Program Committee, Information Retrieval

Chair:

Norbert Fuhr

University of Duisburg

Germany

Members:

Alan Smeaton	Dublin City University	Ireland
Andreas Henrich	University of Bamberg	Germany
Andrei Broder	IBM T.J. Watson Research Center	U.S.A.
Arjen de Vries	Centrum voor Wiskunde es Informatica	Netherlands
Aya Soffer	IBM Research Haifa	Israel
Benjamin Piwowarski	University Pierre and Marie Curie	France
Bruce Croft	University of Massachusetts at Amherst	U.S.A.
Charles Clarke	University of Waterloo	Canada
Charles Nicholas	University of Maryland at Baltimore County	U.S.A.
Clement Yu	University of Illinois at Chicago	U.S.A.
David Carmel	IBM Research Haifa	Israel
David Harper	The Robert Gordon University	U.K.
Djoerd Hiemstra	University of Twente	Netherlands
Donald Kraft	Louisiana State University	U.S.A.
Dunja Mladenic	Jozef Stefan Institute	Slovenia
Edward Fox	Virginia Tech	U.S.A.
Elizabeth Liddy	Syracuse University	U.S.A.
Ellen Voorhees	National Institute of Standards and Technology	U.S.A.
Eric Brown	IBM T.J. Watson Research Center	U.S.A.
Francine Chen	Palo Alto Research Center	U.S.A.
Gabriella Pasi	Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche	Italy
Gareth Jones	Dublin City University	Ireland
Gianni Amati	Fondazione Ugo Bordoni	Italy
Henrik Nottelmann	University of Duisburg-Essen	Germany
Hongyuan Zha	Penn State University	U.S.A.
Hugh Williams	RMIT University	Australia
Hugo Zaragoza	Microsoft Research	U.K.
Iadh Ounis	University of Glasgow	U.K.
Ian Ruthven	University of Strathclyde	U.K.
Ian Soboroff	National Institute of Standards and Technology	U.S.A.
James Allan	University of Massachusetts	U.S.A.
James G. Shanahan	Turn Inc.	U.S.A.
James Mayfield	John Hopkins University	U.S.A.
Jamie Callan	Carnegie Mellon University	U.S.A.
Jay Ponte	Google	U.S.A.
Jianfeng Gao	Microsoft Research	China
Jim Shanahan	Clairvoyance Corp.	U.S.A.
Jimmy Huang	York University	Canada
Joemon Jose	University of Glasgow	U.K.
Josiane Mothe	University Paul Sabatier	France
Jussi Karlgren	Swedish Institute of Computer Science	Sweden
Justin Zobel	RMIT University	Australia
K.L. Kwok	Queens College CUNY	U.S.A.
Kalervo Järvelin	University of Tampere	Finland
Keith van Rijsbergen	University of Glasgow	U.K.
Lee Giles	Penn State University	U.S.A.
Marc Sanderson	University of Sheffield	U.K.
Marcello Federico	Instituto Trentino di Cultura	Italy
Mark Girolami	University of Glasgow	U.K.
Massimo Melucci	University of Padova	Italy
Matthew Chalmers	University of Glasgow	U.K.
Ming Zhou	Microsoft Research	UK
Mohand Boughanem	University Paul Sabatier	France
Monica Landoni	University of Strathclyde	U.K.
Mounia Lalmas	Queen Mary University of London	U.K.
Natasa Milic-Frayling	Microsoft Research	U.K.
Nazli Goharian	Illinois Institute of Technology	U.S.A.
Nicholas Belkin	Rutgers University	U.S.A.
Paul Kantor	Rutgers University	U.S.A.
Peter Bruza	Distributed Systems Technology Centre	Australia
Peter Ingwersen	Royal School of Library and Information Science	Denmark
Pia Borlund	Royal School of Library and Information Science	Denmark
Pietro Pala	University of Florence	Italy
R. Manmatha	University of Massachusetts, Amherst	U.S.A.
Ricardo Baeza-Yates	University of Chile	Chile
Rong Jin	Michigan State University	U.S.A.
Ross Wilkinson	Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation	Australia
Sanda Harabagiu	University of Texas at Dallas	U.S.A.
Sandor Dominich	University of Veszprem	Hungary
Shlomo Agramon	Illinois Institute of Technology	U.S.A.
Stavros Christodoulakis	Technical University of Crete	Greece
Stefan Rüger	Imperial College London	U.K.
Stephen Robertson	Microsoft Research	U.K.
Susan Dumais	Microsoft Research	U.S.A.
Susan Gauch	University of Kansas	U.S.A.
Tim Oates	University of Maryland at Baltimore County	U.S.A.
Thomas Roelleke	Queen Mary University London	U.K.
Umberto Straccia	Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche	Italy
Ulrich Thiel	Fraunhofer IPSI	Germany
Vibhu Mittal	Google	U.S.A.
Warren Greiff	MITRE Corporation	U.S.A.
Wei-ying Ma	Microsoft Research	China
Wessel Kraaij	TNO TPD	Netherlands
Yoelle Maarek	IBM Research Haifa	Israel

