WWW 2012 Additional Companion Publication
(NOT available on ACM)

WWW2012 orange bullet Program Chairs’ Welcome
Michael Rabinovich (CASE Western)
Steffen Staab (University of Koblenz-Landau)

WWW2012 magenta bullet Message from the Chair of IW3C2
Mary Ellen Zurko (IBM Software Group)

WWW2012 blue bullet WWW 2012 Organization

WWW2012 orange bullet Download all proceedings (Zip file)

WWW 2012 Additional Companion Tracks & Workshops

Developer’s Track

JavaScript library for audio/video timeline representation (pdf) [slides] (pdf) Samuel Goldszmidt

ACE: An Adaptive CSS Engine for Web Pages and Web-based Applications (pdf) [slides] (html) Luis A. Leiva

WebCL for Hardware-Accelerated Web Applications (pdf) [slides] (pdf) Won Jeon, Tasneem Brutch and Simon Gibbs

WikiNext, a JavaScript Semantic Wiki (pdf) [slides] (pdf) Pavel Arapov and Michel Buffa

The DataTank: an Open Data adapter with semantic output (pdf) [slides] (pdf) Miel Vander Sande, Pieter Colpaert, Davy Van Deursen, Erik Mannens and Rik Van de Walle

The Information Workbench as a Self-Service Platform for Developing Linked Data Applications (pdf) [slides] (pdf) Christian Huetter, Michael Schmidt, Andreas Schwarte and Peter Haase

LDIF – A Framework for Large-Scale Linked Data Integration (pdf) [slides] (pdf) Andreas Schultz, Andrea Matteini, Robert Isele, Pablo N. Mendes, Christian Bizer and Christian Becker

A JavaScript RDF store and application library for linked data client applications (pdf) [slides] (pdf) Antonio Garrote Hernández and María N. Moreno García

Enriching the web with CSS Filters (pdf) [slides] (pdf) Raul Hudea, Rik Cabanier and Vincent Hardy

Enabling on-the-fly Video Shot Detection on YouTube (pdf) [slides] (pdf) Thomas Steiner, Ruben Verborgh, Joaquim Gabarro, Michael Hausenblas, Raphaël Troncy and Rik Van De Walle

Fixing the Web one page at a time, or actually implementing xkcd #37 (pdf) [slides] (html) Thomas Steiner and Ruben Verborgh

Let Google Index Your Media Fragment (pdf) [slides] (pdf) Yunjia Li, Mike Wald and Gary Wills

Visualizing Large Image Datasets in 3D Using WebGL and Media Fragments (pdf) [slides] (pdf) Charles Hollemeersch, Bart Pieters, Aljosha Demeulemeester, Davy Van Deursen, Peter Lambert and Rik Van De Walle

API Blender: A Uniform Interface to Social Platform APIs (pdf) [slides] (pdf) Georges Gouriten and Pierre Senellart

Better Web Development with WebKit Remote Debugging (pdf) [slides] (pdf) Ashutosh Jagdish Sharma

Automated Linking Data with Apache Stanbol (no pdf) [slides] (pdf) Olivier Grisel

How to Run your Favorite Language in Web Browsers (pdf) [slides] (pdf) Benjamin Canou, Emmanuel Chailloux and Jérôme Vouillon

Client-server Web applications with Ocsigen (pdf) [slides] (pdf) Vincent Balat, Pierre Chambart and Grégoire Henry

The Kasabi Information Marketplace (pdf) [slides] (pdf) Knud Hinnerk Möller and Leigh Dodds

Decoupling Content Management (pdf) [slides] (pdf) Szabolcs Grünwald and Henri Bergius

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Web Science Track

Bridging the Gap: A Reflection on an Interdisciplinary Approach to Social Media Research (pdf) Pablo Aragón, Jessica Gould, Andreas Kaltenbrunner, Karolin Kapler, David Laniado, Ricard Ruiz de Querol, Carlos Ullod and Yana Volkovich

Collective Individuation: A New Theoretical Foundation for the Social Web (pdf) Yuk Hui and Harry Halpin

Does the Internet ‘absorb’ human subjectivity and sociality? The limitations of two current dynamic process models to answer this question. (pdf) Jeff Vass

Emotion aware clustering analysis as a tool for Web 2.0 communities detection: Implications for curriculum development (pdf) Athena Vakali and Konstantinos Kafetsios

Exploring Social Networks with Topical Analysis (pdf) Jiyeon Jang, Jinhyuk Choi, Gwan Jang and Sung-Hyon Myaeng

Exploring the Web of Coined Catchy Phrases (pdf) Torbjörn Lager and Jenny Myredal

Information Overload In Social Media Streams And The Approaches To Solve It (pdf) Maria Grineva and Maxim Grinev

Modeling User Reports in Crowdmaps as a Complex Network (pdf) Carlos Caminha and Vasco Furtado

Patents: a stress-test for the linked data web? (no file) Marie-Christine Kominowski, Keri Rowles, Arne Kruger and Nigel Shadbolt

The development of a new model of governance for online defamation in light of the emergence of social web technologies (pdf) Sarosh Khan, Roksana Moore and Mark Weal

The State of Open Data – Limits of Current Open Data Platforms (pdf) Katrin Braunschweig, Julian Eberius, Maik Thiele and Wolfgang Lehner

Traces of Social Media Activism from Malaysia and Pakistan (pdf) M. Atif Qureshi, Arjumand Younus, Lay-Ki Soon, Muhammad Saeed, Nasir Touheed and Colm O’Riordan

Trustworthiness of Linked Data Using PKI (pdf) Enayat Rajabi, Mohsen Kahani and Miguel-Angel Sicilia

Understanding the mechanics of online collective action using ‘big data’ (no file) Scott Hale and Helen Margetts

Using Mixed Methods to Track the Growth of the Web: Tracing Open Government Data Initiatives (pdf) Ramine Tinati, Leslie Carr, Susan Halford and Catherine Pope

Web-Scale Image Retrieval and Its Novel Applications (pdf) Sung-Eui Yoon

Web Science in the SONIC Research Group (pdf) Willem Pieterson and Noshir Contractor

Why Is the Shape of the Web a Bowtie? (pdf) Panagiotis Metaxas

WORLD-IMPRESSION: How Do Netizens View the World? (pdf) Lei Zhang, Lizhi Wan, Thanassis Tiropanis and Wendy Hall

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Dec3D’12 Workshop 

[Web Site]

Declarative (X)3D in HTML5 (pdf) Yvonne Jung, Jens Keil, Johannes Behr

Interactive 3D Graphics for the Web (pdf) Kristian Sons, Philipp Slusallek

Towards Declarative 3D in Web Architecture (pdf) Jean Le Feuvre

Writing Effective Use Cases for the Declarative 3D for the Web Architecture (pdf) Jacek Jankowski

Declarative 3D Use-Cases for galleries and marketplaces (pdf) Mario Chiesa, Pino Lassandro

Publishing the Greatest Common Denominator (pdf) Nicholas F. Polys

Declarative 3D Approaches for Distributed Web-based Scientific Visualization Services (pdf) Yvonne Jung, Johannes Behr, Timm Drevensek, Sebastian Wagner

Towards Networked Linked Data-Driven Web3D Applications (pdf) René Schubotz, Andreas Harth

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EWFE’12 Workshop 

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A Mobile Learning Scenario improvement for HST Inquiry Based learning (pdf) Jean-Marie Gilliot, Serge Garlatti, Issam Rebai, Cuong Pham Nguyen

Actualizing Progressive Learning – Discovering Resolute Paradigm In Social World (pdf) Dinesh Pothineni, Pratik Mishra, Aadil Rasheed

Web Technologies and Tertiary IT Education: A Case Study (pdf) Yogesh Deshpande

The Influence of Teacher Created Metadata in Online Resource Exchanges (pdf) Samuel Abramovich, Christian Schunn

From kinetic energy to climate change: Design of technology to link school science to personal energy consumption (pdf) Katerina Avramides, Brock Craft, Rosemary Luckin

Generic Gaze Interaction Events for Web Browsers: Using the Eye Tracker as Input Device (pdf) Benjamin Wassermann, Adrian Hardt, Gottfried Zimmermann

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HWG’12 Workshop 

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Modeling the Web: Paradigm changes and strategic scenarios (pdf) Stefano A. Cerri

Challenges for Master Programs on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI): experience report of the M2IHM (pdf) Marco Winckler, Philippe Palanque, David Navarre

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LiLe’12 Workshop 

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Technical Evaluation of The mEducator 3.0 Linked Data-based Environment for Sharing Medical Educational Resources (pdf) Maurice Hendrix, Davide Taibi, Stefan Dietze, Aristos Protopsaltis, Ian Dunwell, Evangelia Mitsopoulou, Panagiotis Bamidis, Dimitris Spachos, Sara de Freitas, Panagiotis Petridis

Assembling and Applying an Education Graph based on Learning Resources in Universities (pdf) Tom Heath, Ross Singer, Nadeem Shabir, Chris Clarke, Justin Leavesley

SemUNIT — French UNT and Linked Data (pdf) Yoann Isaac, Yolaine Bourda, Monique Grandbastien

Semantic Web Game Based Learning: An I18n approach with Greek DBpedia (pdf) Charalampos Bratsas, Despina Eleana Chrysou, Ekaterini Eftychiadou, Dimitris Kontokostas, Panagiotis Bamidis, Ioannis Antoniou

LOD.CS.UNIPA Project: an experience of LOD at the University of Palermo (pdf) Davide Taibi, Giovanni Panascì, Biagio Lenzitti

Semantic CMS and Wikis as platforms for Linked Learning (pdf) Charalampos Bratsas, Anastasia Dimou, Lazaros Ioannidis, Panagiotis Bamidis, Ioannis Antoniou

Common vs. Expert knowledge: making the Semantic Web an educational model (pdf) Muriel Foulonneau, Valentin Grouès

