Advance Program

Monday November 13, 2006

08:00 - 08:45 Registration and Breakfast

08:45 - 09:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks

09:00 - 10:30 Session 1: Client-assisted Delivery and Caching

10:30 - 11:00 Break

11:00 - 12:30 Poster/Demo Briefs

12:30 - 02:00 Lunch

02:00 - 03:30 Session 2: Performance Optimizations I

03:30 - 04:00 Break

04:00 - 05:00 Session 3: Measurement and Characterization

06:00 - 08:00 Workshop Dinner

Tuesday November 14, 2006

08:30 - 09:00 Breakfast

09:00 - 10:30 Session 4: Performance Optimizations II

10:30 - 11:00 Break

11:00 - 12:30 Panel on Future Web Services

12:30 - 02:00 Lunch

02:00 - 03:30 Session 5: Web Data Mining

03:30 - 04:00 Break

04:00 - 05:00 Session 6: Security

05:00 - 05:15 Closing Remarks

Technical Sessions

Session 1: Client-Assisted Delivery and Caching

• Peer-Assisted File Distribution: The Minimum Distribution Time
  Authors: Rakesh Kumar, Keith Ross

• Enabling On-demand Query Result Caching in DotSlash for Handling Web Hotspots Effectively
  Authors: Weibin Zhao, Henning Schulzrinne

• Before-Commit Client State Management Services for AJAX Applications
  Authors: Paul Castro, Frederique Giraud, Ravi Konuru, John Ponzo, Jerome White

Session 2: Performance Optimizations I

• Algorithms for Optimizing Bandwidth Costs on the Internet Review Details
  Authors: Micah Adler, Ramesh Sitaraman, Harish Venkataramani

• A Mixed Coding Scheme for Inverted File Index Compression
  Authors: Jinlin Chen, Ping Zhong, Terry Cook

• DDG: An Efficient Prefetching Algorithm for Current Web Generation
  Authors: Josep Domnech, Jos A. Gil, Julio Sahuquillo, Ana Pont

Session 3: Measurement and Characterization

• Characteristics of Mobile Web Content
  Authors: Paul Timmins, Sean McCormick, Emmanuel Agu, Craig Wills

• Measurement and Modeling of A Web-based Question Answering System
  Authors: Chunyi Peng, Zaoyang Gong, Guobin Shen

Session 4: Performance Optimizations II

• TCP Connection Management Mechanisms for Improving Internet Server Performance
  Authors: Amol Shukla, Tim Brecht

• Semantically Coupled Header Compression
  Authors: Patrick Seeling, Martin Reisslein

• Improving Packet Caching Scalability Through the Concept of an Explicit End of Data Marker
  Authors: Xiaolong Li, David Salyers, Aaron Striegel

Session 5: Web Data Mining

• A Soft Semantic Web
  Authors: Eduardo H Ramirez Rangel, Ramon Brena Pinero

• Web Information Extraction Using Generalized Hidden Markov Model
  Authors: Ping Zhong, Jinlin Chen, Terry Cook

• The Gugubarra Project: Building and Evaluating User Profiles for Visitors of Web Sites
  Authors: Natascha Hoebel, Sascha Kaufmann, Karsten Tolle, R. V. Zicari

Session 6: Security

• Voice Interactive Personalized Security (VoIPSec) protocol:Fortify Internet telephony by providing end-to-end security through inbound key exchange and biometric verification
  Authors: Spyros Kopsidas, Dimitris Zisiadis, Leandros Tassiulas

• Schema-Driven Security Filter Generation For Distributed Data Integration
  Authors: Hui Dong, Zhimin Wang, Robert Morris, Douglas Sellers

Posters and Demos

• Dogear in its enterprise ecosystem.
  Authors: Jonathan Feinberg (IBM)

• Sessionsuite Communications Governance.
  Authors: Fergal Glynn (Bluenote Networks)

• Next Generation Web Mash-ups.
  Authors: Rahul Akolkar (IBM)

• Koala: Automating Web Activites. 
  Authors: Allen Cypher (IBM)

• Web 2.0 Programmability for Open Document Format.
  Authors: Fenil Shah (IBM)

• Radar: Intelligent News delivery service.
  Authors: Andy Gregorowicz (MITRE)

• Web-based Visual Dissemination of Precision Weather Forecasts for Business Operations
  Authors: Lloyd A. Trenish and Anthony P. Prain  (IBM)

• Ripple-X prototype with shared Investment Club Application. 
  Authors: Paul Castro, Ravi Konuru, Frederique Giraud, Lionel Villard (IBM)

• accessibilityWorks.
  Authors: John Richards and Vicki Hanson (IBM)

• Mughost. 
  Authors: Bryan Clark (Redhat Inc)

• Disseminating Expertise in Social Networks. 
  Authors: Nishant Sastry (IBM)

• DebtDetector: Custom Document Presentation from Semantic Annotation.
  Authors: David Gondek and Eric Brown (IBM)

• The Selfish Neighbor Selection Problem In Overlay Networks.
  Authors: Georgios Smaragdakis (Boston University)