• BIDMA 2017

  • BIDMA 2017 Program Overview

  • Committee

    • Honorary Chair
    • Jon RokneUniversity of Calgary, Canada
    • General Chairs
    • Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada
    • Behrouz Far, University of Calgary, Canada
    • Program Chairs
    • Academic Track:
    • Mehmet Kaya, Firat University, Turkey
    • Mahmood Mousavi, University of Calgary, Canada
    • Industry Track:
    • Mohammad Moshirpour, University of Calgary, Canada
    • Tansel Ozyer, TOBB University, Turkey
    • Thesis Track:
    • Elham Akhond Zadeh Noughabi, University of Calgary, Canada
    • Communications Chair
    • Jalal Kawash, University of Calgary, Canada
    • Publicity Chair
    • Manmeet DhaliwalUniversity of Calgary, Canada
    • Registration Chairs
    • Yasaman AmannejadUniversity of Calgary, Canada
    • Tamer Jarada University of Calgary, Canada
    • Local Arrangement Chairs
    • Sepideh Afkhami GoliUniversity of Calgary, Canada
    • Salim AfraUniversity of Calgary, Canada
    • Raoufeh HashemianUniversity of Calgary, Canada
    • Web Chair
    • Tansel OzyerTOBB University, Turkey
    • Program Committee
    • Basem Alkazemi,Umm Al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia
    • Toshiyuki Amagasa,University of Tsukuba, Japan
    • Annalisa Appice,University Aldo Moro of Bari, Italy
    • Martin Atzmueller,University of Kassel, Germany
    • Antonio Badia,University of Louisville, USA
    • Tania Cerquitelli,Politecnico di Torino, Italy
    • Lijun Chang,University of New South Wales, Australia
    • Haopeng Chen,Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
    • Silvia Chiusano,Politecnico di Torino, Italy
    • Pietro Colombo,Universita dell'Insubria, Italy
    • Alfredo Cuzzocrea,ICAR-CNR and University of Calabria, Italy
    • Jerome Darmont,Universite de Lyon, France
    • Raj Das,University of Auckland, New Zeland
    • Pasquale De Meo,VU University, Italy
    • Luigi Di Caro,U. of Torino, Italy
    • Chen Ding,Ryerson University, Canada
    • Zhihui Du,Tsinghua University, China
    • Xiaoliang Fan,Lanzhou University, China
    • Simon Fong,University of Macau, China
    • Enrique Frias-Martinez,Telefonica Research, Spain
    • Paolo Garza,Politecnico di Torino, Italy
    • Manolis Gergatsoulis,Department of Archive and Library Sciences, Greece
    • Aris Gkoulalas-Divanis,IBM Watson Health, USA
    • Ulrich Hoppe,University Duisburg-Essen, Germany
    • Bahman Javadi,Western Sydney University, Australia
    • Theodore Johnson,at&t labs - research, USA
    • David Kaeli,Northeastern University, USA
    • Michal Kozielski,Silesian University of Technology, Poland
    • Konstantin Kuzmin,Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
    • Carson Leung,University of Manitoba, Canada
    • Gang Li,Deakin University, Australia
    • Cheng-Te Li,Academia Sinica, Taiwan
    • Weifeng Liu,China University of Petroleum, China
    • Xumin Liu,Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
    • Lin Liu,Tsinghua University, China
    • Hamid Mcheick,University of Quebec At Chicoutimi, Canada
    • Suzanne McIntosh,NYU Courant Institute, and Cloudera Inc., USA
    • Ningfang Mi,Northeastern University, USA
    • Mohamed Nadif,University Paris Descartes, France
    • Mirco Nanni,ISTI-CNR Pisa, Italy
    • Marco Netto,IBM Research, USA
    • Samia Oussena,University of West London, United Kingdom
    • Dana Petcu,West University of Timisoara, Romania
    • Helena Ramalhinho,Universitat Pompeu Fabra, USA
    • Zbigniew Ras,University of North Carolina, USA
    • Florin Rusu,University of California, Merced, USA
    • Nick Sahinidis,Carnegie Mellon University, USA
    • Christoph Schommer,University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
    • Man-Kwan Shan,National Chengchi University, Taiwan
    • Pierre Sutra,Telecom SudParis, France
    • Domenico Talia,University of Calabria, Italy
    • Abdullah Uz Tansel,Baruch College CUNY, USA
    • Theodoros Tzouramanis,University of the Aegean, Greece
    • Giorgio Valentini,Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy
    • Iraklis Varlamis,Harokopio University of Athens, Greece
    • Liqiang Wang,University of Wyoming, USA
    • Geng Yang,Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications, China
    • Chao-Tung Yang,Tunghai University, Taiwan
    • Qi Yu,Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
    • Bin ZhouUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
Organization

  • Committee

    • Honorary Chair
    • Jon RokneUniversity of Calgary, Canada
    • Program Chairs
    • Academic Track:
    • Mehmet Kaya, Firat University, Turkey
    • Mahmood Mousavi, University of Calgary, Canada
    • Industry Track:
    • Mohammad Moshirpour, University of Calgary, Canada
    • Tansel Ozyer, TOBB University, Turkey
    • Thesis Track:
    • Elham Akhond Zadeh Noughabi, University of Calgary, Canada
    • Communications Chair
    • Jalal Kawash, University of Calgary, Canada
    • Publicity Chair
    • Manmeet DhaliwalUniversity of Calgary, Canada
    • Registration Chairs
    • Yasaman AmannejadUniversity of Calgary, Canada
    • Tamer Jarada University of Calgary, Canada
    • Local Arrangement Chairs
    • Sepideh Afkhami GoliUniversity of Calgary, Canada
    • Salim AfraUniversity of Calgary, Canada
    • Raoufeh HashemianUniversity of Calgary, Canada
    • Web Chair
    • Tansel OzyerTOBB University, Turkey
    • Program Committee
    • Basem Alkazemi,Umm Al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia
    • Toshiyuki Amagasa,University of Tsukuba, Japan
    • Annalisa Appice,University Aldo Moro of Bari, Italy
    • Martin Atzmueller,University of Kassel, Germany
    • Antonio Badia,University of Louisville, USA
    • Tania Cerquitelli,Politecnico di Torino, Italy
    • Lijun Chang,University of New South Wales, Australia
    • Haopeng Chen,Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
    • Silvia Chiusano,Politecnico di Torino, Italy
    • Pietro Colombo,Universita dell'Insubria, Italy
    • Alfredo Cuzzocrea,ICAR-CNR and University of Calabria, Italy
    • Jerome Darmont,Universite de Lyon, France
    • Raj Das,University of Auckland, New Zeland
    • Pasquale De Meo,VU University, Italy
    • Luigi Di Caro,U. of Torino, Italy
    • Chen Ding,Ryerson University, Canada
    • Zhihui Du,Tsinghua University, China
    • Xiaoliang Fan,Lanzhou University, China
    • Simon Fong,University of Macau, China
    • Enrique Frias-Martinez,Telefonica Research, Spain
    • Paolo Garza,Politecnico di Torino, Italy
    • Manolis Gergatsoulis,Department of Archive and Library Sciences, Greece
    • Aris Gkoulalas-Divanis,IBM Watson Health, USA
    • Ulrich Hoppe,University Duisburg-Essen, Germany
    • Bahman Javadi,Western Sydney University, Australia
    • Theodore Johnson,at&t labs - research, USA
    • David Kaeli,Northeastern University, USA
    • Michal Kozielski,Silesian University of Technology, Poland
    • Konstantin Kuzmin,Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
    • Carson Leung,University of Manitoba, Canada
    • Gang Li,Deakin University, Australia
    • Cheng-Te Li,Academia Sinica, Taiwan
    • Weifeng Liu,China University of Petroleum, China
    • Xumin Liu,Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
    • Lin Liu,Tsinghua University, China
    • Hamid Mcheick,University of Quebec At Chicoutimi, Canada
    • Suzanne McIntosh,NYU Courant Institute, and Cloudera Inc., USA
    • Ningfang Mi,Northeastern University, USA
    • Mohamed Nadif,University Paris Descartes, France
    • Mirco Nanni,ISTI-CNR Pisa, Italy
    • Marco Netto,IBM Research, USA
    • Samia Oussena,University of West London, United Kingdom
    • Dana Petcu,West University of Timisoara, Romania
    • Helena Ramalhinho,Universitat Pompeu Fabra, USA
    • Zbigniew Ras,University of North Carolina, USA
    • Florin Rusu,University of California, Merced, USA
    • Nick Sahinidis,Carnegie Mellon University, USA
    • Christoph Schommer,University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
    • Man-Kwan Shan,National Chengchi University, Taiwan
    • Pierre Sutra,Telecom SudParis, France
    • Domenico Talia,University of Calabria, Italy
    • Abdullah Uz Tansel,Baruch College CUNY, USA
    • Theodoros Tzouramanis,University of the Aegean, Greece
    • Giorgio Valentini,Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy
    • Iraklis Varlamis,Harokopio University of Athens, Greece
    • Liqiang Wang,University of Wyoming, USA
    • Geng Yang,Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications, China
    • Chao-Tung Yang,Tunghai University, Taiwan
    • Qi Yu,Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
    • Bin ZhouUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA