Conference Chairs

  • Michael Rappa, North Carolina State University (USA)
  • Paul Jones, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (USA)

Program Committee Chairs

Tutorials Chairs

Workshops Chairs

Panels Chair

Posters Chairs

Applications, Experience and Demos Chairs

W3C Track Chair

Developers Track Chair

Awards Committee Chair

  • Bebo White, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, emeritus, (USA)

Area Chairs

Program Committee Members

  • Karl Aberer, EPFL Lausanne (Switzerland)
  • Alessandro Acquisti, Carnegie Mellon University (USA)
  • Eytan Adar, University of Washington (USA)
  • Ben Adida, Harvard University (USA)
  • Deepak Agarwal, Yahoo! Research (USA)
  • Charu Aggarwal, IBM Research (USA)
  • Eugene Agichtein, Emory University (USA)
  • Gail-Joon Ahn, Arizona State University (USA)
  • Kiyoharu Aizawa, University of Tokyo (Japan)
  • Harith Alani, Open University (UK)
  • Gustavo Alonso, ETH Zürich (Switzerland)
  • Jose Luis Ambite, University of Southern California (USA)
  • Einat Amitay, IBM Research (Israel)
  • Aris Anagnostopoulos, Sapienza Università di Roma (Italy)
  • Vo Ngoc Anh, University of Melbourne (Australia)
  • Lora Aroyo, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
  • Moshe Babaioff, Microsoft Research (USA)
  • Lars Backstrom, Cornell University (USA)
  • Peter Bailey, Microsoft Research (USA)
  • Maria-Florina Balcan, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA)
  • Wolf-Tilo Balke, Leibniz Universität Hannover (Germany)
  • Krisztian Balog, University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
  • Denilson Barbosa, University of Alberta (Canada)
  • Luciano Barbosa, AT&T Research (USA)
  • Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano (Italy)
  • Adam Barth, University of California, Berkeley (USA)
  • Srikanta Bedathur, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik (Germany)
  • Behshad Behzadi, Google (Switzerland)
  • Boualem Benatallah, University of New South Wales (Australia)
  • András A. Benczúr, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Hungary)
  • Richard Benjamins, Telefonica Research (Spain)
  • Paul N. Bennett, Microsoft Research (USA)
  • Abraham Bernstein, University of Zürich (Switzerland)
  • Jean Bézivin, Université de Nantes (France)
  • Sourav Bhowmick, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)
  • Misha Bilenko, Microsoft Research (USA)
  • Christian Bizer, Freie Universität Berlin (Germany)
  • Philip Bohannon, Yahoo! Research (USA)
  • Paolo Boldi, Università di Milano (Italy)
  • Francesco Bonchi, Yahoo! Research (Spain)
  • Angela Bonifati, Icar-CNR (Italy)
  • Vanessa Braganholo, IM Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
  • Stefan Buettcher, Google (USA)
  • Fabian Bustamante, Northwestern University (USA)
  • Jordi Cabot, University of Toronto (Canada)
  • Michael Cafarella, Univesity of Washington (USA)
  • Yunbo Cao, Microsoft Research (China)
  • Michael Carey, University of California, Irvine (USA)
  • David Carmel, IBM Research (Israel)
  • Sven Casteleyn, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium)
  • Claude Castelluccia, INRIA Grenoble (France)
  • Carlos Castillo, Yahoo! Research (Spain)
  • Ciro Cattuto, ISI Foundation (Italy)
  • Luca Cernuzzi, Universidad Católica “Nuestra Señora de la Asunción” (Paraguay)
  • Deepayan Chakrabarti, Yahoo! Research (USA)
  • Raman Chandrasekar, Microsoft Research (USA)
  • Kevin Chang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA)
  • Yi Chang, Yahoo! Research (USA)
  • Nitesh Chawla, University of Notre Dame (USA)
  • Shiping Chen, CSIRO (Australia)
  • Yi Chen, Arizona State University (USA)
  • Yixin Chen, University of Mississippi (USA)
  • Yueguo Chen, Renmin University (China)
  • William K. Cheung, Hong Kong Baptist University (China)
  • Yun Chi, NEC Laboratories America (USA)
  • Steve Chien, Microsoft Research (USA)
  • Abdur Chowdhury, Illinois Institute of Technology (USA)
  • Tat-Seng Chua, University of Singapore (Singapore)
  • John Chuang, University of California, Berkeley (USA)
  • Philipp Cimiano, Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands)
  • Anna Cinzia Squicciarini, Pennsylvania State University (USA)
  • Charlie Clarke, Univesity of Waterloo (Canada)
  • Aaron Clauset, Santa Fe Institute (USA)
  • Bruno Codenotti, Istituto di Informatica e Telematica del CNR (Italy)
  • Michele Colajanni, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia (Italy)
  • Gao Cong, Aalborg University (Denmark)
  • Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain)
  • Corinna Cortes, Google (USA)
  • Dan Cosley, Cornell University (USA)
  • David Crandall, Cornell University (USA)
  • Lorrie Cranor, Carnegie Mellon University (USA)
  • Bruce Croft, University of Massachusetts at Amherst (USA)
  • Isabel Cruz, University of Illinois at Chicago (USA)
  • Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Oxford University (UK)
  • Bin Cui, Peking University (China)
  • Paco Curbera, IBM Research (USA)
  • Ed Cutrell, Microsoft Research (USA)
  • George Danezis, Microsoft Research (UK)
  • Florian Daniel, University of Trento (Italy)
  • Gautam Das, University of Texas at Arlington (USA)
  • Mayur Datar, Google (USA)
  • Ritendra Datta, Google (USA)
  • Brian Davison, Lehigh University (USA)
  • Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Università di Milano (Italy)
  • Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
  • Mike Dean, BBN Technologies (USA)
  • Oscar Diaz, Universidad del País Vasco (Spain)
  • Li Ding, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (USA)
  • Anhai Doan, University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA)
  • John Domingue, Open University (UK)
  • Debora Donato, Yahoo! Research (Spain)
  • Luna Dong, AT&T Labs (USA)
  • Steven Drucker, Microsoft Research (USA)
  • Xiaoyong Du, Renmin University (China)
  • Susan Dumais, Microsoft Research (USA)
  • Marlon Dumas, University of Tartu (Estonia)
  • Doree Duncan Seligman, Avaya Labs Research (USA)
  • Nathan Eagle, Santa Fe Institute (USA)
  • Thomas Eiter, Technische Universität Wien (Austria)
  • Charles Elkan, University of California, San Diego (USA)
  • Byron Ellis, AdBrite (USA)
  • Martin Ester, Simon Fraser University (Canada)
  • Jerome Euzenat, INRIA Grenoble (France)
  • Wei Fan, IBM Research (USA)
  • Hui Fang, University of Delaware (USA)
  • Junlan Feng, AT&T Labs (USA)
  • Paolo Ferragina, Università di Pisa (Italy)
  • Timothy Wilking Finin , University of Maryland at Baltimore County (USA)
  • Danyel Fisher, Microsoft Research (USA)
  • Marcus Fontoura, Yahoo! Research (USA)
  • Blaz Fortuna, Jozef Stefan Institute (Slovenia)
  • Jill Freyne, CSIRO (Australia)
  • Ariel Fuxman, Microsoft Research (USA)
  • Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Yahoo! Research (USA)
  • Thomas Gaertner, Fraunhofer IAIS (Germany)
  • Philippa Gardner, Imperial College (UK)
  • Dragan Gašević, Simon Fraser University (Canada)
  • Mário J. Gaspar da Silva, Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal)
  • Daniel Gatica-Perez, Idiap Research Institute (Switzerland)
  • Floris Geerts, University of Edinburgh (UK)
  • Johannes Gehrke, Cornell University (USA)
  • Werner Geyer, IBM Research (USA)
  • Rayid Ghanis, Accenture Technology Labs (USA)
  • C. Lee Giles, Pennsylvania State University (USA)
  • Aristides Gionis, Yahoo! Research (USA)
  • Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento (Italy)
  • Christos Gkantsidis, Microsoft Research (USA)
  • Natalie Glance, Google (USA)
  • Carole Goble, University of Manchester (UK)
  • Sharad Goel, Yahoo! Research (USA)
  • Sreenivas Gollapudi, Microsoft Research (USA)
  • Gene Golovchinsky, FX Palo Alto Lab (USA)
  • Luis Gravano, Columbia Univerisity (USA)
  • Marko Grobelnik, Jozef Stefan Institute (Slovenia)
  • Paul Groth, University of Southern California (USA)
  • Sven Groupner, Hewlett-Packard (USA)
  • Antonio Gulli, STC Europe (UK)
  • Krishna Gummadi, Max-Planck-Institut für Softwaresysteme (Germany)
  • Emin Gün Sirer, Cornell University (USA)
  • Maxim Gurevich, Technion (Israel)
  • Alex Halderman, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (USA)
  • Jiawei Han, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA)
  • Takahiro Hara, Osaka University (Japan)
  • Manfred Hauswirth, Digital Enterprise Research Institute (Ireland)
  • David Hawking, CSIRO (Australia)
  • Jeff Heflin, Lehigh University (USA)
  • Jake Hofman, Yahoo! Research (USA)
