11. WebDB 2008: Vancouver, BC, Canada

Web services, Data Integration, and Peer-to-peer Data Management

• Ramy Ragab Hassen, Farouk Toumani, Lhouari Nourine:
  Web services composition is decidable.
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• Parisa Haghani, Sebastian Michel, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Karl Aberer:
  LSH At Large - Distributed KNN Search in High Dimensions.
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• Grigoris Karvounarakis, Zachary G. Ives:
  Bidirectional Mappings for Data and Update Exchange.
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Social Networks, Search, and the Web Economy

• Beibei Li, Anindya Ghose, Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis:
  Stay Elsewhere? Improving Local Search for Hotels Using Econometric Modeling and Image Classification.
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• Raju Balakrishnan, Subbarao Kambhampati:
  Optimal Ad-Ranking for Profit Maximization.
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• Konstantinos Morfonios, Georgia Koutrika:
  OLAP Cubes for Social Searches: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants?
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• Mauro Sozio, Josiane Xavier Parreira, Tom Crecelius, Gerhard Weikum:
  Good Guys vs. Bad Guys: Countering Cheating in Peer-to-Peer Authority Computations over Social Networks.
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Web Information Extraction

• Sabine Massmann, Erhard Rahm:
  Evaluating Instance-based Matching of Web Directories.
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• Michael J. Cafarella, Alon Y. Halevy, Yang Zhang, Daisy Zhe Wang, Eugene Wu:
  Uncovering the Relational Web.
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• Yee Fan Tan, Ergin Elmacioglu, Min-Yen Kan, Dongwon Lee:
  Efficient Web-Based Linkage of Short to Long Forms.
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• Qi Zhang, Fabian M. Suchanek, Lihua Yue, Gerhard Weikum:
  TOB: Timely Ontologies for Business Relations.
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Semistructured and Unstructured Data (joint session with XIME-P 2008)

• Bogdan Cautis, Alin Deutsch, Nicola Onose:
  XPath Rewriting Using Multiple Views: Achieving Completeness and Efficiency.
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• Sofia Brenes, Yuqing Wu, Dirk Van Gucht, Pablo Santa Cruz:
  Trie Indexes for Efficient XML Query Evaluation.
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• Tulay Muezzinoglu, Antonio Badia:
  Lightweight Database Wrapper for Unstructured Data.
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