Agent-directed Simulation Symposium (ADSS’08) Scientific Committee Executive Committee • Dr. Tuncer Ören, General Chair • Dr. Levent Yilmaz, Co-chair • Dr. Maarten Sierhuis, Co-chair • Dr. Gregory R. Madey, Co-chair • Dr. Andreas Tolk, Publicity Chair International Program Committee • Agostino Bruzzone, University of Genoa, Italy • Alessandro Acquisti, Carnegie Mellon University, USA • Alessondro Ricci, University of Bologna, Italy • Andras Jávor, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary • Bernard Espinasse, Université d'Aix-Marseille, France • C. Anthony Hunt, UCSF, USA • Charles Santoni, LSIS, France • Christine Lisetti, Institut Eurecom, France • Claudia Frydman, LSIS, France • Desmond Saunders-Newton, USC and DARPA-IAO, USA • Ernest Page, The MITRE Corporation, USA • Fernando Barros, University of Coimbra, Portugal • Gabriel Wainer, Carleton University, Canada • Glen Ropella, UCSF, USA • Henry Hexmoor, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, USA • Hessam Sarjoughian, Arizona State University, USA • Jeffrey Schamburg, U.S. Army TRAC - Monterey, USA • Jeffrey Smith, Auburn University, USA • John Hiles, MOVES Institute, USA • Julie Dugdale, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble, France • Kathleen Carley, Carnegie Mellon University, USA • Marco Janssen, Arizona State University, USA • Mehdi Dastani, University of Utrecht, Netherlands • Michael Weiss, Carleton University, Canada • Norbert Giambiasi, LSIS, France • Paolo Petta, Centre for Brain Research, Medical University of Vienna, Austria • Paul Davis, RAND and RAND Graduate School, USA • Paul Fishwick, University of Florida, USA • Rafael Bordini. Durham University, UK • Rosario Conte, National Research Council, Italy • Sule Yildirim, Hedmark University College, Norway • Sunwoo Park, UCSF, USA • Virginia Dignum, University of Utrecht, Netherlands • Xiaolin Hu, Georgia State University, USA .