Accepted Papers

Main Conference

For WISE 2008, we have accepted 31 papers out of the 110 complete submissions. This gives an acceptance rate of 28.2%. Out of the following 31 papers, 17 are chosen for standard presentation and the remaining 14 for short presentation.

  • A Semantic Overlay for Service Discovery Across Web Information Systems.
    Devis Bianchini, Valeria De Antonellis, Michele Melchiori, and Denise Salvi.

  • A Web-based Automated System for Industry and Occupation Coding.
    Yuchul Jung, Jihee Yoo, Sung-Hyon Myaeng, and Dong-Cheol Han.

  • A Workflow-based Approach for Creating Complex Web Wrappers.
    Paula Montoto, Alberto Pan, Juan Raposo, José Losada, Fernando Bellas, and Javier López.

  • Achieving Effective Multi-term Queries for Fast DHT Information Retrieval.
    Quanqing Xu, Heng Tao Shen, Yafei Dai, Bin Cui, and Xiaofang Zhou.

  • Addressing New Concerns in Model-Driven Web Engineering Approaches.
    Nathalie Moreno, Santiago Meliá, Nora Koch, and Antonio Vallecillo.

  • Approximate Information Filtering in Peer-to-Peer Networks.
    Christian Zimmer, Christos Tryfonopoulos, Klaus Berberich, Manolis Koubarakis, and Gerhard Weikum.

  • Behavioural Targeting in On-line Advertising: An Empirical Study
    Joanna Jaworska and Marcin Sydow.

  • BPEL4RBAC: An Authorisation Specification for WS-BPEL.
    Xin Wang, Yanchun Zhang, Hao Shi, and Jian Yang.

  • Can Social Tagging Improve Web Image Search?
    Makoto Kato, Hiroaki Ohshima, Satoshi Oyama, and Katsumi Tanaka.

  • Computing Relaxed Answers on RDF Databases.
    Hai Huang, Chengfei Liu, and Xiaofang Zhou.

  • Contained Rewritings of XPath Queries Using Views Revisited
    Junhu Wang, Jeffrey Xu Yu, and Chengfei Liu.

  • Context-aware Mashups for Mobile Devices.
    Andreas Brodt, Daniela Nicklas, Sailesh Sathish, and Bernhard Mitschang.

  • Correlating Time-related Data Sources with Co-clustering.
    Vassiliki Koutsonikola, Sophia Petridou, Athena Vakali, Hakim Hacid, and Boualem Benatallah.

  • Discovering Pathways of Service Oriented Biological Processes.
    George Zheng and Athman Bouguettaya.

  • Efficient Top-k Data Sources Ranking for Query on Deep Web.
    Derong Shen, Meifang Li, Ge Yu, Yue Kou, and Tiezheng Nie

  • Efficiently Handling Dynamics in Distributed Link Based Authority Analysis.
    Josiane Xavier Parreira, Sebastian Michel, and Gerhard Weikum.

  • Filtering Techniques for Rewriting XPath Queries Using Views.
    Rui Zhou, Chengfei Liu, Jianxin Li, and Junhu Wang.

  • Improving Mobile Web-IR using Access Concentration Sites in Search Results.
    Masaya Murata, Hiroyuki Toda, Yumiko Matsuura, and Ryoji Kataoka.

  • Improving Web Service Discovery by using Semantic Models.
    Aishwarya Bose, Richi Nayak and Peter Bruza.

  • Integrating Multiple Data Sources for Stock Prediction.
    Di Wu, Gabriel Pui Cheong Fung, Jeffrey Xu Yu, and Zheng Liu.

  • Intra/Inter-document Change Awareness for Co-authoring of Web Sites.
    Stavroula Papadopoulou, Claudia-Lavinia Ignat, Gérald Oster, and Moira C. Norrie.

  • Locally Expandable Allocation of Folksonomy Tags in a Directed Acyclic Graph.
    Takeharu Eda, Masatoshi Yoshikawa, and Masashi Yamamuro.

  • Mashing Up Context-aware Web Applications: A Component-based Development Approach.
    Florian Daniel and Maristella Matera.

