The WWW7 Awards Committee will be giving awards for : 

• the Best Paper,
• the Best Poster,
• the IBM Java Brainwave Prize

Because posters are inherently a presentation medium, we want you to vote which one you think is the best presented, using the voting slips we will provide. 

The awards will all be announced in the closing ceremony of the conference, just before we hand over the baton to WWW8! 

Tuesday, 14 April 1998 - Tutorials and Workshops

Wednesday, 15 April 1998 - Technical Program

9.00 - 9.30 

Plenary Session 1 - Great Hall 

Opening Ceremony 

The Premier of Queensland will welcome delegates, and the Governor General of Australia will officially open the Conference. 

9.30 - 10.20 

Plenary Session 2 - Great Hall 

Keynote Address - Tim Berners-Lee, Director W3C 

10.20 - 10.30 

Southern Cross University- Award Ceremony 

10.30 - 11.00 

Morning Tea/Coffee 

11.00 - 12.30 

Papers Session 1A - M4 

Metadata Systems 

• The Limits of Web Metadata and Beyond, Massimo Marchiori 
• Structured Graph Format: XML Metadata for Describing Web Site Structure, Olivier Liechti, Mark J Sifer and Tadao Ichikawa 
• Specifying Metadata Standards for Metadata Tool Configuration, Andrew Waugh 

Papers Session 1B - M2 

Push Technologies 

• User-Centred Push for Timely Information Delivery, George M. Underwood, Paul P Maglio and Rob Barrett 
• Distributed Virtual Environments and VRML: an Event-based Architecture, Mike Wray and Rycharde Hawkes 
• Effective Personalisation of Push-type Systems - Visualising Information Freshness, Hidekazu Sakagami, Tomonari Kamba, Atsushi Sugiura and Yoshiyuki Koseki 

Papers Session 1C - M3 

Hypertext and Hypermedia 

• Automatic Resource Compilation by Analyzing Hyperlink Structure and Associated Text, Soumen Chakrabarti, Byron Dom, Prabhakar Raghavan, Sridhar Rajagopalan, David Gibson and Jon Kleinberg 
• Automated Link Generation: Can we do Better Than Term Repetition?, Stephen J Green 
• WSDM: A User Centered Design Method for Web Sites, O.M.F. De Troyer and C.J. Leune 

W3C Session 1 - Great Hall 

Theme 

11:00 - 11:30: W3C Track Overview -- Jean-Francois Abramatic 

11:30 - 11:50: Architecture Domain Overiew -- Dan Connolly 

11:50 - 12:30: HTTP-NG -- Web Characterization -- Jim Pitkow 

Doctoral Consortium - P3/P4/P5 

Papers 

• Database Querying on the World Wide Web: UniGuide and Object-Relational Search, Carlos Fernando Enguix 
• What after Java? From Objects to Actors, Carols A Varela and Gul A Agha 
• Object-Oriented Modeling of Multimedia documents, Thuy-Linh Nguyen, Xindong Wu and Sayed Sajeev 
• Communities, Networks and Education, Jon Mason 
• Hypermedia Learning Environments Limit Access to Information, Megan Quentin-Baxter 

11:00-12:30 

Culture Session 1 - P1/P2 Panel session The evolving role and importance of online interactive multimedia. 

Keynote speaker - Paul Brown 
Panelists - Chris Lilley, Martin Gardiner, Michelle Williams, Bill Cartwright. 

12.30 - 1.30 

Lunch-Great Hall 

1.30 - 2.20 

Plenary Session 3 - Great Hall 

Keynote Address - John Patrick, VP of Internet Technology, IBM 

2.20 - 2.30 

Parallel Session Breakout 

2.30 - 3.30 

Papers Session 2A - M4 

Search and Indexing Techniques I 

• Efficient Profile Matching for Large Scale Webcasting, Qi Lu, Matthias Eichstadt and Daniel Ford 
• The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine, Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page 

Papers Session 2B - M2 

Browsers and Tools I 

• SPHINX: A Framework for Creating Personal, Site-Specific Web Crawlers, Robert C Miller and Krishna Bharat 
• Ariadne: A Java-based Guided Tour System for the World Wide Web, Jesper Juehne, Anders T Jensen and Kaj Gronbaek 

Panel Session 1 - M3 

Laws, Self-Regulation and P3P: Will W3C's Privacy Platform Help Make the Web Safe for Privacy? 

Proposer - Lorrie Faith Cranor 

Moderator - Lorrie Faith Cranor 

Panelists - Roger Clarke, Josef Dietl, Daniel Jaye, Steven Lucas & Greg Taylor 

W3C Session 2 - Great Hall 

Theme 

2:30 - 3:10: HTTP-NG -- Protocol Design -- Henrik Frystyk Nielsen 

3:10 - 3:30: HTTP-NG Q&A 

2.30 - 3.30 

Culture session 2 - P1/P2 Panel session Sharing collections, sharing data, sharing interpretation, sharing experience. 

Panelists - David Jensen, Gigi Tagliapietra, Katy Bramich, Peter Holt, Gary Hardy. 

3.30 - 4.00 

Afternoon Tea/Coffee 

4.00 - 6.00 

Papers Session 3A - M4 

Search and Indexing Techniques II 

• Full-Text Indexing of Non-Textual Resources, David Byers 
• Facilitating Complex Web Queries through Visual User Interfaces and Query Relaxation, Wen-Syan Li and Junho Shim 
• Efficient Crawling Through URL Ordering, Junghoo Cho, Hector Garcia-Molina and Lawrence Page 
• A regional distributed WWW search and indexing service - the DESIRE way, Anders Ardo and Sigfrid Lundberg 

Papers Session 3B - M2 

Caching and Replication 

• Piggyback Server Invalidation for Proxy Cache Coherency, Balachander Krishnamurthy and Craig E Wills 
• Utility of Co-operating Web Proxy Caches, P. Krishnan and Binay Sugla 
• Memory-based Architecture for Distributed WWW Caching Proxy, Norifumu Nishikawa, Takafumi Hosokawa, Yasuhide Mori, Kenishi Yoshida and Hiroshi Tsuji 
• Performance Study of a Collaborative Method for Hierarchical Caching in Proxy Servers, Philip S. Yu and Edward A. MacNair 

Panel Session 2/3 - M3 

The Future of the Web, Commerce and Society 

Proposer - The WWW7 Programme Committee 

Moderator - TBA 

Panelists - Tim Berners-Lee, Cathy Marshall and John Patrick 

Will Hypertext Become the Web's Missing Link? 

Proposer - Michael Bieber 

Moderator - Wendy Hall 

Panelists - Michael Bieber, Cathy Marshall, Don Retallack, Anne-Marie Vercoustre and Bebo White 

W3C Session 3 - Great Hall 

Theme 

4:00 - 4:30: Extensible Markup Language (XML) -- Dan Connolly 

4:30 - 4:45: (XML) Q&A 

4:45 - 5:10: Jigsaw -- Daniel Veillard 

5:10 - 5:20: Jigsaw -- Q&A 

5:20 - 5:50: Synchronized Multimedia -- Dick Bulterman, Mark Hakkinen, George Kerscher 

5:50 - 6:00: Synchronized Multimedia -- Q&A 

SIG Session 1 - M1 

SIG Title: Emerging Issues in Cyberlaw 

4.00 - 6.00 

Culture session 3 - P1/P2 Panel session Online Multimedia - tricks and traps. 

Panelists - Elizabeth Parsons, David Watts, Steve Lucas, Kim Machan, Kim Machan, Lesley Osborne. 

6.00 - 7.30 

WWW7 Welcome Reception-P6 

7.00 - 11.00 

Distributed Dinner 

Thursday, 16 April 1998 - Technical Program

9.00 - 10.30 

Culture session 4 - P1/P2 Panel session The Web and Cultural Activity 

Keynote speaker - David Jensen 
Panelists - David Bearman and Jennifer Trant (via satellite), Judy Gradwohl, John Perkins. 

8.30 - 10.30 

Plenary Session 4 - Internet Cafe 

Poster Presentations 

Description 

1. 3D Visualisation of Multimedia Content on the World Wide Web, Thomas J Alexandre 
2. A Java-based Platform for Intellectual Property Protection on the World Wide Web, Thomas J Alexandre 
3. A Prototype Agent to Assist Shoppers, Robert Inder, Matthew Hurst and Toshikazu Kato 
4. A Publishing System to Support Secondary School Teaching and Learning, Paul Bristow and Matthew White 
5. Adding Math to Web Pages with EzMath, Dave Raggett and Davey Batsalle 
6. Adding Style and Behaviour to Web Pages with a Dash of Spice, Dave Raggett 
7. An Open framework for Collaborative Distributed Information Management, D De Roure, W Hall, S Reich, A Pikrakis, G Hill and M Stairmand 
8. Application-Independent Link Processing, L Carr, H C Davis, D De Roure and W Hall 
9. Are We Yet Cyborgs? University students and the Practical Consequences of Human-Machine Subjectivity, Matthew Allan 
10. Assessing Learners Through the WWW, Meg O'Reilly and Karey Patterson 
11. Audio Ticker, Qi Lu and Lev Stesin 
12. Automatic Classification of Web Resources using Java and Dewey Decimal Classifications, Charlotte Jenkins, Mike Jackson, Peter Burden and Jon Wallis 
13. Automatic Exams Management with the Common Lisp HTTP Server, Antonio Vantaggiato 
14. COOL Links: Ride the Wave, Michael Miller and l Jay Wantz 
15. Clean up your Web Pages with HP's HTML Tidy, Dave Raggett 
16. Collaborative Value Filtering on the Web, Gerard Rodriguez-Mula, Hector Garcia-Molina and Andreas Paepcke 
17. Developing On-line Courses - Teacher Support Needs, Chuck Shave 
18. Dynamic Catalogues on the WWW, Maria Milosavljevic and Jon Oberlander 
19. Educational Metadata in Use, L Jay Wantz and Michael Miller 
20. Enhancing Internet Access for People with Disabilities, R J Seiler, A M Seiler and J M Ireland 
21. Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM): Metadata for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval, Stuart A Sutton 
22. Generating Advanced Query Interfaces, Dongwon Lee, Divesh Srivastava and Dimitra Vista 
23. German Government Online, Manfred Bogen, Marion Borowski, Guido Hansen and Michael Lenz 
24. High Speed Connection Between vBNS and SingAREN in Singapore, Shirley Ng Wai Man 
25. Information Sharing System on the WWW with Interactive Communication, Seiji Susaki and Tatsuya Muramoto 
26. Integrating Query Expansion and Conceptual Relevance Feedback for Personalised Web Information Retrieval, Chia-Hui Chang and Ching-Chi Hsu 
27. Intelligent Multimedia Presentations in the Web: Fun without Annoyance, Tanja Joerding and Klaus Meissner 
28. Internet Scrapbook: Automating Web Browsing Tasks by Programming-by-Demonstration, Atsushi Sugiura and Yoshiyuki Koseki 
29. Learners are Teachers Too in our Virtual Classroom, Julie Gibson and Philip Rutherford 
