Events and Activities (Colour Key)

W3C AC Meeting (W3C AC)
W4A Conference (W4A)
World Organization of Webmasters (WoW)
Tutorials
Workshops
Keynote
Refereed Papers
Panels
Posters
Developers Track
W3C Track
WWW in China Track
Industrial Track
Sponsor Exhibition
BOFs
Miscellaneous

Note: Room allocation is in tentative status and is subjected to change according to the capacity requirement of the respective session.


Sunday, April 20, 2008: Pre-conference W3C AC Meeting

Room Hall 2A Hall 2B
Location (BICC) Level 2 Level 2
8:30am to 10:00am    
break    
10:30am to 12 noon    
lunch break    
1:30pm to 3:00pm  
W3C AC
Orientation for new members
break    
3:30pm to 5:00pm  
W3C AC
(cont'd)
Evening
W3C AC Reception
6:30pm to 9:30pm
 

Monday, April 21, 2008: Pre-conference W3C AC Meeting, W4A And Tutorials

Room 201C 302 201A 305A 301 201B 311A 303 305B 305C Hall 2AB
Location (BICC) Level 2 Level 3 Level 2 Level 3 Level 3 Level 2 Level 3 Level 3 Level 3 Level 3 Level 2
8:30am to 10:00am
TF1 - Tools for large networks: Structure and diffusion
details
TF2 - Web Engineering: Creating Solutions in the Age of Emotion, SOA, and Web 2.0
details
TF3 - An Introduction to Web Mining
details
TA1 - User Experience
details
TA2 - Introduction to the Semantic Web (through an example...)
details
TA3 - Learning to rank for information retrieval
details
TA4 - Electronic Contracts
details
TA5 - Interactive Television and the Web
details
TA6 - Opinion Mining and Summarization on the Web
details
W4A
W3C AC
details
break                      
10:30am to 12 noon
TF1 - Tools for large networks: Structure and diffusion
(cont'd)
TF2 - Web Engineering: Creating Solutions in the Age of Emotion, SOA, and Web 2.0
(cont'd)
TF3 - An Introduction to Web Mining
(cont'd)
TA1 - User Experience
(cont'd)
TA2 - Introduction to the Semantic Web (through an example...)
(cont'd)
TA3 - Learning to rank for information retrieval
(cont'd)
TA4 - Electronic Contracts
(cont'd)
TA5 - Interactive Television and the Web
(cont'd)
TA6 - Opinion Mining and Summarization on the Web
(cont'd)
W4A
(cont'd)
W3C AC
(cont'd)
lunch break                      
1:30pm to 3:00pm
TF1 - Tools for large networks: Structure and diffusion
(cont'd)
TF2 - Web Engineering: Creating Solutions in the Age of Emotion, SOA, and Web 2.0
(cont'd)
TF3 - An Introduction to Web Mining
(cont'd)
TP1 - Adaptive systems for E-learning
details
TP2 - RDFa: Extensible Structured Data in HTML
details
TP3 - Interlinking Online Communities and Enriching Social Software with the Semantic Web
details
TP6 - Producing XML that works internationally
details
TP5 - A Semantic Multimedia Web: Create, Annotate, Present and Share your Media
details
TP4 - Online advertising: business models, technologies and issues
details
W4A
(cont'd)
W3C AC
(cont'd)
break                      
3:30pm to 5:00pm
TF1 - Tools for large networks: Structure and diffusion
(cont'd)
TF2 - Web Engineering: Creating Solutions in the Age of Emotion, SOA, and Web 2.0
cont'd)
TF3 - An Introduction to Web Mining
(cont'd)
TP1 - Adaptive systems for E-learning
(cont'd)
TP2 - RDFa: Extensible Structured Data in HTML
(cont'd)
TP3 - Interlinking Online Communities and Enriching Social Software with the Semantic Web
(cont'd)
TP6 - Producing XML that works internationally
(cont'd)
TP5 - A Semantic Multimedia Web: Create, Annotate, Present and Share your Media
(cont'd)
TP4 - Online advertising: business models, technologies and issues
(cont'd)
W4A
(cont'd)
W3C AC
(cont'd)
Evening                  
W4A Banquet
Li Jiang Hall
W3C AC Dinner
details

