1. Best paper awards:

This conference awards papers in the following categories:
a) In the VIP Forum, for the best contents, for the best presentation,
    for the most applicative research, and for the most controversial work.
b) In the Industrial Forum, for the best presentation.
c) In the Talented Students Forum, one award per school.


2. List of participants:

Name	Country	Affiliation
Avi Teperman	Israel	IBM Labs, Haifa University, Mount Carmel, Haifa
Bijan Davari	USA	IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, NY
Dianne Wright	USA	Florida Atlantic University, College of Education
Domenico Potena	Italy	Universit` a Politecnica delle Marche
Felipe Lara	Mexico	Center of Applied Sciences and Technological Development, National University of Mexico  (UNAM)
Fred B Holt	USA	Panthesis, Inc., Bellevue, WA
Gatautis	lith	Economics and Management Faculty, Kaunas University of Technology
George Philippatos	USA	University of Tennessee
Goh Han Leong	Singapore	Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore
Gus Uht	USA	Microarchitecture Research Institute, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Rhode Island
Hiten Vyas	UK	Loughborough University
Hui-Chao Lin	Taiwan	Ta-Hwa Institute of Technology
Javier Soriano	Spain	Facultad de Informática. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Jaykumar S. Kandhasamy	Singapore	Nanyang Technological University, School of Mechanical & Production Engineering
Jean J. Saade	Lebanon	ECE Department, FEA, American University of Beirut
Jim Lyle	USA	National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg
John Hiller	Australia	University of Sydney, Sydney
Jose Ferreira	Ireland	University of Dublin, Department of Computer Science
Joseph E. Finck	USA	N/A
Julie A. McCann	UK	Department of Computing, Imperial College, London
Kazumasa Goda	Japan
Lars Jakobsson	Sweden	Department of Information Systems, Karlstad University
Leslie Pang	USA	National Defense University, Information Resources Management, College, Washington, DC
Masato OGUCHI	Japan	Department of Information Sciences, Ochanomizu University
Maureen Pastine	USA	Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia
Mirko Novak	Czech	Department of Control Engineering and Telematics, Faculty of Transportation Sciences, Czech Technical University, Prague
Mislav Omazic	Croatia	Graduate School of Economics and Business – Zagreb
Moutinho	Portugal	Center for Innovation, Technology and Policy Research, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Technical University of Lisbon
Peter Kristoffersson	UK	Department of Computing, Imperial College, London
Ramune Ciarniene	lith	Kaunas University of Technology
Rendy Munadi	Indonesia	Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of Indonesia
Roger Clark	USA	University of Tennessee
Ron Summers	UK	Loughborough University
Ruben van Wendel de Joode	Holland	Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft, University of Technology
Sal Yazbeck	USA	Barry University
Sami Al-Hamdan	Jordan	Computer Eng. Dept, Yarmouk University
Sar Sardy	Indonesia	Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of Indonesia
Sebastian Foti	USA	University of Florida Alliance, Gainesville, Florida
Seppo Sirkemaa	Finland	Turku School of Economics and Business Administration, Pori Unit, Pori
Terje Gjengedal	Norway	Statkraft
Timothy Asiedu	Ghana	N/A (IEEE member)
Vlad Sorokine	USA	QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego
Yuji Naka	Japan	Tokyo Institute of Technology, Chemical Resources Laboratory