Key Conference Officials

Program Committee Chair:

Matthias Jarke, Informatik V, RWTH Aachen, 52056 Aachen, Germany; jarke@informatik.rwth-aachen.de; Ph: +49-241-802 1500; Fax: +49-241-888 8321

European PC Chair:

Klaus Dittrich, Institut für Informatik, Universität Zürich, Winterthurerstr. 190, CH 8057 Zürich, Switzerland; dittrich@ifi.unizh.ch; Ph: +41-1-257 4312; Fax: +41-1-363 0035

American PC Chair:

Mike Carey, IBM Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, K55/B1, San José, CA 95120-6099, USA; carey@almaden.ibm.com; Ph: +1-408-927 2732; Fax: +1-408-927 4304

Middle- and Far-East PC Chair:

Fred Lochovsky, Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Clear Water Bay Rd., Kowloon, Hong Kong; fred@cs.ust.hk; Ph: +852-2358 6996; Fax: +852-2358 1477

Industrial/Commercial Track Chair:

Pericles Loucopoulos, UMIST, Dept. of Computing, PO Box 88, Manchester M60 1QD, United Kingdom; pl@sna.co.umist.ac.uk; Ph: +44-161 200 3332; Fax: +44-161 200 3364

Tutorial Chairs:

Yannis Ioannidis, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA; yannis@cs.wisc.edu; Ph: +1-608 263 7764; Fax: +1-608 262 9777

Tamer Ozsu, Dept. of Computing Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2H1; ozsu@cs.ualberta.ca; Ph: +1-403 492 2860; Fax: +1-403 492 1071

Panel Chairs:

Ramez Elmasri, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019, USA; elmasri@cse.uta.edu; Ph: +1-817 272 3785; Fax: +1-817 272 3784

Arie Segev, Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California,Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; segev@csr.lbl.gov; Ph: +1-415 642 4731; Fax: +1-415 642 2826

General Conference Chair:

Yannis Vassiliou, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science Division, National Technical University of Athens, 157 73 Zografou, Greece; yv@cs.ntua.gr; Ph: +30-1-772 2526; Fax: +30-1-772 2527

Organizing Committee:

John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada; jm@cs.toronto.edu

Nick Roussopoulos, University of Maryland, USA; nick@cs.umd.edu

Timos Sellis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece; timos@cs.ntua.gr

Area Coordinators

Europe: Joachim Schmidt, University of Hamburg, Germany; J_Schmidt@dbis1.informatik.uni-hamburg.de

Americas: Jim Gray, Microsoft, USA; gray@microsoft.com

Middle- and Far-East: Ron Sacks-Davis, CITRI, Australia; rsd@citri.edu.au

VLDB Endowment Liaison:

Stefano Ceri, Politecnico di Milano, Italy; ceri@elet.polimi.it

Publicity Chair:

Panagiotis Georgiadis, Dept. of Informatics, University of Athens, TYPA Buildings, 157 71 Athens, Greece; georgiad@di.uoa.gr; Ph: +30-1-729 1885; Fax: +30-1-721 9561

Program Committee

Divy Agrawal, UC Santa Barbara, USA	Gustavo Alonso, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Peter Apers, U Twente, The Netherlands	Ricardo Baeza-Yates, U Chile, Chile
David Bell, U Ulster, Northern Ireland	Tony Bonner, U Toronto, Canada
Athman Bouguettaya, QUT, Australia	Francois Bry, U Munich, Germany
G. v. Bültzingslöwen, Swiss Bank Corporation, Switzerland	Arbee L.P. Chen, NTHU, Taiwan
Ming-Syan Chen, NTU, Taiwan	David W.L. Cheung, HKU, Hong Kong
Sophie Cluet, INRIA, France	Christine Collet, LSR-IMAG, France
Susan Davidson, U Pennsylvania, USA	Umesh Dayal, HP Labs, USA
Claude Delobel, LRI, France	Asuman Dogac, Middle East TU, Turkey
Pamela A. Drew, HKUST, Hong Kong	Curtis Dyreson, James Cook U, Australia
Christos Faloutsos, U Maryland, USA	Jose Luiz Fiadeiro, U Lisbon, Portugal
Ada Fu, CUHK, Hong Kong	Antonio Furtado, PUC-Rio, Brazil
Shahram Ghandeharizadeh, USC, USA	Andreas Geppert, U Zurich, Switzerland
Goetz Graefe, Microsoft, USA	Jane Grimson, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Ashish Gupta, Junglee, USA	Laura Haas, IBM Almaden, USA
Hele-Mai Haav, Institute of Cybernetics, Estonia	Theo Härder, U Kaiserslautern, Germany
Jayant Haritsa, IISc Bangalore, India	M. Hatzopoulos, U Athens, Greece
Joe Hellerstein, UC Berkeley, USA	Andreas Heuer, U Rostock, Germany
Sushil Jajodia, George Mason U, USA	Christian Jensen, Aalborg U, Denmark
Anant Jhingran, IBM Hawthorne, USA	Alfons Kemper, U Passau, Germany
Roger King, U Colorado, USA	Wolfgang Klas, U Ulm, Germany
Ravi Krishnamurthy, HP Labs, USA	Yoon-Joon Lee, KAIST, Korea
David Maier, OGI, USA	Yoshifumi Masunaga, ULIS, Japan
Tova Milo, U Tel Aviv, Israel	Michele Missikoff, IASI-CNR, Italy
Bernhard Mitschang, TU Munich, Germany	Inderpal Mumick, AT&T Research, USA
Jeff Naughton, U Wisconsin, USA	Raymond Ng, UBC, Canada
Christos Nikolaou, FORTH, Greece	Shojiro Nishio, Osaka U, Japan
Patrick O'Neil, U-Mass Boston, USA	Beng-Chin Ooi, NUS, Singapore
G. Ozsoyoglu, Case-Western Reserve U, USA	Tamer Ozsu, U Alberta, Canada
Jan Paredaens, U Antwerp, Belgium	Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Hamid Pirahesh, IBM Almaden, USA	Fausto Rabitti, CNUCE-CNR, Italy
Krithi Ramamritham, U Massachusetts, USA	Ken Ross, Columbia U, USA
Ken Salem, U Waterloo, Canada	Betty Salzberg, Northeastern U, USA
N.L. Sarda, IIT Bombay, India	Heinz Schweppe, FU Berlin, Germany
Bernhard Seeger, U Marburg, Germany	Avi Silberschatz, Bell Labs, USA
Martin Staudt, Rentenanstalt/Swiss Life, Switzerland	Kazimierz Subieta, Academy of Sciences, Poland
Changjie Tang, Sichuan U, P.R. China	Jeff Ullman, Stanford U, USA
Ke Wang, NUS, Singapore	Shan Wang, PUC, P.R. China
Howard Williams, Heriot-Watt U, Scotland	Heon-Young Yeom, Seoul National U, Korea

Industry/Commercial Program Committee

C.C. Chang, NCCU, Taiwan	Shel Finkelstein, JavaSoft, USA
Michael Kay, ICL, UK	Martin Kersten, CWI, The Netherlands
Klaus Küspert, U Jena, Germany	Tok Wang Ling, NUS, Singapore
John McGuire, Datel, United Kingdom	John McPherson, IBM Toronto, Canada
Mike Olson, Informix, USA	Tore Risch, EDSLAB, Sweden
Ron Sacks-Davis, RMIT, Australia	Donovan Schneider, RedBrick Systems, USA
Arun Swami, Internet Profiles, USA	Laurent Vieille, Bull, France
Toyohide Watanabe, Nagoya U, Japan	Kyu-Young Whang, KAIST, Korea

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