Programme Committee


Programme Committee Chairs

Gianni Amati, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy

Claudio Carpineto, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy

Gianni Romano, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy

Programme Committee Members

Maristella Agosti, University of Padova, Italy
James Allan, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, US
Massih-Reza Amini, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France
Einat Amitay, IBM Research Lab, Haifa, Israel
Giuseppe Attardi, University of Pisa, Italy
Leif Azzopardi, University of Strathclyde, UK
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo! Research, Barcelona, Spain
Alex Bailey, Google, UK
Alvaro Barreiro, Universidade da Coruńa, Spain
Roberto Basili, University of Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy
Holger Bast, Max-Planck-Institute for Informatics, Germany
Micheline Beaulieu, University of Sheffield, UK
Michel Beigbeder, École Nationale Supérieure, Saint-Etienne, France
Nicholas Belkin, Rutgers University, US
Gloria Bordogna, IDPA CNR, Italy
Theo Bothma, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Mohand Boughanem, University Paul Sabatier, France
Giorgio Brajnik, Universitŕ di Udine, Italy
Martin Braschler, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
Peter Bruza, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Stefan Büttcher, University of Waterloo, Canada
Wray Buntine, Helsinki Institute of Information Technology, Finland
Fidel Cacheda, Universidade da Coruńa, Spain
Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon University, US
Caterina Caracciolo, FAO, Italy
David Carmel, IBM Research Lab, Haifa, Israel
Carlos Castillo, Yahoo! Research, Spain
Yves Chiaramella, IMAG, Grenoble, France
Paul-Alexandru Chirita, L3S Research Center, Hannover, Germany
Charles L. A. Clarke, University of Waterloo, Canada
Paul Clough, University of Sheffield, UK
Gordon Cormack, University of Waterloo, Canada
Nick Craswell, Microsoft, US
Fabio Crestani, University of Strathclyde, UK
Bruce Croft, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, US
Pablo De la Fuente, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain
Renato De Mori, University of Avignon, France
Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Arjen de Vries, CWI, Netherlands
Marcello Federico, Istituto Trentino di Cultura, Italy
Ronen Feldman, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Juan Manuel Fernández Luna, University of Granada, Spain
Paolo Ferragina, University of Pisa, Italy
Nicola Ferro, University of Padova, Italy
Edward Fox, Virginia Tech, US
Johannes Fuernkranz, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Norbert Fuhr, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Patrick Gallinari, LIP6, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France
Éric Gaussier, Xerox Research Centre Europe, France
C. Lee Giles, Pennsylvania State University, US
Mark Girolami, University of Glasgow, UK
Ayse Goker, Robert Gordon University, UK
Julio Gonzalo, UNED, Spain
Margaret Graham, Northumbria University, UK
Warren Greiff, The MITRE Corporation, US
David Grossman, Illinois Institute of Technology, US
Antonio Gulli, ASK, Italy
Cathal Gurrin, Dublin City University, Ireland
Preben Hansen, SICS, Sweden
David Hawking, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia
Ben He, University of Glasgow, UK
William Hersh, Oregon Health Sciences University, US
Djoerd Hiemstra, University of Twente, Netherlands
Eduard Hoenkamp, University of Nijmegen, Netherlands
Andreas Hotho, Universität Kassel, Germany
Xiaohua Hu, Drexel University, US
Theo Huibers, University of Twente, Netherlands
Peter Ingwersen, Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark
Mario J. Gaspar da Silva, University of Lisboa, Portugal
Kalervo Jarvelin, University of Tampere, Finland
Gareth Jones, Dublin City University, Ireland
Joemon Jose, University of Glasgow, UK
Jaap Kamps, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Jussi Karlgren, SICS, Sweden
Gabriella Kazai, Microsoft, Cambridge, UK
Manolis Koubarakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece
Wessel Kraaij, TNO TPD, Netherlands
S. Ravi Kumar, Yahoo! Research, US
Kui-Lam Kwok, Queens College, City University of New York, US
