10th ACM International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM)

October 30, 2008

Early registration deadline: August 22, 2008 (23:59 EDT(GMT-5))

Registration website: http://www.cikm2008.org/registration.php

WORKSHOP PROGRAM

8:45 - 9:00	Opening Remarks
9:00 - 10:30	Session 1: Data Mining and Clustering
	Event Detection with Common User Interests Meishan Hu, Aixin Sun and Ee-Peng Lim
	Automatic Wrapper Induction from Hidden-Web Sources with Domain Knowledge Pierre Senellart, Avin Mittal, Daniel Muschick, Remi Gilleron and Marc Tommasi
	PIXSAR: Incremental Reclustering of Augmented XML Trees Lila Shnaiderman, Oded Shmueli and Rajesh Bordawekar
	A Study of the Relationship between Ad Hoc Retrieval and Expert Finding in Enterprise Environment Jianhan Zhu
	The Effect of Title Term Suggestion on E-commerce Sites Shen Huang, Xiaoyuan Wu and Alvaro Bolivar
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30	Session 2: System Issues
	A Comparison of Techniques for Estimating IDF Values to generate Lexical Signatures for the Web Martin Klein and Michael Nelson
	High-Performance Priority Queues for Parallel Crawlers Mauricio Marin, Rodrigo Paredes and Carolina Bonacic
	Information Retrieval from Digital Libraries in SQL Carlos Garcia-Alvarado and Carlos Ordonez
	HiPPIS: An Online P2P System for Efficient Lookups on d-Dimensional Hierarchies Katerina Doka, Dimitrios Tsoumakos and Nectarios Koziris
	Approximating Query Completeness by Predicting the Number of Answers in DHT-based Web Applications Marcel Karnstedt, Kai-Uwe Sattler, Michael Haß, Manfred Hauswirth, Brahmananda Sapkota and Roman Schmidt
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch Break (on your own)
14:00 - 15:30	Session 3: Web 2.0 and Social Networks
	From Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 and back - How did your Grandma use to tag? Sheila Kinsella, Adriana Budura, Gleb Skobeltsyn, Sebastian Michel, John Breslin and Karl Aberer
	Modeling the Mashup Space Serge Abiteboul, Ohad Greenshpan and Tova Milo
	Nereau: Query Expansion Using Social Bookmark Claudio Biancalana, Alessandro Micarelli and Claudio Squarcella
	Web Content Summarization Using Social Bookmarks: A New Approach for Social Summarization Jaehui Park, Tomohiro Fukuhara, Ikki Ohmukai, Hideaki Takeda and Sang-goo Lee
	Granular Modeling of Web Documents: Impact on Information Retrieval Systems Elisabetta Fersini, Enza Messina and Francesco Archetti
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:30	Session 4: Ranking and Similarity Search
	Quantify Music Artist Similarity based on Style and Mood Bo Shao and Tao Li
	Boosting the Ranking Function Learning Process using Clustering Giorgos Giannopoulos, Theodore Dalamagas, Magdalini Eirinaki and Timos Sellis
	Personalized Ranking for Digital Libraries Based on Log Analysis Yang Sun, Huajing Li, Isaac Councill, Jian Huang, Wang-Chien Lee and C. Lee Giles
	Online Selection of Parameters in the Rocchio Algorithm for Identifying Interesting News Articles Raymond Pon, Alfonso Cardenas and David Buttler
	Supporting the Automatic Construction of Entity Aware Search Engines Lorenzo Blanco, Valter Crescenzi, Paolo Merialdo and Paolo Papotti
17:30-17:45	Closing Remarks

SCOPE

ACM WIDM 2008 is the tenth in a series of workshops on Web Information and Data Management to be held in conjunction with the 17th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2008). The objective of the workshop is to bring together researchers, industrial practitioners, and developers to study how the Web information can be extracted, stored, analyzed, and processed to provide useful knowledge to the end users for various advanced database and Web applications.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Web Mining: Web Usage Mining, Web Classification, Web Clustering, Resource Discovery, Web Personalization, Web Data Extraction, Web Structure Mining

Formal Models for Web Data and Knowledge Management: Data Models and Meta-data, Semi-structured Data and XML, Query Languages, Annotations, Ontologies

System Issues for Web Applications: Performance of Web Applications, System Design, Caching and Indexing of Web data, P2P

Methodologies for Web Data Management: Data Integration, Archiving, Security, Personalization

Tools and Infrastructure for Web Data Management: Web Site Modeling and Design, Web Visualization Tools, Intelligent Agents on the Web, Web Services

Web Applications: Digital Libraries, Web Portals, Warehousing, Web Information Filtering, Web Commerce, Web Monitoring

Web Exploration: Web Crawling, Web Search Engines

PAPER SUBMISSION

Manuscripts should be formatted using the ACM camera-ready templates available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html and submitted electronically as PDF files via the workshop submission website. Papers cannot exceed 8 pages in length.

All accepted papers will appear in the Proceedings published by the ACM Press. At least one author of each accepted paper must register and attend the workshop to present the paper.

IMPORTANT DATES

~~Papers due: July 20th, 2008~~
~~Notification of acceptance: August 10th, 2008~~
~~Camera-ready copy due: August 15th, 2008~~
Workshop: October 30th, 2008

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Chee-Yong Chan, National University of Singapore (chancy [at] comp.nus.edu.sg)
Neoklis Polyzotis, University of California-Santa Cruz (alkis [at] cs.ucsc.edu)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Ashraf Aboulnaga                University of Waterloo                  Canada
Periklis Andritsos              University of Trento                    Italy
Michael Benedikt                Oxford University                       UK
Omar Benjellouin                Google Inc                              USA
Yi Chen                         Arizona State University               	USA
Zhiyuan Chen                    University of Maryland Baltimore County USA
Mariano Consens                 University of Toronto                   Canada
Theodore Dalamagas              Athena Institute                        Greece
Prasad Deshpande                IBM Research India                      India
Luna Dong                       AT&T Research                           USA
Irini Fundulaki                 ICS Forth                               Greece
Ariel Fuxman                    Microsoft Research                      USA
Minos Garofalakis               Yahoo! Research                         USA
Floris Geerts                   University of Edinburgh                 UK
Anastassios Gounaris            University of Manchester                UK
Ihab Ilyas                      University of Waterloo                  Canada
Min-Yen Kan                     National University of Singapore        Singapore
Anastasios Kementsietsidis      IBM Research                            USA
Georgia Koutrika                Stanford University                     USA
Mong-Li Lee                     National University of Signapore        Singapore
Hong-Va Leong                   Hong Kong Polytechnic University        Hong Kong
Chen Li                         University of California Irvine         USA
Feifei Li                       Florida State University                USA
Lipyeow Lim                     IBM Research                            USA
Qiong Luo                       Hong Kong Univ. of Science & Tech.      Hong Kong
Prasenjit Mitra                 Penn State University                   USA
Pierre Senellart                Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik      Germany
Raymond Wong                    University of New South Wales           Australia
Melanie Wu                      Indiana University                      USA
Ke Yi                           Hong Kong Univ. of Science & Tech.      Hong Kong
Cong Yu                         Yahoo! Research                         USA