Refereed Papers

Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Friday, April 25, 2008

Location	Topic
*Wednesday, April 23, 2008*
*10:30am to 12:00 noon*
Level 2 - Hall 2C	Search: Query Analysis Modeling Anchor Text and Classifying Queries to Enhance Web Document Retrieval Unsupervised Query Segmentation using Generative Language Models and Wikipedia Spatial Variation in Search Engine Queries
Level 2 - Room 201C	Web Engineering - Applications Mining, Indexing, and Searching for Textual Chemical Molecule Information on the Web Value-Driven Design for "Infosuasive" Web Applications Organizing and Sharing Distributed Personal Web-Service Data
Level 3 - Room 302	Semantic Web I Structured Objects in OWL: Representation and Reasoning Computing Minimum Cost Diagnoses to Repair Populated DL-based Ontologies Scalable Querying Services over Fuzzy Ontologies
Level 3 - Room 305C	Social Networks: Analysis of Social Networks and Online Interaction Spaces Statistical analysis of the social network and discussion threads in Slashdot Yes, There is a Correlation - From Social Networks to Personal Behavior on the Web Knowledge Sharing and Yahoo Answers: Everyone Knows Something
*1:30pm to 3:00pm*
Level 2 - Hall 2C	Data Mining: Log Analysis Query-Sets: Using Implicit Feedback and Query Patterns to Organize Web Documents Mining the Search Trails of Surfing Crowds: Identifying Relevant Websites From User Activity Using the Wisdom of the Crowds for Keyword Generation
Level 2 - Room 201C	XML Learning Deterministic Regular Expressions for the Inference of Schemas from XML Data Efficient Evaluation of Generalized Path Pattern Queries on XML Data On Incremental Maintenance of 2-hop Labeling of Graphs
Level 3 - Room 302	Technology for Developing Regions Organizing the Unorganized -- Employing IT to Empower the Under-privileged DTWiki: A Disconnection and Intermittency Tolerant Wiki Action Science Approach to Nonprofit Housing Services using Web 2.0 Mapping Tools
Level 3 - Room 305C	Internet Monetization: Online advertising Externalities in Online Advertising A combinatorial allocation mechanism with penalties for banner advertising Dynamic Cost-Per-Action Mechanisms and Applications to Online Advertising
*3:30pm to 5:30pm*
Level 2 - Hall 2C	Search: Corpus Characterization and Search Performance Genealogical Trees on the Web: A Search Engine User Perspective A graph-theoretic approach to webpage segmentation Performance of Compressed Inverted List Caching in Search Engines
Level 2 - Room 201C	Browsers and UI Personalized Web Exploration with Task Models Validating the Use and Role of Visual Elements of Web Pages in Navigation with an Eye-Tracking Study Improving Relevance Judgment of Web Search Results with Image Excerpts KeySurf: A character controlled browser for people with physical disabilities
Level 3 - Room 302	Internet Monetization: Recommendation and Security Optimal Marketing Strategies over Social Networks Trust-based recommendation systems: an axiomatic approach Secure or insure? A game-theoretic analysis of information security games
Level 3 - Room 305C	Social Networks: Discovery and Evolution of Communities Tag-based Social Interest Discovery FacetNet: A Framework for Analyzing Communities and Their Evolutions in Dynamic Networks Statistical Properties of Community Structure in Large Social and Information Networks
* * * *
*Thursday, April 24, 2008*
*10:30am to 12:00 noon*
Level 2 - Hall 2C	Search: Ranking and Retrieval Enhancement Ranking Refinement and Its Application to Information Retrieval Learning to Rank Relational Objects and Its Application to Web Search Contextual Advertising by Combining Relevance with Click Feedback
Level 2 - Room 201C	XML XML Data Dissemination using Automata on top of Structured Overlay Networks Utility-driven Load Shedding for XML Stream Processing SewNet - A Framework for Creating Services utilizing Telecom Functionality
