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DEXA Conference

General Chairperson:

Heinrich C. Mayr, University of Klagenfurt, Austria

Conference Program Chairpersons:

Jiri Lazansky, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic

Gerald Quirchmayr, University of Vienna, Austria

Pavel Vogel, Technical University of Munich, Germany

Workshop Chairpersons:

A Min Tjoa, Technical University of Vienna, Austria

Roland R. Wagner, FAW, University of Linz, Austria

Publication Chairperson:

Vladimir Marik, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic

Program Committee Members:

Michel Adiba, IMAG - Laboratoire LSR, France

Hamideh Afsarmanesh, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Jens Albrecht, Oracle GmbH, Germany

Ala Al-Zobaidie, University of Greenwich, UK

Bernd Amann, CNAM, France

Frederic Andres, NACSIS, Japan

Kurt Bauknecht, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Trevor Bench-Capon, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom

Alfs Berztiss, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Jon Bing, University of Oslo, Norway

Omran Bukhres, Purdue University, USA

Luis Camarinah-Matos, New University of Lisbon, Portugal

Antonio Cammelli, IDG-CNR, Italy

Wojciech Cellary, University of Economics at Poznan, Poland

Stavros Christodoulakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece

Panos Chrysanthis, Univ. of Pittsburgh & Carnegie Mellon Univ., USA

Paolo Ciaccia, University of Bologna, Italy

Christine Collet, LSR-IMAG, France

Carlo Combi, University of Udine, Italy

William Bruce Croft, University of Massachusetts, USA

John Debenham, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

Misbah Deen, University of Keele, United Kingdom

Nina Edelweiss, University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Johann Eder, University of Klagenfurt, Austria

Thomas, Eiter , Technical University of Vienna, Austria

Gregor Engels, University of Paderborn, Germany

Peter Fankhauser, GMD-IPSI, Germany

Eduardo Fernandez, Florida Atlantic University, USA

Simon Field, IBM Research Division, Switzerland

Peter Funk, Mälardalen University, Sweden

Antonio L. Furtado, University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Georges Gardarin, University of Versailles, France

Parke Godfrey, York University, Canada

Georg Gottlob, Technical University of Vienna, Austria

Paul Grefen, University of Twente, The Netherlands

Abdelkader Hameurlain, Université Paul Sabatier, France

Igor T. Hawryszkiewycz, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

Mohamed Ibrahim, University of Greenwich, UK

Yahiko Kambayashi, Kyoto University, Japan

Magdi N. Kamel, Naval Postgraduate School, USA

Nabil Kamel, American University in Cairo, Egypt

Gerti Kappel, University of Linz, Austria

Kamalar Karlapalem, University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

Randi Karlsen, University of Tromsö, Norway

Rudolf Keller, University of Montreal, Canada

Myoung Ho Kim, KAIST, Korea

Masaru Kitsuregawa, Tokyo University, Japan

Gary J. Koehler, University of Florida, USA

Donald Kossmann, Technical University of Munich, Germany

Jaques Kouloumdjian, INSA, France

Petr Kroha, Technical University Chemnitz-Zwickau, Germany

Josef Küng, University of Linz, Austria

Michel Leonard, University of Geneve, Switzerland

Tok Wang Ling, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Mengchi Liu, University of Regina, Canada

Fred Lochovsky, Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

Peri Loucopoulos, UMIST, United Kingdom

Sanjai Kumar Madria, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA

Akifumi Makinouchi, Kyushu University, Japan

Vladimir Marik, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic

Simone Marinai, University of Florence, Italy

Subhasish Mazumdar, New Mexico Tech, USA

Robert Meersman, Free University Brussels, Belgium

Elisabeth Metais, University of Versailles, France

Mukesh Mohania, Western Michigan University, USA

Sophie Monties, EPFL, Switzerland

Tadeusz Morzy, Poznan University of Technology, Poland

Günter Müller, University of Freiburg, Germany

Erich J. Neuhold, GMD-IPSI, Germany

Gultekin Ozsoyoglu, University Case Western Research, USA

Georgios Pangalos, University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Stott Parker, University of Los Angeles (UCLA), USA

Oscar Pastor, Technical University of Valencia, Spain

Marco Patella, University of Bologna, Italy

Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Günter Pernul, University of Essen, Germany

Fausto Rabitti, CNUCE-CNR, Italy

Isidro Ramos, Technical University of Valencia, Spain

Haralad Reiterer, University of Konstanz, Germany

Norman Revell, Middlesex University, UK

Sally Rice, Unversity of South Australia, Australia

John Roddick, Flinders University of South Australia, Australia

Colette Rolland, University Paris I, Sorbonne, France

Elke Rundensteiner, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA

Domenico Sacca, University of Calabria, Italy

Marinette Savonnet, University of Bourgogne, France

Erich Schweighofer, University of Vienna, Austria

Timos Sellis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Michael H. Smith, University of California, USA

Giovanni Soda, University of Florence, Italy

Harald Sonnberger, EUROSTAT, Luxembourg

Günther Specht, Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany

Uma Srinivasan, CIRO, Australia

Bala Srinivasan, Monash University, Australia

Olga Stepankova, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic

Zbigniew Struzik, CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki University, Japan

Katsumi Tanaka, Kobe University, Japan

Zahir Tari, University of Melbourne, Australia

Stephanie Teufel, University of Fribourg, Germany

Jukka Teuhola, University of Turku, Finland

Bernd Thalheim, Technical University of Cottbus, Germany

Jean Marc Thevenin, University of Toulouse, France

Helmut Thoma, IBM Global Services Basel, Switzerland

A Min Tjoa, Technical University of Vienna, Austria

Roland Traunmüller, University of Linz, Austria

Aphrodite Tsalgatidou, University of Athens, Greece

Susan Urban, Arizona State University, USA

Krishnamurthy Vidyasankar, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada

Roland R. Wagner, University of Linz, Austria

Michael Wing, Middlesex University, UK

Werner Winiwarter, EC3, Austria

Gian Piero Zarri, CNRS, France

Arkady Zaslavsky, Monash University, Australia

DaWaK Conference

General Chair:

Yahiko Kambayashi, Kyoto University, Japan

Program Chairs:

Werner Winiwarter, EC3, Austria

Masatoshi Arikawa, University of Tokyo, Japan

Program Committee Members:

Tatsuya Akutsu, University of Tokyo, Japan

Hiroki Arimura, Kyushu University, Japan

Mike Bain, The University of New South Wales, Australia

Elena Baralis, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Roberto Bayardo, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA

Anjali Bhargava, TRW, USA

Bharat K. Bhargava, Purdue University, USA

Stefan Berchtold, stb software technology beratung gmbh, Germany

Ulrich Bodenhofer, Software Competence Center Hagenberg, Austria

Christian Böhm, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany

Luca Cabibbo, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy

Murray Campbell, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA

Tiziana Catarci, Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy

Peter Chamoni, Gerhard-Mercator-University Duisburg, Germany

Arbee L. P. Chen, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

Janet Chen, Philips Research East Asia, Taiwan

Ming-Syan Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Qiming Chen, HP Laboratories, USA

David Cheung, The University of Hong Kong, China

Sunil Choenni, National Aerospace Laboratory, The Netherlands

Vic Ciesielski, RMIT University, Australia

W. Bruce Croft, University of Massachusetts, USA

Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp, Belgium

Vasant Dhar, New York University, USA

Luc De Raedt, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Germany

Saso Dzeroski, J. Stefan Institute, Slovenia

Gillian Dobbie, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Guozhu Dong, University of South Australia, Australia

Wolfgang Essmayr, Software Competence Center Hagenberg, Austria

Martin Ester, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany

Vladimir Estivill-Castro, The University of Newcastle, Australia

Wenfei Fan, Temple University, USA

Li Min Fu, University of Florida, USA

Jean-Gabriel Ganascia, Université Paris VI, France

Minos Garofalakis, Bell Laboratories, USA

Ananth Grama, Purdue University, USA

Marko Grobelnik, J. Stefan Institute, Slovenia

Robert Grossman, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Ajay Gupta, Western Michigan University, USA

S. K. Gupta, IIT Delhi, India

Marc Gyssens, University of Limburg, Belgium

Jiawei Han, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Abdelsalam Helal, University of Florida, USA

Tu Bao Ho, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

Se June Hong, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA

Hasan Jamil, Mississippi State University, USA

Samuel Kaski, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

Hiroyuki Kawano, Kyoto University, Japan

Larry Kerschberg, George Mason University, USA

Masaru Kitsuregawa, University of Tokyo, Japan

Mika Klemettinen, Nokia Research Center, Finland

Yves Kodratoff, LRI, France

Jan Komorowski, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Flip Korn, AT&T, USA

Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong, China

Leonid Libkin, Bell Laboratories, USA

Tsau Young Lin, San José State University, USA

Tok Wang Ling, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Bing Liu, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Sanjay Kumar Madria, University of Missouri-Rolla Rolla, USA

Dieter Merkl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Dunja Mladenic, J. Stefan Institute, Slovenia and Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Mukesh Mohania, Western Michigan University, USA

Shinichi Morishita, University of Tokyo, Japan

Wee Keong Ng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Masayuki Numao, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Sankar Kumar Pal, Indian Statistical Institute, India

Dimitris Papadias, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China

Stefano Paraboschi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

D. Stott Parker, UCLA, USA

Clara Pizzuti, ISI-CNR, Italy

Lech Polkowski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland

David Powers, The Flinders University of South Australia, Australia

Mohamed Quafafou, Université de Nantes, France

Chris Rainsford, DSTO, Australia

Zbigniew W. Ras, University of North Carolina Charlotte, USA

Rajeev Rastogi, Bell Laboratories, USA

Vic J. Rayward-Smith, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom

Elke A. Rundensteiner, Worcester Polytecnic Institute, USA

Domenico Saccà, Università della Calabria, Italy

N. L. Sarda, IIT Bombay, India

Michael Schrefl, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria

Steffen Schulze-Kremer, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Germany

Shashi Shekhar, University of Minnesota, USA

Junho Shim, Drexel University, USA

Kyuseok Shim, KAIST, South Korea

Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland

Il-Yeol Song, Drexel University, USA

Bala Srinivasan, Monash University, Australia

Einoshin Suzuki, Yokohama National University, Japan

Ernest Teniente, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

Takao Terano, University of Tsukuba, Japan

A Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Hannu T. T. Toivonen, Nokia Research Center, Finland

Riccardo Torlone, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy

Shusaku Tsumoto, Shimane Medical University, Japan

Vassilios Verykios, Drexel University, USA

Takashi Washio, Osaka University, Japan

Graham Williams, CSIRO, Australia

Gerry Wolff, University of Wales at Bangor, United Kingdom

Xindong Wu, Colorado School of Mines, USA

Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada

Kazumasa Yokota, Okayama Prefectural University, Japan

Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan

Jan Zytkow, University of North Carolina Charlotte, USA

EC-Web Conference

General Chair:

Kurt Bauknecht, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Program Chairs:

Guenther Pernul, University of Essen, Germany
Sanjay Kumar Madria, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA

Program Committee Members:

Karl Aberer, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland
Antonio Badia, University of Louisville, USA
Chaitan Baru, University of California San Diego, USA
Bharat Bhargava, Purdue University, USA
Anjali Bhargava, TRW, USA
Sourav Saha Bhowmick, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Martin Bichler, Vienna University of Economics and BA, Austria
Walter Brenner, University of Essen, Germany
Stephane Bressan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Mike Burmester, Royal Holloway University of London, UK
Wojciech Cellary, The Poznan University of Economics, Poland
Roger Clarke, The Australian National University, Australia
Asuman Dogac, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Eduardo Fernandez, Florida Atlantic University, USA
Elena Ferrari, University of Milano, Italy
Farshad Fotouhi, Wayne State University, USA
Yongjian, Fu, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA
Rüdiger Grimm, Technical University Ilmenau, Germany
Kamalakar Karlapalem, HKUST, China
Hiroyuki Kitagawa, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Stefan Klein, University of Muenster, Germany
Matthias Klusch, DFKI German AI Research Center, Germany
Wolfgang Koenig, University of Frankfurt, Germany
Vijay Kumar, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA
Karl Kurbel, Europe University Frankfurt (Oder), Germany
Winfried Lamersdorf, University of Hamburg, Germany
George Lausen, University of Freiburg, Germany
Alberto Laender, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Ronald M. Lee, Erasmus University, The Netherlands
Tan Kian Lee, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Wang-Chien Lee, Verizon Communications, USA
Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong, Chin
Ee Peng Lim, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Huan Liu, Arizona State University, USA
Heinrich C. Mayr, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Michael Merz, Ponton GmbH, Germany
Bamshad Mobasher, DePaul University, USA
Mukesh Mohania, Western Michigan University, USA
Gustaf Neumann, Vienna University of Economics and BA, Austria
Wee-Keong Ng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Shojiro Nishio, Osaka University, Japan
Rolf Oppliger, eSECURITY Technologies, Switzerland
Stefano Paraboschi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Oscar Pastor, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Evangelia Pitoura, University of Ionia, Greece
Gerald Quirchmayr, University of Vienna, Austria
Kai Rannenberg, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
P. Krishna Reddy, University of Tokyo, Japan
Alexander Roehm, University of Essen, Germany
Elke A. Rudensteiner, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
Tomas Sabol, University of Technology Kosice, Slovakia
N. L. Sarda, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India
Peter Scheuermann, Northwestern University, USA
Stephanie Teufel, Université de Fribourg, Switzerland
Paul Timmers, European Commission DG XIII, Belgium
A Min Tjoa, Vienna Technical University, Austria
Aphrodite Tsalgatidou, University of Athens, Greece
Krishnamurthy Vidyasankar, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Hans Weigand, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Richard J. Welke, Georgia State University, USA
Hannes Werthner, University of Trento, Italy
Andrew B. Whinston, University of Texas, USA
Vladimir Zwass, Fairleigh Dickinson University, USA