Committees

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General Chairman

• M. Sugisaka (Nippon Bunri University and ALife Robotics Co., Ltd., Japan)

Vice-Chairman

• J.L. Casti (Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria)
• Y. Jia (Beihang University, P. R. China)
• J.J. Lee (KAIST, Korea)
• H.H. Lund (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)
• H. Tanaka (Tokyo Medical & Dental University, Japan)

Advisory Committee Chairman

• F. Harashima (Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan)

Program Chairman

• H. Tanaka (Tokyo Medical & Dental University, Japan)

Assistant General Chair

• T. Ito (Ube National College of Technology, Japan)

Advisory Committee

• B. Eisenstein (Drexel University, Former IEEE President, USA)
• R. Fischl (Drexel University, USA)
• T. Fukuda (Nagoya University, Japan)
• F. Harashima (Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan)
• P. Kalata (Drexel University, USA)
• M. Kam (Drexel University, IEEE President, USA)
• H. Kimura (RIKEN, Japan)
• P. Oh (Drexel University, USA)
• M. Tomizuka (University of California Berkeley, USA)
• Y.G. Zhang (Academia Sinica, P. R. China)

International Organizing Committee

• H. Abbass (University of New South Wales, Australia)
• K. Aihara (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
• C. Barrett (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)
• M. Bedau (Reed College, USA)
• M. Eaton (University of Limerick, Ireland)
• J.M. Epstein (The Brookings Institution, USA)
• A. Grzech (Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland)
• H. Hashimoto (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
• D.J.G. James (Coventry University, UK)
• K. Kyuma (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan)
• M.H. Lee (Pusan National University, Korea)
• M. Nakamura (Research Institute of Systems Control, Japan, Japan)
• M. Oswald (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
• S. Rasmussen (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)
• T.S. Ray (University of Oklahoma, USA)
• K. Shimohara (Doshisha University, Japan)
• C. Taylor (University of California-Los Angeles, USA)
• J. Wang (Beijing Jiaotong University, P. R. China)
• C. Zhang (Tsinghua University, P. R. China)

International Program Committee

• T. Arita (Nagoya University, Japan)
• R. Belew (University of California-San Diego, USA)
• S-M. Chen (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan)
• Y.I. Cho (The University of Suwon, Korea)
• M. Chow (North Carolina State University, USA)
• Y.Y. Fan (University of California-Davis, USA)
• T. Fuchida (Kagoshima University, Japan)
• H. Hamdan (SUPELEC, France)
• S.H. Han (Kyungnam University, Korea)
• N. Homma (Tohoku University, Japan)
• Y. Ishida (Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan)
• S. Ishikawa (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
• T. Iwamoto (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Advanced Technology R&D Center, Japan)
• J. Johnson (The Open University, UK)
• H. Kinjyo (University of the Ryukyus, Japan)
• M. Kono (University of Miyazaki, Japan)
• K. Kurashige (Muroran Institute Technology, Japan)
• H.H. Lee (Waseda University, Japan)
• J.M. Lee (Pusan National University, Korea)
• K.J. Mackin (Tokyo University of Information Sciences, Japan)
• K. Merrick (University of New South Wales and ADFA, Australia)
• C. Mi (University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA)
• J. Murata (Kyushu University, Japan)
• K. Nakano (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
• K. Naitoh (Waseda University, Japan)
• W. Nistico (University of Dortmund, Germany)
• N. Okada (Kyushu University, Japan)
• S. Omatu (Osaka Institute of Technology, Japan)
• H. Oogai (Waseda University, Japan)
• L. Pagliarini (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)
• R. Pfeifer (University of Zurich-Irchel, Switzerland)
• M. Rozailan (TATi University College, Malaysia)
• S. Sagara (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
• P. Sapaty (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine)
• J.Y. Sim (Kangnam University, Korea)
• M. Svinin (Kyushu University, Japan)
• K. Sugawara (Tohoku Gakuin University, Japan)
• H. Suzuki (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
• I. Tanev (Doshisha University, Japan)
• T. Tsuji (Hiroshima University, Japan)
• H. Umeo (Osaka Electro-Communication University, Japan)
• K. Uosaki (Fukui University of Technology, Japan)
• K. Watanabe (Okayama University, Japan)
• H. Yanagimoto (Osaka Prefecture University, Japan)
• I. Yoshihara (University of Miyazaki, Japan)
• M. Yokota (Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan)
• Y. Yu (Kagoshima University, Japan)
• T. Zhang (Tsinghua University, P. R. China)

Local Arrangement Committee

• F. Dai (Tianjin University of Science & Technology, P. R. China)
• Z. Ibrahim (TATi University College, Malaysia)
• M. Rizon (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia)
• S. Sagara (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
• M. Sugisaka (Nippon Bunri University and ALife Robotics Co., Ltd., Japan) (Chair)
• J. Wang (Beijing Jiaotong University, P. R. China)
• H. Zhao (Shanghai Institute of Technology, P. R. China)