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WIDM 2004 Program

Last generated: Thu Oct 7 12:06:35 2004 EST.

Friday, Nov 12
08:45-09:00: Openning and Announcements

09:00-10:30: Session 1: Web Crawling and Exploration (Session Chair: Min-Yen Kan)

    A Two-Phase Sampling Technique for Information Extraction from Hidden Web Databases
       Yih-Ling Hedley, Muhammad Younas, Anne James (Coventry University, UK), 
       Mark Sanderson (University of Sheffield, UK)

    SmartCrawl: A new strategy for the exploration of the hidden Web
       Augusto de Carvalho Fontes, Fábio Soares Silva (Universidade Tiradentes, Brazil)

    Probabilistic Models for Focused Web Crawling
       Hongyu Liu, Evangelos Milios, Jeannette Janssen (Dalhousie University, Canada)

10:30-11:00: Coffee break

11:00-12:30: Session 2: XML Processing (Session Chair: Omar Boucelma)

    Parsing Concurrent XML
      Ionut E. Iacob, Alex Dekhtyar, Kazuyo Kaneko (University of Kentucky, USA)

    A Comprehensive Solution to the XML-to-Relational Mapping Problem
      Sihem Amer-Yahia (AT&T Labs Research, USA), 
      Fang Du, Juliana Freire (Oregon Graduate Institute, USA)

    Ctree: A Compact Tree for Indexing XML Data
      Qinghua Zou, Shaorong Liu, Wesley Chu (UCLA, USA)

12:30-14:00: Lunch

14:00-15:00: Invited Talk
    Next Generation CiteSeer
      Dr. C. Lee Giles (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)

15:30-16:00: Coffee break

16:00-18:00: Session 3: XML and Semistructured Data Querying (Session Chair: Alex Dekhtyar)

    Yet Another Lightweight XPath Processor
      R V R P Kumar, V Radha, V P Gulati (IDRBT, India) (Withdrawn)

    XPath lookup queries in P2P networks
      Angela Bonifati (CNR, Italy), Alfredo Cuzzocrea, Ugo Matrangolo (University of Calabria, Italy), 
      Mayank Jain (India Institute of Technology, India)

    Measuring Similarity between Collection of Values
      Carina F. Dorneles, Carlos A. Heuser, Andrei E. N. Lima (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil), 
      Altigran da Silva, Edleno de Moura (Federal University of Amazonas, Brazil)

    Querying Structured Data in an Unstructured P2P System
      Dimitrios Tsoumakos (University of Maryland at College Park, USA),
      Verena Kantere (National Technical University of Athens, Greece),  
      Nick Roussopoulos (University of Maryland at College Park, USA)

Saturday, Nov 13
09:00-10:30: Session 4: Web Personalization (Session Chair: Weiyi Meng)

    Web Personalization Integrating Content Semantics and Navigational Patterns
      Magdalini Eirinaki, Michalis Vazirgiannis, Harris Lampos, Stratos Pavlakis
      (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece)

    Web Personalization based on Static Information and Dynamic User Behavior
      Massimiliano Albanese, Antonio Picariello, Carlo Sansone, Lucio Sansone
      (University of Napoli "Frederico II", Italy)

    A Clickstream-Based Collaborative Filtering Personalization Model: Towards A Better Performance
      Dong-Ho Kim (Rutgers University, USA), Il Im (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA), 
      Nabil Adam, Vijayalakshmi Atluri (Rutgers University, USA), 
      Michael Bieber (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA), 
      Yelena Yesha (University of Maryland at Baltimore, USA)

10:30-11:00: Coffee break

11:00-12:30: Session 5: Web Searching (Session Chair: Prasenjit Mitra)

    Grouping Search-Engine Returned Citations for Person-Name Queries
      Reema Al-Kamha, David W. Embley (Brigham Young University, USA)

    WISE-Cluster: Clustering E-Commerce Search Engines Automatically
      Qian Peng, Weiyi Meng, Hai He (SUNY at Binghamton, USA), 
      Clement Yu (University of Illinois  at Chicago, USA)

    Specialisation Dynamics in Federated Web Search
      Rinat Khoussainov, Nicholas Kushmerick (University College Dublin, Ireland)

12:30-14:00: Lunch

14:00-15:30: Session 6: Web Mining and Clustering (Session Chair: Evangelos Milios)

    A Version Model for Supporting Adaptation of Web Pages
      Rodrigo Giacomini Moro, Renata de Matos Galante, Carlos Alberto Heuser
      (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)

    FS-Miner: Efficient and Incremental Mining of Frequent Sequence Patterns in Web Logs
      Maged El-Sayed, Carolina Ruiz, Elke A. Rundensteiner (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA) 

    Stylistic and Lexical Co-training for Web Block Classification
      Chee How Lee, Min-Yen Kan, Sandra Lai (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

15:30-16:00 - Coffee Break

16:00-17:00 - Session 7 (2 papers): User Interfaces and Services (Session Chair: Carlos Heuser)

    User Evaluation of the NASA Technical Report Server Recommendation Service
      Michael L. Nelson, Johan Bollen (Old Dominion University, USA), 
      JoAnne R. Calhoun, Calvin E. Mackey (NASA Langley Research Center, USA)
   
    A Web Interface to Image-based Concurrent Markup using Image Maps
      Jerzy W. Jaromczyk (University of Kentucky, USA), 
      Miroslaw Kowaluk (Warsaw University, Poland), 
      Neil Moore (University of Kentucky, USA) 

17:00-17:15: Closing