Conference Organization
| Conference Chair: | Nick Cercone (York University, Canada) |
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| Program Chair: | Jimmy Huang (York University, Canada) |
| WI Program Co-Chairs: |
Vijay Raghavan (University of Louisiana, USA) Irwin King (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Stefan Rueger (The Open University, United Kingdom) |
| IAT Program Co-Chairs: |
Takahira Yamaguchi (Keio University, Japan) Ali A. Ghorbani (University of New Brunswick, Canada) Mohand-Said Hacid (Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France) |
| Organizing Co-Chairs: |
Aijun An (York University, Canada) Thomas Lynam (York University, Canada) Marshall Walker (York University, Canada) |
| Workshop Co-Chairs: |
Orland Hoeber (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada) Yuefeng Li (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) |
| Tutorial Co-Chairs: |
Sourav Saha Bhowmick (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Mounia Lalmas (University of Glasgow, UK) |
| Industry-Demo Chairs: |
Dominik Slezak (Infobright Inc., Canada) Tony Abou-Assaleh (GenieKnows.com, Canada) |
| Local Accommodation Chair: | Ellis Lau (York University, Canada) |
| Registration Chair: | Qinmin Vivian Hu (York University, Canada) |
| Local Arrangement Chairs: |
Jiashu Zhao (York University, Canada) Jun Miao (York University, Canada) |
| Publicity Co-Chairs: |
Vlado Keselj (Dalhousie University, Canada) Markus Kirchberg (Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore) Jianhan Zhu (University College London, UK) |
| IEEE-CS-TCII Chair: | Ning Zhong (Maebashi Institue of Technology, Japan) |
| ACM-SIGART Chair: | Maria Gini (University of Minnesota, USA) |
| WIC Co-Chairs/Directors: |
Ning Zhong (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan) Jiming Liu (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong) |
| WIC Advisory Board: |
Edward A. Feigenbaum (Standford University, USA) Setsuo Ohsuga (Tokyo University, Japan) Benjamin Wah (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign USA) Philip Yu (University of Illinois, Chicago USA) L.A. Zadeh (University of California, Berkeley USA) |
| WIC Tech. Committee & WI/IAT Steering Committee: |
Jeffrey Bradshaw (UWF/Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA) Nick Cercone (York University, Canada) Dieter Fensel (STI/University of Innsbruck, Austria) George Gottlob (Oxford University, UK) Lakhmi Jain (University of South Australia, Australia) Jianchang Mao (Yahoo! Inc., USA) Pierre Morizet-Mahoudeaux (Compiegne University of Technology, France) Hiroshi Motoda (Osaka University, Japan) Toyoaki Nishida (Kyoto University, Japan) Andrzej Skowron (Warsaw University, Poland) Jinglong Wu (Okayama, Japan) Xindong Wu (University of Vermont, USA) Yiyu Yao (University of Regina, Canada) |
| Webmaster: |
Dawid Kasperowicz (York University, Canada) Jun Miao (York University, Canada) |
Program Committee
| Program Chair: | Jimmy Huang (York University, Canada) |
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| WI Program Co-Chairs: |
Vijay Raghavan (University of Louisiana, USA) Irwin King (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Stefan Rueger (The Open University, United Kingdom) |
| WI Program Vice-Chairs: |
Rajendra Akerkar, Western Norway Research Institute, Norway David Bainbridge, University of Waikato, New Zealand Cory Butz, University Of Regina, Canada Keith C.C. Chan, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Yiu-ming Cheung, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Fabio Crestani, University of Lugano, Switzerland Mathieu d'Aquin, The Open University, UK Samuel Kaski, Aalto University, Finland Minkoo Kim, Ajou University, S. Korea Irena Koprinska, University of Sydney, Australia Narayanan Kulathuramaiyer, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia Joao Magalhaes, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Biren Shah, Hewlett Packard, USA Dominik Slezak, University of Warsaw & Infobright Inc., Poland, Poland Jie Tang, Tsinghua University, China Shalini Urs, Univ. of Mysore, India Ying Xie, , Kennesaw State University, USA Hui Xiong, Rutgers University, USA |
| Program Committee Members: |
