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KES2023 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.


KES2023 IPC Members

Name Affiliation
Prof. Akinori Abe Chiba University, Japan 
Dr. Jair Minoro Abe Paulista University, Brazil 
Prof. Yoshinori Adachi Chubu University, Japan 
Prof. Imran Ahmed Anglia Ruskin University, UK 
Prof. Lenuta Alboaie Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Romania 
Prof. Masayoshi Aritsugi Kumamoto University, Japan 
Prof. Piotr Artiemjew University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland 
Prof. Ahmad Taher Azar Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia 
Prof. Hajer Baazaoui ETIS Laboratory, France 
Dr. Malgorzata Bach Silesian University of Technology, Poland 
Dr. Mohamed Anis Bach-Tobji University of Manouba, Tunisia 
Prof. Valentina Balas Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania 
Prof. Andrzej Banaszek West Pomeranian University of Technology, Poland 
Prof. Zbigniew Banaszak Koszalin University of Technology, Poland 
Prof. Dariusz Barbucha Gdynia Maritime University, Poland 
Prof. Dana Barry Clarkson University, USA 
Assoc. Prof. Smaranda Belciug University of Craiova, Romania 
Dr. Sana Ben Abdallah Ben Lamine University of Manouba, Tunisia 
Dr. Safa Ben Ayed CESI-LINEACT, France 
Dr. Mohamed Bennasar The Open University 
Prof. Monica Bianchini Università degli Studi di Siena, Italy 
Dr. Mihai Boicu George Mason University, USA 
Prof. Alfonso Mateos Caballero Universidad Politécnica de Madrid 
Assoc. Prof. Frantisek Capkovic Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia 
Prof. Giovanna Castellano University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy 
Assist. Prof. Jyotir Moy Chatterjee Asia Pacific University of Technology & Innovation, Malaysia 
Prof. Katarzyna Cheba West Pomeranian University of Technology, Poland 
Prof. Abdellah Chehri Royal Military College of Canada 
Prof. Mu-Song Chen Da-Yeh University, Taiwan 
Dr. Shing Chiang Tan Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Multimedia University 
Prof. Stelvio Cimato Università degli studi di Milano, Italy 
Dr. Kevin Cohen University of Colorado School of Medicine, USA 
Prof. Massimo Conti Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy 
Prof. Paulo Cortez University of Minho, Portugal 
Prof. Paolo Crippa Universita Politecnica delle Marche, Italy 
Dr. Gloria Cerasela Crisan Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacau, Romania 
Prof. Matteo Cristani University of Verona, Italy 
Prof. Ireneusz Czarnowski Gdynia Maritime University, Poland 
Dr. Robert Deaves Dyson, UK 
Dr. Rafal Deja WSB University, Poland 
Prof. Mariusz Doszyń University of Szczecin, Poland 
Prof. Dražen Drašković University of Belgrade, Serbia 
Assist. Prof. Krzysztof Ejsmont Warsaw University of Technology, Poland 
Dr. Laura Falaschetti Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy 
Prof. Margarita N. Favorskaya Reshetnev Siberian State University of Science and Technology, Russia 
Prof. Marcin Fojcik Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway 
Dr. Marwan Fuad Coventry University, UK 
Prof. Marina Gavrilova University of Calgary, Canada 
Dr. Daniela Gifu Romanian Academy - Iasi Branch & Al. I. Cuza University, Romania 
Dr. Franco Giustozzi University of Strasbourg, France 
Dr. Sebastian Gnat University of Szczecin, Poland 
Dr. Wieslawa Gryncewicz Wroclaw University of Economics and Business, Poland 
Assoc. Prof. Tadeusz A. Grzeszczyk Warsaw University of Technology, Poland 
Prof. Natacha Gueorguieva City University of New York, USA 
Assoc. Prof. Nobukuni Hamamoto Gunma University 
Prof. Katarzyna Harezlak Silesian University of Technology 
Prof. Ralf-Christian Haerting University of Aalen, Germany 
Dr. Nehal Hasnine Hosei University 
Prof. Petr Hajek University of Pardubice, Czechia 
Prof. Anne Hakansson UiT The Arctic University of Norway 
Prof. Tarek Hamrouni LIPAH, Tunisia 
Assoc. Prof. Hisashi Hatakeyama Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan 
Prof. Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis University of Patras, Greece 
Dr. Teruaki Hayashi The University of Tokyo, Japan 
Prof. Atsuo Hazeyama Tokyo Gakugei University, Japan 
Prof. Marcin Hernes Wroclaw University of Economics and Business, Poland 
Dr. Dawn Holmes University of California Santa Barbara, USA 
Prof. Katsuhiro Honda Osaka Metropolitan University, Japan 
Assoc. Prof. Daocheng Hong East China Normal University, China 
Prof. Tzung-Pei Hong National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan 
Prof. Wei-Chiang Hong Asia Eastern University of Science and Technology, Taiwan 
Dr. Jun Steed Huang Carleton University, Canada 
Prof. Ryutaro Ichise Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan 
Assoc. Prof. Adrian Iftene Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania 
Dr. Anca Ignat University Alexandru Ioan Cuza of Iași, Romania 
Dr. Wissem Inoubli LORIA, France 
Prof. Nobuhiro Inuzuka Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan 
Prof. Radu Tudor Ionescu University of Bucharest, Romania 
Prof. Mirjana Ivanovic University of Novi Sad, Serbia 
Prof. Yuji Iwahori Chubu University, Japan 
Assoc. Prof. Maya Iwano Yamaguchi University, Japan 
Dr. Shikha Jain Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida, India 
Prof. Krzysztof Janasz University of Szczecin, Poland 
Assoc. Prof. Arkadiusz Januszewski Bydgoszcz University of Science and Technology, Poland 
Dr. Elzbieta Jaworska West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, Poland 
Prof. Dragan Jevtic University of Zagreb, Croatia 
Prof. Vladimir Jotsov The University of Library Studies and Information Technologies, Bulgaria 
Dr. Przemysław Juszczuk Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland 
Dr. Marta Kadłubek Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland 
Prof. Haruhiko Kaiya Kanagawa University, Japan 
Assoc. Prof. Anne-Lena Kampen Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway 
Prof. Hideyuki Kanematsu National Institute of Technology, Suzuka College, Japan 
Assoc. Prof. Eiji Kano Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan 
Prof. Nikos Karacapilidis University of Patras, Greece 
Prof. M. Hedi Karray ENIT, France 
Assoc. Prof Pawel Kasprowski Silesian University of Technology, Poland 
Assist. Prof. Abhirup Khanna University of Petroleum & Energy Studies (UPES), India 
Dr. Nozomi Komiya Chiba University of Commerce, Japan 
Prof. Jaroslaw Korpysa University of Szczecin, Poland 
Dr. Daniel Kostrzewa Silesian University of Technology, Poland 
Prof. Adrianna Kozierkiewicz Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland 
Prof. Dalia Kriksciuniene Vilnius University, Lithuania 
Dr. Jaroslaw Kujawski University of Gdansk, Poland 
Assoc. Prof. Konrad Kułakowski AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland 
Prof. Mario Kusek University of Zagreb, Croatia 
Prof. Kazuhiro Kuwabara Ritsumeikan University, Japan 
Prof. Giorgio Leonardi Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italy 
Prof. Chee Peng Lim Deakin University, Australia 
Prof. Jie Lu University of Technology Sydney, Australia 
Dr. Edwin Lughofer Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria 
Prof. Ivan Lukovic University of Belgrade, Serbia 
Dr. Josu Maiora University of The Basque Country, Spain 
Prof. Sebastian Majewski University of Szczecin, Poland 
Prof. Eleni Mangina University College Dublin, Ireland 
Prof. Lorenzo Magnani Department of Humanities , Philosophy Section and Computational Philosophy Laboratory University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy (Ret.) 
Prof. Natividad Martinez Madrid Reutlingen University, Germany 
Prof. Fabrizio Marozzo University of Calabria, Italy 
Prof. Riccardo Martoglia University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy 
Dr. Maroua Masmoudi CyTech, Pau, FRANCE 
Prof. Yoshimasa Masuda Carnegie Mellon University, USA / Tokyo University of Science, Keio University, Japan 
Prof. Mitsunori Matsushita Kansai University, Japan 
Assoc. Prof. Jacek Matulewski Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland 
Prof. Manuel Mazzara Innopolis University, Russia 
Dr. Rafael Milani Medeiros HafenCity University Hamburg, Germany 
Prof. Lin Meng Ritsumeikan University, Japan 
Dr. Francesco Mercaldo University of Molise and IIT-CNR, Italy 
Prof. Lyudmila Mihaylova University of Sheffield, UK 
Prof. Patrick Mikalef Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway 
Prof. Victor Mitrana University of Bucharest, Romania 
Dr. Hiroyuki Mitsuhara Tokushima University, Japan 
Prof. Stefania Montani University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy 
Prof. Philip Morgan Cardiff University, UK 
Prof. Mikhail Moshkov King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia 
Prof. Michal Munk Constantine the Philosopher University, Slovakia 
Prof. Kayoko H. Murakami Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan 
Dr. Karolina Muszyńska University of Szczecin, Poland 
Prof. Shin'ya Nagasawa Waseda University, Japan 
Assoc. Prof. Katsuko T. Nakahira Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan 
Prof. Satoshi Nakamura Meiji University, Japan 
Prof. Yoko Nishihara Ritsumeikan University, Japan 
Prof. Kazunori Nishino Taisei Gakuin University, Japan 
Dr. Nikola Obrenovic University of Novi Sad, Serbia 
Prof. Piotr NikoÅ„czuk West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, Faculty of Maritime Technology and Transport 
Prof. Andrzej Obuchowicz University of Zielona Góra, Poland 
Prof. Nobuyuki Ogawa National Institute of Technology, Gifu College, Japan 
Prof. Mieczyslaw Owoc Wroclaw University of Economics and Business, Poland 
Dr. Michael S. Packianather Cardiff University, UK 
Dr. Wieslaw Paja University of Rzeszow, Poland 
Assoc. Prof. Krzysztof Pancerz Academy of Zamosc, Poland 
Prof. Marcin Paprzycki Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland 
Dr. Ilona Pawełoszek Częstochowa University of Technology, Poland 
Prof. Andrzej Perec The Jacob of Paradies University, Poland 
Prof. Isidoros Perikos University of Patras, Greece 
Prof. Petra Perner Institute of Computer Vision and Applied Computer Sciences, Germany 
Prof. Vincenzo Piuri University of Milan, Italy 
Prof. Ana Poledica University of Belgrade, Serbia 
Assoc. Prof. Maciej Pondel Wroclaw University of Economics and Business, Poland 
Prof. Oliver Popov Stockholm University, Sweden 
Prof. Malgorzata Porada-Rochon University of Szczecin, Poland 
Prof. Jim Prentzas Democritus University of Thrace, Greece 
Assoc. Prof. Małgorzata Przybyła-Kasperek University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland 
Dr. Paula Pypłacz Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland 
Dr. Aleksandra Radomska-Zalas The Jacob of Paradies University, Poland 
Assoc. Prof. Dzati Athiar Ramli Universiti Sains Malaysia 
Dr. Ewa Ratajczak-Ropel Gdynia Maritime University, Poland 
Dr. Christoph Rathfelder Hahn-Schickard, Germany 
Prof. Christoph Reich Furtwangen University, Germany 
Prof. Ana Respício University of Lisbon, Portugal 
Dr. Gerasimos Rigatos Industrial Systems Institute, Greece 
Prof. Sonja Ristic University of Novi Sad, Serbia 
Prof. Francois Rivest Royal Military College of Canada 
Dr. Fernando Roda CIFASIS, Argentina 
Assoc. Prof. Artur Rot Wroclaw University of Economics and Business, Poland 
Prof. Iga Rudawska University of Szczecin, Poland 
Dr. Aya Saad SINTEF Ocean AS 
Prof. Jose Hiroki Saito UNIFACCAMP, Brazil 
Dr. Hadi Saleh HSE University, Russia 
Dr. Ahmed Samet INSA Strasbourg, France 
Prof. Marcello Sanguineti University of Genova, Italy 
Assoc. Prof. Cesar Sanin University of Newcastle, Australia 
Prof. Virgilijus Sakalauskas Vilnius University, Lithuania 
Dr. Mika Sato-Ilic University of Tsukuba, Japan 
Prof. Gordana Savić University of Belgrade, Serbia 
Dr. Milos Savic University of Novi Sad, Serbia 
Prof. Rainer Schmidt Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany 
Prof. Ralf Seepold HTWG Konstanz, Germany 
Dr. Hirosato Seki Osaka University, Japan 
Prof. Rossi Setchi Cardiff University, UK 
Dr. Chih-Hung Shih Central Police University, Taiwan 
Dr. Umar Shoaib University of Gujrat, Pakistan 
Dr. Leslie Sikos Edith Cowan University, Australia 
Mr. Bharat Singh Big Data Labs, Germany 
Dr. Swapnil Singh Banaras Hindu University, India 
Dr. Aleksander Skakovski Gdynia Maritime University, Poland 
Dr. Rafał Skinderowicz University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland 
Prof. Velina Slavova New Bulgarian University, Bulgaria 
Prof. Klaudia Smoląg Częstochowa University of Technology, Poland 
Dr. Letycja Soloducho-Pelc Wroclaw University of Business and Economics, Poland 
Prof. Michael Soltys California State University, USA 
Dr. Hanna Soroka-Potrzebna University of Szczecin, Poland 
Prof. Roman Sperka Silesian University in Opava, Czechia 
Dr. Maria Spichkova RMIT University, Australia 
Dr. Urszula Stańczyk Silesian University of Technology, Poland 
Dr. Ewa Staniewska Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland 
Assoc. Prof. Catalin Stoean University of Craiova, Romania 
Dr. Ruxandra Stoean University of Craiova, Romania 
Prof. Toshiharu Sugawara Waseda University, Japan 
Prof. Adam Sulich Wroclaw University of Economics and Business, Poland 
Assoc. Prof. Hiroya Suno Hosei University, Japan 
Prof. Nobuo Suzuki Kindai University, Japan 
Dr. Jakub Swacha University of Szczecin, Poland 
Prof. Edward Szczerbicki University of Newcastle, Australia 
Prof. Eulalia Szmidt Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland 
Prof. Katarzyna Szopik-Depczyńska University of Szczecin, Poland 
Dr. Sarosh Tahir National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan 
Prof. Masakazu Takahashi Yamaguchi University, Japan 
Prof. Hironori Takeuchi Musashi University, Japan 
Prof. Waldemar Tarczynski University of Szczecin, Poland 
Dr. Ng Theam Foo Universiti Sains Malaysia 
Dr. Masahiro Tokumitsu National Institute of Technology, Yonago College, Japan 
Prof. Martina Tomičić Furjan University of Zagreb, Croatia 
Dr. Carlos Toro VICOMTECH, Spain 
Prof. Ljiljana Trajkovic Simon Fraser University, Canada 
Prof. Edmondo Trentin University of Siena, Italy 
Prof. Kazuhiko Tsuda University of Tsukuba, Japan 
Dr. Yudai Tsujino Ritsumeikan University, Japan 
Prof. Blanka Tundys University of Szczecin, Poland 
Prof. Claudio Turchetti Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy 
Assoc. Prof. Angelina Tzacheva West Virginia University, USA 
Prof. Eiji Uchino Yamaguchi University, Japan 
Prof. Hiroshi Ueda Hosei University, Japan 
Prof. Taketoshi Ushiama Kyushu University, Japan 
Mr. Davide Varagnolo University of Évora, Portugal 
Prof. Juan D. Velásquez University of Chile, Chile 
Prof. Laurent Vercouter LITIS/INSA Rouen, France 
Dr. Laura Verde University of Studies of Campania ''L. Vanvitelli'', Italy 
Dr. Małgorzata Waszkiewicz Warsaw University of Technology, Poland 
Prof. Junzo Watada Waseda University, Japan 
Dr. Pawel Weichbroth Gdansk University of Technology 
Dr. Aleksandra Werner Silesian University of Technology, Poland 
Assoc. Prof. Agnieszka Wosiak Lodz University of Technology, Poland 
Assoc. Prof. Jingbo Xia Huazhong Agricultural University, China 
Prof. Yoshiyuki Yabuuchi Shimonoseki City University, Japan 
Prof. Kuniaki Yajima National Institute of Technology, Sendai College, Japan 
Assoc. Prof. Ryosuke Yamanishi Kansai University, Japan 
Dr. Atsuko K. Yamazaki Digital Hollywood University, Japan 
Prof. Kuo-Hui Yeh National Dong Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan 
Prof. Cecilia Zanni-Merk INSA Rouen Normandie, France 
Dr. Mahdi Zargayouna Université Gustave Eiffel, France 
Mgr. Tomasz Zema Wroclaw University of Business and Economics, Poland 
Dr. Yuankai Zhang Beihang University, China 
Dr. Beata Zielosko University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland 
Dr. Pawel Ziemba University of Szczecin, Poland 
Prof. Alfred Zimmermann Reutlingen University, Germany 
Prof. Sergey V. Zykov HSE University, Russia 
KES-2023

27th Annual
KES Conference
Athens, Greece
6-8 September 2023