WIDM 2008: Napa Valley, California, USA

Data mining and clustering

• Meishan Hu, Aixin Sun, Ee-Peng Lim:
  Event detection with common user interests. 1-8
  
• Pierre Senellart, Avin Mittal, Daniel Muschick, Rémi Gilleron, Marc Tommasi:
  Automatic wrapper induction from hidden-web sources with domain knowledge. 9-16
  
• Lila Shnaiderman, Oded Shmueli, Rajesh Bordawekar:
  PIXSAR: incremental reclustering of augmented XML trees. 17-24
  
• Jianhan Zhu:
  A study of the relationship between ad hoc retrieval and expert finding in enterprise environment. 25-30
  
• Shen Huang, Xiaoyuan Wu, Alvaro Bolivar:
  The effect of title term suggestion on e-commerce sites. 31-38
  

System issues

• Martin Klein, Michael L. Nelson:
  A comparison of techniques for estimating IDF values to generate lexical signatures for the web. 39-46
  
• Mauricio Marín, Rodrigo Paredes, Carolina Bonacic:
  High-performance priority queues for parallel crawlers. 47-54
  
• Carlos Garcia-Alvarado, Carlos Ordonez:
  Information retrieval from digital libraries in SQL. 55-62
  
• Katerina Doka, Dimitrios Tsoumakos, Nectarios Koziris:
  HiPPIS: an online P2P system for efficient lookups on d-dimensional hierarchies. 63-70
  
• Marcel Karnstedt, Kai-Uwe Sattler, Michael Haß, Manfred Hauswirth, Brahmananda Sapkota, Roman Schmidt:
  Approximating query completeness by predicting the number of answers in DHT-based web applications. 71-78
  

Web 2.0 and social networks

• Sheila Kinsella, Adriana Budura, Gleb Skobeltsyn, Sebastian Michel, John G. Breslin, Karl Aberer:
  From Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 and back -: how did your grandma use to tag? 79-86
  
• Serge Abiteboul, Ohad Greenshpan, Tova Milo:
  Modeling the mashup space. 87-94
  
• Claudio Biancalana, Alessandro Micarelli, Claudio Squarcella:
  Nereau: a social approach to query expansion. 95-102
  
• Jaehui Park, Tomohiro Fukuhara, Ikki Ohmukai, Hideaki Takeda, Sang-goo Lee:
  Web content summarization using social bookmarks: a new approach for social summarization. 103-110
  
• Elisabetta Fersini, Enza Messina, Francesco Archetti:
  Granular modeling of web documents: impact on information retrieval systems. 111-118
  

Ranking and similarity search

• Bo Shao, Tao Li, Mitsunori Ogihara:
  Quantify music artist similarity based on style and mood. 119-124
  
• Giorgos Giannopoulos, Theodore Dalamagas, Magdalini Eirinaki, Timos K. Sellis:
  Boosting the ranking function learning process using clustering. 125-132
  
• Yang Sun, Huajing Li, Isaac G. Councill, Jian Huang, Wang-Chien Lee, C. Lee Giles:
  Personalized ranking for digital libraries based on log analysis. 133-140
  
• Raymond K. Pon, Alfonso F. Cardenas, David Buttler:
  Online selection of parameters in the rocchio algorithm for identifying interesting news articles. 141-148
  
• Lorenzo Blanco, Valter Crescenzi, Paolo Merialdo, Paolo Papotti:
  Supporting the automatic construction of entity aware search engines. 149-156