Program Committee

MOD 2017 Program Committee  (Confirmed)

Agostinho Agra Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Kerem Akartunali University of Strathclyde, UK
Richard Allmendinger The University of Manchester, UK
Aris Anagnostopoulos Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Italy
Davide Anguita University of Genova, Italy
Takaya Arita Nagoya University,  Japan
Jason Atkin The University of Nottingham, UK
Chloe-Agathe Azencott Institut Curie Research Centre, Paris, France
Jaume Bacardit Newcastle University, UK
James Bailey University of Melbourne, Australia
Baski Balasundaram Oklahoma State University, USA
Elena Baralis Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Xabier E. Barandiaran University of the Basque Country, Spain
Cristobal Barba-Gonzalez University of Malaga, Spain
Helio J.C. Barbosa Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica, Brasil
Roberto Battiti University of Trento, Italy
Lucia Beccai Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy
Aurélien Bellet Inria Lille, France
Gerardo Beni University of California at Riverside, USA
Khaled Benkrid The University of Edinburgh, UK
Peter Bentley University College London, UK
Katie Bentley Harvard Medical School, USA
Heder Bernardino Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brasil
Daniel Berrar Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Adam Berry CSIRO, Australia
Luc Berthouze University of Sussex, UK
Martin Berzins SCI Institute, University of Utah, USA
Mauro Birattari IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Leonidas Bleris University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Christian Blum Spanish National Research Council, Spain
Paul Bourgine École Polytechnique Paris, France
Anthony Brabazon University College Dublin, Ireland
Paulo Branco Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Juergen Branke University of Warwick, UK
Larry Bull University of the West of England, UK
Tadeusz Burczynski Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Robert Busa-Fekete Yahoo! Research, NY, USA
Sergiy I Butenko Texas A&M University, USA
Stefano Cagnoni University of Parma, Italy
Yizhi Cai University of Edinburgh, UK
Guido Caldarelli IMT Lucca, Italy
Alexandre Campo Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Angelo Cangelosi University of Plymouth, UK
Salvador Eugenio Caoili University of the Philippines Manila, Philippines
Timoteo Carletti University of Namur, Belgium
Jonathan Carlson Microsoft Research, USA
Celso Carneiro Ribeiro Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brasil
Michelangelo Ceci University of Bari, Italy
Adelaide Cerveira Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
Uday Chakraborty University of Missouri – St. Louis, USA
Xu Chang University of Sydney, Australia
W. Art Chaovalitwongse University of Washington, USA
Antonio Chella Università di Palermo, Italy
Ying-Ping Chen National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Haifeng Chen NEC Labs, USA
Keke Chen Wright State University, USA
Gregory Chirikjian Johns Hopkins University, USA
Silvia Chiusano Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Miroslav Chlebik University of Sussex, UK
Sung-Bae Cho Yonsei University, South Korea
Anders Christensen Lisbon University Institute, Portugal
Dominique Chu University of Kent, UK
Philippe Codognet University Pierre & Marie Curie – Paris 6, France
Carlos Coello Coello CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico
George Coghill University of Aberdeen, UK
Pietro Colombo University of Insubria, Italy
David Cornforth University of Newcastle, UK
Luís Correia University of Lisbon, Portugal
Chiara Damiani University of Milan Bicocca, Italy
Thomas Dandekar University of Wuerzburg, Germany
Ivan Luciano Danesi Unicredit Bank, Italy
Christian Darabos Dartmouth College, USA
Kalyanmoy Deb Michigan State University, USA
Nicoletta Del Buono University of Bari, Italy
Jordi Delgado Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Ralf Der MPG, Germany
Clarisse Dhaenens Université Lille, France
Barbara Di Camillo University of Padova, Italy
Gianni Di Caro IDSIA, Switzerland
Luigi Di Caro University of Torino, Italy
Luca Di Gaspero University of Udine, Italy
Peter Dittrich Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
Federico Divina Pablo de Olavide University of Seville, Spain
Stephan Doerfel Kassel University, Germany
Devdatt Dubhashi Chalmers University, Sweden
George Dulikravich Florida International University, USA
Juan J. Durillo University of Innsbruck, Austria
Omer Dushek University of Oxford, UK
