WWW 2017 Companion Table of Contents

WWW 2017 General Chairs' Welcome 
Rick Barrett (W3Events)
Rick Cummings (Murdoch University)

WWW 2017 Program Chairs' Welcome
Eugene Agichtein (Emory University)
Evgeniy Gabrilovich (Google Research)

WWW 2017 Organization 

WWW 2017 Track Committees

WWW 2017 Sponsors & Supporters

Cognitive Computing Alternate Research Track

Cognitive Computing Alternate Research Track Chairs' Welcome & Organization (Page 1)
Miltiadis D. Lytras (The American College of Greece - Deree College)
Naif Radi Aljohani (King Abdulaziz University)
Xi Zhang (Tianjin University)

Cognitive Computing Alternate Research Track Presentations

Sentiment Strength Prediction Using Auxiliary Features (Page 5)
Huijun Chen (Sun Yat-sen University)
Xin Li (Sun Yat-sen University)
Yanghui Rao (Sun Yat-sen University)
Haoran Xie (The Education University of Hong Kong)
Fu Lee Wang (Caritas Institute of Higher Education)
Tak-Lam Wong (The Education University of Hong Kong)

When Fashion Meets Big Data: Discriminative Mining of Best Selling Clothing Features (Page 15)
Kuan-Ting Chen (National Taiwan University)
Jiebo Luo (University of Rochester)

A Selfie Is Worth a Thousand Words: Mining Personal Patterns Behind User Selfie-posting Behaviours (Page 23)
Tianlang Chen (University of Rochester)
Yuxiao Chen (University of Rochester)
Jiebo Luo (University of Rochester)

Finding Rising Stars in Co-author Networks via Weighted Mutual Influence (Page 33)
Ali Daud (King Abdulaziz University & International Islamic University)
Naif Radi Aljohani (King Abdulaziz University)
Rabeeh Ayaz Abbasi (King Abdulaziz University & Quaid-i-Azam University)
Zahid Rafique (International Islamic University)
Tehmina Amjad (International Islamic University)
Hussain Dawood (Jeddah University)
Khaled H. Alyoubi (King Abdulaziz University)

Inducing Conceptual Embedding Spaces from Wikipedia (Page 43)
Gerard de Melo (Rutgers University)

Modeling of Human Movement Behavioral Knowledge from GPS Traces for Categorizing Mobile Users (Page 51)
Shreya Ghosh (Indian Institute of Technology)
Soumya K. Ghosh (Indian Institute of Technology)

Post Summarization of Microblogs of Sporting Events (Page 59)
Mehreen Gillani (National University of Sciences and Technology)
Muhammad U. Ilyas (University of Jeddah)
Saad Saleh (National University of Sciences and Technology)
Jalal S. Alowibdi (University of Jeddah)
Naif Aljohani (King Abdulaziz University)
Fahad S. Alotaibi (King Abdulaziz University)

News Feature Extraction for Events on Social Network Platforms (Page 69)
Peiquan Jin (University of Science and Technology of China)
Lin Mu (University of Science and Technology of China)
Lizhou Zheng (University of Science and Technology of China)
Jie Zhao (Anhui University)
Lihua Yue (University of Science and Technology of China)

Multimodal Question Answering Over Structured Data with Ambiguous Entities (Page 79)
Huadong Li (Shandong University)
Yafang Wang (Shandong University)
Gerard de Melo (Rutgers University)
Changhe Tu (Shandong University)
Baoquan Chen (Shandong University)

eAssistant: Cognitive Assistance for Identification and Auto-Triage of Actionable Conversations (Page 89)
Hamid R. Motahari Nezhad (IBM Almaden Research Center)
Kalpa Gunaratna (Wright State University)
Juan Cappi (IBM Almaden Research Center)

Prediction of Population Health Indices from Social Media Using Kernel-based Textual and Temporal Features (Page 99)
Thin Nguyen (Deakin University)
Duc Thanh Nguyen (Deakin University)
Mark E. Larsen (Black Dog Institute, NSW)
Bridianne O'Dea (Black Dog Institute, NSW)
John Yearwood (Deakin University)
Dinh Phung (Deakin University)
Svetha Venkatesh (Deakin University)
Helen Christensen (Black Dog Institute, NSW)

Beyond the Stars: Towards a Novel Sentiment Rating to Evaluate Applications in Web Stores of Mobile Apps (Page 109)
Phillipe Rodrigues (CEFEI-MG)
Ismael Santana Silva (CEFEI-MG)
Glívia Angélica Rodigues Barbosa (CEFEI-MG)
Flávio Roberto dos Santos Coutinho (CEFEI-MG)
Fernando Mourão (Seek AI Labs)

An Adaptive Method for Clustering by Fast Search-and-Find of Density Peaks [Adaptive-DP] (Page 119)
Shanshan Ruan (Beijing Normal University)
Rashid Mehmood (Beijing Normal University)
Ali Daud (King Abdulaziz University & International Islamic University)
Hussain Dawood (University of Jeddah)
Jalal S. Alowibdi (University of Jeddah)

Behavioral Intention of Using Virtual Reality in Learning (Page 129)
Chien-wen Shen (National Central University)
Jung-tsung Ho (National Central University)
Ting-Chang Kuo (National Central University)
Thai Ha Luong (National Central University)

Inferring Demographics and Social Networks of Mobile Device Users on Campus from AP-Trajectories (Page 139)
Pinghui Wang (Xi'an Jiaotong University)
Feiyang Sun (Xi'an Jiaotong University)
Di Wang (Xi'an Jiaotong University)
Jing Tao (Xi'an Jiaotong University)
Xiaohong Guan (Xi'an Jiaotong University & Tsinghua University)
Albert Bifet (Université Paris-Saclay)

Inferring the Student Social Loafing State in Collaborative Learning with a Hidden Markov Model: A Case on Slack (Page 149)
Xi Zhang (Tianjin University)
Shan Jiang (Tianjin University)
Yihang Cheng (University of Science & Technology Beijing)

Geo-Teaser: Geo-Temporal Sequential Embedding Rank for Point-of-Interest Recommendation (Page 153)
Shenglin Zhao (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Tong Zhao (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Irwin King (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Michael R. Lyu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Demonstrations

WWW 2017 Demo Chairs' Welcome & Organization (Page 163)
Artur Lugmayr (Curtin University)
Amitava Datta (The University of Western Australia)

Demonstration Presentations

On Automating Basic Data Curation Tasks (Page 165)
Seyed-Mehdi-Reza Beheshti (University of New South Wales)
Alireza Tabebordbar (University of New South Wales)
Boualem Benatallah (University of New South Wales)
Reza Nouri (University of New South Wales)

Integrating Modeling Languages and Web Logs for Enhanced User Behavior Analytics (Page 171)
Carlo Bernaschina (Politecnico di Milano)
Marco Brambilla (Politecnico di Milano)
Thanas Koka (Politecnico di Milano)
Andrea Mauri (Politecnico di Milano)
Eric Umuhoza (Politecnico di Milano)

SESAME: European Statistics Explored via Semantic Alignment onto Wikipedia (Page 177)
Natalia Boldyrev (Max Planck Institute for Informatics)
Marc Spaniol (Université de Caen Normandie)
Jannik Strötgen (Max Planck Institute for Informatics)
Gerhard Weikum (Max Planck Institute for Informatics)

On-Demand Bot Detection and Archival System (Page 183)
Nikan Chavoshi (University of New Mexico)
Hossein Hamooni (University of New Mexico)
Abdullah Mueen (University of New Mexico)

IExM: Information Extraction System for Movies (Page 189)
Peng-Yu Chen (National Tsing Hua University)
Yi-Hui Lee (National Taiwan Normal University)
Yueh-Han Wu (National Tsing Hua University)
Wei-Yun Ma (Academia Sinica)

TeamGen: An Interactive Team Formation System Based on Professional Social Network (Page 195)
Cheng Ding (East China Normal University)
Fan Xia (East China Normal University)
Gopakumar Gopalakrishnan (Infosys Limited.)
Weining Qian (East China Normal University)
Aoying Zhou (East China Normal University)

Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary: Exposing Twitter Users to Contrarian News (Page 201)
Kiran Garimella (Aalto University)
Gianmarco De Francisci Morales (Qatar Computing Research Institute)
Aristides Gionis (Aalto University)
Michael Mathioudakis (Aalto University)

CognitiveDB: An Intelligent Navigator for Large-Scale Dark Structured Data (Page 207)
Michael Gubanov (University of Texas at San Antonio)
Manju Priya (University of Texas at San Antonio)
Maksim Podkorytov (University of Texas at San Antonio)

GeoSemOLAP: Geospatial OLAP on the Semantic Web Made Easy (Page 213)
Nurefsan Gür (Aalborg University)
Jacob Nielsen (Aalborg University)
Katja Hose (Aalborg University)
Torben Bach Pedersen (Aalborg University)

Chromium Based Framework to Include Gaze Interaction in Web Browser (Page 219)
Chandan Kumar (University of Koblenz-Landau)
Raphael Menges (University of Koblenz-Landau)
Daniel Müller (University of Koblenz-Landau)
Steffen Staab (University of Koblenz-Landau & University of Southampton)

Circularized Visualisation of Genetic Interactions (Page 225)
Irina Kuznetsova (Graz University of Technology)
Aleksandra Filipovska (Univeristy of Western Australia)
Oliver Rackham (Univeristy of Western Australia)
Artur Lugmayr (Curtin University)
Andreas Holzinger (Graz University of Technology)

SANE: System for Fine Grained Named Entity Typing on Textual Data (Page 227)
Anurag Lal (Indian Institute of Technology (BHU))
Apoorve Tomer (Indian Institute of Technology (BHU))
C. Ravindranath Chowdary (Indian Institute of Technology (BHU))

iTopic: Influential Topic Discovery from Information Networks via Keyword Query (Page 231)
Jianxin Li (University of Western Australia)
Chengfei Liu (Swinburne University of Technology)
Lu Chen (Swinburne University of Technology)
Zhenying He (Fudan University)
Amitava Datta (University of Western Australia)
Feng Xia (Dalian University of Technology)

SpiderX: Fast XML Exploration System (Page 237)
Chunbin Lin (University of California, San Diego)
Jianguo Wang (University of California, San Diego)

TruthDiscover: Resolving Object Conflicts on Massive Linked Data (Page 243)
Wenqiang Liu (Xi'an Jiaotong University)
Jun Liu (Xi'an Jiaotong University)
Haimeng Duan (Xi'an Jiaotong University)
Jian Zhang (Xi'an Jiaotong University)
Wei Hu (Nanjing University)
Bifan Wei (Xi'an Jiaotong University)

