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Thursday Program

Tutorials/Workshops Main Conference Developers' Day
Tuesday May 10 Wednesday May 11 Thursday May 12 Friday May 13 Saturday May 14
9:00 - 10:00
Keynote: Eric Brewer, University of California at Berkeley (Convention Hall)
Title:
"The Case for Technology for Developing Regions"
Session Chair:
Prabhakar Raghavan, Verity, Inc.
10:00 - 10:30
Break
10:30 - 12:00
[PT10] XML Query and Programming Languages (Room 301)
Session Chair:
Jim Webber, University of Sydney
  • "Sub-document queries over XML with XSQuirrel"
    • Arnaud Sahuguet, Bell Labs research
    • Bogdan Alexe, Ecole Polytechnique + ENST
  • "XJ : Facilitating XML Processing in Java"
    • Matthew Harren, University of California, Berkeley
    • Mukund Raghavachari, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
    • Oded Shmueli, Technion Israel Institute of Technology
    • Michael Burke, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
    • Rajesh Bordawekar, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
    • Igor Pechtchanski, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
    • Vivek Sarkar, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
  • "XQuery Containment in Presence of Variable Binding Dependencies"
    • Li Chen, San Diego Supercomputer Center
    • Elke Rundensteiner, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
[PT11] Web-based Educational Applications (Room 302)
Session Chair:
Lora Aroyo, Eindhoven University of Technology
  • "eBag - a Ubiquitous Web Infrastructure for Nomadic Learning"
    • Christina Brodersen, Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus
    • Bent Guldbjerg Christensen, Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus
    • Kaj Grønbæk, Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus
    • Christian Dindler, Department of Information- and Media Sciences, University of Aarhus
  • "Online Curriculum on the Semantic Web: The CSD-UoC Portal for Peer-to-Peer e-learning"
    • Sofia Pediaditaki, Department of Computer Science, University of Crete
    • Apostolos Apostolidis, Department of Computer Science, University of Crete
    • Dimitris Kotzinos, Department of Computer Science, University of Crete
  • "The Classroom Sentinel: Supporting Data-Driven Decision Making in the Classroom"
    • Mark K. Singley, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
    • Richard B. Lam, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
[PT12] Text Analysis and Extraction (Room 303)
Session Chair:
Filippo Menczer, University of Indiana
  • "Topic Segmentation of Message Hierarchies for Indexing and Navigation Support"
    • Jong Wook Kim, Arizona State University
    • K. Selcuk Candan, Arizona State University
    • Mehmet E. Donderler, Arizona State University
  • "Gimme' The Context: Context-driven automatic semantic annotation with C-PANKOW"
    • Philipp Cimiano, Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe
    • Günter Ladwig, Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe
    • Steffen Staab, Institute for Computer Science, University of Knoblenz-Landau
  • "Opinion Observer: Analyzing and Comparing Opinions on the Web"
    • Bing Liu, University of Illinois at Chicago
    • Minqing Hu, University of Illinois at Chicago
    • Junsheng Cheng, University of Illinois at Chicago
[IT04] Industrial and Practical Experience Track (Paper 2) (Room 304)
Session Chair:
Yuichi Nakamura, IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory
  • "The Infocious Web Search Engine: Improving Web Searching through Linguistic Analysis"
    • Alexandros Ntoulas, Infocious Inc.
    • Gerald Chao, Infocious Inc.
    • Junghoo Cho, University of California, Los Angeles
  • "How to make Web sites talk together - Web Service Gateway Solution"
    • Hoang Pham Huy, Hanoi University of Technology
    • Takahiro Kawamura, Toshiba R&D Center
    • Tetsuo Hasegawa, Toshiba R&D Center
  • "Diversified SCM Standard for the Japanese Retail Industry"
    • Koichi Hayashi, UL Systems, Inc.
    • Naoki Koguro, UL Systems, Inc.
    • Reki Murakami, UL Systems, Inc.
