SOTICS 2019 - The Ninth International Conference on Social Media Technologies, Communication, and Informatics
	November 24, 2019 - November 28, 2019
 SOTICS 2019: Committees
		
	SOTICS Steering Committee
Lasse Berntzen, University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway
Nitin Agarwal, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA 
Andrea Nanetti, School of Art, Design,  and Media | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
	SOTICS Industry/Research Advisory Committee
	  Roman Shtykh, Yahoo Japan Corporation, Japan 
	  Xin Shuai, Thomson Reuters, USA 
	  Andrea Cimino, Institute for Computational Linguistics (ILC-CNR), Pisa,  Italy
	SOTICS Publicity Chair
Jose Miguel Jimenez, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain //   University of Haute Alsace, France
	SOTICS 2019 Technical Program Committee
	Najeeb  G. Abdulhamid, Brunel University London, UK
	  Bilal Abu Salih, Curtin University, Australia
	  Safa'a  AbuJarour, University of Potsdam, Germany
	  Witold Abramowicz, Poznan University  of Economics and Business, Poland  
	  Millicent  Akotam Agangiba, The University of Mines and Technology, Ghana
	  Nitin Agarwal, University of Arkansas  at Little Rock, USA  
	  Swati Agarwal, BITS Pilani, Goa Campus, India
	  Ahmet Aker, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany  / University of Sheffield, UK  
	  Esther Andrés Pérez, ISDEFE / Technical University  of Madrid, Spain
	  Mehdi Asgarkhani,  Ara Institute of Canterbury, New Zealand   
	  Liz Bacon, University of Greenwich, UK   
	  Grigorios N. Beligiannis, University  of Patras, Greece  
	  Gerardo Berbeglia, Melbourne Business School,  Australia
	  Valentina  Beretta, IRD Montpellier, France
	  Lasse Berntzen, University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway
	  Brian Blake, University of Arkansas at  Little Rock / Harding University / Acxiom Corporation, USA  
	  Dominik  Bork, University of Vienna, Austria
	  Christos Bouras, University of Patras  | Computer Technology Institute & Press «Diophantus», Greece  
	  Piotr Bródka, Wrocław University of Science  and Technology, Poland  
	  María Luisa Carrió Pastor, Universitat  Politècnica de València, Spain  
  Ilknur Celik, Cyprus International University, Northern Cyprus
	  Subrata Chakraborty, University of Southern  Queensland, Australia  
	  Manoj K. Chinnakotla, Artificial Intelligence  and Research (AI & R), Microsoft, India  
	  Christina Christodoulakis, University  of Toronto, Canada  
	  Andrea Cimino, Institute for Computational  Linguistics (ILC-CNR), Pisa, Italy  
	  Taiane Ritta Coelho, Federal University of Parana,  Brazil
	  Francesco Corcoglioniti, Fondazione Bruno  Kessler - Trento, Italy  
	  Alejandro Cortiñas, University of A Coruña,  Spain  
	  Stefano  Cresci, Institute of Informatics and Telematics (IIT)  - National Research Council (CNR), Italy
	  Jay Daniel, University of Derby, UK
	  Vasily  Desnitsky, SPIIRAS - St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of  the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia
	  Nicolás  Díaz Ferreyra, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
	  Arianna D'Ulizia, National Research Council  - IRPPS, Italy
	  Ritam  Dutta, Surendra Institute of Engineering & Management | Maulana Abul Kalam Azad  University of Technology, West Bengal, India
	  Aviad Elyashar, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev,  Beer Sheva, Israel
	  Shadi Erfani, University of  Technology Sydney, Australia
	  Larbi Esmahi, Athabasca University,  Canada  
  Svitlana  Galeshchuk, Université Paris Dauphine, France
  Najeeb Abdulhamid Gambo, Brunel  University London, UK
  Tiantian Gao, Stony Brook University, USA
  Angel Luis Garrido, University of  Zaragoza, Spain
	  Bogdan Gliwa, AGH University of Science  and Technology, Poland  
  Apostolos Gkamas, University Ecclesiastical Academy  of Vella of Ioannina, Greece
	  Carlos  Henrique Gome Ferreira, Federal University of Ouro Preto, Brazil
	  William Grosky, University of Michigan-Dearborn,  USA  
	  Shyam S. Gouri Suresh, Davidson College, USA
	  Asmelash Teka Hadgu, L3S - Leibniz Universität  Hannover, Germany  
	  Gy R. Hashim, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia  
	  Daniel  Hernandez, University of Chile, Santiago / Millennium Institute Foundational Research  on Data, Chile
	  Kaustubh  Hiware, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India
	  Lingzi  Hong, University of North Texas, USA
	  Tzung-Pei Hong, National University of  Kaohsiung, Taiwan  
