Conference Officers

Organizing Committee

General Chairs

Wolfgang Klas, University of Vienna, Austria
Erich J. Neuhold, Research Studio Digital Memory Engineering, Austria

Honorary Chair

A Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

VLDB Endowment Liaison

Christoph Freytag, Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany

Area Coordinators

• Americas: Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA
• Europe, Mideast, and Africa: Sophie Cluet, INRIA, France
• Asia-Pacific: Shojiro Nishio, Osaka University, Japan

Eastern Europe Liaison

Johann Eder, University of Vienna, Austria

Finance Chair

Thomas Mück, SVA, Austria

Local Arrangements

Bernhard Schandl, University of Vienna, Austria
Eugen Mühlvenzl, Austrian Computer Society, Austria

Web & Publicity Chairs

Ioana Manolescu, INRIA, France
Stefan Leitich, University of Vienna, Austria

Technical Program Committee

Technical Program Chair

Johannes Gehrke, Cornell University, USA

Core Database Technology Program Chair

Minos Garofalakis, Yahoo! Research and UC Berkeley, USA

Infrastructure for Information Systems Program Chair

Divesh Srivastava, AT&T Labs Research, USA

Industrial, Applications and Experience Co-Chairs

Karl Aberer, EPFL, Switzerland
Anand Deshpande, Persistent Systems, India
Dana Florescu, Oracle, USA

Tutorial Co-Chairs

Soumen Chakrabarti, IIT Bombay, India
Gerti Kappel, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Dennis Shasha, New York University, USA

Panel Co-Chairs

Jim Gray, Microsoft Research, USA
Matthias Jarke, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany
Sunita Sarawagi, IIT Bombay, India

Workshop Co-Chairs

Georg Gottlob, Oxford University, England
H.V. Jagadish, University of Michigan, USA
Krithi Ramamritham, IIT Bombay, India

Demonstration Co-Chairs

Chee-Yong Chan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Venkatesh Ganti, Microsoft Research, USA
Carl-Christian Kanne, University of Mannheim, Germany

PhD Program Chair

Klaus R. Dittrich, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Proceedings Chair

Christoph Koch, University of Saarbrücken, Germany

Ten Year Best Paper Award Committee

Alon Halevy, Google, USA
Beng Chin Ooi, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Yannis Ioannidis, University of Athens, Greece

Best Paper Award Committee

Johannes Gehrke, Cornell University, USA
Phil Gibbons, Intel Research, USA
Frank W. Tompa, University of Waterloo, Canada

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