Marc Ebner Ernst Moritz Arndt Universität Greifswald, Germany
Pascale Ehrenfreund The George Washington University, USA
Gusz Eiben VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Aniko Ekart Aston University, UK
Talbi El-Ghazali University of Lille, France
Michael Elberfeld RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Michael T.M. Emmerich Leiden University, The Netherlands
Andries Engelbrecht University of Pretoria, South Africa
Anton Eremeev Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Russia
Harold Fellermann Newcastle University, UK
Chrisantha Fernando Queen Mary University, UK
Cèsar Ferri Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
Paola Festa University of Napoli FEDERICO II, Italy
José Rui Figueira Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal
Grazziela Figueredo The University of Nottingham, UK
Alessandro Filisetti Explora Biotech Srl, Italy
Christoph Flamm University of Vienna, Austria
Enrico Formenti Nice Sophia Antipolis University, France
Giuditta Franco University of Verona, Italy
Piero Fraternali Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Valerio Freschi University of Urbino, Italy
Enrique Frias Martinez Telefonica Research, Spain
Walter Frisch University of Vienna, Austria
Rudolf M. Füchslin Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
Claudio Gallicchio University of Pisa, Italy
Patrick Gallinari LIP6 – University of Paris 6, France
Luca Gambardella IDSIA, Switzerland
Jean-Gabriel Ganascia Pierre and Marie Curie University – LIP6, France
Xavier Gandibleux Université de Nantes, France
Alfredo García Hernández-Díaz Pablo de Olvide University (Seville), Spain
José Manuel García Nieto University of Málaga, Spain
Paolo Garza Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Romaric Gaudel INRIA, France
Nicholas Geard University of Melbourne, Australia
Philip Gerlee Chalmers University, Sweden
Mario Giacobini University of Torino, Italy
Onofrio Gigliotta University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Giovanni Giuffrida University of Catania, Italy
Giorgio Stefano Gnecco University of Genova, Italy
Christian Gogu Université Toulouse III, France
Faustino Gomez IDSIA, Switzerland
Michael Granitzer University of Passau, Germany
Alex Graudenzi University of Milan – Bicocca, Italy
Julie Greensmith University of Nottingham, UK
Roderich Gross The University of Sheffield, UK
Mario Guarracino ICAR-CNR, Italy
Francesco Gullo Unicredit Bank, Italy
Steven Gustafson GE Global Research, USA
Jin-Kao Hao University of Angers, France
Simon Harding Machine Intelligence Ltd, Canada
Richard Hartl University of Vienna, Austria
Inman Harvey University of Sussex
Jamil Hasan University of Idaho, USA
Mohammad Hasan Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis, USA
Geir Hasle SINTEF ICT, Norway
Carlos Henggeler Antunes University of Coimbra, Portugal
Francisco Herrera University of Granada, Spain
Arjen Hommersom Radboud University, The Netherlands
Vasant Honavar Pennsylvania State University, USA
Fabrice Huet Univ. Nice Sophia Antipolis, France
Hiroyuki Iizuka Hokkaido University, Japan
Takashi Ikegami University of Tokyo, Japan
Bordino Ilaria Unicredit Bank, Italy
Hisao Ishibuchi Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
Peter Jacko Lancaster University Management School, UK
Christian Jacob University of Calgary, Canada
Yaochu Jin University of Surrey, UK
Colin Johnson University of Kent, UK
Gareth Jones Dublin City University, Ireland
Laetitia Jourdan INRIA/LIFL/CNRS, France
Narendra Jussien Ecole des Mines de Nantes/LINA, France
Janusz Kacprzyk Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Theodore Kalamboukis Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
George Kampis Eotvos University, Hungary
Dervis Karaboga Erciyes University, Turkey
George Karakostas McMaster University, Canada
Istvan Karsai ETSU, USA
Jozef Kelemen Silesian University, Czech Republic
Graham Kendall Nottingham University, UK
Didier Keymeulen NASA – Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
Daeeun Kim Yonsei University, South Korea
Zeynep Kiziltan University of Bologna, Italy
Georg Krempl University of Magdeburg, Germany
Erhun Kundakcioglu Ozyegin University, Turkey
Renaud Lambiotte University of Namur, Belgium
Doron Lancet Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Pier Luca Lanzi Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Sanja Lazarova-Molnar University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Doheon Lee KAIST, South Korea
Jay Lee Center for Intelligent Maintenance Systems – UC, USA
Eva K Lee Georgia Tech, USA