  • Markus Hofman, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs (USA)
  • Jun Hong, Queen’s University Belfast (UK)
  • Eva Hörster, Universität Augsburg (Germany)
  • Andreas Hotho, Universität Kassel (Germany)
  • Geert-Jan Houben, Technical University of Delft (The Netherlands)
  • Winston H. Hsu , National Taiwan University (Taiwan)
  • Xian-Sheng Hua, Microsoft Research (China)
  • Jane Hunter, University of Queensland (Australia)
  • Matthew Hurst, Microsoft Research (USA)
  • Eero Hyvönen, Helsinki University of Technology (Finland)
  • Adriana Iamnitchi, University of South Florida (USA)
  • Nicole Immorlica, Northwestern University (USA)
  • Panagiotis Ipeirotis, New York University (USA)
  • Zach Ives, University of Pennsylvania (USA)
  • Arun Iyengar, IBM Research (USA)
  • Kamal Jain, Microsoft Research (USA)
  • Glen Jeh, Google (USA)
  • Dhiraj Joshi , Kodak Research Labs (USA)
  • Jussi Kangasharju, University of Helsinki (Finland)
  • Murat Kantarcioglu, University of Texas at Dallas (USA)
  • Apu Kapadia, Indiana University (USA)
  • Jussi Karlgren, Swedish Institute of Computer Science (Sweden)
  • Krishnaram Kenthapadi, Microsoft Research (USA)
  • Hong-Gee Kim, Seoul National University (South Korea)
  • Sang-Wook Kim, Hanyang University (South Korea)
  • Irwin King, Chinese University of Hong Kong (China)
  • Sam King, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA)
  • Yoshinobu Kitamura, Osaka University (Japan)
  • Masaru Kitsuregawa, University of Tokyo (Japan)
  • Solmaz Kolahi, Univesity of British Columbia (Canada)
  • Aleksander Kolcz, Microsoft Research (USA)
  • Georgia Koloniari, University of Ioannina (Greece)
  • Gueorgi Kossinets, Google (USA)
  • Georgia Koutrika, Stanford University (USA)
  • Balachander Krishnamurthy, AT&T Labs (USA)
  • Peer Kroger, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen (Germany)
  • Ravi Kumar, Yahoo! Research (USA)
  • Oren Kurland, Technion (Israel)
  • Alberto Laender, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil)
  • Mounia Lalmas, University of Glasgow (UK)
  • Wai Lam, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (China)
  • Kevin Lang, Yahoo! Research (USA)
  • Adam Lee, University of Pittsburgh (USA)
  • Juanzi Lee, Tsinghua University (China)
  • Wang-Chien Lee, Pennsylvania State University (USA)
  • Wenke Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA)
  • Ronny Lempel, Yahoo! Research (Israel)
  • Guoliang Li, Tsinghua University (China)
  • Hang Li, Microsoft Research (China)
  • Ninghui Li, Purdue University (USA)
  • David Liben-Nowell, Carleton College (USA)
  • Ee-Peng Lim, Singapore Management University (Singapore)
  • Ching-Yung Lin , IBM Research (USA)
  • Chao Liu, Microsoft Research (USA)
  • Huan Liu, Arizona State University (USA)
  • Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA)
  • Tie-Yan Liu, Microsoft Research (China)
  • Yunhao Liu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (China)
  • Dmitri Loguinov, Texas A&M University (USA)
  • Alexander Löser, Technischen Universität Berlin (Germany)
  • Heiko Ludwig, IBM Research (USA)
  • Rob Luenberger, AOL (USA)
  • Michael R. Lyu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (China)
  • Yoelle Maarek, Yahoo! Research (Israel)
  • Sofus Macskassy, Fetch Technologies (USA)
  • Bruce Maggs, Carnegie Mellon University (USA)
  • Anirban Mahanti, NICTA (Australia)
  • Michael Mahoney, Stanford University (USA)
  • Yutaka Matsuo, University of Tokyo (Japan)
  • Kevin McCurley, Google (USA)
  • Patrick McDaniel, Pennsylvania State University (USA)
  • Qiaozhu Mei, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (USA)
  • Massimo Melucci, Università di Padova (Italy)
  • Donald Metzler, Yahoo! Research (USA)
  • Peter Mika, Yahoo! Research (Spain)
  • Vahab Mirrokni, Google (USA)
  • Riichiro Mizoguchi, Osaka University (Japan)
  • Dunja Mladenic, Jozef Stefan Institute (Slovenia)
  • Bamshad Mobasher, DePaul University (USA)
  • Shinichi Morishita, University of Tokyo (Japan)
  • Mirella Moro, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil)
  • Hamid Motahari, Hewlett-Packard (USA)
  • Boris Motik, Oxford University (UK)
  • Vanessa Murdock, Yahoo! Research (Spain)
  • Mor Naaman, Rutgers University (USA)
  • Prasad Naldurg, Microsoft Research (India)
  • Olfa Nasraoui, University of Louisville (USA)
  • Wolfgang Nejdl, Leibniz Universität Hannover (Germany)
  • Jeffrey Nichols, IBM Research (USA)
  • Zaiqing Nie, Microsoft Research (China)
  • Natasha Noy, Stanford University (USA)
  • Alexandros Ntoulas, Microsoft Research (USA)
  • Daniel Oberle, SAP Research (Germany)
  • Nuria Oliver , Telefonica Research (Spain)
  • Martin Olivier, University of Pretoria (South Africa)
  • Christopher Olston, Yahoo! Research (USA)
  • Beng Chin Ooi, National University of Singapore (Singapore)
  • Iadh Ounis, University of Glasgow (UK)
  • Jeff Pan, University of Aberdeen (UK)
  • Paolo Paopotti, Università di Roma Tre (Italy)
  • Olga Papaemmanouil, Brandeis University (USA)
  • Yannis Papakonstantinou, University of California, San Diego (USA)
  • David Parkes, Harvard University (USA)
  • Josiane Parreira, DERI (Ireland)
  • Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Ohio State University (USA)
  • Marius Pasca, Google (USA)
  • Oscar Pastor, Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain)
  • Cesare Pautasso, Università di Lugano (Switzerland)
  • Terry Payne, University of Liverpool (UK)
  • Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University (Canada)
  • Michalis Petropoulos, State University of New York at Buffalo (USA)
  • Jeremy Pickens, FX Palo Alto Lab (USA)
  • Alfonso Pierantonio, Universita di L’Aquila (Italy)
  • Guillaume Pierre, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
  • Axel Polleres, Digital Enterprise Research Institute (Ireland)
  • Neoklis Polyzotis, University of California, Santa Cruz (USA)
  • Birgit Pröll, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz (Austria)
  • Kunal Punera, Yahoo! Research (USA)
  • Lili Qiu, University of Texas at Austin (USA)
  • Fethi Rabhi, University of New South Wales (Australia)
  • Balazs Racz, Google (Switzerland)
  • Filip Radlinski, Microsoft Research (UK)
  • Sriram Raghavan, IBM Research (USA)
  • Azzurra Ragone, Politecnico di Bari (Italy)
  • Krithi Ramamritham, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (India)
  • Maya Ramanath, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik (Germany)
  • Gilad Ravid, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Israel)
  • Manfred Reichert, University of Ulm (Germany)
  • Reza Rejaie, University of Oregon (USA)
  • Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, Google (Brazil)
  • Matt Richardson, Microsoft Research (USA)
  • Gerhard Rigoll, Technische Universität München (Germany)
  • Pablo Rodriguez, Telefonica Research (Spain)
  • Tim Roughgarden, Stanford University (USA)
  • Dan Russell, Google (USA)
  • Regis Saint-Paul, Create-Net (Italy)
  • Rahul Sami, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (USA)
  • Tamas Sarlos, Yahoo! Research (USA)
  • Ulrike Sattler, University of Manchester (UK)
  • Ralf Schenkel, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik (Germany)
  • Ansgar Scherp, Universität Koblenz-Landau (Germany)
  • Rick Schlichting, AT&T Labs (USA)
  • Patrick Schmitz, University of California, Berkeley (USA)
  • Falk Scholer, RMIT University (Australia)
  • Guus Schreiber, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
  • Daniel Schwabe, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
  • Pierre Senellart, Télécom ParisTech (France)
  • N Sadat Shami, IBM Research (USA)
  • Jai Shanmugasundaram, Yahoo! Research (USA)
  • Dou Shen, Microsoft Research (USA)
  • Heng Tao Shen, University of Queensland (Australia)
  • Elaine Shi, Palo Alto Research Center (USA)
  • Weisong Shi, Wayne State University (USA)
  • Vitaly Shmatikov, University of Texas at Austin (USA)
  • Wolf Siberski, Leibniz Universität Hannover (Germany)
  • Edleno Silva de Moura, Universidade Federal do Amazonas (Brazil)
  • Fabrizio Silvestri, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione (Italy)
  • Michael Sintek, Deutsche Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (Germany)
  • Evren Sirin, University of Maryland (USA)
  • Swami Sivasubramanian, Amazon.com (USA)
  • Malcolm Slaney, Yahoo! Research (USA)
  • Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University (Ireland)
