Welcome to UIC08 in Oslo, Norway

General Chairs

Frode Eika Sandnes, Oslo University College, Norway
Mark Burgess, Oslo University College, Norway
Chunming Rong, University of Stavanger, Norway

Program Chairs

Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway
D. Manivannan, University of Kentucky, USA
Michael Beigl, University of Hannover, Germany

Program Vice Chairs

Yo-Ping Huang, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan
Oliver Sinnen, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Graham Megson, University of Reading, UK

Honorary Chairs

Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA
Norio Shiratori, Tohoku University, Japan

Steering Committee

Jianhua Ma (chair), Hosei University, Japan
Laurence T. Yang (chair), St. Francis Xavier Univ., Canada
Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Sci. & Tech., China
Jeffrey J.P. Tsai, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Theo Ungerer, University of Augsburg, Germany

International Advisory Committee

Leonard Barolli, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan
Victor Callaghan, University of Essex, UK
Yookun Cho, Seoul National University, Korea
Sumi Helal, University of Florida, USA
Frank Hsu, Fordham University, USA
Ali R. Hurson, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan
Beniamino Di Martino, Second Univ. of Naples, Italy
Christian Muller-Schloer, Univ. of Hannover, Germany
Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan
Ivan Stojmenovic, Ottawa University, Canada
Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
David Taniar, Monash University, Australia
Jhing-Fa Wang, Nat. Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Guangyou Xu, Tsinghua University, China
Yaoxue Zhang, Tsinghua University, China
Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia

Publicity Chairs

Yueh-Min Huang, Nat Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Jinhua Guo, University of Michigan - Dearborn, USA
Mieso Denko, University of Guelph, Canada
Hakan Duman, British Telecom, UK
Ohbyung Kwon, Kyunghee University, Korea

International Liaison Chairs

Wen Jing Hsu, National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore
Benxiong Huang, Huazhong University of Sci. & Tech., China
Jong Hyuk Park, Kyungnam University, Korea
Leonel Sousa, INESC-ID, Portugal
Si Qing Zheng, University of Texas at Dallas, USA

Award Chairs

David Nelson, University of Sunderland, UK
Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK
Demissie Aredo, Oslo University College, Norway

Panel Chairs

Jadwiga Indulska, University of Queensland, Australia
Daqing Zhang, Natl. Inst. of Telecom., France

Publication Chairs

Tony Li Xu, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada.
Liu Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada.

Web Administration Chair

Ismail Hassan, Oslo University College, Norway

Local Arrangement Chairs

Siri Fagernes, Oslo University College, Norway
Simen Hagen, Oslo University College, Norway
Kirsten Ribu, Oslo University College, Norway
Kyrre Begnum, Oslo University College, Norway
Jie Xiang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway
Qin Xin, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway
Hai Ngoc Pham, University of Oslo, Norway

Program committee

Waleed Abdulla, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, Marquette University, USA
Alexandra Branzan Albu, University of Victoria, Canada
Najah Abu Ali, United Arab Emirates University.
Noureddine Boudriga, University of Carthage, Tunisia
Phillip G. Bradford, University of Alabama, USA
Tsun-Wei Chang, De Ling Institute of Technology, Taiwan
Jiming Chen, Zhejiang University, China
Ruey-Maw Chen, National Chin-Yi University of Technology, Taiwan
Shu-Chen Cheng, Southern Taiwan University, Taiwan
Wei Chen, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China.
Wen Chen, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
Peter H J Chong, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Hung-Chi Chu, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taiwan
Alva Couch, Tufs University, USA
Alma Leora Culén, University of Oslo, Norway
Waltenegus Dargie, Technical University of Dresden, Germany
Reza Dilmaghani, King's College London, UK
Panayotis E. Fouliras, University of Macedonia, Greece
Alois Ferscha, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Austria
Edgar Gabriel, University of Houston, USA
Antonio Mana Gomez, University of Malaga, Spain
Zonghua Gu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Khoon Guan Winston Seah, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Arobinda Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology, India
Laurence Habib, Oslo University College, Norway
Hårek Haugerud, Oslo University College, Norway
Dag Haugland, Bergen University, Norway
Jianhua He, Swansea University, UK
Shang-Lin Hsieh, Tatung University, Taiwan
Dr. Bin Hu, University of Central England, UK
Lin-Huang Chang, National Taichung University, Taiwan
Yu Hua, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China
Tao Jiang, University of Michigan, USA
Wenbin Jiang, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China
Tore Møller Jonassen, Oslo University College, Norway
Audun Josang, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
James B. D. Joshi, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Akimitsu Kanzaki, Osaka University, Japan
Helen Karatza, Aristotle Univeristy of Thessaloniki, Greece
Andreas J. Kassler, Karlstad University, Sweden
Paris Kitsos, Hellenic Open University, Greece
Gabriele Kotsis, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria
Lars Kristiansen, University of Oslo, Norway
Stefan Lankes, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Matti Latva-aho, Oulu University, Finland
Cai Li, Communications University of China, China
Frank Li, Agder University, Norway
Jie Li, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Shiguo Lian, France Telecom R&D Beijing, China
Daw-Tung Lin, National Taipei University, Taiwan
Giuseppe Lo Re, University of Palermo
Arne Løkketangen, Molde University College, Norway
Sathiamoorthy Manoharan, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Hassnaa Moustafa, France Telecom R&D , France
Josef Noll, UniK/Movation, Norway
Lukowicz Paul, Lehrstuhl für Informatik, Universität Passau, Germany
Marius Portmann, University of Queensland, Australia
Ravi Prakash, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Antonio Puliafito, University of Messina, Italy
Ragnihild Kobro Runde, University of Oslo, Norway
Hamid Sharif, University of Nebraska, USA
Albrecht Schmidt, University of Munich, Germany
Rose Shumba, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA
Isabelle Simplot-Ryl, Univ. Lille, France
Lingyang Song, University of Oslo, Norway
Min Song, Old Dominion University, USA
Lambert Spaanenburg, Lund University, Sweden
Zhou Su, Waseda University, Japan
Evi Syukur, Monash University, Australia
Chik How Tan, Gjøvik University College, Norway
Hallvard Trætteberg, NTNU, Norway
Shiao-Li Tsao, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Thanos Vasilakos, University of Western Macedonia, Greece
Javier Garcia Villalba, Complutense Univ. of Madrid, Spain
Agustinus Borgy Waluyo, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore
Guojun Wang, Central South University, China
Tzone-I Wang, National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan
Xinbing Wang, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
Zhijun Wang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK
Jiang (Linda) Xie, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
Qin Xin, University of Bergen, Norway
Stephen Yang, National Central University, Taiwan
Wei Yen, Tatung University, Taiwan
Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Rong YU, South China University of Technology, China. email:
Hongwei Zhang, Wayne State University, USA
Chi Zhou, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Yuefeng Zhou, NEC Laboratories Europe, UK