Ajith Abraham, Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), USA Xiangdong An, York University, Canada Maristella Agosti, University of Padua, Italy Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada Luis Antunes, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Helen Ashman, University of South Australia, Australia Ching Man Au Yeung, NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan Leif Azzopardi, University of Glasgow, UK Ebrahim Bagheri, National Research Council of Canada, Canada Mert Bal, Yildiz Technical University, Turkey Michel BEIGBEDER, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France Sonia Bergamaschi, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Shlomo Berkovsky, CSIRO, Tasmanian ICT Centre, Australia Raj Bhatnagar, University of Cincinnati, USA Gloria Bordogna, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy Patrick Bosc, IRISA/ENSSAT, FRANCE Omar Boucelma, University of Aix-Marseille 3, France Mohand Boughanem, Universite de Toulouse - IRIT, Toulouse, France Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, USA Wray Buntine, NICTA Canberra Research Laboratory, Australia Longbing Cao, UTS, Australia Claudio Carpineto, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy Sylvie Cazalens, Universite de Nantes, LINA, France Stefano Ceri, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Jonathan Chan, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand Liming Chen, University of Ulster, UK Ling-Jyh Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Meng Chang Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Sheng-Wei (Kuan-Ta) Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Hong Cheng, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong William k. Cheung, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Paul-Alexandru Chirita, Adobe Systems, Romania Suresh Choubey, GE Healthcare, USA Ruth Cobos, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain Nigel Collier, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Sara Comai, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Juan Carlos Cubero, University of Granada, Spain Alfredo Cuzzocrea, DEIS-Unical, Italy Claudia d'Amato, Universita' degli studi di Bari, Italy Swagatam Das, Jadavpur University, India Martine De Cock, Ghent University, Belgium Arjen de Vries, CWI, Netherlands Jean-Yves Delort, Macquarie University / Capital Markets CRC, Australia Hongbo Deng, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Ying Ding, Indiana University, USA Josep Domenech, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Nicola Fanizzi, Universita' degli studi di Bari, Italy Shaheen Fatima, Loughborough University, UK Paul Ferguson, Dublin City University, Ireland Juan M. Fernandez-Luna, University of Granada, Spain Nicola Ferro, University of Padua, Italy Naoki Fukuta, Shizuoka University, Japan Fabien Gandon, INRIA, France Serge Garlatti, Institut Telecom, Telecom Bretagne, France Susan Gauch, University of Arkansas, USA Marc Gelgon, University of Nantes, France Mathias Gery, Universite of Lyon, Laboratoire Hubert Curien - UMR CNRS 5516, France Jose A. Gil, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Marco Gori, University of Siena, Italy Venkat Gudivada, Marshall University, USA Cathal Gurrin, Dublin City University, Ireland Allan Hanbury, Information Retrieval Facility, Austria Fumio Hattori, Ritsumeikan University, Japan Haibo He, University of Rhode Island, USA Enrique Herrera-Viedma, university of granada, spain Chu-Hong Hoi, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Dan Hong, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Masahiro Hori, Kansai University, Japan Xiaohua Tony Hu, Drexel University, USA Yuh-Jong Hu, National Chengchi University, Taiwan Joshua Huang, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Kaizhu Huang, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Tom Johnsten, University of South Alabama,, USA Joemon Jose, University of Glasgow, UK Janusz Kacprzyk, Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Jaap Kamps, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Hideyuki Kawashima, Tsukuba University, Japan Gabriella Kazai, Microsoft Research, UK Larry Kerschberg, George Mason University, USA Tai-Hoon Kim, Hannam University, Korea Tetsuo Kinoshita, Tohoku University, Japan Mieczyslaw Klopotek, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Walter Kosters, Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands Donald H. Kraft, Louisiana State University, USA Udo Kruschwitz, University of Essex, UK Philippe Lamarre, University of Nantes, France Birger Larsen, Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark Yuh-Jye Lee, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan C. H. Li, Hong Kong Baptist University, China Juanzi Li, Tsinghua University, China Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Tao Li, Florida International University, USA Wenbin Li, School of Information Engineering, Shijiazhuang University of Economics, China Tsau Young Lin, San Jose State University, USA Pawan Lingras, Saint Marys University Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Chao-Lin Liu, National Chengchi University, Taiwan Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Yang Liu, Shandong University, China Yangguang Liu, Ningbo Institute of Technology, Zhejiang University, China Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy Hao Ma, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Thomas