General Chair Paul Cheung Innovation and Technology Commission, Hong Kong Program Chair Eric Wong Karama Kanoun University of Texas at Dallas, USA LAAS-CNRS, France Fast Abstract Chair Amit Paradkar Jeff Lei IBM T.J.Watson Research Center, USA University of Texas at Arlington, USA Publicity Chair Y. T. Yu City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong South America Liaison Jose C. Maldonado University of Sao Paulo at Sao Carlos, Brazil Registration Chair Dazhi Huang W. K. Chan Arizona State University, USA The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Operations Committee Chair F.T. Chan The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

STEERING COMMITTEE

	Stephen Yau (Chair)	Arizona State University, USA
	Carl Chang	Iowa State University, USA
	C. V. Ramamoorthy	University of California at Berkeley, USA
	Dick Simmons	Texas A&M University, USA
	T. H. Tse	University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

	F. T. Chan (Chair)	The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
	S. C. Cheung	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
	Emily Chui	The Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education, Hong Kong
	I. K. Mak	The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
	P. L. Poon	The Polytechnic University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed	Marquette University, USA
Doo-Hwan Bae	KAIST, Korea
Fevzi Belli	University of Paderborn, Germany
Sami Beydeda	University of Leipzig, Germany
Ramesh Bharadwaj	Naval Research Lab, USA
Maarten Boasson	University of Amsterdam ,The Netherlands
Kai-Yuan Cai	Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
Dave Card	Consultant, USA
T. Y. Chen	Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Albert Cheng	University of Houston, USA
Shing-Chi Cheung	Hong Kong University of Sci. and Tech., Hong Kong
David Cheung	Hong Kong University, Hong Kong
Byoungju Choi	Ewha Woman's University, Korea
William C. Chu	TungHai University, Taiwan
Kendra Cooper	University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Giuseooe Di Lucca	University of Sannio, Italy
Hans-Dieter Ehrich	Technische Universit at Braunschweig, Germany
Massimo Felici	University of Edinburgh, UK
Robert France	Colorado State University, USA
Sachin Garg	Avaya Research Lab, USA
Volker Gruhn	University of Leipzig, Germany
Jane Hayes	University of Kentucky, USA
Peter Henderson	University of Southampton, UK
Bob Horgan	Applied Research/Telcordia Technologies, USA
Peter In	Korea University, Korea
Mohamed Kaaniche	LAAS-CNRS, France
Dave Kung	University of Texas at Arlington, USA
T.Y. Lin	San Jose State University, USA
Michael R. Lyu	Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Aditya Mathur	Purdue University, USA
Rachel McCrindle	University of Reading, UK
Allen Nikora	Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
Jeff Offutt	George Mason University, USA
Alexander Romanovsky	University of Newcastle, UK
Adrian Spalka	University of Bonn, Germany
Barrie Thompson	University of Sunderland, UK
Christos Tjortjis	Univ. of Manchester Institute of Sci. and Tech., UK
Kishor Trivedi	Duke University, USA
Wei-tek Tsai	Arizona State University, USA
Timothy Tsai	Avaya Research Lab, USA
Andreas Ulrich	Siemens, Germany
Mladen Vouk	North Carolina State University, USA
Qianxiang Wang	Peking University, China
Feng-Jian Wang	National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan
Baowen Xu	Southeast University, China
Hongji Yang	De Montfort University, UK
Kang Zhang	University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Hong Zhu	Oxford Brookes University, UK