30. Metabroker: A Generic Broker for Electronic Commerce, Steve Caughy, David Ingram and Paul Watson 
31. Multimedia Document Search on the Web, Guiseppe Amato, Fausto Rabitti and Pasquale Savino 
32. Network Publishing Languages, David G Green, Paul Bristow, Jeff Ash, Larry Benton, Pam Millikin and David Newth 
33. On the Design of an Intelligent Exploratory Environment for Geographic Climates on WWW, Feng-Hsu Wang 
34. Personal and Temporary Hyper Bridges: 2-D Interface for Underfined Topics, Yukio Oshawa, Kenki Matsuda and Masahiko Yachida 
35. Requirements for Multimedia Markup and Style Sheets on the World Wide Web, Jacco van Ossenbruggen, Anton Eliens, Lloyd Rutledge and Lynda Hardman 
36. Searching Heterogeneous Multilingual Bibliographic Sources, Ling Cao, Mun-Kew Leong, Ying Lu and Hwee-Boon Low 
37. Targeting Next Year's Students, David R Bannon and Nicholas J Hoogenraad 
38. Task-based Learning Environments in a Virtual University, Dave Whittington and Lorna Campbell 
39. The Influence of Geographical and Cultural Issues on the Cache Proxy Server Workload, Virgilio F Almeida, Marcio G Cesario, Rodrigo C Fonseca, Wagner Meira Jr and Cristina D Murta 
40. The RMTW Application: Bringing Multicast Audio/Video to the Web, Myung-Ki Shin, Jae-Yong Lee, Jung-Sook Bae and Jin-ho Hahm 
41. The Web Supercomputing Environment, Nikola B Serbedzija 
42. The Web and Hypertext Applications, C Watters and M Shepherd 
43. Trust Management on the World Wide Web, Rohit Khare and Adam Rifkin 
44. Use of Web Technology for Interactive Remote Instruction, K Maly, C M Overstreet, A Gonzalez, M Denbar, R Cutaran, N Karunaratne and C J Srinivas 
45. User Space Meets Document Space, Heiner Wolf and Konrad Froitzheim 
46. Using Perceived Ease of Use and Perceived Usefulness to Predict Acceptance of the World Wide Web, Tino Fenech 
47. VIPER: A 3D-Modeling- and Visualisation-Toolkit for Web-based Applications, Andreas Disch and Philip Jacob 
48. Variations in Cache Behaviour, Chris Roadknight and Ian Marshall 
49. Video Medi-CAL: Supporting MPEG-2 Media Based Computer Assisted Learning on an Intranet, Steve Pavett, Nihal Samarawera, Neil M Hamilton and Gorry Fairhurst 
50. Web Cache Focusing Devices, P P Sember, T R Mueller, N Baker, M C Flower, B Raskutti and W Wen 
51. Web Development Tools: a Survey, Piero Fraternali 
52. Web-based Collaborative Learning: A Perspective on the Future, Karen E Goeller 
53. WebAssist: A User Profile Specific Information Retrieval Assistant, Christian Kurzke, Michael Galle and Manfred Bathelt 
54. WebOFDAV - Navigating and Visualising the Web On-line with Animated Context Swapping, Mao Lin Huang, Peter Eades and Robert F Cohen 
55. Wide Area Selection as a Hyperdocument Search Interface, Jason Lowder and Xindong Wu 
56. XML and the Desperate Tcl Hacker, Steve Ball 

10.30 - 11.00 

Morning Tea/Coffee 

11.00 - 12.30 

Papers Session 4A - M4 

Markup Languages 

• An extensible rendering engine for XML and HTML, Paolo Ciancarini, Alfredo Rizzi and Fabio Vitali 
• Template Resolution in XML/HTML, Anders Kristensen 
• A Practical Approach Towards Active Hyperlinked Documents, Eckhart Koeppen and Gustaf Neumann 

Papers Session 4B - M2 

Programming Languages 

• WebL: A Programming Language for the Web, Thomas Kistler and Hannes Marais 
• Java Input Method Engine, Leong Kok Yong, Liu Hai and Oliver P Wu 
• JESSICA: An Object-Oriented Hypermedia Publishing Processor, Robert A Barta and Markus W Schranz 

Papers Session 4C - M3 

Applications in Education and Training 

• Web-based Education for All: A Tool for Development of Adaptive Courseware, Peter Brusilovsky, John Eklund and Elmar Schwarz 
• Delivering Computer Assisted Learning across the WWW, David A Robinson, Callum R Lester and Neil M Hamilton 
• From Home Page to Home Site: Effective Web Resource Discovery at the ANU, Sam Hinton 

Panel Session 4 - M3 

Web Accessibility: Technical and Business Challenges, Implementation Successes 

Proposer - Judy Brewer 

Moderator - Judy Brewer 

Panelists - Daniel Dardallier, Phill Jenkins, Julia Schofield, Jason White and Lauren Wood 

W3C Session 4 - Great Hall 

Theme 

11:00 - 11:20: User Interace Domain Overview -- Vincent Quint 

11:20 - 11:50: HTML Futures -- Dave Raggett/Tatsuya Hagino 

11:50 - 12:00: HTML Q&A 

12:00 - 12:30: Internationalization (I18N) -- Bert Bos & Martin Du¨rst Internationalization (I18N) Presented by: Bert Bos and Martin Du¨rst, 12:00 - 12:30 This session will focus on the basic needs and principles of Internationalization, as well as the latest developments in Internationalization. To ensure that the World Wide Web is truly world-wide, the W3C has put much effort into the Internationalization of its specifications, in particular HTML 4.0, XML 1.0, and Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 (CSS2). Recently, this effort has been strengthenedby creating the Internationalization Worki ng Group and the Internationalization Interest Group, which are chartered to review the specifications that other working groups produce, and to design guidelines for Internationalization on the Web. 

12:20 - 12:30: (I18N) Q&A 

SIG Session 2 - M1 

SIG Title:Teaching, Learning and the Web: Rhetoric and Realities 

11.00 - 12.30 

Culture session 5 - P1/P2 Panel session Web possibilities - online cultural interactions and collections, exhibitions, performances and archives. 

Panelists - Judy Gradwohl, Eric Miller, John Perkins, Tim Bosher. 

11.00 - 12.30 

BOF - e-commerce 

12.30 - 1.30 

Oracle Lunch-Great Hall 

1.30 - 2.20 

Plenary Session 5 - Great Hall 

Keynote Address -Cathy Marshall, Principal Engineer, Xerox Parc 

2.20 - 2.30 

Parallel Session Breakout 

2.30 - 3.30 

Papers Session 5A - M4 

Browsers and Tools II 

• The Shark-Search Algorithm- An Application: Tailored Web Site Mapping, Michael Hersovici, Michal Jacovi, Yoelle S Maarek, Dan Pelleg, Menachem Shtalheim and Sigalit Ur 
• WCP - A Tool for Consistent On-line Update of Documents in a WWW Server, Sampath Rangarajan, Shalini Yajnik and Pankaj Jalote 

Papers Session 5B - M2 

Naming and Addressing 

• Version Augmented URIs for Reference Permanence Via an Apache Module Design, J Simonson, D Berleant, X Zhang, M Zie and H Vo 
• Network Dispatcher: A Connection Router for Scalable Internet Services, Guerney D. H. Hunt, German S Goldszmidt, Richard P King and Rajat Mukherjee 

Panel Session 5 - M3 

Accessibility and Universal Design: Advantages and Impact for Business, Government and Developers 

Proposer - Judy Brewer 

Moderator - Judy Brewer 

Panelists - George Kerscher, Steven Lucas, Jutta Treviranus and Cynthia Waddell 

W3C Session 5 - Great Hall 

Theme 

2:30 - 3:15: Style, fonts, Graphics -- Hakon Lie/Chris Lilley 

3:15 - 3:30: Style, fonts, Graphics Q&A 

2.20 - 3.30 

Culture session 6 - P1/P2 Panel session One exhibit, many points of view, many modes of interaction. Curators will work on the WWW7 shoe collection. 

Curators - John Hansen, Ric Foster, Gary Crockett, Judy Gradwohl. 

