6. Web Intelligence 2007: Silicon Valley, CA, USA

Keynotes

• Richard M. Karp:
  Computer Science as a Lens on the Sciences: .
  
• Dieter Fensel:
  ServiceWeb 3.0.
  
• Toyoaki Nishida:
  Conversational Informatics and Human-Centered Web Intelligence.
  
• Yoav Shoham:
  How Relevant is Game Theory to Intelligent Agent Technology?
  
• Eugene Santos Jr.:
  The Challenge of Cultural Modeling for Inferring Intentions and Behavior.
  

WIC Feature Talk

• Yiyu Yao:
  Granular Computing for Web Intelligence and Brain Informatics.
  

Web Intelligence (WI) Foundations

• Jan Rauch, Milan Simunek:
  Semantic Web Presentation of Analytical Reports from Data Mining - Preliminary Considerations. 3-7
  

World Wide Wisdom Web (W4)

• W. Scott Spangler, Ying Chen, Larry Proctor, Ana Lelescu, Amit Behal, Bin He, Thomas D. Griffin, Anna Liu, Brad Wade, Trevor Davis:
  COBRA - Mining Web for Corporate Brand and Reputation Analysis. 11-17
  
• Eugene Agichtein, Chris Burges, Eric Brill:
  Question Answering over Implicitly Structured Web Content. 18-25
  
• Shady Shehata, Fakhri Karray, Mohamed Kamel:
  Enhancing Search Engine Quality Using Concept-based Text Retrieval. 26-32
  
• Jie Yang, Yutaka Matsuo, Mitsuru Ishizuka:
  An Augmented Tagging Scheme with Triple Tagging and Collective Filtering. 35-38
  

Social Networks and Social Intelligence

• Paola Velardi, Alessandro Cucchiarelli, Michaël Petit:
  A Semantically Enriched Competency Management System to Support the Analysis of a Web-based Research Network. 41-47
  
• Yu-Ru Lin, Hari Sundaram, Yun Chi, Jun'ichi Tatemura, Belle L. Tseng:
  Blog Community Discovery and Evolution Based on Mutual Awareness Expansion. 48-56
  
• Munmun De Choudhury, Hari Sundaram, Ajita John, Dorée D. Seligmann:
  Contextual Prediction of Communication Flow in Social Networks. 57-65
  
• Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues, Natasa Milic-Frayling, Blaz Fortuna:
  Detection of Web Subsites: Concepts, Algorithms, and Evaluation Issues. 66-73
  
• Yupeng Fu, Rongjing Xiang, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma:
  Finding Experts Using Social Network Analysis. 77-80
  
• Xueqi Cheng, Fuxin Ren, Xianbin Cao, Jing Ma:
  How Contents Influence Clustering Features in the Web. 81-84
  
• Tsuyoshi Murata, Sakiko Moriyasu:
  Link Prediction of Social Networks Based on Weighted Proximity Measures. 85-88
  
• Olga Goussevskaia, Michael Kuhn, Roger Wattenhofer:
  Layers and Hierarchies in Real Virtual Networks. 89-94
  
• Maximilian Viermetz, Michal Skubacz:
  Using Topic Discovery to Segment Large Communication Graphs for Social Network Analysis. 95-99
  
• Nan Du, Bin Wu, Bai Wang:
  Backbone Discovery in Social Networks. 100-103
  
• Mohammad A. Tayebi, S. Mehdi Hashemi, Ali Mohades:
  B2Rank: An Algorithm for Ranking Blogs Based on Behavioral Features. 104-107
  
• Jing Ma, Xianbin Cao, Yuanping Guo, Xueqi Cheng:
  Modeling the Evolution of Web using Vertex Content Similarity. 108-111
  
• Tanja Falkowski, Anja Barth, Myra Spiliopoulou:
  DENGRAPH: A Density-based Community Detection Algorithm. 112-115
  
• Nacim Fateh Chikhi, Bernard Rothenburger, Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles:
  A Comparison of Dimensionality Reduction Techniques for Web Structure Mining. 116-119
  

Knowledge Grids and Grid Intelligence

• H. Howie Huang, Andrew S. Grimshaw, John F. Karpovich:
  You Can't Always Get What You Want: Achieving Differentiated Service Levels with Pricing Agents in a Storage Grid. 123-131
  
• Yash Patel, John Darlington:
  Novel Stochastic Profitable Techniques For Brokers In A Web-Service Based Grid Market. 132-140
  
• Yacine Sam, Omar Boucelma:
  Customizable Web Services Description, Discovery and Composition : An Attribute Based Formalism. 143-146
  

Web Mining and Farming

• Yang Sun, Ziming Zhuang, Isaac G. Councill, C. Lee Giles:
  Determining Bias to Search Engines from Robots.txt. 149-155
  
• Raymond Y. K. Lau, Yuefeng Li, Yue Xu:
  Mining Fuzzy Domain Ontology from Textual Databases. 156-162
  
• Xujuan Zhou, Yuefeng Li, Peter Bruza, Sheng-Tang Wu, Yue Xu, Raymond Y. K. Lau:
  Using Information Filtering in Web Data Mining Process. 163-169
  
• Stéphanie Jacquemont, François Jacquenet, Marc Sebban:
  Correct your text with Google. 170-176
  
• Sisay Fissaha Adafre, Valentin Jijkoun, Maarten de Rijke:
  Fact Discovery in Wikipedia. 177-183
  
• Roelof van Zwol:
  Flickr: Who is Looking? 184-190
  
• Ping Yan, Zhu Zhang, Ray Garcia:
  Automatic Website Comprehensibility Evaluation. 191-197
  
• Levent Bolelli, Seyda Ertekin, Ding Zhou, C. Lee Giles:
  K-SVMeans: A Hybrid Clustering Algorithm for Multi-Type Interrelated Datasets. 198-204
  
• Shigeru Fujimura, Ko Fujimura, Hidenori Okuda:
  Blogosonomy : Autotagging Any Text Using Bloggers' Knowledge. 205-212
  
• Peter Hofgesang:
  Web Personalisation Through Incremental Individual Profiling and Support-based User Segmentation. 213-220
  
• Carlos Rojas, Olfa Nasraoui:
  Summarizing Evolving Data Streams using Dynamic Prefix Trees. 221-227
  
• Khurum Nazir Junejo, Asim Karim:
  PSSF: A Novel Statistical Approach for Personalized Service-side Spam Filtering. 228-234
  
• Mehdi Hosseini, Hassan Abolhassani:
  Mining Search Engine Query Log for Evaluating Content and Structure of a Web Site. 235-241
  
• Cai-Nicolas Ziegler, Michal Skubacz:
  Content Extraction from News Pages Using Particle Swarm Optimization on Linguistic and Structural Features. 242-249
  
• Yujiu Yang, Bao-Gang Hu:
  Pairwise Constraints-Guided Non-negative Matrix Factorization for Document Clustering. 250-256
  
• Bo Wang, Houfeng Wang:
  Bootstrapping both Product Properties and Opinion Words from Chinese Reviews with Cross-Training. 259-262
  
• Zhenjiang Lin, Michael R. Lyu, Irwin King:
  Extending Link-based Algorithms for Similar Web Pages with Neighborhood Structure. 263-266
  
• Jong-Hoon Oh, Hitoshi Isahara:
  Validating Transliteration Hypotheses Using the Web: Web Counts vs. Web Mining. 267-270
  
• Yuchul Jung, Yoonjung Choi, Sung-Hyon Myaeng:
  Determining Mood for a Blog by Combining Multiple Sources of Evidence. 271-274
  
• Changhua Yang, Kevin Hsin-Yih Lin, Hsin-Hsi Chen:
  Emotion Classification Using Web Blog Corpora. 275-278
  
• Qiguo Duan, Duoqian Miao, Ruizhi Wang, Min Chen:
  An Approach to Web Page Classification based on Granules. 279-282
  
• Ting Qian, Lin Qiu:
  Automatic Correction of Idiomatic Usage in English UsingWeb Search. 283-286
  
