Program Co-Chairs:

Philip K. McKinley, Michigan State University, mckinley@cse.msu.edu
Sol Shatz, University of Illinois, Chicago, shatz@cs.uic.edu
 

Area Vice Chairs and Subcommittees:

Agents and Mobile Code
VC: Gruia-Catalin Roman , Washington University, St. Louis, USA
         Robert S. Gray, Dartmouth College, USA
         Dag Johansen, University of Tromso, Norway
         Guenter Karjoth, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland
         Keith Marzullo, University of California, San Diego, USA
         Rocco De Nicola, Universita' di Firenze, Italy
         Gian Pietro Picco, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
         Kurt Rothermel, University of Stuttgart, Germany
         Anand Tripathi, University of Minnesota, USA

Distributed Algorithms
VC: Anish Arora , Ohio State University, USA
         James H. Anderson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
         Paul Attie, Northeastern University, USA
         Shlomi Dolev, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
         Ted Herman, University of Iowa, USA
         Lisa Higham, University of Calgary, Canada
         Sandeep Kulkarni, Michigan State University, USA
         Mikhail Nesterenko, Kent State University
         Andre Schiper, EPFL, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
         Ambuj Singh, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
         Neeraj Suri, TU-Darmstadt, Germany
 

Distributed Data Management
VC: Calton Pu , Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
         Karl Aberer, EPFL, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
         Roger Barga , Microsoft Research, USA
         Mic Bowman, Intel Corporation, USA
         Ugur Cetintemel , Brown University, USA
         Ming-syan Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
         Wang-Chien Lee  Penn State University, USA
         Terence Critchlow, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, USA
         Christopher Jermaine , University of Florida, USA
         Kam-Yiu Lam , City University of Hong Kong
         Alvin Lim , Auburn University, USA 
         Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
         Darrell Long , Univ. California, Santa Cruz, USA
         Krithi Ramamritham , IIT-Bombay, India and University of Massachusetts, USA
         Mukesh Singhal, University of Kentucky, USA
         Shunsuke Uemura, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
         Philip Yu, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA

 Distributed Operating Systems
VC: Partha Dasgupta , Arizona State University, USA
         John Carter, University of Utah, USA
         Guohong Cao, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
         Randy Y. C. Chow, University of Florida / NSF, USA
         Liviu Iftode, University of Maryland, USA
         H.-Arno Jacobsen,  University of Toronto, Canada
         Vana Kalogeraki, University of California, Riverside, USA
         Vijay Karamcheti, New York University, USA
         Christine Morin, INRIA, France
         Umakishore Ramachandran, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
         John Regehr, University of Utah, USA
         Kyung Dong Ryu, Arizona State University,USA
         Anand Sivasubramaniam, Penn State University, USA
         Yuanyuan Zhou, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA

Fault Tolerant and Dependable Systems
VC: Idit Keidar , The Technion, Israel
         Christof Fetzer, AT&T Labs-Research, USA
         Roy Friedman, Technion, Israel
         Roger Khazan, MIT Lincoln Laboratories, USA
         Dahlia Malkhi, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
         Michael Melliar-Smith, University of California Santa Barbara, USA
         Luis Rodrigues, University of Lisboa, Portugal
         John Rushby, SRI International, Menlo Park, California, USA
         Amin Vahdat, Duke University, USA

Middleware
VC: Douglas Schmidt , U. C. Irvine/ DARPA, USA
         Gordon Blair, Lancaster University, UK
         Andrew Campbell, Columbia University, USA
         Chris Gill, Washington University, St. Louis, USA
         Andy Gokhale, Vanderbilt University, USA
         Rachid Guerraoui, EPFL, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
         Kane Kim, University of California, Irvine, USA
         Joseph Loyall, BBN Technologies, USA
         Priya Narasimhan, Carnegie-Mellon University, USA
         Bill Sanders, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
         Rick Schantz, BBN Technologies, USA

Mobile Computing and Communication
VC: David Johnson , Rice University, USA
         Tracy Camp, Colorado School of Mines, USA
         Samir Das, University of Cincinnati, USA
         Dan Duchamp, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
         Jason Flinn, University of Michigan, USA
         John Heidemann, USC/ISI, USA
         Philippe Jacquet, INRIA, France
         David A. Maltz, AON Networks, USA
         Katia Obraczka, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
         Chiara Petrioli, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy
         Bill Schilit, Intel, USA
         Nitin Vaidya, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Multimedia Systems
VC: Klara Nahrstedt , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
         Dilip Kandlur, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
         Robin Kravets, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
         Baochun Li, University of Toronto, Canada
         Andreas Mauthe, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
         Ketan Mayer-Patel, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
         Thomas Plageman, University of Oslo, Norway
         Yong Rui, Microsoft Research, USA
         Nalini Venkatasubramanian, University of California, Irvine, USA
         Dongyan Xu, Purdue University, USA
         John Zinky, BBN Technologies, USA

Network Protocols
VC: Jorg Liebeherr , University of Virginia, USA
         Mostafa Ammar, Geogia Institute of Technology, USA
         Ken Calvert, University of Kentucky, USA               
         Constantinos Dovrolis , Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
         Ramesh Govindan, International Computer Science Institute, USA
         Sugih Jamin, University of Michigan, USA
         Edward Knightly, Rice University, USA
         Shivkumar Kalyanaraman , Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
         Deep Medhi , University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA
         Ioanis Nikolaidis , University of Alberta, Canada
         Kihong Park, Purdue University, USA
         Stephen Patek , University of Virginia, USA
         Sanjoy Paul, Bell Laboratories, USA
         Byrav Ramamurthy, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA

Real-time and Embedded Systems
VC: Lui Sha , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
         Tarek  Abdelzaher, University of Virginia, USA
         Sanjoy Baruah, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
         Riccardo Bettati, Texas A&M University, USA
         Alan Burns, University of York, UK
         Giorgio Buttazzo, University of Pavia, Italy
         Peter Feiler, Software Engineering Institute, USA
         Al Mok, University of Texas at Austin, USA
         Joseph Ng, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
         Raj Rajkumar, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Security
VC: Douglas Maughan , DARPA/ATO, USA
         Blaine Burnham, University of Nebraska-Omaha, USA
         Andrea Colegrove, SPARTA, USA
         Anup Ghosh, DARPA ATO, USA
         Donna Gregg, Johns Hopkins University, USA
         Jeff Ingle, U.S. National Security Agency
         Daniel Massey, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA
         Sandra Murphy, NAI Labs, USA
         Sami Saydjari, SRI International, USA
         Kent Seamons, Brigham Young University, USA
         Michael Skroch, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
         Jonathan Smith, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Software Engineering and Formal Methods
VC: Connie Heitmeyer , U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
         Myla Archer, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
         Mark Ardis, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, USA
         Ramesh Bharadwaj, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
         Marsha Chechik, University of Toronto, Canada
         Martin S. Feather, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, USA
         Ralph Jeffords, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
         Insup Lee,  University of Pennsylvania, USA
         Allen Nikora,  Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, USA