The following 111 papers were accepted for presentation at the conference. A small subset of these papers have been nominated for paper awards.
Track: Browsers and User Interfaces
Session: Personalization (Wed May 9, 1:30pm-3:00pm, New Brunswick)
Chair: Emir Halepovic (University of Calgary, Canada)
Session: Smarter Browsing (Wed May 9, 3:30pm-5:00pm, New Brunswick)
Chair: Simon Harper (University of Manchester, UK)
Track: Data Mining
Session:
Identifying Structure in Web Pages (Thu May 10, 10:30am-noon, Alberta)
Chair: Wei-Ying Ma (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
Session:
Mining Textual Data (Thu May 10, 1:30pm-3:00pm, Alberta)
Chair: Andrew Tomkins (Yahoo!, USA)
Session:
Similarity Search (Fri May 11, 10:30am-noon, Alberta)
Chair: Mark Manasse (Microsoft Research, USA)
Session:
Predictive Modeling of Web Users (Sat May 12, 1:30pm-3:00pm, Alberta)
Chair: Sebastiano Vigna (University of Milan, Italy)
Session:
Mining in Social Networks (Sat May 12, 3:30pm-5:00pm, Alberta)
Chair: Massimo Santini (University of Milan, Italy)
Track: E* Applications
Session:
E-Communities (Sat May 12, 10:30am-noon, Beatty)
Chair: Wolfgang Nejdl (L3S / University of Hannover, Germany)
Session:
E-Commerce and E-Content (Sat May 12, 1:30pm-3:00pm, Beatty)
Chair: Elisa Bertino (Purdue University, USA)
Track: Industrial Practice and Experience
Session:
IPE (Thu May 10, 1:30pm-3:00pm, New Brunswick)
Chair: Susan Dumais (Microsoft Research, USA)
Track: Performance and Scalability
Session:
Scalable Systems for Dynamic Content (Thu May 10, 10:30am-noon, Shaughnessy)
Chair: Martin Arlitt (HP Labs, USA / University of Calgary, Canada)
Session:
Performance Engineering of Web Applications
(Thu May 10, 3:30pm-5:00pm, Shaughnessy)
Chair: Arun Iyengar (IBM Research, USA)
Track: Pervasive Web and Mobility
Session:
Pervasive Web and Mobility (Thu May 10, 10:30am-noon, Beatty)
Chair: Sue Moon (KAIST, Korea)
Track: Search
Session:
Search Potpourri (Wed May 9, 10:30am-noon, Alberta)
Chair: Judit Bar-Ilan (Bar Ilan University, Israel)
Session:
Crawlers (Wed May 9, 1:30pm-3:00pm, Alberta)
Chair: Brian Davison (Lehigh University, USA)
Session:
Web Graphs (Wed May 9, 3:30pm-5:00pm, Alberta)
Chair: Chris Olston (Yahoo!, USA)
Session:
Search Quality and Precision (Thu May 10, 3:30pm-5:00pm, Alberta)
Chair: Andrei Broder (Yahoo! Research, USA)
Session:
Advertisements and Click Estimates (Fri May 11, 1:30pm-3:00pm, Alberta)
Chair: Ziv Bar-Yossef (Technion, Israel)
Session:
Knowledge Discovery (Fri May 11, 3:30pm-5:00pm, Alberta)
Chair: Hang Li (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
Session:
Personalization (Sat May 12, 10:30am-noon, Alberta)
Chair: Peter Brusilovsky (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Track: Security, Privacy, Reliability and Ethics
Session:
Defending Against Emerging Threats (Fri May 11, 3:30pm-5:30pm, Shaughnessy)
Chair: Rohit Khare (4K Associates, USA)
Session:
Passwords and Phishing (Say May 12, 10:30am-noon, New Brunswick)
Chair: Einat Amitay (IBM Research, USA)
Session:
Access Control and Trust on the Web (Say May 12, 3:30pm-5:00pm, Shaughnessy)
Chair: Jinpeng Huai (Beihang University, China)
Track: Semantic Web
Session:
Applications (Fri May 11, 10:30am-noon, New Brunswick)
Chair: Rudi Studer (University of Karlsruhe and FZI, Germany)
Session:
Similarity and Extraction (Fri May 11, 1:30pm-3:00pm, New Brunswick)
Chair: Hideaki Takeda (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
Session:
Query Languages and DBs (Fri May 11, 3:30pm-5:30pm, New Brunswick)
Chair: Riichiro Mizoguchi (Osaka University, Japan)
Session:
Ontologies (Sat May 12, 10:30am-noon, Shaughnessy)
Chair: Atanas Kiryakov (Ontotext Lab, Sirma Group, Bulgaria)
Session:
Semantic Web and Web 2.0 (Sat May 12, 1:30pm-3:00pm, Shaughnessy)
Chair: Ian Horrocks (University of Manchester, UK)
Track: Technology for Developing Regions
Session:
Communication in Developing Regions (Wed May 9, 10:30am-noon, Beatty)
Chair: Krithi Ramamritham (IIT Bombay, India)
Session:
Networking Issues in the Web (Wed May 9, 3:30pm-5:00pm, Beatty)
Chair: Kentaro Toyama (Microsoft Research, India)
Track: Web Engineering
Session:
Web Modeling (Fri May 11, 10:30am-noon, Shaughnessy)
Chair: Yogesh Deshpande (University of Western Sydney, Australia)
Session:
End-Users Perspective and Measurement in Web Engineering
(Fri May 11, 1:30pm-3:00pm, Shaughnessy)
Chair: Daniel Schwabe (PUC Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Track: Web Services
Session:
Orchestration & Choreography (Fri May 11, 1:30pm-3:00pm, Beatty)
Chair: Paul Watson (University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)
Session:
SLAs and QoS (Fri May 11, 3:30pm-5:30pm, Beatty)
Chair: Jim Webber (ThoughtWorks, Australia)
Track: XML and Web Data
Session:
Querying and Transforming XML (Wed May 9, 10:30am-noon, New Brunswick)
Chair: Savas Parastatidis (Microsoft, USA)
Session:
Parsing, Normalizing, and Storing XML (Thu May 10, 10:30am-noon, New Brunswick)
Chair: John Boyer (IBM, USA)
