dbjapanメーリングリストアーカイブ(2004年)
Fw: DASFAA 2004 Call for Participation (Early Registration due: Feb. 17, 2004)
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日本データベース学会
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3月17日~19日に韓国済州(Jeju)島で開催されるDASFAA国際会議のC-F-PATです.今回は272件というDASFAA始まって以来の多数の投稿論文の中から数十件(ポスターを含む)が選ばれました.プログラムは添付ファイルのとおりです.現在早割を受付中です(2月17日まで).済州島は日本からも近いですし,是非参加してください.
ちなみに,来年は中国で開催します.また来年4月初旬に東京で開催されるICDE2005と日程を連動した開催になると思います.
DASFAA2004 Japan Coordinator
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DASFAA-2004 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ****************************************************************************** The 9th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications ****************************************************************************** March 17-19, 2004, Jeju Island, Korea http://aitrc.kaist.ac.kr/~dasfaa04 Organized by Special Interest Group on Database (SIGDB) of KISS, Korea Advanced Information Technology Research Center (AITrc), a KOSEF ERC, Korea Sponsored by Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) Air Force Office of Scientific Research Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development Army Research Office--Far East Oracle Korea Samsung SDS Korea Telecom Data Inc. Acamedic Sponsors Korea Information Science Society (KISS) Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) Database Society of China Computer Federation (CCF DBS) Database Society of Japan In Cooperation With ACM SIGMOD ----------------------------- ** AIMS OF THE CONFERENCE ** ----------------------------- This conference provides an international forum for technical discussion among researchers, developers and users of database systems from academia, business and industry. DASFAA focuses on research in database theory, development of advanced DBMS technologies, and their advanced applications. A premier database conference in the Asia/Pacific region, DASFAA has been held every two years in many countries in the region. To promote further and to answer the need of many participants, the Steering Committee decided to hold the conference annually. DASFAA2004 is the first such conference after it is made annual. -------------------------------------------- ** REGISTRATION, ACCOMODATION, and VISA ** -------------------------------------------- Visit http://aitrc.kaist.ac.kr/~dasfaa04/ for detailed information. ------------------------- ** CONFERENCE PROGRAM ** ------------------------- March 17, 2004 (Wednesday) 09:30 - 10:30 KEYNOTE I : Caching Technologies for Web Applications C. Mohan, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA 11:00 - 12:30 SESSION 1 : Access Method Index Clustering for High-Performance Sequential Index Access Guang-Ho Cha SF-Tree: An Efficient and Flexible Structure for Estimating Selectivity of Simple Path Expressions with Statistical Accuracy Guarantee Wai-Shing Ho, Ben Kao, David W. Cheung, Yip Chi Lap [Beta], Eric Lo UB-tree Based Efficient Predicate Index with Dimension Transfrom for Pub/Sub System Botao Wang, Wang Zhang, Masaru Kitsuregawa SESSION 2 : Query Processing in XML Approximate Counting of Frequent Query Patterns over XQuery Stream Liang Huai Yang, Mong Li Lee, Wynne Hsu Counting Relaxed Twig Matches in a Tree Dongwon Lee, Divesh Srivastava XTree for Declarative XML Querying Zhuo Chen, Tok Wang Ling, Mengchi Liu, Gillian Dobbie SESSION 3 : Security & Integrity On Addressing Efficiency Concerns in Privacy-Preserving Mining Shipra Agrawal, Vijay Krishnan, Jayant R. Haritsa Efficient Execution of Aggregation Queries over Encrypted Relational Databases Hakan Hacigumus, Bala Iyer, Sharad Mehrotra A MAC-based Service Bundle Authentication Mechanism in the OSGi Service Platform Young-Gab Kim, Chang-Joo Moon, Dae-Ha Park, Doo-Kwon Baik A Model based on Conflict-of-Interest Relation for Multilevel Secure Database Systems Chanjung Park, Seog Park, Yoonku Kim 14:00 - 14:30 INVITED TALK I : Emergent