Local Organizers
Disaster Management Society of Taiwan
Graduate Institute of Building and Planning, National Taiwan University
National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction

Conference Organizers
Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, USA
Institute of Social Safety Science, Japan

Sponsors
National Science Council, Taiwan, ROC
National Disasters Prevention and Protection Commission, Taiwan, ROC

International Advisors
Haruo Hayashi (Japan)
Chao-Han Liu (Taiwan)
Saburoh Midorikawa (Japan)
Ching-Yen Tsay (Taiwan)
Susan K. Tubbesing (USA)
Chin-Lien Yen (Taiwan)

Conference Committee
Thalia Anagnos (USA)
Meei-Ling Lin (Taiwan)
Chin-Hsiung Loh (Taiwan)
Shigeo Tatsuki (Japan)

Technical Program Committee
Stephanie Chang (Canada)
Wen-Long Chen (Taiwan)
Shen-Wen Chien (Taiwan)
James Goltz (USA)
Ming-Hsi Hsu (Taiwan)
Laurie Johnson (USA)
Shunichi Koshimura (Japan)
Chi-Chang Lin (Taiwan)
Norio Maki (Japan)
Dai-Gee Shaw (Taiwan)
Chin-Hong Sun (Taiwan)
Satoshi Tanaka (Japan)
Jough-Tai Wang (Taiwan)

Local Organization Committee
Chair: Liang-Chun Chen
Co-chair: Keh-Chyuan Tsai
Secretary General: Hsin-Ya Ho
Secretaries: Yung-Ming Chen, Bing-Ru Wu, Wei-Sen Li, Jin-Cheng Fu, Kuo-Hsiang Chou, Chiun-lin Wu, Sophia Y. L. Lee