Tom Lenaerts Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Rafael Leon Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Shuai Li Cambridge University, UK
Lei Li Florida International University, USA
Xiaodong Li RMIT University, Australia
Joseph Lizier The University of Sydney, Australia
Giosue’ Lo Bosco Universita’ di Palermo, Italy
Daniel Lobo University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
Fernando Lobo University of Algarve, Portugal
Daniele Loiacono Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Jose A. Lozano University of the Basque Country, Spain
Paul Lu University of Alberta, Canada
Angelo Lucia University of Rhode Island, USA
Dario Maggiorini University of Milano, Italy
Gilvan Maia Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brasil
Donato Malerba University of Bari, Italy
Lina Mallozzi University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Jacek Mańdziuk Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Vittorio Maniezzo University of Bologna, Italy
Marco Maratea University of Genova, Italy
Elena Marchiori Radboud University, The Netherlands
Tiziana Margaria University of Limerick and Lero, Ireland
Omer Markovitch University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Carlos Martin-Vide Rovira i Virgili University, Spain
Dominique Martinez LORIA, France
Matteo Matteucci Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Giancarlo Mauri University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Mirjana Mazuran Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Suzanne McIntosh NYU Courant Institute, and Cloudera Inc., USA
Peter Mcowan Queen Mary University, UK
Gabor Melli Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc, Japan
Jose Fernando Mendes University of Aveiro, Portugal
David Merodio-Codinachs ESA, France
Silja Meyer-Nieberg Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany
Martin Middendorf University of Leipzig, Germany
Taneli Mielikäinen Nokia, Finland
Kaisa Miettinen University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Orazio Miglino University of Naples “Federico II”, Italy
Julian Miller University of York, UK
Marco Mirolli ISTC-CNR, Italy
Natasa Miskov-Zivanov University of Pittsburgh, USA
Carmen Molina-Paris University of Leeds, UK
Sara Montagna Università di Bologna, Italy
Marco Montes de Oca Clypd, Inc. USA
Sanaz Mostaghim Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
Mohamed Nadif University Paris Descartes, France
Hidemoto Nakada National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
Amir Nakib Université Paris EST Créteil, Laboratoire LISSI, France
Mirco Nanni CNR – ISTI, Italy
Sriraam Natarajan Indiana University, USA
Chrystopher L. Nehaniv University of Hertfordshire, UK
Michael Newell Athens Consulting, LLC
Giuseppe Nicosia University of Catania, Italy
Xia Ning IUPUI, USA
Wieslaw Nowak N.Copernicus University, Poland
Eirini Ntoutsi Leibniz University of Hanove, Germany
Michal Or-Guil Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
Mathias Pacher Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Ping-Feng Pai National Chi Nan University, Taiwan
Wei Pang University of Aberdeen, UK
George Papastefanatos IMIS / RC “Athena”, Greece
Luís Paquete University of Coimbra, Portugal
Panos Pardalos University of Florida, USA
Andrew J Parkes Nottingham University, UK
Andrea Patane’ University of Oxford, UK
Joshua Payne University of Zurich
Jun Pei University of Florida, USA
Nikos Pelekis University of Piraeus, Greece
Dimitri Perrin Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Koumoutsakos Petros ETH, Switzerland
Juan Peypouquet Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile
Andrew Philippides University of Sussex, UK
Vincenzo Piuri University of Milano, Italy
Alessio Plebe University Messina, Italy
Silvia Poles Noesis Solutions NV
Philippe Preux INRIA, France
Mikhail Prokopenko University of Sydney, Australia
Paolo Provero University of Torino, Italy
Buyue Qian IBM T. J. Watson, USA
Chao Qian University of Science and Technology of China, China
Günther Raidl TU Wien, Austria
Helena Ramalhinho Dias Lourenco University Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Palaniappan Ramaswamy University of Kent, UK
Jan Ramon INRIA, France
Vitorino Ramos Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
Shoba Ranganathan Macquarie University, Australia
Cristina Requejo Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
John Rieffel Union College, USA
Laura Anna Ripamonti Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Eduardo Rodriguez-Tello Cinvestav-Tamaulipas, Mexico
Andrea Roli Università di Bologna, Italy
