Conference Organizers
General Co-Chairs
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Kang Ouyang (Professor, Director, Social Information Science Institute; Chief Editor, Social Sciences Edition, Journal of Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST); Vice President, HUST; China)
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Pedro C. Marijuan (Professor, Director, Bioinformation Group, Health Science Institute of Aragon, Zaragoza, Spain; Chair, Board, Foundations of Information Science)
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Wolfgang Hofkirchner (Professor, Internet and Society, University of Salzburg, Austria; Chief Editor, Triple-C; Chair, Science Advisory Board, Science of Information Institute, Washington, USA)
Honorary Chairs:
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Yi-Xin Zhong (Professor; Chair, Acadamic Committee, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications; President, Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI), Beijing, China)
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Zhong-Zhi Shi (Professor; Director, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Vice President, Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI), Beijing, China)
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Hua-Can He (Professor, Northwestern Polytechnical University; Vice President, Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI), Director, Technical Committee on Artificial Intelligence Theory; Beijing, China)
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Konstantin Kolin (Константин Колин, Academician, Professor, the Institute of Informatics Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia)
Programme Co-Chairs:
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Hua-Can He (Professor, Northwestern Politechnical University; Vice President, Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI), Director, Technical Committee on Artificial Intelligence Theory; Beijing, China)
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Zong-Rong Li (Professor, Technical Committee on Artificial Intelligence Theory; Vice Director, Social Information Science Institute, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan; China)
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Xue-Shan Yan (Associate Professor, Departmrnt of Information Management, Peking University; Vice Director, Social Information Science Institute, HUST, China)
Organization Co-Chairs:
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Wei-Ning Wang (Senior Engineer, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications; Director, Office of Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI), Beijing, China)
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Wei Wang (Professor, Institute for Science, Technology and Society, Tsinghua University, China)
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Jing-Shan Wang (Professor, School of Communication Studies, Beijing Institute of Graphical Communication, Beijing, China)
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Lin Zhang (Associate Professor, Scool of Mathematics and Computer Science, Hubei University, China)
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Wen-Guang Chen (Professor, Department of Information Management, Peking University, China)
General Secretary:
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Prof. Zong-Rong Li; Tel: (86)27-63962956, (86)13554242936; Email: zrli@hubu.edu.cn
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Prof. Jian-Wei Zhang; Tel: (86)13971245691; Email: weissschatten@sina.com
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Prof. Gen-Hui Liu; Tel: (86)27-62137608; Email: genhuiliu@163.com
Secretary:
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Dr. Yang Wang; Tel: (86)27-63685081; Fax: 027-87559143; Email: camphoree@yahoo.com.cn
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Dr. Ming-Yi Chen; Tel: (86) 15927349270; Fax: 027-87559143; Email: mingyide86@yahoo.com.cn
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Dr. Dong-Jian Sun; Tel: (86)18910980801; Email: goldsunroad@163.com
Organizers:
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Technical Committee on Artificial Intelligence Theory (TCAIT), Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI), Beijing
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Foundations of Information Science (FIS), Zaragoza
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Science of Information Institute (SoII), Washington
Co-organizers:
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Beijing Institute of Graphical Communication, China
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Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science, Vienna, Austria
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BITrum Research Group, León, Spain
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Center for Information Policy Research, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA
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Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Maribor, Slovenia
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Institut für Design Science e.V., Munich, Germany
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Institute for Development of Social Responsibility, Maribor, Slovenia
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International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP)
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International Center for Information Ethics (ICIE), Karlsruhe, Germany
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International Center for Transdisciplinary Research (CIRET), Paris, France
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International Society for Biosemiotic Studies (ISBS)
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Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI), Basel, Switzerland
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Symmetrion, Budapest, Hungary
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Unified Theory of Information (UTI) Research Group, Vienna, Austria
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Washington Evolutionary Systems Society (WESS), Washington, USA
International Advisory Board:
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Joseph Brenner (International Center for Transdisciplinary Research, Paris, France)
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Søren Brier (Professor in the Semiotics of Information, Cognitive and Communication Science, Department of International Culture and Communication Studies, Centre for Language, Cognition, and Mentality, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark; Executive Committee, ISBS)
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Luis Emilio Bruni (Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, Design and Media Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark; Executive Committee, ISBS)
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Elizabeth A. Buchanan (Director, Center for Information Policy Research, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA)