Semantic Web and Linked Learning to Support Workplace Learning (pdf) Melody Siadaty, Jelena Jovanovic, Dragan Gasevic, Nikola Milikic, Zoran Jeremic, Liaqat Ali, Aleksandar Giljanovic, Marek Hatala

Aggregating Digital Traces into a Semantic-enriched Data Cloud for Informal Learning (pdf) Vania Dimitrova, Dhavalkumar Thakker, Lydia Lau

Exploiting the Web of Data to provide descriptions of ICT tools: a preliminary report about SEEK-AT-WD (pdf) Adolfo Ruiz-Calleja, Thanassis Tiropanis, Guillermo Vega-Gorgojo, Juan I. Asensio-Perez

Semi-Automatic Generation of Quizzes and Learning Artifacts from Linked Data (pdf) Guillermo Alvaro Rey, Irene Celino, Mariana Damova, Danica Damljanovic, Ning Li, Panos Alexopoulos, Vladan Devedzic

Thinking Semantic Wikis as Learning Object Repositories (pdf) Juan Ignacio Vidal, Alejandro Fernández, Alicia Díaz

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MSM’12 Workshop 

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Alleviating Data Sparsity for Twitter Sentiment Analysis (pdf) Hassan Saif, Yulan He, Harith Alani

Making Sense of Microposts at Scientific Conferences (pdf) Peter Kraker, Fleur Jeanquartier

Extracting Unambiguous Keywords from Microposts using Web and Query Logs Data (pdf) Davi de Castro Reis, Felipe Goldstein, Frederico Quintão

Visualizing Contextual and Dynamic Features of Microposts (pdf) Alexander Hubmann-Haidvogel, Adrian M. P. Brasoveanu, Arno Scharl, Marta Sabou, Stefan Gindl

What makes a tweet relevant for a topic? (pdf) Ke Tao, Fabian Abel, Claudia Hauff, Geert-Jan Houben

Exploiting Twitter‚Äôs Collective Knowledge for Music Recommendations (pdf) Eva Zangerle, Wolfgang Gassler, Günther Specht

Understanding Co-evolution of Social and Content Networks on Twitter (pdf) Philipp Singer, Claudia Wagner, Markus Strohmaier

When social bots attack: Modeling susceptibility of users in online social networks (pdf) Claudia Wagner, Silvia Mitter, Christian Körner, Markus Strohmaier

Knowledge Discovery in Distributed Social Web Sharing Activities (pdf) Simon Scerri, Keith Cortis, Ismael Rivera, Siegfried Handschuh

Small talk in the Digital Age: Making Sense of Phatic Posts (pdf) Danica Radovanovic, Massimo Ragnedda

Information Theoretic Tools for Social Media (pdf) Greg Ver Steeg

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SIMPLEX’12 Workshop 

[Web Site]

Social Media — are they underpinned by social or interest–based interactions? (pdf) Katarzyna Musial, Nishanth Sastry

Topological Trends of Internet Content Providers (pdf) Yuval Shavitt, Udi Weinsberg

On Social Community Networks: The Problem of Cost Sharing (pdf) Ranjan Pal, Pan Hui, Aravind Kailas

Predicting Human Contacts in Mobile Social Networks Using Supervised Learning (pdf) Kazem Jahanbakhsh, Valerie King, Gholamali C. Shoja

Quality Distributed Community Formation for Data Delivery in Pocket Switched Networks (pdf) Matthew Orlinski, Nick Filer

Publish-Subscribe Systems via Gossip: a Study based on Complex Networks (pdf) Stefano Ferretti

The Dynamic Network Notation: Harnessing Network Effects in PaaS-Ecosystems (pdf) Ulrich Scholten, Robin Fischer, Christian Zirpins

Distributed Assessment of the Closeness Centrality Ranking in Complex Networks (pdf) Klaus Wehmuth, Artur Ziviani

Robustness of Centrality Measures against Link Weight Quantization in Social Network Analysis (pdf) Yukihiro Matsumoto, Sho Tsugawa, Hiroyuki Ohsaki, Makoto Imase

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TempWeb’12 Workshop 

[Web Site]

The 2nd Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb) (pdf) Ricardo Baeza‐Yates, Julien Masanès, Marc Spaniol

Enriching Temporal Query Understanding through Date Identification: How to Tag Implicit Temporal Queries? (pdf) Ricardo Campos, Gaël Dias, Alípio Jorge, Célia Nunes

Noise Robust Detection of the Emergence and Spread of Topics on the Web (pdf) Masahiro Inoue, Keishi Tajima

Keeping Keywords Fresh: A BM25 Variation for Personalized Keyword Extraction (pdf) Margarita Karkali, Vassilis Plachouras, Costas Stefanatos, Michalis Vazirgiannis

Extraction of Temporal Facts and Events from Wikipedia (pdf) Erdal Kuzey, Gerhard Weikum

Analyzing Patterns of Information Cascades based on Users’ Influence and Posting Behaviors (pdf) Geerajit Rattanaritnont, Masashi Toyoda, Masaru Kitsuregawa

Identification of Top Relevant Temporal Expressions in Documents (pdf) Jannik Strötgen, Omar Alonso, Michael Gertz

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