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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

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Keynote Talks

Session 5B: Crowdsourcing 2

Session 1B: Ad Auctions

Session 5C: Security 2

Session 1C: Cloud and Sharing Economy

Session 5D: User Modeling 1

Session 1D: Computational Health

Session 5G: Social 2

Session 1G: Ubiquitous and Mobile 1

Session 5H: Information Extraction

Session 1H: Recommeder Systems 1

Session 6B: Machine Learning

Session 2B: Algorithms and Theory 1

Session 6C: Spam Detection

Session 2C: Systems and Infrastructure 1

Session 6D: User Modeling 2

Session 2D: Computational Health 2

Session 6G: Social 3

Session 2G: Ubiquitous and Mobile 2

Session 6H: Question Answering &Topic Modeling

Session 2H: Recommender Systems 2

Session 7B: Privacy 1

Session 3B: Algorithms and Theory 2

Session 7C: Web Search

Session 3C: Systems and Infrastructure 2

Session 7D: User Modeling 3

Session 3D: Computational Health 3

Session 7G: Social 4

Session 3G: Search Applications

Session 7H: Web Mining

Session 3H: Information Cascades

Session 7I: Graph Algorithms

Session 4B: Crowdsourcing 1

Session 8B: Privacy 2

Session 4C: Security 1

Session 8C: Email and Personal Search

Session 4D: Computational Health 4

Session 8D: User Modeling 4

Session 4G: Social 1

Session 8G: Social 5

Session 4H: Semantics and Knowledge

 

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Keynote Talks

Taming the Data Deluge to Unravel the Mysteries of the Universe (Page 1)
Melanie Johnston-Hollitt (Victoria University of Wellington & Peripety Scientific Ltd.)

The Web-Wide World (Page 3)
Mark Pesce (University of Sydney)

Web Mail is not Dead!: It's Just Not Human Anymore (Page 5)
Yoelle Maarek (Yahoo Research)

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Session 1B: Ad Auctions

Deals or No Deals: Contract Design for Online Advertising (Page 7)
Vahab Mirrokni (Google Research)
Hamid Nazerzadeh (University of Southern California)

Budget Management Strategies in Repeated Auctions (Page 15)
Santiago Balseiro (Duke University)
Anthony Kim (Stanford University)
Mohammad Mahdian (Google Research)
Vahab Mirrokni (Google Research)

GSP - The Cinderella of Mechanism Design (Page 25)
Christopher A. Wilkens (Yahoo Research)
Ruggiero Cavallo (Yahoo Research)
Rad Niazadeh (Cornell University)

Horizon-Independent Optimal Pricing in Repeated Auctions with Truthful and Strategic Buyers (Page 33)
Alexey Drutsa (Yandex)

Sponsored Search Auctions with Rich Ads (Page 43)
Ruggiero Cavallo (Yahoo Research)
Prabhakar Krishnamurthy (Yahoo Research)
Maxim Sviridenko (Yahoo Research)
Christopher A. Wilkens (Yahoo Research)

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Session 1C: Cloud and Sharing Economy

Prices and Subsidies in the Sharing Economy (Page 53)
Zhixuan Fang (Tsinghua University)
Longbo Huang (Tsinghua University)
Adam Wierman (California Institute of Technology)

Segmenting Two-Sided Markets (Page 63)
Siddhartha Banerjee (Cornell University)
Sreenivas Gollapudi (Google Research)
Kostas Kollias (Google Research)
Kamesh Munagala (Duke University)

An Experimental Evaluation of Regret-Based Econometrics (Page 73)
Noam Nisan (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem & Microsoft Research)
Gali Noti (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem & Microsoft Research)

Usage Patterns and the Economics of the Public Cloud (Page 83)
Cinar Kilcioglu (Uber)
Justin M. Rao (Microsoft AI & Research)
Aadharsh Kannan (Microsoft AI & Research)
R. Preston McAfee (Microsoft AI & Research)

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Session 1D: Computational Health

Understanding and Discovering Deliberate Self-harm Content in Social Media (Page 93)
Yilin Wang (Arizona State University)
Jiliang Tang (Michigan State University)
Jundong Li (Arizona State University)
Baoxin Li (Arizona State University)
Yali Wan (University of Washington)
Clayton Mellina (Yahoo Research)
Neil O'Hare (Yahoo Research)
Yi Chang (Huawei Research America)

Mobile Sensing at the Service of Mental Well-being: a Large-scale Longitudinal Study (Page 103)
Sandra Servia-Rodríguez (University of Cambridge)
Kiran K. Rachuri (Samsung Research America)
Cecilia Mascolo (University of Cambridge)
Peter J. Rentfrow (University of Cambridge)
Neal Lathia (University of Cambridge)
Gillian M. Sandstrom (University of Essex)

Harnessing the Web for Population-Scale Physiological Sensing: A Case Study of Sleep and Performance (Page 113)
Tim Althoff (Stanford University)
Eric Horvitz (Microsoft Research)
Ryen W. White (Microsoft Research)
Jamie Zeitzer (Stanford Center for Sleep Sciences and Medicine)

Cataloguing Treatments Discussed and Used in Online Autism Communities (Page 123)
Shaodian Zhang (Columbia University)
Tian Kang (Columbia University)
Lin Qiu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
Weinan Zhang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
Yong Yu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
Noémie Elhadad (Columbia University)

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Session 1G: Ubiquitous and Mobile 1

Web Application Migration with Closure Reconstruction (Page 133)
Jin-woo Kwon (Seoul National University)
Soo-Mook Moon (Seoul National University)

AppHolmes: Detecting and Characterizing App Collusion among Third-Party Android Markets (Page 143)
Mengwei Xu (Peking University)
Yun Ma (Peking University)
Xuanzhe Liu (Peking University)
Felix Xiaozhu Lin (Purdue University)
Yunxin Liu (Microsoft Research)

The Long-Standing Privacy Debate: Mobile Websites Vs Mobile Apps (Page 153)
Elias P. Papadopoulos (Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) & University of Crete)
Michalis Diamantaris (Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) & University of Crete)
Panagiotis Papadopoulos (Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) & University of Crete)
Thanasis Petsas (Appthority & University of Crete)
Sotiris Ioannidis (Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) & University of Crete)
Evangelos P. Markatos (Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) & University of Crete)

An Explorative Study of the Mobile App Ecosystem from App Developers' Perspective (Page 163)
Haoyu Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications)
Zhe Liu (Peking University)
Yao Guo (Peking University)
Xiangqun Chen (Peking University)
Miao Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications)
Guoai Xu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications)
Jason Hong (Carnegie Mellon University)

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Session 1H: Recommeder Systems 1

Neural Collaborative Filtering (Page 173)
Xiangnan He (National University of Singapore)
Lizi Liao (National University of Singapore)
Hanwang Zhang (Columbia University)
Liqiang Nie (Shandong University)
Xia Hu (Texas A&M University)
Tat-Seng Chua (National University of Singapore)

Learning to Recommend Accurate and Diverse Items (Page 183)
Peizhe Cheng (Shandong University)
Shuaiqiang Wang (The University of Manchester)
Jun Ma (Shandong University)
Jiankai Sun (The Ohio State University)
Hui Xiong (Rutgers University)

Collaborative Metric Learning (Page 193)
Cheng-Kang Hsieh (University of California, Los Angeles)
Longqi Yang (Cornell Tech)
Yin Cui (Cornell Tech)
Tsung-Yi Lin (Cornell Tech)
Serge Belongie (Cornell Tech)
Deborah Estrin (Cornell Tech)

Beyond Globally Optimal: Focused Learning for Improved Recommendations (Page 203)
Alex Beutel (Google)
Ed H. Chi (Google)
Zhiyuan Cheng (Pinterest)
Hubert Pham (Google)
John Anderson (Google)

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Session 2B: Algorithms and Theory 1

AutoCyclone: Automatic Mining of Cyclic Online Activities with Robust Tensor Factorization (Page 213)
Tsubasa Takahashi (NEC Corporation)
Bryan Hooi (Carnegie Mellon University)
Christos Faloutsos (Carnegie Mellon University)

Assessing Percolation Threshold Based on High-Order Non-Backtracking Matrices (Page 223)
Yuan Lin (Fudan University)
Wei Chen (Microsoft Research)
Zhongzhi Zhang (Fudan University)

Large Scale Density-friendly Graph Decomposition via Convex Programming (Page 233)
Maximilien Danisch (Télécom ParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay)
T.-H. Hubert Chan (The University of Hong Kong)
Mauro Sozio (Télécom ParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay)

nTD: Noise-Profile Adaptive Tensor Decomposition (Page 243)
Xinsheng Li (Arizona State University)
K. Selçuk Candan (Arizona State University)
Maria Luisa Sapino (University of Torino)

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Session 2C: Systems and Infrastructure 1

Measuring and Improving the Reliability of Wide-Area Cloud Paths (Page 253)
Osama Haq (Tufts University)
Mamoon Raja (Tufts University)
Fahad R. Dogar (Tufts University)

Blotter: Low Latency Transactions for Geo-Replicated Storage (Page 263)
Henrique Moniz (Google)
Joăo Leităo (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa)
Ricardo J. Dias (NOVA LINCS & SUSE Linux GmbH)
Johannes Gehrke (Microsoft)
Nuno Preguiça (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa)
Rodrigo Rodrigues (Universidade de Lisboa)

Ten Blue Links on Mars (Page 273)
Charles L. A. Clarke (University of Waterloo)
Gordon V. Cormack (University of Waterloo)
Jimmy Lin (University of Waterloo)
Adam Roegiest (University of Waterloo)

Legion: Enriching Internet Services with Peer-to-Peer Interactions (Page 283)
Albert van der Linde (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa)
Pedro Fouto (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa)
Joăo Leităo (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa)
Nuno Preguiça (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa)
Santiago Castińeira (University of Kaiserslautern)
Annette Bieniusa (University of Kaiserslautern)

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Session 2D: Computational Health 2

Inferring Individual Attributes from Search Engine Queries and Auxiliary Information (Page 293)
Luca Soldaini (Georgetown University)
Elad Yom-Tov (Microsoft Research)

Using Participatory Web-based Surveillance Data to Improve Seasonal Influenza Forecasting in Italy (Page 303)
Daniela Perrotta (ISI Foundation)
Michele Tizzoni (ISI Foundation)
Daniela Paolotti (ISI Foundation)

Forecasting Seasonal Influenza Fusing Digital Indicators and a Mechanistic Disease Model (Page 311)
Qian Zhang (Northeastern University)
Nicola Perra (Northeastern University & University of Greenwich)
Daniela Perrotta (ISI Foundation)
Michele Tizzoni (ISI Foundation)
Daniela Paolotti (ISI Foundation)
Alessandro Vespignani (Northeastern University)

PhLeGrA: Graph Analytics in Pharmacology over the Web of Life Sciences Linked Open Data (Page 321)
Maulik R. Kamdar (Stanford University)
Mark A. Musen (Stanford University)

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Session 2G: Ubiquitous and Mobile 2

Reducing Latency by Eliminating Synchrony (Page 331)
Min Hong Yun (Rice University)
Songtao He (Rice University)
Lin Zhong (Rice University)

Almond: The Architecture of an Open, Crowdsourced, Privacy-Preserving, Programmable Virtual Assistant (Page 341)
Giovanni Campagna (Stanford University)
Rakesh Ramesh (Stanford University)
Silei Xu (Stanford University)
Michael Fischer (Stanford University)
Monica S. Lam (Stanford University)

DeepSense: A Unified Deep Learning Framework for Time-Series Mobile Sensing Data Processing (Page 351)
Shuochao Yao (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Shaohan Hu (IBM Research)
Yiran Zhao (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Aston Zhang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Tarek Abdelzaher (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Regions, Periods, Activities: Uncovering Urban Dynamics via Cross-Modal Representation Learning (Page 361)
Chao Zhang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Keyang Zhang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Quan Yuan (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Haoruo Peng (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Yu Zheng (Microsoft Research)
Tim Hanratty (U.S. Army Research Lab)
Shaowen Wang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Jiawei Han (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

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Session 2H: Recommender Systems 2

Fairness in Package-to-Group Recommendations (Page 371)
Dimitris Serbos (University of Ioannina)
Shuyao Qi (University of Hong Kong)
Nikos Mamoulis (University of Ioannina)
Evaggelia Pitoura (University of Ioannina)
Panayiotis Tsaparas (University of Ioannina)

Streaming Recommender Systems (Page 381)
Shiyu Chang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Yang Zhang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Jiliang Tang (Michigan State University)
Dawei Yin (JD.com)
Yi Chang (Huawei Research America)
Mark A. Hasegawa-Johnson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Thomas S. Huang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

What Your Images Reveal: Exploiting Visual Contents for Point-of-Interest Recommendation (Page 391)
Suhang Wang (Arizona State University)
Yilin Wang (Arizona State University)
Jiliang Tang (Michigan State University)
Kai Shu (Arizona State University)
Suhas Ranganath (Arizona State University)
Huan Liu (Arizona State University)

A General Model for Out-of-town Region Recommendation (Page 401)
Tuan-Anh Nguyen Pham (Nanyang Technological University)
Xutao Li (Harbin Institute of Technology)
Gao Cong (Nanyang Technological University)

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Session 3B: Algorithms and Theory 2

Linear Additive Markov Processes (Page 411)
Ravi Kumar (Google)
Maithra Raghu (Google)
Tamás Sarlós (Google)
Andrew Tomkins (Google)

Submodular Optimization Over Sliding Windows (Page 421)
Alessandro Epasto (Google)
Silvio Lattanzi (Google)
Sergei Vassilvitskii (Google)
Morteza Zadimoghaddam (Google)

When Hashes Met Wedges: A Distributed Algorithm for Finding High Similarity Vectors (Page 431)
Aneesh Sharma (Twitter Inc)
C. Seshadhri (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Ashish Goel (Stanford University)

A Fast and Provable Method for Estimating Clique Counts Using Turán's Theorem (Page 441)
Shweta Jain (University of California, Santa Cruz)
C. Seshadhri (University of California, Santa Cruz)

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Session 3C: Systems and Infrastructure 2

Exploring HTTP Header Manipulation In-The-Wild (Page 451)
Gareth Tyson (Queen Mary University of London)
Shan Huang (Queen Mary University of London)
Felix Cuadrado (Queen Mary University of London)
Ignacio Castro (Queen Mary University of London)
Vasile C. Perta (Sapienza University of Rome)
Arjuna Sathiaseelan (University of Cambridge)
Steve Uhlig (Queen Mary University of London)

Push or Request: An Investigation of HTTP/2 Server Push for Improving Mobile Performance (Page 459)
Sanae Rosen (University of Michigan)
Bo Han (AT&T Labs-Research)
Shuai Hao (AT&T Labs-Research)
Z. Morley Mao (University of Michigan)
Feng Qian (Indiana University)

Performance Monitoring and Root Cause Analysis for Cloud-hosted Web Applications (Page 469)
Hiranya Jayathilaka (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Chandra Krintz (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Rich Wolski (University of California, Santa Barbara)

BOAT: Building Auto-Tuners with Structured Bayesian Optimization (Page 479)
Valentin Dalibard (University of Cambridge)
Michael Schaarschmidt (University of Cambridge)
Eiko Yoneki (University of Cambridge)

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Session 3D: Computational Health 3

Investigating the Healthiness of Internet-Sourced Recipes: Implications for Meal Planning and Recommender Systems (Page 489)
Christoph Trattner (MODUL University Vienna & Know-Center)
David Elsweiler (University of Regensburg)

Sangoshthi: Empowering Community Health Workers through Peer Learning in Rural India (Page 499)
Deepika Yadav (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology)
Pushpendra Singh (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology)
Kyle Montague (Newcastle University)
Vijay Kumar (SWACH)
Deepak Sood (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology)
Madeline Balaam (Newcastle University)
Drishti Sharma (PGIMER)
Mona Duggal (PGIMER)
Tom Bartindale (Newcastle University)
Delvin Varghese (Newcastle University)
Patrick Olivier (Newcastle University)

Is Saki #delicious? The Food Perception Gap on Instagram and Its Relation to Health (Page 509)
Ferda Ofli (Hamad Bin Khalifa University)
Yusuf Aytar (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Ingmar Weber (Hamad Bin Khalifa University)
Raggi al Hammouri (Hamad Bin Khalifa University)
Antonio Torralba (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

The Spread of Physical Activity Through Social Networks (Page 519)
David Stück (Evidation Health, Inc)
Haraldur Tómas Hallgrímsson (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Greg Ver Steeg (University of Southern California)
Alessandro Epasto (Google)
Luca Foschini (Evidation Health, Inc.)

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Session 3G: Search Applications

Drawing Sound Conclusions from Noisy Judgments (Page 529)
David Goldberg (eBay)
Andrew Trotman (University of Otago)
Xiao Wang (eBay)
Wei Min (CreditX)
Zongru Wan (Evolution Labs)

Exploring Query Auto-Completion and Click Logs for Contextual-Aware Web Search and Query Suggestion (Page 539)
Liangda Li (Yahoo Research)
Hongbo Deng (Google & East China Normal University)
Anlei Dong (Particle Media Inc. & East China Normal University)
Yi Chang (Huawei Research America & East China Normal University)
Ricardo Baeza-Yates (NTENT & East China Normal University)
Hongyuan Zha (Georgia Institute of Technology & East China Normal University)

Web Search as a Linguistic Tool (Page 549)
Adam Fourney (Microsoft Research)
Meredith Ringel Morris (Microsoft Research)
Ryen W. White (Microsoft Research)

Query Expansion Based on a Feedback Concept Model for Microblog Retrieval (Page 559)
Yashen Wang (Beijing Institute of Technology)
Heyan Huang (Beijing Institute of Technology)
Chong Feng (Beijing Institute of Technology)

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Session 3H: Information Cascades

Why Do Cascade Sizes Follow a Power-Law? (Page 569)
Karol Wegrzycki (University of Warsaw)
Piotr Sankowski (University of Warsaw)
Andrzej Pacuk (University of Warsaw)
Piotr Wygocki (University of Warsaw)

DeepCas: An End-to-end Predictor of Information Cascades (Page 577)
Cheng Li (University of Michigan)
Jiaqi Ma (University of Michigan)
Xiaoxiao Guo (University of Michigan)
Qiaozhu Mei (University of Michigan)

Cascades: A View from Audience (Page 587)
Rahmtin Rotabi (Cornell University)
Krishna Kamath (Twitter Inc.)
Jon Kleinberg (Cornell University)
Aneesh Sharma (Twitter Inc.)

