Refereed Papers

Technology for Developing Regions

• Connecting the Bottom of the Pyramid: An Exploratory Case Study of India's Rural Communication Environment
  Sarita Seshagiri, Aman Sagar, Dhaval Joshi
• Communication as Information-Seeking: The Case for Mobile Social Software for Developing Regions
  Beth Kolko, Emma Rose, Erica Johnson
• Optimal Audio-Visual Representations for Illiterate Users of Computers
  Indrani Medhi, Archana Prasad, Kentaro Toyama

• Identifying and Discriminating Between Web and Peer-to-Peer Traffic in the Network Core
  Jeffrey Erman, Anirban Mahanti, Martin Arlitt, Carey Williamson
• Long Distance Wireless Mesh Network Planning: Problem Formulation and Solution
  Sayandeep Sen, Bhaskaran Raman
• Is High-Quality VoD Feasible using P2P Swarming?
  Siddhartha Annapureddy, Saikat Guha, Dinan Gunawardena, Christos Gkantsidis, Pablo Rodriguez

XML and Web Data

• Multiway SLCA-based Keyword Search in XML Data
  Chong Sun, Chee-Yong Chan, Amit Goenka
• Visibly Pushdown Automata for Streaming XML
  Viraj Kumar, Parthasarathy Madhusudan, Mahesh Viswanathan
• Mapping-Driven XML Transformation
  Haifeng Jiang, Howard Ho, Lucian Popa, Wook-Shin Han

• Querying and Maintaining a Compact XML Storage
  Raymond Wong, Franky Lam, William Shui
• XML Design for Relational Storage
  Solmaz Kolahi, Leonid Libkin
• A High-Performance Interpretive Approach to Schema-Directed Parsing
  Morris Matsa, Eric Perkins, Abraham Heifets, Margaret Gaitatzes Kostoulas, Daniel Silva, Noah Mendelsohn, Michelle Leger

Browsers and User Interfaces

• Homepage Live: Automatic Block Tracing for Web Personalization
  Jie Han, Dingyi Han, Chenxi Lin, Hua-Jun Zeng, Zheng Chen, Yong Yu
• Open User Profiles for Adaptive News Systems: Help or Harm?
  Jae-wook Ahn, Peter Brusilovsky, Jonathan Grady, Daqing He, Sue Yeon Syn
• Investigating Behavioral Variability in Web Search
  Ryen White, Steven M. Drucker

• CSurf: A Context-Driven Non-Visual Web-Browser
  Jalal Mahmud, Yevgen Borodin, I.V. Ramakrishnan
• GeoTracker: Geospatial and Temporal RSS Navigation
  Yih-Farn Chen, Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, David Gibbon, Rittwik Jana, Serban Jora, Bernard Renger, Bin Wei
• Learning Information Intent via Observation
  Anthony Tomasic, Isaac Simmons, John Zimmerman

Search

• Navigation-Aided Retrieval
  Shashank Pandit, Christopher Olston
• Efficient Search Engine Measurements
  Ziv Bar-Yossef, Maxim Gurevich
• Efficient Search in Large Textual Collections with Redundancy
  Jiangong Zhang, Torsten Suel

• The Discoverability of the Web
  Anirban Dasgupta, Arpita Ghosh, Ravi Kumar, Christopher Olston, Sandeep Pandey, Andrew Tomkins
• Combining Classifiers to Identify Online Databases
  Luciano Barbosa, Juliana Freire
• An Adaptive Crawler for Locating Hidden-Web Entry Points
  Luciano Barbosa, Juliana Freire

• Random Web Crawls
  Toufik Bennouas, Fabien de Montgolfier
• Extraction and Classification of Dense Communities in the Web
  Yon Dourisboure, Filippo Geraci, Marco Pellegrini
• Web Projections: Learning from Contextual Subgraphs of the Web
  Jure Leskovec, Susan Dumais, Eric Horvitz

• Supervised Rank Aggregation
  Yu-Ting Liu, Tie-Yan Liu, Tao Qin, Zhi-Ming Ma, Hang Li
• Navigating the Intranet with High Precision
  Huaiyu Zhu, Alexander Loeser, Sriram Raghavan, Shivakumar Vaithyanathan
• Optimizing Web Search Using Social Annotations
  Shenghua Bao, Xiaoyuan Wu, Ben Fei, Gui-Rong Xue, Zhong Su, Yong Yu

• Robust Methodologies for Modeling Web Click Distributions
  Kamal Ali, Mark Scarr
• Predicting Clicks: Estimating the Click-Through Rate for New Ads
  Matthew Richardson, Ewa Dominowska, Robert Ragno
• Dynamics of Bid Optimization in Online Advertisement Auctions
  Christian Borgs, Jennifer Chayes, Omid Etesami, Nicole Immorlica, Kamal Jain, Mohammad Mahdian

• Compare&Contrast: Using the Web to Discover Comparable Cases for News Stories
  Jiahui Liu, Earl Wagner, Larry Birnbaum
• Answering Bounded Continuous Search Queries in the World Wide Web
  Dirk Kukulenz, Alexandros Ntoulas
• Answering Relationship Queries on the Web
  Gang Luo, Chunqiang Tang, Ying-li Tian

• Dynamic Personalized Pagerank in Entity-Relation Graphs
  Soumen Chakrabarti
• A Large-scale Evaluation and Analysis of Personalized Search Strategies
  Zhicheng Dou, Ruihua Song, Ji-Rong Wen
• Privacy-Enhancing Personalized Web Search
  Yabo Xu, Benyu Zhang, Zheng Chen, Ke Wang

Performance and Scalability

• GlobeTP: Template-Based Database Replication for Scalable Web Applications
  Tobias Groothuyse, Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, Guillaume Pierre
• Consistency-preserving Caching of Dynamic Database Content
  Niraj Tolia, M. Satyanarayanan
• Optimized Query Planning of Continuous Aggregation Queries in Dynamic Data Dissemination Networks
  Rajeev Gupta, Krithi Ramamritham

• A Scalable Application Placement Controller for Enterprise Data Centers
  Chunqiang Tang, Malgorzata Steinder, Michael Spreitzer, Giovanni Pacifici
• A Unified Platform for Data Driven Web Applications with Automatic Client-Server Partitioning
  Fan Yang, Nitin Gupta, Nicholas Gerner, Xin Qi, Alan Demers, Johannes Gehrke, Jayavel Shanmugasundaram
• MyXDNS: A Request Routing DNS Server With Decoupled Server Selection
  Hussein Alzoubi, Michael Rabinovich, Oliver Spatscheck

Pervasive Web and Mobility

• Robust Web Page Segmentation for Mobile Terminal Using Content-Distances and Page Layout Information
  Gen Hattori, Keiichiro Hoashi, Kazunori Matsumoto, Fumiaki Sugaya
• PRIVE: Anonymous Location-Based Queries in Distributed Mobile Systems
  Gabriel Ghinita, Panos Kalnis, Spiros Skiadopoulos
• A Mobile Application Framework for the Geospatial Web
  Rainer Simon, Peter Froehlich

Industrial Practice and Experience

• Google News Personalization: Scalable Online Collaborative Filtering
  Abhinandan Das, Mayur Datar, Ashutosh Garg, Shyam Rajaram
• Exploring in the Weblog Space by Detecting Informative and Affective Articles
  Xiaochuan Ni, Gui-Rong Xue, Xiao Ling, Yong Yu, Qiang Yang
• Spam Double-Funnel: Connecting Web Spammers with Advertisers
  Yi-Min Wang, Ming Ma, Yuan Niu, Hao Chen

Data Mining

• Page-level Template Detection via Isotonic Smoothing
  Deepayan Chakrabarti, Ravi Kumar, Kunal Punera
• Towards Domain-Independent Information Extraction from Web Tables
  Wolfgang Gatterbauer, Paul Bohunsky, Marcus Herzog, Bernhard Kroepl, Bernhard Pollak
• Web Object Retrieval
  Zaiqing Nie, Yunxiao Ma, Shuming Shi, Ji-Rong Wen, Wei-Ying Ma

• Summarizing Email Conversations with Clue Words
  Giuseppe Carenini, Raymond Ng, Xiaodong Zhou
• Organizing and Searching the World Wide Web of Facts - Step Two: Harnessing the Wisdom of the Crowds
  Marius Pasca
• Do Not Crawl in the DUST: Different URLs with Similar Text
  Ziv Bar-Yossef, Idit Keidar, Uri Schonfeld

• A New Suffix Tree Similarity Measure for Document Clustering
  Hung Chim, Xiaotie Deng
• Scaling Up All Pairs Similarity Search
  Roberto Bayardo, Yiming Ma, Ramakrishnan Srikant
• Detecting Near-Duplicates for Web Crawling
  Gurmeet Manku, Arvind Jain, Anish Das Sarma

• Demographic Prediction based on User's Browsing Behavior
  Jian Hu, Hua-Jun Zeng, Hua Li, Cheng Niu, Zheng Chen
• Why We Search: Visualizing and Predicting User Behavior
  Eytan Adar, Daniel Weld, Brian Bershad, Steven Gribble
• Topic Sentiment Mixture: Modeling Facets and Opinions in Weblogs
  Qiaozhu Mei, Xu Ling, Matthew Wondra, Hang Su, ChengXiang Zhai

• Wherefore Art Thou R3579X? Anonymized Social Networks, Hidden Patterns, and Structural Steganography
  Lars Backstrom, Cynthia Dwork, Jon Kleinberg
• Information Flow Modeling based on Diffusion Rate for Prediction and Ranking
  Xiaodan Song, Yun Chi, Koji Hino, Belle Tseng
• NetProbe: A Fast and Scalable System for Fraud Detection in Online Auction Networks
  Shashank Pandit, Duen Horng Chau, Samuel Wang, Christos Faloutsos

Web Engineering

• Turning Portlets into Services: The Consumer Profile
  Oscar Diaz, Salvador Trujillo, Sandy Perez
• A Framework for Rapid Integration of Presentation Components
  Jin Yu, Boualem Benatallah, Regis Saint-Paul, Fabio Casati, Florian Daniel, Maristella Matera
• Integrating Value-based Requirement Engineering Models to WebML using VIP Business Modeling Framework
  Farooque Azam, Zhang Li, Rashid Ahmad

• Towards Effective Browsing of Large Scale Social Annotations
  Rui Li, Shenghua Bao, Ben Fei, Zhong Su, Yong Yu
• Supporting End-Users in the Creation of Dependable Web Clips
  Sandeep Lingam, Sebastian Elbaum
• Effort Estimation: How Valuable is it for a Web company to Use a Cross-company Data Set, Compared to Using Its Own Single-company Data Set?
  Emilia Mendes, Sergio Di Martino, Filomena Ferrucci, Carmine Gravino

Web Services

• Towards the Theoretical Foundation of Choreography
  Zongyan Qiu, Xiangpeng Zhao, Chao Cai, Hongli Yang
• Introduction and Evaluation of Martlet, a Scientific Workflow Language for Abstracted Parallelisation
  Daniel James Goodman
• Semi-Automated Adaptation of Service Interactions
  Hamid R. Motahari-Nezhad , Boualem Benatallah, Axel Martens, Francisco Curbera, Fabio Casati

• Reliable QoS Monitoring Based on Client Feedback
  Radu Jurca, Walter Binder, Boi Faltings
• Preference-based Selection of Highly Configurable Web Services
  Steffen Lamparter, Anupriya Ankolekar, Rudi Studer, Stephan Grimm
• Speeding up Adaptation of Web Service Compositions Using Expiration Times
  John Harney, Prashant Doshi

• DIANE - An Integrated Approach to Automated Service Discovery, Matchmaking and Composition
  Ulrich Kuester, Birgitta Koenig-Ries, Mirco Stern, Michael Klein

Security, Privacy, Reliability, and Ethics

• Defeating Script Injection Attacks with Browser-Enforced Embedded Policies
  Trevor Jim, Nikhil Swamy, Michael Hicks
• Subspace: Secure Cross-Domain Communication for Web Mashups
  Collin Jackson, Helen Wang
• Exposing Private Information by Timing Web Applications
  Andrew Bortz, Dan Boneh, Palash Nandy

• On Anonymizing Query Logs via Token-based Hashing
  Ravi Kumar, Jasmine Novak, Bo Pang, Andrew Tomkins

• CANTINA: A Content-Based Approach to Detecting Phishing Web Sites
  Yue Zhang, Jason Hong, Lorrie Cranor
• Learning to Detect Phishing Emails
  Ian Fette, Norman Sadeh, Anthony Tomasic
• A Large-Scale Study of Web Password Habits
  Dinei Florencio, Cormac Herley

• A Fault Model and Mutation Testing of Access Control Policies
  Evan Martin, Tao Xie
• Analyzing Web Access Control Policies
  Vladimir Kolovski, James Hendler, Bijan Parsia
• Compiling Cryptographic Protocols for Deployment on the Web
  Jay McCarthy, Joshua D. Guttman, John D. Ramsdell, Shriram Krishnamurthi

Semantic Web

• Toward Expressive Syndication on the Web
  Christian Halaschek-Wiener, James Hendler
• Exhibit: Light-weight Structured Data Publishing
  David Huynh, David Karger, Rob Miller
• SPARQ2L: Towards Support For Subgraph Extraction Queries in RDF Databases
  Kemafor Anyanwu, Angela Maduko, Amit Sheth

• Measuring Semantic Similarity between Words Using Web Search Engines
  Danushka Bollegala, Yutaka Matsuo, Mitsuru Ishizuka
• Using Google Distance to Weight Approximate Ontology Matches
  Risto Risto Gligorov, Zharko Aleksovski, Warner ten Kate, Frank van Harmelen
• Hierarchical, Perceptron-like Learning for Ontology-Based Information Extraction
  Yaoyong Li, Kalina Bontcheva

• From SPARQL to Rules (and back)
  Axel Polleres
• Bridging the Gap Between OWL and Relational Databases
  Boris Motik, Ian Horrocks, Ulrike Sattler
• ActiveRDF: Object-Oriented Semantic Web Programming
  Eyal Oren, Renaud Delbru, Sebastian Gerke, Armin Haller, Stefan Decker

• Explorations in the Use of Semantic Web Technologies for Product Information Management
  Jean-Sebastien Brunner, Li Ma, Chen Wang, Lei Zhang, Daniel C. Wolfson , Yue Pan, Kavitha Srivinas

• Yago: A Core of Semantic Knowledge - Unifying WordNet and Wikipedia
  Fabian M. Suchanek, Gjergji Kasneci, Gerhard Weikum
• Ontology Summarization Based on RDF Sentence Graph
  Xiang Zhang, Gong Cheng, Yuzhong Qu
• Just the Right Amount: Extracting Modules from Ontologies
  Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Ian Horrocks, Yevgeny Kazakov, Ulrike Sattler

• The Two Cultures: Mashing Up Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web (position paper)
  Anupriya Ankolekar, Markus Kroetzsch, Thanh Tran, Denny Vrandecic
• Analysis of Topological Characteristics of Huge Online Social Networking Services
  Yong-Yeol Ahn, Seungyeop Han, Haewoon Kwak, Sue Moon, Hawoong Jeong
• P-TAG: Large Scale Automatic Generation of Personalized Annotation TAGs for the Web
  Paul - Alexandru Chirita, Stefania Costache, Siegfried Handschuh, Wolfgang Nejdl

E* Applications

• The Complex Dynamics of Collaborative Tagging
  Harry Halpin, Valentin Robu, Hana Shepherd
• Expertise Networks in Online Communities: Structure and Algorithms
  Jun Zhang, Mark Ackerman, Lada Adamic
• Internet-Scale Collection of Human-Reviewed Data
  Qi Su, Dmitry Pavlov, Jyh-Herng Chow, Wendell Baker

• DETECTIVES: DETEcting Coalition hiT Inflation attacks in adVertising nEtworks Streams
  Ahmed Metwally, Divyakant Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi
• Extraction and Search of Chemical Formulae in Text Documents on the Web
  Bingjun Sun, Qingzhao Tan, Prasenjit Mitra, C. Lee Giles
• A Content-Driven Reputation System for the Wikipedia
  B. Thomas Adler, Luca de Alfaro