VLDB'98 Organizing Committee

General Conference Chairs
Alexandros Biliris (AT&T Labs, USA)
Inderpal Singh Mumick (Savera Systems, USA)

Advisory Council
Stavros Christodoulakis (University of Crete, Greece)
Ron Sacks-Davis (CITRI)
David Dewitt (University of Wisconsin, USA)
Peter Lockemann (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
Sham Navathe (Georgia Tech, USA)

Research Program Chairs
Americas/Australia: Jennifer Widom (Stanford University, USA)
Africa/Asia/Europe: Oded Shmueli (Technion, Israel)

Industrial Program Chairs
Americas/Australia: Dennis Shasha (Courant Institute, USA)
Africa/Asia/Europe: Patrick Valduriez (INRIA, France)

Panel Program Chairs
Klaus Dittrich (Universitat Zurich, Switzerland)
Yannis Ioannidis (University of Athens, Greece)

Tutorial Program Chair
H.V. Jagadish (AT&T Labs, USA)

Exhibits Program Chairs
Nelson M. Mattos (IBM, USA)
Andy Witkowski (Oracle Corporation, USA)

Treasurer
Kenneth A. Ross (Columbia University, USA)

Local Arrangements
Priscilla Rasmussen - chair (ARCS LTD, USA)
Jason Wang - chair (NJIT, USA)
Alex Delis (Polytechnic University, USA)
Euthimios Panagos (AT&T Labs, USA)
Vibby Gottemukkala (IBM T. J. Watson, USA)

Proceedings Chair
Ashish Gupta (Junglee Corp., USA)

Publicity Chair
Tamer Ozsu (University of Alberta, USA)

Area Coordinators
Europe: Bernhard Mitschang (Technical University Muenchen, Germany)
Australia: David Kemp (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Asia: S. Sudarshan (IIT Mumbai, India)

Awards Committee
Jeffrey D. Ullman - chair (Stanford University, USA)
Francois Bancilhon (Ardent Software, France)
David Dewitt (University of Wisconsin, USA)

VLDB Endowment Liaison
Hector Garcia-Molina (Stanford University, USA)