The Third International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services ICIW 2008 June 8-13, 2008 - Athens, Greece

Committees

ICIW 2008 General Chairs

Mário Freire, University of Beira Interior, Portugal
Abdelhakim Hafid, University of Montreal, Canada

ICIW Advisory Committee

Chima Adiele, University of Lethbridge Lethbridge, Canada
Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland 
Sergiu Dascalu, University of Nevada-Reno, USA
Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA
Rafael Dueire Lins, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
Karim El Guemhioui, Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada
Dieter Fensel, DERI, Austria
Abdelhakim Hafid, University of Montreal, Canada
Mário Freire, University of Beira Interior, Portugal
Abdelhamid Mellouk, University of Paris XII - Val de Marne, France

ICIW 2008 Publicity Chair

David Erman, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Christian Emig, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany
Alex Ng, Macquarie University, Australia

ICIW 2008 Technical Program Committees

Chairs:
Jun Bi, Tsinghua University, China
Abdelhamid Mellouk, University of Paris XII - Val de Marne, France

Special Area Chairs:
Annemari Auvinen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland [P2PSA]
Guadalupe Ortiz, Universidad de Extremadura, Spain [WSSA]
Dumitru Roman, DERI, Austria [IWAS]
Michael James Katchabaw, The University of Western Ontario, Canada [ENSYS]
Stefania Galizia, The Open University, UK [WSSA]
Mihhail Matskin,  ICT-KTH, Sweden // IDI-NTNU, Norway [IWAS]

IWAS: Internet and Web-based Applications and Services

Sebastian Abeck, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany
Kamel Adi, Université of Outaouais, Canada
Chima Adiele, University of Lethbridge Lethbridge, Canada
Markus Aleksy, University of Mannheim, Germany
Pedro Almeida, IEETA - Instituto de Engenharia Electrónica e Telecomunicações, Portugal
Annemari Auvinen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Cecilia Bastarrica, University of Chile, Chile
Siegfried Benkner, University of Vienna, Austria
Jun Bi, Tsinghua University, China
Fernando Boavida, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Laure Bourgois, France Telecom & lipn, France
Mahmoud Brahmi, Mohamed BOUDIAF University of Msila, Algeria
Yannick Carlinet, France Telecom R&D, France
Eurico Carrapatoso, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Fernando Miguel Carvalho, Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Portugal
Patricia Charlton, Motorola, USA
François Charoy, Nancy University, France
Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Dickson K. W. Chiu, Dickson Computer Systems, Hong Kong
Jongwon Choe, Sookmyung University, Korea
Ilyoung Chong, Hankuk University of FS, Korea
Sam Chung, University of Washington Tacoma, USA
Simão Melo de Sousa, University of Beira Interior, Portugal
Gregorio Diaz Descalzo, University of Castilla - La Mancha, Spain
Monica Divitini, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (IDI-NTNU), Norway
Karim El Guemhioui, Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada
Christian Emig, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany
David Erman, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Abdelkarim Erradi, The University of New South Wales, Australia
Michael Fowle, University of Edinburgh, UK
Mário Freire, University of Beira Interior, Portugal
Stefania Galizia, The Open University, UK
Fabien Gandon, INRIA, France
Faiez Gargouri, ISIM -Sfax, Tunisia
Frank Goethals , K.U.Leuven, Belgium & IESEG School of Management, France
Juan Miguel Gomez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Alessio Gugliotta, Open University, UK
Frederick C Harris, Jr., University of Nevada, Reno, USA
Choong Seon Hong, Kyung Hee University, Korea
Omar Khadeer Hussain, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
Dragos Ilie, Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH), Sweden
Michael C. Jaeger, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, USA
Hyun-KooK Kahng, Korea University, Korea
Monika Kaczmarek, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
Peep Küngas, SOA Trader, Ltd., Estonia
Kyungshik Lim, Kyungpook National University, Korea
Junchang Ma, IBM China Software Development Lab, China
Axel Martens, IBM T.J. Watson Research, USA
Mihhail Matskin, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
Hamid Mcheick, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Canada
Roger Menday, Research Centre Juelich, Germany
Edmundo Monteiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal 
Gero Muehl, Berlin University of Technology, Germany
Alex Ng, Macquarie University, Austalia
Abdel Obaid, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
Koji Okamura, Kyushu University, Japan
Asem Omari, Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf, Germany
Carlos Pedrinaci, Knowledge Media Institute - The Open University, UK
Manuela Pereira, Universidade de Beira Interior, Portugal
Fethi A. Rabhi, The University of New South Wales, Australia
Milena V Radenkovic, Nottingham University, UK
Ioan Raicu, University of Chicago, USA
Joel Rodrigues, University of Beira Interior, Portugal
Dumitru Roman, DERI, Austria
Ioanna Roussaki, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece
Sambit Sahu, IBM T.J. Watson Research , USA
Omair Shafiq, Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), Austria
Avinash Shankaranarayanan, Management Development Institute of Singapore (MDIS), Singapore
Yongtae Shin, Soongsil University, Korea
Thomas Strand, DERI, Austria
Leonardo Tininini, CNR - IASI, Italy
Laurentiu Vasiliu, DERI Galway, Ireland
Prabakar Venkataraman, Infosys Technologies Ltd.,India
Jean-Charles Verdie, Sand-Labs, France
Andreas Wombacher, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Raymond Wong, University of New South Wales / Green Pea Software Pty / NICTA, Australia
Zhe Yang, Soochow University, China
Beytullah Yildiz, Indiana University, USA
Jianyin Zhang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

WSSA: Web Services-based Systems and Applications

Kamel Adi, Université of Outaouais, Canada
Marco Aiello, University of Groningen (NL), The Netherlands
Siegfried Benkner, University of Vienna, Austria
Richard Benjamin, ISOCO, Spain
Djamal Benslimane, Universté Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
Behzad Bordbar, University of Birmingham, UK
Celine Boutrous-Saab, Dauphine University, France
Barbara Carminati, University of Insubria, Italy
Fernando Miguel Carvalho, Polythecnic Institute of Lisbon, Portugal
Fabio Casati, HP, USA
Dickson K. W. Chiu, Dickson Computer Systems, Hong Kong
Sam Chung, University of Washington Tacoma, USA
Michele Colajanni, University of Modena, Italy
Vincenzo D'Andrea, Universita' degli Studi di Trento, Italy
Ewa Deelman, Information Science Institute, USA
Gregorio Diaz, University of Castilla - La Mancha, Spain
John Domingue, Open University, UK
Jean-Jacques Dubray, Attachmate, USA
Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria
Christian Emig, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany
Abdelkarim Erradi, The University of New South Wales, Australia
Rik Eshuis, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Dieter Fensel, DERI, Austria
George Feuerlicht, University of Technology Sydney , Australia
Geoffrey Fox, University of Indiana, USA
Xiang Fu, Georgia Southwestern State University, USA
Stefania Galizia, The Open University, UK
Chirine Ghedira, Universté Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
Alessio Gugliotta, Open University, UK
Sung-Kook Han, Won Kwang University, Korea
Laurent Henocque, LISIS, France
Martin Hepp, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Austria
Andy Hospodor, University of California  Santa Cruz, USA
Patrick Hung, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada
Adriana Iamnitchi, Duke University, USA
Joachim Wolfgang Kaltz, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Mick Kerrigan, STI Innsbruck, Austria
Ryszard Kowalczyk, SWIN, Australia
Birgitta König-Ries, University of Jena, Germany
Jacek Kopecky, DERI Innsbruck, Austria
Maksym Korotkiy, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam / KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, The Netherlands
Peep Kungas, SOA Trader, Ltd, Norway
Winfried Lamersdorf, University of Hamburg, Germany
Welf Löwe, Växjö University, Sweeden
Helen Paik, University of New South Wales, Australia
Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin, UQAM, Canada
Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE
Roger Menday, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany
Axel Martens, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA
Alex Ng, Macquarie University, Austalia
Josef Noll, University Graduate Centre (UniK) & Telenor R&D, Norway
Barry Norton, Open University, UK
Lev Olkhovich, Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia
Guadalupe Ortiz, University of Extremadura, Spain
Elena Paslaru Bontas Simperl, Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany
Cesare Pautasso, IBM Zurich Research Lab, Switzerland
Charles Petrie, Stanford University, USA
Aiko Pras, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Matei Ripeanu, University of Chicago, USA
Joel Rodrigues, University of Beira Interior, Portugal
Dumitru Roman, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Austria
José Raul Romero, University of Cordoba, Spain
Steve Ross-Talbot, Enigmatec Corporation, UK
Brahmananda Sapkota, DERI Galway, Ireland
Avinash Shankaranarayanan,Management Development Institute of Singapore (MDIS), Singapore
Satish Narayana Srirama, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Vlad Tanasescu, The Open University, UK
Philippe Thiran, University of Namur, Belgium
Ioan Toma, DERI, Austria
Laurentiu Vasiliu, DERI, Austria
Ivan P. Velez-Ramirez, University of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico
Alexander Wahler, Niwa Web Solutions, Austria
Jim Webber, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Mathias Weske, University of Potsdam, Germany
Andreas Wombacher, University of Twente, Netherlands
Raymond Wong, University of New South Wales / Green Pea Software Pty / NICTA, Australia
Zhe Yang, Soochow University, China
Beytullah Yildiz, Indiana University, USA
Michal Zaremba, DERI, Austria
Christian Zirpins, University College London , UK
Dominik Zyskowski, The Poznan University of Economics, Poland

