Organizing Committee

General Chairs:   

Carl Chang, Iowa State University, USA

Jun Murai, Keio University, Japan

 Program Chairs:  

    Sumi Helal, University of Florida, USA

    Yuji Oie, Kyushu Institute of Tech., Japan

     PC Members:

Karl Aberer (EPFL, Switzerland)
Motomitsu Adachi (Fujitsu lab., Japan)
Jun Adachi (NII, Japan)
Gul Agha (Univ of Illinois, Urbana Champain, USA)
Kento Aida (Tokyo Ins. Tech., Japan)
Tohru Asami (KDDI lab., Japan)
Mikhail Atallah (Purdue University, USA)
Mostafa Bassiouni (University of Central Florida, USA)
Roberto Bayardo (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA)
Martin Bichler (IBM Watson Research Center, USA)
Lee Bu Sang (NTU, Singapore)
Hasan Cam (Arizona State University, USA)
Augusto Casaca (INESC, Portugal)
Wojciech Cellary (Poznan Univ. of Economics, Poland)
Ugur Cetintemel (Brown University, USA)
Kenjiro Cho (Sony CSL, Japan)
Ken Christensen (University of South Florida, USA)
Jen-Yao Chung (IBM Watson Research Center, USA)
Hesham El-Rewini (Southern Methodist University, USA)
Hiroshi Esaki (Tokyo Univ., Japan)
Akira Fukuda (Kyushu Univ., Japan)
Shigeki Goto (Waseda Univ., Japan)
Kazuo Hashimoto (KDDI lab., USA)
Michael Huhns (University of South Carolina, USA)
Tomoko ITAO (NTT, Japan)
Kazuo Imai (NTT DoCoMo, Japan)
Atsushi Kanai (NTT lab., Japan)
Kanchana Kanchanasut (AIT, Thailand)
Hiroyuki Kawano (Kyoto Univ., Japan)
Wolfgang Klas (Wien University, Austria)
Minsoo Lee (Ewha Womans University, Korea)
Wang-Chien Lee (Penn State University, USA)
Hui Lei (IBM Watson Research Center, USA)
Haifei Li (IBM Watson Research Center, USA)
Gerald Marin (University of Central Florida, USA)
Hiroshi Maruyama (IBM Japan, Japan)
Shigeru Miyake (Hitachi, Japan)
Hiroyuki Morikawa (Tokyo Univ., Japan)
Tatsuo Nakajima (Waseda Univ., Japan)
Erich Neuhold (Fraunhofer-IPSI, Germany)
Yong-Jin Park (Hanyang Univ., Korea)
Shiro Sakata (NEC Lab, Japan)
Heiko Schuldt (ETH Zentrum, Switzerland)
Munindar Singh (North Carolina State Univ., USA)
Mukesh Singhal (University of Kentucky, USA)
John Smith (U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
Stanley Su (University of Florida, USA)
Hideki Sunahara (Nara Ins. Tech, Japan)
Haruo Takemura (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Tetsuya Takine (Kyoto Univ., Japan)
Fumio Teraoka (Keio Univ., Japan)
Henry Tirri (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Amin Vahdat (Duke University, USA)
Mohammed Younis (U. of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA)
Alaa Youssef (IBM Watson Research Center, USA)
Franco Zambonelli (University of Modena, Italy)
Yongguang Zhang (Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA)

Workshops Chairs:     

Larry Xue, Arizona State University, USA

Shinji Shimojo, Osaka University, Japan

Tutorials Chair:     

Peter In, Texas A&M University, USA

Panel Chairs:     

Ly Sauer, Sandia National Labs, USA

Tadanobu Okada, NTT lab, Japan

International Liaison Chairs:

Teruo Higashino, Osaka Univ., Japan

Nian Tzeng, Univ. of Louisiana, USA

Awards Chairs:        

Ming T. (Mike) Liu, Ohio State Univ., USA

Hideo Miyahara, Osaka University, Japan

Local Arrangements Chairs:     

M. Bassiouni, U. of Central Florida, USA

Ratan Guha, U. of Central Florida, USA

Publication Chair:     

Sartaj Sahni, University of Florida, USA

Publicity Chairs:     

Katsuyuki Yamazaki, KDDI Labs, Japan

Wang-Chien Lee, Penn State U., USA

Caetano Traina, U. of Sao Carlos, Brazil

Erich Neuhold, Fraunhofer-IPSI, Germany

Registration Chair:

     Yong (John) Liu, Lucent Technologies, USA

Financial Chairs:

     James Davis, Iowa State University, USA

     Kenichi Yoshida, U. of Tsukuba, Japan

Designated Technical Comm. Chairs:        

Yuji Oie, Kyushu Inst. of Tech., Japan

Sumi Helal, University of Florida, USA

Steering Committee Chair:   

Joseph Urban, Arizona State University, USA