Wednesday Program
- 9:00 - 9:30
- Opening Ceremony (Convention Hall)
- 9:30 - 10:30
- Keynote: Tim Berners-Lee, World Wide Web Consortium (Convention Hall)
- 10:50 - 12:20
- Usage Analysis (Room 301)
- "Semantic Similarity Between Search Engine Queries Using Temporal Correlation"
- Steve Chien, Microsoft Research
- Nicole Immorlica, MIT
- "Duplicate Detection in Click Streams"
- Ahmed Metwally, UCSB, ValueClick, Inc.
- Divyakant Agrawal, UCSB
- Amr El Abbadi, UCSB
- "Improving Recommendation Lists Through Topic Diversification"
- Cai-Nicolas Ziegler, University of Freiburg, Germany
- Sean M. McNee, University of Minnesota, USA
- Joseph A. Konstan, University of Minnesota, USA
- Georg Lausen, University of Freiburg, Germany
- Wide-area Architectures and Protocols (Room 302)
- "GlobeDB: Autonomic Data Replication for Web Applications"
- Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, Department of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
- Gustavo Alonso, Department of Computer Science, Swiss Federal Inst. of Technology (ETH), Zurich
- Guillaume Pierre, Department of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
- Maarten van Steen, Department of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
- "Hierarchical Substring Caching for Efficient Content Distribution to Low-Bandwidth Clients"
- Utku Irmak, Polytechnic University
- Torsten Suel, Polytechnic University
- "Executing Incoherency Bounded Continuous Queries at Web Data Aggregators"
- Rajeev Gupta, IBM, India Research Lab
- Ashish Puri, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
- Krithi Ramamritham, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
- Data Extraction (Room 303)
- "Fully Automatic Wrapper Generation for Search Engines"
- Hongkun Zhao, State University of New York at Binghamton
- Weiyi Meng, State University of New York at Binghamton
- Zonghuan Wu, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
- Vijay Raghavan, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
- Clement Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago
- "Web Data Extraction Based on Partial Tree Alignment"
- Yanhong Zhai, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Bing Liu, University of Illinois at Chicago
- "Thresher: Automating the Unwrapping of Semantic Content from the World Wide Web"
- Andrew Hogue, Google, Inc., MIT CSAIL
- David Karger, MIT CSAIL
- Industrial and Practical Experience Track (Paper 1) (Room 304)
- "A personalized search engine based on web-snippet hierarchical clustering"
- P. Ferragina, Dipartimento di Informatica, Pisa
- Antonio Gull, Dipartimento di Informatica, Pisa
- "Ranking Definitions with Supervised Learning Methods"
- Jun Xu, Nankai University
- Yunbo Cao, Microsoft Research Asia
- Hang Li, Microsoft Research Asia
- Min Zhao, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- "Identifying link farm spam pages"
- Baoning Wu, Lehigh University
- Brian D. Davison, Lehigh University
- "The Volume and Evolution of Web Page Templates"
- David Gibson, IBM Almaden Research Center
- Kunal Punera, University of Texas at Austin
- Andrew Tomkins, IBM Almaden Research Center
- Panel: (Room 201)
- Title:
- "Can semantic web be made to flourish?"
- Moderator:
- David Wood, Software Memetics
- Panelists:
- Zavisa Bjelogrlic, Co-founder, @semantics
- Bernadette Hyland, Co-founder, Tucana Technologies
- Prof. Jim Hendler, Director, MIND Lab, University of Maryland
- Kanzaki Masahide, Consultant, Kanzaki.com
- W3C Track: Enabling the Mobile Web (International Conference Room)
- 13:30 - 14:30
- Keynote: Yuji Inoue, NTT (Convention Hall)
- 14:40 - 16:10
- Semantic Querying (Room 301)
- "Ranking a Stream of News"
- Gianna M. Del Corso, Dip. di Informatica, Pisa, Italy
- Antonio Gulli', Dip. di Informatica Pisa, Italy and IIT-CNR
- Francesco Romani, Dip. di Informatica, Pisa, Italy
- "Algorithmic Detection of Semantic Similarity"
- Ana Maguitman, Indiana University
- Filippo Menczer, Indiana University
- Heather Roinestad, Indiana University
- Alessandro Vespignani, Indiana University
- "SemRank: Ranking Complex Relationship Search Results on the Semantic Web"
- Kemafor Anyanwu, University of Georgia
- Angela Maduko, University of Georgia
- Amit Sheth, University of Georgia
- Web Services (Room 302)
- "A Service Creation Environment based on End to End Composition of Web Services"
