Committees

General Co-Chairs Mostafa Ammar Yutaka Matsushita Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Keio University, Japan

Technical Program Co-Chairs David Lee Hideo Miyahara Bell Labs Research, China Osaka University, Japan

Local Arrangements Co-Chairs Kenji Suzuki Teruo Higashino KDD R&D Laboratories, Japan Osaka University, Japan

Tutorial Chair Sukeichi Miki Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Japan

Proceedings Editors Takafumi Saito Toshikane Oda Tsuneyuki Chiba NTT, Japan KDD R&D Labs, Japan NTT, Japan

Steering Committee Co-Chair: Simon Lam, University of Texas at Austin, USA Co-Chair: David Lee, Bell Labs Research, China Mostafa Ammar, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Mohamed Gouda, University of Texas at Austin, USA Ming T. (Mike) Liu, Ohio State University, USA Raymond Miller, University of Maryland, College Park, USA Krishan Sabnani, Bell Labs Research, USA

x Advisory Committee Hiromu Hayashi, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Japan Tatsuyuki Hori, Matsushita Communication Industrial Co., Ltd., Japan Yuji Inoue, NTT Data Corp., Japan Masanori Kataoka, Hitachi netBusiness, Ltd., Japan Tamotsu Nomakuchi, Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Japan Takashi Rokutanda, Toshiba Corp., Japan Yasuyoshi Sakai, ATR, Japan Shiro Sakata, NEC Corp., Japan Yoshikatsu Shiraishi, Oki Electric Industry Co. Ltd., Japan Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki University, Japan

Technical Program Committee Kevin Almeroth, UCSB Toshio Okamoto, Toshiba Anish Arora, Ohio State Univ. Sanjoy Paul, Bell Labs, Lucent Joseph Bannister, ISI A. Petrenko, CRIM, Canada Ernst Biersack, Eurecom K.K. Ramakrishnan, AT&T José Brustoloni, Bell Labs Luigi Rizzo, Univ. of Pisa, Italy S. Budkowski, INT, France Takafumi Saito, NTT Ken Calvert, UKY Shiro Sakata, NEC Ana Cavalli, INT, France Tetsuo Sakuma, Oki Electric Industry Samuel Chanson, UST Marco Schneider, SBC Tech. Resources Jorge Cobb, UT, Dallas Martha Steenstrup, BBN Jon Crowcroft, Univ. College, London David Su, NIST Michael Dahlin, UT, Austin Kenji Suzuki, KDD R&D Labs. Christophe Diot, Sprint Labs Osamu Takada, Hitachi Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan, UT, Austin Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki Univ. Mohamed Gouda, UT, Austin Terry Todd, McMaster University Teruo Higashino, Osaka Univ. Shuichi Tonami, Mitsubishi Electric Corp. Chao-Ju Jennifer Hou, Ohio State Univ. Satish K. Tripathi, UC, Riverside Yoshiaki Kakuda, Hiroshima City Univ. Hasan Ural, Univ. Ottawa, Canada Hartmut Koenig, Brandenburg Univ., Germany Johnny Wong, Univ. Waterloo, Canada Naohisa Komatsu, Waseda Univ. Jianping Wu, Tsinghua Univ., China Y.J. Lin, Bell Labs David Yau, Purdue Univ. Ibrahim Matta, Boston Univ. Masanobu Yuhara, Fujitsu Labs. Nick F. Maxemchuk, AT&T Ellen Zegura, Georgia Institute of Tech. Masayuki Murata, Osaka Univ. Lixia Zhang, UCLA Toshikane Oda, KDD R&D Labs.

xi Local Arrangements Committee Jun Atarashi, NEC Corp., Japan Yasuhiro Katsube, Toshiba Corp., Japan Masayoshi Matsushita, Oki Electric Industry Co. Ltd., Japan Toshikane Oda, KDD R&D Laboratories, Inc., Japan Shoichiro Seno, Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Japan Hiroshi Shigeno, Keio University, Japan Kenichi Yoshida, Hitachi, Ltd., Japan Masanobu Yuhara, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Japan

Tutorial Committee Fujio Nakajima, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Japan Yukio Kamatani, Toshiba Corp., Japan Takafumi Saito, NTT Service Integration Laboratories, Japan Yasuyuki Suzuki, Matsushita Communication Industrial Co., Ltd., Japan

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