Michel Adiba (Grenoble Univ.- IMAG-LSR(France), Rafi Ahmed (Oracle), Alex Biliris (AT&T Research), Joachim Biskup (Dortmund), Alok Choudhary (Northwestern University), Christine Collet (LSR-IMAG), Isabel Cruz (WPI), Bipin C. Desai (Concordia) General Chair, Program Co-chair, Anne Doucet(Pierre et Marie Curie Paris-6), Prabhakar Gokul (Lucent), Gösta Grahne (Concordia), Jonathan Gray (Univ. of Wollongong), William I Grosky (Wayne State Univ.), Jiawei Han (Simon Fraser Univ), Teruhisa Hochin (Fukui Univ.), Publicity, Yoshiharu Ishikawa (Tsukuba Univ.), Bala Iyer (IBM Santa Teresa Lab), Hasan Jamil (Mississippi State), Leonid A. Kalinichenko (Russian Acad Sci), Hiroyuki Kawano (Kyoto Univ.), Brigitte Kerhervé, (UQAM), Yasushi Kiyoki (Keio Univ.)Program Co-chair, Local Org. Chair, Laks V. S. (Lakshmanan) (Concordia), Georg Lausen (Freiburg), Mengchi Liu (Regina), Sanjay K Madria(Purdue), Richard McClatchey (CERN), Tim Merrett (McGill), Mukesh Mohania (Western Michigan), Sham Navathe (Georgia Tech.), Raymond Ng (UBC), Sylvia Osborn (UWO), Jaroslav Pokorny (Charles Univ.), Zbigniew W Ras (UNCC), Louiqa Raschid(Maryland), Peter Revesz (Univ. Nebraska-Lincoln), Domenico Sacca (Calabria), Fereidoon Sadri (UNCG), Timos Sellis (NTU:Athens), Nematollah Shiri (Tarbiat Modares-Iran), Divesh Srivastava (AT&T Research), Kazimierz Subieta (Polish Acad Sci.), Subbu Subramanian (IBM Almaden Res.), Kazutoshi Sumiya (Kobe Univ.), Roger Tagg (Massey-NZ), Riccardo Torlone (Universita' di Roma Tre), Motomichi Toyama (Keio Univ.), Local arrangement, Nectaria Tryfona (Aalborg University), Can Tuerker (ETH-Zurich), John Velissarios (Price Waterhouse), Gottfried Vossen (Univ. of Muenster), Ling Tok Wang (NUS-Singapore), Vlad Wietrzyk (Macquarie-Australia)