| Program Committee | 
				
					|  |  |  | 
				
					|  | Chair |  | 
				
					|  | Takashi Washio | Osaka University, Japan | 
				
					|  |  |  | 
				
					|  | Co-Chairs |  | 
				
					|  | Einoshin 
					Suzuki | Kyushu University, Japan | 
				
					|  | Kai Ming 
					Ting | Monash University, Australia | 
				
					|  |  |  | 
				
					|  | Area Chairs | (sorted in alphabet order) | 
				
					|  | Naoki Abe | IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA | 
				
					|  | Luc De Raedt | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium | 
				
					|  | Tapio Elomaa | Tempere University of Technology, Finland | 
				
					|  | Johannes Fürnkranz | TU Darmstadt, Germany | 
				
					|  | Joao Gama | LIACC-University Porto, Portugal | 
				
					|  | Tu 
					Bao Ho | Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan | 
				
					|  | Achim Hoffmann | The University of New South Wales, Australia | 
				
					|  | Eamonn Keogh | University of California, 
					Riverside, USA | 
				
					|  | Wee Keong Ng | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore | 
				
					|  | Hang Li | Microsoft Research Asia, 
					China | 
				
					|  | Jinyan Li | Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore | 
				
					|  | Hiroshi Motoda | AFOSR/AOARD and Osaka 
					University, Japan | 
				
					|  | Jian 
					Pei | Simon Fraser University, Canada | 
				
					|  | Hannu Toivonen | University of Helsinki, 
					Finland | 
				
					|  | Wei Wang | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 
					USA | 
				
					|  | Charles X. Ling | University of Western 
					Ontario, Canada | 
				
					|  | Qiang 
					Yang | Hong Kong University of Science and 
					Technology, China | 
				
					|  | Mohammed Zaki | Rensselaer Polytechnic 
					Institute, USA | 
				
					|  | Zhi-Hua Zhou | Nanjing University, China | 
				
					|  |  |  | 
				
					|  | Members | (Sorted in Alphabet order) | 
				
					|  | David Albrecht | Monash University, Australia | 
				
					|  | Aijun An | York University, Canada | 
				
					|  | Vo Ngoc Anh | University of Melbourne, Australia | 
				
					|  | Hiroki 
					Arimura | Hokkaido University, Japan | 
				
					|  | Michael Bain | The University of New South Wales, Australia | 
				
					|  | Hideo Bannai | Kyushu University, Japan | 
				
					|  | Michael Berthold | University of Konstanz, Germany | 
				
					|  | Hendrik 
					Blockeel | Katholieke Universiteit 
					Leuven, Belgium | 
				
					|  | Francesco Bonchi | ISTI-C.N.R., Italy | 
				
					|  | Ulf Brefeld | Technical University 
					Berlin, Germany | 
				
					|  | Rui Camacho | LIACC/FEUP University of Porto, Portugal | 
				
					|  | Longbing Cao | University of Technology, 
					Sydney, Australia | 
				
					|  | Tru Hoang Cao | Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, 
					Vietnam | 
				
					|  | Sanjay Chawla | University of Sydney, 
					Australia | 
				
					|  | Arbee Chen | National Chengchi University, Taiwan | 
				
					|  | Ming-Syan 
					Chen | National Taiwan 
					University, Taiwan | 
				
					|  | Phoebe Chen | Deakin University, Australia | 
				
					|  | Shu-Ching 
					Chen | Florida International 
					University, USA | 
				
					|  | Songcan Chen | Nanjing Univ. of Aeronautics and 
					Astronautics, China | 
				
					|  | Yixin Chen | Washington University in 
					St Louis, USA | 
				
					|  | Zheng Chen | Microsoft Research Asia, China | 
				
					|  | William K. 
					Cheung | Hong Kong Baptist 
					University, Hong Kong, China | 
				
					|  | Yiu-ming Cheung | Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong | 
				
					|  | Sungzoon Cho | Seoul National University, 
					South Korea | 
				
					|  | Vic Ciesielski | RMIT University, Australia | 
				
					|  | Diane Cook | Washington State 
					University, USA | 
				
					|  | Bruno Cremilleux | Universite de Caen, France | 
				
					|  | Alfredo 
					Cuzzocrea | University of Calabria, 
					Italy | 
				
					|  | Dao-Qing Dai | Sun Yat-Sen University, China | 
				
					|  | Honghua Dai | Deakin University, 
					Australia | 
				
					|  | Floriana 
					Esposito | Univeristy of Bari, 
					Department of Computer Science, Italy | 
				
