Conference General Chairs

Jiming Liu	Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Benjamin W. Wah	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA

Program Chair

Toyoaki Nishida

Kyoto University, Japan

Organizing Chair

Yiu-Ming Cheung

Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

Program Co-Chairs

Zhongzhi Shi	Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Ubbo Visser	Science Universität Bremen, Germany
Xindong Wu	University of Vermont, USA

Industry / Demo-Track Co-Chairs

Wray Buntine	Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Finland
Kazuhiro Kuwabara	ATR, Japan
Jianchang Mao	Yahoo! Inc., USA

Workshop Co-Chairs

Cory J. Butz	University of Regina, Canada
Ngoc Thanh Nguyen	Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Yasufumi Takama	Tokyo Metropolitan University

Tutorial Co-Chairs

Yuefeng Li	Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Pawan Lingras	Saint Mary's University, Canada
Hideaki Takeda	University of Tokyo, Japan

Publicity Co-Chairs

Alvin C.M. Kwan	The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Marcin Szczuka	Warsaw University, Poland
Guoyin Wang	Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Hui Xiong	Rutgers University, USA

Sponsorship Co-Chairs

Einoshin Suzuki	Yokohama National University, Japan
Hongjin Yang	Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Zhaohui Tang	Microsoft, USA

Publication Chair

Kwok-Wai Cheung

Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

Financial Chair

Chi-Kuen Wong

Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

Local Arrangment Chair

Jianliang Xu

Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

Registration Chair

Xiaowen Chu

Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

Program Vice Co-Chairs

Mario Cannataro	University "Magna Græcia" of Catanzaro, Italy
Meng Chang Chen	Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Joost Kok	Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science, The Netherlands
Tsau Young Lin	San Jose State University, USA
Massimo Marchiori	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and University of Venice, USA and Italy
Ralf Moeller	Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
Sankar Pal	Machine Intelligence Unit Indian Statistical Institute, India
Steve Willmott	Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain
Chengqi Zhang	Faculty of Information Technology, Australia
Lina Zhou	University of Maryland, USA

Cyber Chair Administrator

Juzhen Dong

Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan

Secretary

Man-yee Lam

Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

Webmaster

Ho-fai Wong

The Hospital Authority, Hong Kong