NASTEC'2010, August 25-27, 2010, Digipen Institute of Technology, Redmond, USA, Conference Committee

General Conference Chair

Mokhtar Beldjehem, St.Anne's University, Nova Scotia, Canada

Local Conference Chair

TBA

Honorary Chairs

Professor Lotfi A. Zadeh, Berkeley University, CA, USA
Ronald Yager, Iona College, New Rochelle, USA
Madan M. Gupta, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Hojjat Adeli, The Ohio State University Columbus, OH, U.S.A.
I. Burhan Turksen, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

International Programme Committee

Ajith Abraham, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Hojjat Adelli, Ohio State University,Columbus, OH, USA
Esma Aimeur, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada
Troels Andreasen, Roskilde University,Roskilde, Denmark
Riad Assied, Petra University, Amman, Jordan
Bilal M. Ayyub, University of Maryland College Park, MD, USA
Mourad Badri, University of Quebec Trois-Rivieres, Canada
Linda Badri, University of Quebec Trois-Rivieres, Canada
Valentina Emilia Balas, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Arad, Romania
Marek Balazinski, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Montreal, Canada
Ildar Batyrshin, Kazan State Technological University, Kazan(Tatarstan), Russia
Nabil Belacel, National Research Council, New Brunswick, Canada
Mohamed Bettaz, INI/MESRS, Algiers, Algeria
Prabir Bhattacharya, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Loredana Biacino, Universita degli Studi di Salerno, Salerno, Italy
Ranjit Biswas, Institute of Technology & Management, Gurgaon, India
Ulrich Bodenhofer, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria
Piero P. Bonissone, General Electric, USA
Gloria Bordogna, Istito par le Technologie Informatche Multimediali, Milano, Italy
Patrick Bosc, ENSSAT, University of Rennes, France
Boubaker Boufama, University of Windsor, Windsor, Canada
Mounir Boukadoum, UQAM, Montreal, Canada
Ivan Bruha, McMaster University,Hamilton, Ont., Canada
Pascal Bruniaux, ENSAIT, Roubaix, France
Bill P. Buckles, University of North Texas, USA
Liberato Camilleri, University of Malta, Msida, Malta
Joao P. Carvalho,INESC-ID, Lisboa University,Lisboa, Portugal
Allaoua Chaoui, University of Constantine, Algeria
Guanrong (Ron) Chen, City University of Hong Kong, China
Agnieska Cichocka, Unvesity of Lodz, Poland
Alain Colmerauer, University of Aix-Marseille II, Marseille, France
Michel Dagenais, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Montreal, Canada
Mourad Debbabi, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Scot Dick, University of Alberta, Canada
Ibrahiem M. M. El Emary, King Abdulaziz University,Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Talbi El-Ghazali, Universite des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, Lille, France
Jinan Fiaidhi, Lakehead University, Canada
Christian Freksa, University of Bremen, Germany
Claude Frasson, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Canada
Adam Galuska, Silesian University of Technology, Poland
Gabriel Gerard, Universite de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada
Gianggiacomo Gerla, Universita degli Studi di Salerno, Salerno, Italy
Robert Godin, UQAM, Montreal, Canada
Peter Grogono, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Madan M. Gupta, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Abdelwahab Hamou-Lhadj, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Sami Harari, University of Toulon and the Var, Toulon, France
Yutaka Hata, University of Hyogo, Japan
Eyke Haellermeier, Philipps-Universitaet Marburg, Marburg, Germany
Ahmed Ibrahim, RCC Intitute of Technology, Concord(Toronto), Canada
Enso Ikonen, University of Oulu, Finland
Iqbal H. Jebril, King Faisal University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Yao JingTao University of Regina, Sask., Canada
Brigitte Jumard, University of Concordia, Montreal, Canada
Janusz Kacprzyk, SRI, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
Okyay Kaynak, Bogazici University, Bebek(Istanbul),Turkey
James M. Keller, University of Missouri, USA
Bettina Kemme, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Etienne E. Kerre, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Florida Atlantic University, USA
Frank Klawonn,University of Applied Sciences Braunschweig/Wolfenbuettel, Wolfenbuettel, Germany
Erich Peter Klement, Softwarepark Hagenberg, Hagenberg, Austria
