ICSC 2008

Organizing Committee

Steering Committee:

C. V. Ramamoorthy, University of California Berkeley, USA(Chair)

Jake Aggarwal, University of Texas, Austin, USA

Nikolaos Bourbakis, Wright State University, USA

Arif Ghafoor, Purdue University, USA

A.K. Onoma, Hosei University, Japan

Raymond Paul, Department of Defense, USA

Amit Sheth, Wright State University, USA

Jeffrey Tsai, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA

General Co-Chairs:

Paul Croll, Computer Sciences Corporation, USA

Max Mühlhäuser, Darmstadt University, Germany

Phillip Sheu, University of California, Irvine, USA

Conference Co-Chairs:

Eero Hyvonen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

Martha Palmer, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA

Heather Yu, Huawei Technologies, USA

Mitsuru Ishizuka, University of Tokyo, Japan

Technical Program Co-Chairs:

Gerald Friedland, ICSI Berkeley. USA

Craig Martell, Naval Postgraduate School, USA

Technical Area Co-Chairs:

* Natural Language Processing

Iryna Gurevych, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany

Dan Bikel, IBM Watson, USA

* Audio and Speech Processing

Dilek Hakkani-Tur, International Computer Science Institute, USA

Christian Mueller, DFKI Saarbruecken, Germany

* Multimedia, and Visual Semantics

William Bishop, University of Waterloo, Canada

Zhu Li, Motorola Labs, USA

* Knowledge Engineering and Data Mining

Andrew Schein, WorldQuant LLC, USA

Shashi Shekhar, University of Minnesota, USA

* Semantic Web, Ontologies, and Ontology Integration

Dennis McLeod, University of Southern California, USA

Stefania Galizia, The Open University, UK

* Services and Software Engineering

Li Zhang, BUAA, China

Richard S. Hall, Tufts University, MA, USA

* Human-Computer Interaction

Lars Knipping, Technische Universitaet Berlin, Germany

* Systems and applications

Zhu Liu, AT&T, USA

Ramazan Savas Aygun, University of Alabama, Huntsville, USA

Industry Program Co-Chairs:

Christopher Bussler, BEA Systems, USA

Mark Wood, Eastman Kodak, USA

Special Session Co-Chairs:

Radu Florian, IBM Watson, USA

Rodrigo Guido, University of San Paulo, Brazil

Balakrishman Prabhakaran, University of Texas at Dallas, USA

Tutorial Co-Chairs:

Mei-Ling Shyu, University of Miami, USA

Mario Kolberg, University of Stirling, UK

Workshop Co-Chairs:

Dong Yu, Microsoft, USA

Chengcui Zhang, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA

Panel Co-Chairs:

Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, USA

Mark Wood, Eastman Kodak, USA

Demo Chair:

Christopher Bussler, BEA Systems, USA

Best Paper Award Co-Chairs:

Tao Wu, Nokia, USA

Xiao-Ping Zhang, Ryerson University, Canada

Patron Co-Chair:

Phillip Sheu, University of California, Irvine, USA

Jaideep Srivastava, University of Minnesota, USA

Publicity Co-Chairs

Keith Chan, Hong Kong Polytech University, China

Enhong Chen, University of Science and Technology, China

Stefania Galizia, Open University, UK

Fadi Hanna, University of Windsor, Canada

Chun Jin, AT&T, USA

Yiannis Kompatsiaris, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece

Nandan Paramesh, University of New South Wales, Australia

Helmut Prendinger, National Institute of Informatics, Japan

Giovanni Pilato, Italian National Research Council, Italy

Ilja Radusch, Technische Universitaet Berlin, Germany

Ying Shi, State Key Laboratory of Software Engineering, Wuhan University, China

Chuan Yi Tang, National Tsinghua University, Taiwan

Publications Chair

Nadine Ludwig, Technische Universitaet Berlin, Germany

Finance Chair

Taehyung Wang, California State University Northridge, USA

Local Arrangement Chair

Ali Begen, Cisco, USA

Donghua Deng, Juniper, USA

Registration Co-Chairs

Shu Wang, University of California, Irvine, USA

Qi Wang, University of California, Irvine, USA

Web Chair

Yvonne Friedland, Credit.com, USA