Committees

Organizing Committee

Honorary General Chair

• Tadao Saito, Professor Emeritus of The University of Tokyo, Toyota InfoTechnology Center Co., Japan

General Chair

• Ryoichi Sasaki, Tokyo Denki University, Japan

PC Chair

• Makoto Oya, Shonan Institute of Technology, Japan

PC Vice Chair

• Ryuya Uda, Tokyo University of Technology, Japan

Local Steering Committee Co-Chairs

• Motohisa Funabashi, Hitachi, Ltd., Japan
• Terutoshi Sano, The Association for Promotion of Public Local Information and Communication, Japan

Local Steering Committee Vice Chair

• Ken Kobayashi, Hitachi, Ltd., Japan

Local Steering Committee Secretary

• Kunihiko Miyazaki, Hitachi, Ltd., Japan

Finance Co-Chairs

• Hiroshi Yajima, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
• Shigehisa Honma, The Association for Promotion of Public Local Information and Communication, Japan

Local Arrangements Chair

• Isao Echizen, National Institute of Informatics, Japan

Local Arrangements Vice Chair

• Soichi Furuya, Hitachi, Ltd., Japan

Publication Chair

• Chizuko Yasunobu, Hitachi Consulting Co., Ltd., Japan

Publication Vice Chairs

• Katsunari Yoshioka, Yokohama National University, Japan
• Junji Nakazato, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan

Publicity Chair

• Hiroshi Yoshiura, University of Electro-Communications, Japan

Panel Chair

• Shiro Sakata, Chiba University, Japan

Organized Session Chair

• Osamu Sudoh, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Members

• Toyoyuki Kobayashi, NTT Communications Corporation, Japan
• Hirokazu Konishi, NEC Corporation, Japan
• Yuichi Matsushima, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan
• Masahiko Narita, Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology, Japan

Liaison Chairs

• IFIP: Wojciech Cellary, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
• Europe: Volker Tschammer, FhG FOKUS, Germany
• North America: Narcyz Roztocki, State University of New York at New Paltz, USA
• South America: Claudia Bauzer Medeiros, University of Campinas, Brazil
• Asia-Pacific: Wee Keong Ng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Program Committee

• Esma Aïmeur, Université de Montréal, Canada
• Masanori Akiyoshi, Osaka University, Japan
• Americo Nobre Amorim, Ufpe/FIR, Brazil
• Markus Bick, ESCP-EAP European School of Management, Berlin, Germany
• Melanie Bicking, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Germany
• Regis Cabral, FEPRO Piteå, Sweden
• Kok-Wai Chew, Multimedia University, Malaysia
• Sharon Dawes, University at Albany, SUNY, USA
• Dirk Deschoolmeester, Universität Ghent, Belgium
• Naoki Endo, Toshiba Solutions Co., Japan
• Simone Fischer-Hübner, Karlstad University, Sweden
• Motohisa Funabashi, Hitachi, Ltd., Japan
• Rüdiger Grimm, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Germany
• J. Felix Hampe, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
• Ayako Hiramatsu, Osaka Sangyo University, Japan
• Birgit Hofreiter, University of Vienna, Austria
• Jie Huang, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, PRC
• Rei Itsuki, Hiroshima International University, Japan
• Tomasz Janowski, United Nations University, Macao
• Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
• Atsushi Kanai, Hosei University, Japan
• Naoyuki Karasawa, Niigata University, Japan
• Dipak Khakhar, Lund University, Institute for Informatics, Sweden
• Ranjan Kini, Indiana University Northwest, USA
• Dimitri Konstantas, University of Geneva, Switzerland
• Irene Krebs, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus, Germany
• Hiromitsu Kurisu, Hitachi, Ltd., Japan
• Winfried Lamersdorf, Universität Hamburg, Fachbereich Informatik, Germany
• Hongxiu Li, Turku School of Economics, Finland
• José Machado, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
• Bo Meng, Wuhan University, PRC
• Ryota Mibe, Hitachi, Ltd., Japan
• Zoran Milosevic, Deontik Pty Ltd, Australia
• Amit Mitra, Cranfield University, UK
• Kunihiko Miyazaki, Hitachi, Ltd., Japan
• Günter Müller, University of Freiburg, Germany
• Hidenori Nakazato, Waseda University, Japan
• Masahiko Narita, Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology, Japan
• José Neves, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
• Masakatsu Nishigaki, Shizuoka University, Japan
• Harri Oinas-Kukkonen, University of Oulu, Finland
• Makoto Oya, Shonan Institute of Technology, Japan
• Spyridon Papastergiou, University of Pireus, Greece
• Reetta Raitoharju, Turku School of Economics, Finland
• Ryoichi Sasaki, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
• Santosh Shrivastava, Newcastle University, UK
• Katarina Stanoevska-Slabeva, Universität St. Gallen, Switzerland
• Leon Strous, De Nederlandsche Bank, Netherlands
• Zhaohao Sun, Hebei Normal University, PRC
• Reima Suomi, Turku School of Economics, Finland
• Seiichi Susaki, Hitachi, Ltd., Japan
• Jun Suzuki, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA
• Paula Swatman, University of South Australia, Australia
• Mikiya Tani, NEC, Co., Japan
• Takao Terano, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
• Haishan Tian, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, PRC
• Volker Tschammer, Germany
• Ryuya Uda, Tokyo University of Technology, Japan
• Weijun Wang, Huazhong Normal University, Wuhan, PRC
• Hans Weigand, Tilburg University, Netherlands
• Rolf T. Wigand, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA
• Kyoko Yamori, Asahi University, Japan
• Ruixian Yang, Wuhan University, PRC
• Hiroshi Yoshiura, University of Electro-Communications, Japan
• Jing Zhao, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, PRC
• Rongying Zhao, Wuhan University, PRC
• Hans-Dieter Zimmermann, Swiss Institute for Information Research, HTW Chur, Switzerland

External Reviewers

• Rilwan Basanya, United Nations University, Macao
• Steve Capell, Red Wahoo, Australia
• Remi Chandran, United Nations University, Macao
• Nick Cook, Newcastle University, UK
• Jairo Dornelas, UFPE, Brazil
• Elsa Estevez, United Nations University, Macao
• Matthias Fluegge, Fraunhofer Fokus, Germany
• Carlos Molina-Jimenez, Newcastle University, UK
• Alexander Pokahr, Universität Hamburg, Informatics Department, Germany
• Teppo Räisänen, University of Oulu, Finland
• Hisao Sakazaki, Hitachi, Ltd., Japan
• Sonja Zaplata, Universität Hamburg, Informatics Department, Germany

Steering Committee

• Wojciech Cellary, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
• Winfried Lamersdorf, University of Hamburg, Germany
• Reima Suomi, Turku School of Economics, Finland