3.30 - 4.00 

Afternoon Tea/Coffee 

4.00 - 6.00 

Papers Session 6A - M4 

Information Retrieval and Modelling 

• The Order of Things: Activity-Centred Information Access, Matthew Chalmers, Kerry Rodden and Dominique Brodbeck 
• What is a Tall Poppy Among Web Pages?, Glen Pringle, Lloyd Allison and David L Dowe 
• A Technique for Measuring the Relative Size and Overlap of Public Web Search Engines, Krishna Bharat and Andrei Broder 
• The Origin of (Document) Species, Rohit Khare and Adam Rifkin 

Papers Session 6B - M2 

Multimedia 

• High resolution Colorimetric Image Browsing on the Web, Kirk Martinez, John Cupitt and Steve Perry 
• Distributed 3D Audio Rendering, Colin Low and Laurent Babarit 
• Sychronized Multimedia for the WWW, Franck Rousseau and Andrzej Duda 
• The Interactive Multimedia Jukebox (IMJ): A New Paradigm for the On-demand Delivery of Audio/Video, Kevin C Almeroth and Mostafa H Ammar 

Panel Session 6/7 - M3 

Missing the 404: Link Integrity On the World Wide Web 

Proposer - Helen Ashman and Hugh Davis 

Moderator - Helen Ashman 

Panelists - Steve Caughy, Hugh Davis and Jim Whitehead 

XML amd RDF: The Promise and the Reality of New Web Architectures 

Proposer - Jon Mason 

Moderator - Chris Blackall 

Panelists - Brian Denehy, Renato Iannella, Carl Lagoze and Stuart Weibel 

W3C Session 6 - Great Hall 

Theme 

4:00 - 4:20: Document Object Model (DOM) -- Lauren Wood 

4:20 - 4:30: DOM & Q&A 

4:30 - 4:50: Amaya -- Irene Vatton 

4:50 - 5:45: Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) -- Judy Brewer/Daniel Dardailler 

5:45 - 6:00: WAI Q&A 

SIG Session 3 - M1 

SIG Title:Webmaster 

4.00-6.00 

Culture session 7 - P1/P2 Panel session Exhibitions, performances, collections, electronic arts: the virtual and the real. An interactive hypothetical design session. 
Client - State Library of Queensland, Des Stephens and Gunela Astbrink 
Designers - John Smithies, Jeff Jones, David Jensen. 

7.30 

BOF session 4 - P3 

BOF - Wine Tasting 

Friday, 17 April 1998 - Technical Program

8.00 - 9.00 

Business Day - Registrations-M1 

9.00 - 9.30 

Plenary Session 6 - Great Hall 

Business Track Opening Keynote Frans De Bruine, - Director of Information Market Policies, European Commission 

9.30 - 10.30 

Plenary Session 7 - Great Hall 

Keynote Address - Paul Saffo, Director, Institute for the Future 

10.30 - 11.00 

Morning Tea/Coffee 

11.00 - 12.30 

11.00 - 11.30 Business Session 1 - M1 

Session_Theme 

• Presentation Title - The future of Internet technologies and their significance for business, Author - Michael Ward, Ozemail 

11.30 - 12.30 Business Session 1 - M1 

Panel Session Theme-Electronic Commerce 

• Panelists - Professor Bill Caelli - Head of the IT Security Centre at the Queensland University of Technology
• Panelists - Dennis Viehland - Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand
• Panelists - Andrew Hart - Minter Ellison Solicitors, Brisbane

Papers Session 7A - M4 

Server Technologies 

• Inquirus, The NECI Meta Search Engine, Steve Lawrence and C. Lee Giles 
• Using Path Profiles to Predict HTTP Requests, Stuart Schechter, Murali Krishnan and Michael D. Smith 
• Connectivity Server: Fast Access to Linkage Information on the Web, Krishna Bharat, Andrei Broder, Monika Henzinger, Puneet Kumar and Suresh Venkatasubramanian 

