Conference organisation

Advisory Committee:
Amit Sheth, Ohio Center of Excellence on Knowledge-enabled Computing, Ohio
Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, NL
Grigoris Antoniou, FORTH-Institute of Computer Science, Greece
Guus Schreiber, Vrije University Amsterdam, NL
Harold Boley, Semantic Web Laboratory, Institute for Information Technology, NRC, Fredericton, Canada 
James Hendler, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Takahira Yamaguchi, Keio University, Japan  

Program Chair:
Rajendra Akerkar, Western Norway Research Institute, Norway

Tutorial and Demo Co-chair:
Robert Engels, ESIS & WNRI, Norway

Program Committee:
Adrian Giurca, BTU Cottbus, Germany
Alexander Gelbukh, National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico
Alfio Massimiliano Gliozzo, Italian National Research Council, Italy  
Alejandro Jaimes, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain
Alessandro Provetti, University of Messina. Messina, Italy
Alex Conconi, TXT e-Solutions, Italy 
Alexander Mädche, University of Mannheim, Germany
Alexandre Passant, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Andre C P L F de Carvalho, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Andreas Blumauer, Semantic Web Company GmbH, Vienna, Austria
Anna Fensel, FTW and STI Innsbruck, Austria
Arjen P. de Vries, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Amsterdam, NL; and, Delft University of Technology, Delft, NL 
Christoph Lange, Jacobs Univ. Bremen, Germany 
Costin Badica, Universitatea din Craiova, Romania  
Daniel Lemire, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada 
David Camacho, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
Debajyoti Mukhopadhyay, Calcutta Business School, India
Diana Santos, SINTEF, Oslo, Norway  
Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, U.K.
Dragan Gasevic,  Canada Research Chair in Semantic Technologies, Athabasca University, Canada 
Eetu Mäkelä, Aalto University, Finland 
Elena Zamsa,  Information Society Development Institute, Republic of Moldova
Eriks Sneiders, Stockholm University, Sweden
Esma Aimeur, University of Montreal, Canada  
Fabio Rinaldi, University of Zurich, Switzerland
François Bry, Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich, Germany
Giacomo Fiumara, University of Messina, Italy   
Grzegorz J. Nalepa, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland 
Henry Hexmoor, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, USA
Ivan Jelinek, Czech Technical University, Prague
Jacques Calmet, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany 
Jidi (Judy) Zhao, Univeristy of New Brunswick, Canada 
Jie Zhang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
John R Elliott, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK
Jong C. Park, KAIST, Korea
Jung-jae Kim, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Kanagasabai Rajaraman, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore  
Keith C.C. Chan, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Ken Currie, CAPDM Ltd., Edinburgh, UK
Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Microsoft Research,Redmond, USA
Marek Obitko, Czech Technical University & Rockwell Automation Research Center, Prague  
Markus Zanker, University Klagenfurt, Austria 
Martine De Cock, Ghent University, Belgium   
Michael Hausenblas, Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), NUI Galway, Ireland
Miguel-Angel Sicilia, University of Alcalá, Spain
Milan Milanovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Miltos Petridis, University of Greenwich, London, UK
Mohammad Essaaidi, University of Tétouan, Morocco 
Nicola Fanizzi, University of Bari, Italy
Paola Di Maio, University of Strathclyde, UK
Paulo Alexandre Ribeiro Cortez, University of Minho, Portugal 
Patrick Albert, IBM, France  
Pierre Maret,  University of Lyon, France
Prasad Tadepalli , Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA
Priti Srinivas Sajja,  Sardar Patel University, India
Reinhold Behringer, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK
Richi Nayak, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
Robert West, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Roberto García González, Universitat de Lleida, Spain 
Rodrigo Capobianco Guido, Speechlab/IFSC/USP, Brazil 
Sandra Lovrenčić, University of Zagreb, Croatia 
Sang Yong Han, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea 
Seiji Yamada,  National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan 
Sławomir Zadrożny, Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland 
Tassilo Pellegrini, Semantic Web Company GmbH, Vienna,  Austria.
Tim Furche, Oxford University Computing Laboratories, UK  
Tommaso Di Noia, Technical University of Bari, Italy
Tzung-Pei Hong,  National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Vasant Honavar,  Iowa state university,  USA
Vijay Raghavan, University of Louisiana, USA
Viorel Negru, West University of Timisoara,  Romania
Yasufumi Takama, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
Yiannis Kompatsiaris, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece 
Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada
Yorick Wilks,  University of Sheffield, UK
Yuh-Jong Hu, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan
Zhihua Cui,  Taiyuan University of Science and Technology, Taiyuan, China
Zora Konjovic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia