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Keynote talk: Professor
Raghu Ramakrishnan (Yahoo! Research). Web Data Management
(presentation)
Abstract: The Web is no longer a static repository of documents;
it is a dynamic repository of information that connects people
with their passions, and on a more prosaic note, the applications they use
in their personal and professional lives.
How is the Web evolving as an information source,
and how does this affect the future of information discovery?
What are the implications of the rapid growth of social networks?
How does the emergence of the Web as a delivery channel for services affect
the future of software? Technically, these trends have given rise
to a new wave of challenges, and led to vigorous research on a number of fronts
ranging from social network analysis, information extraction and
community information management, massively distributed storage and
computing platforms, and placed a premium on hosted service architectures.
In this talk, I will discuss these issues and outline some of the solutions
that are beginning to emerge.
Invited talk: Dr
Athman Bouguettaya (CSIRO).
Infrastructure for Ubiquitous Services
Abstract: Services science is slowly gaining acceptance in both industry and academia
as the necessary vehicle to introduce large scale efficiencies in
service economies that are now predominant in most developed and
many developing countries.
The development of service-oriented computing was the
computing research community's response to the emerging multi-disciplinary
field of services science.
Service-oriented computing aims at providing a foundational computing
framework to support a service-centric approach to solve the
vexing problems of integration and interoperability.
The Web is and will undoubtedly be the preferred delivery platform of
targeted solutions. More specifically, Web services are poised to be the
key component of the service-oriented approach for the efficient management
of services on the Web. Fully delivering on the potential
of next-generation Web services requires building a foundation that would
provide a sound design for efficiently developing, deploying, publishing,
discovering, composing, and optimizing access to Web services.
The proposed Web service foundation will enable the development of a
uniform framework called Web Service Management System that would be to
Web services what DBMSs have been to data. In this framework,
Web services would be treated as first-class objects that can be manipulated
as if they were pieces of data. In this talk,
I will first motivate the need for WSMSs.
I will then overview our own research work developing the foundation of the
core components of WSMSs which include: Web service query optimization,
Web service composition, Web service change management, and
Web service trust management. Finally, I will overview an
E-government WSMS prototype that has been used as a deployment test-bed.
Invited talk: Professor Li Xiaoming (Beijing University)
From WebArchive to WebDigest: Concept and Examples (coauthored with
Huang Lianen)
Abstract: Much like a black hole, the Web, since its birth,
has been absorbing all sorts of data (information) around the globe,
ever generated along the path of human civilization. On the other hand,
the digitized and networked (webbed) nature of web data,
which generally means "easy to access", gives rise to much imagination on
re-discovering, re-engineering, and re-using of the oceanic information.
Nevertheless, lunch is not free. The same time when we see the grand
opportunities, tremendous challenges are ahead. In this talk, I'll
first introduce Web InfoMall (http://www.infomall.cn), the Chinese web
archive we have been constructing since 2001.
Along with the activities, we observe some useful capabilities
have been developed, such as large scale web crawling and
very large scale data organization. In addition, we discuss a step
beyond the WebArchive, called WebDigest, which is an effort aimed
at making use of the data in the web archive.
With a web archive and associated capability, "web mining"
here has a more or less different meaning, which spans from the
structure analysis of the web to named entity and relation extractions,
from spatial (if we consider URL as a space) information discovery to
temporal information exhibition.
The main challenge for us is around the theme of achieving reasonably
good performance with affordable cost. As we are from a university lab,
the underlying question is: what can be done (and how) in a university
lab environment with modest resource. After all, most of the researches
started from university lab. We need to understand the feasibilities and
compromises while seeing the promises.
Wednesday January 23, 1pm: ADC session on XML schema (chaired by Gill Dobbie)
Wednesday January 23 3:30pm ADC session on data mining (chaired by Jixue Liu)
Thursday January 24 8:30am ADC session on potpourri (chaired by Chengfei Liu)
Thursday January 24 10:30am ADC session on XML processing (chaired by Athman Bouguettaya)
Thursday January 24 1pm ADC Keynote (chaired by Xiaofang Zhou)
Thursday January 24 3:30pm ADC session on potpourri (chaired by Uwe Roehm)
Friday January 25 8:30am ADC Invited talks (chaired by Jeffrey Yu)
Friday January 25 10:30am ADC session on media retrieval (chaired by Jeffrey Yu)