Organizing Comittee

Honorary Chair

Makoto Takizawa, Seikei University, Japan

General Co-Chairs

Leonard Barolli, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan
barolli at fit.ac.jp

Fatos Xhafa, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
fatos at lsi.upc.edu

Dritan Nace, University of Technology of Compiegne, France
nace at utc.fr

Program Committee Co-Chairs

Alain Bui, Université de Versailles-St-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France

Salvatore Venticinque, Second University of Naples, Italy

International Advisory Board

Olivier Terzo, Instituto Superiore Maria Boella, Italy

Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France

Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Science, Poland

Albert Zomaya, University of Sidney, Australia

Horacio Gonzalez-Velez, National College of Ireland, Ireland

Wenny Rahayu, La Trobe University, Australia

Beniamino Di Martino, Second University of Naples, Italy

Workshop Co-Chairs

Olivier Terzo, Instituto Superiore Maria Boella, Italy

Santi Caballe, Open University of Catalonia, Spain

Web Administrator Chair

Joan Arnedo Moreno, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
jarnedo at uoc.edu

Track Areas

1. Sensor as a Service, Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing

Chairs:

Nirvana Meratnia, University of Twente, Netherlands
Massimo Ficco, Second University of Naples, Italy

PC Members:

  1. Desislava Dimitrova, University of Bern
  2. Francesco Palmieri, Second University of Naples (SUN)
  3. Christian Esposito, Institute of High Performance Computing and Networking (ICAR)
  4. Aniello Casiglione, Università degli Studi di Salerno
  5. Domenico Di Leo, Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per l'Informatica (CINI)
  6. Roberto Pietrantuono, University of Naples "Federico II"
  7. Antonio Pecchia, Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per l'Informatica (CINI)
  8. Massimo Esposito, Institute of High Performance Computing and Networking (ICAR)
  9. Sergio Ricciardi, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)

2. Distributed Algorithms and Models for P2P, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing

Chairs:

Marina Papatriantafilou, Chalmers, Sweden
Devan Sohier, PRiSM, Univ. Versailles

PC Members:

  1. Evangelos Kranakis, Carleton University, Canada
  2. Vincenzo Gulisano, Chalmers University, Sweden
  3. Hugo Miranda, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
  4. Thibault Bernard, Université de Reims, France
  5. Franck Petit, Université Paris 6, France
  6. Marc Bui, Université Paris 8 --- EPHE, France

3. High Performance and Scalable Computing

Chairs:

Nahid Emad , Maison de la Simulation (CNRS, CEA, INRIA, UPSud, UVSQ)
Tetsuya Sakurai, University of Tsukuba

PC Members:

  1. Henri Calandra, TOTAL
  2. Peter Arbenz, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
  3. Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee
  4. Leroy A. Drummond, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
  5. Alexey Latovestsky, UCD School of Computer Science and Informatics, Dublin
  6. Kenjiro Taura, University of Tokyo, Japan
  7. Andrew Rau-Chaplin, Dalhousie University, Canada

4. Cluster, Grid, and Internet Computing

Chairs:

Eddy Caron, LIP ENS Lyon
Daniel S. Katz (CI University of Chicago, Argonne National Lab)

PC Members:

  1. Luis Rodero-Merino, Gradiant
  2. Franck Cappello, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  3. Hidemoto Nakada, National Institute of Advanced Science and Technology
  4. Rob Simmonds, University of Calgary, Canada
  5. Adrien Lèbre, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France
  6. Gabrielle Allen, Skolkovo Institute of Science & Technology, Russia
  7. Ewa Deelman, University of Southern California, USA

5. P2P, Ad-Hoc and Mobile Networking

Chairs:

Osamu Tatebe, University of Tsukuba
Bertrand Mathieu (Orange lab)

PC Members:

  1. Renato Figueiredo, University of Florida
  2. Gabriel Antoniu, INRIA Rennes
  3. Ryousei Takano, AIST
  4. Kohei Ichikawa, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
  5. Francis Lee Nanyang, Technological University
  6. Gwendal Simon, Telecom Bretagne
  7. Djamal-Eddine Meddour, Orange Labs
  8. Tinku Rasheed, Create-Net
  9. Jérémie Leguay, Thalès
  10. Guillaume Doyen, University of Technology of Troyes

6. Data Intensive Computing, Data Mining, Semantic Web and Information Retrieval

Chairs:

Dimosthenis Kyriazis, National Technical University of Athens
Ricardo Jimenez, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid

PC Members:

  1. John Domingue, The Open University
  2. Antonios Niros, University of the Aegean
  3. Emilio Javier Garcia Escobar, Telefonica I&D
  4. George Kousiouris, National Technical University of Athens
  5. Andreas Menychtas, National Technical University of Athens
  6. Spyridon Gogouvitis, National Technical University of Athens
  7. Kevin Doolin, Telecommunications Software & Systems Group
  8. Tommaso Cucinotta, Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent Ireland
  9. Aidan Shribman, SAP Israel
  10. Lutz Schubert, University of Stuttgart
  11. Massimo Villari, University of Messina
  12. Brian Pickering, University of Southampton
  13. Anastasios Doulamis, Technical University of Crete
  14. Wolfgang Ziegler, Fraunhofer
  15. Paolo Romano, INESC-ID
  16. Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara
  17. Patrizio Dazzi, ISTI-CNR
  18. Lorenzo Blasi, HP Technology Services
  19. Osama Sammodi, University of Duisburg
  20. Ana Maria Juan Ferrer, ATOS Spain
  21. Michael Jaeger, SIEMENS, DE
  22. Hillel Kolodner, IBM haifa, Israel
  23. Damian Serrano, Univ. Grenoble, France
  24. Dominik Lamp, University of Stuttgart, Germany

7. Virtual Organizations and Federations, Cloud provisioning, management and programming

Chairs:

Massimiliano Rak, Seconda Università di Napoli
Antonio Puliafito, Univ. of Messina

PC Members:

  1. Massimo Villari, Univ. of Messina, Italy
  2. Antonio Celesti, Univ. of Messina, Italy
  3. Symeon Papavassiliou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
  4. Salvatore Distefano, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
  5. Umberto Villano, Università del Sannio, Italy
  6. José María Arce Guillén, Incita, Spain
  7. Neeraj Suri, Darmsaadt Technical University, Germany
  8. Mauro Andreolini, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
  9. Dimitra Liveri, European Network and Information Security Agency EU-Agency, GR
  10. Massimo Canonico, University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy

8. Security, Dependability and Reliability in Grids and Clouds

Chairs:

Renaud Sirdey CEA (France)
Jesus Luna, Technische Universität, Darmstadt

PC Members:

  1. Jetzabel Olvera, Barcelona Digital CT, ES
  2. Ioannis Krontiris, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, DE
  3. Marco Riccardi, The Italian Honeynet Project, IT
  4. Sotiris Ioannidis, Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas, GR
  5. Valentina Casola, University of Naples "Federico II" IT
  6. Alain Pannetrat, Cloud Security Alliance, EMEA, UK
  7. Philippe Massonet, Centre d'Excellence en Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication, BE
  8. Jakob Patger, Alexandra Institute, DK
  9. Leonardus Budiman Arief, Newcastle University, UK
  10. Simon Bliudze, EPFL, Swiss
  11. Frédéric Loulergue, Université d'Orleans, France
  12. Matthieu Lemerre, CEA LIST, France
  13. Nikolay Kosmatov, CEA LIST, France
  14. Alexis Olivereau, CEA LIST, France

9. Social Networking Applications

Chairs:

Krzysztof Szczypiorski, Warsaw University of Technology
Zbigniew Smoreda, Orange labs, France

PC Members:

  1. Uwe Glässer, Simon Fraser University, Canada
  2. Przemyslaw Kazienko, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
  3. Renaud Lambiotte, University of Namur, Belgium
  4. Katarzyna Musial-Gabrys, King's College London, UK
  5. Santi Phithakkitnukoon, The Open University, UK
  6. Camille Roth, CNRS/EHESS, France
  7. Michael Szell, MIT, USA
  8. Dominik Batorski, University of Warsaw, Poland, Poland
  9. Krzysztof Juszczyszyn, Wroclaw University of Technology,Poland

10. Distributed Systems, Protocols, Optimization and Applications

Chairs:

Enrico Natalizio, UTC, France
Markus Aleksy, ABB, Germany

PC Members:

  1. Makoto Takizawa, Hosei University, Japan
  2. David Taniar, Monash University, Australia
  3. Dritan Nace, UTC, France
  4. Fatos Xhafa, UPC, Spain
  5. Leonard Barolli, FIT, Japan
  6. Wenny Rahayu, La Trobe University, Australia
  7. Francesco Palmieri, Second University of Naples, Italy
  8. Antonio Gentile, University of Palermo, Italy
  9. Gianluca Aloi, Università della Calabria, Italy
  10. Valeria Loscrì, Università della Calabria, Italy
  11. Nathalie Mitton, Inria Lille - Nord Europe, France
  12. Tahiry Razafindralambo, Inria Lille - Nord Europe, France

11. eLearning and Groupware Systems

Chairs:

Thanasis Daradoumis, Open University of Catalonia, Spain
Kin Fun Li, University of Victoria, Canada

PC Members:

  1. Santi Caballé, Open University of Catalonia, Spain
  2. Murat Cakir, METU Informatics Institute, Turkey (Track Co-Chair)
  3. Yannis Dimitriadis, University of Valladolid, Spain
  4. Michael Feidakis, University of the Aegean, Greece
  5. Charalampos Karagiannidis, University of Thessaly, Greece
  6. Maria Kordaki, University of the Aegean, Greece
  7. Philip Moore, Birmingham City University, UK
  8. Andrew Thomas, Bangor Universityn, North Wales, UK