Level 3 - Room 302	Security I: Misc Privacy-Enhanced Sharing of Personal Content on the Web Detecting Image Spam using Visual Features and Near Duplicate Detection Better Abstractions for Secure Server-Side Scripting
Level 3 - Room 305C	Semantic Web II Networked Graphs: A Declarative Mechanism for SPARQL Rules, SPARQL Views and RDF Data Integration on the Web SPARQL Basic Graph Pattern Optimization Using Selectivity Estimation Scaling RDF with Time
*1:30pm to 3:30pm*
Level 2 - Hall 2C	Data Mining FloatCascade Learning for Fast Imbalanced Web Mining Recommending Questions Using the MDL-based Tree Cut Model Learning to Classify Short and Sparse Text & Web with Hidden Topics from Large-scale Data Collections
Level 2 - Room 201C	Web Service Composition Matching Independent Global Constraints for Composite Web Services Wishful Search: Interactive Composition of Data Mashups Extending the Compatibility Notion for Abstract WS-BPEL Processes
Level 3 - Room 302	Security II: Web Client Security SessionLock: Securing Web Sessions against Eavesdropping ForceHTTPS: Protecting High-Security Web Sites from Network Attacks SMash: Secure Component Model for Cross-Domain Mashups on Unmodified Browsers CompoWeb: A Component-Oriented Web Architecture
Level 3 - Room 305C	Rich Media Generating Diverse and Representative Image Search Results for Landmarks PageRank for Image Search Graph Theoretical Framework for Simultaneously Integrating Visual and Textual Features for Efficient Web Image Clustering Flickr Tag Recommendation based on Collective Knowledge
* * * *
*Friday, April 25, 2008*
*10:30am to 12:00 noon*
Level 2 - Hall 2C	Data Mining: Modeling Topic Modeling with Network Regularization Modeling Online Reviews with Multi-grain Topic Models Opinion Integration Through Semisupervised Topic Modeling
Level 2 - Room 201C	Mobility Supporting Anonymous Location Queries in Mobile Environments with PrivacyGrid Learning Transportation Mode from Raw GPS Data for Geographic Applications on the Web Deciphering Mobile Search Patterns: A Study of Yahoo! Mobile Search Queries
Level 3 - Room 302	Performance and Scalability Service-Oriented Data Denormalization for Scalable Web Applications Anycast CDNs Revisited A Comparative Analysis of Web and Peer-to-Peer Traffic
Level 3 - Room 305C	Search: Crawlers IRLbot: Scaling to 6 Billion Pages and Beyond Recrawl Scheduling Based on Information Longevity iRobot: An Intelligent Crawler for Web Forums
*1:30pm to 3:00pm*
Level 2 - Hall 2C	Data Mining: Algorithms Efficient Similarity Joins for Near Duplicate Detection Learning Multiple Graphs for Document Recommendations Enhanced Hierarchical Classification via Isotonic Smoothing
Level 2 - Room 201C	Social Networks: Applications and Infrastructures for Web 2.0 Why Web 2.0 is Good for Learning and for Research: Principles and Prototypes Exploring Social Annotations for Information Retrieval Lock-Free Consistency Control for Web 2.0 Applications
Level 3 - Room 305C	Internet Monetization: Sponsored Search Analyzing Search Engine Advertising: Firm Behavior and Cross-Selling in Electronic Markets Online Learning from Click Data for Sponsored Search
*3:30pm to 5:00pm*
Level 2 - Hall 2C	Search: Applications Automatic Online News Issue Construction in Web Environment Finding the Right Facts in the Crowd: Factoid Question Answering over Social Media Personalized Interactive Faceted Search
Level 2 - Room 201C	Web Service Deployment Investigating Web Services on the World Wide Web RESTful Web Services vs. "Big" Web Services: Making the Right Architectural Decision Non-Intrusive Monitoring and Service Adaption for WS-BPEL
Level 3 - Room 305C	Semantic Web III Wiki Content Templating Querying for Meta Knowledge Automatically Refining the Wikipedia Infobox Ontology

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