Program Committee, Databases

Chair:

Hans-Jörg Schek

University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology

Austria

Members:

Agnes Voisard	Fraunhofer Institut Software- und Systemtechnik / Freie Universität Berlin	Germany
Alexander Hinneburg	University of Halle	Germany
Alfons Kemper	University of Passau	Germany
Andreas Meier	University of Fribourg	Switzerland
Andrey Balmin	IBM Almaden	U.S.A.
Beng Chin Ooi	National University of Singapore	Singapore
Bernhard Mitschang	University of Stuttgart	Germany
Bertram Ludäscher	University of California	U.S.A.
Burkhard Freitag	University of Passau	Germany
Can Tuerker	Functional Genomics Center Zurich	Switzerland
Christian Böhm	University of Munich	Germany
Christine Collet	LSR-IMAG	France
Christoph Bussler	National University of Ireland	Ireland
Cyris Shahabi	University of Southern California	U.S.A.
Dan Vodislav	Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers (CNAM)	France
Dimitris Papadias	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong
Donald Kossmann	ETH Zuerich	Switzerland
Elke A. Rundensteiner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	U.S.A.
Edward Omiecinski	Georgia Institute of Technology	U.S.A.
Felix Naumann	Humboldt University, Berlin	Germany
Floris Geerts	University of Edinburgh, University of Limburg	UK/Belgium
Gerti Kappel	Vienna University of Technology	Austria
Gunter Saake	University of Magdeburg	Germany
Harald Krottmaier	Universität Graz	Austria
Heiko Schuldt	University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology	Austria
Ioana Manolescu	The French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA)	France
Jari Veijalainen	University of Jyväskylä	Finland
Jaroslav Pokorny	Charles University of Praha	Czech Republic
Jessie Kennedy	Napier University	UK
Jingren Zhou	Microsoft	U.S.A.
Juliana Freire	School of Science & Engineering	U.S.A.
Kam-Fai Wong	Chinese University Hong Kong	China
Karl Aberer	EPFL	Switzerland
Katsumi Tanaka	Kyoto University	Japan
Keith Jeffery	Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research (CCLRC)	UK
Klemens Böhm	University of Karslruhe	Germany
Kurt Stockinger	Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory	U.S.A.
Kyu-Young Whang	KAIST	Korea
Leonid Kalinichenko	Russian Academy of Science	Russia
Ling Liu	Georgia Tech	U.S.A.
Malu Castellanos	HP Laboratories	U.S.A.
Manolis Koubarakis	Technical University of Crete	Greece
Marc Scholl	University of Konstanz	Germany
Maria Bielikova	Slovak University of Technology	Slovakia
Maria Orlowska	University of Queensland	Australia
Mariano Cilla	University of Darmstadt	Germany
Marie-Christine Rousset	University Paris-Sud	France
Martin Kersten	CWI	Netherlands
Masaru Kitsuregawa	Kitsuregawa Lab	Japan
Maurizio Lenzerini	University of Rome	Italy
Michael Boehlen	Free University of Bolzano	Italy
Michael Rys	Microsoft	U.S.A.
Michael Schrefl	University of Linz	Austria
Mike Papazoglou	Tilburg University	Netherlands
Mirek Riedenwald	University of Cornell	U.S.A.
Moira C. Norrie	ETH Zuerich	Switzerland
Nick Koudas	University of Toronto	Canada
Pavel Zezula	Masaryk University of Brno	Czech Republic
Peter Fankhauser	Fraunhofer Institut Integrierte Publikations- und Informationssysteme	Germany
Peter Scheuermann	Northwestern University	U.S.A.
Peter Schwarz	IBM Almaden	U.S.A.
Peter Vojtas	University of Kosice	Slovakia
Qing Li	City University of Hong Kong	China
Rajeev Rastogi	Bell Labs	U.S.A.
Ralf Schenkel	Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Saarbruecken	Germany
Rao Kotagiri	University of Melbourne	Australia
Sham Navathe	Georgia Institute of Technology	U.S.A.
Shojiro Nishio	Osaka University	Japan
Soeren Balko	University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology (UMIT)	Austria
Sumit Ganguly	Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur	India
Theo Haerder	Technical University Kaiserslautern	Germany
Tiziana Catarci	University of Rome	Italy
Torsten Grabs	Microsoft	U.S.A.
Torsten Grust	Technical University of Clausthal	Germany
Uwe Röhm	University of Sydney	Australia
Volker Linnemann	University of Luebeck	Germany
Volker Markl	IBM	U.S.A.
Wolfgang Klas	University Vienna	Austria
Wolfgang Lehner	Dresden University of Technology	Germany
Wolfgang Nejdl	Universität Hannover	Germany
Xiofang Zhou	University of Queensland	Australia
Yanchuan Zhang	Victoria University	Australia

