General Chairs
Shashi Shekar, University of Minnesota
Peggy Agouris, George Mason University

Program Chairs
Ranga Raju Vatsavai, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Guido Cervone, George Mason University
Jessica Lin, George Mason University
Jin Soung Yoo, Indiana University - Purdue University

Government, Industry and Publicity Chairs
Budhendra Bhaduri, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Milind Naphade, IBM T.J. Watson Research Lab
Hui Xiong, Rutgers University

Local Chair
Tao Li, Florida International University

Steering Committee
Nikos Mamoulis, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Bart Kuijpers, Hasselt University, Belgium
Mirco Nanni, Pisa KDD Laboratory, ISTI - CNR, Italy
Donato Malerba, Universit degli Studi di Bari, Italy
George Kollios, Boston University, USA
Chang-Tien Lu, Virginia Tech, USA
Ashok Samal, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

Program Committee
Selim Aksoy, Bilkent University, Turkey.
Annalisa Appice, University of Bari, Italy
Maurizio Atzori, KDDLAB ISTI/CNR, Italy
Peter Baumann, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany
Vania Bogorny, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
Bjorn-Gustaf Brooks, ORNL, USA
Sanjay Chawla, University of Sydney, Australia
Anil Cheriyadat, ORNL, USA
Arie Croitoru, The University of Alberta, Canada
Ke Deng, The University of Queensland, Australia
Wei Ding, University of Houston-Clear Lake, USA
Matt Duckham, University of Melbourne, Australia
Surya Durbha, Mississippi State, USA
Anthony M. Filippi, Texas A&M University, USA
Pasquale Franzese, George Mason University, USA
Auroop Ganguly, ORNL, USA
Joydeep Ghosh, U of Texas, Austin, USA
Diansheng Guo, U of South Carolina, USA
Angelica Garcia Gutierrez, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany
Forrest Hoffman, ORNL, USA
Vandana Janeja, UMBC, USA
Goo Jun, U of Texas, Austin, USA
Eamonn Keogh, University of California, Riverside, USA
Roger King, Mississippi State, USA
Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota, USA
Ki-Joune Li, Pusan National University, Korea
Aurelie Lozano, IBM T.J. Watson Research Lab, USA
Michael May, IAIS, Fraunhofer-Gesellshaft, Germany
Amy McGovern, University of Oklahoma, USA
Mohamed Mokbel, University of Minnesota, U.S.A.
Olufemi Omitaomu, ORNL, USA
Dimitris Papadias, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
Sanjay Ranka, U of Florida, USA
Chotirat Ann Ratanamahatana, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Chinya V. Ravishankar, UC Riverside, U.S.A.
Falko Schmid, Cognitive Systems, Universitt Bremen, Germany
Anthony Stefanidis, George Mason University, USA
Cyrus Shahabi, University of Southern California, U.S.A.
Alexandre Sorokine, ORNL, USA
Pang-Ning Tan, Michigan State, USA
Monica Wachowicz, Wagheningen University, The Netherlands