WebDB 2008 Call for Participation

************************** 11th International Workshop on the Web and
Databases (WebDB 2008) ***********************

################ Friday, June 13, 2008 / Vancouver, Canada (co-located with
ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2008) ##################

*************************************** http://webdb2008.como.polimi.it
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*************************************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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The WebDB workshop focuses on providing a forum where researchers,
theoreticians, and practitioners can share their knowledge and opinions
about problems and solutions at the intersection of data management and the
Web. This year's WebDB will focus on Web2.0 and Multimedia support for the
Web, but papers on all aspects of the Web and Databases will be presented.


************************************* LIST OF ACCEPTED PAPERS
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Efficient Web-Based Linkage of Short to Long Forms, Yee Fan Tan, National
University of Singapore, Ergin Elmacioglu, The Pennsylvania State
University, Min-Yen Kan, National University of Singapore, Dongwon Lee, The
Pennsylvania State University

Stay Elsewhere? Improving Local Search for Hotels Using Econometric
Modeling and Image Classification, Beibei Li, New York University, Anindya
Ghose, New York University, Panagiotis Ipeirotis, New York University

Trie Indexes for Efficient XML Query Evaluation, Sofia Brenes, Yuqing Wu,
Dirk Van Gucht, Pablo Santa Cruz, Indiana University

OLAP Cubes for Social Searches: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants?
Konstantinos Morfonios, Georgia Koutrika, Stanford University

TOB: Timely Ontologies for Business Relations Qi Zhang, Gerhard Weikum, MPI

LSH At Large -- Distributed KNN Search in High Dimensions, Parisa Haghani,
Sebastian Michel, EPFL, Philippe Cudre-Mauroux, MIT Karl Aberer, EPFL

Good Guys vs. Bad Guys: Countering Cheating in Peer-to-Peer Authority
Computations over Social Networks, Mauro Sozio, Josiane Xavier Parreira,
Tom Crecelius, Gerhard Weikum, MPI

Evaluating Instance-based Matching of Web Directories, Sabine Massmann,
Erhard Rahm, University of Leipzig

Lightweight Database Wrapper for Unstructured Data, Tulay Muezzinoglu,
Antonio Badia, University of Louisville

Web services composition is decidable, Ramy Ragab Hassein, Farouk Toumani,
Lhouari Nourine, LIMOS

XPath Rewriting Using Multiple Views: Achieving Completeness and
Efficiency, Bogdan Cautis, E.N.S.T. Paris, Alin Deutsch, Nicola Onose, UC
San Diego

Ad-Ranking for Profit Maximization, Raju Balakrishnan, Subbarao
Kambhampati, Arizona State University

Uncovering the Relational Web, Michael Cafarella, University of Washington,
Alon Halevy, Google, Yang Zhang, MIT, Zhe Wang, UC Berkeley, Eugene Wu, MIT

Bidirectional Mappings for Data and Update Exchange, Grigoris
Karvounarakis, Zachary Ives, University of Pennsylvania