ENSYS: Entertainment Systems

Hamid Arabnia, Georgia State University, USA
Louise Barkhuus, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Steve Benford, University of Nottingham, UK
Barry Brown, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Sergiu Dascalu, University of Nevada at Reno, USA
Narayan Debnath, Winona State University, USA
Alexandre François, University of Southern California, USA
Rafael Dueire Lins, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
Michael Fowle, University of Edinburgh, UK
Fayez Gargouri, ISIN - Sfax, Tunisia
Kiel Gilleade, Lancaster University, UK
James Graham, University of Louisville, USA
Bidyut Gupta, Southern Illinois University, USA
Frederick Harris, University of Nevada, Reno, USA
Danny Hughes, Lancaster University, UK
Jalal Karam, Gulf University for Sconces and Technology, Kuwait
Marcel Karam, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Michael James Katchabaw, The University of Western Ontario, Canada
Angkul Kongmunvattana, Columbus State University, USA
Gordon Lee, San Diego State University, USA
Sushil Louis, University of Nevada, Reno, USA
F. Mario Martins, Universidade do Minho em Braga, Portugal
Nelson Mascarenhas, Universidade de São Carlos, Brazil
Bertrand Mathieu, France Telecom, R&D Division , France
Ronaldo Menezes, Florida Tech, USA
Ara V. Nefian, Intel Corporation, USA
Mircea Nicolescu, University of Nevada, Reno, USA
Adrian Pasculescu, Protana Inc., Canada
Paulo Pinto, New University of Lisbon, Portugal
Waleed Smari, University of Dayton, Ohio, USA
Stephane Some, University of Ottawa, Canada
Pierre Tiako, Langston University, Oklahoma, USA
Amund Tveit, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Alf Inge Wang, NTNU, Norway

P2PSA: P2P Systems and Applications

Nazim Agoulmine, University of Evry Val d'Essonne - UFR S&T, France
Serge Chaumette, University of Bordeaux, France
Giuseppe Ciaccio, DISI - Universita' di Genova, Italy
Eugeni Dodonov, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil
Jawad Drissi, Texas State University, USA
David Erman, Blekinge Institute of Technology; Sweden
Stefan Fischer, Universität zu Lübeck, Germany
Roy Friedman, Technion, Israel
Fayez Gargouri, ISIN - Sfax, Tunisia
Abdelhakim Hafid, University of Montreal, Canada
Danny Hughes, Lancaster University, UK
Joaquin Keller, France Telecom, France
Omar Khadeer Hussain, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
Dragos Ilie, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, USA
Peter Kropf, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Christoph Lindemann, University of Dortmund, Germany
Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan
Abdel Maach, University of Montreal, Canada
Bertrand Mathieu, France Tlcom, R&D Division , France
Jan de Meer, IHP, Germany
Rodrigo Fernandes de Mello, University of Sao Paulo - ICMC, Brazil
Giancarlo Ruffo, University of Turin, Italy
Brahmananda Sapkota, DERI Galway, UK
Avinash Shankaranarayanan, Griffith University, Australia
Gwendal Simon, France Telecom, France
Nazif Cihan Tas, Siemens Corporate Research, USA
Jean-Charles Verdi, Sand-Labs, France
James Walkerdine, Lancaster University, UK
Zhe Yang, Soochow University, China

ONLINE: Online Communications, Collaborative Systems, and Social Networks

Kamel Barkaoui, CNAM, France
Jalel Ben-Othman, Université de Versailles, France
Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada
Abdelnacer Chebira, University of Paris XII - Val de Marne, LISSI/SCTIC, France
Francesco Chiti, Università di Firenze, Italy
Jean-Pierre Courtiat, LAAS, France
Vladan Devedzic, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Joanne Dréo, University of Paris XII - Val de Marne, France
Mario Marques Freire, University of Beira Interior, Portugal
Michael Fowle, University of Edinburgh, UK
Fayez Gargouri, ISIN - Sfax, Tunisia
Mustapha Guezzouri, University Es-Senia, Algeria
Eric Ho, University Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
Said Hoceini, IUT Créteil-Vitry, LISSI/SCTIC, France
Rachid El Abdouni Khayari, University of The Armed Forces, Germany
Moon Ho Lee, Choonbunk National university, Korea
Thomas Noel, University of Strasbourg, France
Lisa Maccari, Università di Firenze, Italy
Zoubir Mammeri, IRIT - Université Paul Sabatier, France
Abdelhamid Mellouk, University of Paris XII - Val de Marne, France
Deapesh Misra, iDefense/Verisign, USA
Mohamed Ould-Khaoua, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman
Siarry Patrick, University of Paris XII - Val de Marne, LISSI, France
Eric Rondeau, Université Henri Poincaré - CRAN, France
Abdenour Sehad, CDTA, Algeria
Satish Narayana Srirama, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Vladimir Uskov, Bradley University, USA
Raymond Wong, University of New South Wales / Green Pea Software Pty / NICTA, Australia
Quanshi Xia, Imperial College, UK
Amirat Yacine, University of Paris XII - Val de Marne, France
Zhe Yang, Soochow University, China