• Chairs
• Contacts
• Senior Program Committee
• Program Committee
• Local Organizing Committee

Chairs

Conference Chair

Frank van Harmelen
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Program Chairs

Sheila McIlraith
Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
6 King's College Road, Pratt Building Room PT 390, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3H5


Dimitris Plexousakis
Department of Computer Science, University of Crete
and
Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology (FORTH)
GR 711 10 Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Local Chair

Riichiro Mizoguchi
The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University
8-1 Mihogaoka, Ibaraki, Osaka, 567-0047 Japan

Contacts

Tutorial Co-Chairs

Vipul Kashyap
Clinical Knowledge Management Clinical Informatics R&D, Partners HealthCare System, Inc.

Takahira Yamaguchi
Department of Administration, Facluty of Science and Technology, Keio University
3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Yokohama, 223-8522 Japan

Workshop Chair

Natasha Noy
Stanford Medical Informatics, Stanford University
251 Campus Drive, Stanford, CA 94305 USA

Posters Chair

Jeremy J. Carroll
Hewlett Packard Labs, Bristol
Filton Road, Stoke Gifford, Bristol BS34 8QZ U.K.

Demos Chair

Stefan Decker
Digital Enterprise Research Institute, National University of Ireland
Galway, Ireland

Meta-data Chair

Steffen Staab
Institute AIFB, Univ. of Karlsruhe (TH) & Ontoprise GmbH
76128 Karlsruhe, Germany

Semantic Web Challenge Co-Chairs

Michel Klein

Ubbo Visser
TZI - Center for Computing Technologies, University of Bremen
Universitaetsallee 21-23, D-28359 Bremen, Germany

Industrial Track Co-Chairs

Jun-ichi Akahani
NTT Communication Science Laboratories, NTT Corporation
2-4 Hikaridai, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto, 619-0237 Japan

Dean Allemang
TopQuadrant Inc.
141 Howard Drive, Beaver Falls, PA 15010 USA

Sponsor Co-Chairs

Akira Maeda
Hitachi Ltd., Japan

Massimo Paolucci
Robotics Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA

York Sure
Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe (TH)

Exhibition Chair

Hiroshi Tsuda
Fujitsu Ltd., Japan

Publicity Chair

Akiko Inaba
The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University
8-1 Mihogaoka, Ibaraki, Osaka, 567-0047 Japan

Senior Program Committee

Hamish Cunningham	University of Sheffield, UK
Oren Etzioni	University of Washington, USA
Jerome Euzenat	INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France
Tim Finin	University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
Carole Goble	University of Manchester, UK
Benjamin Grosof	Massachussets Institute of Technology, USA
Alon Halevy	University of Washington, USA
Ian Horrocks	University of Manchester, UK
Toru Ishida	Kyoto University, Japan
Boris Katz	MIT, USA
Craig Knoblock	University of Southern California, USA
Nick Kushmerick	University of Dublin, Ireland
Deborah McGuinness	Stanford University, USA
John Mylopoulos	University of Toronto, Canada
Wolfgang Nejdl	University of Hannover, Germany
Zbigniew Ras	University of North Carolina, USA
Michel Scholl	CNAM, France
Guus Schreiber	Vrije University, The Netherlands
Rudi Studer	University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Katia Sycara	Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Hideaki Takeda	National Institute for Informatics, Japan

