WIDM 2006: Arlington, Virginia, USA

Keynote address

• Sihem Amer-Yahia:
  The power of structured data on the web. 1-2
  

XML data management and P2P

• Fusheng Wang, Xin Zhou, Carlo Zaniolo:
  Bridging relational database history and the web: the XML approach. 3-10
  
• François Bry, Tim Furche, Benedikt Linse, Andreas Schroeder:
  Efficient evaluation of n-ary conjunctive queries over trees and graphs. 11-18
  
• Federica Mandreoli, Riccardo Martoglia, Simona Sassatelli, Wilma Penzo:
  SRI: exploiting semantic information for effective query routing in a PDMS. 19-26
  

Web ranking and classification

• Louiqa Raschid, Yao Wu, Woei-Jyh Lee, Maria-Esther Vidal, Panayiotis Tsaparas, Padmini Srinivasan, Aditya Kumar Sehgal:
  Ranking target objects of navigational queries. 27-34
  
• Christoph Lindemann, Lars Littig:
  Coarse-grained classification of web sites by their structural properties. 35-42
  
• Michael L. Nelson, Joan A. Smith, Ignacio Garcia del Campo:
  Efficient, automatic web resource harvesting. 43-50
  

Web resource crawling and searching

• Ronak Desai, Qi Yang, Zonghuan Wu, Weiyi Meng, Clement T. Yu:
  Identifying redundant search engines in a very large scale metasearch engine context. 51-58
  
• Paul-Alexandru Chirita, Claudiu S. Firan, Wolfgang Nejdl:
  Pushing task relevant web links down to the desktop. 59-66
  
• Frank McCown, Joan A. Smith, Michael L. Nelson:
  Lazy preservation: reconstructing websites by crawling the crawlers. 67-74
  

Web organization

• Anuj R. Jaiswal, C. Lee Giles, Prasenjit Mitra, James Ze Wang:
  An architecture for creating collaborative semantically capable scientific data sharing infrastructures. 75-82
  
• Ullas Nambiar, Bertram Ludäscher, Kai Lin, Chaitan Baru:
  The GEON portal: accelerating knowledge discovery in the geosciences. 83-90