Semantics Stefano Spaccapietra, EPFL, Switzerland Co-author: IFIP 2.6 Working Group "Databases" Information and communication infrastructures underwent a rapid and extreme decentralization process over the past decade: From a world of statically and partially connected central servers rose an intricate web of millions of information sources loosely connecting one to another. The dynamism and relative autonomy of the individuals in the structure is now seen as a chance more than a threat to the stability and consistency of the overall system. New paradigms, like ad-hoc or peer-to-peer networks, even exacerbate this position by taking advantage of the liveliness and heterogeneity of their constituents in the creation of global, self-organizing structures. Today, we expect to witness the extension of this revolution with the wide adoption of meta-data standards like RDF or OWL underpinning the creation of a semantic web. Again, we hope for global properties to emerge from a multiplicity of pair-wise, local interactions, resulting eventually in a self-stabilizing semantic infrastructure. This paper represents an effort to summarize the conditions under which this revolution would take place as well as an attempt to underline its main properties, consequences and applications. Also, it proposes solutions to the main threads and limitations endangering the formation and proper functioning of such a large-scale, emergent semantic system. 14:30 - 18:00 TUTORIAL I : Query Processing in XML Databases Hongjun Lu, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology Jeffrey Xu Yu, Chinese University of Hong Kong XML has become a de facto standard for information dissemination and exchange over the Internet. During the past few years, a large amount of work has been devoted to XML data management and dozens of XML data management systems have been developed. Recently more work on query processing and optimization in XML database systems has been reported. The objective of this tutorial is to review the issues in XML query processing and optimization and summarize the state-of-the-art techniques. We will first briefly discuss the special features of the XML data and XML query languages from the view point of query processing followed by an introduction on different approaches of physical data organization and indexing techniques. Query processing techniques in both relational based systems and native XML engines will be discussed in detail. Finally we will discuss the issues related to XML query optimization. 14:30 - 16:00 SESSION 4 : Query Processing in Temporal & Spatial Databases Modeling Temporally Variable Transportation Networks Zhiming Ding, Ralf Hartmut Guting Statistic Driven Acceleration of Object-Relational Spatial Index Structures Hans-Peter Kriegel, Peter Kunath, Martin Pfeifle, Matthias Renz Path-Based Range Query Processing Using Sorted Path And Rectangle Intersection Approach Hoong Kee Ng, Hon Wai Leong Efficient Processing of Spatiotemporal Joins Geraldo Zimbrao, Jano Moreira De Souza, Victor Teixeira De Almeida SESSION 5 : Semi-structured Databases Skipping Strategies for Efficient Structural Joins Franky Lam, William M. Shui, Damien K. Fisher, Raymond K. Wong Scaling SDI Systems via Query Clustering and Aggregation Xi Zhang, Mong Li Lee, Wynne Hsu A Lightweight XML Repository Supporting Frequent Partial-Updates of XML Data Hyoseop Shin, Andrei V. Popov On View Transformation Support for a Native XML Database Daofeng Luo, Chen Ting, Tok Wang Ling, Xiaofeng Meng 16:30 - 18:00 SESSION 6 : Knowledge Discovery in Temporal & Spatial Databases Similarity Search for Interval Time Sequences Byoung-Kee Yi, Jong-Won Roh Discovering Geographical Features for Location-Based Services Junmei Wang, Wynne Hsu, Mong Li Lee Polygon and Polyline Spatial Join Using Raster Approximations Rodrigo Salvador Monteiro, Leonardo Guerreiro Azevedo, Geraldo Zimbrao, Jano Moreira de Souza SESSION 7 : XML & Multimedia Data Storage Searching Proper Replications in Mapping XML into Relations Jaehoon Kim, Seog Park A Semantics-based Versioning Scheme for Multimedia Data Hyon Hee Kim, Seung Soo Park DiffXML: Change Detection in XML Data Yan Chen, Sanjay Madria, Sourav Bhowmick ---------------------------------------------------------------------- March 18, 2004 (Thursday) 09:00 - 10:00 KEYNOTE II : Data Semantics Revisited: Databases and the Semantic Web John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada Data in a data source are useful because they model some part of the real world, its subject matter (or application, or domain of discourse). The problem of data semantics is establishing and maintaining the correspondence between a data source, hereafter a model, and its intended subject matter. The model may be a database storing data about employees in a company, a database schema describing parts, projects and suppliers, a website presenting information about a university, or a plain text file describing the battle of Waterloo. The problem has been with us since the development of the first databases. However, the problem remained under control as long as the operational environment of a database remained closed and relatively stable. In such a setting, the meaning of the data was factored out from the database proper, and entrusted to the small group of regular users and/or application programs. The advent of the web has changed all that. Databases today are made available, in some form, on the web where users, application programs and uses are open-ended and ever changing. In such a setting, the semantics of the data has to be made available along with the data. For human users, this is done through an appropriate choice of presentation format. For application programs, however, this semantics has to be provided in a formal and (hence) processable form. Hence the call for the Semantic Web. We critically review some of the concepts and technologies under development, intended to meet the Semantic Web challenge. We then propose a formal framework for assigning meaning to data through composite mappings from a model to its intended subject matter. Our proposal adopts a formal semantics framework proposed in [Smith87], and postulates that every model must come with a meaning defined in terms of a mapping to another model. This recursive definition of semantics terminates with a mapping to a formal model of a class of applications. To illustrate the scope and potential benefits of our proposal, we focus on database schemas (both conceptual and logical) and present an example involving several schemas and the mappings among them. This is a speculative talk. The research that will flesh out the details and actual benefits of this framework are ahead of us. The seminar is based on joint work with Alex Borgida and Yuan An. 10:00 - 10:30 INVITED TALK II : Genomic and Proteomic Databases and Applications: A Challenge for Database Technology Shamkant Navathe, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Co-author: M.D. Upen Patil 11:00 - 12:30 PANEL I 14:00 - 18:00 TUTORIAL II : Algorithmic Excursions in Data Streams Sudipto Guha, University of Pennsylvannia For many recent applications, the concept of a data stream is more appropriate than a data set. By nature, a stored data set is an appropriate model when significant portions of the data are queried again and again, and updates are small and/or relatively infrequent. In contrast, a data stream is an appropriate model when a large volume of data is arriving continuously and it is either unnecessary or impractical to store the data in some form of memory. Many applications naturally generate data streams as opposed to simple data sets. Astronomers, telecommunications companies, banks, stock-market analysts, and news organizations, for example, have vast amounts of data arriving continuously. Data Mining of streams is thus a necessary ingredient for many successful applications. The stream view challenges basic assumptions in data mining like random access to data. It also raises several fundamental questions like are there effective techniques for mining streams? In this tutorial we will present a survey of algorithms and applications related to data streams. We begin by presenting the basic data stream model of computation. We will then cover techiques for preprocessing a stream like sampling from a stream, dimension reduction of a stream, and summarizing a stream using structures like histograms. These preprocessing steps are commonly employed prior to data mining. We will then cover various techniques for mining streams like computing frequent itemsets, clusters, and decision trees. Since query processing is a basic tool that is needed to support data mining in databases. We assume that the audience has elementary knowledge of algorithms and a basic understanding of data mining. By and large, the tutorial will be self-contained. 14:00 - 15:30 SESSION 8 : Temporal & Spatial Databases & Query Processing Adaptive quantization of the high-dimensional data for efficient KNN processing Bin Cui, Jing Hu, Hengtao Shen, Cui Yu Indexing iconic image database for interactive spatial similarity retrieval Xiao Ming Zhou, Chuan Heng Ang, Tok Wang Ling Concurrent Updating of a Large Spatial Object YoungDuk Seo, DongHyun Kim, BongHee Hong A Cost Model for Spatial Intersection Queries on RI-Trees Hans-Peter Kriegel, Martin Pfeifle, Marco Potke, Thomas Seidl SESSION 9 : Web Computing Template-Based Proxy Caching for Table-Valued Functions Qiong Luo, Wenwei Xue Increasing Website Connectivity by Web-log Data Streams Edmond H.Wu, Michael K.Ng , Joshua Z. Huang Ontological and Pragmatic knowledge Management for Web service Composition Soon Ae Chun, Yugyung Lee, James Geller Web Page Grouping Based on Parameterized Connectivity Tomonari Masada, Atsuhiro Takasu, Jun Adachi 16:00 - 18:00 SESSION 10 : Data Mining & Knowledge Discovery in Web I Reducing Communication Cost in Privacy Preserving Distributed Association Rule Mining Mafruz Zaman Ashrafi, David Taniar, Kate Smith A Novel Representation of Sequence Data based on Structural Information for Effective Music Ret Chia-Hsiung Lee, Chung-Wen Cho, Yi-Hung Wu, Arbee L.P.Chen Managing and Mining Clinical Outcomes Hyoil Han, Il-Yoel Song, Tony Hu, Ann Prestrud, Murray Brennan, Ari Brooks An Efficient Approach for Maintaining Association Rules based on Adjusting FP-tree Structure Jia-Ling Koh, Shui-Feng Shieh A Collaborative Recommendation Based on Neural Network Myung Won Kim, Eun Ju Kim, Joung Woo Ryu SESSION 11 : Query Processing & Optimization On Incorporating Iceberg Queries in Query Processors Krishna P. Leela, Pankaj M. Tolani, Jayant R. Haritsa A Multiple Continuous Query Optimization Method Based on Query Execution Pattern Analysis Yousuke Watanabe, Hiroyuki Kitagawa An Efficient Approach for Partial-Sum Queries in Data Cubes Using Hamming-Based Codes Chien-I Lee, Yu-Chiang Li, Shin-Mu Tseng Optimizing Mediator Queries to Distributed Engineering Systems Mattias Nystrom, Tore Risch Automatic Generation of SQLX View Definitions from ORA-SS Views Chen Ya Bing, Ling Tok Wang, Lee Mong Li ---------------------------------------------------------------------- March 19, 2004 (Friday) 08:30 - 10:30 TUTORIAL III : Design and Implementation of an E-Catalog Management System Sang-goo Lee, Seoul National University Electronic catalogs providing information on products and services form one of the most important components of e-business systems. To support various business solutions such as e-procurement, supply chain management, and enterprise resource planning, a Catalog Management System (CMS) needs to provide flexible data schema and a holistic control for management activities including definition, creation, storage, retrieval, revision, reuse, and maintenance of data and meta-data of products and services. The design of a CMS is complicated by the diversity in product types, applications, and vocabulary. Relational schema design for tens of thousands of different product types is an issue that has been well noted and addressed in the literature. Identifying products and product classes across organizations throughout the product lifecycle, often known as data synchronization, has been one of the toughest challenges in the supply chain management world. In this tutorial, we will define the problems and challenges of e-catalog management. We will then introduce our experience and present solutions to some of these problems including product database design, classification scheme management, and product search. We will also introduce an ontology-based approach to these problems and its applications. Demos of a Catalog Management System are available. 09:00 - 10:30 SESSION 12 : Classification & Clustering I Semi-Supervised Text Classification Using Partitioned EM Gao Cong, Wee Sun Lee, Haoran Wu, Bing Liu FMACA: A Fuzzy Cellular Automata (FCA) Based Tree-Structured Pattern Classifier Pradipta Maji, Rishi Nandi, P Pal Chaudhuri Music Classification Using Significant Repeating Patterns Chang-Rong Lin, Ning-Han Liu, Yi-Hung Wu, Arbee L.P. Chen SESSION 13 : Web Search I Applying Co-training to Clickthrough Data for Search Engine Adaptation Tan Qingzhao, Chai Xiaoyong, Wilfred Ng, Dik-Lun Lee Visual Interface for Evaluating Internet Search Results Beomjin Kim A Meta-Search Method with Clustering and Term Correlation Dyce Jing Zhao, Dik Lun Lee, Qiong Luo 11:00 - 12:30 SESSION 14 : Classification & Clustering II SUDEPHIC: Self-tuning Density-based Partitioning and Hierarchical Clustering Ding Zhou, Zunping Cheng, Chen Wang, Haofeng Zhou, Wei Wang, Baile Shi Classification of Bio-Medical Images using Neuro Fuzzy Approach Shashikala Tapaswi, R.C.Joshi Optimized Fuzzy Classification for Data Mining Myung Won Kim, Joung Woo Ryu SESSION 15 : Web Search II Supporting Exploratory Queries in Databases Abhijit Kadlag, Amol Wanjari, Juliana Freire, Jayant R. Haritsa A Web Page Scoring Method for Local Web Search Engines Yohei Ikawa, Kunihiko Sadakane Discovering Aspects of Web Pages from Its Referential Context in the Web Koji Zettsu, Yutaka Kidawara, Katsumi Tanaka SESSION 16 : Mobile Databases I A Log-based Cache Consistency Control of Spatial Database in Mobile Computing Environments Kyounghwan An, Bonggi Jun, Jietae Cha, Bonghee Hong Improving Concurrency Control in Mobile Databases Anand Yendluri, Wen-Chi Hou, Chih-Fang Wang Just-In-Time Recommendation using Multi-Agents for Context-Awareness in Ubiquitous Computing Environment Joonhee Kwon, Sungrim Kim, Yongik Yoon 14:00 - 15:30 SESSION 17 : Parallel & Distributed Databases LFU-K: An Effective Buffer Management Replacement Algorithm Leonid B. Sokolinsky Data Declustering with Replication Yao Liu, Sam Y. Sung, Hui Xiong, Peter Ng Efficient Declustering of Non-Uniform Multidimensional Data using Shifted Hilbert Curves Hak-Cheol Kim, Mario A. Lopez, Scott T. Leutenegger, Ki-Joune Li SESSION 18 : Multimedia Databases I Efficient and Flexible Bitmap Indexing for Complex Similarity Queries Guang-Ho Cha Multimedia Data Integration and Navigation through MediaView Dawei Ding, Qing Li, Jun Yang Union and Intersection of Filtering Functions for Information Filtering Rie Sawai, Masahiko Tsukamoto, Tsutomu Terada, Shojiro Nishio SESSION 19 : Mobile Databases II Efficient Transaction Processing in Mobile Data Broadcast Environments SangKeun Lee, SungSuk Kim GBL: Group-based Location Updating in Mobile Wireless Environment Gary, Hoi Kit Lam, Hong Va Leong, Stephen, Chi Fai Chan A Moving Point Indexing using Projection operation for LBS Eung Jae Lee, Young Jin Jung, Keun Ho Ryu 16:00 - 18:00 SESSION 20 : Data Mining & Knowledge Discovery in Web II EGA: An Algorithm for Automatic Semi-Structured Web Documents Extraction Li Liyu, Su Zhihua, Tang Shiwei, Yang Dongqing, Wang Tengjiao An Automated Algorithm for Extracting Website Skeleton Zehua Liu, Wee Keong Ng, Ee-Peng Lim Ontologies on the MOVE Carlo Wouters, Tharam Dillon, Wenny Rahayu, Elizabeth Chang, Robert Meersman Maintenance of Discovered Mobile User Maximal Moving Sequential Patterns: an Incremental Updating Technique Shuai Ma, ShiWei Tang, DongQing Yang, TengJiao Wang, ChanJun Yang SESSION 21 : Multimedia Databases II Improving Similarity Search by Using Only a Few Good Dimensions After Dimensionality Reduction Christian Digout, Alexandru Coman, Mario A. Nascimento Relative Queries and The Relative Cluster-mapping Method Shinsuke Nakajima, Katsumi Tanaka Improving Query Effectiveness for Large Image Databases with Multiple Visual FeatureCombination Jialie Shen, John Shepherd, Anne H H Ngu, Du Q Huynh SESSION 22 : Mobile Databases II Dynamic Data Replication Schemes for Mobile Ad-hoc Network Based on Aperiodic Updates T. Hara, Sanjay Madria Stream Selection Policies for Transcoding Multimedia Presentations Composed of Multiple Streams to Play on Mobile Terminals. Maria Hong, YoungHwan Lim Efficient Group Pattern Mining Using Data Summarization Yida Wang, Ee-Peng Lim, San-Yih Hwang A Cost Effective Cache Consistency Method for Mobile Clients in Wireless Environments Song-Yi Yi, Wonmin Song, Sungwon Jung Supporting Benefit-Oriented Retrieval for Data on Air Chao-Chun Chen, Lien-Fa Lin, Chiang Lee --------------------------- ** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ** --------------------------- Honorary Chair: Sukho Lee, Seoul National Univ., Korea International Advisory Committee: Yahiko Kambayashi, Kyoto Univ., Japan Shamkant Navathe, Georgia Tech., USA Erich Neuhold, Fraunhofer, Germany Insup Paik, Ajou University, Korea Stanley Su, Univ. of Florida, Gainsville, USA General Chair: Kyu-Young Whang, KAIST/AITrc, Korea Program Chairs: YoonJoon Lee, KAIST, Korea Jianzhong Li, Harbin Institute of Technology, China Organization Committee: Seog Park (Chair), Sogang Univ., Korea June Sung Park, Samsung SDS Co., Ltd., Korea Alex Hong, Oracle Korea Ltd., Korea Jang-Su Kim, KTDATA Inc., Korea Sang K. Cha, Seoul National Univ., Korea Ki-Joon Han, Konkuk Univ., Korea Young Kyoon Kim, ETRI, Korea Haechull Lim, Hongik Univ, Korea Songchun Moon, KAIST, Korea Kyhyun Um, Dongguk Univ., Korea Tutorial Chairs: Kyuseok Shim, Seoul National Univ., Korea James Wang, Penn. State Univ., USA Panel Chairs: Hyoung-Joo Kim, Seoul National Univ., Korea Qing Li, City Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China Industrial Program Chairs: Soon J. Hyun, ICU, Korea Il-Yeol Song, Drexel Univ., USA Local Arrangement Committee: Chanjung Park (Chair), Cheju National Univ., Korea Ho-Young Kwak, Cheju National Univ., Korea Keun Hyung Kim, Cheju National Univ., Korea Publicity Chairs: Myung Kim, Ewha Womans Univ., Korea (Domestic) Byung S. Lee, Univ. of Vermont, USA (Americas) Ki-Joune Li, Pusan National Univ. Korea (Europe) Yunmook Nah, Dankook Univ., Korea (Asia/Pacific and Domestic DB Community) Treasurer: Eui Kyeong Hong, Univ. of Seoul, Korea Registration Chair: Yong-Chul Oh, Korea Polytechnic Univ. Korea Publication Chairs: Doheon Lee, KAIST, Korea Wan-Sup Cho, Chungbuk National Univ., Korea Geographic Area Chairs: Americas Jiawei Han, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA Europe/Middle East Wolfgang Klas, Univ. of Vienna, Austria Australia Maria Orlowska, Univ. of Queensland, Australia China Shan Wang, Renmin Univ., China Hong Kong Hongjun Lu, HKUST, Hong Kong, China India Krithi Ramaritham, IIT Bombay, India Japan Yoshi Masunaga, Ochanomizu Univ., Japan Singapore Tok Wang Ling, National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore Taiwan Arbee Chen, Tsinghua National Univ., Taiwan Thailand Vilas Wuwongse, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand KISS SIGDB Representative Chin-Wan Chung, KAIST, Korea DASFAA Steering Committee Tok Wang Ling (Chair), National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore Yoshifumi Masunaga (Vice Chair),Ochanomizu