Steering and local committee
| François Blayo | Ipseite (CH) |
| Gianluca Bontempi | Univ.Libre Bruxelles (B) |
| Marie Cottrell | Univ. Paris I (F) |
| Mia Loccufier | Univ. Gent (B) |
| Bernard Manderick | Vrije Univ. Brussel (B) |
| Jean-Pierre Peters | FUNDP Namur (B) |
| Johan Suykens | KUL Leuven (B) |
| Joos Vandewalle | KUL Leuven (B) |
| Michel Verleysen | UCL Louvain-la-Neuve (B) |
| Louis Wehenkel | Univ. Liège (B) |
Scientific committee
| Fabio Aiolli | Univ. degli Studi di Padova (I) |
| Davide Anguita | University of Genoa (I) |
| Cecilio Angulo | Univ. Polit. de Catalunya (E) |
| Aluizio Araújo | Univ. Federal de Pernambuco (Brazil) |
| Cédric Archambeau | Amazon.com (D) |
| Miguel Atencia | Univ. Malaga (E) |
| Michael Aupetit | Qatar Computing Res. Inst. (Qatar) |
| Andreas Backhaus | Fraunhofer-Institut (D) |
| Lluis Belanche | Univ. Polit. de Catalunya (E) |
| Younès Bennani | Université Paris 13 (F) |
| Michael Biehl | University of Groningen (NL) |
| Martin Bogdan | Univ. Leipzig (D) |
| Sander Bohte | CWI (NL) |
| Hervé Bourlard | IDIAP Martigny (CH) |
| Charles Bouveyron | Université Paris Descartes (F) |
| Antonio Braga | Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil) |
| Joan Cabestany | Univ. Polit. de Catalunya (E) |
| Stéphane Canu | Inst. Nat. Sciences App. (F) |
| Andreu Català | Univ. Polit. de Catalunya (E) |
| Sylvain Chevallier | University of Versailles (F) |
| Etienne Côme | IFSTTAR (F) |
| Nigel Crook | Oxford Brookes University (UK) |
| Holk Cruse | Universität Bielefeld (D) |
| Giovanni Da San Martino | Qatar Computing Res. Inst. (Qatar) |
| Bernard De Baets | Univ. Gent (B) |
| Kris De Brabanter | Iowa State Univ. (USA) |
| Massimo De Gregorio | Istituto di Cibernetica-CNR (I) |
| Dante Del Corso | Politecnico di Torino (I) |
| Wilson de Oliveira | Univ. Fed. Rural Pernambuco (Brazil) |
| Wlodek Duch | Nicolaus Copernicus Univ. (PL) |
| Marc Duranton | CEA Saclay (F) |
| Richard Duro | Univ. Coruna (E) |
| Mark Embrechts | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (USA) |
| Anibal Figueiras-Vidal | Univ. Carlos III Madrid (E) |
| Felipe M. G. França | Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) |
| Leonardo Franco | Univ. Malaga (E) |
| Damien François | Univ. cat. Louvain (B) |
| Benoït Frénay | Univ. Namur (B) |
| Manjunath Gandhi | Rhodes Univ. (S. Africa) |
| Alexander Gepperth | ENSTA ParisTech (F) |
| Pierre Geurts | Univ. Liège (B) |
| Alessandro Ghio | Univ. of Genova (I) |
| Luis Gonzalez Abril | University of Sevilla (E) |
| Marco Gori | Univ. Siena (I) |
| Bernard Gosselin | Univ. Mons (B) |
| Philippe-Henri Gosselin | CNRS/UCP/ENSEA (F) |
| Manuel Grana | UPV San Sebastian (E) |
| André Grüning | Univ. Surrey (UK) |
| Anne Guérin-Dugué | Univ. Joseph Fourier (F) |
| Barbara Hammer | Bielefeld Univ. (D) |
| Verena Heidrich-Meisner | CAU Kiel (D) |
| Tom Heskes | Univ. Nijmegen (NL) |
| Katerina Hlavackova-Schindler | Univ. Vienna (A) |
| Guang-Bin Huang | Nanyang Tech; Univ. (Singapore) |
| Jose Jerez | Univ. Malaga (E) |
| Gonzalo Joya | Univ. Malaga (E) |
| Christian Jutten | INPG Grenoble (F) |
| Ata Kaban | Univ. Birmingham (UK) |
| Marika Kadern | Univ. Applied Sciences Mittweida (D) |
| Juha Karhunen | Aalto Univ. (FIN) |
| Nikola Kasabov | Auckland University of Technology (NZ) |
| DaeEun Kim | Yonsei Univ. (South Korea) |
| Stefanos Kollias | National Tech. Univ. Athens (GR) |
| Jouko Lampinen | Aalto Univ. (FIN) |
| Petr Lansky | Acad. of Science of the Czech Rep. (CZ) |
| Beatrice Lazzerini | Univ. Pisa (I) |
| John Lee | Univ. cat Louvain (B) |
| Minho Lee | Kyungpook National University (KR) |
| Amaury Lendasse | Univ. Iowa (USA) |
| Priscila M. V. Lima | Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) |
| Paulo Lisboa | Liverpool John Moores University (UK) |
| José D. Martín-Guerrero | Univ. of Valencia (E) |
| Thomas Martinetz | Univ. Lübeck (D) |
| Erzsebet Merenyi | Rice Univ. (USA) |
| Anke Meyer-Bäse | Florida State university (USA) |
| Yoan Miche | Aalto University (FIN) |
| Alessio Micheli | Univeristy of Pisa (I) |
| Erkki Oja | Aalto University (FIN) |
| Tjeerd olde Scheper | Oxford Brookes University (UK) |
| Madalina Olteanu | Université Paris 1 (France) |
| Luca Oneto | Univ. Genova (I) |
| Latifa Oukhellou | IFSTTAR (F) |
| Gilles Pagès | Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) (F) |
| German Parisi | Univ. Hamburg (D) |
| Xavier Parra-Llanas | Univ. Polit. de Catalunya (E) |
| Kristiaan Pelckmans | Uppsala Univ. (SE) |
| Jaakko Peltonen | Aalto University (FIN) |
| David Picard | ENSEA (F) |
| Alberto Prieto | Universitad de Granada (E) |
| Didier Puzenat | Univ. Antilles-Guyane (F) |
| Jean-Pierre Rospars | INRA Versailles (F) |
| Fabrice Rossi | University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (F) |
| Ulrich Rückert | Univ. Bielefled (D) |
| David Saad | Aston Univ. (UK) |
| Francisco Sandoval | Univ.Malaga (E) |
| Jose Santos Reyes | Univ. Coruna (E) |
| Frank-Michael Schleif | Univ. Birmingham (D) |
| Udo Seiffert | Fraunhofer-Institute IFF Magdeburg (D) |
| Alessandro Sperduti | Università degli Studi di Padova (I) |
| Jochen Steil | Univ. Bielefeld (D) |
| Peter Tino | University of Birmingham (UK) |
| Claude Touzet | Univ. Provence (F) |
| Vanya Van Belle | KUL Leuven (B) |
| Marc Van Hulle | KUL Leuven (B) |
| Alfredo Vellido | Univ. Polit. Catalunya (E) |
| Nathalia Villa-Vialaneix | INRA (F) |
| Thomas Villmann | Univ. Apllied Sciences Mittweida (D) |
| Heiko Wersing | Honda Research Institute Europe (D) |
| Axel Wismüller | Univ. of Rochester (USA) |
| Djamel Zighed | Inst. Sciences de l’Homme (F) |
| Dietlind Zühlke | Fraunhofer FIT, St. Augustin (D) |