| Honorary Chair | The Late Yahiko Kambayashi (Kyoto University, Japan) |
| Organizing Committee | Yoshifumi Masunaga* (Ochanomizu University, Japan) |
| Mitsunobu Aoyama (Toshiba Corporation) |
| Hiroshi Arisawa (Yokohama National University) |
| Mikinori Furuya (Hewlett-Packard Japan, Ltd.) |
| Hiromu Hayashi (Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.) |
| Takahiko Higashi (Microsoft Co., Ltd.) |
| Yasuo Hirata (KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc.) |
| Yoshioki Ishii (Beacon Information Technology Inc.) |
| Norio Izumi (SGI Japan, Ltd.) |
| Shigeyuki Kazama (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation) |
| Kiyoshi Kozuka (Hitachi, Ltd.) |
| Hideko S. Kunii (Ricoh Company, Ltd.) |
| Akifumi Makinouchi (Kyushu University) |
| Norio Murakami (Google Japan Inc.) |
| Naoyuki Nakanishi (Sun Microsystems K.K.) |
| Shiro Sakata (Chiba University) |
| Hitoshi Shibagaki (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation) |
| Masaaki Shintaku (Oracle Corporation Japan) |
| Tadashi Shiomi (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology) |
| Shunsuke Uemura (Nara Institute of Science and Technology) |
| General Chairs | Rakesh Agrawal (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA) |
| Masaru Kitsuregawa (University of Tokyo, Japan) |
| Program Chairs | Karl Aberer (EPF Lausanne, Switzerland) |
| Michael Franklin (University of California, Berkeley, USA) |
| Shojiro Nishio (Osaka University, Japan) |
| Program Vice-Chairs | Anastassia Ailamaki (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Database System Internals and Performance |
| Alfons Kemper (Technical University of Munich, Germany) Query Processing and Optimization |
| Kian-Lee Tan (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Data Warehouse, OLAP, and Statistical Databases |
| Kyuseok Shim (Seoul National University, Korea) Mining Data, Text and Web |
| Jayavel Shanmugasundaram (Cornell University, USA) Semi-structured Data and XML |
| Gustavo Alonso (ETH Zürich, Switzerland) Middleware, Web Services, and Workflow |
| Wolfgang Nejdl (University of Hannover, Germany) Heterogeneity, Semantic Web, and Metadata |
| Sharad Mehrotra (UC Irvine, USA) Privacy and Security |
| Phillip Gibbons (Intel Research, USA) Stream Processing, Continuous Queries, and Sensor Databases |
| Jayant R. Haritsa (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India) Database Applications and Experiences |
| Jignesh M. Patel (University of Michigan, USA) Temporal, Spatial, Scientific, and Biological Databases |
| Evaggelia Pitoura (University of Ioannina, Greece) Distributed, Parallel, Deep Web, and P2P Databases |
| Takahiro Hara (Osaka University, Japan) Data Management for Ubiquitous and Mobile Computing |
| Executive Committee | Jun Adachi* (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) |
| Naoki Akaboshi (Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.) |
| Takeshi Fukuda (IBM Japan) |
| Yoshinori Hara (NEC Corporation) |
| Shuji Harashima (Toshiba Corporation) |
| Hideaki Hirose (Hewlett-Packard Japan, Ltd.) |
| Minoru Hirota (SGI Japan, Ltd.) |
| Teruhisa Hochin (Osaka Prefecture University) |
| Takashi Honishi (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation) |
| Atsushi Iizawa (Ricoh Company, Ltd.) |
| Mizuho Iwaihara (Kyoto University) |
| Fuyuko Kido (Microsoft Co., Ltd.) |
| Isao Kojima (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology) |
| Yoshiyuki Miyabe (Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.) |
| Hidenori Naganuma (Google Japan Inc.) |
| Chihiro Ono (KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc.) |
| Naoko Sato (Sun Microsystems K.K.) |
| Teruhisa Shimizu (Oracle Corporation Japan) |
| Kazutoshi Sumiya (University of Hyogo) |
| Hidetoshi Tanaka (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation) |
| Satoshi Tanaka (Beacon Information Technology Inc.) |
| Yasuhiro Tanaka (NTT Data Corporation) |
| Masashi Tsuchida (Hitachi, Ltd.) |
