Opening Ceremony

Plenary Presentation

• Fitting it all together
  Tim Berners-Lee

• Introduction and W3C's Process
  Steve Bratt
• High-Level Overview of W3C Technologies
  Ivan Herman
• W3C Patent Policy
  Daniel J. Weitzner

• Query-Free News Search [707]
  Monika Henzinger, Bay-Wei Chang, Brian Milch, Sergey Brin
• Improving Pseudo-Relevance Feedback in Web Information Retrieval Using Web Page Segmentation [300]
  Shipeng Yu, Deng Cai, Ji-Rong Wen, Wei-Ying Ma
• Predictive Caching and Prefetching of Query Results in Search Engines [17]
  Ronny Lempel, Shlomo Moran

• Model-theoretic Semantics for the Web [277]
  James Farrugia
• Three Theses of Representation in the Semantic Web [50]
  Ian Horrocks, Peter F. Patel-Schneider
• Description Logic Programs: Combining Logic Programs with Description Logic [117]
  Benjamin N. Grosof, Ian Horrocks, Raphael Volz, Stefan Decker

• Dynamic Service Reconfiguration for Wireless Web Access [242]
  Siu-Nam Chuang, Alvin T.S. Chan, Ronnie Cheung, Jiannong Cao
• Web Browsing Performance of Wireless Thin-Client Computing [741]
  S. Jae Yang, Jason Nieh, Shilpa Krishnappa, Aparna Mohla, Mahdi Sajjadpour
• Sensor-enhanced Mobile Web Clients: an XForms Approach [643]
  John Barton, Tim Kindberg, Hui Dai, HP Labs, Bodhi Priyantha, Fahd Al-bin-ali

• Acceleration of Web Service Workflow Execution through Edge Computing [172]
  Junichi Tatemura, Wang-Pin Hsiung, Wen-Syan Li
• Service Chart Diagrams - Description & Application [43]
  Z. Maamar, B. Benatallah, and W. Mansoor
• Service-Oriented Composition in BPEL4WS [768]
  Rania Khalaf, Nirmal Mukhi, Sanjiva Weerawarana

• The Failure of The European IT Standards Strategy [552]
  Greg FitzPatrick
• The Web of People: A dual view on the WWW [379]
  Michel Plu, Pascal Bellec, Layda Agosto, Walter Van De Velde
• From Individuals to the Global Community: the Hidden Contradiction of the Cultural History of Classification and the latest browsing technologies [875]
  László Z.Karvalics

Device Independence for GUI, Voice and Multimodal Applications: Is it Possible?

Moderators:

• Debbie Dahl, W3C
• Stephane Boyera, W3C

Panelists:

• Dave Raggett, Canon
• Max Froumentin, W3C
• Roland Merrick, IBM

• XHTML 2.0 and XForms
  Steven Pemberton
• CSS 3
  Bert Bos
• Applications of SVG
  Dean Jackson
• Pulling it All Together
  Chris Lilley

• Text Joins in an RDBMS for Web Data Integration [627]
  Luis Gravano, Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, Nick Koudas, Divesh Srivastava
• Dynamic Maintenance of Web Indexes Using Landmarks [656]
  Lipyeow Lim, Min Wang, Sriram Padmanabhan, Jeffrey Scott Vitter, Ramesh Agarwal
• High-Performance Spatial Indexing for Location-Based Services [612]
  Jussi Myllymaki, James Kaufman

• Efficient and Robust Streaming Provisioning in VPNs [23]
  Zhuoqing Morley Mao, David Johnson, Oliver Spatscheck, Jacobus Van der Merwe, Jia Wang
• On Admission Control for Profit Maximization of Network Service Providers [237]
  Akshat Verma, Sugata Ghosal
• Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of a Client Characterization Driven Web Server [527]
  Balachander Krishnamurthy, Craig E. Wills, Yin Zhang, Kashi Vishwanath

• Web Application Security Assessment by Fault Injection and Behavior Monitoring [81]
  Yao-Wen Huang, Shih-Kun Huang, Tsung-Po Lin, Chung-Hung Tsai
• The HP Time Vault Service: Innovating the Way Confidential Information is Disclosed on the Web, at the Right Time  [20]
  Marco Casassa Mont, Keith Harrison, Martin Sadler
• Content Extraction Signatures using XML Digital Signatures and Custom Transforms On-Demand [838]
  Laurence Bull, Peter Stanski, David Squire

• TSpaces Services Suite: Automating the Development and Management of Web Services [525]
  Marcus Fontoura, Toby Lehnman, Dwayne Nelson, Thomas Truong, Yuhong Xiong
• WTM: A Traffic Monitoring Framework for Web Service Transactions [632]
  Jinsong Ouyang, Wenjing Chu, Praveen Savur
• WS-Membership - Failure Management in a Web-Services World [712]
  Werner Vogels, Chris Re

• Acting Accessibility: Scenario-based consideration of Web content accessibility for development and publishing communities [306]
  Liddy Nevile, Oliver Burmeister
• Why accessibility is handled the way it is [invited]
  Jutta Treviranus
• How do search engines handle non-English queries? - A case study [415]
  Judit Bar-Ilan, Tatyana Gutman

The Semantic Web: Scientific American article considered harmful?

Moderator:

• Lynda Hardman CWI, The Netherlands & University of Eindhoven

Panelists:

• Jim Hendler, University of Maryland, USA
• Amit Sheth, University of Georgia, USA
• Ramanathan Guha, (Affiliation to be confirmed)
• Nigel Shadbolt, University of Southampton, UK
• Jane Hunter, DSTC, Australia

• Quality Assurance Goals
  Daniel Dardailler
• Outreach Resources and Tools for a better Web
  Dominique Hazael-Massieux
• Community-driven tools developement for a better Web
  Olivier Théreaux
• Technical Architecture Group scope
  Tim Berners-Lee and TAG Members

• SemTag and Seeker: Bootstrapping the semantic web via automated semantic annotation [831]
  Stephen Dill, Nadav Eiron, David Gibson, Daniel Gruhl, Ramanathan Guha, Anant Jhingran, Tapas Kanungo, Sridhar Rajagopalan, Andrew Tomkins, John Tomlin, Jason Zien
• Data Extraction and Label Assignment for Web Databases [470]
  Jiying Wang, Fred H. Lochovsky
• The Chatty Web: Emergent Semantics Through Gossiping [471]
  Karl Aberer, Philippe Cudre-Mauroux, Manfred Hauswirth

• DOM-based Content Extraction of HTML Documents [583]
  Suhit Gupta, Gail Kaiser, David Neistadt, Peter Grimm
• Fractal Summarization for Mobile Device to Access Large Documents on the Web [681]
  Christopher C. Yang, Fu Lee Wang
• Detecting Web Page Structure for Adaptive Viewing on Small Form Factor Devices [297]
  Yu Chen, Wei-Ying Ma, Hong-Jiang Zhang

• Supporting Management Reporting: A Writable Web Case Study [476]
  Tim Miles-Board, Leslie Carr, Simon Kampa, Wendy Hall
• Scholarly Publishing and Argument in Hyperspace [137]
  V.S.Uren, J.B.Domingue, Gangmin Li, S.Buckingham Shum, E.Motta
• Mining Topic-Specific Concepts and Definitions on the Web [646]
  Bing Liu, Chee Wee Chin, Hwee Tou Ng

• A LOM Research Agenda [659]
  Erik Duval, Wayne Hodgins
• Elena: A Mediation Infrastructure for Educational Services [616]
  Bernd Simon, Zoltan Miklos, Wolfgang Nejdl, Michael Sintek, Joaquin Salvachua
• Web-based Trading of Rights-Enabled Learning Objects [312]
  Renato Iannella

Web Accessibility: Will WCAG 2.0 Better Meet Today's Challenges?

Moderator:

• Brian Kelly, UKOLN, UK

Panelists:

• Jenny Craven, CERLIM, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
• Judy Brewer, W3C
• Wendy Chisholm, W3C

• XML Core specifications
  Michael Sperberg McQueen
• XQuery and XPath
  Liam Quin
• DOM Level 3
  Philippe Le Hégaret
• XML Security: XML Signature, XML Encryption, XKMS
  Ralph Swick

• Extrapolation Methods for Accelerating PageRank Computations [270]
  Sepandar D. Kamvar, Taher H. Haveliwala, Christopher D. Manning, Gene H. Golub
• Scaling Personalized Web Search [185]
  Glen Jeh, Jennifer Widom
• Adaptive On-Line Page Importance Computation [7]
  Serge Abiteboul, Mihai Preda, Gregory Cobena

• SHOCK: Computational Messaging with Automatic Private Profiles [691]
  Rajan M. Lukose, Eytan Adar, Joshua R. Tyler, Caesar Sengupta
• P2Cast: Peer-to-peer Patching Scheme for VoD Service [445]
  Yang Guo, Kyoungwon Suh, Jim Kurose, Don Towsley
• DEW: DNS-Enhanced Web for Faster Content Delivery [428]
  Balachander Krishnamurthy, Richard Liston, Michael Rabinovich

• A System for Principled Matchmaking in an Electronic Marketplace [601]
  Tommaso Di Noia, Eugenio Di Sciascio, Francesco M. Donini, Marina Mongiello
• A Software Framework For Matchmaking Based on Semantic Web Technology [815]
  Lei Li, Ian Horrocks
• SweetDeal: Representing Agent Contracts with Exceptions using XML Rules, Ontologies, and Process Descriptions [115]
  Benjamin N. Grosof, Terrence C. Poon

• Towards Personalized Selection of Web Services [725]
  Wolf-Tilo Balke, Matthias Wagner
• Delivering Semantic Web Services [829]
  Massimo Paolucci, Katia Sycara, Takahiro Kawamura

• XML, Lessons Learned [invited]
  Tom Jell
• Implementing XML Schema inside a relational database [284]
  Sandeepan Banerjee
• XML techniques and legal demands in electronic bill presentation [invited]
  Andreas Kühne

On Culture in a Worldwide Information Society

Moderator:

• Alfredo Ronchi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Panelists:

• Kim H. Veltman, Maastricht MacLuhan, Maastricht, The Netherlands
• Ranjit Makkuni, Sacred World Foundation, New Deli – India
• Susumu Sawai, Manager Gakujoken, Japan
• Junii Matsumoto, Unesco
• Georges Mihajes, Oslo Platform
• Heiner Banking, expert

• Web Services Architecture
  Hugo Haas
• Web Services Description Language 1.2
  Philippe Le Hégaret
• SOAP 1.2
  Yves Lafon
• Internationalization and Web Services
  Martin Dürst

• A New Paradigm for Ranking Pages on the World Wide Web [42]
  John A. Tomlin
• Adaptive Ranking of Web Pages [820]
  Ah Chung Tsoi, Gianni Morini, Franco Scarselli, Markus Hagenbuchner, Marco Maggini
• Searching the Worksplace Web [641]
  Ronald Fagin, Ravi Kumar, Kevin S. McCurley, Jasmine Novak, D. Sivakumar, John Tomlin, David P. Williamson

• Peer-to-Peer Architecture for Content-Based Music Retrieval on Acoustic Data [281]
  Cheng Yang
• Towards a Multimedia Formatting Vocabulary [383]
  Jacco van Ossenbruggen, Joost Geurts, Lynda Hardman, Lloyd Rutledge
• Architecture of a Quality Based Intelligent Proxy (QBIX) for MPEG-4 Videos [365]
  Peter Schojer, Laszlo Böszörmenyi, Hermann Hellwagner, Bernhard Benz, Stefan Podlipnig