Tuesday, April 22, 2008: Pre-conference W3C AC Meeting, W4A, WoW, Workshops

Room 201B 302 303 201A 301 201C 311A 305A 311B Hall 2C 305C 305B Hall 2AB
Location (BICC) Level 2 Level 3 Level 3 Level 2 Level 3 Level 2 Level 3 Level 3 Level 3 Level 2 Level 3 Level 3 Level 2
8:30am to 10:00am
WS1 - Web Science Workshop (WSW2008)
details
WS2 - Location and the Web (LocWeb) 2008
details
WS3 - International Workshop on Context Enabled Source and Service Selection, Integration and Adaptation (CSSSIA 2008)
details
WS4 - Linked Data on the Web (LDW2008)
details
WS5 - Fourth International Workshop on Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web (AIRWeb 2008)
details
WS6 - Targeting and Ranking for Online Advertising
details
WS7 - MobEA VI: Personal Rich Social Media
details
WS8 - Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Sciences
details
WS9A - International Workshop on Question Answering on the Web (QAWeb2008)
details
WS10A - Workshop on Social Web and Knowledge Management (SWKM2008)
details
W4A
details
WoW
details
W3C AC
details
break                          
10:30am to 12 noon
WS1 - Web Science Workshop (WSW2008)
(cont'd)
WS2 - Location and the Web (LocWeb) 2008
(cont'd)
WS3 - International Workshop on Context Enabled Source and Service Selection, Integration and Adaptation (CSSSIA 2008)
(cont'd)
WS4 - Linked Data on the Web (LDW2008)
(cont'd)
WS5 - Fourth International Workshop on Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web (AIRWeb 2008)
(cont'd)
WS6 - Targeting and Ranking for Online Advertising
(cont'd)
WS7 - MobEA VI: Personal Rich Social Media
(cont'd)
WS8 - Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Sciences
(cont'd)
WS9A - International Workshop on Question Answering on the Web (QAWeb2008)
(cont'd)
WS10A - Workshop on Social Web and Knowledge Management (SWKM2008)
(cont'd)
W4A
(cont'd)
WoW
(cont'd)
W3C AC
(cont'd)
lunch break                          
1:30pm to 3:00pm
WS1 - Web Science Workshop (WSW2008)
(cont'd)
WS2 - Location and the Web (LocWeb) 2008
(cont'd)
WS3 - International Workshop on Context Enabled Source and Service Selection, Integration and Adaptation (CSSSIA 2008)
(cont'd)
WS4 - Linked Data on the Web (LDW2008)
(cont'd)
WS5 - Fourth International Workshop on Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web (AIRWeb 2008)
(cont'd)
WS6 - Targeting and Ranking for Online Advertising
(cont'd)
WS7 - MobEA VI: Personal Rich Social Media
(cont'd)
WS8 - Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Sciences
(cont'd)
WS9P - NLP Challenges in the Information Explosion Era (NLPIX 2008)
details
WS10P - Workshop on Social Web Search and Mining (SWSM2008)
details
W4A
(cont'd)
WoW
(cont'd)
W3C AC
(cont'd)
break                          
3:30pm to 5:00pm
WS1 - Web Science Workshop (WSW2008)
(cont'd)
WS2 - Location and the Web (LocWeb) 2008
(cont'd)
WS3 - International Workshop on Context Enabled Source and Service Selection, Integration and Adaptation (CSSSIA 2008)
(cont'd)
WS4 - Linked Data on the Web (LDW2008)
(cont'd)
WS5 - Fourth International Workshop on Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web (AIRWeb 2008)
(cont'd)
WS6 - Targeting and Ranking for Online Advertising
(cont'd)
WS7 - MobEA VI: Personal Rich Social Media
(cont'd)
WS8 - Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Sciences
(cont'd)
WS9P - NLP Challenges in the Information Explosion Era (NLPIX 2008)
(cont'd)
WS10P - Workshop on Social Web Search and Mining (SWSM2008)
(cont'd)
W4A
(cont'd)
WoW
(cont'd)
W3C AC
(cont'd)
Evening                          

