SPIRE 2007
14th String Processing and Information Retrieval Symposium
Santiago, Chile, October 2007
SPIRE / LA-WEB 2007 Abbreviated Program
| Time / Day | Monday Oct 29th | Tuesday Oct 30th | Wednesday Oct 31st | Thursday Nov 1st | Friday Nov 2nd |
| 9:30 - 11:00 |
SPIRE Session on String Processing |
SPIRE Session on Pattern Matching |
SPIRE Session on Compression |
LA-WEB Session on Web Characterization |
LA-WEB Session on Web Applications |
| 11:00 -11:30 | Coffee Break | Coffee Break | Coffee Break | Coffee Break | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 - 13:00 | Invited Talk: Near Space-Optimal Perfect Hashing Algorithms Nivio Ziviani, UFMG, Brazil |
Invited Talk:
Measures of Measurements: Robust Evaluation of Search Systems Justin Zobel, NICTA Melbourne, Australia |
SPIRE Session on Web Searching and Modeling |
Invited Talk: Web Workloads: how things have changed and what has remained the same, Virgilio Almeida, UFMG/Brasil |
Tutorial: Online advertising: underlying technologies and business models (Part II) James Shanahan |
| 13:00 -14:30 | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch |
| 14:30 - 16:00 | SPIRE Session on Information Retrieval Applications |
SPIRE Session on Bio Informatics (ends at 16:30) |
Invited Talk: Trends in Online Social Interactions by Andrew Tomkins, Yahoo! Research |
LA-WEB Session on Web Engineering |
LA-WEB Session on Web Semantics |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee Break | Coffee Break (16:30) | Coffee Break | Coffee Break | Coffee Break |
| 16:30 - 19:00 | SPIRE Session on Compression and Text Searching (16:30 to 18:00) Business Meeting (18:00) |
SPIRE Session on Indexing (starts at 17:00) |
LA-WEB Session on Web Search (ends at 18:00) Business Meeting (18:00) |
LA-WEB Session on Web Economics (ends at 17:30) Tutorial: Online advertising: underlying technologies and business models (Part I) James Shanahan (17:30 - 19:00) |
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| 20:00 | SPIRE / LA-WEB Banquet Gambero Restaurant |
Full LA-WEB Program
| Day 1: Wednesday Oct 31st |
Day 2: Thursday Nov 1st |
Day 3: Friday Nov 2nd |
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| Web Characterization Session Session Chair: Wolfgang Nejdl |
Web Applications Session Session Chair: Esteban Feuerstein |
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| 9:30 - 10:00 | Geographical Characterization of YouTube: a Latin American View. Fernando Duarte, Fabricio Benevenuto, Virgilio Almeida and Jussara Almeida. | Enabling Architecture Changes in Distributed Web-Applications. Johannes Meinecke, Martin Gaedke and Christopher Thiele. | |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Description and Prediction of Slashdot Activity. Andreas Kaltenbrunner, Vicenç Gómez and Vicente Lopez. | Integrating Functionality and Appearance with the Electronic Work Logical Structure. Miguel Ángel Martínez-Prieto, Pablo de la Fuente, Jesús Vegas and Joaquín Adiego. | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Distinctive Features of the Argentinian Web. Gabriel Tolosa, Fernando Bordignon, Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Carlos Castillo. | Personal Robots as Ubiquitous-Multimedial-Mobile Web Interfaces. Javier Ruiz-del-Solar | |
| 11:30 - 1:00 | Invited Talk: Web Workloads: how things have changed and what has remained the same. Virgilio Almeida, UFMG/Brasil Session Chair: Ricardo Baeza-Yates |
Tutorial: Online advertising: underlying technologies and business models James G. Shanahan |
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| Web Engineering Session Session Chair: Daniel Schwabe |
Web Semantics Session Session Chair: Javier Ruiz del Solar |
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| 2:30 - 3:00 | A Three-Layered Approach to Model Web Accessibility for Blind Users. Adriana Martín, Alejandra Cechich, Silvia Gordillo and Gustavo Rossi. | A Comprehensive Framework for Representing Semantics via Contexts and Ontologies. Mariela Rico, Ma. Laura Taverna, Ma. Laura Caliusco, María Rosa Galli and Omar Chiotti. | /tr>|
| 3:00 - 3:30 | Invited Talk: Trends
in Online Social Interactions, Session Chair: Ricardo Baeza-Yates |
Designing the Interface of Rich Internet Applications. Mario Matias Urbieta, Gustavo Rossi, Jeronimo Ginzburg and Daniel Schwabe. | Semantic Contract Support for E-Business Processes. Carlos Laufer and Daniel Schwabe. |
| 3:30 - 4:00 | A Fault Tolerant Web Service Architecture. Diego Garcia and Maria Beatriz Toledo. | Original and Normalized Web Log Metrics as Functions of Controllable Variables of Log Study. Nikolai Buzikashvili | |
| Web Search Session Session Chair: Andrew Tomkins |
Web Economics Session Session Chair: James G. Shanahan |
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| 4:30 - 5:00 | A Polite Policy for Revisiting Web Pages. Críston Souza, Eduardo Sany Laber, Caio Valentim and Eduardo Cardoso. | Characterization of Online Auctions: Correlating Negotiation Patterns and Bidding Behavior. Adriano Pereira, Leonardo Rocha, Fernando Mourao, Wagner Meira Jr. and Paulo Goes. |
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| 5:00 - 5:30 | Search in the Eye of the Beholder: Using the Personal Social Dataset and Ontology-guided Input to Improve Web Search Efficiency. Juan Miguel Gomez, Damaris Fuentes and Angel García Crespo. | New Stochastic Algorithms for Placing Ads in Sponsored Search. Esteban Feuerstein, Pablo Heiber, Javier Martinez-Viademonte and Ricardo Baeza-Yates. | |
| 5:30 - 6:00 | The Benefit of Using Tag-Based Profiles. Claudiu S. Firan, Wolfgang Nejdl and Raluca Paiu. | Tutorial:
Online advertising: underlying technologies and business models
James G. Shanahan |
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| 6:00 - 6:30 | Business Meeting | ||
| 6:30 - 7:00 | |||
| 8:00 PM approx | SPIRE / LA-WEB Banquet, Gambero Restaurant Extra banquet tickets will be available until Friday 26th at US$40 |