Organisation
The ARTIST2 / UNU-IIST / China Spring School was initialized and organized jointly by the 
ARTIST2 Network of Excellence (European Commission’s IST programme), the International Institute for Software Technology of the United Nations University (
UNU-IIST, Macao), and North West Polytechnic University (
NWPU, China).
It was sponsored by the European Commission, NWPU, and UNU-IIST.
In China, it was supported by the following major research institutions:
-  Shanghai Embedded Systems Institute (SESI),
-  Chinese Academy of Sciences’ ISCAS laboratory,
-  China Computer Foundation (CCF) Technical Committee on Theorectical Computer Science (chairman: Prof. Huowang Chen; secretary, Prof. Jianping Yin).
 
Coordination Committee
-  Prof. LI Zhanhuai, deputy dean of Computer School, Northwest Polytechnic University (China)
-  Dr. LIU Xiaojian, Northwest Polytechnic University (China)
-  Dr. LIU Zhiming, UNU-IIST (Macao)
-  Prof. WANG Yi , Uppsala University (Sweden)
-  Bruno BOUYSSOUNOUSE, ARTIST2 Technical Coordinator, Verimag Laboratory (France)
Local Organisation
-  Local organisation was handled by: Liu Xiaojian at Northwestern Polytechnical University (China).