| Takeshi Yoshizawa (IBM Japan Systems Engineering Co., Ltd.) |
| Panel Chairs | Umeshwar Dayal (HP Labs, USA) |
| Hongjun Lu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China) |
| Hans-Jörg Schek (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) |
| Seminar Chairs | Michael J. Carey (BEA Systems, USA) |
| Stefano Ceri (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) |
| Kyu-Young Whang (KAIST, Korea) |
| Demo Chairs | Daniel Keim (University of Konstanz, Germany) |
| Ling Liu (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) |
| Xiaofang Zhou (University of Queensland, Australia) |
| Industrial Program Chairs | Anand Deshpande (Persistent Systems, India) |
| Anant Jhingran (IBM Silicon Valley Lab, USA) |
| Yasushi Kiyoki (Keio University, Japan) |
| Eric Simon (Medience, France) |
| Local Arrangement Committee | Haruo Yokota* (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) |
| Masatoshi Arikawa (University of Tokyo, Japan) |
| Masayoshi Aritsugi (Gunma University, Japan) |
| Kaoru Katayama (Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan) |
| Norio Katayama (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) |
| Hiroyuki Kato (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) |
| Takashi Kobayashi (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) |
| Jun Miyazaki (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) |
| Takashi Tomii (Yokohama National University, Japan) |
| Chiemi Watanabe (Nara Women's University, Japan) |
| Workshop Committee | Masatoshi Yoshikawa* (Nagoya University, Japan) |
| Toshiyuki Amagasa (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) |
| Ken Higuchi (University of Fukui, Japan) |
| Yoshihide Hosokawa (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan) |
| Yutaka Kidawara (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan) |
| Takeo Kunishima (Okayama Prefectural University, Japan) |
| Akiyo Nadamoto (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan) |
| Proceedings Committee | Motomichi Toyama* (Keio University, Japan) |
| Shiori Sasaki (Keio University, Japan) |
| Publicity Committee | Hiroyuki Kitagawa* (University of Tsukuba, Japan) |
| Yoshiharu Ishikawa (University of Tsukuba, Japan) |
| Atsuyuki Morishima (University of Tsukuba, Japan) |
| Tsuyoshi Takayama (Iwate Prefectural University, Japan) |
| Award Committee | Katsumi Tanaka (Head Chair), (Kyoto University, Japan) |
| Best Paper Award Committee | Karl Aberer (EPF Lausanne, Switzerland) |
| Michael Franklin (University of California, Berkeley, USA) |
| Shojiro Nishio (Osaka University, Japan) |
| Best Industry Paper Award Committee | Anand Deshpande (Persistent Systems, India) |
| Anant Jhingran (IBM Silicon Valley Lab, USA) |
| Yasushi Kiyoki (Keio University, Japan) |
| Eric Simon (Medience, France) |
| Best Demo Award Committee | Daniel Keim (University of Konstanz, Germany) |
| Ling Liu (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) |
| Xiaofang Zhou (University of Queensland, Australia) |
| Influential Paper Award Committee | Per-Åke (Paul) Larson* (Microsoft Research, USA) |
| Johann-Christoph Freytag (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany) |
| Jiawei Han (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) |
| Guy Lohman (IBM Research, USA) |
| Kyu-Young Whang (KAIST, Korea) |
| DBSJ, The Database Society of Japan Liaison | Hiroshi Ishikawa (Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan) |
| CCF-DBS, China Computer Federation - Data Base Society Liaison | Xiaofeng
Meng (Renmin University, China) |
| KISS SIGDB, Korea Information Science Society, Special Interest Group on Databases Liaison | Chin-Wan Chung (KAIST, Korea) |
| DBIndia Liaison | Krithi Ramamritham (IIT Bombay, India) |
| Australian DB Liaison | James Bailey (University of Melbourne, Australia) |
| Treasurer | Miyuki Nakano (University of Tokyo, Japan) |
| Art Director | Takuya Suzuki (Suzuki Environmental Architects, Japan) |
| * chairperson |