  • Ian Soboroff, National Institute of Standards and Technology (USA)
  • Vova Soroka, IBM Research (Israel)
  • Myra Spiliopoulou, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg (Germany)
  • Divesh Srivastava, AT&T Labs (USA)
  • Steffen Staab, Universität Koblenz-Landau (Germany)
  • Trevor Strohman, Google (USA)
  • Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Universitaet Mannheim (Germany)
  • Bongwon Suh, Palo Alto Research Center (USA)
  • Stefan Tai, Universität Karlsruhe (Germany)
  • Hideaki Takeda, National Institute of Informatics (Japan)
  • Valentina Tamma, University of Liverpool (UK)
  • Katsumi Tanaka, Kyoto University (Japan)
  • Diane Tang, Google (USA)
  • Jie Tang, Tsinghua University (China)
  • Jaime Teevan, Microsoft Research (USA)
  • Balder ten Cate, University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
  • Takehiro Tokuda, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan)
  • Riccardo Torlone, Università di Roma Tre (Italy)
  • Farouk Toumani, Université Blaise Pascal (France)
  • Masashi Toyoda, University of Tokyo (Japan)
  • Raphael Troncy, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (The Netherlands)
  • Panayiotis Tsaparas, Microsoft Research (USA)
  • Trystan Upstill, Google (USA)
  • Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Pennsylvania State University (USA)
  • Antonio Vallecillo, Universidad de Málaga (Spain)
  • Kobus Van Der Merwe, AT&T Labs (USA)
  • Vassilis Vassalos, University of Athens (Greece)
  • Julien Vayssière, Smart Services CRC (Australia)
  • Michalis Vazirgiannis, Athens University of Economics & Business (Greece)
  • Stratis Viglas, University of Edinburgh (UK)
  • Chris Volinsky, AT&T Labs (USA)
  • Denny Vrandecic, Universität Karlsruhe (Germany)
  • William Walsh, CombineNet (USA)
  • Guoren Wang, Northeastern University (China)
  • Xin-Jing Wang, Microsoft Research (China)
  • Xuanhui Wang, Yahoo! Research (USA)
  • Ingo Weber, University of New South Wales (Australia)
  • Gerhard Weikum, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik (Germany)
  • Michael Wellman, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (USA)
  • Ji-Rong Wen, Microsoft Research (China)
  • Carey Williamson, University of Calgary (Canada)
  • Craig Wills, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (USA)
  • Max L. Wilson, Swansea Univerisity (UK)
  • Peter Wood, Birkbeck, University of London (UK)
  • Gang Wu, Microsoft Research (USA)
  • Michael Wurst, IBM Research (Germany)
  • Lexing Xie, IBM Research (USA)
  • Xing Xie, Microsoft Research (China)
  • Gui-Rong Xue, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China)
  • Jay Yagnik, Google (USA)
  • Takahira Yamaguchi, Keio University (Japan)
  • ShuiCheng Yan, National University of Singapore (Singapore)
  • Keiji Yanai, University of Electro-Communications (Japan)
  • Qiang Yang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (China)
  • Ron Yang, IBM Research (USA)
  • Danfeng Yao, Rutgers University (USA)
  • Peter Yeh, University of Texas at Austin (USA)
  • Cong Yu, Yahoo! Research (USA)
  • Jeffrey Xu Yu, Chinese University of Hong Kong (China)
  • Yong Yu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China)
  • Hugo Zaragoza, Yahoo! Research (Spain)
  • Hongyuan Zha, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA)
  • ChengXiang Zhai, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA)
  • Haizheng Zhang, Microsoft Research (USA)
  • Lei Zhang, Microsoft Research (China)
  • Min Zhang, Tsinghua University (China)
  • Rui Zhang, The University of Melbourne (Australia)
  • Xiaodong Zhang, Ohio State University (USA)
  • Zhenjie Zhang, National U. of Singapore (Singapore)
  • Aoying Zhou, Fudan University (China)
  • Xuan Zhou,  CSIRO (Australia)
  • Nivio Ziviani, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil)

IW3C2 Liaison

  • Bebo White, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, emeritus, (USA)

Conference Steering Committee

Local Arrangements Committee

  • Kathy Green (chair), North Carolina State University
  • Maryanne Friend, NC Department of Cultural Resources
  • Joe Newberry, NC Department of Cultural Resources
  • Kristin Nordstrom, Red Hat
  • Laurie Okun, Raleigh Convention Center
  • Kathleen McCasland, YCC