CREDITS

Conference Committee

Conference Co-Chairs:

Vincent Y. Shen, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK
Nobuo Saito, Keio University, Japan

Conference Vice-Chair:

K.T. Yung, Hong Kong Productivity Council, HK

Program Committee Co-Chairs:

Michael R. Lyu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK
Mary Ellen Zurko, Iris Associates, USA

Program Committee Vice Chairs:

 

Applications and UI:

Max Mühlhäuser, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
Alois Ferscha, University of Linz, Austria

Browsers and Tools:

Yih-Farn Robin Chen, AT&T Labs - Research, USA
Marc Najork, Compaq Research, USA

Content and Coding:

Michael Weber, University of Ulm, Germany
Stephan Fischer, GMD-IPSI, Germany

Culture:

Liddy Nevile, University of Melbourne, Australia

E-Commerce and Security:

Lorrie Faith Cranor, AT&T Labs - Research, USA
Benjamin Grosof, MIT Sloan School of Management, USA

Hypermedia:

Helen Ashman, University of Nottingham, UK
Fabio Vitali, University of Bologna and CNR-IAT, Italy

Languages and Standards:

Massimo Marchiori, W3C/MIT/UNIVE, USA/Italy
Bert Bos, W3C/INRIA, France

Mobile Agents and Wireless Access:

Daniela Rus, Dartmouth College, USA
Tatsuya Hagino, Keio University, Japan

Performance, Reliability, Scalability:

Arun Iyengar, IBM Research, USA
Craig Wills, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA

Practice and Experience:

David De Roure, University of Southampton, UK

Searching, Querying and Indexing:

Xing Li, Tsinghua University, China
Dan Suciu, University of Washington, USA

Web and Education:

T.C. Pong, HK University of Science and Technology, HK
Angela Castro, Hong Kong Web Symposium Consortium, HK

Tutorials and Workshops Co-Chairs:

Francis Lau, University of Hong Kong, HK
Bebo White, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, USA

Developers' Day Co-Chair:

K.J. Lee, CLP Enterprises, HK
Robert Sutor, IBM, USA

Culture Chair:

Liddy Nevile, University of Melbourne, Australia

E-Commerce on the Web Chair:

C.J. Tan, University of Hong Kong, HK

Panels Chair:

Tony Eastham, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK

Posters Chair:

Irwin King, Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK

Vendors Co-Chairs:

Peter Plamondon, Microsoft, USA
Fritz Chiu, Hong Kong Productivity Council, HK

Web and Education Co-Chairs:

T.C. Pong, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK
Angela Castro, Hong Kong Web Symposium Consortium, HK

Web Internationalization Chair:

Martin Dürst, W3C/Keio University, Japan

Web and Society Chair:

John Bacon-Shone, University of Hong Kong, HK
David Singer, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA

W3C Chair:

Janet Daly, W3C, USA

Awards Chair:

Simon Phipps, Sun Microsystems, USA

Conference Evaluations Chair:

David Lassner, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA

Coordinator, PRC Delegates:

William Song, University of Hong Kong, HK

Local Arrangements Chair:

Yammie Yuen, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK

Sponsorships Chair:

Nam Ng, University of Hong Kong, HK

Technical Support Chair:

Angus Siu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK

Promotions Chair:

Daniel Lai, Hong Kong Computer Society, HK

Volunteers Chair:

John Miller, Southern Cross University, Australia

Professional Conference Organizer:

Meeting Planners (HK) Ltd.
 

