Honorary Chairs
Vincenzo Piuri, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Mel Siegel, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

General Co-Chairs
Andrea Guerriero, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Emil M. Petriu, University of Ottawa, Canada

Program Co-Chairs
Yonghua Chen, The University of Hong Kong, China
Stefano Ferrari, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Pierre Payeur, University of Ottawa, Canada

Publicity Chair
Ciro Pasquale, Politecnico di Bari, Italy

Publication Chair
Marco Calabrese, Università degli Studi di Milano and Politecnico di Bari, Italy

Local Arrangement Chairs
Alessandro Quarto, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Domenico Soldo, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Antonella Giove, Politecnico di Bari, Italy

Steering Committee
David Braudaway, USA
Emil M.  Petriu, University of Ottawa, Canada
Vincenzo Piuri, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Mel Siegel, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Peter Wide, University of Orebro, Sweden

Technical Program Committee
Rini Akmeliawati, International Islamic University, Malaysia
Alberto Amato, Università degli Studi di Milano e Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Valentina Emilia Balas, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania
Alexandra Branzan Albu, University of Victoria (BC), Canada
Georg Brasseur, Graz University of Technology, Austria
S.H. Choi, The University of Hong Kong, China
Silvia Coradeschi, Orebro University, Sweden
Vladimir Cretu, Politechica University of Timisoara, Romania
Vincenzo Di Lecce, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Giovanni Dimauro, Universita' di Bari, Bari, Italy
Helmut Dispert, Kiel University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Richard J. Duro, Universidade da Coruna, Spain
Yoshinobu Ebisawa, Shizuoka University, Japan
M. Onder Efe, TOBB Economics and Technology University, Turkey
Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, University of Ottawa, Canada
Alessandro Ferrero, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
János Fodor, Technical University of Budapest, Hungary
Anton Fuchs, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Toshio Fukuda, Nagoya University, Japan
Pedro Silva Girao, IST, Portugal
Frans C.A. Groen, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Rafik A. Goubran, Carleton University, Canada
Okyay Kaynak, Bogazici University, Turkey
Peter X. Liu, Carleton University, Canada
Fernando Lopez Pena, Universidade da Coruna, Spain
Gilles Mauris, Universite de Savoie, France
Mihai V. Micea, Politechnica University of Timisoara, Romania
Subhas Mukhopadhyay, Massey University, New Zealand
Melanie Ooi, Monash University, Malaysia
Roberto Ottoboni, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Ciro Pasquale, Politecnico di Bari, Taranto, Italy
Kostas Plataniotis, University of Toronto, Canada
Radu-Emil Precup, Politechnica University of Timisoara, Romania
Gabriella Sanniti di Baja, Institute of Cybernetics "E.Caianiello", CNR, Italy
Alessandro Saffiotti, Orebro University, Sweden
Gourab Sen Gupta, Massey University, New Zealand
Imre J. Rudas, Technical University of Budapest, Hungary
Shervin Shirmohammadi, University of Ottawa, Canada
Jesus Urena Urena, University of Alcala, Spain
Annamaria R. Varkonyi-Koczy, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Thomas E. Whalen, Communications Research Centre, Canada
Peter Wide, Orebro University, Sweden
Yizhong Wong, Tianjing University of Science and Technology, China
Chia-Chen Yen, National Formosa University, Taiwan
Yunfeng Zhang, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Jiying Zhao, University of Ottawa, Canada