	  Hana Horak, University of Zagreb, Croatia   
	  Sylvie  Huet, Irstea - Lisc, France
	  Sergio Ilarri, University of Zaragoza,  Spain  
	  Roberto  Interdonato, Cirad, Montpellier, France 
	  Sampath Jayarathna, California State  Polytechnic University Pomona, USA  
	  Qiong Jia,  Hohai University, Nanjing,  China  
	  Wei Jiang, Missouri University of Science  and Technology, USA  
	  Jose Miguel Jimenez, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain //   University of Haute Alsace, France
	  Maria João Simões, University of Beira  Interior (UBI) / Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences (CICS.NOVA.UMINHO)  / LABCOM, Portugal  
	  Hanmin Jung, Korea Institute of Science  and Technology Information, Korea  
	  Charalampos Karagiannidis, University  of Thessaly, Greece  
	  Mayank  Kejriwal, Information Sciences Institute (ISI) - University of Southern California,  USA
	  Tiffany Hyun-Jin Kim, HRL Laboratories, USA
	  Jarosław Koźlak, AGH University of Science  and Technology, Poland  
	  Satoshi  Kurihara, Keio University, Japan
	  Konstantin  Kuzmin, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), USA
	  Carla Lopes Rodriguez, Institute of Mathematical  Sciences, Computing and Cognition of the Federal University of ABC, Brazil  
	  Aleksander Lubarski, University of Bremen,  Germany  
	  Andre  Ludwig, Quad9 dns service / Fractal Industries, USA
	  Heide Lukosch, Delft University of Technology,  Netherlands  
	  Wencan Luo, University of Pittsburgh, USA  
      Baojun Ma, Beijing  University of Posts and Telecommunications, China  
	  Arnaud Martin, Univ. Rennes - IRISA, France
	  Federico Martín Alconada Verzini, Universidad  Nacional de La Plata, Argentina  
	  Philippe Mathieu, CRIStal | University  of Lille, France  
	  Kelly  Mc Erlean, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland
	  Susan  McKeever, TU Dublin - School of Computer Science, Ireland
  	  Radoslaw Michalski, Wroclaw University  of Science and Technology, Poland  
	  Fionn Murtagh, University of Huddersfield, UK
	  Andrea Nanetti, School of Art, Design, and Media | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
	  Cuong Nguyen, Allrecipes.com, USA  
	  Alexey  Noskov, Heidelberg University, Germany
	  Debora Nozza, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy
	  Michel Occello, University  Grenoble Alpes | LCIS, France
	  Kiriakos Patriarcheas, Hellenic Open  University, Greece  
	  Luigi Patrono, University of Salento,  Lecce, Italy  
	  Mick Phythian, Centre for Computing &  Social Responsibility | De Montfort University, UK  
	  Scott Piao, Lancaster University, UK   
	  Claudio Pinhanez, IBM Research, Brazil   
	  Agostino Poggi, Università degli Studi di  Parma, Italy
	  Elaheh Pourabbas, National Research Council  | Institute of Systems Analysis and Computer Science "Antonio Ruberti",  Rome, Italy  
	  Aravindh  Raman, King's College London, UK
	  Michael Alexander Riegler,  Simula Research Laboratory, Norway  
	  Susanne Robra-Bissantz, TU Braunschweig,  Germany  
	  Henry  Rosales-Méndez, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
	  Mohamed M. Sabri, University of Waterloo,  Canada  
	  Waseem Safi, Caen Université, France   
  Luis Enrique Sánchez Crespo, University of  Castilla-la Mancha & Sicaman Nuevas Tecnologías Ciudad Real, Spain
	  Ali Shahrabi, Glasgow Caledonian University,  Scotland, UK
	  Vivek Shandilya, Jacksonville University, USA
	  Roman Shtykh, Yahoo Japan Corporation,  Japan  
	  Xin Shuai, Thomson Reuters, USA  
	  Marianna  Sigala, University  of South Australia, Australia
	  Juan Soler Company, Universitat Pompeu  Fabra (UPF), Spain  
	  Günther  Specht, University of Innsbruck, Austria
	  Wen  Tang, Bournemouth University, UK
	  Raquel Trillo Lado, University of Zaragoza,  Spain  
	  Lorna Uden, Staffordshire University, UK
	  Taketoshi Ushiama, Kyushu University,  Japan  
	  Davide Vega D'aurelio, Uppsala University,  Sweden  
	  Paula Viana, INESC TEC / Polytechnic  of Porto, Portugal  
	  Nikos Vrakas, University of Piraeus,  Greece  
	  Stefanos Vrochidis, ITI-CERTH, Greece   
	  Gang Wang, HeFei University  of Technology, China
	  Junzo Watada, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS,  Malaysia
	  Huadong Xia, Microstrategy Inc., USA
	  Jongtae  Yu, KFUPM Business School - King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi  Arabia
	  Fouad Zablith, American University of  Beirut, Lebanon
	Wenpeng  Zhang, Tsinghua University, China