| Charles Clarke |
University of Waterloo, Canada |
| Kalervo Jarvelin |
University of Tampere, Finland |
| Hideo Joho* |
University of Tsukuba, Japan |
| Gareth Jones |
Dublin City University, Ireland |
| Noriko Kando |
National Institute of Informatics, Japan |
| Tsuneaki Kato |
The University of Tokyo, Japan |
| Douglas W. Oard |
University of Maryland, USA |
| Tetsuya Sakai* |
Microsoft Research Asia, China |
| Mark Sanderson |
RMIT, Australia |
| Ian Soboroff |
NIST, USA |