Wednesday, April 23, 2008: Web of People

Room / Location
Convention Hall 1 (Level 2)
8:30am to 10:00am
WWW2008 Opening Ceremonies and Plenary Keynote: Dr. Kai-Fu Lee (Google)
Title: Cloud Computing
break                      
Room Hall 2A Hall 2B Hall 2C 201C 302 305C 201B 201A 305AB Exhibtion Hall 1 Convention Hall 1
Location (BICC) Level 2 Level 2 Level 2 Level 2 Level 3 Level 3 Level 2 Level 2 Level 3 Level 1 Level 2
10:30am to 12 noon  
Panel - The Future of Online Social Interactions: What to Expect in 2020
Moderator: Ajita John
Search: Query Analysis
Web Engineering - Applications
Semantic Web I
Social Networks: Analysis of Social Networks and Online Interaction Spaces
Ind. Track

Characterizing Typical and Atypical User Sessions in Clickstreams

Planetary-Scale Views on a Large Instant-Messaging Network

Online Auctions Efficiency: A Survey of eBay Auctions
Dev. Track
Accessibility, Mobility, Ontology

The Web Accessibility Model Reforms

Integrating mobile services and content with the Internet

"Pudoo" - A Large-scale Collaborative Ontology Development and Sharing Environment

Janus: Automatic Ontology Builder from XSD files
W3C Track - The Web on the Move
details
Sponsor Exhibition Hall
Posters
lunch break                      
1:30pm to 3:00pm
WWW in China: Keynote I - William Chang (Baidu)
The WWW in China
Panel - Protecting the Web: Phishing, Malware, and Other Security Threats
Moderator: Greg Aaron
Data Mining: Log Analysis
XML
Technology for Developing Regions
Internet Monetization: Online advertising
Ind. Track

Internet Innovation & Business Opportunities

Patents, web and open source: war and peace?
Dev. Track
Semantic Web I

SearchPoint --- a New Paradigm of Web Search

Building Semantic Web Based Applications with Watson

The NeOn Ontology Engineering Toolkit
W3C Track - Open Your Data!
details
Sponsor Exhibition Hall
Posters
break                      
3:30pm to 5:30pm
WWW in China: Academic Panel
Moderator: Hang Li
details
Panel - Information "Uptrieval": Exploring Models for Content Assimilation and Aggregation for Developing Regions
Moderator: Arun Kumar
Search: Corpus Characterization and Search Performance
Browsers and UI
Internet Monetization: Recommendation and Security
Social Networks: Discovery and Evolution of Communities
BOF

(3:30pm to 4:30pm)
Multilingual Web Sites
Organizer: M.T. Carrasco Benitez

(4:30pm to 5:30pm)
SPARQL2 - Where next?
Organizer: Andy Seaborne
Dev. Track
Web Search and Web Services

Yahoo Pinpoint - a where are they now? location broker

Sitemaps: A content discovery protocol for the web

Syndicating Google Webmaster Tools: Improving content's quality and performance

Haley: An EndtoEnd, Scalable Web Service Composition Tool

Two years of Nuth: what we learned
W3C Track - An International Web
details
Sponsor Exhibition Hall
Posters
Evening
WWW2008 Welcome Reception
(Venue: Convention Hall 1, BICC - Level 2, 6:00pm to 8:00pm)

Thursday, April 24, 2008: Web of Rich Media

Room / Location
Convention Hall 1 (Level 2)
8:30am to 10:00am
WWW2008 Morning Announcements and Plenary Keynote: Dr. Harry Shum (Microsoft)
Title: Taking Search to New Frontiers
break                      
Room Hall 2A Hall 2B Hall 2C 201C 302 305C 201B 201A 305AB Exhibtion Hall 1 Convention Hall 1
Location (BICC) Level 2 Level 2 Level 2 Level 2 Level 3 Level 3 Level 2 Level 2 Level 3 Level 1 Level 2
10:30am to 12 noon
WWW in China: Keynote II - Bill Huang (China Mobile)
details
Panel - Rich Media and Web 2.0
Moderator: Edward Chang
Search: Ranking and Retrieval Enhancement
XML
Security I: Misc
Semantic Web II
Ind. Track