Selected Advanced Data Visualizations: "The UX-Machine", Cultural Visualisation, Cognitive Big Data, and Communication of Health and Wellness Data (Page 247)
Artur Lugmayr (Curtin University)
Adam Grenfeld (Curtin University)
Danjing Joy Zhang (Curtin University)

ESearch: Incorporating Text Corpus and Structured Knowledge for Open Domain Entity Search (Page 253)
Denghao Ma (Renmin University of China)
Yueguo Chen (Renmin University of China)
Jun Chen (Renmin University of China)
Xiaoyong Du (Renmin University of China)
Xiangliang Zhang (KAUST)

AncestryAI: A Tool for Exploring Computationally Inferred Family Trees (Page 257)
Eric Malmi (Aalto University)
Marko Rasa (Verto Analytics)
Aristides Gionis (Aalto University)

SWoTSuite: A Toolkit for Prototyping End-to-End Semantic Web of Things Applications (Page 263)
Pankesh Patel (ABB Corporate Research)
Amelie Gyrard (University of Lyon)
Soumya Kanti Datta (EURECOM)
Muhammad Intizar Ali (Insight Center for Data Analytics)

meCurate: Personalized Curation Service Using a Tiny Text Intelligence (Page 269)
Woo-Jong Ryu (Korea University)
Jung-Hyun Lee (Korea University)
Kang-Min Kim (Korea University)
SangKeun Lee (Korea University)

EVELIN: Exploration of Event and Entity Links in Implicit Networks (Page 273)
Andreas Spitz (Heidelberg University)
Satya Almasian (Heidelberg University)
Michael Gertz (Heidelberg University)

Digital Learning Track

Digital Learning Track Chairs' Welcome & Organization (Page 281)
Demetrios Sampson (Curtin University)
Bebo White (Stanford University)
Jacqueline Bourdeau (Tele-university)
Irwin King (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Eunice Sari (UX Indonesia)

Session 1L - Digital Learning I
Session Chair: Demetrios Sampson (Curtin University, Australia)

Analysing and Improving Embedded Markup of Learning Resources on the Web (Page 283)
Stefan Dietze (L3S Research Center)
Davide Taibi (CNR Institute for Educational Technologies)
Ran Yu (L3S Research Center)
Phil Barker (Heriot Watt University)
Mathieu d'Aquin (The Open University)

Towards a Better Learning of Near-Synonyms: Automatically Suggesting Example Sentences via Fill in the Blank (Page 293)
Chieh-Yang Huang (Academia Sinica)
Mei-Hua Chen (Tunghai University)
Lun-Wei Ku (Academia Sinica)

Shifu: Deep Learning Based Advisor-Advisee Relationship Mining in Scholarly Big Data (Page 303)
Wei Wang (Dalian University of Technology)
Jiaying Liu (Dalian University of Technology)
Feng Xia (Dalian University of Technology)
Irwin King (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Hanghang Tong (Arizona State University)

HiText: Text Reading with Dynamic Salience Marking (Page 311)
Qian Yang (Tsinghua University)
Gerard de Melo (Rutgers University)
Yong Cheng (Tsinghua University)
Sen Wang (Carnegie Mellon University)

Knowledge or Gaming? Cognitive Modelling Based on Multiple-Attempt Response (Page 321)
Runze Wu (University of Science and Technology of China)
Guandong Xu (University of Technology, Sydney)
Enhong Chen (University of Science and Technology of China)
Qi Liu (University of Science and Technology of China)
Wan Ng (University of Technology, Sydney)

Session 2L - Digital Learning II
Session Chair: Irwin King (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Smart Jump: Automated Navigation Suggestion for Videos in MOOCs (Page 331)
Han Zhang (Tsinghua University)
Maosong Sun (Tsinghua University)
Xiaochen Wang (Tsinghua University)
Zhengyang Song (Tsinghua University)
Jie Tang (Tsinghua University)
Jimeng Sun (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Leveraging Social Connections to Improve Peer Assessment in MOOCs (Page 341)
Hou Pong Chan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Irwin King (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

MOOC Dropout Prediction: Lessons Learned from Making Pipelines Interpretable (Page 351)
Saurabh Nagrecha (University of Notre Dame)
John Z. Dillon (University of Notre Dame)
Nitesh V. Chawla (University of Notre Dame)

A Data-driven Method for the Detection of Close Submitters in Online Learning Environments (Page 361)
José A. Ruipérez-Valiente (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and Institute IMDEA Networks)
Srećko Joksimović (The University of Edinburgh)
Vitomir Kovanović (The University of Edinburgh)
Dragan Gašević (The University of Edinburgh)
Pedro J. Muñoz-Merino (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Carlos Delgado Kloos (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

Design and Evaluation of Adaptive Feedback to Foster ICT Information Processing Skills in Young Adults (Page 369)
Beate Grawemeyer (Birkbeck, University of London)
Konstantinos Karoudis (Birkbeck, University of London)
George Magoulas (Birkbeck, University of London)
Marta Pinto (University of Porto)
Alexandra Poulovassilis (Birkbeck, University of London)

Session 3L - Digital Learning III
Session Chair: Eunice Saru (UX Indonesia, Indonesia)

Combining Smart Web-based Learning Environments with Teaching and Learning Analytics to Support Reflection on Project-based Programming Education (Page 379)
Jun Peng (The University of Hong Kong)
Stylianos Sergis (University of Piraeus)
Minhong Wang (The University of Hong Kong)
Demetrios Sampson (Curtin University)

Flipping MIS Classroom by Peers: Gateway to Student's Engagement Intention (Page 387)
Mathupayas Thongmak (Thammasat Business School, Thammasat University)

A Cyberphysical Learning Approach for Digital Smart Citizenship Competence Development (Page 397)
Yacine Atif (University of Skövde)
Stylianos Sergis (University of Piraeus)
Demetrios Sampson (Curtin University)
Gunnar Mathiason (University of Skovde)

Using Pairwise Comparisons in the Online Social Moderation of Performance Assessment (Page 407)
C. Paul Newhouse (Edith Cowan University)
Pina Tarricone (Edith Cowan University)

Predicting Student Performance using Advanced Learning Analytics (Page 415)
Ali Daud (King Abdulaziz University & International Islamic University)
Naif Radi Aljohani (King Abdulaziz University)
Rabeeh Ayaz Abbasi (King Abdulaziz University & Quaid-i-Azam University)
Miltiadis D. Lytras (The American College of Greece)
Farhat Abbas (International Islamic University)
Jalal S. Alowibdi (University of Jeddah)

GSIE Track

WWW 2017 Games, Simulations and Immersive Environments Track Chairs' Welcome (Page 423)
Sara de Freitas (Murdoch University)
David Gibson (Curtin University)
Martin Masek (Edith Cowan University)
Ivan Boo (Serious Games Asia)

GSIE Track Presentations

From Phoenix Wright to Atticus Finch: Legal Simulation Games as an Aid to Self-Represented Litigants (Page 425)
Scott Beattie (CQ University)
Stephen Colbran (CQ University)

How to Use Gamified Dashboards and Learning Analytics for Providing Immediate Student Feedback and Performance Tracking in Higher Education (Page 429)
Sara de Freitas (Murdoch University)
David Gibson (Curtin University)
Victor Alvarez (Murdoch University)
Leah Irving (Curtin University)
Kam Star (Playgen, Gaminomics)
Sven Charleer (KU Leuven)
Katrien Verbert (KU Leuven)

I Would Not Plant Apple Trees if the World Will Be Wiped: Analyzing Hundreds of Millions of Behavioral Records of Players During an MMORPG Beta Test (Page 435)
Ah Reum Kang (University at Buffalo)
Jeremy Blackburn (Telefonica Research)
Haewoon Kwak (Hamad Bin Khalifa University)
Huy Kang Kim (Korea University)

Achievement and Friends: Key Factors of Player Retention Vary Across Player Levels in Online Multiplayer Games (Page 445)
Kunwoo Park (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Meeyoung Cha (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Haewoon Kwak (Hamad Bin Khalifa University)
Kuan-Ta Chen (Academia Sinica)

How Gamification Affects Physical Activity: Large-scale Analysis of Walking Challenges in a Mobile Application (Page 455)
Ali Shameli (Stanford University)
Tim Althoff (Stanford University)
Amin Saberi (Stanford University)
Jure Leskovec (Stanford University)

Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment for Maximized Engagement in Digital Games (Page 465)
Su Xue (Electronic Arts, Inc.)
Meng Wu (Electronic Arts, Inc.)
John Kolen (Electronic Arts, Inc.)
Navid Aghdaie (Electronic Arts, Inc.)
Kazi A. Zaman (Electronic Arts, Inc.)

Enabling Participatory Design of 3D Virtual Scenes on Mobile Devices (Page 473)
Xiaowen Sun (Shandong University)
Yafang Wang (Shandong University)
Gerard de Melo (Rutgers University)
Wei Gai (Shandong University)
Yuliang Shi (Shandong University)
Lu Zhao (Shandong University)
Yulong Bian (Shandong University)
Juan Liu (Shandong University)
Chenglei Yang (Shandong University)
Xiangxu Meng (Shandong University)

Industry & Developers Track

WWW 2017 Industry Track Chairs' Welcome (Page 483)
Pavel Serdyukov (Yandex)
Andrew Walker (Fleet Engineering)

Industry Track Session 1: DeepLearning in Practice

Personalizing Software and Web Services by Integrating Unstructured Application Usage Traces (Page 485)
Longqi Yang (Cornell University)
Chen Fang (Adobe Research)
Hailin Jin (Adobe Research)
Matthew D. Hoffman (Google)
Deborah Estrin (Cornell University)

Email Category Prediction (Page 495)
Aston Zhang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Lluis Garcia-Pueyo (Google)
James B. Wendt (Google)
Marc Najork (Google)
Andrei Broder (Google)

NEMO: Next Career Move Prediction with Contextual Embedding (Page 505)
Liangyue Li (Arizona State University)
How Jing (LinkedIn)
Hanghang Tong (Arizona State University)
Jaewon Yang (LinkedIn)
Qi He (LinkedIn)
Bee-Chung Chen (LinkedIn)

Visual Discovery at Pinterest (Page 515)
Andrew Zhai (Pinterest)
Dmitry Kislyuk (Pinterest)
Yushi Jing (Pinterest)
Michael Feng (Pinterest)
Eric Tzeng (Pinterest & University of California, Berkeley)
Jeff Donahue (Pinterest & University of California, Berkeley)
Yue Li Du (Pinterest)
Trevor Darrell (University of California, Berkeley)

Industry Track Session 2: User Behaviour Analysis

Towards Measuring and Inferring User Interest from Gaze (Page 525)
Yixuan Li (Cornell University & Google)
Pingmei Xu (Google Inc)
Dmitry Lagun (Google Inc)
Vidhya Navalpakkam (Google Inc)

Modeling the Influence of Popular Trending Events on User Search Behavior (Page 535)
Shubhra Kanti Karmaker Santu (Univeristy of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)
Liangda Li (Yahoo Research)
Dae Hoon Park (Yahoo Research)
Yi Chang (Huawei Research America)
Chengxiang Zhai (Univeristy of Illinois Urbana Champaign)

Understanding Online Collection Growth Over Time: A Case Study of Pinterest (Page 545)
Caroline Lo (Stanford University)
Justin Cheng (Stanford University)
Jure Leskovec (Pinterest)

Understanding Short-term Changes in Online Activity Sessions (Page 555)
Farshad Kooti (Facebook Inc.)
Karthik Subbian (Facebook Inc.)
Winter Mason (Facebook Inc.)
Lada Adamic (Facebook Inc.)
Kristina Lerman (University of Southern California)

Industry Track Session 3: Recommending Content & Matchmaking

Bi-directional Joint Inference for User Links and Attributes on Large Social Graphs (Page 564)
Carl Yang (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign & Snap Research)
Lin Zhong (Snap Research)
Li-Jia Li (Snap Research)
Luo Jie (Snap Research)

Analyzing Uber's Ride-sharing Economy (Page 574)
Farshad Kooti (University of Southern California)
Mihajlo Grbovic (Yahoo Research)
Luca Maria Aiello (Bell Labs)
Nemanja Djuric (Yahoo Research)
Vladan Radosavljevic (Yahoo Research)
Kristina Lerman (University of Southern California)

Related Pins at Pinterest: The Evolution of a Real-World Recommender System (Page 583)
David C. Liu (Pinterest, Inc.)
Stephanie Rogers (Pinterest, Inc.)
Raymond Shiau (Pinterest, Inc.)
Dmitry Kislyuk (Pinterest, Inc.)
Kevin C. Ma (Pinterest, Inc.)
Zhigang Zhong (Pinterest, Inc.)
Jenny Liu (Pinterest, Inc.)
Yushi Jing (Pinterest, Inc.)

Predicting Intent Using Activity Logs: How Goal Specificity and Temporal Range Affect User Behavior (Page 593)
Justin Cheng (Stanford University)
Caroline Lo (Stanford University)
Jure Leskovec (Pinterest, Stanford University)

Industry Track Session 4: Online Metrics & Experimentation

Predicting Counterfactuals from Large Historical Data and Small Randomized Trials (Page 602)
Nir Rosenfeld (Hebrew University of Jerusalem & Microsoft Research)
Yishay Mansour (Microsoft Research)
Elad Yom-Tov (Tel Aviv University & Microsoft Research)

A Nonparametric Sequential Test for Online Randomized Experiments (Page 610)
Vineet Abhishek (Walmart Labs)
Shie Mannor (Technion)

Data + Intuition: A Hybrid Approach to Developing Product North Star Metrics (Page 617)
Albert C. Chen (LinkedIn)
Xin Fu (LinkedIn)

Auditing Search Engines for Differential Satisfaction Across Demographics (Page 626)
Rishabh Mehrotra (University College London)
Ashton Anderson (Microsoft Research)
Fernando Diaz (Spotify)
Amit Sharma (Microsoft Research)
Hanna Wallach (Microsoft Research)
Emine Yilmaz (University College London)

Industry Track Session 5: Search & Efficiency

ERA: A Framework for Economic Resource Allocation for the Cloud (Page 634)
Moshe Babaioff (Microsoft Research)
Yishay Mansour (Tel Aviv University & Microsoft Research)
Noam Nisan (Hebrew University & Microsoft Research)
Gali Noti (Hebrew University & Microsoft Research)
Carlo Curino (Microsoft)
Nar Ganapathy (Microsoft)
Ishai Menache (Microsoft Research)
Omer Reingold (Stanford University)
Moshe Tennenholtz (Technion & Microsoft)
Erez Timnat (Technion & Microsoft)

Caching with Dual Costs (Page 643)
Anirban Dasgupta (IIT Gandhinagar)
Ravi Kumar (Google)
Tamás Sarlós (Google)

Top-k Query Processing with Conditional Skips (Page 653)
Edward Bortnikov (Yahoo Research)
David Carmel (Yahoo Research)
Guy Golan-Gueta (VMWare Research)

Numerical Facet Range Partition: Evaluation Metric and Methods (Page 662)
Xueqing Liu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Chengxiang Zhai (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Wei Han (WalmartLabs)
Onur Gungor (WalmartLabs)

Industry Track Session 6: Advertising

Adaptive Online Hyper-Parameters Tuning for Ad Event-Prediction Models (Page 672)
Michal Aharon (Yahoo Research)
Amit Kagian (Yahoo Research)
Oren Somekh (Yahoo Research)

Field-aware Factorization Machines in a Real-world Online Advertising System (Page 680)
Yuchin Juan (Criteo Research)
Damien Lefortier (Facebook)
Olivier Chapelle (Google)

Model Ensemble for Click Prediction in Bing Search Ads (Page 689)
Xiaoliang Ling (Microsoft Bing)
Weiwei Deng (Microsoft Bing)
Chen Gu (Microsoft Bing)
Hucheng Zhou (Microsoft Research)
Cui Li (Microsoft Research)
Feng Sun (Microsoft Bing)

Friendly, Appealing or Both? Characterising User Experience in Sponsored Search Landing Pages (Page 699)
Marc Bron (Yahoo!)
Miriam Redi (Bell Labs)
Mounia Lalmas (Yahoo!)
Fabrizio Silvestri (Facebook)
Huw Evans (Yahoo!)
Mahlon Chute (Yahoo!)

PhD Symposium

PhD Symposium Chairs' Welcome & Organization (Page 709)
Mohamed Hamdi (Orvidia Inc.)
Myunghwan Kim (LinkedIn)
Rebecca Lange (Curtin University)
Victor Alvarez (Murdoch University)

PhD Symposium Presentations

Truth Discovery from Conflicting Multi-Valued Objects (Page 711)
Xiu Susie Fang (The University of Adelaide)

Bias in Wikipedia (Page 717)
Christoph Hube (Leibniz University of Hannover)

Source Locating of Spreading Dynamics in Temporal Networks (Page 723)
Qiangjuan Huang (National University of Defense Technology)

Low-Cost Mobile Learning Solutions for Community Health Workers (Page 729)
Deepika Yadav (IIIT Delhi)

Assessing the Credibility of Claims on the Web (Page 735)
Kashyap Popat (Max Planck Institute for Informatics)

Detection and Characterization of Influential Cross-lingual Information Diffusion on Social Networks (Page 741)
Hongshan Jin (The University of Tokyo)

Knowledge Graph Embedding with Diversity of Structures (Page 747)
Wen Zhang (Zhejiang University)

Posters

WWW 2017 Poster Track - Organization (Page 755)

Poster Presentations

All Dates Lead to Rome: Extracting and Explaining Temporal References in Street Names (Page 757)
Rosita Andrade (Max Planck Institute for informatics)
Jannik Strötgen (Max Planck Institute for informatics)

Deep Learning for Hate Speech Detection in Tweets (Page 759)
Pinkesh Badjatiya (International Institute of Information Technology)
Shashank Gupta (International Institute of Information Technology)
Manish Gupta (International Institute of Information Technology & Microsoft)
Vasudeva Varma (International Institute of Information Technology)

Global Entity Ranking Across Multiple Languages (Page 761)
Prantik Bhattacharyya (Lithium Technologies | Klout)
Nemanja Spasojevic (Lithium Technologies | Klout)

Coarse to Fine: Diffusing Categories in Wikipedia (Page 763)
Pengshan Cai (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Yansong Feng (Peking University)
Yantao Jia (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Yuanzhuo Wang (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Xiaolong Jin (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Xueqi Cheng (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Predicting the Popularity of Online Content with Group-specific Models (Page 765)
Qi Cao (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Huawei Shen (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Hao Gao (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Jinhua Gao (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Xueqi Cheng (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Detecting Aggressors and Bullies on Twitter (Page 767)
Despoina Chatzakou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Nicolas Kourtellis (Telefonica Research)
Jeremy Blackburn (Telefonica Research)
Emiliano De Cristofaro (University College London)
Gianluca Stringhini (University College London)
Athena Vakali (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)

Locally Connected Deep Learning Framework for Industrial-scale Recommender Systems (Page 769)
Cen Chen (Singapore Management University & Ant Financial Group)
Peilin Zhao (Ant Financial Group)
Longfei Li (Ant Financial Group)
Jun Zhou (Ant Financial Group)
Xiaolong Li (Ant Financial Group)
Minghui Qiu (Alibaba Cloud)

DeepVGI: Deep Learning with Volunteered Geographic Information (Page 771)
Jiaoyan Chen (Heidelberg University)
Alexander Zipf (Heidelberg University)

Time-Series Adaptive Estimation of Vaccination Uptake Using Web Search Queries (Page 773)
Niels Dalum Hansen (University of Copenhaven/IBM)
Kåre Mølbak (Statens Serum Institut)
Ingemar J. Cox (University of Copenhagen)
Christina Lioma (University of Copenhagen)

Carina: Interactive Million-Node Graph Visualization using Web Browser Technologies (Page 775)
Dezhi Fang (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Matthew Keezer (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Jacob Williams (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Kshitij Kulkarni (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Robert Pienta (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Duen Horng Chau (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Value Veracity Estimation for Multi-Truth Objects via a Graph-Based Approach (Page 777)
Xiu Susie Fang (The University of Adelaide)
Quan Z. Sheng (The University of Adelaide)
Xianzhi Wang (UNSW Australia)
Anne H.H. Ngu (Texas State University)

Media Attention to Science (Page 779)
Kiran Garimella (Aalto University)
Han Xiao (Aalto University)

Do Bots impact Twitter activity? (Page 781)
Zafar Gilani (University of Cambridge)
Reza Farahbakhsh (Institut Mines Telecom)
Jon Crowcroft (University of Cambridge)

What was Hillary Clinton doing in Katy, Texas? (Page 783)
Toni Gruetze (Hasso Plattner Institute)
Ralf Krestel (Hasso Plattner Institute)
Konstantina Lazaridou (Hasso Plattner Institute)
Felix Naumann (Hasso Plattner Institute)

A Systematic Framework to Optimize Launch Times of Web Apps (Page 785)
Suresh Kumar Gudla (Samsung R&D Institute)
Jitendra Kumar Sahoo (Samsung R&D Institute)
Abhishek Singh (Samsung R&D Institute)
Joy Bose (Samsung R&D Institute)
Nazeer Ahamed (Samsung R&D Institute)

Holistic Neural Network for CTR Prediction (Page 787)
Huifeng Guo (Harbin Institute of Technology)
Ruiming Tang (Noah's Ark Lab)
Yunming Ye (Harbin Institute of Technology)
Xiuqiang He (Noah's Ark Lab)

An Enhanced Convolutional Neural Network Model for Answer Selection (Page 789)
Jiahui Guo (Nankai University)
Bin Yue (Nankai University)
Guandong Xu (University of Technology Sydney & Nankai University)
Zhenglu Yang (Nankai University)
Jin-Mao Wei (Nankai University)

Post-edit Analysis of Collective Biography Generation (Page 791)
Bo Han (Hugo.ai)
Will Radford (Hugo.ai)
Anaïs Cadilhac (Hugo.ai)
Art Harol (Hugo.ai)
Andrew Chisholm (Hugo.ai)
Ben Hachey (Hugo.ai)

MeDJ: Multidimensional Emotion-aware Music Delivery for Adolescent (Page 793)
Xiping Hu (Chinese Academy of Sciences & The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Kun Bai (MIG Tencent Company)
Jun Cheng (Chinese Academy of Sciences & The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Jun-qi Deng (The University of Hong Kong)
Yanxiang Guo (Chinese Academy of Sciences & The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Bin Hu (Lanzhou University)
Arun Sai Krishnan (Carnegie Mellon University)
Fei Wang (Cornell University)

Detection of False Online Advertisements with DCNN (Page 795)
Hen-Hsen Huang (National Taiwan University)
Yu-Wei Wen (National Taiwan University)
Hsin-Hsi Chen (National Taiwan University)

Identification of Homographic Pun Location for Pun Understanding (Page 797)
Yu-Hsiang Huang (National Taiwan University)
Hen-Hsen Huang (National Taiwan University)
Hsin-Hsi Chen (National Taiwan University)

Position-Aware Representations for Relevance Matching in Neural Information Retrieval (Page 799)
Kai Hui (Saarbrücken Graduate School of Computer Science / Max Planck Institute for Informatics)
Andrew Yates (Max Planck Institute for Informatics)
Klaus Berberich (Max Planck Institute for Informatics / htw saar)
Gerard de Melo (Rutgers University)

Enhancing Knowledge Graph Embedding with Probabilistic Negative Sampling (Page 801)
Vibhor Kanojia (Yahoo Japan Corporation)
Hideyuki Maeda (Yahoo Japan Corporation)
Riku Togashi (Yahoo Japan Corporation)
Sumio Fujita (Yahoo Japan Corporation)

WimNet: Vision Search for Web Logs (Page 803)
Sungchul Kim (Adobe Research)
Sana Malik (Adobe Research)
Nedim Lipka (Adobe Research)
Eunyee Koh (Adobe Research)

Distinguishing Individuals from Organisations on Twitter (Page 805)
Sunghwan Mac Kim (CSIRO)
Cécile Paris (CSIRO)
Robert Power (CSIRO)
Stephen Wan (CSIRO)

Twitter Content Eliciting User Engagement: A Case Study on Australian Organisations (Page 807)
Sunghwan Mac Kim (CSIRO)
Kyo Kageura (CSIRO)
James McHugh (CSIRO)
Surya Nepal (CSIRO)
Cécile Paris (CSIRO)
Bella Robinson (CSIRO)
Ross Sparks (CSIRO)
Stephen Wan (CSIRO)

A Single-Step Approach to Recommendation Diversification (Page 809)
Sang-Chul Lee (Hanyang University)
Sang-Wook Kim (Hanyang University)
Sunju Park (Yonsei University)
Dong-Kyu Chae (Hanyang University)

On Detecting Frauds in Comparison-Shopping Services (Page 811)
Sang-Chul Lee (Carnegie Mellon University)
Christos Faloutsos (Carnegie Mellon University)
Dong-Kyu Chae (Hanyang University)
Sang-Wook Kim (Hanyang University)

Effective Strategies on Representing Information Networks (Page 813)
Hang Li (Nankai University)
Haozheng Wang (Nankai University)
Zhenglu Yang (Nankai University)
Jin-Mao Wei (Nankai University)
Masato Odagaki (Maebashi Institute of Technology)

PRSP: A Plugin-based Framework for RDF Stream Processing (Page 815)
Qiong Li (Tianjin University)
Xiaowang Zhang (Tianjin University)
Zhiyong Feng (Tianjin University)

CCCFNet: A Content-Boosted Collaborative Filtering Neural Network for Cross Domain Recommender Systems (Page 817)
Jianxun Lian (University of Science and Technology of China)
Fuzheng Zhang (Microsoft Research)
Xing Xie (Microsoft Research)
Guangzhong Sun (University of Science and Technology of China)

Location-sensitive Query Auto-completion (Page 819)
Chunbin Lin (University of California, San Diego)
Jianguo Wang (University of California, San Diego)
Jiaheng Lu (University of Helsinki)

Identifying User Sessions in Interactions with Intelligent Digital Assistants (Page 821)
Rishabh Mehrotra (University College London)
Ahmed El Kholy (Microsoft)
Imez Zitouni (Microsoft)
Milad Shokouhi (Microsoft)
Ahmed Hassan (Microsoft)

On Low Overlap among Search Results of Academic Search Engines (Page 823)
Anasua Mitra (Indian Institute of Technology)
Amit Awekar (Indian Institute of Technology)

Sketching Linguistic Borders: Mobility Analysis on Multilingual Microbloggers (Page 825)
Muhammad Syafiq Mohd Pozi (Kyoto Sangyo University)
Yukiko Kawai (Kyoto Sangyo University)
Adam Jatowt (Kyoto University)
Toyokazu Akiyama (Kyoto Sangyo University)

A Generic Opinion-Fact Classifier with Application in Understanding Opinionatedness in Various News Section (Page 827)
Ankan Mullick (IIT Kharagpur)
Shivam Maheshwari (IIT Kharagpur)
Soumya C (IIT Kharagpur)
Pawan Goyal (IIT Kharagpur)
Niloy Ganguly (IIT Kharagpur)

Understanding International Migration using Tensor Factorization (Page 829)
Hieu Nguyen (Aalto University)
Kiran Garimella (Aalto University)

Mining Unusual Search Behavior Related to Physical Events (Page 831)
Abhay Prakash (Microsoft)
Parag Agrawal (Microsoft)
Kedhar Nath Narahari (Microsoft)
Puneet Agrawal (Microsoft)

Syntactic Representation Learning for Open Information Extraction on Web (Page 833)
Chengsen Ru (National University of Defense Technology)
Jintao Tang (National University of Defense Technology)
Shasha Li (National University of Defense Technology)
Ting Wang (National University of Defense Technology)

Towards Understanding the Evolution of the WWW Conference (Page 835)
Pavel Savov (Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology)
Adam Jatowt (Kyoto University)
Radoslaw Nielek (Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology)

E-fashion Product Discovery via Deep Text Parsing (Page 837)
Uma Sawant (IIT Bombay)
Vijay Gabale (Huew)
Anand Subramanian (Huew)

Embedding Projection for Query Understanding (Page 839)
Yan Song (Microsoft)
Chia-Jung Lee (Microsoft)

Pairwise Webpage Coreference Classification Using Distant Supervision (Page 841)
S. Subramanian (The University of Melbourne)
Timothy Baldwin (The University of Melbourne)
Julian Brooke (The University of Melbourne)
Trevor Cohn (The University of Melbourne)

PoDiGG: A Public Transport RDF Dataset Generator (Page 843)
Ruben Taelman (Ghent University - imec - IDLab)
Ruben Verborgh (Ghent University - imec - IDLab)
Tom De Nies (Ghent University - imec - IDLab)
Erik Mannens (Ghent University - imec - IDLab)

Learning Extreme Multi-label Tree-classifier via Nearest Neighbor Graph Partitioning (Page 845)
Yukihiro Tagami (Yahoo Japan Corporation)

Euclidean Image Embedding in view of Similarity Ranking in Auction Search by Image (Page 847)
Riku Togashi (Yahoo Japan Corporation)
Hideyuki Maeda (Yahoo Japan Corporation)
Vibhor Kanojia (Yahoo Japan Corporation)
Kousuke Morimoto (Yahoo Japan Corporation)
Sumio Fujita (Yahoo Japan Corporation)

Extending the Balance Theory by Measuring Bidirectional Opinions with Interactive Language (Page 849)
Bo Wang (Tianjin University)
Yingjun Sun (Tianjin University)
Bo Han (Hugo AI)
Yuexian Hou (Tianjin University)
Dawei Song (Tianjin University)

Can Machines Intelligently Propose Novel and Reasonable Scientific Hypotheses? (Page 851)
Pengwei Wang (South China University of Technology)
Zhongyuan Wang (Facebook Inc.)
Lei Ji (Microsoft Research)
Jun Yan (Microsoft Research)
Lianwen Jin (South China University of Technology)

Is Scientific Collaboration Sustainability Predictable? (Page 853)
Wei Wang (Dalian University of Technology)
Zixin Cui (Dalian University of Technology)
Tong Gao (Dalian University of Technology)
Shuo Yu (Dalian University of Technology)
Xiangjie Kong (Dalian University of Technology)
Feng Xia (Dalian University of Technology)

Predicting Online Shopping Search Satisfaction and User Behaviors with Electrodermal Activity (Page 855)
Yingying Wu (The University of Texas at Austin & Tsinghua University)
Yiqun Liu (Tsinghua University)
Ning Su (Tsinghua University)
Shaoping Ma (Tsinghua University)
Wenwu Ou (Alibaba Group)

Large-Scale Wi-Fi Hotspot Classification via Deep Learning (Page 857)
Chang Xu (LinkSure Inc.)
Kuiyu Chang (LinkSure Inc.)
Khee-Chin Chua (LinkSure Inc.)
Meishan Hu (LinkSure Inc.)
Zhenxiang Gao (LinkSure Inc.)

Embedding Identity and Interest for Social Networks (Page 859)
Linchuan Xu (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Xiaokai Wei (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Jiannong Cao (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Philip S. Yu (University of Illinois at Chicago)

On Learning Mixed Community-specific Similarity Metrics for Cold-start Link Prediction (Page 861)
Linchuan Xu (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Xiaokai Wei (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Jiannong Cao (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Philip S. Yu (University of Illinois at Chicago)

Advertising Keyword Recommendation based on Supervised Link Prediction in Multi-Relational Network (Page 863)
Xiao Yang (Baidu, Inc.)
Tao Deng (Baidu, Inc.)
Zhi Guo (Baidu, Inc.)
Zongyao Ding (Baidu, Inc.)

An Effective Framework for Question Answering over Freebase via Reconstructing Natural Sequences (Page 865)
Bin Yue (Nankai University)
Min Gui (Nankai University)
Jiahui Guo (Nankai University)
Zhenglu Yang (Nankai University)
Jin-Mao Wei (Nankai University)
Shaodi You (Data61-CSIRO Australian National University)

Quantifying Structural Patterns of Information Cascades (Page 867)
Chengxi Zang (Tsinghua University)
Peng Cui (Tsinghua University)
Chaoming Song (University of Miami)
Christos Faloutsos (Carnegie Mellon University)
Wenwu Zhu (Tsinghua University)

A Study of How List Format Influences the Visual Search Performance (Page 869)
Fan Zhang (Zhejiang University)
Yingbin Shuai (Zhejiang University)
Siyuan Lin (Zhejiang University)
Xuan Li (Zhejiang University)
Hao Jiang (Zhejiang University)
Cheng Yao (Zhejiang University)
Fangtian Ying (China Academy of Art)

Navigation Configuration and Placement Influences the Visual Search Efficiency and Preference (Page 871)
Fan Zhang (Zhejiang University)
Siyuan Lin (Zhejiang University)
Xuan Li (Zhejiang University)
Yingbin Shuai (Zhejiang University)
Hao Jiang (Zhejiang University)
Cheng Yao (Zhejiang University)
Fangtian Ying (China Academy of Art)
Feng Gao (Alibaba, Inc)

Intelligent RDD Management for High Performance In-Memory Computing in Spark (Page 873)
Mingyue Zhang (Tianjin University)
Renhai Chen (Tianjin University)
Xiaowang Zhang (Tianjin University)
Zhiyong Feng (Tianjin University)
Guozheng Rao (Tianjin University)
Xin Wang (Tianjin University)

On the Primitivity of SPARQL 1.1 Operators (Page 875)
Xiaowang Zhang (Tianjin University)

Improving the Precision of RDF Question/Answering Systems - A Why Not Approach (Page 877)
Xinbo Zhang (Peking University)
Lei Zou (Peking University)

PSMART: Parameter Server based Multiple Additive Regression Trees System (Page 879)
Jun Zhou (Ant Financial Group)
Qing Cui (Alibaba Cloud)
Xiaolong Li (Ant Financial Group)
Peilin Zhao (Ant Financial Group)
Shenquan Qu (Alibaba Cloud)
Jun Huang (Alibaba Cloud)

Sequential Transfer Learning: Cross-domain Novelty Seeking Trait Mining for Recommendation (Page 881)
Fuzhen Zhuang (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Yingmin Zhou (Chinese Academy of Sciences & University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Fuzheng Zhang (Microsoft Research)
Xiang Ao (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Xing Xie (Microsoft Research)
Qing He (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Does Weather Matter? Causal Analysis of TV Logs (Page 883)
Shi Zong (The Ohio State University)
Branislav Kveton (Adobe Research)
Shlomo Berkovsky (CSIRO)
Azin Ashkan (Google Inc.)
Nikos Vlassis (Adobe Research)
Zheng Wen (Adobe Research)

A Concept Language Model for Ad-hoc Retrieval (Page 885)
Bin Zou (University College London)
Vasileios Lampos (University College London)
Shangsong Liang (University College London)
Zhaochun Ren (University College London)
Emine Yilmaz (University College London)
Ingemar Cox (University College London)

Tutorial Track

WWW2017 Tutorial Chairs' Welcome Message (Page 899)
Eyhab Al-Masri (University of Waterloo)
Jianxin Li (University of Western Australia)
Adam Osseiran (Edith Cowan University)

Tutorial Presentations

Semantic Data Management in Practice (Page 901)
Olaf Hartig (Linköping University)
Olivier Curé (UPEM)

Towards Semantic Applications: from Knowledge Management to Data Publishing on the Web (Page 905)
Dung Xuan Thi Le (Semantic Software Asia Pacific)
Michel Heon (Cotechnoe Inc)
Nick Volmer (Semantic Software Asia Pacific)

Caching at the Web Scale: [Tutorial] (Page 909)
Victor Zakhary (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Divyakant Agrawal (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Amr El Abbadi (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Distributed Machine Learning: Foundations, Trends, and Practices (Page 913)
Tie-Yan Liu (Microsoft Research)
Wei Chen (Microsoft Research)
Taifeng Wang (Microsoft Research)

Semantic Web Meets Internet of Things and Web of Things: [2nd Edition] (Page 917)
Amelie Gyrard (Univ Lyon, MINES Saint-Étienne, CNRS, Laboratoire Hubert Curien)
Pankesh Patel (ABB Corporate Research)
Soumya Kanti Datta (Eurecom)
Muhammad Intizar Ali (Insight Center for Data Anlytics)

Computational Models for Social Network Analysis: A Brief Survey (Page 921)
Jie Tang (Tsinghua University)

The Lifecycle of Geotagged Data (Page 927)
Rossano Schifanella (University of Turin)
Bart Thomee (Google)
David A. Shamma (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica)

Scalable Deep Document / Sequence Reasoning with Cognitive Toolkit (Page 931)
Sayan Pathak (Microsoft Research)
Pengcheng He (Microsoft China)
William Darling (Microsoft Search Technology Center)

Digital Demography (Page 935)
Ingmar Weber (Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU)
Bogdan State (Stanford University)

Recommendation in Context-Rich Environment: An Information Network Analysis Approach (Page 941)
Yizhou Sun (University of California, Los Angeles)
Hongzhi Yin (The University of Queensland)
Xiang Ren (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Antisocial Behavior on the Web: Characterization and Detection (Page 947)
Srijan Kumar (University of Maryland, College Park)
Justin Cheng (Stanford University)
Jure Leskovec (Stanford University)

Constructing Structured Information Networks from Massive Text Corpora (Page 951)
Xiang Ren (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Meng Jiang (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Jingbo Shang (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Jiawei Han (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

Large Scale Distributed Data Science from scratch using Apache Spark 2.0 (Page 955)
James Shanahan (University of California, Berkeley)
Liang Dai (University of California Santa Cruz)

WebScience Track

WWW 2017 Web Science Chairs' Welcome (Page 959)
Clare J. Hooper (Independent)
Jim Hendler (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

WebScience Track Session 1: Social Networks & User Modelling
Session Chair: Ramine Tinati (University of Southampton)

Web Science @ 10 (Page 961)
Wendy Hall (University of Southampton)

The Paradigm-Shift of Social Spambots: Evidence, Theories, and Tools for the Arms Race (Page 963)
Stefano Cresci (National Research Council & University of Pisa)
Roberto Di Pietro (Nokia Bell Labs & University of Padua)
Marinella Petrocchi (National Research Council)
Angelo Spognardi (DTU Compute)
Maurizio Tesconi (National Research Council)

Ties That Bind - Characterizing Classes by Attributes and Social Ties (Page 973)
Aria Rezaei (Stony Brook University)
Bryan Perozzi (Google Research)
Leman Akoglu (Carnegie Mellon University)

Detecting Strong Ties Using Network Motifs (Page 983)
Rahmtin Rotabi (Cornell University)
Krishna Kamath (Twitter Inc.)
Jon Kleinberg (Cornell University)
Aneesh Sharma (Twitter Inc.)

WebScience Track Session 2: Web Mining
Session Chair: Jorge Goncalves (University of Oulu)

Restaurant Survival Analysis with Heterogeneous Information (Page 993)
Jianxun Lian (University of Science and Technology of China)
Fuzheng Zhang (Microsoft Research)
Xing Xie (Microsoft Research)
Guangzhong Sun (University of Science and Technology of China)

Where the Truth Lies: Explaining the Credibility of Emerging Claims on the Web and Social Media (Page 1003)
Kashyap Popat (Max Planck Institute for Informatics)
Subhabrata Mukherjee (Max Planck Institute for Informatics)
Jannik Strötgen (Max Planck Institute for Informatics)
Gerhard Weikum (Max Planck Institute for Informatics)

Kissing Cuisines: Exploring Worldwide Culinary Habits on the Web (Page 1013)
Sina Sajadmanesh (Sharif University of Technology)
Sina Jafarzadeh (Sharif University of Technology)
Seyed Ali Ossia (Sharif University of Technology)
Hamid R. Rabiee (Sharif University of Technology)
Hamed Haddadi (Queen Mary University of London)
Yelena Mejova (Qatar Computing Research Institute)
Mirco Musolesi (University College London)
Emiliano De Cristofaro (University College London)
Gianluca Stringhini (University College London)

WebScience Track Session 3: Understanding Networks
Session Chair: Bryan Perozzi (Stony Brook University)

Task Routing and Assignment in Crowdsourcing based on Cognitive Abilities (Page 1023)
Jorge Goncalves (The University of Melbourne & University of Oulu)
Michael Feldman (University of Zurich)
Subingqian Hu (University of Oulu)
Vassilis Kostakos (The University of Melbourne & University of Oulu)
Abraham Bernstein (University of Zurich)

Is Tofu the Cheese of Asia? Searching for Corresponding Objects across Geographical Areas (Page 1033)
Yating Zhang (Kyoto University & Nara Institute of Science and Technology)
Adam Jatowt (Kyoto University)
Katsumi Tanaka (Kyoto University)

Improving the Transparency of the Sharing Economy (Page 1043)
Mathias Lecuyer (Columbia University)
Max Tucker (Columbia University)
Augustin Chaintreau (Columbia University)

WebScience Track Session 4: Health
Session Chair: Hamid R Rabiee (Sharif University of Technology)

Online Engagement for a Healthier You: A Case Study of Web-based Supermarket Health Program (Page 1053)
Ling Luo (University of Sydney & CSIRO)
Bin Li (CSIRO)
Shlomo Berkovsky (CSIRO)
Irena Koprinska (University of Sydney)
Fang Chen (CSIRO)

A Warm Welcome Matters! The Link Between Social Feedback and Weight Loss in /r/loseit (Page 1063)
Tiago Cunha (Qatar Computing Research Institute & Federal University of Minas Gerais)
Ingmar Weber (Qatar Computing Research Institute)
Gisele Pappa (Federal University of Minas Gerais)

"We Make Choices We Think are Going to Save Us": Debate and Stance Identification for Online Breast Cancer CAM Discussions (Page 1073)
Shaodian Zhang (Columbia University)
Lin Qiu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
Frank Chen (Columbia University)
Weinan Zhang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
Yong Yu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
Noémie Elhadad (Columbia University)

AMCH'17: Workshop on Aging Well with Technology for Maintaining Good Mental and Cognitive Health

AMCH 2017 Workshop @ WWW 2017 Chairs' Welcome Message & Organization List (Page 1083)
Mark Chignell (University of Toronto)
Jonathan H. Chan (King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi)

AMCH'17 Invited Talk
Session Chair: Vajirasak Vanijja (King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi)

Longitudinal Ambient Mobile Sensor Monitoring for TCM-oriented Healthcare Assessments: Framework, Challenges and Applications (Page 1087)
Simon Fong (University of Macau)
Yan Zhuang (University of Macau)
Shimin Hu (University of Macau)
Wei Song (North China University of Technology)
Liansheng Liu (First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of TCM)
Luiz Abel Moutinho (Dublin City University)

AMCH'17 Session 1: Technology
Session Chair: Andrea Wilkinson (University of Toronto)

Evolution of Smart Homes for the Elderly (Page 1095)
Bethany Kon (University of Toronto)
Alex Lam (University of Toronto)
Jonathan Chan (King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi)

Journeys to Engagement: Ambient Activity Technologies for People Living with Dementia (Page 1103)
Andrea Wilkinson (University of Toronto)
Vishuda Charoenkitkarn (University of Toronto)
Judy O'Neill (Grandview Lodge)
Marc Kanik (Ambient Activity Technologies)
Mark Chignell (University of Toronto)

Serious Games for Dementia (Page 1111)
Tiffany Tong (University of Toronto)
Jonathan H. Chan (King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi)
Mark Chignell (University of Toronto)

The Effect of Aging on Visual Attention Shifting in Collaborative Document Editing (Page 1117)
Patricia Duangcham (King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi)
Vajirasak Vanijja (King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi)
Sachi Mizobuchi (Vocalage Inc)

AMCH'17 Session 2: Data Analytics
Session Chair: Kitsuchart Pasupa (King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang)

A Video Quality Prediction Model for the Elderly (Page 1121)
Debajyoti Pal (King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi)
Vajirasak Vanijja (King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi)

On Recognizing Abnormal Human Behaviours by Data Stream Mining with Misclassified Recalls (Page 1129)
Simon Fong (University of Macau)
Shimin Hu (University of Macau)
Wei Song (North China University of Technology)
Kyungeun Cho (Dongguk University)
Raymond K. Wong (University of New South Wales)
Sabah Mohammed (Lakehead University)

Distillation of Knowledge from the Research Literature on Alzheimer's Dementia (Page 1137)
Wutthipong Kongburan (King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi)
Mark Chignell (University of Toronto)
Jonathan Chan (King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi)

Risk Quantification of Metabolic Syndrome with Quantum Particle Swarm Optimisation (Page 1141)
Habeebah A. Kakudi (University of Malaya)
Chu Kiong Loo (University of Malaya)
Kitsuchart Pasupa (King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang)

AW4City'17: 3rd International Smart City Workshop

AW4City'17 Chairs' Welcome & Organization (Page 1149)
Leonidas Anthopoulos (University of Applied Science (TEI) of Thessaly)
Marijn Janssen (Delft University of Technology)
Vishanth Weerakkody (Brunel University London Uxbridge)

AW4City'17 Keynote Talk
Session Chair: Leonidas Anthopoulos (TEI of Thessaly, Greece)

Digital City, Smart City and Beyond (Page 1151)
Toru Ishida (Kyoto University)

AW4City'17 Session 1: Web Applications and Smart Cities for Urban Livability's enhancement - Paradigms and Suggestions
Session Chair: Leonidas Anthopoulos (TEI of Thessaly, Greece)

Sensor-based Linked Open Rules (S-LOR): An Automated Rule Discovery Approach for IoT Applications and its use in Smart Cities (Page 1153)
Amelie Gyrard (Univ Lyon, MINES Saint-Étienne, CNRS, Laboratoire Hubert Curien)
Martin Serrano (Insight Center for Data Analytics, NUIG)
Joao Bosco Jares (Insight Center for Data Analytics, NUIG)
Soumya Kanti Datta (Eurecom)
Muhammad Intizar Ali (Insight Center for Data Analytics, NUIG)

Establishing Smart City Technical Standards and Guidance: A Way Forward (Page 1161)
Stephen Cohen (Microsoft Corp)
William Money (The Citadel School of Business)

CityDNA: Smart City Dimensions' Correlations for Identifying Urban Profile (Page 1167)
Vaia Moustaka (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Athena Vakali (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Leonidas G. Anthopoulos (University of Applied Science (TEI) of Thessaly)

Vol4All: A Volunteering Platform to Drive Innovation and Citizens Empowerment (Page 1173)
Athena Vakali (Aristotle University)
Ioannis Dematis (Aristotle University)
Athanasios Tolikas (Aristotle University)

BigNet'17: 2nd International Workshop on Big Network Analytics

BigNet'17 Workshop Chairs' Welcome (Page 1179)
Jie Tang (Tsinghua University)
Michalis Vazirgiannis (Ecole Polytechnique)
Hanghang Tong (Arizona State University)
Yuxiao Dong (Notre Dame University)

BigNet'17 Keynote Talk 1
Session Chair: Jie Tang (Tsinghua University)

Graph of Words: Boosting Text Mining Tasks with Graphs (Page 1181)
Michalis Vazirgiannis (Ecole Polytechnique)

BigNet'17 Session 1
Session Chair: Jie Tang (Tsinghua University)

Smart Jump: Automated Navigation Suggestion for Videos in MOOCs (Page 1183)
Han Zhang (Tsinghua University)

BigNet'17 Keynote Talk 3
Session Chair: Michalis Vazirgiannis (Ecole Polytechnique)

Constructing Knowledge Nets from Real-world Natural Language Texts (Page 1185)
Wei Liu (The University of Western Australia)

BigNet'17 Session 2
Session Chair: Michalis Vazirgiannis (Ecole Polytechnique)

Centrality-based Group Formation in Group Recommender Systems (Page 1187)
Hamidreza Mahyar (Vienna University of Technology)
Elahe Ghalebi K. (Vienna University of Technology)
S. Mojde Morshedi (Sharif University of Technology)
Saina Khalili (Sharif University of Technology)
Radu Grosu (Vienna University of Technology)
Ali Movaghar (Sharif University of Technology)

BigScholar'17: 4th WWW Workshop on Big Scholarly Data

BigScholar'17 Workshop Chairs' Welcome Message & Organization (Page 1197)
Feng Xia (Dalian University of Technology)
Huan Liu (Arizona State University)
Irwin King (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Kuansan Wang (Microsoft Research)

BigScholar'17 Keynote Talks

Understanding the Impacts of Open Access: Specialist Scholarly Books and their Communities (Page 1199)
Lucy Montgomery (Curtin University)

Overview of Influence Maximization in Social Media Data Analytics (Page 1201)
Jianxin Li (University of Western Australia)

BigScholar'17 Session 1

BD2K ERuDIte: the Educational Resource Discovery Index for Data Science (Page 1203)
José Luis Ambite (University of Southern California)
Lily Fierro (University of Southern California)
Florian Geigl (Graz University of Technology)
Jonathan Gordon (University of Southern California)
Gully APC Burns (University of Southern California)
Kristina Lerman (University of Southern California)
John D. Van Horn (University of Southern California)

Providing Research Graph Data in JSON-LD Using Schema.org (Page 1213)
Jingbo Wang (The Australian National University)
Amir Aryani (The Australian National University)
Lesley Wyborn (The Australian National University)
Ben Evans (The Australian National University)

BigScholar'17 Session 2

Building and Analyzing a Global Co-Authorship Network Using Google Scholar Data (Page 1219)
Yang Chen (Fudan University & Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Cong Ding (Cornell University)
Jiyao Hu (Fudan University & Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Ruichuan Chen (Nokia Bell Labs)
Pan Hui (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Xiaoming Fu (University of Goettingen)

From Citation Network to Study Map: A Novel Model to Reorganize Academic Literatures (Page 1225)
Shibo Tao (Peking University)
Xiaorong Wang (China Electric Power Research Institute)
Weijing Huang (Peking University)
Wei Chen (Peking University)
Tengjiao Wang (Peking University)
Kai Lei (Peking University)

Integrating the Trend of Research Interest for Reviewer Assignment (Page 1233)
Jian Jin (Beijing Normal University)
Qian Geng (Beijing Normal University)
Qian Zhao (Beijing Normal University)
Lixue Zhang (Beijing Normal University)

Evaluating the Impact of Articles with Geographical Distances between Institutions (Page 1243)
Xiaomei Bai (Dalian University of Technology & Anshan Normal University)
Jie Hou (Dalian University of Technology)
Hongzhuang Du (Dalian University of Technology)
Xiangjie Kong (Dalian University of Technology)
Feng Xia (Dalian University of Technology)

Analysing Trends in Computer Science Research: A Preliminary Study Using The Microsoft Academic Graph (Page 1245)
Suhendry Effendy (National University of Singapore)
Roland H. C. Yap (National University of Singapore)

BigScholar'17 Session 3

Predicting the Impact of Software Engineering Topics: An Empirical Study (Page 1251)
Santonu Sarkar (Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani)
Rumana Lakdawala (Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani)
Subhajit Datta (Singapore University of Technology and Design)

An Observation of Research Complexity in Top Universities Based on Research Publications (Page 1259)
Ivan Lee (University of South Australia)
Feng Xia (Dalian University of Technology)
Göran Roos (Nanyang Technological University)

BigScholar'17 Session 4

Scientific Article Recommendation by using Distributed Representations of Text and Graph (Page 1267)
Shashank Gupta (International Institute of Information Technology)
Vasudeva Varma (International Institute of Information Technology)

Top-K Entity Units Retrieval Over Big Data (Page 1269)
Da Zhang (University of Miami)
Mansur R. Kabuka (University of Miami)

Deep Mapping of the Visual Literature (Page 1273)
Bill Howe (University of Washington)
Po-shen Lee (University of Washington)
Maxim Grechkin (University of Washington)
Sean T. Yang (University of Washington)
Jevin D. West (University of Washington)

Visualizing Scholarly Publications and Citations to Enhance Author Profiles (Page 1279)
Jason Portenoy (University of Washington)
Jevin D. West (University of Washington)

CyberSafety'17: 2nd International Workshop on Computational Methods in CyberSafety

CyberSafety 2017 Chairs' Welcome (Page 1283)
Shivakant Mishra (University of Colorado Boulder)
Jeremy Blackburn (Telefonica Research)
Bert Huang (Virginia Tech)
Qin Lv (University of Colorado Boulder)
Homa Hosseinmardi (Danaher Labs)

CyberSafety'17 Presentations

Measuring #GamerGate: A Tale of Hate, Sexism, and Bullying (Page 1285)
Despoina Chatzakou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Nicolas Kourtellis (Telefonica Research)
Jeremy Blackburn (Telefonica Research)
Emiliano De Cristofaro (University College London)
Gianluca Stringhini (University College London)
Athena Vakali (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)

Scamming the Scammers: Towards Automatic Detection of Persuasion in Advance Fee Frauds (Page 1291)
Matthew Edwards (Lancaster University)
Claudia Peersman (Lancaster University)
Awais Rashid (Lancaster University)

Flipping 419 Cybercrime Scams: Targeting the Weak and the Vulnerable (Page 1301)
Gibson Mba (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Jeremiah Onaolapo (University College London)
Gianluca Stringhini (University College London)
Lorenzo Cavallaro (Royal Holloway, University of London)

Ethical and Social Challenges with Developing Automated Methods to Detect and Warn Potential Victims of Mass-Marketing Fraud (MMF) (Page 1311)
Monica Whitty (University of Warwick)
Matthew Edwards (University of Lancaster)
Michael Levi (Cardiff University)
Claudia Peersman (University of Lancaster)
Awais Rashid (University of Lancaster)
Angela Sasse (University College London)
Tom Sorell (University of Warwick)
Gianluca Stringhini (University College London)

IWSC'17: 1st International Workshop on Social Computing

IWSC 2017 Chairs' Welcome & Organization (Page 1315)
Rui Zhang (University of Melbourne)
Mark Reynolds (University of Western Australia)
Jianxin Li (University of Western Australia)
Muhammad Aamir Cheema (Monash University)
Hongzhi Yin (The University of Queensland)
Ling Chen (University of Technology Sydney)

IWSC'17 Keynote Talk

User Stance Prediction via Online Behavior Mining (Page 1317)
Yizhou Sun (University of California, Los Angeles)

IWSC'17 Session 1: Social Media Data Mining

Understanding the User Display Names across Social Networks (Page 1319)
Yongjun Li (Northwestern Polytechnical University)
You Peng (Northwestern Polytechnical University)
Zhen Zhang (Northwestern Polytechnical University)
Quanqing Xu (Data Storage Institute, A*STAR)
Hongzhi Yin (The University of Queensland)

Predicting Prevalence of Influenza-Like Illness From Geo-Tagged Tweets (Page 1327)
Kewei Zhang (University of Queensland & CSIRO Data 61)
Reza Arablouei (CSIRO Data 61)
Raja Jurdak (CSIRO Data 61 & University of Queensland)

User Relation Prediction Based on Matrix Factorization and Hybrid Particle Swarm Optimization (Page 1335)
Zhenkun Shi (Jilin University)
Wanli Zuo (Jilin University)
Weitong Chen (The University of Queensland)
Lin Yue (Northeast Normal University)
Jiayu Han (Jilin University)
Lizhou Feng (Tianjin University of Finance and Economics)

Extracting Implicit Social Relation for Social Recommendation Techniques in User Rating Prediction (Page 1343)
Seyed Mohammad Taheri (Sharif University of Technology)
Hamidreza Mahyar (Sharif University of Technology)
Mohammad Firouzi (Sharif University of Technology)
Elahe Ghalebi K. (Vienna University of Technology)
Radu Grosu (Vienna University of Technology)
Ali Movaghar (Sharif University of Technology)

People Opinion Topic Model: Opinion based User Clustering in Social Networks (Page 1353)
Hongxu Chen (The University of Queensland)
Hongzhi Yin (The University of Queensland)
Xue Li (The University of Queensland)
Meng Wang (Xi'an Jiaotong University)
Weitong Chen (The University of Queensland)
Tong Chen (The University of Queensland)

IWSC'17 Keynote Talk

Beyond Understanding and Prediction: Data Mining for Action (Page 1361)
Jiuyong Li (University of South Australia)

IWSC'17 Session 2: Social Media Query Processing

Efficient Content Distribution in DOOH Advertising Networks Exploiting Urban Geo-Social Connectivity (Page 1363)
Fang-Zhou Jiang (Data61, CSIRO & UNSW)
Kanchana Thilakarathna (Data61, CSIRO & UNSW)
Mahbub Hassan (Data61, CSIRO & UNSW)
Yusheng Ji (National Institute of Informatics)
Aruna Seneviratne (Data61, CSIRO & UNSW)

Random Walk-based Beneficial Collaborators Recommendation Exploiting Dynamic Research Interests and Academic Influence (Page 1371)
Xiangjie Kong (Dalian University of Technology)
Huizhen Jiang (Dalian University of Technology)
Teshome Megersa Bekele (Dalian University of Technology)
Wei Wang (Dalian University of Technology)
Zhenzhen Xu (Dalian University of Technology)

Query Processing in Location-Based Social Networks (Page 1379)
Ammar Sohail (Monash University)
David Taniar (Monash University)
Andreas Züfle (George Mason University)
Park Jeong-ho (Gachon University)

Efficient Maximum Flow Maintenance on Dynamic Networks (Page 1383)
Sergio Greco (University of Calabria)
Cristian Molinaro (University of Calabria)
Chiara Pulice (University of Maryland)
Ximena Quintana (University of Calabria)

IWSC'17 Session 3: Social Media Intelligent Computation

Worker Viewpoints: Valuable Feedback for Microtask Designers in Crowdsourcing (Page 1387)
Ryota Hayashi (University of Tsukuba)
Nobuyuki Shimizu (Yahoo Japan Corporation)
Atsuyuki Morishima (University of Tsukuba)

Local Low-Rank Matrix Approximation with Preference Selection of Anchor Points (Page 1395)
Menghao Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications)
Binbin Hu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications)
Chuan Shi (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications)
Bai Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications)

Item Group Recommendation: A Method Based on Game Theory (Page 1405)
Limeng Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Rui Zhou (The University of Adelaide)
Haixin Jiang (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Hua Wang (Victoria University)
Yanchun Zhang (Victoria University)

Hybrid Crowdsensing: A Novel Paradigm to Combine the Strengths of Opportunistic and Participatory Crowdsensing (Page 1413)
Marco Avvenuti (University of Pisa & National Research Council)
Salvatore Bellomo (National Research Council)
Stefano Cresci (National Research Council)
Mariantonietta Noemi La Polla (National Research Council)
Maurizio Tesconi (National Research Council)

Aspect of Blame in Tweets: A Deep Recurrent Neural Network Approach (Page 1423)
Herman Wandabwa (Auckland University of Technology)
M. Asif Naeem (Auckland University of Technology)
Farhaan Mirza (Auckland University of Technology)

Deep Graph Clustering in Social Network (Page 1425)
Pengwei Hu (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Keith C. C. Chan (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Tiantian He (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

LD-DL'17: 1st Workshop on Linked Data & Distributed Ledgers

LD-DL 2017 Chairs' Welcome & Organization (Page 1427)
Elena Simperl (University of Southampton)
John Domingue (The Open University)
Fabien Gandon (Université de Cote d'Azurr, INRIA, CNRS, I3S)
Luis-Daniel Ibanez (University of Southampton)

LD-DL'17 Keynote Talk

LD-DL'17 Workshop Keynote Talk By Many Sporny: Building Better Blockchains Via Linked Data (Page 1429)
Manu Sporny (Digital Bazaar, Inc.)

LD-DL'17 Session 1: Accepted Papers

Linked Data Indexing of Distributed Ledgers (Page 1431)
Allan Third (The Open University)
John Domingue (The Open University)

Preserving the Archival Bond in Distributed Ledgers: A Data Model and Syntax (Page 1437)
Victoria L. Lemieux (The University of British Columbia)
Manu Sporny (Digital Bazaar)

DL-BAC: Distributed Ledger Based Access Control for Web Applications (Page 1445)
Lei Xu (University of Houston)
Lin Chen (University of Houston)
Nolan Shah (University of Houston)
Zhimin Gao (University of Houston)
Yang Lu (University of Houston)
Weidong Shi (University of Houston)

LD-DL'17 Keynote Talk

Distributed Ledgers & Linked Data (Page 1451)
Peter Evans-Greenwood (Deloitte)

LocWeb'17: 7th International Workshop on Location & the Web

LocWeb 2017 Chairs' Welcome & Organization (Page 1453)
Dirk Ahlers (NTNU)
Erik Wilde (CA Technologies)

LocWeb'17 Presentations

Understanding Indoor Behavior: Where, What, with Whom? (Page 1455)
Martin Tomko (The University of Melbourne)

Spatial Analysis of Social Media Response to Live Events: The Case of the Milano Fashion Week (Page 1457)
Marco Brambilla (Politecnico di Milano)
Stefano Ceri (Politecnico di Milano)
Florian Daniel (Politecnico di Milano)
Gianmarco Donetti (Politecnico di Milano)

Could Data from Location-Based Social Networks Be Used to Support Urban Planning? (Page 1463)
Rodrigo Smarzaro (Universidade Federal de Viçosa)
Tiago França de Melo Lima (Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto)
Clodoveu A. Davis Jr. (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)

Predicting Train Occupancies based on Query Logs and External Data Sources (Page 1469)
Gilles Vandewiele (Ghent University)
Pieter Colpaert (Ghent University)
Olivier Janssens (Ghent University)
Joachim Van Herwegen (Ghent University)
Ruben Verborgh (Ghent University)
Erik Mannens (Ghent University)
Femke Ongenae (Ghent University)
Filip De Turck (Ghent University)

MSM'17: 8th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media

MSM'17 Workshop Chairs' Welcome Message & Organization: Chairs' Welcome Message (Page 1475)
Martin Atzmueller (Tilburg University)
Shlomo Berkovsky (CSIRO)
Alvin Chin (BMW Technology Corp.)
Jianxin Li (University of Western Australia)
Christoph Trattner (MODUL University Vienna)

MSM'17 Presentations

An Analysis on a YouTube-like UGC site with Enhanced Social Features (Page 1477)
Adele Lu Jia (China Agricultural University)
Siqi Shen (National University of Defense Technology)
Shengling Chen (National University of Defense Technology)
Dongsheng Li (National University of Defense Technology)
Alexandru Iosup (Delft University of Technology)

Using Retweet Information as a Feature to Classify Messages Contents (Page 1485)
David Burth Kurka (Imperial College London & University of Campinas)
Alan Godoy (CPqD Foundation & University of Campinas)
Fernando J. Von Zuben (University of Campinas)

The Nature and Origin of Heavy Tails in Retweet Activity (Page 1493)
Peter Mathews (The University of Adelaide)
Lewis Mitchell (The University of Adelaide)
Giang Nguyen (The University of Adelaide)
Nigel Bean (The University of Adelaide)

Particle Filter Inference based on Activities for Overlapping Community Models (Page 1499)
Shohei Sakamoto (Kobe University)
Koji Eguchi (Kobe University)

Structural Aspects of User Roles in Information Cascades (Page 1505)
Io Taxidou (University of Freiburg)
Peter M. Fischer (University of Freiburg)

SNOW'17: 4th Workshop on Social News on the Web

SNOW 2017 Chairs' Welcome & Organization (Page 1511)
Gianmarco De Francisci Morales (Qatar Computing Research Institute)
Luca Maria Aiello (Nokia Bell Labs)
Symeon Papadopoulos (CERTH-ITI)
Haewoon Kwak (Qatar Computing Research Institute)

SNOW'17 Presentations

Distilling Information Reliability and Source Trustworthiness from Digital Traces (Page 1513)
Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems)

Now You See It, Now You Don't! A Study of Content Modification Behavior in Facebook (Page 1515)
Fuxiang Chen (Singapore Management University)
Ee-Peng Lim (Singapore Management University)

Changing News Media Landscape in South Korea (Page 1521)
Hongjun Lim (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Choongho Chung (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Jihee Kim (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Juho Kim (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Sue Moon (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Meeyoung Cha (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)

SST'17: Sustainability & Smart Technology Workshop 2017

SST 2017 Chairs' Welcome & Organization: Sustainability and Smart Technologies (Page 1527)
Tomayess Issa (Curtin Univeristy)
S Zhang Nau (Curtin Univeristy)
Janya Chanchaichujit (Walailak University)
Theodora Issa (Curtin University)

SST'17 Keynote Talk
Session Chair: Nau Zaung (Curtin University - Australia)

Sustainability and Smart Technology (Page 1529)
Dora Marinova (CUSP - Curtin University)

SST'17 Session 1: Sustainable Strategy
Session Chair: Theodora Issa (Curtin University - Australia)

Green Virtual Network Embedding for Collaborative Edge Computing in Environment-Friendly Optical-Wireless Networks (Page 1531)
Xiaoxue Gong (Northeastern University)
Lei Guo (Northeastern University)
Zhaolong Ning (Dalian University of Technology)

Knowledge Base Smarter Articulations for the Open Directory Project in a Sustainable Digital Ecosystem (Page 1537)
Shastri L. Nimmagadda (Curtin University)
Dengya Zhu (Curtin University)
Amit Rudra (Curtin University)

SST'17 Session 2: Sustainble Design
Session Chair: Tomayess Issa (Curtin Uiversity - Australia)

Sustainable Strategy for Recycling Edge Devices in Internet of Everything Networks (Page 1547)
Weigang Hou (Northeastern University)
Zhaolong Ning (Dalian University of Technology)
Lei Guo (Northeastern University)

Holistic Approach for Sustainable Adaptable User Interfaces for People with Autism Spectrum Disorder (Page 1553)
Claudia De Los Rios Perez (Curtin University)
David A. McMeekin (Curtin University)
Marita Falkmer (Curtin University)
Tele Tan (Curtin University)

TempWeb'17: The 7th Temporal Web Analytics Workshop

TempWeb 2017 Chairs' Welcome & Organization (Page 1557)
Marc Spaniol (University of Caen Normandy)
Ricardo Baeza-Yates (NTENT)
Julien Masanès (Internet Memory Foundation)

TempWeb'17 Session 1: (Alternative) Facts
Session Chair: Marc Spaniol (University of Caen)

What Computers Should Know, Shouldn't Know, and Shouldn't Believe (Page 1559)
Gerhard Weikum (Max Planck Institute for Informatics)

The Werther Effect Revisited: Measuring the Effect of News Items on User Behavior (Page 1561)
Elad Yom-Tov (Microsoft Research)
Shira H. Fischer (RAND Corporation)

TempWeb'17 Session 2: Dynamics
Session Chair: Jannik Strötgen (Max Planck Institute for Informatics)

Nonlinear Characterization of Activity Dynamics in Online Collaboration Websites (Page 1567)
Tiago Santos (Know-Center)
Simon Walk (Stanford University)
Denis Helic (Graz University of Technology)

Exploring the Impact of Trolls on Activity Dynamics in Real-World Collaboration Networks (Page 1573)
Philipp Koncar (Graz University of Technology)
Simon Walk (Stanford University)
Denis Helic (Graz University of Technology)
Markus Strohmaier (GESIS & University of Koblenz-Landau)

Describing Patterns and Disruptions in Large Scale Mobile App Usage Data (Page 1579)
Steven Van Canneyt (Ghent University)
Marc Bron (Yahoo)
Andy Haines (Yahoo)
Mounia Lalmas (Yahoo)

TempWeb'17 Session 3: Temporality & Intelligence
Session Chair: Simon Walk (Stanford University)

Interval Signature: Persistence and Distinctiveness of Inter-event Time Distributions in Online Human Behavior (Page 1585)
Jiwan Jeong (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Sue Moon (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)

Tiwiki: Searching Wikipedia with Temporal Constraints (Page 1595)
Prabal Agarwal (Max Planck Institute for informatics)
Jannik Strötgen (Max Planck Institute for informatics)

Temporal Patterns in Bot Activities (Page 1601)
Nikan Chavoshi (University of New Mexico)
Hossein Hamooni (University of New Mexico)
Abdullah Mueen (University of New Mexico)

Wiki Workshop @ WWW 2017

Wiki Workshop 2017 Chairs' Welcome & Organization (Page 1607)
Robert West (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
Leila Zia (Wikimedia Foundation)
Dario Taraborelli (Wikimedia Foundation)
Jure Leskovec (Stanford University)

Wiki Workshop Presentations

Is Interaction More Important than Individual Performance? A Study of Motifs in Wikia (Page 1609)
Thomas Arnold (Technische Universität Darmstadt)
Johannes Daxenberger (Technische Universität Darmstadt)
Iryna Gurevych (Technische Universität Darmstadt)
Karsten Weihe (Technische Universität Darmstadt)

Wikipedia Verification Check: A Chrome Browser Extension (Page 1619)
Reed H. Harder (Dartmouth College)
Alfredo Velasco (Duke University)
Michael Evans (Dartmouth College)
Chuankai An (Dartmouth College)
Daniel Rockmore (Dartmouth College)

A Vision for Performing Social and Economic Data Analysis using Wikipedia's Edit History (Page 1627)
Erik Dahm (Uni Konstanz)
Moritz Schubotz (Uni Konstannz)
Norman Meuschke (Uni Konstanz)
Bela Gipp (Uni Konstanz)

Etytree: A Graphical and Interactive Etymology Dictionary based on Wiktionary (Page 1635)
Ester Pantaleo (Wikimedia Foundation Grantee)
Vito Walter Anelli (Politecnico di Bari)
Tommaso Di Noia (Politecnico di Bari)
Gilles Sérasset (University Grenoble Alpes, CNRS)

Notability Determination for Wikipedia (Page 1641)
Yashaswi Pochampally (IIIT Hyderabad)
Kamalakar Karlapalem (IIIT Hyderabad)

Building Automated Vandalism Detection Tools for Wikidata (Page 1647)
Amir Sarabadani (Wikimedia Deutschland)
Aaron Halfaker (Wikimedia Research)
Dario Taraborelli (Wikimedia Research)

DAWT: Densely Annotated Wikipedia Texts Across Multiple Languages (Page 1655)
Nemanja Spasojevic (Lithium Technologies - Klout)
Preeti Bhargava (Lithium Technologies - Klout)
Guoning Hu (Lithium Technologies - Klout)

WOW'17: Web Observatory Workshop 2017

WOW 2017 Workshop Chairs' Welcome & Organization (Page 1663)
David De Roure (University of Oxford)
Wendy Hall (University of Southampton)

WOW'17 Presentations

Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) Web Observatory: Applying Lessons from the Web to Transform the Research Data Ecosystem (Page 1665)
Simon Price (University of Bristol)
Wendy Hall (University of Southampton)
Graeme Earl (University of Southampton)
Thanassis Tiropanis (University of Southampton)
Ramine Tinati (University of Southampton)
Xin Wang (University of Southampton)
Eleonora Gandolfi (University of Southampton)
Jane Gatewood (University of Rochester)
Richard Boateng (University of Ghana)
David Denemark (The University of Western Australia)
Alexander Groflin (University of Basel)
Brian Loader (University of York)
Maxine Schmidt (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Marilyn Billings (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Gerasimos Spanakis (Universiteit Maastricht)
Hussein Suleman (University of Cape Town)
Kelvin Tsoi (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Bridgette Wessels (Newcastle University)
Jie Xu (University of Leeds)
Mark Birkin (University of Leeds)

The Role of Crowdsourcing in the Emerging Internet-Of-Things (Page 1669)
Ramine Tinati (University of Southampton)
Aastha Madaan (University of Southampton)
Wendy Hall (University of Southampton)

Sharing Databases on the Web with Porter Proxy (Page 1673)
Xin Wang (University of Southampton)
Aastha Madaan (University of Southampton)
Eugene Siow (University of Southampton)
Thanassis Tiropanis (University of Southampton)

Alienated Digital Identities (Page 1677)
Rongxin Zhang (Pratt Institute)

Other Co-Located Workshop Summaries

LDOW2017: 10th Workshop on Linked Data on the Web (Page 1679)
Jens Lehmann (University of Bonn)
Sören Auer (University of Bonn)
Sarven Capadisli (University of Bonn)
Krzysztof Janowicz (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Christian Bizer (University of Mannheim)
Tom Heath (Arup)
Aidan Hogan (DCC, Universidad de Chile)
Tim Berners-Lee (W3C & Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

SAVE-SD 2017: Third Workshop on Semantics, Analytics and Visualisation: Enhancing Scholarly Data (Page 1681)
Alejandra Gonzalez-Beltran (University of Oxford)
Francesco Osborne (Open University)
Silvio Peroni (University of Bologna)
Sahar Vahdati (University of Bonn)