Detecting Large Reshare Cascades in Social Networks (Page 597)
Karthik Subbian (Facebook Inc.)
B. Aditya Prakash (Virginia Tech.)
Lada Adamic (Facebook Inc.)

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Session 4B: Crowdsourcing 1

Identifying Value in Crowdsourced Wireless Signal Measurements (Page 607)
Zhijing Li (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Ana Nika (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Xinyi Zhang (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Yanzi Zhu (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Yuanshun Yao (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Ben Y. Zhao (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Haitao Zheng (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Collaborative Optimization for Collective Decision-making in Continuous Spaces (Page 617)
Nikhil Garg (Stanford University)
Vijay Kamble (Stanford University)
Ashish Goel (Stanford University)
David Marn (University of California, Berkeley)
Kamesh Munagala (Duke University)

Location Privacy-Preserving Task Allocation for Mobile Crowdsensing with Differential Geo-Obfuscation (Page 627)
Leye Wang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Dingqi Yang (University of Fribourg)
Xiao Han (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics)
Tianben Wang (Northwestern Polytechnical University)
Daqing Zhang (Peking University)
Xiaojuan Ma (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

PaRE: A System for Personalized Route Guidance (Page 637)
Yaguang Li (University of Southern California)
Han Su (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China & University of Southern California)
Ugur Demiryurek (University of Southern California)
Bolong Zheng (University of Queensland)
Tieke He (Nanjing University)
Cyrus Shahabi (University of Southern California)

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Session 4C: Security 1

Who Controls the Internet? Analyzing Global Threats using Property Graph Traversals (Page 647)
Milivoj Simeonovski (CISPA, Saarland University)
Giancarlo Pellegrino (CISPA, Saarland University)
Christian Rossow (CISPA, Saarland University)
Michael Backes (CISPA, Saarland University)

Tools for Automated Analysis of Cybercriminal Markets (Page 657)
Rebecca S. Portnoff (University of California, Berkeley)
Sadia Afroz (University of California, Berkeley)
Greg Durrett (University of California, Berkeley)
Jonathan K. Kummerfeld (University of California, Berkeley)
Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick (University of California, Berkeley)
Damon McCoy (New York University)
Kirill Levchenko (University of California, San Diego)
Vern Paxson (University of California, Berkeley)

Tracking Phishing Attacks Over Time (Page 667)
Qian Cui (University of Ottawa)
Guy-Vincent Jourdan (University of Ottawa)
Gregor V. Bochmann (University of Ottawa)
Russell Couturier (IBM Security)
Iosif-Viorel Onut (IBM Centre for Advanced Studies)

Security Challenges in an Increasingly Tangled Web (Page 677)
Deepak Kumar (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Zane Ma (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Zakir Durumeric (University of Michigan & University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Ariana Mirian (University of Michigan)
Joshua Mason (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
J. Alex Halderman (University of Michigan)
Michael Bailey (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

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Session 4D: Computational Health 4

Blood Pressure Prediction via Recurrent Models with Contextual Layer (Page 685)
Xiaohan Li (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Shu Wu (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Liang Wang (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Enhancing Feature Selection Using Word Embeddings: The Case of Flu Surveillance (Page 695)
Vasileios Lampos (University College London)
Bin Zou (University College London)
Ingemar J. Cox (University College London & University of Copenhagen)

Adverse Drug Event Detection in Tweets with Semi-Supervised Convolutional Neural Networks (Page 705)
Kathy Lee (Philips Research North America & Northwestern University)
Ashequl Qadir (Philips Research North America)
Sadid A. Hasan (Philips Research North America)
Vivek Datla (Philips Research North America)
Aaditya Prakash (Philips Research North America & Brandeis University)
Joey Liu (Philips Research North America)
Oladimeji Farri (Philips Research North America)

DeepMood: Forecasting Depressed Mood Based onSelf-Reported Histories via Recurrent Neural Networks (Page 715)
Yoshihiko Suhara (Recruit Institute of Technology & Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Yinzhan Xu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Alex 'Sandy' Pentland (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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Session 4G: Social 1

GPOP: Scalable Group-level Popularity Prediction for Online Content in Social Networks (Page 725)
Minh X. Hoang (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Xuan-Hong Dang (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Xiang Wu (Adobe Systems)
Zhenyu Yan (Adobe Systems)
Ambuj K. Singh (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Expecting to be HIP: Hawkes Intensity Processes for Social Media Popularity (Page 735)
Marian-Andrei Rizoiu (The Australian National University & Data61 CSIRO)
Lexing Xie (The Australian National University & Data61 CSIRO)
Scott Sanner (University of Toronto)
Manuel Cebrian (Data61 CSIRO)
Honglin Yu (The Australian National University & Data61 CSIRO)
Pascal Van Hentenryck (University of Michigan)

Taming the Unpredictability of Cultural Markets with Social Influence (Page 745)
Andrés Abeliuk (Massachusetts Institute of Technology & Data61)
Gerardo Berbeglia (Melbourne Business School)
Pascal Van Hentenryck (University of Michigan)
Tad Hogg (Institute for Molecular Manufacturing)
Kristina Lerman (University of Southern California)

Predicting the Success of Online Petitions Leveraging Multidimensional Time-Series (Page 755)
Julia Proskurnia (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
Przemyslaw Grabowicz (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems)
Ryota Kobayashi (National Institute of Informatics)
Carlos Castillo (Eurecat Technology Center of Catalunya)
Philippe Cudré-Mauroux (University of Fribourg)
Karl Aberer (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)

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Session 4H: Semantics and Knowledge

Dynamic Key-Value Memory Networks for Knowledge Tracing (Page 765)
Jiani Zhang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Xingjian Shi (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Irwin King (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Dit-Yan Yeung (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

How Users Explore Ontologies on the Web: A Study of NCBO's BioPortal Usage Logs (Page 775)
Simon Walk (Stanford University)
Lisette Esín-Noboa (GESIS & University of Koblenz-Landau)
Denis Helic (Graz University of Technology)
Markus Strohmaier (GESIS & University of Koblenz-Landau)
Mark A. Musen (Stanford University)

Type-based Semantic Optimization for Scalable RDF Graph Pattern Matching (Page 785)
HyeongSik Kim (North Carolina State University)
Padmashree Ravindra (Microsoft Corporation)
Kemafor Anyanwu (North Carolina State University)

Extracting Emerging Knowledge from Social Media (Page 795)
Marco Brambilla (Politecnico di Milano)
Stefano Ceri (Politecnico di Milano)
Emanuele Della Valle (Politecnico di Milano)
Riccardo Volonterio (Politecnico di Milano)
Felix Xavier Acero Salazar (Politecnico di Milano)

Distilling Task Knowledge from How-To Communities (Page 805)
Cuong Xuan Chu (Max Planck Institute for Informatics)
Niket Tandon (Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence)
Gerhard Weikum (Max Planck Institute for Informatics)

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Session 5B: Crowdsourcing 2

Constructing and Evaluating a Novel Crowdsourcing-based Paraphrased Opinion Spam Dataset (Page 827)
Seongsoon Kim (Korea University)
Seongwoon Lee (Korea University)
Donghyeon Park (Korea University)
Jaewoo Kang (Korea University)

Optimizing the Recency-Relevancy Trade-off in Online News Recommendations (Page 837)
Abhijnan Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur & Max Planck Institute for Software Systems)
Saptarshi Ghosh (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur & Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology Shibpur)
Niloy Ganguly (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur)
Krishna P. Gummadi (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems)

Distilling Information Reliability and Source Trustworthiness from Digital Traces (Page 847)
Behzad Tabibian (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems)
Isabel Valera (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems)
Mehrdad Farajtabar (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Le Song (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Bernhard Schölkopf (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems)
Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems)

An Army of Me: Sockpuppets in Online Discussion Communities (Page 857)
Srijan Kumar (University of Maryland)
Justin Cheng (Stanford University)
Jure Leskovec (Stanford University)
V.S. Subrahmanian (University of Maryland)

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Session 5C: Security 2

SMARTGEN: Exposing Server URLs of Mobile Apps with Selective Symbolic Execution (Page 867)
Chaoshun Zuo (The University of Texas at Dallas)
Zhiqiang Lin (The University of Texas at Dallas)

On the Content Security Policy Violations due to the Same-Origin Policy (Page 877)
Doličre Francis Some (Université Côte d'Azur & Inria)
Nataliia Bielova (Université Côte d'Azur & Inria)
Tamara Rezk (Université Côte d'Azur & Inria)

Transparent Web Service Auditing via Network Provenance Functions (Page 887)
Adam Bates (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Wajih Ul Hassan (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Kevin Butler (University of Florida)
Alin Dobra (University of Florida)
Bradley Reaves (University of Florida)
Patrick Cable (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)
Thomas Moyer (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)
Nabil Schear (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)

J-Force: Forced Execution on JavaScript (Page 897)
Kyungtae Kim (Purdue University)
I Luk Kim (Purdue University)
Chung Hwan Kim (Purdue University)
Yonghwi Kwon (Purdue University)
Yunhui Zheng (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
Xiangyu Zhang (Purdue University)
Dongyan Xu (Purdue University)

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Session 5D: User Modeling 1

User Personalized Satisfaction Prediction via Multiple Instance Deep Learning (Page 907)
Zheqian Chen (Zhejiang University)
Ben Gao (Zhejiang University)
Huimin Zhang (Zhejiang University)
Zhou Zhao (Zhejiang University)
Haifeng Liu (Zhejiang University)
Deng Cai (Zhejiang University)

What Makes a Link Successful on Wikipedia? (Page 917)
Dimitar Dimitrov (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences)
Philipp Singer (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences & University of Koblenz-Landau)
Florian Lemmerich (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences & University of Koblenz-Landau)
Markus Strohmaier (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences & University of Koblenz-Landau)

Cats and Captions vs. Creators and the Clock: Comparing Multimodal Content to Context in Predicting Relative Popularity (Page 927)
Jack Hessel (Cornell University)
Lillian Lee (Cornell University)
David Mimno (Cornell Univeristy)

Clustered Model Adaption for Personalized Sentiment Analysis (Page 937)
Lin Gong (University of Virginia)
Benjamin Haines (University of Virginia)
Hongning Wang (University of Virginia)

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Session 5G: Social 2

Exact Computation of Influence Spread by Binary Decision Diagrams (Page 947)
Takanori Maehara (Shizuoka University & RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project)
Hirofumi Suzuki (Hokkaido University)
Masakazu Ishihata (Hokkaido University)

Secure Centrality Computation Over Multiple Networks (Page 957)
Gilad Asharov (Cornell-Tech)
Francesco Bonchi (ISI Foundation)
David García Soriano (Eurecat & Pompeu Fabra University)
Tamir Tassa (The Open University)

Interplay between Social Influence and Network Centrality: A Comparative Study on Shapley Centrality and Single-Node-Influence Centrality (Page 967)
Wei Chen (Microsoft Research)
Shang-Hua Teng (University of Southern California)

Portfolio Optimization for Influence Spread (Page 977)
Naoto Ohsaka (The University of Tokyo)
Yuichi Yoshida (National Institute of Informatics & Preferred Infrastructure, Inc.)