Computational Advertising
Dev. Track
Mash-ups

Data level mashups with Semantic Web Pipes

Simple and robust browser side template processing for Ajax based web applications

MyTag: Personalized Cross-Media Search in Folksonomies
W3C Track - Integrating the Web in Society
details
Sponsor Exhibition Hall
Posters
lunch break                      
1:30pm to 3:30pm
WWW in China: Industrial Panel
Moderator: William Chang
details
Panel - Towards the Policy-Aware Web: The Real Web 3.0
Moderator: Renato Iannella
Data Mining
Web Service Composition
Security II: Web Client Security
Rich Media
Ind. Track

Video Suggestion and Discovery for YouTube: Taking Random Walks Through the View Graph

Multimedia Indexing and Content Personalization for Triple-Play Services

Three Generations of Intelligent Search
Dev. Track
Invited talk

Scrabulous

Video Tag Game

Eagle Eye (a Thunderbird Extension)

A Yet Another Implementation of XML Data Processor using PostgreSQL

MarcOnt Mediation Services - Making Translation Between Formats Easy

SWPop: Sindice based live Sioc aggregation
W3C Track - What's Hot in Web Content
details
Sponsor Exhibition Hall
Posters
break / depart for the Great Hall of the People                      
5:30pm to 6:30pm
Welcoming Remarks / Keynote Speech Before Banquet: Sir Tim Berners-Lee (W3C)
Title: The Future of Web Applications
Evening
WWW2008 Conference Banquet
(Venue: the Great Hall of the People, 6:30pm to 9:00pm)

Friday, April 25, 2008: Web of Devices

Room / Location
Convention Hall 1 (Level 2)
8:30am to 10:00am
WWW2008 Morning Announcements and Plenary Keynote: David G. Belanger (AT&T Labs)
Title: Three Screens: Evolution of Devices, Services, & Networks
break                    
Room Hall 2A Hall 2B Hall 2C 201C 302 305C 201B 201A Exhibtion Hall 1 Convention Hall 1
Location (BICC) Level 2 Level 2 Level 2 Level 2 Level 3 Level 3 Level 2 Level 2 Level 1 Level 2
10:30am to 12 noon
WWW in China: Mining Chinese Web
 
Data Mining: Modeling
Mobility
Performance and Scalability
Search: Crawlers
Ind. Track

Web of Mobile Devices

How People Use the Web on Mobile Devices
Dev. Track
Semantic Web II

MOAT: From Tagging to Semantic Web

Embedding Semantic MediaWiki data in Webpages

JeromeDL - Semantic and Social Technologies for Improving User Experience in Digital Libraries
Sponsor Exhibition Hall
Posters
lunch break                    
1:30pm to 3:00pm
WWW in China BOF
Hosted by: William Chang
 
Data Mining: Algorithms
Social Networks: Applications and Infrastructures for Web 2.0
TA4 - Electronic Contracts
Internet Monetization: Sponsored Search
Ind. Track

Empowering the Web with the Location

Mashups for the Masses
Dev. Track
ACLs and Security

Widgets: Web Vulnerabilities For All

Web Authentication with Selective Delegation using SRP

Personal Collaboration Sidebar

Using promises to orchestrate Web interactions
Sponsor Exhibition Hall
Posters
break                    
3:30pm to 5:00pm
WWW in China: Chinese Web Innovations
 
Search: Applications
Web Service Deployment
TA4 - Electronic Contracts
Semantic Web III
BOF

(suggestions are welcome)
Dev. Track
Moving past the theory: Developing a real-world Semantic Web application

Panel: Commercializing the Semantic Web
Sponsor Exhibition Hall
Posters
Evening
WWW2008 Closing Ceremony
Hall 1 (Level 2), 5:00pm to 5:30pm

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