ASONAM 2012 Program Committee Peter Abell, The London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Robert Ackland, Australian National University, Australia Lada Adamic, University of Michigan, USA Mohsen Afsharchi, University of Zanjan, Iran Nitin Agarwal, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA Kemal Akkaya, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA Vural Aksakalli, Istanbul City University, Turkey Harith Alani, Open University, UK Arshad Ali, NIIT, Pakistan Ana Paula Appel, IBM, Brazil Hiroki Arimura, Hokkaido University, Japan Nikitas Asimakopoulos, University of Piraeus, Greece Guido Barbian, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Germany Roberto Bayardo, Google, USA Ali Galip Bayrak, EPFL, Switzerland Kanishka Bhaduri, NASA Ames Research Center, USA Marenglen Biba, University of New York Tirana, USA Maria Bielikova, FIIT STU, Slovakia Francesco Bonchi, Yahoo, Spain Paul Bradley, MethodCare, USA Dan Braha, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA Piotr Brodka, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland Andre Carvalho, The University of Sao Paulo, Brazil Chien-Chung Chan, University of Akron, USA Wei-Lun Chang, Tamkang University, Taiwan Sanjay Chawla, The University of Sydney, Australia Richard Chbeir, Université de Bourgogne, France Li Chen, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Ming-Syan Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Shin-Horng Chen, Jinwen University of Science and Technology, Taiwan Yunwei Chen, Chinese Academy of Science, China Hong Cheng, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Yun Chi, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.,USA Been-Chian Chien, National University of Tainan, Taiwan Peng Dai, University of Washington, USA Munmun De, Choudhury Arizona State University, USA Jen-Yao Chung, IBM, USA Gao Cong, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Diane Cook, Washington State University, USA Alfredo Cuzzocrea, ICAR-CNR and University of Calabria, Italy Kamalika Das, NASA Ames Research Center, USA Tamraparni Dasu, AT&T Labs, USA Paul Davidsson, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sweden Min-Yuh Day, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Hongbo Deng, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Jana Diesner, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Ying Ding, Indiana University, USA Gill Dobbie, University of Auckland, New Zealand xxiv

Artur Dubrawski, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Schahram Dustdar, Technische Universität Wien, Austria Haimonti Dutta, Columbia University, USA Ersin Elbasi, Tubitak, Turkey Yuval Elovici, Ben-Gurion University,Israel Rasit Eskicioglu, University of Manitoba Martin Ester, Simon Fraser University, Canada Vladimir Estivill-Castro, Griffith University, Australia Johannes Fürnkranz, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany Wei Fan, IBM, USA Behrouz Far, University of Calgary, Canada Michael Farrugia, University College Dublin, Ireland Terrill Frantz, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Elisa Fromont, Université Jean Monnet, France Benjamin Fung, Concordia University, Canada Joao Gama, University of Porto, Portugal Luciano Gamberini, University of Padova, Italy Matjaz Gams, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia Jing Gao, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA Minos Garofalakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece Gemma Garriga, INRIA, France Paolo Garza, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Cagdas Evren Gerede, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey Amol Ghoting, IBM, USA Chris Giannella, Loyola University Maryland, USA Fosca Giannotti, National Research Council, Italy Sertan Girgin, INRIA,France Uwe Glasser, Simon Fraser University, Canada Mark Goldberg, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Tyrone Grandison, IBM, USA William Grosky, University of Michigan, USA Fabrice Guillet, University of Nantes, France Hoang Huu Hanh, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Choochart Haruechaiyasak, NECTEC, Thailand Conor Hayes, National University of Ireland, Ireland David Hicks, Aalborg University, Denmark Erick Ho, Oriental Institute of Technology, Taiwan Vasant Honavar, Iowa State University, USA Tzung-Pei Hong, National Kaohsiung University, Taiwan Hui-Huang Hsu, TKU Taiwan-Tamkang University, Taiwan Weidong Huang, CSIRO, Australia Yun Huang, Northwestern University, USA Adam Jatowt, Kyoto University, Japan Heng Ji, City University of New York, USA Ruoming Jin, Kent State University, USA Yingzi Jin, University of Tokyo, Japan Jason J. Jung, Yeungnam University, Korea Krzysztof Juszczyszyn, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland Mehmed Kantardzic, University of Loiusville, USA Panagiotis Karampelas, Hellenic American University,USA Mehmet Kaya, Firat University, Turkey xxv