• Qing Li, K. Selçuk Candan, Yan Qi:
  Extracting Relevant Snippets fromWeb Documents through Language Model based Text Segmentation. 287-290
  
• Hung-Chi Chang, Jenq-Haur Wang, Chih-Yi Chiu:
  Finding Event-Relevant Content from the Web Using a Near-Duplicate Detection Approach. 291-294
  
• Kai-Hsiang Yang, Jen-Ming Chung, Jan-Ming Ho:
  PLF: A Publication List Web Page Finder for Researchers. 295-298
  
• Joseph P. Herbert, Jingtao Yao:
  Growing Hierarchical Self-Organizing Maps for Web Mining. 299-302
  
• Po Chih Chen, Teng-Sheng Moh:
  Quality Improvement of Clustering Engine in the Internet Based on Correlation. 303-306
  
• Ali A. Ghorbani, Xiaowen Xu:
  A Fuzzy Markov Model Approach for Predicting User Navigation. 307-311
  
• Martin Mehlitz, Jérôme Kunegis, Sahin Albayrak:
  Using Novel IR Measures to Learn Optimal Cluster Structures for Web Information Retrieval. 312-316
  
• M. Barouni-Ebrahimi, Ali A. Ghorbani:
  On Query Completion in Web Search Engines Based on Query Stream Mining. 317-320
  
• Masoud Makrehchi, Mohamed S. Kamel:
  Automatic Taxonomy Extraction Using Google and Term Dependency. 321-325
  
• Garen Arevian:
  Recurrent Neural Networks for Robust Real-World Text Classification. 326-329
  
• Anne-Laure Ligozat, Brigitte Grau, Anne Vilnat, Isabelle Robba, Arnaud Grappy:
  Lexical validation of answers in Question Answering. 330-333
  

Semantics and Ontology Engineering

• Xia Wang, Tomas Vitvar, Manfred Hauswirth, Doug Foxvog:
  Building Application Ontologies from Descriptions of Semantic Web Services. 337-343
  
• Ljiljana Stojanovic, Nenad Stojanovic, Jun Ma:
  On the Conceptual Tagging: An Ontology Pruning Use Case. 344-350
  
• Xiaohui Tao, Yuefeng Li, Ning Zhong, Richi Nayak:
  Ontology Mining for PersonalizedWeb Information Gathering. 351-358
  
• Limin Yao, Jie Tang, Juan-Zi Li:
  A Unified Approach to Researcher Profiling. 359-366
  
• Taha Osman, Dhavalkumar Thakker, Gerald Schaefer, Phil Lakin:
  An Integrative Semantic Framework for Image Annotation and Retrieval. 366-373
  
• Irma Sofia Espinosa Peraldi, Atila Kaya, Sylvia Melzer, Ralf Möller, Michael Wessel:
  Towards a Media Interpretation Framework for the Semantic Web. 374-380
  
• Elias Iosif, Alexandros Potamianos:
  Unsupervised Semantic Similarity Computation usingWeb Search Engines. 381-387
  
• Shenghui Wang, Jeff Z. Pan:
  Ontology-based Integration and Retrieval over Multiple Quantities - What if "Ovate leaves and often blue to purple flowers". 388-394
  
• James Z. Wang, William Taylor:
  Concept Forest: A New Ontology-assisted Text Document Similarity Measurement Method. 395-401
  
• Elias Zavitsanos, Georgios Paliouras, George A. Vouros, Sergios Petridis:
  Discovering Subsumption Hierarchies of Ontology Concepts from Text Corpora. 402-408
  
• Yuanbo Guo, Jeff Heflin:
  Document-Centric Query Answering for the Semantic Web. 409-415
  
• Mirco Speretta, Susan Gauch:
  Automatic Ontology Identification for Reuse. 419-422
  
• Mohammad Nauman, Shahbaz Khan:
  Using PersonalizedWeb Search for Enhancing Common Sense and Folksonomy Based Intelligent Search Systems. 423-426
  
• Isambo Karali:
  Logic Programming to Address Issues of the Semantic Web. 427-430
  
• Hai H. Wang, Ahmed Saleh, Terry R. Payne, Nick Gibbins:
  Formal Specification of OWL-S with Object-Z: the Static Aspect. 431-434
  
• Nizar Ghoula, Khaled Khelif, Rose Dieng-Kuntz:
  Supporting Patent Mining by using Ontology-based Semantic Annotations. 435-438
  
• Xin Xin, Juan-Zi Li, Jie Tang:
  Enhancing Semantic Web by Semantic Annotation: Experiences in Building an Automatic Conference Calendar. 439-442
  
• Samer Abdul Ghafour, Parisa Ghodous, Behzad Shariat, Eliane Perna:
  A Common Design-Features Ontology for Product Data Semantics Interoperability. 443-446
  
• Wlodzimierz Drabent, Artur Wilk:
  Extending XML Query Language Xcerpt by Ontology Queries. 447-451
  
• Chuming Chen, Manton M. Matthews:
  Extending Description Logic for Reasoning about Ontology Evolution. 452-456
  
• Vassilis Spiliopoulos, George A. Vouros, Vangelis Karkaletsis:
  Mapping Ontologies Elements using Features in a Latent Space. 457-460
  
• Jiahui Liu, Larry Birnbaum:
  Measuring Semantic Similarity between Named Entities by Searching the Web Directory. 461-465
  
• Bach Thanh Le, Rose Dieng-Kuntz:
  A Graph-Based Algorithm for Alignment of OWL Ontologies. 466-469
  
• Hacène Cherfi, Olivier Corby, Cyril Masia Tissot:
  RDF(S) and SPARQL Expressiveness in Engineering Design Patterns. 470-473
  
• Olivier Corby, Catherine Faron-Zucker:
  RDF/SPARQL Design Pattern for Contextual Metadata. 470-473
  
• Liming Chen, Craig Roberts:
  Semantic Tagging for Large-scale Content Management. 478-481
  
• Robert Wetzker, Tansu Alpcan, Christian Bauckhage, Winfried Umbrath, Sahin Albayrak:
  An unsupervised hierarchical approach to document categorization. 482-486
  
• Mahmood Neshati, Ali Alijamaat, Hassan Abolhassani, Afshin Rahimi, Mehdi Hosseini:
  Taxonomy Learning Using Compound Similarity Measure. 487-490
  

Web Agents

• Reto Krummenacher, Elena Paslaru Bontas Simperl, Dieter Fensel:
  An Ontology-Driven Approach To Reflective Middleware. 493-499
  
• Björn-Oliver Hartmann, Klemens Böhm, Andranik Khachatryan, Stephan Schosser:
  The Dangers of Poorly Connected Peers in Structured P2P Networks and a Solution Based on Incentives. 500-508
  
• Wei Shi, Jian Wu, Ying Li, Zhaohui Wu, Bo Wang:
  Using Improved FOAF to Enhance BPEL-extracted RBAC Capability. 511-514
  
• Yang Bo, Qin Zheng, Yu Fan, Qin Jun:
  The Soundness and Completeness Proof of Agent Intention in AgentSpeak. 515-518
  

Web Services

• Saayan Mitra, Samik Basu, Ratnesh Kumar:
  Local and On-the-fly Choreography-based Web Service Composition. 521-527
  
• Sudhir Agarwal:
  A Goal Specification Language for Automated Discovery and Composition of Web Services. 528-534
  
• Martine De Cock, Sam Chung, Omar Hafeez:
  Selection ofWeb Services with Imprecise QoS Constraints. 535-541
  
• Wenbing Zhao:
  A Lightweight Fault Tolerance Framework for Web Services. 542-548
  
• Megha Mohabey, Y. Narahari, Sudeep Mallick, P. Suresh, S. V. Subrahmanya:
  An Intelligent Procurement Marketplace forWeb Services Composition. 551-554
  
• Richi Nayak, Bryan Lee:
  Web Service Discovery with additional Semantics and Clustering. 555-558
  