Mounia Lalmas, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Monica Landoni, University of Strathclyde, UK
Birger Larsen, Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark
Mun-Kew Leong, Laboratories of Information Technology, Singapore
David Lewis, David D. Lewis Consulting, US
Xuelong Li, School of Computer Science and Information Systems, London, UK
Yang Lingpeng, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Christina Lioma, University of Glasgow, UK
David Losada, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Craig Macdonald, University of Glasgow, UK
Andrew MacFarlane, City University, London, UK
Marco Maggini, University of Siena, Italy
Bernardo Magnini, Istituto Trentino di Cultura, Italy
Massimo Melucci, University of Padova, Italy
Alessandro Micarelli, University of Roma Tre, Italy
Stefano Mizzaro, University of Udine, Italy
Dunja Mladenic, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Marie-Francine Moens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Alistair Moffat, University of Melbourne, Australia
Josiane Mothe, IRIT, France
Gheorghe Muresan, Rutgers University, US
Jian-Yun Nie, University of Montreal, Canada
Michael Oakes, University of Sunderland, UK
Stanislaw Osinski, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland
Iadh Ounis, University of Glasgow, UK
Marius Pasca, Google, US
Gabriella Pasi, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy
Jan O. Pedersen, Yahoo!, US
Nils Pharo, Oslo University College, Norway
Vassilis Plachouras, University of Glasgow, UK
Jay Ponte, Google, US
Victor Poznanski, Sharp, UK
Andreas Rauber, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Stephen Robertson, Microsoft Research, UK
Thomas Rolleke, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Stefan Rüger, Imperial College, UK
Song Ruihua, Microsoft Research Asia, China
Ian Ruthven, University of Strathclyde, UK
Dominich Sandor, University of Veszprem, Hungary
Ralf Schenkel, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Germany
Hinrich Schuetze, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Giovanni Semeraro, University of Bari, Italy
Stefan Siersdorfer, Max-Planck-Institute for Computer Science, Germany
Fabrizio Silvestri, ISTI CNR, Italy
Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University, Ireland
Barry Smyth, University College Dublin, Ireland
Václav Snásel, VSB-Technical University Ostrava, Czech Republic
Eero Sormunen, University of Tampere, Finland
Amanda Spink, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
John Tait, University of Sunderland, UK
Martin Theobald, Max-Planck-Institute for Informatics, Germany
Ulrich Thiel, Fraunhofer IPSI, Germany
Anastasios Tombros, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Andrew Tomkins, Yahoo!, US
Stephen Tomlinson, Hummingbird, US
Pertti Vakkari, University of Tampere, Finland
Keith van Rijsbergen, University of Glasgow, UK
Olga Vechtomova, University of Waterloo, Canada
Dawid Weiss, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Ross Wilkinson, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia
Wensi Xi, Google, US
Tao Yang, ASK, US
Elad Yom-Tov, IBM Research Lab, Haifa, Israel
Hugo Zaragoza, Yahoo! Research, Barcelona, Spain
Hua-Jun Zeng, Microsoft Research Asia, China
ChengXiang Zhai, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US
Dell Zhang, University of London, UK
Justin Zobel, RMIT, Australia

Additional Reviewers

Eija Airio, University of Tampere, Finland
Mark Baillie, University of Strathclyde, UK
Nuno Cardoso, University of Lisboa, Portugal
Mauro Cettolo, Istituto Trentino di Cultura, Italy
Marco Degemmis, University of Bari, Italy
Gianna Del Corso, University of Pisa, Italy
Chris H.Q. Ding, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, US
Nicola Fanizzi, University of Bari, Italy
Stefano Ferilli, University of Bari, Italy
Claudio Giuliano, Istituto Trentino di Cultura, Italy
Milen Kouylekov, Istituto Trentino di Cultura, Italy
Jie Lu, Carnegie Mellon University, US
Pasquale Lops, University of Bari, Italy
Joao Magalhaes, Imperial College, UK
Inderjeet Mani, The MITRE Corporation, US
Vanessa Murdock, Yahoo! Research, Barcelona, Spain
Matteo Negri, Istituto Trentino di Cultura, Italy
Domenico Redavid, University of Bari, Italy
James Thom, RMIT, Australia