Jalal Kawash, University of Calgary, Canada Przemyslaw Kazienko, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland Yiping Ke, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China Etienne Kerre, Ghent University, Belgium Larry Kerschberg, George Mason University, USA Shakeel Khoja, University of Southampton, UK Taghi Khoshgoftaar, Florida Atlantic University, USA Suheil Khoury, American University of Sharjah, UAE Keivan Kianmehr, University of Western Ontario, Canada Chris Kimble, Euromed Management, France Irwin King, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China Jeroen Knijf, University of Antwerp, Belgium Vassilis Kostakos, University of Madeira, Portugal Sven Kosub, University of Konstanz Nick Koudas, University of Toronto and Sysomos Inc. Roumen Kountchev, Technical University-Sofia, Bulgaria Peer Kruger, Munich University, Germany Adam Krzyzak, Concordia University, Canada Wei-Shin Ku, Auburn University, USA Rui Kuang, University of Minnesota, USA Andrew Kusiak, University of Iowa, USA Georgios Lappas, TEI of Western Macedonia, Greece Christine Largeron, Jean Monnet University, France Dominique Laurent, Cergy-Pontoise University, France Hady W. Lauw, Institute for Infocomm Research,Singapore Chung-Hong Lee, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Taiwan Kwan Hong, Lee MIT University, USA Sangkeun Lee, Korea University, South Korea Wang-Chien Lee, Pennsylvania State University, USA Matthijs Leeuwen, Utrecht University, Netherlands Juergen Lerner, University of Konstanz, Germany Gang Li, Deakin University, Australia Gang Li, Siemens Corporate Research, USA Jiuyong Li, University of South Australia, Australia Jun Li, University of Oregon, USA Ming Li, Nanjing University, China Tao Li, Florida International University, USA Ying Li, Microsoft, USA Ee-Peng Lim, Singapore Management University, Singapore Hwee Ling, Lim Petroleum Institute, UAE Shou-De Lin, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Wen-Yang Lin, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan Kun Liu, Yahoo, USA Nathan Liu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China Tie-Yan Liu, Microsoft, USA Xumin Liu, VirginiaTech, USA Donato Malerba, University of Bari, Italy Nikos Mamoulis, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Murat Manguoglu, Middle East Technical University, Turkey Massimo Marchiori, University of Padua, Italy Wagner Meira, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil xxvi

Ronaldo Menezes, Florida Institute of Technology, USA Rosa Meo, University of Turin, Italy Rokia Missaoui,Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada Mikolaj Morzy, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Tsuyoshi Murata, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Mohamed Musa, Microsoft, USA Katarzyna Musial, Bournemouth University, England Peter Mutschke, Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany Shinsuke Nakajima, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan Olfa Nasraoui, University of Louisville, USA Federico Neri, Synthema, Italy Peter Nielsen, Aalborg University, Denmark Andreas Nuernberger, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany Darko Obradovic, GMX, Germany Zoran Obradovic, Temple University, USA Hitoshi Okada, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Kok-Leong Ong, Deakin University, Australia Spiros Papadimitriou, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Marcin Paprzycki, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Dino Pedreschi, University of Pisa, Italy Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada Juergen Pfeffer, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, KDnuggets, USA Marc Plantevit, University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France Faruk Polat, Middle East Technical University, Turkey Laura Pullum, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Naren Ramakrishnan, Virginia Tech University, USA Huzefa Rangwala, George Mason University, USA Chandan Reddy, Wayne State University, USA Rene Reitsma, Oregon State University, USA Arno H.P. Reuser, Open Source Intelligence, The Netherlands Christopher Rouff, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories Anne Ryen, University of Agder, Norway Lorenza Saitta, University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy Alessandra Sala, University of California Santa Barbara, USA John Salerno, U.S. Air Force, USA Andreas Schmidt, Research Center for Information Technology, Germany Christoph Schmitz, University of Kassel, Germany John Scott, University of Plymouth, UK Bart Selman, Cornell University, USA Jun Shen, University of Wollongong, Australia Wanita Sherchan, IBM Research, Australia Moninder Singh, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA M. Siyal, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore David Skillicorn, Queen’s University, Canada Václav Snášel, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic Junehwa Song, Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea Arnaud Soulet, François Rabelais University, France Myra Spiliopoulou, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany Christian Stegbauer, Goethe University, Germany Yizhou Sun, University of Illinois,Urbana-Champaign, USA xxvii

Jerzy Surma, Warsaw School of Economics, Poland Andrea Tagarelli, Della Calabra University, Italy Jie Tang, Tsingua University, China Lei Tang, Arizona State University, USA Bulent Tavli, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey Evimaria Terzi, Boston University, USA Clark Thomborson, The University of Auckland, New Zealand Alex Thomo, University of Victoria, Canada I-Hsien Ting, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan Hannu Toivonen, University of Helsinki, Finland HangHang Tong, IBM T.J. Watson Research Martin Trevor, University of Bristol, UK Wen-Chih Tsai, National Chiao Tung University Hsinchu, Taiwan Panayiotis Tsaparas, Microsoft Research Frank S.C., Tseng National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology, Taiwan Maksim Tsvetovat, George Mason University, USA Chou Tung-Hsiang, National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology, Taiwan Lorna Uden, Staffordshire University, UK Shiro Uesugi, Matsuyama University, Japan Ozgur Ulusoy, Bilkent University, Turkey Michalis Vazirgiannis, Athens University of Economics and Business Julien Velcin, University of Lyon, France Jilles Vreeken, Utrecht University, Netherlands Christian Waldstrom, Aarhus University, Denmark Fei Wang, IBM Almaden Research Center Haixun Wang, Microsoft Asia Jianyong Wang, Tsingua University, China Kai-Yu Wang, Brock University, Canada Junzo Watada, Waseda University, Japan Toyohide Watanabe, Nagoya University, Japan Roger Whitaker, Cardiff University Joseph Whitmeyer, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Raymond Chi-Wing, Wong The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Kun-Lung Wu, IBM, USA S. Felix Wu, University of California Davis, USA Xindong Wu, The University of Vermont, USA Xintao Wu, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Fatos Xhafa, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain Lexing Xie, The Australian National University, Australia Hui Xiong, The State University of New Jersey, USA Jennifer Xu, Bentley University, USA Ronald Yager, Public Access Networks Corporation, USA Xifeng Yan, University of California, USA Christopher Yang, Drexel University, USA Hsieh-Hua Yang, Chung Jung Christian University, Taiwan Hsin-Chang Yang, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan Shuang-Hong Yang, Georgia Tech University, USA Jon Yen, Pennsylvania State University, USA Pinar Yolum, Bogazici University,Turkey Jeffrey Xu, Yu Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Philip Yu, University of Illinois Chicago, USA xxviii

Daniel Zeng, The University of Arizona, USA Kang Zhang, The University of Texas, USA Min-Ling Zhang, Southeast University, China Zhongfei (Mark) Zhang, Binghamton University, USA Kaidi Zhao, Amazon Qiangfu Zhao, The University of Aizu, Japan Lina Zhou, University of Maryland, USA Xiangmin Zhou, The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia Zhi-Hua Zhou, Nanjing University, China Haibin Zhu, Nipissing University, Canada Xingquan Zhu, Florida Atlantic University, USA

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