Organisation Committee

Programme

Programme Committee chairs:

Charlie Clarke (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Norbert Fuhr (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
Noriko Kando (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)

Poster chairs:

Gianni Amati (Fondazione Ugo Bordini, Italy)
Chris Buckley (Sabir Research, USA)
Thomas Hofmann (Google Inc., Switzerland)

Workshop chair:

Josiane Mothe (IRIT, France)

Tutorial chair:

ChengXiang Zhai (University of Illinois at Urbana-Campaign, USA)

Demonstrations chair:

Thomas Roelleke (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)

Mentoring chair:

Mark Sanderson (University of Sheffield, UK)

Doctoral Consortium chair:

Liz Liddy (Syracuse University, USA)

Best paper award chair:

Mark Sanderson (University of Sheffield, UK)

Industry Event

Industry chairs:

Jan Pedersen (Yahoo! Inc., USA)
Peter Schäuble (Eurospider Information Technology AG, Switzerland)

Local Organisation chairs:

Martine Kunel (TNO, The Netherlands)
Bernd Wondergem (Thaesis, The Netherlands)

Conference

General chairs:

Wessel Kraaij (TNO, The Netherlands)
Arjen de Vries (CWI, The Netherlands)

Corporate Sponsoring chair:

Theo Huibers (University of Twente, The Netherlands)

Publicity chair:

Djoerd Hiemstra (University of Twente, The Netherlands)

Treasurer:

Dick Broekhuis (CWI, The Netherlands)

Local Organisation chair:

Maarten de Rijke (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Local Organisation:

Tobias Baanders (CWI, The Netherlands)
Claudia Hauff (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
Jaap Kamps (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Rianne Kaptein (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Edgar Meij (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Wilmy van Ojik (CWI, The Netherlands)