Papers Session 7B - M2 

Computer Supported Cooperative Work 

• Using an intranet for real-time production management Experiences and effects, Vlad Ionesco 
• In-place Editing of Web Pages: Sparrow Community-Shared Documents, Bay-Wei Chang 
• Effectiveness and Efficiency: The Need for Tailorable User Interfaces on the Web, Wolfgang Appelt, Elke Hinrichs and Gerd Woetzel 

Panel Session 8 - M3 

If We Could Do It Over Again 

Proposer - The WWW7 Programme Committee 

Moderator - TBA 

Panelists - James Gosling, Barry Jones, Paul Saffo, Xing Li and Robert Cailliau 

W3C Session 7 - Great Hall 

Theme 

11:00 - 11:15: Technology & Society Domain Overview: Alan Kotok 

11:15 - 11:35: Resource Description Framework (RDF) -- Josef Dietl 

11:35 - 11:45: RDF Q&A 

11:45 - 12:05: Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) -- Lorrie Faith Cranor 

12:05 - 12:15: (P3P) Q&A 

12:15 - 12:30 Electronic Commerce -- Josef Dietl 

11:00-12:30 

Culture session 8 - P1/P2 Panel session The road so far - What is happening internationally? 

• Keynote speaker - Stu Weibel 
• Panelists - Traugott Koch, Eric Miller, Tetsuo Sakaguchi, Warwick Cathro. 

12.30 - 1.30 

Lunch(Great Hall) - The Hon David Watson MLA Minister for Public Works & Housing 

1.30 - 2.20 

Plenary Session 8 - Great Hall 

Keynote Address -Xing Li, Deputy Director, China Education and Research Network 

2.20 - 2.30 

Parallel Session Breakout 

2.30 - 3.30 

Business Session 2 - M1 

Session_Theme 

• Presentation Title - Intellectual Property in Cyberspace, Author - John Swinson, Mallesons Stephen Jaques Solicitors 

Papers Session 8A - M4 

Authoring Environments 

• Intermediaries: New Places for Producing and manipulating Web Content, Rob Barrett and Paul P Maglio 
• GRiNS: A GRaphical INterface for Creating and Playing SMIL Documents, Dick C.A. Bulterman, Lynda Hardman, Jack Jansen, K. Sjoerd Mullender and Lloyd Rutledge 

Papers Session 8B - M2 

Security and Authorization 

• Secure Web Tunneling, Martin Abadi, Andrew Birrell, Raymie Stata and Edward Wobber 
• Secure Accounting and Auditing on the Web, Moni Naor and Benny Pinkas 

Papers Session 8C - M3 

Social and Cultural 

• Summary of WWW Characterizations, James E Pitkow 
• Cyber Courts: Using the Internet to Assist Court Processes, Allison Stanfield 

W3C Session 8 - Great Hall 

Theme 

2:30 - 3:30: W3C Town Meeting 

2.30-3.30 

Culture session 9.1 - P1 Panel session Metadata communities - which communities are active and what are they doing? 

• Panelists - Dagmar Parer, Carl Lagoze, John Perkins, Simon Cox. 

Culture session 9.2 - P2 Panel session Data interoperability - What are the problems? 

• Panelists - Eric Miller, Nigel Ward, Misha Wolf, Ralph Swick. 

3.00 - 3.30 

Business Session 2 - Room M1 

Session_Theme 

• Author - Eric Halil, Technical Manager, AUSCERT

3.30 - 4.00 

Afternoon Tea/Coffee 

4.00 - 4.05 

WWW7 Awards 

* Best paper 

* Best Poster 

* The IBM Java Brainwave Prize 

4.05 - 4.50 

Plenary Session 9 - Great Hall 

Keynote Address - Barry Jones, National President of the Australian Labor Party 

4.50 - 5.00 

Plenary Session 10 - Great Hall 

Conference Close 

Wrap up by Allan, Paul and Helen 

WWW8 Handover 

We hand over to the WWW8 Conference Committee. Be ready for Toronto in 1999! 

5.00 - 6.00 

Post day reception - Merivales Restaurant 

Saturday, 18 April 1998 - Developers Day