Program Committee Members:

 

Applications and UI:

A. Ferscha, University of Vienna, Austria
J. Borchers, University of Darmstadt, Germany
J. Gecsei, University of Montreal, Canada
HW. Gellersen, Teco University Karlsruhe, Germany
Z. Liu, Inria Sophia Antipolis, France
B. Merialdo, Eurecom Sophia Antipolis, France
M. Rees, Bond University, Australia
S. Reich, University of Salzburg, Austria
G. Rossi, University La Plata, Argentina
R. Swan, SAP Labs Palo Alto, USA
S. Tripathi, UC Riverside, USA
Additional reviewers:
Robert Tolksdorf, Univ. of Berlin, Germany
Karin Hummel, Univ. of Vienna, Italy
Gabriele Kotsis, Univ. of Vienna, Italy
Helmut Hlavacs, Univ. of Vienna, Italy
Günther Blaschek, Univ. of Linz, Austria
Wolfgang Narzt, Univ. of Linz, Austria
Christian Kenngott, Univ. of Linz, Austria
Simon Vogl, Univ. of Linz, Austria
 

Browsers and Tools:

Soumen Chakrabarti, IIT Bombay, India
Bay-Wei Chang, Google Inc., USA
Juliana Freire, Bell Labs, USA
Jeff Korn, AT&T Labs - Research, USA
Wen-Syan Li, NEC Research Labs, USA
Yoelle Maarek, IBM Research, Haifa, Israel
Hannes Marais, Reversi Networks, USA
Marc Najork, Compaq Research, USA
Chung-Hwa Herman Rao, AT&T Labs - Research, Taiwan
Yi-Min Wang, Microsoft Research, USA

Content and Coding:

Martin Dürst, W3C/Keio University, Japan
Erik Duval, K.U.Leuven, Belgium
Peter Fankhauser, GMD Darmstadt, Germany
Pete Faraday, Microsoft Research, USA
Nicolas Georganas, University of Ottawa, Canada
Anoop Gupta, Microsoft Research, USA
Wendy Hall, University of Southampton, UK
Kien A. Hua, University of Central Florida, USA
Wolfgang Klas, University of Vienna, Austria
Rainer Lienhart, Intel Corporation, USA
David Lowe, University of Sydney, Australia
Martin Mauve, University of Mannheim, Germany
John Nicol, InfoLibria Incorporated, USA
Thomas Plageman, University of Oslo, Norway
Albrecht Schmidt, Teco Karlsruhe, Germany
Heinz Schweppe, FU Berlin, Germany
Achim Steinacker, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
Nalini Venkatasubramanian, UC Irvine, USA
Uffe Kock Wiil, Aalborg University Esbjerg, Denmark
Erik Wilde, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Culture:

David Bearman, Archives & Museum Informatics
Judy Gradwohl, National Museum of American History, USA
Rachel Heery, UK Office for Library and Information Networking, University of Bath, UK
Eric Miller, Dublin Core Metadata initiative, Online Computer Library Center, USA
John Perkins, Consortium for the Interchange of Museum Information, Canada
Andy Powell, UK Office for Library and Information Networking, University of Bath, UK
Alfredo Ronchi, EC MEDICI Framework, Politechnico di Milano, Italy
Shigeo Sugimoto, University of Library and Information Science, Japan
Jennifer Trant, Archives & Museum Informatics, USA
Stuart Weibel, Dublin Core Metadata initiative, Online Computer Library Center, UK

E-Commerce and Security:

Eric Brunner, engage.com, USA
Jean Camp, Harvard University, USA
Tim Finin, umbc, USA
Amy Greenwald, Brown University, USA
Rüdiger Grimm, Technical University Ilmenau, Germany
Amir Herzberg, NewGenPay Inc., Israel
Jose Kahan, W3C/INRIA, France
Marit Koehntopp, Privacy Commissioner's Office Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Lucas Chi Kwong, HUI, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong
Brian LaMacchia, Microsoft , USA
Yosi Mass, IBM, USA
Benny Pinkas, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Jonathan Smith, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Oliver Spatscheck, AT&T Research, USA
Win Treese, openmarketSerissa Research, Inc..com, USA
Aad van Moorsel, Hewlett-Packard, USA
Michael Wellman, University of Michigan, USA
Will Winsborough, Network Associates, USA
Rebecca Wright, AT&T Research, USA
Peter Wurman, North Carolina State University, USA

Hypermedia:


 

