====== Weaving Services, Location, and People on the WWW ====== This is an edited volume with invited manuscripts that are selected from the WWW2008 Workshop Track. The volume is focused on connecting data, devices, services, location, and people on the WWW. There will be about 20 chapters with 15-25 pages to each chapter (totally about 400 pages). ===== Important Dates ===== ^ Dates ^ Description ^ | May | Invitation and confirmation of chapters | | June to August | Revision of manuscripts | | August 15, 2008 | Submission of the manuscript | | September | Review and editing of manuscripts | | October | Final revision | | November | Final manuscript to Springer | ===== Table of Contents (tentative) ===== ==== Services ==== * [1] YES //Personalized service creation and provisioning in the mobile web // [[http://www.cs.adelaide.edu.au/~csssia08/|Link]], Ullas Nambiar and Michael Sheng * [2] YES //An Effective Aggregation Policy for RSS Services// * Jae Hwi Kim, School of Computing, Soongsil University * Young Geun Han, School of Computing, Soongsil University * Sang Ho Lee, School of Computing, Soongsil University * [3] YES //Context-based Semantic Mediation in Web Service Communities// * Michael Mrissa, PReCISE Research Center, University of Namur * Philippe Thiran, PReCISE Research Center, University of Namur * Chirine Ghedira, LIRIS Laboratory, Lyon 1 University * Djamal Benslimane, LIRIS Laboratory, Lyon 1 University * Zakaria Maamar, College of Information Technology, Zayed University * [16] YES Copyright Form? //The Evolution of the Mobile Web// [[http://www.research.att.com/~rjana/mobea2008.htm|Link]], Rittwik Jana and Daniel Appelquist * No Response //Integrating mobile services and content with the Internet// * Angel Machin, Vodafone R&D, Spain * Curro Dominguez, Vodafone R&D, Spain * No Response //AIRWEb Workshop// [[http://airweb.cse.lehigh.edu/|Link]], Dennis Fetterly * [x4x] No //Webspam Identification Through Content and Hyperlinks// * Jacob Abernethy, Dept. of Computer Science, University of California * Olivier Chapelle, Yahoo! Research, Santa Clara * Carlos Castillo, Yahoo! Research, Barcelona * [5] YES //A Large-scale Study of Automated Web Search//, * Greg Buehrer, Microsoft Live Labs * Jack W. Stokes, Microsoft Research * Kumar Chellapilla, Microsoft Live Labs * [6] YES No need to have the Copyright Form? //Question Answer on the Web// [[http://www.buyans.com/qaweb2008/|Link]], Wenyin Liu, Qing Li and Xuedong Huang * [7] YES //Selecting the Best Mobile Information Service with Natural Language User Input// * Qiangze Feng, NEC Laboratories, China * Hongwei Qi, NEC Laboratories, China * Toshikazu Fukushima, NEC Laboratories, China * YES //Questioning Yahoo! Answers// * Zoltan Gyongyi, Stanford University * Georgia Koutrika, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University * Jan Pedersen, Yahoo! Inc. * Hector Garcia-Molina, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University ==== Location ==== * [= "The Locative Web"] //Location and the Web// [[http://medien.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/LocWeb2008/|Link]], Susanne Boll, Christopher Jones, Eric Kansa, Puneet Kishor, Mor Naaman, Ross Purves, Arno Scharl and Erik Wilde * [8] YES //The Locative Web// * Erik Wilde, School of Information, UC Berkeley * Martin Kofahl, Geodesy and Geoinformatics, University of Rostock * [9] YES //Determining Geographic Representations for Arbitrary Concepts at Query Time// * Andreas Henrich, University of Bamberg * Volker Lüdecke University of Bamberg * [10] YES //Acquisition of a Vernacular Gazetteer from Web Sources// * Florian A. Twaroch, School of Computer Science, Cardiff University * Christopher B. Jones, School of Computer Science, Cardiff University * Alia I. Abdelmoty, School of Computer Science, Cardiff University ==== People ==== * YES //Social Web and Knowledge Management// [[http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/swkm2008|Link]], Peter Dolog, Sebastian Schaffert, Markus Krotzsch, and Denny Vrandecic * [11] YES //Setting Access Permission through Transitive Relationship in Web-based Social Networks// * Dan Hong, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology * Vincent Y. Shen, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology * [12] YES //Hyperstructure Maintenance Costs in Large-scale Wikis// * Philip Boulain, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton * Nicholas Gibbins, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton * Nigel Shadbolt, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton * [13] YES //A Study of User Profile Generation from Folksonomies// * Ching Man Au Yeung, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton * Nicholas Gibbins, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton * Nigel Shadbolt, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton * No Response //Academic Social Networks// [[http://keg.cs.tsinghua.edu.cn/SWSM2008/|Link]], Juanzi Li, Gui-Rong Xue, Michael R. Lyu, Jie Tang, and Zheng Chen * No response after YES //Threshold Phenomena in the Evolution of Communities in Social Networks// * Sreenivas Gollapudi, Microsoft Research * Krishnaram Kenthapadi, Microsoft Research * Rina Panigrahy, Microsoft Research * No // Parallel Spectral Clustering Algorithm for Large-Scale Community Data Mining// * Gengxin Miao, University of California * Yangqiu Song, Tsinghua University * Dong Zhang, Google Research China * Hongjie Bai, Google Research China * [14] YES //On the Effect of Group Structures on Ranking Strategies in Folksonomies// * Fabian Abel, IVS – Semantic Web Group, Leibniz University Hannover * Nicola Henze, IVS – Semantic Web Group, Leibniz University Hannover * Daniel Krause, IVS – Semantic Web Group, Leibniz University Hannover * Matthias Kriesell, Department of Mathematics, University of Hamburg * No //NLP Challenge for People and Sentiment on the Web// [[http://www.slis.tsukuba.ac.jp/~fujii/NLPIX2008/|Link]], Hiroshi Nakagawa, Masaru Kitsuregawa and Kentaro Torisawa * [15] YES //Personal Name Resolution of Web People Search// * Krisztian Balog, University of Amsterdam * Leif Azzopardi, Dep. of Computer Science, University of Glasgow * Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam * Maybe //Building a Sentiment Summarizer for Local Service Reviews// * Kerry Hannan, Google Inc. * Sasha Blair-Goldensohn, Google Inc. * Ryan McDonald, Google Inc. * Tyler Neylon, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Princeton * University * George A. Reis, Google Inc. * Jeff Reynar, Google Inc. /* * NO //Parallel Spectral Clustering Algorithm for Large-Scale Community Data Mining// * Gengxin Miao, Department of ECE, University of California * Yangqiu Song, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University * Dong Zhang, Google Research China * Hongjie Bai, Google Research China */ ===== Submission Information ===== Springer Verlag will provide the exact format files for the submission. Please stay tuned. ==== For Workshop Organizers ==== * The submission deadline is August 15, 2008 ==== For Workshop Authors ==== * Each chapter should have at least 30% new materials than the workshop submission * The extended manuscript is due on August 15, 2008 ====== Checklist for Final Submission ====== * Please use the [[http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/svmult.zip?SGWID=0-0-45-401899-0|Springer LaTeX style]], available on [[http://www.springer.com/authors/book+authors?SGWID=0-154102-12-417900-0|this]] page. * For artwork and other illustrations, please refer to [[http://www.springer.com/authors/manuscript+guidelines?SGWID=0-40162-12-331200-0|Artwork instructions]], available on [[http://www.springer.com/authors/book+authors?SGWID=0-154102-12-417900-0|this]] page. * Please fill out the {{projs:consent_to_publish.doc|Consent to Publish.doc}} and return it to the editor.