Arbee L.P. Chen received the B.S. degree in computer science from National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan. in 1977, and the Ph.D. degree incomputer engineering from the University of Southern California in 1984.

He joined National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, as a National Science Council (NSC) sponsored Visiting Specialist in August 1990, and became a Professor in the Department of Computer Science in 1991. He was a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Communications Research, New Jersey, from 1987 to 1990, an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Polytechnic University, New York, and a Research Scientist at Unisys, California, from 1985 to 1986. His current research interests include multimedia databases,data mining and mobile computing.

Dr. Chen has organized (and served as a Program Co-Chair) 1995 IEEE Data Engineering Conference and 1999 International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA) in Taiwan. He is an editor of several journals including World Wide Web: Internet and Web Information Systems, Kluwer Academic Publishers. He is a recipient of the NSC Distinguished Research Award.

Jiawei Han is Professor and Director of Intelligent Database Systems Research Laboratory, School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Canada.

Dr. Han is known for his work in data mining, data warehousing, spatial databases, and deductive databases, with over 150 journal and conference publications. He is a project leader of the Canadian Networks of Centres of Excellence IRIS-3 project "Building, querying, analyzing, and mining data warehouses on the Internet" (1998-2002). He has served or is currently serving in the program committees of over 50 international conferences and workshops, including Program Committee co-chairman of 2001 SIAM-Data Mining conference, conference chairman of 2001 PAKDD conference, best paper award chairman of 2001 ACM SIGKDD conference, demo program chairman of 2000 ACM SIGMOD conference, and program committee members for many conferences including KDD'2001, VLDB'2000, EDBT'2000, SIGMOD'99, SIGMOD'02, ICDE'01, ICDE'99, SSD'99, KDD'99, and KDD'96 (PC co-chair). He has also been serving as an editor for IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, and Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. He is the first author of the book "Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques" published by Morgan Kaufmann, 2000.

Ming-Syan Chen received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan in 1982, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer, Information and Control Engineering from The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, in 1985 and 1988, respectively.

Dr. Chen is currently a professor in Electrical Engineering Department, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. He was a research staff member at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA from 1988 to 1996. His research interests include database systems, data mining, mobile computing systems, and multimedia networking, and he has published more than 100 papers in his research areas.

In addition to serving as program committee members in many conferences, Dr. Chen is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering on data mining and parallel database areas from 1997, an editor of Journal of Information Science and Engineering, a distinguished visitor of IEEE Computer Society for Asia-Pacific from September 1998, and program co-chair of VLDB-2002 (Very Large Data Bases), general chair of Real-Time Multimedia System Workshop in 2001, program chair of IEEE ICDCS Workshop on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining in the World Wide Web in 2000, and program co-chairs of International Computer Symposium Workshop on Computer networks, Internet and Multimedia in 1998 and 2000.

He was a keynote speaker on Web data mining in International Computer Congress in Hong Kong, 1999, a tutorial speaker on parallel databases in DASFAA-1999 and in the 11th IEEE Intern'l Conf. on Data Engineering in 1995 and also a guest co-editor for IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering on a special issue for data mining in December 1996. He holds, or has applied for, seventeen U.S. patents and seven ROC patents in the areas of data mining, Web applications, interactive video playout, video server design, and concurrency and coherency control protocols. He received the Outstanding Innovation Award from IBM Corporate in 1994 for his contribution to parallel transaction design and implementation for a major database product, and numerous awards for his research, teaching, inventions and patent applications. Dr. Chen is a senior member of IEEE and a member of ACM.

Philip S. Yu received the B.S. Degree in E.E. from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in E.E. from Stanford University, and the M.B.A. degree from New York University. He is with the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center and currently manager of the Software Tools and Techniques group. His research interests include data mining, Internet applications and technologies, database systems, multimedia systems, parallel and distributed processing, disk arrays, computer architecture, performance modeling and workload analysis. Dr. Yu has published more than 280 papers in refereed journals and conferences. He holds or has applied for 196 US patents.

Dr. Yu is a Fellow of the ACM and a Fellow of the IEEE. He is the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. He is also an associate editor of ACM Transactions on the Internet Technology and that of Knowledge and Information Systems. He is a member of the IEEE Data Engineering steering committee and is also on the steering committee of IEEE Conference on Data Mining. He was an editor and advisory board member of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering and also a guest co-editor of the special issue on mining of databases. In addition to serving as program committee member on various conferences, he was the program co-chair of the 11th Intl. Conference on Data Engineering and the program chairs of the 2nd Intl. Workshop on Research Issues on Data Engineering: Transaction and Query Processing, the PAKDD Workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Advanced Databases, and the 2nd Intl. Workshop on Advanced Issues of E-Commerce and Web-based Information Systems. He served as the general chair of the 14th Intl. Conference on Data Engineering. He has received several IBM and external honors including Best Paper Award, 2 IBM Outstanding Innovation Awards, an Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, 2 Research Division Awards and 56th plateau of Invention Achievement Awards. He also received an IEEE Region 1 Award for "promoting and perpetuating numerous new electrical engineering concepts" in 1999. Dr. Yu is an IBM Master Inventor and was recognized as one of the IBM's ten top leading inventors in 1999.

Bing Liu is an associate professor at School of Computing, National University of Singapore. His research interests include data mining, Web mining, bio-informatics and constraint satisfaction. He received his B.Sc. degree in 1983 from Northwest Institute of Light Industry, China, and his Ph.D. degree in 1989 from University of Edinburgh, U.K. Before joining National University of Singapore in July 1992, he worked as a member of technical staff at National Computer Board, Singapore, where he participated in a number of scheduling and resource allocation projects. Since 1996, Liu has been active in data mining research. He published many research papers in prestigious conferences and journals (e.g., SIGKDD, AAAI, IJCAI, and IEEE transactions) in the areas of data mining, constraint satisfaction, and Artificial Intelligence. Liu serves (served) on the technical programme committees of many international conferences, and also as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. Liu is a member of IEEE Computer Society, ACM SIGKDD, and American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). Further information can be found at http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~liub.