String Processing and Information Retrieval
SPIRE2005
Buenos Aires, Argentina
November 2-4,2005




Program Committee

Co-Chairs
Mariano Consens, University of Toronto, Canada
Gonzalo Navarro, Universidad de Chile, Chile

PC Members
Amihood Amir Bar-Ilan University (Israel)
Alberto Apostolico Università di Padova (Italy)
and Purdue University (USA)
Ricardo Baeza-Yates ICREA-Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain)
and Universidad de Chile (Chile)
Nieves R. Brisaboa Universidade da Coruña (Spain)
Edgar Chávez Universidad Michoacana (Mexico)
Charles Clarke University of Waterloo (Canada)
Bruce Croft University of Massachussetts (USA)
Paolo Ferragina Università di Pisa (Italy)
Norbert Fuhr Universität Duisburg-Essen (Germany)
Raffaele Giancarlo Università di Palermo (Italy)
Roberto Grossi Università di Pisa (Italy)
Carlos Heuser Universidade Federal de Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)
Carlos Hurtado, Universidad de Chile (Chile)
Lucian Ilie University of Western Ontario (Canada)
Panagiotis Ipeirotis New York University (USA)
Juha Karkkainen University of Helsinki (Finland)
Nick Koudas University of Toronto (Canada)
Mounia Lalmas Queen Mary University of London (UK)
Gad Landau University of Haifa (Israel)
Stefano Lonardi University of California (USA)
Yoelle Maarek IBM Haifa Research Lab (Israel)
Veli Makinen Bielefeld University (Germany)
Mauricio Marín Universidad de Magallanes (Chile)
Joao Meidanis UNICAMP (Brazil)
Massimo Melucci Università di Padova (Italy)
Edleno de Moura Universidade Federal do Amazonas (Brazil)
Ian Munro University of Waterloo (Canada)
Arlindo Oliveira INESC (Portugal)
Kunsoo Park Seoul National University (Korea)
Prabhakar Raghavan Yahoo Inc. (USA)
Berthier Ribeiro-Neto Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil)
Kunihiko Sadakane Kyushu University (Japan)
Marie-France Sagot INRIA (France)
Joao Setubal Virginia Tech (USA)
Jayavel Shanmugasundaram Cornell University (USA)
Ayumi Shinohara Tohoku University (Japan)
Jorma Tarhio Helsinki University of Technology (Finland)
Jeffrey Vitter Purdue University (USA)
Hugh Williams Microsoft Corporation (USA)
Hugo Zaragoza Microsoft Research (UK)
Nivio Ziviani Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil)
Justin Zobel RMIT (Australia)

Steering Committee

Alberto Apostolico Università di Padova (Italy) and Georgia Tech (USA)
Ricardo Baeza-Yates ICREA-Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain) and Universidad de Chile (Chile)
Alberto Laender Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil)
Massimo Melucci Università di Padova (Italy)
Edleno de Moura Universidade Federal do Amazonas (Brazil)
Mario Nascimento University of Alberta (Canada)
Arlindo Oliveira INESC (Portugal)
Berthier Ribeiro Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil)
Nivio Ziviani Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil)