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Program (see Joint Schedule at a Glance)

27/10/2008

• 16:30 - 17:30: Invited Talk (Web Media): Simon Harper, Univ. of Manchester, UK. NeoVictorian Computing, with a Twist
• 19:30: Opening Cocktail

28/10/2008

• 9:15 - 9:30: Conference Opening
• 9:30 - 10:30: Chair: Ricardo Baeza-Yates. Invited Talk: Manuel A. Pérez Quiñonez, Virginia Tech, USA. Personal Information Ecosystems: Design Concerns for Net-Enabled Devices
• 10:30 - 11:00: Coffe Break
• 11:00 - 12:50: Search and Data Mining. Chair: Fabrizio Silvestri.
  Full Papers
  1. Esteban Feuerstein, Pablo Heiber and Marcelo Mydlarz.
     Truthful stochastic and deterministic auctions for sponsored search
  2. Marcelo Mendoza, Ricardo Baeza-Yates.
     A web search analysis considering the intention behind queries
  3. Istvan Biro, Andras Benczur, Jacint Szabo and Ana Gabriela Maguitman.
     A Comparative Analysis of Latent Variable Models for Web Page Classification
  Short Paper
  1. Cristina González-Caro, Marcos Mari-Carmen, Liliana Calderón and Ricardo Baeza-Yates.
     Human or Automatic Answers? A User's Based Study
• 14:00 - 16:00: Tutorial (Part 1): Introduction to Web Mining
  Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo! Research, Spain.
• 16:00 - 16:30: Coffee Break
• 16:30 - 17:30: Invited Talk (SBSC): CSCW and Collaborative Education
  Clarence Ellis, Univ. of Colorado, USA
• 20:30: Conference Dinner

29/10/2008

• 9:00 - 10:30 Information and Communication Technologies for Development. Chair: Manuel Pérez Quiñonez.
  Full Papers
  1. Caroline Santos and Ana Maria Pereira Cardoso.
     Web Interactivity in the Perspective of Young Users
  Short papers
  1. Eduardo Graells and Ricardo Baeza-Yates.
     Evolution of the Chilean Web: A Larger Study
  2. Emanuel Valle, Humberto Marques-Neto, Wagner Meira Jr. and Virgilio Almeida.
     Characterizing broadband Internet users on/off pattern
• 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
• 11:00 - 12:30 Semantic Web. Chair: Mariano Consens.
  Full Papers
  1. Marcela Vegetti, Luis Larrateguy, Silvio Gonnet and Horacio Leone.
     A Semantic Web-based Architecture to Support Product Data Management Systems
  2. Julien Gaugaz, Stefania Costache, Paul - Alexandru Chirita, Claudiu Firan and Wolfgang Nejdl.
     Activity Based Links as a Ranking Factor in Semantic Desktop Search
  Short Paper
  1. Regina Motz, Guzman Llambias, Alvaro Rettich and Marco Scalone.
     Multidimensional Semantic Web Service Matching
• 14:00 - 16:00 Web Engineering, Collaboration and Web Communities. Chair: Esteban Feuerstein.
  Full Papers
  1. Gianluca Demartini, Claudiu Firan, Tereza Iofciu, Ralf Krestel and Wolfgang Nejdl.
     A Model for Ranking Entities and Its Application to Wikipedia
  2. Fernando Molina, Jesús Pardillo, Cristina Cachero Castro and Ambrosio Toval.
     Towards a Requirements-Aware Common Web Engineering Metamodel
  3. Daniela Godoy and Analía Amandi
     Hybrid Content and Tag-based Profiles for Recommendation in Collaborative Tagging Systems
  Short Paper
  1. Roverli Ziwich, Egon Hilgenstieler, Emerson Carara, Elias P. Duarte Jr. and Luis Carlos Erpen De Bona.
     Using Distributed Diagnosis to Deploy Highly-Available Web Servers
• 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
• 16:30 - 17:30 Invited Talk. Chair: Ricardo Baeza-Yates.
  Past Searches Teach Everything: Including the Future!
  Fabrizio Silvestri, CNR, Italy
• 18:00 - 19:00 Tutorial (Part II): Introduction to Web Mining
  Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo! Research, Spain

30/10/2008

• 9:00 - 10:00 Invited Talk. Chair: Ricardo Baeza-Yates.
  Managing Linked Data on the Web: the LinkedMDB showcase
  Mariano Consens, Universidad de Toronto, Canada
• 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
• 10:30 - 12:30 Special session of Web Research in Latin America. Chair: Wagner Meira Jr.
  
  1. Claudio Gutierrez and Mauricio Marin
     An Overview of Web Research in Chile
  2. Alberto H. F. Laender and Altigran S. da Silva
     Cooperative Research on Web Data Management at UFMG and UFAM
  3. Gustavo Rossi
     A Survey of Web Research in Argentina
  4. Nivio Ziviani and Edleno Silva de Moura
     Research Developments in Web Information Retrieval from Two
     Brazilian Universities
• 12:30 Conference Closure

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