  • Online Outlier Detection based on Relative Neighbourhood Dissimilarity.
    Nguyen Hoang Vu, Vivekanand Gopalkrishnan, and Praneeth Namburi.

  • Optimizing Distributed Top-k Queries.
    Thomas Neumann, Matthias Bender, Sebastian Michel, Ralf Schenkel, Peter Triantafillou, and Gerhard Weikum.

  • POEMS: Peer-based Overload Management.
    Wee Siong Ng, Panos Kalnis, Kian-Lee Tan, and Markus Kirchberg.

  • Requirements for Rich Internet Application Design Methodologies.
    Jevon M. Wright and Jens B. Dietrich.

  • Semantically Enhanced Entity Ranking.
    Gianluca Demartini, Claudiu S. Firan, Tereza Iofciu, and Wolfgang Nejdl.

  • Supporting Judgement of Fact Trustworthiness Considering Temporal and Sentimental Aspects.
    Yusuke Yamamoto, Taro Tezuka, Adam Jatowt, and Katsumi Tanaka.

  • SyncRerank: Reranking Multi Search Results Based on Vertical and Horizontal Propagation of User Intention.
    Satoshi Nakamura, Takehiko Yamamoto, and Katsumi Tanaka.

  • Web-based Measure of Semantic Relatedness.
    Jorge Gracia and Eduardo Mena.

E-BAG 2008 Workshop

For E-BAG 2008, 3 papers out of the 9 complete submissions have been accepted. This gives an acceptance rate of 33%. In addition, 2 papers recommended from WISE 2008 submissions have also been accepted.

  • Minimizing the Impact of Change on User Productivity.
    Ratvinder Singh Grewal, Barbara Targonski, and Quoc Hao Mach.

  • Mobile Payment: Towards a Customer-centric Model.
    Krassie Petrova.

  • Ontological Vulnerability Assessment.
    Aaron Steele.

  • Process Model Elicitation and a Reading Technique for Web Usability Inspections.
    Tayana Conte, Verônica T. Vaz, Jobson Massolar, Emilia Mendes, and Guilherme Horta Travassos.

  • Ranking People Based on Metadata Analysis of Search Results.
    Qiang Ma and Masatoshi Yoshikawa.

IWWUA 2008 Workshop

For IWWUA 2008, 6 papers out of the 12 complete submissions have been accepted. This gives an acceptance rate of 50%.

  • A Systematic Review of Usability Evaluation in Web Development.
    Emilio Insfran and Adrian Fernandez.

  • Identifying Semantic Constructs in Web Documents to Improve Web Site Accessibility.
    Mathias Koehnke, Temenushka Ignatova, Martina Weicht, and Ilvio Bruder.

  • Improving the Usability of Novel Web Software: An Industrial Case Study of an Institutional Repository.
    Dana McKay and Shaun Burriss.

  • Measuring Web Accessibility by Estimating Severity of Barriers.
    Giorgio Brajnik.

  • Modelling Web-based Systems Requirements using WRM.
    Fernando Molina, Jesús Pardillo, and Ambrosio Toval.

  • Towards an Ontology-based Approach for Dealing with Web Guidelines.
    Joseph Xiong, Christelle Farenc, and Marco Winckler.

MEM&LCW 2008 Workshop

For MEM&LCW 2008, 4 papers out of the 8 complete submissions have been accepted. This gives an acceptance rate of 50%.

  • A Web-based Mashup Platform for Enterprise 2.0.
    Rama Gurram, Brian Mo, and Ralf Gueldemeister.

  • Bill Organiser Portal: A Case Study on End-user Composition.
    Agnes Ro, Lily Shu-Yi Xia, Hye-Young Paik, and Chea Hyon Chon.

  • Extending Services Delivery with Lightweight Composition.
    Christian Janiesch, Kathrin Fleischmann, and Alexander Dreiling.

  • Fixed-mobile Hybrid Mashups: Applying the REST Principles to Mobile-specific Resources.
    Sami Mäkeläinen and Timo Alakoski.