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Session 5H: Information Extraction

Extracting and Ranking Travel Tips from User-Generated Reviews (Page 987)
Ido Guy (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev & eBay Research)
Avihai Mejer (Yahoo Research)
Alexander Nus (Yahoo Research)
Fiana Raiber (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)

Information Extraction in Illicit Web Domains (Page 997)
Mayank Kejriwal (University of Southern California)
Pedro Szekely (University of Southern California)

Learning to Extract Events from Knowledge Base Revisions (Page 1007)
Alexander Konovalov (Ohio State University)
Benjamin Strauss (Ohio State University)
Alan Ritter (Ohio State University)
Brendan O'Connor (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

CoType: Joint Extraction of Typed Entities and Relations with Knowledge Bases (Page 1015)
Xiang Ren (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Zeqiu Wu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Wenqi He (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Meng Qu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Clare R. Voss (Army Research Laboratory)
Heng Ji (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Tarek F. Abdelzaher (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Jiawei Han (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

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Session 6B: Machine Learning

Correlation Clustering with Low-Rank Matrices (Page 1025)
Nate Veldt (Purdue University)
Anthony Wirth (The University of Melbourne)
David F. Gleich (Purdue University)

Consistent Weighted Sampling Made More Practical (Page 1035)
Wei Wu (University of Technology Sydney)
Bin Li (Data61, CSIRO)
Ling Chen (University of Technology Sydney)
Chengqi Zhang (University of Technology Sydney)

Leveraging Large Amounts of Weakly Supervised Data for Multi-Language Sentiment Classification (Page 1045)
Jan Deriu (ZHAW)
Aurelien Lucchi (ETH Zürich)
Valeria De Luca (ETH Zürich)
Aliaksei Severyn (Google Research)
Simon Müller (SpinningBytes AG)
Mark Cieliebak (SpinningBytes AG)
Thomas Hofmann (ETH Zürich)
Martin Jaggi (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)

Theory of the GMM Kernel (Page 1053)
Ping Li (Rutgers University & Baidu Research)
Cun-Hui Zhang (Rutgers University)

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Session 6C: Spam Detection

Bimodal Distribution and Co-Bursting in Review Spam Detection (Page 1063)
Huayi Li (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Geli Fei (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Shuai Wang (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Bing Liu (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Weixiang Shao (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Arjun Mukherjee (University of Houston)
Jidong Shao (Dianping Inc.)

Detecting Collusive Spamming Activities in Community Question Answering (Page 1073)
Yuli Liu (Tsinghua University)
Yiqun Liu (Tsinghua University)
Ke Zhou (University of Nottingham)
Min Zhang (Tsinghua University)
Shaoping Ma (Tsinghua University)

FLOCK: Combating Astroturfing on Livestreaming Platforms (Page 1083)
Neil Shah (Carnegie Mellon University)

Can You Spot the Fakes? On the Limitations of User Feedback in Online Social Networks (Page 1093)
David Mandell Freeman (LinkedIn Corporation)

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Session 6D: User Modeling 2

Modeling Consumer Preferences and Price Sensitivities from Large-Scale Grocery Shopping Transaction Logs (Page 1103)
Mengting Wan (University of California, San Diego)
Di Wang (Microsoft Corporation)
Matt Goldman (Microsoft Corporation)
Matt Taddy (Microsoft Corporation)
Justin Rao (Microsoft Corporation)
Jie Liu (Microsoft Corporation)
Dimitrios Lymberopoulos (Microsoft Corporation)
Julian McAuley (University of California, San Diego)

Do "Also-Viewed" Products Help User Rating Prediction? (Page 1113)
Chanyoung Park (POSTECH)
Donghyun Kim (POSTECH)
Jinoh Oh (Carnegie Mellon University)
Hwanjo Yu (POSTECH)

Monetary Discount Strategies for Real-Time Promotion Campaign (Page 1123)
Ying-Chun Lin (National Cheng Kung University)
Chi-Hsuan Huang (National Cheng Kung University)
Chu-Cheng Hsieh (Slice Technologies, Inc.)
Yu-Chen Shu (National Cheng Kung University)
Kun-Ta Chuang (National Cheng Kung University)

Predicting Latent Structured Intents from Shopping Queries (Page 1133)
Chao-Yuan Wu (University of Texas at Austin)
Amr Ahmed (Google)
Gowtham Ramani Kumar (Google)
Ritendra Datta (Google)

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Session 6G: Social 3

EOMM: An Engagement Optimized Matchmaking Framework (Page 1143)
Zhengxing Chen (Northeastern University)
Su Xue (Electronic Arts, Inc.)
John Kolen (Electronic Arts, Inc.)
Navid Aghdaie (Electronic Arts, Inc.)
Kazi A. Zaman (Electronic Arts, Inc.)
Yizhou Sun (University of California, Los Angeles)
Magy Seif El-Nasr (Northeastern University)

Back to the Source: An Online Approach for Sensor Placement and Source Localization (Page 1151)
Brunella Spinelli (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
L. Elisa Celis (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
Patrick Thiran (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)

What's in a Name? Understanding Profile Name Reuse on Twitter (Page 1161)
Enrico Mariconti (University College London)
Jeremiah Onaolapo (University College London)
Syed Sharique Ahmad (Stony Brook University)
Nicolas Nikiforou (University College London)
Manuel Egele (Boston University)
Nick Nikiforakis (Stony Brook University)
Gianluca Stringhini (University College London)

Fairness Beyond Disparate Treatment & Disparate Impact: Learning Classification without Disparate Mistreatment (Page 1171)
Muhammad Bilal Zafar (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems)
Isabel Valera (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems)
Manuel Gomez Rodriguez (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems)
Krishna P. Gummadi (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems)

Sampling from Social Networks with Attributes (Page 1181)
Claudia Wagner (GESIS & University of Koblenz-Landau)
Philipp Singer (GESIS & University of Koblenz-Landau)
Fariba Karimi (GESIS & University of Koblenz-Landau)
Jürgen Pfeffer (Technical University of Munich)
Markus Strohmaier (GESIS & University of Koblenz-Landau)

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Session 6H: Question Answering and Topic Modeling