Vittorio Romano University of Catania, Italy
Andre Rosendo University of Cambridge, UK
Samuel Rota Bulò Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Arnab Roy Fujitsu Laboratories of America, USA
Alessandro Rozza Parthenope University of Naples, Italy
Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo University of the Basque Country, Spain
Florin Rusu University of California Merced, USA
Jakub Rydzewski N. Copernicus University, Poland
Nick Sahinidis Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Lorenza Saitta University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy
Francisco C. Santos INESC-ID and Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa Portugal
Claudio Sartori University of Bologna, Italy
Fréderic Saubion Université d’Angers, France
Andrea Schaerf University of Udine, Italy
Oliver Schuetze CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico
Luís Seabra Lopes Universidade of Aveiro, Portugal
Roberto Serra University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Marc Sevaux Lab-STICC, Université de Bretagne-Sud, France
Ruey-Lin Sheu National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Hsu-Shih Shih Tamkang University, Taiwan
Patrick Siarry Universit de Paris 12, France
Alkis Simitsis HP Labs, USA
Johannes Söllner Emergentec Biodevelopment GmbH, Germany
Ichoua Soumia Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, USA
Giandomenico Spezzano CNR-ICAR, Italy
Antoine Spicher LACL University Paris Est Creteil, France
Pasquale Stano University of Salento, Italy
Thomas Stibor GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, Germany
Catalin Stoean University of Craiova, Romania
Reiji Suzuki Nagoya University, Japan
Domenico Talia University of Calabria, Italy
Kay Chen Tan National University of Singapore, Singapore
Letizia Tanca Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Charles Taylor UCLA, USA
Maguelonne Teisseire Cemagref – UMR Tetis, France
Tzouramanis Theodoros University of the Aegean, Greece
Jon Timmis University of York, UK
Gianna Toffolo University of Padova, UK
Joo Chuan Tong Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore
Nickolay Trendafilov Open University, UK
Soichiro Tsuda University of Glasgow, UK
Shigeyoshi Tsutsui Hannan University, Japan
Aditya Tulsyan MIT, USA
Ali Emre Turgut IRIDIA-ULB, France
Karl Tuyls University of Liverpool, UK
Jon Umerez University of the Basque Country, Spain
Renato Umeton Harvard University, USA
Ashish Umre University of Sussex, UK
Olgierd Unold Politechnika Wrocławska, Poland
Giorgio Valentini Universita’ degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Edgar Vallejo ITESM Campus Estado de Mexico, Mexico
Sergi Valverde University Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Werner Van Geit EPFL, Switzerland
Pascal Van Hentenryck University of Michigan, USA
Ana Lucia Varbanescu University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Carlos Varela Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Eleni Vasilaki University of Sheffield, UK
Richard Vaughan Simon Fraser University, Canada
Kalyan Veeramachaneni MIT, USA
Vassilios Verykios Hellenic Open University, Greece
Mario Villalobos-Arias Univesidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica
Marco Villani University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Katya Vladislavleva Evolved Analytics LLC, Belbium
Stefan Voss University of Hamburg, Germany
Dean Vucinic Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Markus Wagner The University of Adelaide, Australia
Toby Walsh UNSW Sydney, Australia
Lipo Wang Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Liqiang Wang University of Central Florida, USA
Rainer Wansch Fraunhofer IIS, Germany
Syed Waziruddin Kansas State University, USA
Janet Wiles University of Queensland, Australia
Man Leung Wong Lingnan University, Hong Kong
Andrew Wuensche University of Sussex, UK
Petros Xanthopoulos University of Central Florida, USA
Ning Xiong Mälardalen University, Sweden
Xin Xu George Washington University, USA
Gur Yaari Yale University, Usa
Larry Yaeger Indiana University, USA
Shengxiang Yang De Montfort University, USA
Qi Yu Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
Zelda Zabinsky University of Washington, USA
Ras Zbyszek University of North Carolina, USA
Hector Zenil University of Oxford, UK
Guang Lan Zhang Boston University, USA
Qingfu Zhang City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Rui Zhang IBM Research – Almaden, USA
Zhi-Hua Zhou Nanjing University, China
Tom Ziemke Linköping University, Sweden
Antanas Zilinskas Vilnius University, Lithuania