WWW2008 Awards

Best Paper Award Winner

IRLbot: Scaling to 6 Billion Pages and Beyond

Authors:
Hsin-Tsang Lee, Derek Leonard, Xiaoming Wang, and Dmitri Loguinov, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University

Best Student Paper Award Winner

Service-Oriented Data Denormalization for Scalable Web Applications

Authors:
Zhou Wei, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Jiang Dejun, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Guillaume Pierre, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Chi-Hung Chi, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Maarten van Steen, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Nominees for Best Paper Award:

• IRLbot: Scaling to 6 Billion Pages and Beyond
  Hsin-Tsang Lee, Derek Leonard, Xiaoming Wang, and Dmitri Loguinov, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University
• Structured Objects in OWL: Representation and Reasoning
  Boris Motik, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
  Bernardo Cuenca Grau, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
  Ulrike Sattler, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
• Learning Deterministic Regular Expressions for the Inference of Schemas from XML Data
  Geert Jan Bex, Wouter Gelade, Frank Neven, Stijn Vansummeren, Hasselt University/Transnational University of Limburg, Belgium

Nominees for Best Student Paper Award:

• Service-Oriented Data Denormalization for Scalable Web Applications
  Zhou Wei, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
  Jiang Dejun, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
  Guillaume Pierre, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  Chi-Hung Chi, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
  Maarten van Steen, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Automatically Refining the Wikipedia Infobox Ontology
  Fei Wu, Daniel S. Weld, Computer Science & Engineering Department, University of Washington, Seattle
• Investigating Web Services on the World Wide Web
  Eyhab Al-Masri and Qusay H. Mahmoud, Department of Computing and Information Science, University of Guelph, Canada