  • "Crawling a Country: Better Strategies than Breadth-First for Web Page Ordering"
    • Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Universidad de Chile
    • Carlos Castillo, Universidad de Chile
    • Mauricio Marin, Universidad de Magallanes
    • Andrea Rodriguez, Universidad de ConcepciÓn
[PANEL04] Panel (Room 201)
Title:
"Mobile Multimedia Services"
Moderator:
Behzad Shahraray, AT&T Labs - Research, USA
Panelists:
Wei-Ying Ma, Microsoft Research, China
Avideh Zakhor, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Noboru Babaguchi, Osaka University, Japan
[W3C04] W3C Track: Privacy and the Semantic Web (International Conference Room)
Session Chairs:
Giles Hogben, Joint Research Center of the European Commission
Thomas Roessler, W3C Technology and Society Team
12:00 - 13:30
Lunch (Exhibition Hall 8)
13:30 - 14:30
Keynote: Lorrie Cranor, Carnegie Mellon University (Convention Hall)
Title:
"Towards Usable Web Privacy and Security"
Session Chair:
Fred Douglis, IBM Research
14:40 - 16:10
[PT13] Web Engineering with Semantic Annotation (Room 301)
Session Chair:
Piero Fraternali, Politecnico di Milano
  • "Accessibility: A Web Engineering Approach"
    • Peter Plessers, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
    • Sven Casteleyn, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
    • Yeliz Yesilada, School of Computer Science
    • Olga De Troyer, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
    • Robert Stevens, School of Computer Science
    • Simon Harper, School of Computer Science
    • Carole Goble, School of Computer Science
  • "A Multilingual Usage Consultation Tool based on Internet Searching ---More than search engine, Less than QA---"
    • Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii, University of Tokyo
    • Hiroshi Nakagawa, University of Tokyo
  • "Improving Portlet aggregation through deep annotation"
    • Oscar Díaz, Department of Computer Languages and Systems, University of the Basque Country, Spain
    • Jon Iturrioz, Department of Computer Languages and Systems, University of the Basque Country, Spain
    • Arantza Irastorza, Department of Computer Languages and Systems, University of the Basque Country, Spain
[PT14] User-focused Search and Crawling (Room 302)
Session Chair:
Brian Davison, Lehigh
  • "CubeSVD: A Novel Approach to Personalized Web Search"
    • Jian-Tao Sun, Department of Computer Science, TsingHua University.
    • Hua-Jun Zeng, Microsoft Research Asia
    • Huan Liu, Department of Computer Science Engineering, Arizona State University
    • Yu-Chang Lu, Department of Computer Science, TsingHua University
    • Zheng Chen, Microsoft Research Asia
  • "Automatic Identification of User Goals in Web Search"
    • Uichin Lee, Computer Science Department, UCLA
    • Zhenyu Liu, Computer Science Department, UCLA
    • Junghoo Cho, Computer Science Department, UCLA
  • "User-Centric Web Crawling"
    • Sandeep Pandey, CMU
    • Christopher Olston, CMU
[PT15] Trustworthy web sites (Room 303)
Session Chair:
Oliver Spatscheck, AT&T Labs-Research
  • "An Abuse-Free Fair Contract Signing Protocol Based on the RSA Signature"
    • Guilin Wang, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
  • "SGuard: Countering Vulnerabilities in Reputation Management for Decentralized Overlay Networks"
    • Mudhakar Srivatsa, College of Computing, Georgia Tech
    • Li Xiong, College of Computing, Georgia Tech
    • Ling Liu, College of Computing, Georgia Tech
  • "Static Approximation of Dynamically Generated Web Pages"
    • Yasuhiko Minamide, University of Tsukuba
[PANEL05] Panel (Room 201)
Title:
"On culture in a world-wide information society: Toward the knowledge society - the challenge"
Moderator:
Alfredo M. Ronchi, Politecnico di Milano, Milano Italy
Panelists:
Lynn Thiesmeyer, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
Antonella Quacchia, International Labor Office, Geneve, Swiss
Georges Mihajes, Oslo Platform, Oslo, Norway
Katsuhiro Onoda, Foundation for Computer & Communication Promotion, Japan
Ranjit Makkuni, Sacred World Foundation - New Delhi - India
[W3C05] W3C Track: Recent Work in the Semantic Web Activity: Query and Best Practices (International Conference Room)
Session Chair:
Guus Schreiber, W3C Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group co-chair (Vrije Universiteit)
14:40 - 17:00
[IT05] Industrial and Practical Experience Track Panel (Room 304)
Title:
"How Search Engines Shape the Web"
Moderator:
Byron Dom, Yahoo!
