WWW2008 Conference Overview

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
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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)
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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
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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)
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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	Hall 2A	Hall 2B	Hall 2C	201C	302	305C	201B	201A	305AB	Exhibtion Hall 1	Convention Hall 1
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
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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 Modeling Anchor Text and Classifying Queries to Enhance Web Document Retrieval Unsupervised Query Segmentation using Generative Language Models and Wikipedia Spatial Variation in Search Engine Queries	Web Engineering - Applications Mining, Indexing, and Searching for Textual Chemical Molecule Information on the Web Value-Driven Design for "Infosuasive" Web Applications Organizing and Sharing Distributed Personal Web-Service Data	Semantic Web I Structured Objects in OWL: Representation and Reasoning Computing Minimum Cost Diagnoses to Repair Populated DL-based Ontologies Scalable Querying Services over Fuzzy Ontologies	Social Networks: Analysis of Social Networks and Online Interaction Spaces Statistical analysis of the social network and discussion threads in Slashdot Yes, There is a Correlation - From Social Networks to Personal Behavior on the Web Knowledge Sharing and Yahoo Answers: Everyone Knows Something	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 Query-Sets: Using Implicit Feedback and Query Patterns to Organize Web Documents Mining the Search Trails of Surfing Crowds: Identifying Relevant Websites From User Activity Using the Wisdom of the Crowds for Keyword Generation	XML Learning Deterministic Regular Expressions for the Inference of Schemas from XML Data Efficient Evaluation of Generalized Path Pattern Queries on XML Data On Incremental Maintenance of 2-hop Labeling of Graphs	Technology for Developing Regions Organizing the Unorganized -- Employing IT to Empower the Under-privileged DTWiki: A Disconnection and Intermittency Tolerant Wiki Action Science Approach to Nonprofit Housing Services using Web 2.0 Mapping Tools	Internet Monetization: Online advertising Externalities in Online Advertising A combinatorial allocation mechanism with penalties for banner advertising Dynamic Cost-Per-Action Mechanisms and Applications to 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
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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 Genealogical Trees on the Web: A Search Engine User Perspective A graph-theoretic approach to webpage segmentation Performance of Compressed Inverted List Caching in Search Engines	Browsers and UI Personalized Web Exploration with Task Models Validating the Use and Role of Visual Elements of Web Pages in Navigation with an Eye-Tracking Study Improving Relevance Judgment of Web Search Results with Image Excerpts KeySurf: A character controlled browser for people with physical disabilities	Internet Monetization: Recommendation and Security Optimal Marketing Strategies over Social Networks Trust-based recommendation systems: an axiomatic approach Secure or insure? A game-theoretic analysis of information security games	Social Networks: Discovery and Evolution of Communities Tag-based Social Interest Discovery FacetNet: A Framework for Analyzing Communities and Their Evolutions in Dynamic Networks Statistical Properties of Community Structure in Large Social and Information Networks	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	Hall 2A	Hall 2B	Hall 2C	201C	302	305C	201B	201A	305AB	Exhibtion Hall 1	Convention Hall 1
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
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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 Ranking Refinement and Its Application to Information Retrieval Learning to Rank Relational Objects and Its Application to Web Search Contextual Advertising by Combining Relevance with Click Feedback	XML XML Data Dissemination using Automata on top of Structured Overlay Networks Utility-driven Load Shedding for XML Stream Processing SewNet - A Framework for Creating Services utilizing Telecom Functionality	Security I: Misc Privacy-Enhanced Sharing of Personal Content on the Web Detecting Image Spam using Visual Features and Near Duplicate Detection Better Abstractions for Secure Server-Side Scripting	Semantic Web II Networked Graphs: A Declarative Mechanism for SPARQL Rules, SPARQL Views and RDF Data Integration on the Web SPARQL Basic Graph Pattern Optimization Using Selectivity Estimation Scaling RDF with Time	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 FloatCascade Learning for Fast Imbalanced Web Mining Recommending Questions Using the MDL-based Tree Cut Model Learning to Classify Short and Sparse Text & Web with Hidden Topics from Large-scale Data Collections	Web Service Composition Matching Independent Global Constraints for Composite Web Services Wishful Search: Interactive Composition of Data Mashups Extending the Compatibility Notion for Abstract WS-BPEL Processes	Security II: Web Client Security SessionLock: Securing Web Sessions against Eavesdropping ForceHTTPS: Protecting High-Security Web Sites from Network Attacks SMash: Secure Component Model for Cross-Domain Mashups on Unmodified Browsers CompoWeb: A Component-Oriented Web Architecture	Rich Media Generating Diverse and Representative Image Search Results for Landmarks PageRank for Image Search Graph Theoretical Framework for Simultaneously Integrating Visual and Textual Features for Efficient Web Image Clustering Flickr Tag Recommendation based on Collective Knowledge	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	Hall 2A	Hall 2B	Hall 2C	201C	302	305C	201B	201A	Exhibtion Hall 1	Convention Hall 1
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
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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 details		Data Mining: Modeling Topic Modeling with Network Regularization Modeling Online Reviews with Multi-grain Topic Models Opinion Integration Through Semisupervised Topic Modeling	Mobility Supporting Anonymous Location Queries in Mobile Environments with PrivacyGrid Learning Transportation Mode from Raw GPS Data for Geographic Applications on the Web Deciphering Mobile Search Patterns: A Study of Yahoo! Mobile Search Queries	Performance and Scalability Service-Oriented Data Denormalization for Scalable Web Applications Anycast CDNs Revisited A Comparative Analysis of Web and Peer-to-Peer Traffic	Search: Crawlers IRLbot: Scaling to 6 Billion Pages and Beyond Recrawl Scheduling Based on Information Longevity iRobot: An Intelligent Crawler for Web Forums	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 Efficient Similarity Joins for Near Duplicate Detection Learning Multiple Graphs for Document Recommendations Enhanced Hierarchical Classification via Isotonic Smoothing	Social Networks: Applications and Infrastructures for Web 2.0 Why Web 2.0 is Good for Learning and for Research: Principles and Prototypes Exploring Social Annotations for Information Retrieval Lock-Free Consistency Control for Web 2.0 Applications	TA4 - Electronic Contracts	Internet Monetization: Sponsored Search Analyzing Search Engine Advertising: Firm Behavior and Cross-Selling in Electronic Markets Online Learning from Click Data for 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
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3:30pm to 5:00pm	WWW in China: Chinese Web Innovations details		Search: Applications Automatic Online News Issue Construction in Web Environment Finding the Right Facts in the Crowd: Factoid Question Answering over Social Media Personalized Interactive Faceted Search	Web Service Deployment Investigating Web Services on the World Wide Web RESTful Web Services vs. "Big" Web Services: Making the Right Architectural Decision Non-Intrusive Monitoring and Service Adaption for WS-BPEL	TA4 - Electronic Contracts	Semantic Web III Wiki Content Templating Querying for Meta Knowledge Automatically Refining the Wikipedia Infobox Ontology	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