• Chaitali Gupta, Rajdeep Bhowmik, Michael R. Head, Madhusudhan Govindaraju, Weiyi Meng:
  Improving Performance of Web Services Query Matchmaking with Automated Knowledge Acquisition. 559-563
  
• Huan Li, Zheng Qin, Fan Yu, Jun Qin, Bo Yang:
  Automatic Semantic Web Service Composition via Agent Intention Execution in AgentSpeak. 564-567
  
• Hongbing Wang, Hui Liu, Chen Wang, Patrick C. K. Hung:
  A New Approach to Describe Web Services. 568-571
  
• Kai Yang, Robert Steele:
  An Ontology Mediated Web Service Aggregation Hub. 572-576
  

Web Information Filtering and Retrieval

• Yi-Ting Chou, Shui-Lung Chuang, Xuanhui Wang:
  Instant Web Retrieval for Instance-Attribute Queries. 579-585
  
• Mikhail Bautin, Steven Skiena:
  Concordance-Based Entity-Oriented Search. 586-592
  
• Hung-Yu Kao, Seng-Feng Lin:
  A Fast PageRank Convergence Method based on the Cluster Prediction. 593-599
  
• Christopher Thomas, Amit P. Sheth:
  Semantic Convergence of Wikipedia Articles. 600-606
  
• Nicolas Neubauer, Christian Scheel, Sahin Albayrak, Klaus Obermayer:
  Distance Measures in Query Space: How Strongly to Use Feedback From Past Queries. 607-613
  
• Shaikh Mostafa Al Masum, Helmut Prendinger, Mitsuru Ishizuka:
  Emotion Sensitive News Agent: An Approach Towards User Centric Emotion Sensing from the News. 614-620
  
• Zhiyong Zhang, Olfa Nasraoui:
  Efficient Hybrid Web Recommendations Based on Markov Clickstream Models and Implicit Search. 621-627
  
• Hyun Chul Lee, Haifeng Liu, Renée J. Miller:
  Geographically-Sensitive Link Analysis. 628-634
  
• Ali Mohammad Zareh Bidoki, Nasser Yazdani, Pedram Ghodsnia:
  FICA: A Fast Intelligent Crawling Algorithm. 635-641
  
• Xiaoyuan Su, Russell Greiner, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Xingquan Zhu:
  Hybrid Collaborative Filtering Algorithms Using a Mixture of Experts. 645-649
  
• Orland Hoeber:
  ExploringWeb Search Results by Visually Specifying Utility Functions. 650-654
  
• Michael Chan, Stephen Chi-fai Chan, Cane Wing-ki Leung:
  Online Search Scope Reconstruction by Connectivity Inference. 655-658
  
• Songbo Tan, Yuefen Wang, Xueqi Cheng:
  Text Feature Ranking Based on Rough-set Theory. 659-662
  
• Mingliang Zhu, Weiming Hu, Xi Li, Ou Wu:
  Customizable Instance-Driven Webpage Filtering Based on Semi-Supervised Learning. 663-666
  
• Ling Lin, Lizhu Zhou:
  Leveraging Webpage Classification for Data Object Recognition. 667-670
  
• Sinan Al-Saffar, Gregory L. Heileman:
  Experimental Bounds on the Usefulness of Personalized and Topic-Sensitive PageRank. 671-675
  
• Javed I. Khan, Sajid S. Shaikh:
  A Multi-scenario Reputation Estimation Framework and its Resilience Study against Various forms of Attacks. 676-682
  
• Kuan-Yu He, Yao-Sheng Chang, Wen-Hsiang Lu:
  Improving Identification of Latent User Goals through Search-Result Snippet Classification. 683-686
  
• Yong Zhen Guo, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao, Laurence A. F. Park:
  Personalized PageRank for Web Page Prediction Based on Access Time-Length and Frequency. 687-690
  
• Daniel Crabtree, Peter Andreae, Xiaoying Gao:
  Understanding Query Aspects with applications to Interactive Query Expansion. 691-695
  