Panelists:
Krishna Bharat, Google
Andrei Broder, IBM
Jan Pedersen, Yahoo!
Yoshinobu Tonomura, NTT
Marc Najork, Microsoft
16:10 - 16:30
Break
16:30 - 18:00
[PT16] Semantic Search (Room 301)
Session Chair:
Junghoo (john) Cho, University of California, Los Angeles
  • "A Search Engine for Large-Corpus Language Applications"
    • Michael J. Cafarella, University of Washington
    • Oren Etzioni, University of Washington
  • "An Enhanced Model for Searching in Semantic Portals"
    • Lei Zhang, Shanghai JiaoTong University
    • Yong Yu, Shanghai JiaoTong University
    • Jian Zhou, Shanghai JiaoTong University
    • ChenXi Lin, Shanghai JiaoTong University
    • David Y. Yang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
  • "Disambiguating Web Appearances of People in a Social Network"
    • Ron Bekkerman, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts
    • Andrew McCallum, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts
[PT17] Security Through the Eyes of Users (Room 302)
Session Chair:
Mark Manasse, Microsoft Research
  • "A Convenient Method for Securely Managing Passwords"
    • J. Alex Halderman, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University
    • Brent Waters, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University
    • Edward W. Felten, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University
  • "Improving Understanding of Website Privacy Policies with Fine-Grained Policy Anchors"
    • Stephen E. Levy, Watson Research Center, IBM
    • Carl Gutwin, Computer Science Department, University of Saskatchewan
  • "Hardening Web Browsers Against Man-in-the-Middle and Eavesdropping Attacks"
    • Haidong Xia, University of Pittsburgh
    • José Carlos Brustoloni, University of Pittsburgh
[PT18] Measurements and analysis (Room 303)
Session Chair:
Prashant Shenoy, University of Massachusetts
  • "ATMEN: A Triggered Network Measurement Infrastructure"
    • Balachander Krishnamurthy, AT&T Labs-Research
    • Harsha V. Madhyastha, University of Washington
    • Oliver Spatscheck, AT&T Labs-Research
  • "On the lack of typical behavior in the global Web traffic network"
    • Mark Meiss, Indiana University
    • Filippo Menczer, Indiana University
    • Alessandro Vespignani, Indiana University
  • "Analysis of Multimedia Workloads with Implications for Internet Streaming"
    • Lei Guo, Department of Computer Science, College of William and Mary
    • Songqing Chen, Department of Computer Science, George Mason University
    • Zhen Xiao, AT&T Labs-Research
    • Xiaodong Zhang, Department of Computer Science, College of William and Mary
[PANEL06] Panel (Room 201)
Title:
"Exploiting the dynamic networking effects of the web"
Moderator:
Ramesh Sarukkai, Yahoo, USA
Panelists:
Prof. Soumen Chakrabarthi, Professor, IIT Bombay
Dr. Gary William Flake, Head of Research Labs, Yahoo!
Dr. Narayanan Shivakumar, Director of Ad Systems, Google
Prof. Asim M. Ansari, Professor, Columbia Business School
[W3C06] W3C Track: Web Internationalization Developments (International Conference Room)
Session Chair:
Richard Ishida, W3C Internationalization Activity Lead
18:30 - 20:30
Conference Dinner (Hotel New Otani, Tsuru)