Mario Koeppen, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Japan
Amit Konar, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
Donald H. Kraft, Louisiana State University, USA
Vladik Kreinovich, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, USA
H. K. Kwan, University of Windsor, Canada
Guy Lapalme, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Canada
Frank L. Lewis, University of Texas at Arlington, Worth(TX), USA
Pawan Lingras, St. Mary University,Hamilton, NS, Canada
Hakim Lounis, UQAM, Montreal, Canada
Edwin Lughofer, Softwarepark Hagenberg, Hagenberg, Austria
Mourad Maouche, University of Philadelphia, Amman, Jordan
Trevor Martin, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Alexander Mehler, University of Bielefeld, Germany
Jean Meunier, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Canada
Ali Mili, New Jersey institute of technology, USA
Guy Mineau, Universite de Laval, Laval, Canada
Zelmat Mimoun, University of M'hamed Bougara - Boumerdas, Algeria
Gautam Mitra, Brunel University, UK
Malek Mouhoub, University of Regina, Sask., Canada
Sudhir P. Mudur, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Mike Nachtegael, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Nadia Nedjah, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Jian-Yun Nie, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Canada
Abdellatif Obaid, UQAM, Montreal, Canada
Fakhreddine O. Kerray, University of Waterloo, Canada
Sankar Kumar Pal, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India
Costas P. Pappis, University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece
Gabriella Pasi, Istito par le Technologie Informatche Multimediali, Milano, Italy
Frederick E. Petry, Naval Research Laboratory, MS, USA
Helene Pigot, Universite de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada
Bhanu Prasad, Florida A&M University, USA
Witold Pedrycz, University of Edmonton, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
James F. Peters III, University of Manitoba, Canada
Henri Prade, University of Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
Shahram Rahimi, Southern Illinois University,Carbondale, Il., USA
Djamal Rebaine, UQAC, Chicoutoumi, Canada
Marek Reformat, University of Edmonton, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Burghard B. Rieger, University of Trier, Trier, Germany
Stuart H. Rubin, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, USA
Daniel Rodríguez, University of Alcalá, Madrid, Spain
Imre J. Rudas, Budapest Technical University, Budapest, Hungary
Houari Sahraoui, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada
Aziz Salah, UQAM, Montreal, Canada
Johann Schumann, RIACS/NASA Ames, USA
Antoaneta Serguieva, Brunel University, West London, United Kingdom
Siti Mariyam Shamsuddin, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
Pierre Siegel, University of Aix-Marseille I, Marseille, France
Constantinos I. Siettos, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Nematollaah Shiri, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
James F. Smith, III, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, USA
Roman Slowinski, Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland
Mu-Chun Su, National Central University, Taiwan, China
Dutta Sumitra, INSEAD, Fontainebleu, France
M.N.S. Swamy, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Hideyuki Takagi, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
Hamid R. Tizhoosh, University of Waterloo, Canada
Jose A. B. Tome, INESC-ID, Lisboa University, Lisboa, Portugal
Enric Trillas, European Centre for Soft Computing, Mieres(Asturias), Spain
Edward Tsang, University of Essex, United Kingdom
Hans Vangheluwe, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Athanasios Vasilakos, University of Western, Macedonia,Greece
Xizhao Wang, HeBei University, China
Ronald R. Yager, IONA College, New Rochelle, N.Y., USA
Takeshi Yamakawa, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Kyushu, Japan
Mustapha Yassine, National University of Amman, Amman, Jordan
Ting Yu, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Nevin Vunka Jungum, University of Mauritius, Mauritius
Sahnoun Zaidi, Universite de Constantine, Algeria

Reality Mining and Surprise Modelling

Danny Van Welden, KBC, Brussels, Belgium

Industrial Simulation

Guodong Shao, NIST, Gaithersburg, USA

Ecological sustainable development and Innovative technologies for a bio-based economy

Philippe Geril, ETI Bvba, Ostend, Belgium