Intelligent Human-Web Interaction

• Daqing He, Peter Brusiloviksy, Jonathan Grady, Qi Li, Jae-wook Ahn:
  How Up-to-date should it be? the Value of Instant Profiling and Adaptation in Information Filtering. 699-705
  
• Jae-wook Ahn, Peter Brusilovsky:
  From User Query to User Model and Back: Adaptive Relevance-Based Visualization for Information Foraging. 706-712
  
• Yonglin Ren, Mian Qin, Weilin Ren:
  A Web Intelligent System based on Measuring the Effects of Bother. 715-718
  
• Yassine Mrabet, Khaled Khelif, Rose Dieng-Kuntz:
  Recognising Professional-Activity Groups and Web Usage Mining for Web Browsing Personalisation. 719-722
  
• Jean-Louis Tetchueng, Serge Garlatti, Sylvain Laube:
  A Didactic-based Model of Scenarios for Designing an Adaptive and Context-Aware Learning System. 723-726
  

Web Support Systems

• Yiyu Yao, Yi Zeng, Ning Zhong, Xiangji Huang:
  Knowledge Retrieval (KR). 729-735
  
• Fatih Gelgi, Hasan Davulcu:
  Baum-Welch Style EM Approach on Simple Bayesian Models forWeb Data Annotation. 736-742
  
• Jun Fujima, Shohei Yoshihara, Yuzuru Tanaka:
  Web Application Orchestration Using Excel. 743-749
  
• Anthony Lo, Keivan Kianmehr, Mehmet Kaya, Tansel Özyer, Reda Alhajj:
  Wrapping VRXQuery with Self-Adaptive Fuzzy Capabilities. 750-756
  
• E. Jembere, M. O. Adigun, S. S. Xulu:
  Mining Context-based User Preferences for m-Services Applications. 757-763
  
• Chen Wu, Elizabeth Chang:
  Intelligent Web Services Selection based on AHP and Wiki. 767-770
  
• Munehiko Sasajima, Yoshinobu Kitamura, Takefumi Naganuma, Shoji Kurakake, Riichiro Mizoguchi:
  OOPS: User Modeling Method for Task Oriented Mobile Internet Services. 771-775
  
• Tetsuya Oishi, Shunsuke Kuramoto, Hiroto Nagata, Tsunenori Mine, Ryuzo Hasegawa, Hiroshi Fujita, Miyuki Koshimura:
  User-Schedule-based Web Page Recommendation. 776-779
  
• Alan Eckhardt, Tomás Horváth, Peter Vojtás:
  PHASES: A User Profile Learning Approach for Web Search. 780-783
  
• Piyanuch Klaisubun, Phichit Kajondecha, Takashi Ishikawa:
  Behavior Patterns of Information Discovery in Social Bookmarking Service. 784-787
  

Intelligent E-Technology

• Jie Bao, Giora Slutzki, Vasant Honavar:
  Privacy-Preserving Reasoning on the SemanticWeb. 791-797
  
• Petteri Nurmi:
  Perseus - A Personalized Reputation System. 798-804
  
• Wingyan Chung, Ada Leung:
  Supporting Web Searching of Business Intelligence with Information Visualization. 807-811
  
• Li Niu, Jie Lu, Eng Chew, Guangquan Zhang:
  An Exploratory Cognitive Business Intelligence System. 812-815
  
• Long Wang, Christoph Meinel:
  Detecting the Changes ofWeb Students' Learning Interest. 816-819
  
• Matthias Quasthoff, Harald Sack, Christoph Meinel:
  Why HTTPS Is Not Enough - A Signature-Based Architecture for Trusted Content on the Social Web. 820-824
  
• Jia Hu, Ning Zhong:
  A Multilevel Integration Approach for Developing E-Finance Portals: Challenges and Perspectives. 825-828
  
• Zhuang Yan, Simon Fong:
  A Model of B2B Negotiation using Knowledge. 829-832
  
• Liana Razmerita, Niels Bjørn-Andersen:
  Towards Ubiquitous e-Custom Services. 833-837