The following special sessions are proposed:
1.
organized by: Dario CROCCOLO, Italy; Gorgio OLMI, Italy
organized by: Anastasios P. VASSILOPOULOS, Belgium; Danny VAN HEMELRIJCK, Belgium
3.
organized by: Bo SONG, USA; Vikas PRAKASH, USA
4.
organized by: Bernhard PICHLER, Austria; Josef EBERHARDSTEINER, Austria; Mateusz WYRZYKOWSKI, Switzerland; Pietro LURA, Switzerland
5.
organized by: Sven BOSSUYT, Finland
6.
organized by: Li XI-DE, China; Wei QIU, China; Yi-Lun KANG, China
7.
organized by: Christopher NIEZRECKI, USA
8.
organized by: Terry Yuan-Fang CHEN, Taiwan; Wei-Chung WANG, Taiwan; Ming-Jui HUANG, Taiwan; Po-Chi SUNG, Taiwan
9.
organized by: Hisaaki TOBUSHI, Japan, Qing Ping SUN, Hong-Kong; Ryosuke MATSUI, Japan; Kohei TAKEDA, Japan and Elżbieta A. PIECZYSKA, Poland
10.
organized by: Dimitrios AGGELIS, Belgium; Tomoki SHIOTANI, Japan; Giuseppe LACIDOGNA, Italy; Danny VAN HEMELRIJCK, Belgium
11.
organized by: Bonnie R. ANTOUN, USA
