General Chair

Bruce Croft (UMass, USA)

Programme Chairs

• Arjen de Vries (CWI, NL)
• Andreas Rauber (TUW, AT)

Programme Committee 

• Maristella Agosti, University of Padua
• Yannis Avrithis, National Technical University of Athens
• Christos Bouganis, Imperial College London
• Pavel Braslavski, Yandex
• Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon University
• Kilnam Chon, Keio University
• Philipp Cimiano University of Karlsruhe
• Paul Clough, University of Sheffield
• Fabio Crestani, University of Lugano
• Hamish Cunningham, University of Sheffield
• Gideon Dror, Yahoo! Research
• Norbert Fuhr, University of Duisburg-Essen
• Wilfried Gansterer, University of Vienna
• Gregory Grefenstette, Exalead
• Allan Hanbury, Information Retrieval Facility
• David Hawking, Funnelback
• Noriko Kando, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
• Gabriella Kazai, Microsoft Research
• Udo Kruschwitz, University of Essex
• Marie-Francine Moens, KU Leuven
• Henning Müller, University of Applied Sciences, Western Switzerland
• Patrick Ruch, University Hospital of Geneva
• Stefan Rueger, The Open University, UK
• Frank Seinstra, Free University, Amsterdam
• Oren Somekh, Yahoo! Research
• John Tait, Information Retrieval Facility
• Dolf Trieschnigg, University of Twente
• Howard Turtle, Syracuse University
• Keith van Rijsbergen University of Glasgow
• Suzan Verberne, Radboud University Nijmegen
• Thijs Westerveld, Teezir
   

Local Organising Committee

• Marie-Pierre Garnier
• Katja Mayer
• Allan Hanbury
• Mihai Lupu