VLDB 2002 28th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases   Kowloon Shangri-La Hotel August 20-23, 2002 Hong Kong, China

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
CORE DATABASE TECHNOLOGY	INFRASTRUCTURE FOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Karl Aberer, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland Natassa Ailamaki, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Suad Alagic, University of Southern Maine, USA Catriel Beeri, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Alex Buchmann, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany Michael Carey, BEA Systems, Inc., USA Stefano Ceri, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Sharma Chakravarthy, University of Texas - Arlington, USA Surajit Chaudhuri, Microsoft Corporation, USA Arbee Chen, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Sophie Cluet, Xyleme SA, France Klaus Dittrich, University of Zurich, Switzerland Asuman Dogac, Middle East Technical University, Turkey Christos Faloutsos, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Michael Freeston, University of Aberdeen, UK Christoph Freytag, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany Jonathan Goldstein, Microsoft Corporation, USA Goetz Graefe, Microsoft Corporation, USA Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, USA Christian Jensen, Aalborg University, Denmark Alfons Kemper, University of Passau, Germany Martin Kersten, CWI, Netherlands Hank Korth, Bell Labs, USA Donald Kossmann, Technical University of Munich, Germany Rao Kotagiri, University of Melbourne, Australia Mong Li Lee, National University of Singapore, Singapore Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Bruce Lindsay, IBM Almaden, USA Tok Wang Ling, National University of Singapore, Singapore Witold Litwin, University Paris 9 Dauphine, France Hongjun Lu, University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong Alberto Mendelzon, University of Toronto, Canada Renée J. Miller, University of Toronto, Canada Tova Milo, Tel Aviv University, Israel Guido Moerkotte, University of Mannheim, Germany Shinichi Morishita, University of Tokyo, Japan Sham Navathe, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Svetlozar Nestorov, University of Chicago, USA Patrick O'Neil, University of Massachussetts - Boston, USA Beng Chin Ooi, National University of Singapore, Singapore Gultekin Ozsoyoglu, Case Western Reserve University, USA Jignesh Patel, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, USA Krithi Ramamritham, Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay, India C. Ravishankar, University of California - Riverside, USA Kenneth Ross, Columbia University, USA Elke Rudensteiner, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Kenneth Salem, University of Waterloo, Canada Bernhard Seeger, Philipps-University of Marburg, Germany Len Shapiro, Portland State University, USA Oded Shmueli, Technion, Israel Ambuj Singh, University of California - Santa Barbara, USA Dan Suciu, University of Washington - Seattle, USA S. Sudarshan, Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay, India Patrick Valduriez, University of Pierre & Marie Curie (Paris 6), France Jeffrey Vitter, Duke University, USA Gerhard Weikum, University des Saarlandes, Germany Kyu-Young Whang, KAIST, Korea Jennifer Widom, Stanford University, USA Ouri Wolfson, University of Illinois - Chicago, USA Carlo Zaniolo, UCLA, USA Justin Zobel, RMIT University, Australia	Gustavo Alonso, ETH Zürich, Switzerland Mokrane Bouzeghoub, University of Versailles, France Michael Brodie, Verizon Information Technology, USA Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Tiziana Catarci, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy Ming-Syan Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Stavros Christodoulakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece Vassilis Christophidis, FORTH, Greece Bruce Croft, University of Massachussets - Amherst, USA Isabel Cruz, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Umesh Dayal, Hewlett-Packard Labs, USA Ada Fu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Norbert Fuhr, University of Dortmund, Germany Takeshi Fukuda, IBM Tokyo, Japan Minos Garofalakis, Bell Labs, USA Dimitris Georgakopoulos, Telcordia Technologies, USA Luis Gravano, Columbia University, USA Alon Halevy, University of Washington - Seattle, USA Jayant Haritsa, Indian Institute of Science - Bangalore, India Mauricio Hernandez, IBM Almaden, USA Leonid Kalinichenko, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia Daniel Keim, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany Masaru Kitsuregawa, University of Tokyo, Japan Maurizio Lenzerini, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy Heikki Mannila, Nokia Research Center, Finland Claudia Bauzer Medeiros, University of Campinas, Brazil C. Mohan, IBM Almaden, USA Dick Muntz, UCLA, USA John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada Erich Neuhold, University of Darmstadt, Germany Shojiro Nishio, Osaka University, Japan Tamer Özsu, University of Waterloo, Canada Mike Papazoglou, Tilburg University, The Netherlands Norman Paton, University of Manchester, UK Tore Risch, Uppsala University, Sweden Marek Rusinkiewicz, Telcordia Technologies, USA Sunita Sarawagi, India Institute of Technology - Bombay, India Hans-Jörg Schek, ETH Zürich, Switzerland Timos Sellis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Ming-Chien Shan, Hewlett-Packard Labs, USA Eugene Shekita, IBM Almaden, USA Kyuseok Shim, Seoul National University, Korea Arie Shoshani, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, USA Eric Simon, INRIA, France Terry Smith, University of California - Santa Barbara, USA Ramakrishnan Srikant, IBM Almaden, USA Kian-Lee Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore