Message from the program committee chairs

On behalf of the Program Committee of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IEEE IRI-2005), it is an honor to welcome you to IRI 2005 in Las Vegas, Nevada. It has been our pleasure as Program Committee Co-Chairs to help organize this year\´s impressive scientific and technical program and the technical proceedings. The proceedings contain the papers selected for presentation at IRI-2005. We hope these proceedings will serve as a valuable reference for the research community. This year\´s conference theme is "Knowledge Acquisition and Management." We received an overwhelming 168 submissions from 28 countries. We are very pleased with this level of international participation, and we hope the trend continues to grow. From these 168 submissions the program committee selected 100 papers to be presented at the conference. Each of them was reviewed by two or more referees. The authors were asked to address each and every comment made by the referees for improving the quality of their papers. We have organized a scientific and educational program, coupled with what we hope will be some entertaining social events, during which new collaborations will be made, old ones renewed, and current ones strengthened.