Conference Chair

Ayumi Shinohara (Tohoku University, Japan)

Program Committee Co-Chairs

Vincent Corruble (UPMC, Paris, France)
Masayuki Takeda (Kyushu University, Japan)

Local Arrangements Chair

Akira Ishino (Tohoku University, Japan)

Program Committee

Jean-Francois Boulicaut (INSA Lyon, France)
Will Bridewell (CSLI, Stanford, USA)
Simon Colton (Imperial College London, UK)
Antoine Cornuejols (Université Paris-Sud, France)
Andreas Dress (Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, China)
Saso Dzeroski (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)
Tapio Elomaa (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)
Johannes Fuernkranz (TU Darmstadt, Germany)
Dragan Gamberger (Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Hungary)
Ricard Gavalda (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain)
Gunter Grieser (Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany)
Fabrice Guillet (Ecole Polytechnique of the University of Nantes, France)
Mohand-Said Hacid (Université Lyon 1, France)
Udo Hahn (Jena University, Germany)
Makoto Haraguchi (Hokkaido University, Japan)
Tomoyuki Higuchi (The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Japan)
Kouichi Hirata (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
Tu Bao Ho (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
Achim Hoffmann (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Tamas Horvath (Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany)
Daisuke Ikeda (Kyushu University, Japan)
Kentaro Inui (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
Szymon Jaroszewicz (National Institute of Telecommunications, Poland)
Hisashi Kashima (IBM Research, Tokyo Research Laboratory, Japan)
Kristian Kersting (Universitaet Freiburg, Germany)
Ross King (University of Wales, UK)
Andras Kocsor (University of Szeged, Hungary)
Kevin Korb (Monash University, Australia)
Stefan Kramer (TU München, Germany)
Nicolas Lachiche (Université de Strasbourg, France)
Nada Lavrac(Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)
Aleksandar Lazarevic(United Technologies Research Center, USA)
Jinyan Li (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)
Yuji Matsumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
Michael May (Fraunhofer Institute for Autonomous Intelligent Systems, Germany)
Taneli Mielikainen (Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto, USA)
Tetsuhiro Miyahara (Hiroshima City University, Japan)
Dunja Mladenic (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)
Yasuhiko Morimoto (Hiroshima University, Japan)
Tsuyoshi Murata (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Bernhard Pfahringer (University of Waikato, New Zealand)
Jan Rauch (University of Economics, Czech Republic)
Kazumi Saito (NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan)
Michèle Sébag (Université Paris-Sud, France)
Rudy Setiono (National University of Singapore)
Einoshin Suzuki (Kyushu University, Japan)
Kai Ming Ting (Monash University, Australia)
Ljupco Todorovski (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)
Luis Torgo (University of Porto, Portugal)
Kuniaki Uehara (Kobe University, Japan)
Takashi Washio (Osaka University, Japan)
Gerhard Widmer (Johannes Kepler University, Austria)
Akihiro Yamamoto (Kyoto University, Japan)
Mohammed Zaki (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)
Filip Zelezny (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech republic)
Jean-Daniel Zucker (IRD, France)

Steering Committee

Einoshin Suzuki (Chair, Kyushu University, Japan)
Achim G. Hoffmann (Vice Chair, University of New South Wales, Australia)
Setsuo Arikawa (Kyushu University, Japan)
Hiroshi Motoda (Osaka University, Japan)
Masahiko Sato (Kyoto University, Japan)
Satoru Miyano (Tokyo University, Japan)
Thomas Zeugmann (Hokkaido University, Japan)
Ayumi Shinohara (Tohoku University, Japan)
Alberto Apostolico (Geogia Institute of Technology, USA)
Massimo Melucci (University of Padova, Italy)
Tobias Scheffer (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany)
Ken Satoh (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
Nada Lavrac (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)
Ljupco Todorovski (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)
Hiroki Arimura (Hokkaido University, Japan)