Mandl, Universitet Hildesheim, Germany Massimo Marchiori, UNIPD and UTILABS, Italy Stefania Marrara, University of Milan, Italy Ana Maria Martinez-Enriquez, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico Andrea Maurino, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy Xiaofeng Meng, Renmin University of China, China Paolo Merialdo, Universita' Roma Tre, Italy Alberto Messina, RAI - Centre for Research and Technological Innovation, Italy Duoqian Miao, Tongji University, China Qian Mo, Beijing Technology and Business University, China Pierre Morizet-Mahoudeaux, University of Technology of Compiegne, France Michael Mrissa, University of Lyon, France Jianyun Nie, Universiti de Montrial, Canada Steven Noel, George Mason University, USA Matteo Palmonari, Universita di Milano Bicocca, Italy Junfeng Pan, Google Inc., USA Seog Park, Sogang University, Korea Alfredo Petrosino, DSA-University of Naples "Parthenope", Italy Giuseppe Psaila, Universite degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy Guillaume Raschia, Universite de Nantes, France Antonin Rozsypal, On Semiconductor, Czech Republic Shigeaki Sakurai, Toshiba Corporation/Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Ralf Schenkel, Saarland University and Max-Planck-Institut Informatik, Germany Florence Sedes, IRIT Toulouse, France Dou Shen, Microsoft Adcenter Labs, U.S.A Qiang Shen, Aberystwyth University, UK Amandeep Sidhu, WA Centre for Comparative Genomics, Murdoch University, Australia Stefan Siersdorfer, L3S Research Center Hannover, Germany Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University, Ireland Joan Smith, Emory University, USA Fabio Stella, Universita di Milano Bicocca, Italy Umberto Straccia, ISTI-CNR, Italy Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim, Germany L Venkata Subramaniam, IBM India Research Lab, India John Sum, Insitute of Technology Management, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan Aixin Sun, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Marcin Sydow, Web Mining Lab, Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Poland Marcin Szczuka, The University of Warsaw, Poland Yasufumi Takama, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan Pang-Ning Tan, Michigan State University, United States Daniel Tao, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Hiroyuki Tarumi, Kagawa University, Japan Pierre Tchounikine, LIG, Universite de Grenoble 1, France Paul Thompson, Dartmouth College, USA Theodora Tsikrika, CWI, Netherlands Maria Vargas-Vera, The Open University, UK Athanasios Vasilakos, University of Western Macedonia, Greece Jose Vidal, University of South Carolina, USA Maurizio Vincini, Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy Gottfried Vossen, University of Munster, Germany Fang Wang, Pervasive ICT Center, UK Huanjing Wang, Western Kentucky University, USA Ryen White, Microsoft Research, USA Erik Wilde, UC Berkeley, USA Tak-Lam Wong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA Zenglin Xu, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany Ron Yager, Iona College, USA Seiji YAMADA, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Haixuan Yang, Royal Holloway University of London, England Kun Yang, University of Essex Essex, UK Zhirong Yang, Aalto University School of Science and Technology, Finland JingTao Yao, University of Regina, Canada John Yoon, Mercy College, USA Slawomir Zadrozny, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Ruofei (Bruce) Zhang, Yahoo! Labs, USA Yan-Qing Zhang, Georgia State University, United States of America Yanchang Zhao, Centrelink, Australia Aoying Zhou, East China Normal University, China Lina Zhou, University of Maryland, USA Jianke Zhu, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Wojciech Ziarko, University of Regina, Canada |
Program Committee
| Program Chair: | Jimmy Huang (York University, Canada) |
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| IAT Program Co-Chairs: |
Takahira Yamaguchi (Keio University, Japan) Ali A. Ghorbani (University of New Brunswick, Canada) Mohand-Said Hacid (Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France) |
| IAT Program Vice-Chairs: | Olivier Boissier, ENSME, France Brahim Chaib-draa, Laval University, Canada Jerg Denzinger, University of Calgary, Canada Chihab Hanachi, Universite Toulouse1, Tunisia Takayuki Ito, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan Xiaolong Jin, University of Bradford, UK Zbigniew Ras, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA Eugene Santos Jr., Dartmouth College, United States Zhongzhi Shi, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Marius C. Silaghi, Florida Institute of Technology, USA Ah Hwee Tan, School of Computer Engineering and Intelligent Systems Centre, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
| Program Committee Members: |
Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada Francesco Amigoni, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Xiangdong An, York University, Canada Jean-Paul Barthes, University of Compiegne, France Guido Boella, Universite di Torino, Italy Magnus Boman, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) and SICS, Sweden Wray Buntine, NICTA, Australia Longbing Cao, UTS, Australia Luigia Carlucci Aiello, Sapienza Universite di Roma, Italy Massimo Cossentino, ICAR-CNR, Italy Celia da Costa Pereira, Universite degli Studi di Milano, Italy Wei Dai, Victoria University, Australia Prithviraj Dasgupta, University of Nebraska, Omaha, USA Yves DEMAZEAU, CNRS, France Michel C. Desmarais, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada Frank Dignum, Utrecht University, NL Virginia Dignum, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Hakan Duman, British Telecom, UK Tapio Elomaa, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Xiaocong Fan, The Pennsylvania State University, United States Klaus Fischer, German Research Center for AI, Germany Adam Maria Gadomski, Cognitive Research Interuniversity Center ECONA, Italian Research Agency ENEA, Italy Matjae Gams, Joeef Stefan Institute, Slovenia Nicola Gatti, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Joseph A. Giampapa, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Maria Gini, University of Minnesota, United States Paolo Giorgini, University of Trento, Italy Vladimir Gorodetsky, St.Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation, Russia Steve Goschnick, University of Melbourne, Australia Eric Gregoire, CRIL CNRS, France Daniel Grosu, Wayne State University, USA Mirsad Hadzikadic, UNC Charlotte, USA Ahmed Hambaba, San Jose State University, USA Fumio Hattori, Ritsumeikan University, Japan Vasant Honavar, Iowa State University, United States Mark Hoogendoorn, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Michael D. Howard, HRL Laboratories LLC, USA Catholijn Jonker, Delft University of Technology, Nederland Hyuckchul Jung, Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA Anthony Karageorgos, Technological Education Institute of Larissa, Greece Oleg Karsaev, St.Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation, Russia Radoslaw Piotr Katarzyniak, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland Tetsuo Kinoshita, Tohoku University, Japan Sebastien Konieczny, CRIL, France Daniel Kudenko, University of York, UK SATOSHI KURIHARA, Osaka Univ., Japan Hoong Chuin Lau, Singapore Management University, Singapore Ioan Alfred Letia, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania Churn-Jung Liau, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Seng Loke, La Trobe University, Australia Alessio Lomuscio, Imperial College London, UK Carlo Mastroianni, ICAR-CNR, Italy John-Jules Meyer, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Grazyna Mirkowska-Salwicka, University Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Poland Pericles Mitkas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Haralambos Mouratidis, University of East London, United Kingdom Joerg P. Mueller, TU Clausthal, Germany Tracy Mullen, The Pennsylvania State University, USA Filippo Neri, University of Naples, Italy Eugenio Oliveira, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto - DEI - LIACC, Portugal Andrea Omicini, Alma Mater Studiorum - Universite di Bologna, Italy Luigi Palopoli, DEIS, Universita della Calabria, Italy Michal Pechoucek, Agent Technology Center, FEE, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic Witold Pedrycz, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic, Canada Agostino Poggi, DII - University of Parma, Italy Martin Purvis, University of otago, New Zealand Iyad Rahwan, Masdar Institute & MIT, UAE Sheela Ramanna, University of Winnipeg, Canada Alessandro Ricci, University of Bologna, Italy Juan Antonio Rodriguez, IIIA, Spain Pierre-Yves Schobbens, Universite de Namur, Belgium Pradip Srimani, Clemson University, USA Jaroslaw Stepaniuk, Bialystok University of Technology, Poland Toshiharu Sugawara, Waseda University, Japan Gita Sukthankar, University of Central Florida, USA Andrea giovanni battista Tettamanzi, Universite degli Studi di Milano, Italy George Tsihrintzis, University of Piraeus, Greece Angelina Tzacheva, University of South Carolina Upstate, USA Richard Wallace, University College Cork, Ireland Danny Weyns, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Makoto Yokoo, Kyushu University, Japan Franco Zambonelli, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Markus Zanker, University Klagenfurt, Austria Jie Zhang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Wei Zhang, The Boeing Company, USA Elizabeth Sklar,City University of New York, USA Heikki Helin, CSC - IT Center for Science, Finland Maria Fasli, University of Essex, UK |