Helen Ashman, University of Nottingham, UK
Fabio Vitali, University of Bologna and CNR-IAT, Italy
Steve Ball, Zveno Pty Ltd., Australia
Megan Quentin-Baxter, University of Newcastle, UK
Mark Bernstein, Eastgate Systems, Inc., USA
Tim Brailsford, University of Nottingham, UK
Paul De Bra, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands
Leslie Carr, University of Southampton, UK
Stephen J. Green, Sun Microsystems Laboratories, USA
Nuno Guimaraes, FCUL, Portugal
David L. Hicks, Aalborg University Esbjerg, Denmark
David Kolb, Bates College, USA
Cliff McKnight, Loughborough University, UK
Elli Mylonas, Brown University, USA
Harri Oinas-Kukkonen, University of Oulu, Finland
Frank Shipman, Texas A&M University, USA
Rosemary Simpson, Brown University, USA
Jim Whitehead, UC- Irvine, USA
Uffe Kock Wiil, Aalborg University Esbjerg, Denmark
Lynda Hardman, CWI, Netherlands
Additional reviewers:
Marco Roccetti, University of Bologna, Italy

Languages and Standards:

Laura Abba, IAT-CNR, Denmark
James Clark, SoftQuad, Thailand
Steven De Rose, Brown University/INSO, USA
Bob Glushko, Commerce One, USA
Ellis Horowitz, USC, USA
Carl Lagoze, Cornell University, USA
Ora Lassila, Nokia, USA
Eve Maler, Sun, USA
Ashok Malhotra, IBM, USA
Deborah McGuinness, Stanford University, USA
Steve Muench, Oracle, USA
Yannis Papakonstantinou, Enosys/UCSD, USA
Benjamin Pierce, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Louiqa Raschid, University of Maryland, USA
Michael Schwartzbach, BRICS, Denmark
William Song, University of Hong Kong, HK
Stuart Weibel, OCLC, USA
Additional reviewers:
Andrea Marchetti, CNR, Italy
Massimo Martinelli, CNR, Italy
Franca Tressoldi, Pacchiors Inc., Italy

Mobile Agents and Wireless Access:

Robert Gray, Dartmouth College, USA
Dawn Lawrie, University of Massachusetts, USA
Keith Marzullo, UCSD, USA
Kazuhiro Minami, Dartmouth College, USA
Amy Murphy, University of Rochester, USA
Gian Pietro Picco, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Sam Rebelsky, Grinell College, USA
Niranjan Suri, University of West Florida, USA
Anand Tripathi, Uviversity of Minnesota, USA

Performance, Reliability, Scalability:

 

Martin Arlitt, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, USA
Ernst W. Biersack, Institut EURECOM, France
Jeff Chase, Duke University, USA
Pi-Yu Emerald Chung, Siebel Systems, Inc. , USA
Michele Colajanni, University of Modena, Italy
Mark Crovella, Boston University, USA
Mike Dahlin, University of Texas, USA
Fred Douglis, AT&T Labs, USA
Peter Druschel, Rice University, USA
Anja Feldmann, Universitat des Saarlandes, Germany
Armando Fox, Stanford University, USA
Markus Hofmann, Bell Labs, USA
Yennun Huang, AT&T Labs, USA
P. Krishnan, ISPSoft, USA
Sy-Yen Kuo, National Taiwan University, China
Evangelos P. Markatos, ICS-FORTH and University of Crete, Greece
Vivek Pai, Princeton University, USA
James Pitkow, GroupFire Inc, USA
Philip S. Yu, IBM Watson Research Center, USA
Lixia Zhang, UCLA, USA
Additional reviewers:
Richard King, IBM Research, USA
Jennifer Rexford, AT&T Labs, USA
Cathy Xia, IBM Research, USA
Richard King, IBM Research, USA
Jennifer Rexford, AT&T Labs, USA
Cathy Xia, IBM Research, USA
Michael Rabinovich, AT&T Labs, USA
Tim Brecht, HP Labs, USA
 

Practice and Experience:

David De Roure, University of Southampton, UK
Jim Blackaby, Mystic Seaport, USA
Carole Goble, University of Manchester, UK
Joerg M. Haake, GMD-IPSI, Germany
David Hitchcock, Logical Events Ltd, UK
David Lassner, University of Hawaii, USA
Simon Phipps, Sun Microsystems, UK
Colin Bird, IBM Hursley Laboratories, UK
Simon Nicholson, Sun Microsystems, USA
Paul McKee, British Telecom Laboratories, UK

Searching Querying and Indexing:

Sihem Amer-Yahia, AT&T Labs, USA
Andrei Broder, AltaVista Company, USA
Stephano Ceri, Polit. Milano, Italy
Sudarshan Chawathe, University of Maryland, USA
Sophie Cluet, INRIA, France
Ron Dolin, Google, USA
Mary Fernandez, AT&T Labs, USA
Jian Gong, SEU, China
Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University, USA
Nick Koudas, AT&T Labs, USA
Dik Lee, HKUST, HK
Frank Neven, University of Limburg, Belgium
Yue-Sun Kuo, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Val Tannen, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Frank Tompa, University of Waterloo, Canada
Victor Vianu, University of San Diego, USA
Ling Zhang, SCUT, China
Bertram Ludaescher, University of San Diego, USA
Additional reviewers:
Glenn Carroll
Amarnath Gupta
Yipeng Shen
Airi Salminen
Reem Al-Halimi
Monika Henzinger
Alex Franz
Amit Singhal Serge Abiteboul
Claude Delobel
Thomas Baby
Ugur Cetintemel
Alexandros Labrinidis
Manuel Rodriguez
Yannis Sismanis
Soubin Dong
 

Web and Education:

Maha Ashour-Abdalla, University of California, USA
Grace Au, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, HK
Paul Bacsich, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Ng ST Chong, The United Nations University, Japan
Alain Breuleux, McGill University, Canada
David L. Eisler, Weber State University, USA
Edward Fox, Virginia Tech University, USA
Louis B. Fox, University of Washington, USA
Nigel French, The Hong Kong Web Symposium Consortioum, HK
Peter Olaf Looms, DANMARKS RADIO (Danish Broadcasting Corporation), Denmark
Susan Rodger, Duke University, USA
Ruimin Shen, Shanghai JiaoTong University, China
Mladen Vouk, North Carolina State University, USA

Posters Committee Members:

Yew Hock Ang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Paul Ge Bao, Polytechnic University of Hong Kong, China
Jinlin Chen, Microsoft Research, China
David Cheung, University of Hong Kong, China
Sungzoon Cho, National Seoul University, Korea
Martin Duerst, W3C Organization, Japan
Ada Fu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Krista Lagus, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Wai Lam, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Qing Li, The City University of Hong Kong, China
Jiming Liu, Baptist University of Hong Kong, China
Hongjun Lu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
Vladimir Uskov, Bradley University, USA
James Wang, Penn State University, USA
David K.Y. Yau, Purdue University, USA
Clement Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

IW3C2 Members:
(in alphabetical order)

Jean-Francois Abramatic, Institut National pour la Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA), France
Tim Berners-Lee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Laboratory for Computer Science (MIT/LCS), USA
Robert Cailliau, European Laboratory for Particle Physics ( CERN),SwitzerlandCH
Michael Dreisch, United Pan-Europe Communications ( UPC), Amsterdam,
The Netherlands
Allan Ellis,Southern Cross University ( SCU), Australia
Wendy Hall, University of Southampton, UK
Joseph Hardin, University of Michigan, USA
Ivan Herman, Centre for Mathematics and Computer Sciences ( CWI), NL
David Hitchcock, Logical Events Limited, London, UK
Robert Hopgood, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL), UK
David Lassner, University of Hawaii, USA
Peter Plamondon, Microsoft Corporation, USA
Nobuo Saito, Keio University, Japan
Vincent Yun Shen, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong
Albert Vezza, Corporation for National Research Initiatives, CNRI, USA
Bebo White, Stanford Linear Accelerator Centre (SLAC), USA
Mary Ellen Zurko, Iris Associates, USA