| Stefan Berchtold (STB AG, Germany) |
| Brian Cooper (Georgia Tech, USA) |
| Avigdor Gal (Technion, Israel) |
| Amarnath Gupta (UCSD Supercomputing Center, USA) |
| Xuemin Lin (UNSW, Australia) |
| Wei-Ying Ma (Microsoft Research Asia) |
| Thomas Seidl (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) |
| Katsumi Tanaka (Kyoto University, Japan) |
| Wei Tang (NCR Teradata Division, USA) |
| Michalis Vazirgiannis (AUEB, Greece) |
| Aoying Zhou (Fudan University, China) |