Honorary Conference Chairs: Shi-Shuenn Chen, President, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan William A. Gruver, Junior Past President, IEEE Systems, Man & Cybernetics Society, IEEE Division X Director-Elect and Simon Fraser University, Canada Lawrence Hall, President, IEEE Systems, Man & Cybernetics Society and University of South Florida, USA Michael Smith, Co-Founder of ICMLC and Senior Past President, IEEE Systems, Man & Cybernetics Society, USA Hongrui Wang, President, Hebei University, China International Advisory Committee Chair: Lotfi Zadeh, University of California at Berkeley, USA Conference Chairs: Daniel S. Yeung, IEEE Systems, Man & Cybernetics Society, USA and Machine Learning and Cybernetics Research Institute, Hong Kong Xizhao Wang, Hebei University, China Program Committee: Chairs: Machine Learning: T. K. Ho , Bell Lab, USA Cybernetics: Philip Chen , University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Co-Chairs: Shyi-Ming Chen, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan Ping Guo, Beijing Institute of Technology, China Xuelong Li, University of London, UK Ph.D. Colloquia Chair: Michael Berthold, University of Konstanz, Germany Panel Session Chair: Ljiljana Trajkovic, Simon Fraser University, Canada Award Committee Chair: Michael Smith, Co-Founder of ICMLC and Senior Past President, IEEE Systems, Man & Cybernetics Society, USA Invited Session: Co-Chairs: Xuelong Li, University of London, UK Jeng-Shyang Pan, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Taiwan Organizing Chair Patrick Chan, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Publicity Chair: Dacheng Tao, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Publication Chair: John Lee, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong (John.Lee@inet.polyu.edu.hk) Treasurers: Qiang He, Hebei University, China Eric Tsang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Local Arrangement Co-Chairs: Robert P. Woon, Machine Learning and Cybernetics Research Institue, Hong Kong Dan Xu, Yunnan University, China Xujie Zhang, Yunnan University, China Conference Secretaries: Aki Chan, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong (csaki@comp.polyu.edu.hk) Patrick Chan, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong (cspkchan@comp.polyu.edu.hk) Wing Ng, Harbin Institute of Technology, China (wingng@ieee.org) Web Master : Patrick Chan, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong (cspkchan@comp.polyu.edu.hk)