Best Paper Award

Hybrid Keyword Search Auctions

  • Ashish Goel (Stanford University), Kamesh Munagala (Duke University)

Best Poster Award

Purely URL-based Topic Classification  

    • Eda Baykan (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne),Monika Henzinger (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne & Google Zürich)
    • Ludmila Marian (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Ingmar Weber (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)

Best Paper Nominations

Track: Data Mining / Session: Web Mining
( Fri 24, 11:30-13:00, ROOM: ROMA “XL-2”,  LEFT WING, 2ND FLOOR )

Releasing Search Queries and Clicks Privately  

  • Aleksandra Korolova (Stanford University)
  • Krishnaram Kenthapadi (Microsoft Research)
  • Nina Mishra (Microsoft Research)
  • Alexandros Ntoulas (Microsoft Research)


Track: Internet Monetization / Session: Sponsored Search
( Fri 24, 14:30-16:00, Room: La Paz “S2a”,  Right Wing, 2nd Floor )
Hybrid Keyword Search Auctions  

  • Ashish Goel (Stanford University)
  • Kamesh Munagala (Duke University)

Track: Rich Media / Session: Tagging and Clustering
( Thu 23, 16:30-18:00, Room: La Paz “S2a”,  Right Wing, 2nd Floor )
Visual Diversification of Image Search Results  

  • Reinier H. van Leuken (Universiteit Utrecht)
  • Lluis Garcia (Yahoo! Research)
  • Ximena Olivares (Unversitat Pompeu Fabra)
  • Roelof van Zwol (Yahoo! Research)


Track: Social Networks and Web 2.0 / Session: Diffusion and Search in Social Networks
( Wed 22, 16:30-18:00, ROOM: MADRID “XL1”,  LEFT WING, 1ST FLOOR )
Social Search in “Small-World” Experiments  

  • Sharad Goel (Yahoo! Research)
  • Roby Muhamad (Columbia University)
  • Duncan Watts (Yahoo! Research and Columbia University)


Track: Social Networks and Web 2.0 / Session: Photos and Web 2.0
( Thu 23, 11:30-13:00, Room: La Paz “S2a”,  Right Wing, 2nd Floor )
Mapping the World’s Photos  

  • David Crandall (Cornell University)
  • Lars Backstrom (Cornell University)
  • Daniel Huttenlocher (Cornell University)
  • Jon Kleinberg (Cornell University)


Track: Web Engineering / Session: Service Oriented Development
( Wed 22, 14:30-16:00, Room: Montevideo “S2b”,  Rigth Wing, 2nd Floor )
Test Case Prioritization for Regression Testing of Service-Oriented Business Applications  

  • Lijun Mei (The University of Hong Kong)
  • Zhenyu Zhang (The University of Hong Kong)
  • W. K. Chan (City University of Hong Kong)
  • T.H. Tse (The University of Hong Kong)

Best Poster Nominations

Wednesday, April 22, 2009 Poster Sessions (10:30-17:00)
( Estrasburgo Hall-Registration Area )

Suggested times for poster’s author presence:

– 11:15-12:45 Posters 1 to 15
– 15:30-17:00 Poster 16 to 30

5. Relationalizing RDF Stores for Tools Reusability  

  • Sunitha Ramanujam (The University of Texas at Dallas),
  • Anubha Gupta (The University of Texas at Dallas),
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  • Latifur Khan (The University of Texas at Dallas),
  • Steven Seida (Raytheon Company),
  • Bhavani Thuraisingham (The University of Texas at Dallas)

30. Purely URL-based Topic Classification

  • Eda Baykan (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
  • Monika Henzinger (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne & Google Zürich)
  • Ludmila Marian (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
  • Ingmar Weber (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)

Friday, April 24, 2009 Poster Session (10:30-17:00)
( Estrasburgo Hall-Registration Area )


Suggested times for poster’s author presence:

– 11:00-12:30 Posters 1 to 16

6. Deducing Trip Related Information from Flickr  

  • Adrian Popescu (TELECOM Bretagne),Gregory Grefenstette (Exalead)

     

WWW2009 Awards Committee

  • Ricardo Baeza-Yates
  • Ziv Bar-Yossef
  • David De Roure
  • Jim Hendler
  • Irwin King
  • Ravi Kumar
  • Raquel Martinez
  • Andrew Tomkins
  • Bebo White