences Kempten
Dr. Maksym Gaiduk	HTWG Konstanz - University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Dr. Arnulfo Alanis Garza	Tecnológico Nacional de México, campus Tijuana
Dr. Daniela Gifu	Alexandru Ioan Cuza University
Dr. Ayse Glass	HafenCity University
Assoc. Prof. Jose Daviz Nunez Gonzalez	University of Basque Country
Prof. Dr. Dennis Grewe	Esslingen University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Assoc. Prof. Tadeusz A. Grzeszczyk	Warsaw University of Technology
Prof. Goichi Hagiwara	Maritime University of Szczecin Department of Sport Science and Health, Kyushu Sangyo University
Prof. Nobukuni Hamamoto	Gunma University
Prof. Tarek Hamrouni	LIPAH
Prof. Ralf-Christian Harting	University of Aalen, Germany
Dr. Nehal Hasnine	Hosei University
Dr. Krzysztof Hauke	Wroclaw University of Economics and Business
Dr. Petr Hayek	University of Pardubice
Prof. Atsuo Hazeyama	Tokyo Gakugei University
Prof. Katsuhiro Honda	Osaka Prefecture University,
Assoc. Prof. Daocheng Hong	East China Normal University
Prof. Tzung-Pei Hong	National University of Kaohsiung
Prof. Wei-Chiang Hong	College of Shipbuilding Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, China
Prof. Xiangpei Hu	Dalian University of Technology, Dalian
Prof. Anca Ignat	University Alexandru Ioan Cuza of Iasi
Dr. Atsushi Inoue	Mie University, Japan
Assoc. Prof. Radu Tudor Ionescu	University of Bucharest
Prof. Mirjana Ivanovic	University of Novi Sad
Assoc. Prof. Maya Iwano	Yamaguchi University
Prof. Arkadiusz Januszewski	Bydgoszcz University of Science and Technology
Dr. Elżbieta Jaworska	West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin
Assoc. Prof. G. Jayanthi	Sri Ramachandra Faculty of Engineering and Technology
Prof. Reza Jazar	RMIT University
Prof. Piotr Jedrzejowicz	Gdynia Maritime University
Prof. Dragan Jevtic	University of Zagreb
Prof. Girish Jha	Jawaharlal Nehru University
Dr. Marta Kadlubek	Czestochowa University of Technology
Prof. Haruhiko Kaiya	Kanagawa University
Prof. Hideyuki Kanematsu	Graduate Scool of Engineering, Osaka University
Assoc. Prof. Eiji Kano	Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University
Assoc. Prof Hiroko Kanoh	Yamagata University
Prof. Nikos Karacapilidis	University of Patras
Prof. Arkadiusz Kawa	Łukasiewicz Research Network - Institute of Logistics and Wareousing
Prof. Hiroharu Kawanaka	Mie University
Dr. Imen Khamassi	University of Tunisia
Asst. Prof. Abhirup Khanna	University of Petroleum and Energy Studies
Prof. Kayoko Kurita	The University of Tokyo
Dr. Bilel Marzouki	University of Manouba, Tunisia
Prof. Aleksandra Klasnja-Milicevic	University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Mathematics and Informatics, Serbia
Prof. Laszlo Koczy	Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Dr. Agnieszka Konys	West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin
Prof. Boris Kovalerchuk Kovalerchuk	Central Washington University
Dr. Adrianna Kozierkiewicz	Wroclaw University of Science and Technology
Dr. Kinga Krupcała	Bydgoszcz University of Science and Technology, Poland
Prof. Konrad Kułakowski	AGH University of Science and Technology
Dr. Sana Ben Abdallah Ben Lamine	University of Manouba
Prof. Chengjun Liu	New Jersey Institute of Technology
Dr. Christos Makris	University of Patras
Prof. Gianluca Maracchini	University of Trento
Dr. Fabrizio Marozzo	University of Calabria
Dr. Maroua Masmoudi	University of Toulouse
Prof. Mitsunori Matsushita	Kansai University, Japan
Dr. Mayuri Mehta	Sarvajanik College of Engineering and Technology, Sarvajanik University, Surat
Dr. Lin Meng	Ritsumeikan University
Dr. Francesco Mercaldo	National Research Council of Italy
Prof. Lyudmila Mihaylova	University of Sheffield
Prof. Polina Mihova	New Bulgarian University
Prof. Victor Mitrana	Polytechnic University of Madrid
Dr. Suneeta Mohanty	KIIT Deemed to be University
Prof. Stefania Montani	University of Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria
Prof. Mikhail Moshkov	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Dr. Teresa Mroczek	University of Information Technology and Management
Prof. Michal Munk	Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra
Asst. Prof. Katsuko T. Nakahira	Nagaoka Institute of Technology
Prof. Satoshi Nakamura	Meiji University, Japan
Prof. Piotr Nikończuk	West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin Faculty of Maritime Technology and Transport
Prof. Yoko Nishihara	Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Prof. Kazunori Nishino	Taisei Gakuin University
Prof. Vesa Niskanen	University of Helsinki, Vytautas Magnus University
Dr. Issam Nouaouri	Universite d'Artois
Prof. Nobuyuki Ogawa	National Institute of Technology, Gifu College
Dr. Michael Packianather	Cardiff University
Asst. Prof. Wieslaw Paja	University of Rzeszow
Prof. Ingrid Pappel	Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech), Estonia
Prof. Marcin Paprzycki	Polish Academy of Sciences
Dr. Ilona Paweloszek	Czestochowa University of Technology
Dr. Isidoros Perikos	University of Patras
Prof. Vincenzo Piuri	University of Milan
Prof. Ana Poledica	University of Belgrade, Faculty or Ogranizational Sciences
Dr. Grzegorz Popek	Wrocław University of Science and Technology
Prof. Dorin Popescu	University of Craiova
Prof. Oliver Popov	Stockholm University
Prof. Jim Prentzas	Democritus University of Thrace
Dr. Malgorzata Przybyla-Kasperek	University of Silesia in Katowice
Dr. Seema Purohit	UDCS
Assoc. Prof. Dzati Athiar Ramli	Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM)
Dr. Christoph Rathfelder	Hahn-Schickard
Prof. Ana Respicio	University of Lisbon
Dr. Hadi Saleh	HSE University
Dr. Noelia Sánchez-Marono	CITIC-University of A Coruña (UDC)
Prof. Marcello Sanguineti	University of Genova
Dr. Wilhelm Daniel Scherz	HTWG Konstanz - University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Prof. Ralf Seepold	HTWG Konstanz and Sechenov University
Dr. Gaetano Settembre	Università degli Studi di Bari “Aldo Moro”, Bari, Italy
Dr. Leslie F. Sikos	Edith Cowan University, Australia
Dr. Milan Simic	SAMME RMIT University
Mr Bharat Singh	Data Scientist Big Data Labs
Dr. Letycja Sołoducho-Pelc	Wroclaw University of Business and Economics
Dr. Hanna Soroka-Potrzebna	University of Szczecin
Prof. Petar Spalević	Universidad de la Sabána
Prof. Roman Šperka	Silesian University in Opava
Dr. Maria Spichkova	RMIT University, School of Science
Dr. Urszula Stańczyk	Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice
Dr. Margarita Stankova	New Bulgarian University
Assoc. Prof. Catalin Stoean	University of Craiova
Assoc. Prof. Ruxandra Stoean	University of Craiova
Prof. Toshiharu Sugawara	Waseda University
Prof. Adam Sulich	Wroclaw University of Economics and Business
Dr. Piotr Szczuko	Multimedia Systems Department, Gdańsk University of Technology
Prof. Eulalia Szmidt	Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
Prof. Masakazu Takahashi	University of Yamaguchi
Prof. Hironori Takeuchi	Musashi University
Prof. Shing Chiang Tan	Faculty of Information Science and Technology,Multimedia University
Prof. Edmondo Trentin	University of Siena
Prof. Kazuhiko Tsuda	The University of Tsukuba,Tokyo
Prof. Eiji Uchino	Yamaguchi University
Prof. Hiroshi Ueda	Hosei University
Asst. Prof. Hiroyasu Usami	Chubu University, Japan
Prof. Taketoshi Ushiama	Kyushu University
Prof. Florin Mircea Vaida	Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
Prof. Jordi Vallverdu	Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Prof. Juan D. Velasquez Silva	University of Chile
Prof. Zeev Volkovich	ORT Braude College Karmiel
Prof. Junzo Watada	Waseda University
Dr. Paweł Weichbroth	Gdansk University of Technology
Prof. Yoshiyuki Yabuuchi	Shimonoseki City University
Prof. Ryosuke Yamanishi	Kansai University, Japan
Prof. Ching-Nung Yang	National DOng Hwa University, Taiwan
Prof. Ivona Zakarija	University of Dubrovnik, Croatia
Dr. Beata Zielosko	University of Silesia in Katowice, Institute of Computer Science