					|  | Wei Fan | IBM T.J.Watson, USA | 
				
					|  | Eibe Frank | Department of Computer 
					Science, University of Waikato, New Zealand | 
				
					|  | Ada Waichee Fu | Chinese University of Hong Kong, China | 
				
					|  | Dragan 
					Gamberger | Rudjer Boskovic Institute, 
					Croatia | 
				
					|  | Junbin Gao | Charles Sturt University, Australia | 
				
					|  | Fosca 
					Giannotti | Istituto di Scienze e 
					Tecnologie dell'informazione (ISTI-CNR), Italy | 
				
					|  | Aristides Gionis | Yahoo! Research Labs, Barcelona, Spain | 
				
					|  | Bart Goethals | University of Antwerp, 
					Belgium | 
				
					|  | Shyam Kumar Gupta | Indian Institute of Technology, India | 
				
					|  | Sung Ho Ha | Kyungpook National 
					University, Korea | 
				
					|  | Jiawei Han | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 
					USA | 
				
					|  | Shoji Hirano | Shimane University, Japan | 
				
					|  | Wynne Hsu | National University of Singapore, Singapore | 
				
					|  | Xiaohua Hu | Drexel University, USA | 
				
					|  | Fuchun Huang | Victoria University, Australia | 
				
					|  | Jimmy Huang | York University, Canada | 
				
					|  | Jin Huang | University of Ottawa, Canada | 
				
					|  | Kaiqi Huang | Chinese Academy of 
					Sciences, China | 
				
					|  | San-Yih Hwang | National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan | 
				
					|  | Daisuke Ikeda | Kyushu University, Japan | 
				
					|  | Akihiro Inokuchi | Osaka University, Japan | 
				
					|  | Sanjay Jain | National University of 
					Singapore, Singapore | 
				
					|  | Szymon Jaroszewicz | National Institute of Telecommunications, 
					Poland | 
				
					|  | Daxin Jiang | Microsoft Research Asia, 
					China | 
				
					|  | LiCheng Jiao | Xidian University, China | 
				
					|  | Ye Jieping | Arizona State University, 
					USA | 
				
					|  | Huidong Jin | NICTA, Australia | 
				
					|  | Rong Jin | Michigan State University, 
					USA | 
				
					|  | Ruoming Jin | Kent State University, USA | 
				
					|  | Alipio M. 
					Jorge | FEP, University of Porto 
					LIAAD, INESC Porto LA, Portugal | 
				
					|  | George Karypis | University of Minnesota, USA | 
				
					|  | Hisashi 
					Kashima | IBM Research, Tokyo 
					Research Laboratory, Japan | 
				
					|  | Hiroyuki Kawano | Nanzan University, Japan | 
				
					|  | Boonserm 
					Kijsirikul | Chulalongkorn University, 
					Thailand | 
				
					|  | Masaru Kitsuregawa | University of Tokyo, Japan | 
				
					|  | Marzena 
					Kryszkiewicz | Warsaw University of 
					Technology, Poland | 
				
					|  | Ravi Kumar | Yahoo! Research, USA | 
				
					|  | James Kwok | Hong Kong University of 
					Science and Technology, China | 
				
					|  | Wai Lam | The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong 
					Kong, China | 
				
					|  | Jonathan 
					Lawry | University of Bristol, UK | 
				
					|  | Sang Ho Lee | Soongsil University, Korea | 
				
					|  | Vincent C S 
					Lee | Monash University, 
					Australia | 
				
					|  | Wee Sun Lee | National University of Singapore, Singapore | 
				
					|  | Yoon-Joon Lee | Korea Advanced Institute 
					of Science and Technology, Korea | 
				
					|  | Philippe Lenca | TELECOM Bretagne, France | 
				
					|  | Chun-hung Li | Hong Kong Baptist 
					University, Hong Kong, China | 
				
					|  | Gang Li | Deakin University, Australia | 
				
					|  | Jianzhong Li | Harbin Institute of 
					Technology, China | 
				
					|  | Tao Li | Florida International University, USA | 
				
					|  | Xiao-Lin Li | Nanjing University, China | 
				
					|  | Xue Li | The University of Queensland, Australia | 
				
					|  | Xuelong Li | Birkbeck College, 
					University of London, UK | 
				
					|  | Chih-Jen Lin | National Taiwan University, Taiwan | 
				
					|  | Xuemin Lin | University of New South 
					Wales, Australia | 
				
					|  | Tie-Yan Liu | Microsoft Research Asia, China | 
				
					|  | Xiaohui Liu | Brunel University, UK | 
				
					|  | Woong-Kee Loh | NHN Corporation, South Korea | 
				
					|  | Chang-Tien Lu | Virginia Tech, USA | 
				
					|  | Jixin Ma | University of Greenwich, UK | 
				
					|  | Marco Maggini | University of Siena, Italy | 
				
					|  | Yutaka Matsuo | National Institute of Advanced Industrial 
					Science and Technology, Japan | 
				
