Local Organization Committee
Technical Program Committee
General Chairs
Jacqueline Bourdeau - Tele-university (TELUQ), Montreal, QC, Canada
Jim A. Hendler - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA
Roger Nkambou - Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
General Vice-Chairs
Christopher A. Welty - Senior Research Scientist, Google Inc., NY, USA
Lora Aroyo - VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Shibl Mourad - Montréal Site Director, Google Inc.
Local Organization Committee
Co-Chairs
Roger Nkambou - Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
Petko Valtchev - Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
Proceedings and Metadata Chairs
Volker Haarslev - Concordia University, Montréal, Canada
Michel Gagnon - École Polytechnique, Montréal, Canada
Sponsorship and Networking Chairs
Jean-Charles Grégoire - INRS-Telecommunication
Diane Mercier - Open Knowledge Foundation
Registration Chair
Bettina Kemme - McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Publicity Chairs
Steven Harnad - Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
Jean-Marc Robert - ETS, Montreal, Canada
Exhibition Chair
Hamadou Saliah-Hassane - TELUQ, Montreal, Canada
Co-located Events Chair
Isabelle Rouvellou - IBM, New York, USA
Financial Liaison
Jean Talbot - HEC, Montréal, Canada
PCO
OPC Events - Montreal, Canada
Marketing and Sponsorship
CPS Media - Saint-Sauveur, Canada
IW3C2 Liaison
Luc Mariaux - École Centrale de Lyon, France
Volunteers Co-Chairs
Sébastien Forget - TD Bank, Canada
Sasha Vorobyova - UQAM, Canada
Kristine Gloria - RPI, NY USA
Media and Communication
Anik Veilleux - UQAM, Canada
Technical Program Committee
Program Committee Chairs
Ian Horrocks - University of Oxford, UK
Ben Y. Zhao - University of California at Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Area Chairs
Behavioral Analysis and Personalization
Mounia Lalmas - Yahoo Labs, UK
Xavier Amatriain - Quora, USA
Content Analysis
Rada Mihalcea - University of Michigan, USA
Vivi Nastase - Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Crowdsourcing Systems and Social Media
Daniel Quercia - University of Cambridge, UK
Christo Wilson - Northeastern University, USA
Jeffrey P. Bigham - Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Economics and Markets
Nicole Immorlica - Microsoft, USA
Preston McAfee - Microsoft, USA
Mobility
Cecilia Mascolo - University of Cambridge, UK
Security and Privacy
Nikita Borisov - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Michael Bailey - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Semantics and Big Data
Maria Esther Vidal - Universidad Simón Bolívar, Venezuela
Markus Krötzsch - TU Dresden, Germany
Social Networks and Graph Analysis
Aristides Gionis - Aalto University, Finland
Alessandra Sala - Bell Labs, USA
Haewoon Kwak - Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar
Web Mining
Yizhou Sun - Northeastern University, USA
Yutaka Matsuo - University of Tokyo, Japan
Web Science
Marta Sabou - Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Dave De Roure - University of Oxford, UK
Web Search Systems and Applications
Jimmy Huang - York University, Canada
Dan Pelleg - Yahoo Labs, Haifa
Workshop Track Chairs
Esma Aïmeur - University of Montreal, Canada
Medha Atre - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Poster Track Chairs
Jeff Z. Pan - University of Aberdeen, UK
Gianluca Stringhini - University College London, UK
Demo Track Chairs
Alfredo Cuzzocrea - University of Trieste, Italy
Abdulmotaleb El Saddik - University of Ottawa, Canada
Industry Track Chairs
Achille Fokoue - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Shibl Mourad - Montréal Site Director, Google Inc, Canada
Doctoral Consortium Chairs
Eyhab Al-Masri - University of Waterloo, Canada
Tie-Yan Liu - Microsoft Research Asia, China
Tutorial Chairs
Thanassis Tiropanis - University of Southampton, UK
Matthew Weber - Rutgers University, USA
Developers Track
Andrei Sambra - MIT, USA
Oshani Seneviratne - Oracle, USA
Lalana Kagal - MIT, USA
Entrepreneurs Track
Andrei Broder - Google, USA
Stefano Leonardi
- Università di Roma La Sapienza, Italy
Paolo Merialdo - Università Roma Tre, Italy
W3C Track Chair
Marie-Claire Forgue, W3C, France
