Committees General Chair: Klaus McDonald-Maier, University of Essex, UK Conference Co-Chairs: Gareth Howells The University of Kent, UK; Charlie Frowd, University of Central Lancashire, UK Program Chair: Adrian Stoica, NASA, USA Program Co-Chair: David F. Barrero, Univ. of Alcalá, Spain Workshop on Autonomous Systems and Security Chairs:  Isabella Panella, Rolls Royce, UK; Pedro Lima, Lisbon YU, Portugal Workshop on Biometrics Chairs:  Charlie Frowd, University of Central Lancashire, UK Svetlana Yanushkevich, University of Calgary, Canada Workshop on Computer Vision Chair:  Yumi Iwashita, Kyushu University, Japan Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Bio-inspired Techiques: Kyrre Glette, Univ. of Oslo, Norway Workshop on Hardware Security Chair:  Radu Andrei, Plura-Tech, USA Advisory Committee Don Bouldin, UTK, USA Larry LeRoy Constantine, U Madeira, Portugal Mark Nixon, U. Southampton, UK Nobuyuki Otsu AIST, Japan Phil Philips, Asaph Ltd., UK Horia N. Teodorescu, TU Iasi, Romania Steve Trimberger, Xilinx, USA Steering Committee: Tughrul Arslan, University of Edinburgh, UK Adrian Stoica, NASA/JPL, USA Japan Liaison  Tetsuya Higuchi, AIST, Japan Korea Liaison Tai-hoon Kim, Hannam University, Korea Program Committee Andrea Francesco Abate, Univ. di Salerno, Italy Wael Adi, Technical Univ of Braunschweig, Germany Ali Ahmadinia, Glasgow Caledonian Univ UK Zoe Antoniou, Nokia Research Cambridge, UK Juan Manuel Moreno Arostegui, Tech. Univ. of Catalunya, Spain Nizamettin Aydin, Yildiz University, Turkey Valentina E. Balas, Univ of  Arad, Romania Helen Balinsky, Hewlett-Packard Labs, UK Nikolaos Bartzoudis, Tech. Univ. of Catalunya, Spain Juergen Becker, Univ of Karlsruhe, Germany Paul Benjamin, Pace University, USA Richard Bergmair, Univ of  Cambridge, UK Misty Blowers, Air Force Research Lab, USA Ahmed Bouridane, Northumbria University, UK Patrick Bours, Gjovik Univ College, Norway Lionel C. Briand, University of Oslo, Norway Dipankar Dasgupta, Univ of Memphis, USA Martin Drahansky, Brno Univ. of Tech., Czech Republic Ahmet T. Erdogan, The Univ of Edinburgh, UK Charlie Frowd, Univ of Central Lancashire, UK Moncef Gabbouj, Tampere Univ of Technology, Finland Solange Ghernaouti-Helie, Univ of Lausanne, Switzerland Michael Goldsmith, Univ. of Warwick, UK Richard Guest, University of Kent, UK Daniel Howard, QinetiQ, UK Terry Huntsberger, Jet Propulsion Lab, USA Yumi Iwashita, Kyushu University, Japan Kimmo Jarvinen, Aalto Univ, Finland Johan Jenvald, Linkoping University, Sweden H J Kadim, LJM University, UK Didier Keymeulen, Jet Propulsion Lab USA Helena Handschuh, Cryptography Research, USA and KULeuven, Belgium Sue Ellen Haupt, Pennsylvania State Univ, USA Svein Johan Knapskog, NTNU, Norway, Matthew Leinhos, Sandia National Lab, USA Vincenzo Loia, Univ. of Salerno, Italy Mario Malcangi, Univ degli studi di Milano, Italy Konstantinos Markantonakis, Univ of London, UK Maria De Marsico, Sapienza Univ of Rome, Italy Trevor Martin, University of Bristol, UK Javier Ortega-Garcia, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain Vasile Palade, Oxford University, UK Isabella Panella, Rolls Royce, UK Ioanna D. Papadopoulou, Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece Konstantinos Papapanagiotou, Univ. of Athens, Greece Pedro Melo Pinto, UTAD, Portugal George Polyzos, Athens Univ, Greece Hugo Proenca, Univ. of Beira Interior, Portugal Gang Qu, University of Maryland, USA Lukas Sekanina, Brno Univ. of Tech., Czech Republic Vlad P. Shmerko, University of Calgary, Canada Konstantinos Sirlantzis, University of Kent, UK Nigel Stinton, NHBC, UK Makoto Takahashi, Nagoya University, Japan João Manuel R. S. Tavares, University of Porto, Portugal Jim Torresen, University of Oslo, Norway Michel Valstar, University of Nottingham, UK Ingrid Verbauwhede, K.U. Leuven, Belgium Tanya Vladimirova, University of Leicester, UK Andreas Westfeld, U of Applied Sciences Dresden, Germany Uffe Kock Wiil, Univ of Southern Denmark, Denmark Wei, Yan, University College London, UK Svetlana Yanushkevich, Univof Calgary, Canada