- Vikas Agarwal, IBM India Research Lab
- Koustuv Dasgupta, IBM India Research Lab
- Neeran Karnik, IBM India Research Lab
- Arun Kumar, IBM India Research Lab
- Ashish Kundu, IBM India Research Lab
- Sumit Mittal, IBM India Research Lab
- Biplav Srivastava, IBM India Research Lab
- "Ensuring Required Failure Atomicity of Composite Web Services"
- Sami Bhiri, LORIA-INRIA France
- Olivier Perrin, LORIA-INRIA France
- Claude Godart, LORIA-INRIA France
- "Web Service Interfaces"
- Dirk Beyer, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Arindam Chakrabarti, University of California, Berkeley
- Thomas A. Henzinger, EPFL Lausanne, CH & UC Berkeley
- Web Application Design (Room 303)
- "Building Adaptable and Reusable XML Applications with Model Transformations"
- Ivan Kurtev, Software Engineering Group, University of Twente
- Klaas van den Berg, Software Engineering Group, University of Twente
- "Exception Handling in Workflow-Driven Web Applications"
- Marco Brambilla, Politecnico di Milano
- Stefano Ceri, Politecnico di Milano
- Sara Comai, Politecnico di Milano
- Christina Tziviskou, Politecnico di Milano
- "AwareDAV: A Generic WebDAV Notification Framework and Implementation"
- Henning Qin Jehøj, Department of Computer Science, Univ. of Aarhus
- Niels Olof Bouvin, Department of Computer Science, Univ. of Aarhus
- Kaj Grønbæk, Department of Computer Science, Univ. of Aarhus
- Industrial and Practical Experience Track (Invited 1) (Room 304)
- Panel: (Room 201)
- Title:
- "Current trends in the integration of search and browsing"
- Moderators:
- Andrei Z Broder, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
- Yoelle S. Maarek, IBM Research, Israel
- Panelists:
- Krishna Bharat, Principal Scientist, Google Inc.
- Susan Dumais, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research
- Steve Papa, Founder and CEO, Endeca
- Jan Pedersen, Chief Scientist, Yahoo Inc.
- Prabhakar Raghavan, Senior Vice President and CTO, Verity, Inc.
- W3C Track: Accessibility Aspects within Mobile Web and Other Developing Technologies (International Conference Room)
- 16:30 - 18:00
- Semantic Web (Room 301)
- "Learning Domain Ontologies for Web Service Descriptions: an Experiment in Bioinformatics"
- Marta Sabou, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Chris Wroe, University of Manchester
- Carole Goble, University of Manchester
- Gilad Mishne, University of Amsterdam
- "Making RDF Presentable --- Selection, Structure and Surfability for the Semantic Web"
- Lloyd Rutledge, CWI
- Jacco van Ossenbruggen, CWI
- Lynda Hardman, CWI
- Applications (Room 302)
- "Shared Lexicon for Distributed Annotations on the Web"
- Paolo Avesani, ITC-irst
- Marco Cova, ITC-irst
- "Using XForms to Simplify Web Programming"
- Richard Cardone, IBM Watson Research Center
- Danny Soroker, IBM Watson Research Center
- Alpana Tiwari, IBM Watson Research Center
- "Web-Assisted Annotation, Semantic Indexing and Search of Television and Radio News"
- Mike Dowman, University of Sheffield,
- Valentin Tablan, University of Sheffield
- Hamish Cunningham, University of Sheffield
- Borislav Popov, Ontotext Lab, Sirma AI EAD
- Indexing and Querying (Room 303)
- "Improving Web Search Performance Via a Locality Based Static Pruning Method"
- Edleno S. de Moura, Federal University of Amazonas
- Célia Francisca dos Santos, Federal University of Amazonas
- Daniel R. Fernandes, Federal University of Amazonas
- Altigran S. da Silva, Federal University of Amazonas
- Pável P. Calado, INESC
- Mário Nascimento, University of Alberta
- "Sampling Search-Engine Results"
- Aris Anagnostopoulos, Brown University
- Andrei Broder, IBM Watson Research Lab
- David Carmel, IBM Research Lab in Haifa
- "Three-Level Caching for Efficient Query Processing in Large Web Search Engines"
- Xiaohui Long, Polytechnic University
- Torsten Suel, Polytechnic University
- Industrial and Practical Experience Track (Invited 2) (Room 304)
- Panel: (Room 201)
- Title:
- "Do we need more web performance research?"
- Moderator:
- Michael Rabinovich, AT&T Labs - Research, USA
- Panelists:
- Giovanni Pacifici, IBM Watson Research Center, USA
- Michele Colajanni, University of Modena, Italy
- Krithi Ramamritham, IIT Bombay, India
- Bruce Maggs, CMU/Akamai, USA
- W3C Track: Foundations And Future Directions of Web Services (International Conference Room)
- 18:30 - 20:30
- Poster Reception (TBA)