					|  | Sameep Mehta | IBM, India Research Labs, 
					India | 
				
					|  | Wagner Meira Jr. | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil | 
				
					|  | Xiaofeng Meng | Renmin University of 
					China, China | 
				
					|  | Taneli Mielikainen | Nokia Research Center, USA | 
				
					|  | Toshiro 
					Minami | Kyushu Institute of 
					Information Sciences (KIIS) and Kyushu University Library, 
					Japan | 
				
					|  | Pabitra Mitra | Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, 
					India | 
				
					|  | Yang-Sae Moon | Kangwon National 
					University, Korea | 
				
					|  | Yasuhiko Morimoto | Hiroshima University, Japan | 
				
					|  | Tsuyoshi 
					Murata | Tokyo Institute of 
					Technology, Japan | 
				
					|  | Atsuyoshi Nakamura | Hokkaido University, Japan | 
				
					|  | Richi Nayak | Queensland University of 
					Technology, Australia | 
				
					|  | Wilfred Ng | Hong Kong University of Science and 
					Technology, China | 
				
					|  | Hung Son 
					Nguyen | Warsaw University, Poland | 
				
					|  | Ngoc Thanh Nguyen | Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland | 
				
					|  | Zaiqing Nie | Microsoft Research Asia, 
					China | 
				
					|  | Tadashi Nomoto | National Institute of Japanese Literature, 
					Japan | 
				
					|  | Zoran 
					Obradovic | Temple University, USA | 
				
					|  | Kouzou Ohara | Osaka University, Japan | 
				
					|  | Salvatore 
					Orlando | University of Venice, 
					Italy | 
				
					|  | Satoshi Oyama | Kyoto University, Japan | 
				
					|  | Sankar K. Pal | Indian Statistical 
					Institute, India | 
				
					|  | Yanwei Pang | Tianjin University, China | 
				
					|  | Adrian Pearce | The University of 
					Melbourne, Australia | 
				
					|  | Dino Pedreschi | University of PISA, Italy | 
				
					|  | Wen-Chih Peng | National Chiao Tung 
					University, Taiwan | 
				
					|  | Yonghong Peng | University of Bradford, UK | 
				
					|  | Jean-Marc 
					Petit | University of Lyon, France | 
				
					|  | Bernhard Pfahringer | University of Waikato, New Zealand | 
				
					|  | Vincenzo 
					Piuri | University of Milan, Italy | 
				
					|  | Joel Quinqueton | LIRMM, Montpellier University, France | 
				
					|  | Naren 
					Ramakrishnan | Virginia Tech, USA | 
				
					|  | Sanjay Ranka | University of Florida, USA | 
				
					|  | Patricia 
					Riddle | University of Auckland, 
					New Zealand | 
				
					|  | Fabio Roli | University of Cagliari, Italy | 
				
					|  | Stefan Raping | Fraunhofer Institute IAIS, 
					Germany | 
				
					|  | Kenji Satou | Japan Advanced Institute of Science and 
					Technology, Japan | 
				
					|  | Joern 
					Schneidewind | University of Konstanz, 
					Germany | 
				
					|  | Michele Sebag | University Paris-Sud, France | 
				
					|  | Dou Shen | Microsoft Adcenter Labs, 
					U.S.A | 
				
					|  | Jialie Shen | Singapore Management University, Singapore | 
				
					|  | Yi-Dong Shen | Institute of Software, 
					Chinese Academy of Sciences, China | 
				
					|  | Daming Shi | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore | 
				
					|  | Zhongzhi Shi | Institute of Computing 
					Technolo, China | 
				
					|  | Akira Shimazu | Japan Advanced Institute of Science and 
					Technology, Japan | 
				
					|  | Masashi 
					Shimbo | Nara Institute of Science 
					and Technology, Japan | 
				
					|  | Arno Siebes | Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands | 
				
					|  | Andrzej 
					Skowron | Institute of Mathematics, 
					Warsaw University, Poland | 
				
