Program Chair:

• Ricardo Baeza Yates, Yahoo! Research., Barcelona, Spain

WI Program Co-Chairs:

• Bettina Berendt, K.U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
• Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, West Lafayette,USA
• Lim Ee Peng, Singapore Management University, Singapore

WI Program Vice-Chairs:

• Dominique Decouchant, CNRS - LIG de Grenoble, France
• Mohand-Said Hacid, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon, France
• Jimmi Xiangij Huang, York University, Canada
• Yuefeng Li, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
• Olfa Nasraoui, University of Louisville, USA
• Atshuro Takasu, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
• Andreas Wombacher, University of Twente, The Netherlands

Program Committee Members:

• Ajith Abraham, Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), USA
• Maristella Agosti, University of Padova, Italy
• Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada
• Anupriya Ankolekar, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, USA
• Luis Antunes, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
• Helen Ashman, University of South Australia, Australia
• Ebrahim Bagheri, National Research Council, Canada
• Michel Beigbeder, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France
• Sonia Bergamaschi,University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
• Shlomo Berkovsky, CSIRO, Tasmanian ICT Centre, Australia
• Gloria Bordogna, IDPA CNR, Italy
• Patrick Bosc, IRISA/ENSSAT, FRANCE
• Omar Boucelma, University of Aix-Marseille 3, France
• Mohand Boughanem, Université de Toulouse-IRIT, France
• Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, USA
• Peter Bruza, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
• Wray Buntine, NICTA Canberra Research Laboratory, Australia
• Longbing Cao, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
• Claudio Carpineto, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy
• Sylvie Cazalens, Universite de Nantes, Francia
• Stefano Ceri, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Keith C.C. Chan, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
• Liming Chen, University of Ulster, UK
• Meng Chang Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
• William K. Cheung, Hong Kong Baptist University Hong Kong, China
• Yiu-ming Cheung, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
• Joongmin Choi, Hanyang University, Republic of  Korea
• Ruth Cobos, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
• Nigel Collier, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
• Sara Comai, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Fabio Crestani, University of Lugano, Switzerland
• Juan Carlos Cubero, University of Granada, Spain
• Alfredo Cuzzocrea, DEIS-Unical, Italy
• Claudia d'Amato, University of Bari, Italy
• Swagatam Das, Jadavpur University, India
• Martine De Cock, Ghent University, Belgium
• Jean-Yves Delort, Macquarie University / CMCRC, Australia
• Ying Ding, Indiana University, USA
• Josep Domenech, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
• Edith Elkind, University of Southampton, UK
• Nicola Fanizzi, University of Bari, Italy
• Shaheen Fatima, Loughborough University, UK
• Nicola Ferro, University of Padova, Italy
• Naoki Fukuta, Shizuoka University, Japan
• Fabien Gandon, INRIA, France
• Serge Garlatti, Telecom Bretagne, Institut Telecom, France
• Susan Gauch, University of Arkansas, USA
• Marc Gelgon, Université de Nantes, France
• José A. Gil, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
• Marco Gori, Università di Siena, Italy
• Gregory Grefenstette, Exalead, Paris, France
• Fumio Hattori, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
• Haibo He, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
• Enrique Herrera-Viedma, Universidad de Granada, Spain
• Masahiro Hori, Kansai University, Japan
• Jia Hu, International WIC Institute, China
• Xiaohua Tony Hu, Drexel University, USA
• Yuh-Jong Hu, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
• Joshua Huang, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• Koji Iwanuma, University of Yamanashi, Japan
• Janusz Kacprzyk, Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
• Samuel Kaski, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
• Irwin King, Dept. of Computer Sci. & Eng. The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• Tetsuo Kinoshita, Tohoku University, Japan
• Mieczyslaw Klopotek, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
• Walter Kosters, Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands
• Donald H. Kraft, U.S. Air Force Academy, USA
• Philippe Lamarre, Université de Nantes, France
• Stefano Leonardi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
• Chun Hung Li, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
• Juanzi Li, TsingHua University, China
• Tao Li, Florida International University, USA
• Wenbin Li, Shijiazhuang University of Economics, China
• Tsau Young Lin, San Jose State University, USA
• Chao-Lin Liu, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
• Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
• Vincenzo Loia, Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica -Univ. degli Studi di Salerno, Italy
• Massimo Marchiori, UNIPD and UTILABS, Italy
• Stefania Marrara, University of Milan, Italy
• Ana Maria Martinez-Enriquez, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico
• Andrea Maurino, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy
• Xiaofeng Meng, Renmin University of China, China
• Paolo Merialdo, Università Roma Tre, Italy
• Alberto Messina, RAI - Centre for Research and Technological Innovation, Italy
• Duoqian Miao, Tongji University, China
• Stefano Mizzaro, University of Udine, Italy
• Pierre Morizet-Mahoudeaux, University of Technology of Compiegne, France
• Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S and University of Hannover, Germany
• Matteo Palmonari, Università di Milano Bicocca, Italy
• Junfeng Pan, Google Inc., USA
• Alessandro Panconesi, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
• Seog Park, Sogang University, Korea
• Alfredo Petrosino, University of Naples "Parthenope", Italy
• Giuseppe Psaila, Universita di Bergamo, Italy
• Guillaume Raschia Université de Nantes, France
• Shigeaki Sakurai, Toshiba Corporation, Japan
• Florence Sedes, University Paul Sabatier, France
• Dou Shen, Microsoft Adcenter Labs, USA
• Qiang Shen, Aberystwyth University, UK
• Amandeep Sidhu, WA Centre for Comparative Genomics, Murdoch University, Australia
• Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland
• Dominik Slezak, Infobright Inc., Poland
• Fabio Stella, Università di Milano Bicocca, Italy
• Umberto Straccia, ISTI-CNR, Italy
• Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim, Germany
• Zhong Su, IBM China Research Lab., China
• Aixin Sun, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• Marcin Sydow, Web Mining Lab, Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Poland
• Piotr Szczepaniak, Technical University of Lodz, Poland
• Marcin Szczuka, The University of Warsaw, Poland
• Yasufumi Takama, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
• Pang-Ning Tan, Michigan State University, USA
• Jie Tang, Tsinghua University, China
• Hiroyuki Tarumi, Kagawa University, Japan
• Pierre Tchounikine, Université de Grenoble 1, France
• Leendert van der Torre, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
• Maria Vargas-Vera, The Open University, UK
• Athanasios V Vasilakos, University of Western Macedonia, Greece
• Jose Vidal, University of South Carolina, USA
• Maurizio Vincini, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
• Gottfried Vossen, University of Munster, Germany
• Fang Wang, BT Group, UK
• Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA
• Hui Xiong, Rutgers University, USA
• Ronald Yager, Iona College, USA
• Seiji Yamada, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
• Takahira Yamaguchi, Keio University, Japan
• Kun Yang, University of Essex, UK
• Jing Tao Yao, University of Regina, Canada
• Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada
• Slawomir Zadrozny, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
• Yanchang Zhao, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
• Aoying Zhou, East China Normal University, China
• Lina Zhou, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
• Wojciech Ziarko, University of Regina, Canada