Univ., Japan Arbee Chen, National Dong Hwa Univ., Taiwan Yoshihiko Imai, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd, Japan Fred Lochovsky, HKUST, China Seog Park, Sogang Univ., Korea Ron Sacks-Davis, RMIT, Australia Wang Shan, Renmin Univ. of China, China Katsumi Tanaka, Kyoto Univ., Japan Kyhyun Um, Dongkuk Univ., Korea Kyu-Young Whang, KAIST, Korea ------------------------ ** PROGRAM COMMITTEE ** ------------------------ Dave Abel, CSIRO, Australia Masatoshi Arikawa, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan Stephane Bressan, National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore Vladimir Brusic, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Guang-Ho Cha, Sookmyung Women's Univ., Korea Jinseok Chae, Univ. of Incheon, Korea Edward Chang, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Arbee L. P. Chen, National Dong Hwa Univ., Taiwan David Cheung, Univ. of Hong Kong, China Eugene I. Chong, Oracle Corporation, USA Klaus R. Dittrich, Univ. of Zurich, Switzerland Johann-Christoph Freytag, Humboldt Univ. zu Berlin, Germany Remigijus Gustas, Karlstad Univ., Sweden Jiawei Han, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Gao Hong, Harbin Institute of Technology, China San-Yih Hwang, National Sun Yat-sen Univ., Taiwan Soon Joo Hyun, ICU, Korea Christian S. Jensen, Aalborg University, Denmark Hannu Kangassalo, Univ. of Tampere, Finland Jinho Kim, Kangwon National Univ., Korea Sang-Wook Kim, Hanyang Univ., Korea Yoo-Sung Kim, Inha Univ., Korea Matthias Klusch, DFKI, Germany Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, The Univ. of Melbourne, Australia Bong Kyou Lee, Hansung Univ., Korea Byung Suk Lee, Univ. of Vermont, USA Dik Lun Lee, Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Kangwoo Lee, ETRI, Korea Kyu-Chul Lee, Chungnam National Univ., Korea Minsoo Lee, Ewha Womans Univ., Korea Yugyung Lee, Univ. of Missouri - Kansas City, USA Chen Li, Univ. of California, Irvine, USA Mong Li Lee, National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore Seok-Lyong Lee, Hankuk Univ. of Foreign Studies, Korea Sang-Won Lee, Sungkyunkwan Univ., Korea Xue Li, The Univ. of Queensland, Australia Ee-Peng Lim, Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore Tok Wang Ling, National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore Bing Liu, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, USA Fred Lochovsky, HKUST, Hong Kong Pericles Loucopoulos, UMIST, UK Leszek A. Maciaszek, Macquarie Univ., Australia Akifumi Makinouchi, Kyushu Univ., Japan Xiaofeng Meng, Renmin Univ. of China, China Mukesh Mohania, IBM India Research Lab, India Shinichi Morishita, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan Wee Keong Ng, Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore Atsushi Ohori, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan Beng Chin Ooi, National Univesity of Singapore, Singapore Dimitris Papadias, Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Jian Pei, State Univ. of New York at Buffalo, USA Jun Rao, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA Kunihiko Sadakane, Tohoku Univ., Japan Shazia Sadiq, The Univ. of Queensland, Australia Nandlal L. Sarda, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India Ming-Chien Shan, Hewlett Packard Labs, USA Shashi Shekhar, Univ. of Minnesota, USA Jin Hyun Son, Han Yang Univ., Korea Kian-Lee Tan, National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore Yuzuru Tanaka, Hokkaido Univ., Japan Changjie Tang, Sichuan Univ., China Soochan Hwang, Hankuk Aviation Univ., Korea Ouri Wolfson, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, USA Jongho Won, ETRI, Korea Kam-Fai Wong, CUHK, Hong Kong Byoung-Kee Yi, POSTECH, Korea Hwan-Seung Yong, Ewha Womans Univ., Korea Yong-Ik Yoon, Sookmyung Women's Univ., Korea Masatoshi Yoshikawa, Nagoya Univ., Japan Cui Yu, Monmouth Univ. USA Lizhu Zhou, Tsinghua Univ., China ---------------------------------------------------------------