Program Committee, Knowledge Management

Chair:

Abdur Chowdhury

America Online

U.S.A.

Members:

Aleksander Kolez	America Online	U.S.A.
Andreas Breiter	University of Bremen	Germany
Andreas D. Lattner	University of Bremen	Germany
Axel Korthaus	University of Mannheim	Germany
Axel Tuma	University of Braunschweig	Germany
Charles Nicholas	University of Maryland Baltimore County	U.S.A.
Cheng Xiang Zhai	UIUC	U.S.A.
Clement Yu	UIC	U.S.A.
Craig Schlenoff	National Insitute of Standarts and Technology	U.S.A.
David Grossman	Illinois Institute of Technology	U.S.A.
David Hawking	CSIRO	Australia
Dongwon Lee	Penn State University	U.S.A.
Ed Fox	Virginia Tech	U.S.A.
Elena Messina	National Insitute of Standarts and Technology	U.S.A.
Greg Pass	America Online	U.S.A.
Guenter Mueller	University of Freiburg	Germany
Heiner Stuckenschmidt	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam	Netherlands
Herman Vandermulen	America Online	U.S.A.
Holger Wache	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam	Netherlands
Ingo Timm	University of Bremen	Germany
Ingrid Ruegge	University of Bremen	Germany
Kush Sidhu	America Online	U.S.A.
Keren Perlmutter	America Online	U.S.A.
M. Catherine McCabe	US Gov	U.S.A.
Marc Ronthaler	University of Bremen	Germany
Nazli Goharian	Illinois Institute of Technology	U.S.A.
Ophir Frieder	Illinois Institute of Technology	U.S.A.
Scott Cost	University of Maryland Baltimore County	U.S.A.
Sharon Perlmutter	America Online	U.S.A.
Shlomo Argamon	Illinois Institute of Technology	U.S.A.
Stefan Kirn	University of Hohenheim	Germany
Stephen Balakirsky	National Insitute of Standarts and Technology	U.S.A.
Tao Li	University of Rochester	U.S.A.
Ubbo Visser	University of Bremen	Germany
Wai Gen	Illinois Institute of Technology	U.S.A.
Warren Greiff	MITRE	U.S.A.
Yugyung Lee	University of Minnesota at Kansas City	U.S.A.
Zhu Zhang	University of Arizona	U.S.A.