Automated Template Generation for Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs (Page 1191)
Abdalghani Abujabal (Max Planck Institute for Informatics)
Mohamed Yahya (Max Planck Institute for Informatics)
Mirek Riedewald (Northeastern University)
Gerhard Weikum (Max Planck Institute for Informatics)

A Semantic Graph-Based Approach for Mining Common Topics from Multiple Asynchronous Text Streams (Page 1201)
Long Chen (University of Glasgow)
Joemon M. Jose (University of Glasgow)
Haitao Yu (University of Tsukuba)
Fajie Yuan (University of Glasgow)

Neural Network-based Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs on Word and Character Level (Page 1211)
Denis Lukovnikov (University of Bonn)
Asja Fischer (University of Bonn)
Jens Lehmann (University of Bonn)
Sören Auer (University of Bonn)

Detecting Duplicate Posts in Programming QA Communities via Latent Semantics and Association Rules (Page 1221)
Wei Emma Zhang (The University of Adelaide)
Quan Z. Sheng (Macquarie University)
Jey Han Lau (The University of Melbourne & IBM Research Australia)
Ermyas Abebe (IBM Research Australia)

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Session 7B: Privacy 1

How Public Is My Private Life? Privacy in Online Dating (Page 1231)
Camille Cobb (University of Washington)
Tadayoshi Kohno (University of Washington)

Trajectory Recovery from Ash: User Privacy Is NOT Preserved in Aggregated Mobility Data (Page 1241)
Fengli Xu (Tsinghua University)
Zhen Tu (Tsinghua University)
Yong Li (Tsinghua University)
Pengyu Zhang (Stanford University)
Xiaoming Fu (University of Göttingen)
Depeng Jin (Tsinghua University)

The Onions Have Eyes: A Comprehensive Structure and Privacy Analysis of Tor Hidden Services (Page 1251)
Iskander Sanchez-Rola (University of Deusto)
Davide Balzarotti (Eurecom)
Igor Santos (University of Deusto)

De-anonymizing Web Browsing Data with Social Networks (Page 1261)
Jessica Su (Stanford University)
Ansh Shukla (Stanford University)
Sharad Goel (Stanford University)
Arvind Narayanan (Princeton University)

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Session 7C: Web Search

Explicit Semantic Ranking for Academic Search via Knowledge Graph Embedding (Page 1271)
Chenyan Xiong (Carnegie Mellon University)
Russell Power (Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence)
Jamie Callan (Carnegie Mellon University)

Neighbor-Aware Search for Approximate Labeled Graph Matching using the Chi-Square Statistics (Page 1281)
Sourav Dutta (Nokia Bell Labs)
Pratik Nayek (Microsoft Development Center)
Arnab Bhattacharya (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur)

Learning to Match using Local and Distributed Representations of Text for Web Search (Page 1291)
Bhaskar Mitra (Microsoft & University College London)
Fernando Diaz (Microsoft)
Nick Craswell (Microsoft)

Using the Delay in a Treatment Effect to Improve Sensitivity and Preserve Directionality of Engagement Metrics in A/B Experiments (Page 1301)
Alexey Drutsa (Yandex)
Gleb Gusev (Yandex)
Pavel Serdyukov (Yandex)

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Session 7D: User Modeling 3

GB-CENT: Gradient Boosted Categorical Embedding and Numerical Trees (Page 1311)
Qian Zhao (University of Minnesota)
Yue Shi (Yahoo Research)
Liangjie Hong (Etsy Inc.)

Decoupled Collaborative Ranking (Page 1321)
Jun Hu (Rutgers University)
Ping Li (Rutgers University & Baidu Research)

LETOR Methods for Unsupervised Rank Aggregation (Page 1331)
Avradeep Bhowmik (University of Texas at Austin)
Joydeep Ghosh (University of Texas at Austin)

A Generic Coordinate Descent Framework for Learning from Implicit Feedback (Page 1341)
Immanuel Bayer (Swiss Re Management Ltd)
Xiangnan He (National University of Singapore)
Bhargav Kanagal (Google)
Steffen Rendle (Google)

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Session 7G: Social 4

On Analyzing User Topic-Specific Platform Preferences Across Multiple Social Media Sites (Page 1351)
Roy Ka-Wei Lee (Singapore Management University)
Tuan-Anh Hoang (Leibniz University of Hanover)
Ee-Peng Lim (Singapore Management University)

Competition and Selection Among Conventions (Page 1361)
Rahmtin Rotabi (Cornell University)
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil (Cornell University)
Jon Kleinberg (Cornell University)

Discussion Quality Diffuses in the Digital Public Square (Page 1371)
George Berry (Cornell University)
Sean J. Taylor (Facebook)

When Confidence and Competence Collide: Effects on Online Decision-Making Discussions (Page 1381)
Liye Fu (Cornell University)
Lillian Lee (Cornell University)
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil (Cornell University)

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Session 7H: Web Mining

Ex Machina: Personal Attacks Seen at Scale (Page 1391)
Ellery Wulczyn (Wikimedia Foundation)
Nithum Thain (Jigsaw)
Lucas Dixon (Jigsaw)

Temporal Effects on Hashtag Reuse in Twitter: A Cognitive-Inspired Hashtag Recommendation Approach (Page 1401)
Dominik Kowald (Graz University of Technology & Know-Center)
Subhash Chandra Pujari (Graz University of Technology)
Elisabeth Lex (Graz University of Technology)

Exploring Rated Datasets with Rating Maps (Page 1411)
Sihem Amer-Yahia (University Grenoble Alpes)
Sofia Kleisarchaki (University Grenoble Alpes)
Naresh Kumar Kolloju (University of British Columbia)
Laks V.S. Lakshmanan (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Ruben H. Zamar (University of British Columbia, Canada)

Modeling the Dynamics of Learning Activity on the Web (Page 1421)
Charalampos Mavroforakis (Boston University)
Isabel Valera (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems)
Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems)

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Session 7I: Graph Algorithms

