Organization

General Chair
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Nikos Mamoulis, University of Hong Kong

Program Co-Chairs
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Max J. Egenhofer, University of Maine
Bertram Ludäscher, University of California, Davis

Program Committee
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Claudio Bettini, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Ken Barker, University of Calgary
Elisa Bertino, Purdue University
Gilberto Câmara, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espacias, Brazil
Lei Chen, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Reynold Cheng, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Jim Frew, University of California, Santa Barbara
Michael Gertz, University of California, Davis
Carole Goble, University of Manchester
Moustafa Hammad, University of Calgary
Feifei Li, Florida State University
Panos Kalnis, National University of Singapore
Larry Kerschberg, George Mason University
Martin Kersten, CWI, Netherlands
George Kollios, Boston University
Xiaosong Ma, North Carolina State University
Francesco Malvestuto, Università "La Sapienza" di Roma
Mohamed Mokbel, University of Minnesota
Kyriakos Mouratidis, Singapore Management University
Mario Nascimento, University of Alberta
Silvia Nittel, University of Maine
Moira Norrie, ETH Zuerich, Switzerland
Beng Chin Ooi, National University of Singapore
Dimitris Papadias, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
John Pfaltz, University of Virginia
Philippe Rigaux, Université Paris-Dauphine, France
Doron Rotem, Lawrance Berkeley National Laboratory
Bernhard Seeger, Phillipps-University Marburg, Germany
Kurt Stockinger, Lawrance Berkeley National Laboratory
Yufei Tao, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Stijn Vansummeren, Universiteit Hasselt, Beglium
Marianne Winslett, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Man Lung Yiu, Aalborg University, Denmark
Jeffrey Xu Yu, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Xiaofang Zhou, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

SSDBM Steering Committee
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A. Shoshani (chair), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
M. A. Hammad, University of Calgery, Canada 
W. Grossmann, University of Vienna
J. Frew, University California, Santa Barbara
Y. Manolopoulos, Department of Informatics, University of Thessaloniki