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Mark Burgin (Visiting Scholar, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
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Rafael Capurro (Director, Steinbeis-Transfer-Institute Information Ethics (STI-IE), Germany; Founder, ICIE)
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Jerry Chandler (Research Professor, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Studies, George Mason University, USA; President, WESS)
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John Collier (Professor, Philosophy and Ethics, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa)
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György Darvas (Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Research Organization, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary; Director, Symmetrion)
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Mary Jo Deering (Board of Directors, Science of Information Institute, Washington, USA)
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José María Díaz Nafría (Visiting Professor, University of León, Spain; Coordinator, BITrum Research Group)
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Dail Doucette (Director, Science of Information Institute, Washington, USA)
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Charbel Niño El-Hani (Professor of History, Philosophy, and Biology, Institute of Biology, Federal University of Bahía, Salvador, Brazil; Executive Committee, ISBS)
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Charles Ess (Visiting Professor, Department of Information and Media Studies, University of Aarhus, Denmark)
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Peter Fleissner (retired University Professor, Institute of Design and Assessment of Technology, Vienna University of Technology, Austria; UTI Research Group)
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Luciano Floridi (Research Chair in Philosophy of Information, Department of Philosophy, University of Hertfordshire, UK; President, IACAP)
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Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski (retired Professor, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany)
- Nataliya Gendina (Professor, Director,R & D Institute of Information Technology of Social Sphere, Kemerovo State University of Culture and Arts, Russia)
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Ted Goranson (Sirius Beta, USA)
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Jifa Gu (Professor, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
- Qi-Quan Gui (Professor, Department of Philosophy, Wuhan University, China)
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Yukio-Pegio Gunji (Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Graduate School of Science, Kobe University, Japan)
- Igor Gurevich (Professor, Director, the Institute of Informatics Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)
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Soraj Hongladarom (Director, Center for Ethics of Science and Technology, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)
- Xiao-Han Huang (Professor, School of Marxism, Peking University, China)
- Lu Jiang (Professor, Department of Systems Science, Beijing Normal University, China)
- Xin-Zheng Jin (Professor, Center for Health Information Resources Research, Huazhong
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Alicia Juarrero (Professor, Prince George’s Community College, USA)
- Vladimir Kinelev (Director, Academician, Laboratory of UNESCO "Knowledge Society and new Information Technologies”, Russia)
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Kevin G. Kirby (Chair, Department of Computer Science, Northern Kentucky University, USA)
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Klaus Kornwachs (Professor, Philosophy of Technology, BTU Cottbus, Germany)
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Allenna Leonard (President, International Society for the Systems Sciences, Canada)
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Michael Leyton (Professor, DIMACS Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, Rutgers University, USA)
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An-Shun Li (President, Wuhan Wutong-Rain Culture Development Institute, China)
- Chuan-Yin LI (Professor, Institute of History Study, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China)
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Shu-Kun Lin (Molecular Diversity Preservation International, Basel, Switzerland)
- Gang Liu (Professor, Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China)
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Robert K. Logan (Professor Emeritus, Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Canada)
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Ai-Nai Ma (Professor, Peking University, China)
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Shi-Long Ma (Professor, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China)
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Koichiro Matsuno (Professor em., Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan)
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Dong-Sheng Miao (Professor, Renmin University of China, China)
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Matjaz Mulej (former President, International Federation for Systems Research; Institute for Development of Social Responsibility, Maribor, Slovenia)
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Basarab Nicolescu (Professor, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; President, CIRET)
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Toru Nishigaki (Professor, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, University of Tokyo, Japan)
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Michel Petitjean (MTi, INSERM, Université Paris Diderot, France)
- Konstantin Sudakov (Director, Academician, the Scientific research Institute of Normal physiology of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Russia)
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Stuart A. Umpleby (Professor, Department of Management, George Washington University, Washington D.C., USA)
- Arkadi D. Ursul (Director, Academician, The Centre of researches of global processes and sustainable development, the Russian state trade and economic university, Russia)
- Wei Wang (Professor, Institute for Science, Technology and Society, Tsinghua University, China)
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Kun Wu (Professor, Xian Jiaotong University, China)
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Tom Ziemke (Professor of Cognitive Science and Cognitive Robotics, Cognition and Interaction Lab, University of Skövde, Sweden)
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Rainer E. Zimmermann (Professor of Philosophy, University of Applied Sciences Munich, Germany; President, Institut für Design Science, Munich)

