Conference Programme
Keynote Invited Speakers Refereed Papers Workshops Tutorials W3C Track Panels Developer Track Satellite Meetings
The conference has had a record number of submitted proposals for workshops,
tutorials, research papers and invited speakers from academics and
industrialists throughout the world. The conference organisers have assembled
a rich and exciting programme that covers all the important topics for anyone
with an interest in the World Wide Web, whether they are the CEO of a major
corporation or a student studying for their PhD.
The conference programme has been specifically designed to allow people to
attend the full programme or to select specific theme days of interest. Each
day covers an important issue such as successful web businesses, the media,
science, education, security, health, and society. Please look at the
individual theme days listed on the left for details.
Lists of workshops, tutorials and invited speakers are available.
Below are various views of the expected structure of the conference
programme as a whole, more details will be added in the coming weeks
including a programme of sessions for web developers, the exhibition area,
a poster track and panels. Details of the selected research papers will
be made available. The selection process is complete and we are in the
process of allocating papers to session slots.
Exact scheduling is subject to change.
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Monday 22nd May | Tinto | Harris (a) | Harris (b) | Ochil (a) | Ochil (b+c) | Carrick (a) | Carrick (b) | Carrick (c) | NESC | NESC Committee | | 9:00-10:30 | JISC Repositories and Information Environment (details)
Continued after lunch. | 3rd W4A International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility (details)
Continued after lunch. | The 3rd IIWeb Interdisciplinary Workshop for Information Integration on the Web (details)
Continued after lunch. | Models of Trust for the Web (MTW) (details)
Continued after lunch. | Collaborative Web Tagging (details)
Continued after lunch. | 2nd Workshop on Innovations in Web Infrastructure (IWI2) (details)
Continued after lunch. | Semantic Web Annotations for Multimedia (SWAMM) (details)
Continued after lunch. | Evaluating Ontologies for the Web (EON2006) (details)
Continued after lunch. | BCSWomen and Women@CL Career Development Workshop 2006 (details)
Continued after lunch. | Reasoning on the Web (RoW06) (details)
Continued after lunch. | | Break | | | | | | | | | | | | 11:00-12:30 | | | | | | | | | | | | Lunch | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 14:00-15:30 | ...continued | ...continued | ...continued | ...continued | ...continued | ...continued | ...continued | ...continued | ...continued | ...continued | | Break | | | | | | | | | | | | 16:00-17:30 | | | | | | | | | | | | Track: | Satellite Meetings | Workshops | Satellite Meetings | Workshops |
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Friday. Tuesday 23rd May| 9:00-10:30 | Opening Ceremony. Plenary Session, The New EconomyFollowed by the Plenary Keynote Speaker: David Brown (Motorola) | | Pentland | Sidlaw | Fintry | Tinto | Moorfoot | Harris (a) | Harris (b) | Ochil (a) | Ochil (b+c) | Carrick (a) | Carrick (b) | Carrick (c) | NESC | Elsewhere | | Break | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 11:00-12:30 | Successful web based business - Web Sites | Impact of the Web on Advertising | Globalisation | Current Best Practices in Web Development and Design
World Organization of Webmasters Professional Development Activity joint with Developer track (details)
Continued after lunch. | Semantic Technology - A European Perspective Framework VII Funding Mr Horst Forster (European Commission) Prof Wolfgang Wahlster (DFKI) Prof Dieter Fensel (DERI) Prof Fausto Giunchiglia (University of Trento) Prof Frank Van Harmelen (Free University of Amsterdam) | IntraWebs 2006 (details)
Continued after lunch. | Logging Traces of Web Activity: The Mechanics of Data Collection (details)
Continued after lunch. | Open Source Software - A Collaboration Platform for Web (details)
Continued after lunch. | Third Annual Workshop on the Weblogging Ecosystem (details)
Continued after lunch. | MobEA IV - Empowering the Mobile Web (details)
Continued after lunch. | IPTV services over World Wide Web (details)
Continued after lunch. | The E-Government: Barriers and Opportunities (details)
Continued after lunch. | Identity, Reference and the Web (details)
Continued after lunch. | Current Best Practices in Web Development and Design
World Organization of Webmasters Professional Development Activity joint with Tutorials' track (details)
Continued after lunch. | | Lunch | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 14:00-15:30 | Impact of the Web on Publishing | Successful web based business - Intermediaries | Impact of the Web on Media & Entertainment
Chair: Simon Perry Digital-Lifestyles.info, UK | ...continued | 3rd W4A International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility (Developers and Practice followup) (details) | ...continued | ...continued | ...continued | ...continued | ...continued | ...continued | ...continued | ...continued | ...continued | | Break | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 16:00-17:30 | New business models - adapting traditional business, creating a new business - Panel Eberhard Dollinger (Webpay International) Danny Robinson (Peerflix) Daniel Waterhouse (3i) | Impact of the Web on Media & Entertainment
Chair: Simon Perry Digital-Lifestyles.info, UKPaul Jessop (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Track: | Invited Speakers | Tutorials | Workshops | Developer Track |
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Friday. Wednesday 24th May| 9:00-10:30 | Technical Conference Opening. The Next Wave of the Web: Plenary PanelIntroduction by: Charles Hughes (BCS), John White (ACM), Conference Programme Committee Chairs | | Pentland | Sidlaw | Fintry | Tinto | Moorfoot | Kilsyth | Harris | Ochil (a) | Ochil (b) | Ochil (c) | Carrick | | Break | | | | | | | | | | | | | 11:00-12:30 | Impact of the Web on Networks
Chair: John Darlington, University of Southampton, UK | Opportunities for the Semantic Web - Business Applications | | Ontologies
Chair: Paolo Bouquet, University of Trento, Italy | Adaptivity & Mobility
Chair: Eric Brewer, Intel Research Berkeley, USA | Fighting Search Spam
Chair: Ziv Bar-Yossef, Technion, Israel | Mobile Web Opportunities
Chair: Dominique Hazaël-Massieux (W3C) | Introduction to Semantic Web (details) | Scalable architectures and services for ubiquitous web access (details) | Foundations and challenges of web advertising (details) | Next Wave (Business)
Chair: Rohit Khare, CommerceNet | | Lunch | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 14:00-15:30 | Impact of the Web on Devices and interfaces | Opportunities for the Semantic Web - Research & Development | | XML
Chair: Monika Solanki, De Montfort University, UK | Developing Regions & Peer-to-Peer
Chair: Kentaro Toyama, Microsoft Research India, IndiaSee also extra session (next) currently timetabled in Tutorial slot | Browsers
Chair: Krishna Bharat, Google Inc., USA | Rich Web Applications
Chair: Dean Jackson (W3C) | Languages for Developing Multimodal Applications (details) | Introduction to Video Search Engines (details) | | Next Wave (2)
Chair: Danny Ayers, Independent DeveloperThese presentations may swap with those from Next Wave (3) | | Break | | | | | | | | | | | | | 16:00-17:30 | Opportunities for the Semantic Web - Business Applications
Chair: John Darlington, University of Southampton, UK | Analyst and Investment Community viewpoint | Opportunities for the Mobile/Pervasive Web - Panel | E-Communities
Chair: Bertram Ludaescher, University of California, Davis, USA | User Interfaces: Semantic Tagging
Chair: Yoelle Maarek, IBM Research, Haifa, Israel | Mining the Web
Chair: Dmitri Pavlov, Yahoo Research, USA | Accessibility 2.0
Chair: Shawn Henry (W3C) | | | Developing Regions 2
Chair: Eric Brewer, Intel Research Berkeley, USA | Next Wave (3)
Chair: Danny Ayers, Independent DeveloperThese presentations may swap with those from Next Wave (2) | | Track: | Invited Speakers | Refereed Papers | W3C Track | Tutorials | Refereed Papers | Developer Track |
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Friday. Thursday 25th May| 9:00-10:30 | Solving Global Problems with Global Resources: Plenary KeynoteTony Hey (Snr Vice President, Microsoft) | | Pentland | Sidlaw | Fintry | Tinto | Moorfoot | Kilsyth | Harris | Ochil (a) | Ochil (b) | Carrick | NESC | | Break | | | | | | | | | | | | | 11:00-12:30 | Education and information | Security | Meaning on the Web: Evolution or Intelligent Design? | Industrial Practice & Experience
Chair: Marc Najork, Microsoft Research, USA | Correctness & Security
Chair: Harry Halpin, University of Edinburgh, UK | Search Engine Engineering
Chair: David Lowe, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia | The Web Everywhere
Chair: Max Froumentin (W3C) | Internet Crime (details) | Secure Authentication (details) | Developer Tutorial: Microformats developer tutorial, Molly E Holzschlag (details) | | | Lunch | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 14:00-15:30 | Global Science
Chair: Dave DeRoure, University of Southampton, UK | Security | Identity Management on Converged Networks: A Reality Check | E-Learning & Scientific Applications
Chair: Wolfgana Nejdl, L3S and University of Hannover, Germany | High Availability & Performance
Chair: Mustaque Ahamad, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA | Web Mining with Search Engines
Chair: Susan Dumais, Microsoft Research, USA | Web Services: Towards the Next Steps
Chair: Hugo Haas (W3C) | Web Services and Service Oriented Architecture: Futures (details) | Web-Based Systems for Distance Education and e-Learning (details) | Semantic Web (1)
Chair: Jim Hendler, MINDSWAPThese presentations may swap with those from Semantic Web (2) | | | Break | | | | | | | | | | | | | 16:00-17:30 | Global Science
Chair: Dave DeRoure, University of Southampton, UK | Security - Panel | Global Science | Social Networks
Chair: Carole Goble, University of Manchester, UK | Web Engineering: Validation
Chair: Martin Gaedke, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany | New Search Paradigms
Chair: Ravi Kumar, Yahoo!, Inc., USA | Newest XML Tools: Queries, Transformations
Chair: Liam Quin (W3C) | | | Semantic Web (2)
Chair: Jim Hendler, MINDSWAPThese presentations may swap with those from Semantic Web (2) | XML
Chair: Liam Quin, W3CJoint with W3C session | | Track: | Invited Speakers | Refereed Papers | W3C Track | Tutorials | Developer Track |
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Friday. Friday 26th May| 9:00-10:30 | The Impact of the Web on Health and Society: Plenary Keynotes | | Pentland | Sidlaw | Fintry | Tinto | Moorfoot | Kilsyth | Harris | Ochil (a) | Ochil (b) | Carrick (a) | Carrick (b) | | Break | | | | | | | | | | | | | 11:00-12:30 | Web based Support for Healthcare Professionals
Chair: Charles Docherty, Glasgow Caledonian UniversityJohn Loonsk (Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology in Health and Human Services) | Impact of the Web on Society | Web based Support for Healthcare Professionals | Semantic Web: Ontology Constuction
Chair: Peter Patel-Schneider, Bell Labs Research, USA | Security, Privacy & Ethics
Chair: Ari Juels, RSA Laboratories, USA | Data Mining
Chair: Mehran Sahami, Google Inc., USA | Advancements in Semantic Web
Chair: Eric Miller (W3C) | Semantic Web Rules with Ontologies, and their E-Services Applications (details) | Internationalizing XHTML, HTML and CSS Web Content (details) | Developer tutorial: XForms for Web Applications Steve Pemberton (details) | | | Lunch | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 14:00-15:30 | Health - Patients and the Web
Chair: Charles Docherty, Glasgow Caledonian University | Impact of the Web on Intellectual Property | Phoiling Phishing | Semi-structured Semantic Data
Chair: Sean Bechhofer, University of Manchester, UK | Performance, Reliability & Scalability
Chair: Craig Wills, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA | Data Mining Classification
Chair: Soumen Chakrabati, IIT Bombay, India | Style and Layout: Key Successes to Create Interoperable Web Pages
Chair: Bert Bos (W3C) | Semantic Web 2.0: Creating Social Semantic Information Spaces (details) | Semantics for Health/Life Science (details) | Late Breaking News (rescheduled from 16:00)
Chair: Mark Baker, Coactus | Mobile
Chair: James Pearce, Argogroup, USA | | Break | | | | | | | | | | | | | 16:00-17:30 | Health - Quality Health Information on the Web
Chair: Charles Docherty, Glasgow Caledonian University | Impact of the Web on Society | | E-Commerce & E-Government
Chair: Mark Manasse, Microsoft Research, USA | XML & Web Services
Chair: Massimo Mecella, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy | Improved Search Ranking
Chair: Nick Craswell, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK | Challenges in Web Security
Chair: Thomas Roessler (W3C) | | | Security (rescheduled from 14:00)
Chair: Philip Hallam-Baker, Verisign, USA | | | 17:30-18:00 | Closing Plenary & Handover to WWW2007 Committee | | Track: | Invited Speakers | Panels | Refereed Papers | W3C Track | Tutorials | Developer Track |
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