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Refereed Papers

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)


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