• Conversation Specification: A New Approach to Design and Analysis of E-Service Composition [671]
  Jianwen Su, Richard Hull, Tevfik Bultan, Xiang Fu
• Quality Driven Web Service Composition [358]
  Liangzhao Zeng, Boualem Benatallah, Marlon Dumas, Jayant Kalagnanam, Quan Z. Sheng
• A Foundation for Tool Based Mobility Support for Visually Impaired Web Users [454]
  Yeliz Yesilada, Robert Stevens, Carole Goble

• Experience With Teaching and Learning in Cooperative Knowledge Areas [136]
  Thorsten Hampel, Reinhard Keil-Slawik
• Goal Complexity and Knowledge Acquisition from Educational Hypertext [382]
  Angela Brunstein, Josef F. Krems
• Asynchronous Dialogue in Education: towards an understanding of the nature of interactions [360]
  Melissa Lee Price, Andy Lapham

• Bringing UML to the Web --- How to Transform UML 2 models to SVG-based documents [invited]
  Marko Boger
• An Ontology-based Knowledge Management System for the Metal Industry [620]
  Sheng-Tun Li, Huang-Chih Hsieh, I-Wei Sun
• Accelerating Standards Adoption: A Vendor's Perspective on Contributing to Open Standards and Open Source [876]
  Luc Chamberland, Elena Litani

Will XML Search and Retrieval Bridge the Gap between Databases and Full-Text Search Engines?

Moderators:

• Yoelle Maarek, IBM Research Lab, Haifa
• Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Universidad de Chile, Chile

Panelists:

• Andrei Broder, IBM T.J Watson Research Center, USA
• Oren Etzioni, University of Washington, USA
• Ross Wilkinson, CSIRO, Australia
• Prabhakar Raghavan, Verity, Inc. USA

Plenary Presentation

• Leonardo's Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies
  Ben Shneiderman

• Globalities, Spatialities and it Strategies: New Web Politics and Social Development
  Pál Tamás

• W3C Semantic Web Activity
  Eric Miller
• RDF Core Support and Deployment
  Brian McBride
• Web Ontology Status
  Jim Hendler and Guus Schreiber
• Semantic Web Advanced Development
  Ralph Swick and Dan Brickley
• Semantic Web in the Field
  R.V. Guha

• On Deep Annotation [273]
  Siegfried Handschuh, Steffen Staab, Raphael Volz
• An Infrastructure for Searching, Reusing and Evolving Distributed Ontologies [104]
  A. Maedche, B. Motik, L. Stojanovic, R. Studer, R. Volz

• Application Specific Data Replication for Edge Services [669]
  Lei Gao, Mike Dahlin, Amol Nayate, Jiandan Zheng, Arun Iyengar
• Evaluation of Edge Caching/Offloading for Dynamic Content Delivery [264]
  Chun Yuan, Yu Chen, Zheng Zhang
• Modeling Redirection in Geographically Diverse Server Sets [519]
  Lisa Amini, Anees Shaikh, Henning Schulzrinne

• Offering Open Hypermedia Services to the WWW: a step-by-step approach for developers [531]
  Nikos Karousos, Ippokratis Pandis, Siegfried Reich, Manolis Tzagarakis
• Xspect: Bridging Open Hypermedia and XLink [138]
  Bent G. Christensen, Frank Allan Hansen, Niels Olof Bouvin
• The XML Web: a First Study [677]
  Laurent Mignet, Denilson Barbosa, Pierangelo Veltri

• Web Services: Quo Vadis? [invited]
• System Re-gegineering and Integration Using XML/Web Services [343]
  Dr. Michael J. Hu
• Mobile Content Transformation using XSLT and its Evaluation [404]
  Hideharu Suzuki, Norihiro Ishikawa, Hidetoshi Ueno, Tetsuya Gotoh

Global responses – Follow-up on the keynote presentations of the day

Moderator:

• Bebo White, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

Panelists:

• Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland
• Pál Tamás, Sociology Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Web Service Choreography

Moderator:

• Amit Sheth, Semagix and University of Georgia

Panelists:

• Eduardo Gutentag, Sun Microsystems
• Hugo Haas, W3C Web Services Activity Lead
• Frank Leymann, IBM
• Steve Ross-Talbot, Enigmatec Corporation

Plenary Presentation

• Missing Links
  Wendy Hall

• The Web Touches Everything -- Now It needs to be SERIOUS
  Stuart I. Feldman

• Device Independence Challenges
  Stéphane Boyera
• VoiceXML 2.0 in the W3C's Voice Interface Framework
  Dave Raggett
• Multimodal Interaction
  Max Froumentin

• A Matrix Density Based Algorithm to Hierarchically Co-Cluster Documents and Words [704]
  Bhushan Mandhani, Krishna Kummamuru, Sachindra Joshi
• Mining the peanut gallery: Opinion extraction and semantic classification of product reviews [451]
  Kushal Dave, Steve Lawrence, David M. Pennock
• Mining Newsgroups Using Networks Arising From Social Behavior [688]
  Rakesh Agrawal, Sridhar Rajagopalan, Ramakrishnan Srikant, Yirong Xu

• Super-Peer-Based Routing and Clustering Strategies for RDF-Based Peer-To-Peer Networks [510]
  Wolfgang Nejdl, Martin Wolpers, Wolf Siberski, Christoph Schmitz, Mario Schlosser, Ingo Brunkhorst, Alexander Löser
• On Labeling Schemes for the Semantic Web [361]
  Vassilis Christophides, Dimitris Plexousakis, Michel Scholl, Sotirios Tourtounis
• Piazza: Data Management Infrastructure for Semantic Web Applications [540]
  Alon Y. Halevy, Zachary G. Ives, Peter Mork, Igor Tatarinov

• Integrating Adaptive Hypermedia Techniques and Open RDF-based Environments [810]
  Peter Dolog, Rita Gavriloaie, Wolfgang Nejdl, Jan Brase
• LAOS: Layered WWW AHS Authoring Model with Algebraic Operators [301]
  Alexandra I. Cristea, Arnout de Mooij
• A Context-Based Information Agent for Supporting Intelligent Distance Learning Environments [344]
  Mohammed A. Razek, Claude Frasson, Marc Kaltenbach

• Implementing a well-integrated value networks with the business protocol concept [invited]
• Applying the Semantic Web Vision to Corporate Data Integration: A Case Study [79]
  Dr. Zvi Schreiber
• XML Validation, FpML standardization [invited]

What is the future of the Web infrastructure industry and research?

Moderator:

• Michael Rabinovich, AT&T Labs – Research, USA

Panelists:

• Stuart Feldman, IBM, VP Internet Technology, USA
• Mike Dahlin, University of Texas, Austin, USA
• Jorg Nonnenmacher, Castify Networks, VP Strategy, France
• Venkat Padmanabhan, Microsoft Research, USA
• Craig Wills, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA

Web System Failures - Is Web Engineering a Saviour

Moderator:

• San Murugesan, Southern Cross University, Australia

Panelists:

• Virgilio A. F. Almeida, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
• Paul Dantzig, IBM T J Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, New York
• Athula Ginige, University of Western Sydney, Australia
• Oscar Pastor, Valencia University of Technology, Spain

• Web Accessibility
  Judy Brewer
• XML Accessibility Guidelines, User Agent Accessibility Guidelines, Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines
  Matt May
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
  Wendy Chisholm
• Internationalization
  Richard Ishida
• W3C's Horizontal Activities Usage: XHTML Case Study
  Steven Pemberton

• On the bursty evolution of Blogspace [477]
  Ravi Kumar, Jasmine Novak, Prabhakar Raghavan, Andrew Tomkins
• Make it Fresh, Make it Quick --- Searching a Network of Personal Webservers [640]
  Mayank Bawa, Roberto J. Bayardo Jr., Sridhar Rajagopalan, Eugene J. Shekita
• Engineering and Hosting Adaptive Freshness-sensitive Web Applications on Data Centers [161]
  Wen-Syan Li, Oliver Po, Wang-Pin Hsiung, K. Selcuk Candan, Divyakant Agrawal

• Evaluating a New Approach to Strong Web Cache Consistency with Snapshots of Collected Content [516]
  Mikhail Mikhailov, Craig E. Wills
• Scalable Techniques for Memory--efficient CDN Simulations [596]
  Purushottam Kulkarni, Prashant Shenoy, Weibo Gong
• Value-Based Web Caching [657]
  Sean C. Rhea, Kevin Liang, Eric Brewer

• An XPath-based Preference Language for P3P [672]
  Rakesh Agrawal, Jerry Kiernan, Ramakrishnan Srikant, Yirong Xu
• The EigenTrust Algorithm for Reputation Management in P2P Networks [446]
  Sepandar D. Kamvar, Mario T. Schlosser, Hector Garcia-Molina
• Similarity Measure and Instance Selection for Collaborative Filtering [362]
  Zeng Chun, Xing Chun-xiao, Zhou Li-zhu

• Metadata and Personalized On-Line Learning [invited]
  Matthias Jarke
• The LEBONED Metadata Architecture [403]
  Frank Oldenettel, Michael Malachinski
• A Data Model and its Implementation for a Language Learning System [460]
  Johann Gamper, Judith Knapp

• An Effective Complete-Web Recommender System [718]
  Tingshao Zhu, Russ Greiner, Gerald Haeubl
• KAON SERVER - A Semantic Web Management System [29]
  Raphael Volz, Daniel Oberle, Steffen Staab, Boris Motik
• Supporting Cooperative Activities with Shared Hypermedia Workspaces on the WWW [563]
  Jessica Rubart, Weigang Wang, JÃrg M. Haake

Semantic Web Services

Moderator:

• Benjamin Grosof, MIT, USA

Panelists:

• Sheila McIlraith, University of Stanford, USA 
• Christoph Bussler, Oracle Corp, USA
• Abraham (Avi) Bernstein, University of Zurich, Switzerland

• Monitoring the Dynamic Web to respond to Continuous Queries  [748]
  Sandeep Pandey, Krithi Ramamritham, Soumen Chakrabarti
• A large-scale study of the evolution of Web pages [97]
  Dennis Fetterly, Mark Manasse, Marc Najork, Janet L. Wiener
• Efficient URL caching for World Wide Web crawling [96]
  Andrei Z. Broder, Marc Najork, Janet L. Wiener

• The r operator. Enabling Querying for Semantic Associations on the Semantic Web [823]
  Kemafor Anyanwu, Amit Sheth
• Semantic Search [779]
  R. Guha, Rob McCool, Eric Miller
• Agent-based Semantic Web Services [455]
  Nicholas Gibbins, Stephen Harris, Nigel Shadbolt

• A framework for coordinated multi-modal browsing with multiple clients [509]
  A. Coles, E. Deliot, T. Melamed, K. Lansard
• A Comparative Web Browser (CWB) for Browsing and Comparing Web Pages [467]
  Akiyo Nadamoto, Katsumi Tanaka
• Comparing Link Marker Visualization Techniques -- Changes in Reading Behavior [391]
  Hartmut Obendorf, Harald Weinreich

• Web Services Oriented Data Processing and Integration [144]
  David W. Cheung, Eric Lo, Chi-Yuen Ng, Thomas Lee
• Evaluating SOAP for High Performance Business Applications: Real-Time Trading Systems [872]
  Christopher Kohlhoff, Robert Steele

• Efficient Cluster Representation in Similar Document Search [866]
  Shankaran Sitarama, Uma Mahadevan, Mani Abrol
• A Database Wrapper Mechanism for Server-Side HTML-Embedded Scripting [873]
  William J. McIver, Jr. University at Albany
• Scalability of content-aware switches for cluster-based Web information systems [740]
  Mauro Andreolini, Michele Colajanni, Marcello Nuccio