Program Committee

Karl Aberer	EPFL, Switzerland
Bernd Amann	CNAM-Paris, France
Jose Luis Ambite	ISI, USA
Grigoris Antoniou	ICS FORTH, Greece
Jean Francois Baget	INRIA Alpes, France
Sean Bechhofer	University of Manchester, UK
Zohra Bellahsene	Universite Montpellier II, France
Abraham Bernstein	University of Zurich, Switzerland
Kalina Bontcheva	Univ. Sheffield, UK
Paolo Bouquet	University of Trento, Italy
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw	Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA
Francois Bry	Institute for Informatics, University of Munich, Germany
Mark Burstein	BBN, USA
Diego Calvanese	Free Univ. of Bolzano, Italy
Pierre-Antoine Champin	Univ. Lyon, France
Vinay Chaudhri	SRI, USA
Gregory Cobena	Xyleme, France
Nigel Collier	NII, Japan
Oscar Corcho	ISOCO, Spain
Isabel Cruz	University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
Hasan Davulcu	Arizona State University, USA
Mike Dean	BBN, USA
Stefan Decker	DERI, Ireland
Thierry Declerck	DFKI, Germany
Grit Denker	SRI, USA
Ian Dickinson	Hewlett Packard, UK
Ying Ding	Univ. Innsbruck, Austria
An Hai Doan	UIUC, USA
John Domingue	Open University, UK
Andreas Eberhart	Univ. Karlsruhe, Germany
Boi Faltings	EPFL, Switzerland
Richard Fikes	Stanford University, USA
Dana Florescu	BEA, USA
Aldo Gangemi	CNR, Italy
Yolanda Gil	ISI, USA
Fausto Giounchiglia	Univ. Trento, Italy
Asun Gomez-Perez	UPM, Spain
Marko Grobelnik	IJS, Slovenia
Michael Gruninger	NIST, USA
Nicola Guarino	CNR, Italy
R Guha	IBM, USA
Mohand Said Hacid	University Lyon 1, LIRIS-CNRS, France
Wendy Hall	University of Southampton, UK
Jeff Heflin	Lehigh University, USA
Masahiro Hori	Kansai Univ., Japan
Herman ter Horst	Philips Research, Netherlands
Michael Huhns	University of South Carolina, USA
Rick Hull	Bell Labs, USA
Jane Hunter	University of Queensland, Australia
Zack Ives	University of Pennsylvania, USA
Anupam Joshi	UMBC, USA
Subbarao Kambhampati	Arizona State University, USA
Roger (Buzz) King	University of Colorado, USA
David Kinny	Agentis Software, USA
Atanas Kiryakov	SIRMA, Bulgaria
Yasuhiko Kitamura	Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan
Matthias Klusch	DFKI, Germany
Manolis Koubarakis	Technical University of Crete, Greece
Yannis Labrou	Fujitsu, USA
Ora Lassila	Nokia Research, USA
Thibaud Latour	CRP Henri Tudor, Luxembourg
Georg Lausen	Univ. Freiburg, Germany
Chen Li	University of California, Irvine, USA
Robert MacGregor	ISI, USA
David Martin	SRI, USA
Mihhail Matskin	KTH, Sweden
Masaki Matsudaira	OKI, Japan
Diana Maynard	Univ. Sheffield, UK
Brian McBride	Hewlett Packard, UK
Frank McCabe	Fujitsu, USA
Drew McDermott	Yale University, USA
Lucas McDowell	Univ. Washington, USA
Sergey Melnik	Microsoft Research, USA
Pavlos Moraitis	University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Mark Musen	Stanford Univ., USA
Tim Oates	University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
Massimo Paolucci	CMU, USA
Bijan Parsia	University of Maryland, USA
Peter Patel-Schneider	Bell Labs, USA
Terry Payne	University of Southampton, UK
Paulo Pinheiro da Silva	Stanford University, USA
Alan Rector	University of Manchester, USA
Chantal Reynaud	Univ. Orsay - LRI, France
Mark Roantree	Dublin City University, Ireland
Marie-Christine Rousset	Univ. Orsay, France
Henryk Rybinski	Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Norman Sadeh	CMU, USA
Fereidoon Sadri	University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Ulrike Sattler	University of Manchester, UK
Nigel Shadbolt	University of Southampton, UK
Wolf Siberski	Learning Lab, Univ. Hannover, Germany
Michael Sintek	DFKI GmbH, Germany
Andrzej Skowron	Instituite of Mathematics Warsaw University, Poland
Steffen Staab	Univ. Karlsruhe & Ontoprise GmbH, Germany
Lynn Andrea Stein	Olin College, USA
Heiner Stuckenschmidt	Vrije University, Netherlands
Gerd Stumme	University of Kassel, Germany
Said Tabet	Nisus Inc., USA
Val Tannen	University of Pennsylvania, USA
Yannis Tzitzikas	University of Namur, Belgium
Andrzej Uszok	Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA
Dan Vodislav	CNAM, France
Christopher Welty	IBM Watson Research Center, USA
Kevin Wilkinson	HP Labs, USA
Steve Willmott	Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Michael Wooldridge	Univ. Liverpool, UK
Guizhen Yang	SUNY - Buffalo, USA
Yiyu Yao	University of Regina, Canada
Ning Zhong	Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
Djamel Zighed	Univ. Lyon, France

List of Local Organizing Committee Members

Riichiro Mizoguchi	Osaka University (LOC Chair)
Jun-ichi Akahani	NTT Communication Science Laboratories
Kazuo Asakawa	Information Technology Media Laboratories, Fujitsu Laboratories
Nigel Collier	National Institute of Informatics
Kiyoshi Hara	Nihon Unisys Software
Koiti Hasida	National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Tsukasa Hirashima	Hiroshima University
Masahiro Hori	Kansai University
Mitsuru Ikeda	Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Toru Ishida	Kyoto Univeristy
Noriaki Izumi	National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Akifumi Kambara	INTAP
Yasuhiko Kitamura	Kwansei Gakuin University
Yoshinobu Kitamura	Osaka University
Kiyoshi Kogure	ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories
Ken Kuriyama	Gakken
Akira Maeda	Systems Development Laboratory, Hitachi Ltd.
Katashi Nagao	Nagoya University
Yukio Osawa	Tsukuba University
Nobuo Saitoh	Keio University
Hideo Shimazu	NEC Corporation
Kazuo Sumita	Corporate Research and Development Center, Toshiba
Hideaki Takeda	National Institute of Informatics
Shinichiro Tanaka	Toyota Motor Corporation (Auditor)
Hiroshi Tsuda	Information Technology Media Laboratories, Fujitsu Laboratories
Jun-ichi Tsujii	University of Tokyo
Takahira Yamaguchi	Keio University
Toshio Yokoi	Tokyo Institute of Technology
Ning Zhong	Maebashi Institute of Technology

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