General Chair Mohammad S. Obaidat Dept. of Computer Science,  Monmouth University W. Long Branch,  NJ 07764, USA Tel 732-571-4482  Fax 732-263-5202 E-mail: obaidat@monmouth.edu Vice General Chair Marco Ajmone Marsan Dept. of Electronics,  Politecnico di Torino Corso Duca degli Abruzzi,  24, 10129 Torino, Italy Tel +39-011-564-4032  Fax +39-011-564-4099 E-mail: ajmone@polito.it Program Chair Franco Davoli DIST-University of Genoa Via Opera Pia 13, I-16145 Genoa,  Italy Tel +39-010-353-2732  Fax +39-010-353-2154 E-Mail: franco@dist.unige.it Vice Program Chair Ibrahim Onyuksel Dept. of Computer Sciences,  N. Illinois Univ., USA  E-mail: onyuksel@cs.niu.edu   Vice Program Chair Omar Hammami University of Aizu, Japan E-mail: hammami@u-aizu.ac.jp     Publicity Chair Mohammad Radaideh Information Retrieval &  e-Business Consulting Group,  Verity, Inc.,  Sunnyvale, CA, USA  E-mail: radaideh@verity.com