ESCAPE: Efficiently Counting All 5-Vertex Subgraphs (Page 1431)
Ali Pinar (Sandia National Laboratories)
C. Seshadhri (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Vaidyanathan Vishal (ONU Technology)

The k-peak Decomposition: Mapping the Global Structure of Graphs (Page 1441)
Priya Govindan (Rutgers University)
Chenghong Wang (Syracuse University)
Chumeng Xu (Cornell University)
Hongyu Duan (Syracuse University)
Sucheta Soundarajan (Syracuse University)

Scalable Motif-aware Graph Clustering (Page 1451)
Charalampos E. Tsourakakis (Harvard University & Boston University)
Jakub Pachocki (Harvard University)
Michael Mitzenmacher (Harvard University)

Indexing Public-Private Graphs (Page 1461)
Aaron Archer (Google)
Silvio Lattanzi (Google)
Peter Likarish (Google)
Sergei Vassilvitskii (Google)

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Session 8B: Privacy 2

Pinning Down Abuse on Google Maps (Page 1471)
Danny Yuxing Huang (University of California, San Diego)
Doug Grundman (Google)
Kurt Thomas (Google)
Abhishek Kumar (Google)
Elie Bursztein (Google)
Kirill Levchenko (University of California, San Diego)
Alex C. Snoeren (University of California, San Diego)

Extended Tracking Powers: Measuring the Privacy Diffusion Enabled by Browser Extensions (Page 1481)
Oleksii Starov (Stony Brook University)
Nick Nikiforakis (Stony Brook University)

Security Implications of Redirection Trail in Popular Websites Worldwide (Page 1491)
Li Chang (ETH Zürich)
Hsu-Chun Hsiao (National Taiwan University)
Wei Jeng (University of Pittsburgh)
Tiffany Hyun-Jin Kim (HRL Laboratories)
Wei-Hsi Lin (National Taiwan University)

Some Recipes Can Do More Than Spoil Your Appetite: Analyzing the Security and Privacy Risks of IFTTT Recipes (Page 1501)
Milijana Surbatovich (University of Rochester)
Jassim Aljuraidan (Carnegie Mellon University)
Lujo Bauer (Carnegie Mellon University)
Anupam Das (Carnegie Mellon University)
Limin Jia (Carnegie Mellon University)

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Session 8C: Email and Personal Search

Characterizing Email Search using Large-scale Behavioral Logs and Surveys (Page 1511)
Qingyao Ai (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Susan T. Dumais (Microsoft Research)
Nick Craswell (Microsoft Research)
Dan Liebling (Microsoft Research)

Template Induction over Unstructured Email Corpora (Page 1521)
Julia Proskurnia (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
Marc-Allen Cartright (Google)
Lluis Garcia-Pueyo (Google)
Ivo Krka (Google)
James B. Wendt (Google)
Tobias Kaufmann (Google)
Balint Miklos (Google)

Situational Context for Ranking in Personal Search (Page 1531)
Hamed Zamani (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Michael Bendersky (Google)
Xuanhui Wang (Google)
Mingyang Zhang (Google)

The Demographics of Mail Search and their Application to Query Suggestion (Page 1541)
David Carmel (Yahoo Research)
Liane Lewin-Eytan (Yahoo Research)
Alex Libov (Yahoo Research)
Yoelle Maarek (Yahoo Research)
Ariel Raviv (Yahoo Research)

Promoting Relevant Results in Time-Ranked Mail Search (Page 1551)
David Carmel (Yahoo Research)
Liane Lewin-Eytan (Yahoo Research)
Alex Libov (Yahoo Research)
Yoelle Maarek (Yahoo Research)
Ariel Raviv (Yahoo Research)

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Session 8D: User Modeling 4

AttriInfer: Inferring User Attributes in Online Social Networks Using Markov Random Fields (Page 1561)
Jinyuan Jia (Iowa State University)
Binghui Wang (Iowa State University)
Le Zhang (Iowa State University)
Neil Zhenqiang Gong (Iowa State University)

Neural Underpinnings of Website Legitimacy and Familiarity Detection: An fNIRS Study (Page 1571)
Ajaya Neupane (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
Nitesh Saxena (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
Leanne Hirshfield (Syracuse University)

Probabilistic Visitor Stitching on Cross-Device Web Logs (Page 1581)
Sungchul Kim (Adobe Research)
Nikhil Kini (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Jay Pujara (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Eunyee Koh (Adobe Research)
Lise Getoor (University of California, Santa Cruz)

Why We Read Wikipedia (Page 1591)
Philipp Singer (GESIS & University of Koblenz-Landau)
Florian Lemmerich (GESIS & University of Koblenz-Landau)
Robert West (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
Leila Zia (Wikimedia Foundation)
Ellery Wulczyn (Wikimedia Foundation)
Markus Strohmaier (GESIS & University of Koblenz-Landau)
Jure Leskovec (Stanford University)

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Session 8G: Social 5

Learning Personalized Preference of Strong and Weak Ties for Social Recommendation (Page 1601)
Xin Wang (Zhejiang University & Simon Fraser University)
Steven C.H. Hoi (Singapore Management University)
Martin Ester (Simon Fraser University)
Jiajun Bu (Zhejiang University)
Chun Chen (Zhejiang University)

Cross View Link Prediction by Learning Noise-resilient Representation Consensus (Page 1611)
Xiaokai Wei (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Linchuan Xu (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Bokai Cao (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Philip S. Yu (University of Illinois at Chicago)

Semi-supervised Clustering in Attributed Heterogeneous Information Networks (Page 1621)
Xiang Li (The University of Hong Kong)
Yao Wu (Simon Fraser University)
Martin Ester (Simon Fraser University)
Ben Kao (The University of Hong Kong)
Xin Wang (Simon Fraser University)
Yudian Zheng (The University of Hong Kong)

An Efficient Approach to Event Detection and Forecasting in Dynamic Multivariate Social Media Networks (Page 1631)
Minglai Shao (Beihang University)
Jianxin Li (Beihang University)
Feng Chen (State University of New York at Albany)
Hongyi Huang (Beihang University)
Shuai Zhang (Beihang University)
Xunxun Chen (Beihang University)