Honorary Chair
Tamer Ozsu, University of Waterloo, Canada
General Co-Chairs
Adnan Yazici, METU, Turkey
Ling Liu, Georgia Tech, USA
General PC Chair
Z. Meral Ozsoyoglu, Case Western Reserve University, USA
Research Track PC Co-Chairs
Ugur Cetintemel, Brown University, USA
Nilesh Dalvi, Yahoo Research
Hank Korth, Lehigh University, USA
Anthony Tung, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
Experiments and Analysis Track PC Co-Chairs
Gustavo Alonso, ETH, Switzerland
Juliana Freire, NYU Poly, USA
Industrial and Applications Track PC Co-Chairs
Alon Halevy, Google
Vivek Narasayya, Microsoft Research
Fatma Ozcan, IBM
VLDB Endowment Liaison
Surajit Chaudhuri, Microsoft Research
Proceedings Co-Chair
Ahmet Sacan, Drexel University, USA
Nesime Tatbul, ETH, Switzerland
Panel Program Co-Chairs
K. Selcuk Candan, Arizona State, USA
Panos K, Chrysanthis, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Daniel A Keim, University of Konstanz, Germany
Tutorial Program Co-Chairs
Chung Chin Wan, KAIST, South Korea
Bugra Gedik, IBM TJ Watson, USA
Ken Salem, University of Waterloo, Canada
Workshop Program Co-Chairs
Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu, OSU, USA
James Joshi, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Andreas Wombacher, Twente University, The Netherlands
Demo Program Co-Chairs
Lukasz Golab, University of Waterloo, Canada
Evaggelia Pitoura, University of Ioannina, Greece
Ozgur Ulusoy, Bilkent University, Turkey
PhD Program Co-Chairs
Ioana Manolescu, INRIA, France
Jeffery Xu Yu, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Murat Kantarcıoglu, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Ten-Year Best Paper Award Committee
Rick Snodgrass, University of Arizona, USA (Chair)
Karl Aberer, EPFL, Switzerland
Masaru Kitsuregawa, Univ of Toyko, Japan
David Lomet, Microsoft, USA
Kyu-Young Whang, KAIST, South Korea
Best Paper Award Committee
Surajit Chaudhuri, Microsoft, USA (Chair)
Yannis Ioannidis, National University of Athens, Greece
Christian S. Jensen, Aarhus University, Denmark
Beng Chin Ooi, National University of Singapore
Gerhard Weikum, Max-Planck Institute, Germany
Philip Yu, UIC, USA
Geographical Area Coordinators
(Americas)
Jiawei Han, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
(Asia-Pacific)
Wang Shan, People’s Univ of China, China
(Europe)
Gunter Saake, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Germany
(Mideast and Africa)
Ghassan Z. Qadah, American University of Sharjah, UAE
Sponsor Chairs
Eşref Adalı, ITÜ, Turkey
Sam Madden, MIT, USA
Patrick Valduriez, INRIA, France
Publicity Chair
Ramazan Savaş Aygün, University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA
Treasurer
Ismail Hakki Toroslu, METU, Turkey
Registration Chair
Pınar Senkul, METU, Turkey
Web Management
Sertan Girgin, Google, France
Local Arrangements
İ. Hakki Toroslu, METU, Turkey (co-chair)
Yucel Saygın, Sabancı University, Turkey (co-chair)
Şule Oğuducu, ITÜ, Turkey
Ahmet Coşar, METU, Turkey
Murat Koyuncu, Atılım University, Turkey
Mustafa Sert, Başkent University, Turkey
İbrahim Gökçen, GE Global Operations
Conference Secretariat
Asterya Events & Destination Management