Organizing Committee

Conference Chair:	James G. (Jimi) Shanahan (Church and Duncan Group, Inc., USA)
DB Area Chair:	Sihem Amer-Yahia (Yahoo! Research, USA)
DB Assistant-Chair:	Ioana Manolescu (INRIA, France)
IR Area Chair:	Yi Zhang (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)
IR Assistant-Chair:	David A. Evans (JustSystems Evans Research, USA)
KM Area Chair:	Alek Kolcz (Microsoft Live Labs)
KM Assistant-Chair:	Key-Sun Choi (Department Head Professor of Computer Science, KAIST	Korea)
Industry Chair:	Abdur Chowdury (Summize.com, USA)
Proceedings Chair:	Diane Kelly (University of North Carolina, USA)
Tutorials Chair:	Neel Sundaresan (eBay Research Labs, USA)
Workshops Chair:	Gregory Grefenstette (CEA LIST, France)
Local Area Chair:	Goutham Kurra (Turn, Inc, USA)
Sponsorship Chair:	Yan Qu (Advertising.com, USA)
PR Chair:	Mounia Lalmas (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)
Treasurer:	Ryen W. White (Microsoft Research)
Web Master:	Disco Gerdes (Twinnov Web Development)

Goutham Kurra	Turn, Inc, USA (Area Chair)
Jing Bai	Yahoo! Research, USA
Amy Daggett
Kelly Mullane
Erica E. Wray	Attorney at Law, San Francisco, CA, USA

Mario J. Silva	Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Alberto A. F. Laender	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Ricardo Baeza-Yates	Yahoo! Research, Spain/Chile
Dongwon Lee	Penn State university, USA
Pedro Fernandes	Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia, Portugal
Francisco M. Couto	Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.
Andre Falcao	Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.

E.K. Park	University of Missouri at Kansas City, USA (Chair)
Charles Nicholas	University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
Ophir Frieder	Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
David Grossman	Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Calton Pu	Georgia Tech, USA
Il Yeol Song	Drexel Uinversity, USA