					|  | Mingli Song | Hong Kong Polytechnical University, Hong 
					Kong | 
				
					|  | Ashok 
					Srivastava | NASA, USA | 
				
					|  | Aixin Sun Nanyang | Technological University, Singapore | 
				
					|  | Ah-Hwee Tan 
					Nanyang | Technological University, 
					Singapore | 
				
					|  | Chew Lim Tan | National University of Singapore, Singapore | 
				
					|  | Pang-Ning Tan | Michigan State University, 
					USA | 
				
					|  | Zhaohui Tang | Microsoft adCenter Labs, Redmond, USA | 
				
					|  | David Taniar | Monash University, 
					Australia | 
				
					|  | Luis Torgo | University of Porto, Portugal | 
				
					|  | Ivor W. Tsang | Hong Kong University of 
					Science and Technology, China | 
				
					|  | Tomoyuki Uchida | Hiroshima City University, Japan | 
				
					|  | Jeffrey D. 
					Ullman | Stanford University, USA | 
				
					|  | Takeaki Uno | National Institute of Informatics, Japan | 
				
					|  | Guoyin Wang | Chongqing University of 
					Posts and Telecommunications, China | 
				
					|  | Haixun Wang | IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA | 
				
					|  | Hui Wang | University of Ulster, UK | 
				
					|  | Huiqiong Wang | Zhejiang University, China | 
				
					|  | Jason T. L. 
					Wang | New Jersey Science and 
					Technology University, USA | 
				
					|  | Lipo Wang | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore | 
				
					|  | Wenjia Wang | University of East Anglia, 
					UK | 
				
					|  | Zhihai Wang | Beijing Jiaotong University, China | 
				
					|  | Graham 
					Williams | Australian Taxation 
					Office, Australia | 
				
					|  | Limsoon Wong | National University of Singapore, Singapore | 
				
					|  | Qingxiang Wu | Ulster University, N. 
					Ireland | 
				
					|  | Xindong Wu | University of Vermont, USA | 
				
					|  | Xintao Wu | University of North 
					Carolina at Charlotte, USA | 
				
					|  | Hui Xiong | Rutgers University, USA | 
				
					|  | Zhuoming Xu | Hohai University, China | 
				
					|  | Takehisa Yairi | University of Tokyo, Japan | 
				
					|  | Seiji Yamada | National Institute of 
					Informatics, Japan | 
				
					|  | Chunsheng Yang | NRC Institute for Information Technology, 
					Canada | 
				
					|  | Hui Yang | San Francisco State 
					University, USA | 
				
					|  | Ying Yang | Monash University, Australia | 
				
					|  | Min Yao | Zhejiang University, China | 
				
					|  | Yiyu Yao | University of Regina, Canada | 
				
					|  | Dit-Yan Yeung | Hong Kong University of 
					Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China | 
				
					|  | Jian Yin | Sun Yat-Sen University, China | 
				
					|  | Kennichi 
					Yoshida | University of Tsukuba, 
					Japan | 
				
					|  | Tetsuya Yoshida | Hokkaido University, Japan | 
				
					|  | Clement Yu | University of Illinois at 
					Chicago, USA | 
				
					|  | Jeffrey Xu Yu | The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong 
					Kong, China | 
				
					|  | Jian Yu | Beijing Jiaotong 
					University, China | 
				
					|  | Yuan Yuan | Aston University, UK Aston University, UK | 
				
					|  | Bo Zhang | Tsinghua University, China | 
				
					|  | Changshui Zhang | Tsinghua University, China | 
				
					|  | Chengqi Zhang | University of Technology, 
					Sydney, Australia | 
				
					|  | Daoqiang Zhang | Nanjing University of Aeronautics and 
					Astronautics, China | 
				
					|  | Du Zhang | California State 
					University, USA | 
				
					|  | Harry Zhang | University of New Brunswick, Canada | 
				
					|  | Junping Zhang | Fudan University, China | 
				
					|  | Mengjie Zhang | Victoria University of Wellington, New 
					Zealand | 
				
					|  | Shichao Zhang | Guangxi Normal University, 
					China | 
				
					|  | Weixiong Zhang | Washington University, USA | 
				
					|  | Zhongfei 
					(Mark) Zhang | Computer Science 
					Department, SUNY Binghamton, USA | 
				
					|  | Zili Zhang | Deakin University, Australia | 
				
					|  | Zijian Zheng | Microsoft, USA | 
				
					|  | Ning Zhong | Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan | 
				
					|  | Sheng Zhong | State University of New 
					York at Buffalo, USA | 
				
					|  | Aoying Zhou | Fudan University, China | 
				
					|  | Huiyu Zhou | Brunel University, U.K. | 
				
					|  | Shuigeng Zhou | Fudan University, China | 
				
					|  | Xiaofang Zhou | The University of 
					Queensland, Australia | 
				
					|  | Yan Zhou | University of South Alabama, USA | 
				
					|  | Xingquan Zhu | Florida Atlantic 
					University, USA |