Progress in WWW Research and Development: 10th Asia-Pacific Web Conference, APWeb 2008, Shenyang, China, April 26-28, 2008, Proceedings - Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet / Web, and HCI 2008 edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Jacket Description/Back: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th Asia-Pacific Web Conference, APWeb 2008, held in Shenyang, China, in April 2008. The 48 revised full papers and 15 revised short papers presented together with 4 invited/keynote papers and 2 tutorial papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 169 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on data mining and knowledge discovery, wireless, sensor networks and grid, XML and query processing and optimization, privacy and security, information extraction, presentation and retrieval, P2P, agent systems, ontology, semantic Web and Web applications, data streams, time series analysis and data mining, Web mining and Web search, as well as workflow and middleware. Table of Contents: Keynote Papers.- Socio-Sense: A System for Analysing the Societal Behavior from Long Term Web Archive.- Building Web-Scale Data Mining Infrastructure for Search.- Aggregate Computation over Data Streams.- A Family of Optimization Based Data Mining Methods.- Tutorials.- Web Evolution Management: Detection, Monitoring, and Mining.- Research and Practice in Data Quality.- Data Mining and Knowledge Discoverty.- Detecting Overlapping Community Structures in Networks with Global Partition and Local Expansion.- High Confidence Fragment-Based Classification Rule Mining for Imbalanced HIV Data.- Source Credibility Model for Neighbor Selection in Collaborative Web Content Recommendation.- The Layered World of Scientific Conferences.- Mining Maximal Frequent Subtrees with Lists-Based Pattern-Growth Method.- Mining the Web for Hyponymy Relations Based on Property Inheritance.- Detecting Outliers in Categorical Record Databases Based on Attribute Associations.- Wireless, Sensor Networks and Grid.- An Energy-Efficient Multi-agent Based Architecture in Wireless Sensor Network.- Task Migration Enabling Grid Workflow Application Rescheduling.- A Dependent Tasks Scheduling Model in Grid.- A Hierarchical Replica Location Approach Based on Cache Mechanism and Load Balancing in Data Grid.- Wireless Video-Based Sensor Networks for Surveillance of Residential Districts.- Trust Maintenance Toward Virtual Computing Environment in the Grid Service.- An Association Model of Sensor Properties for Event Diffusion Spotting Sensor Networks.- CROWNBench: A Grid Performance Testing System Using Customizable Synthetic Workload.- XML and Query Processing and Optimization.- A Decision Procedure for XPath Satisfiability in the Presence of DTD Containing Choice.- Performance Analysis and Improvement for Transformation Operators in XML Data Integration.- Similarity Computation for XML Documents by XML Element Sequence Patterns.- Evolving Weighting Functions for Query Expansion Based on Relevance Feedback.- Ontology-Based Mobile Information Service Platform.- On Safety, Computability and Local Property of Web Queries.- Privacy, and Security.- Privacy Inference Attacking and Prevention on Multiple Relative K-Anonymized Microdata Sets.- Exposing Homograph Obfuscation Intentions by Coloring Unicode Strings.- On the Complexity of Restricted k-anonymity Problem.- An Efficient Electronic Marketplace Bidding Auction Protocol with Bid Privacy.- A Provable Secure Authentication Protocol Given Forward Secure Session Key.- A Secure Multi-dimensional Partition Based Index in DAS.- Multilateral Approaches to the Mobile RFID Security Problem Using Web Service.- Classifying Security Patterns.- Enhanced Mutual Authentication and Key Exchange Protocol for Wireless Communications.- Verification of the Security Against Inference Attacks on XML Databases.- Information Extraction, Presentation and Retrieval.- Mining, Ranking, and Using Acronym Patterns.- A Method for Web Information Extraction.- Information Presentation on Mobile Devices: Techniques and Practices.- Pattern-Based Extraction of Addresses from Web Page Content.- An Effective Method Supporting Data Extraction and Schema Recognition on Deep Web.- The Experiments with the Linear Combination Data Fusion Method in Information Retrieval.- Squeezing Long Sequence Data for Efficient Similarity Search.- P2P, Agent Systems.- An Architecture for Distributed Controllable Networks and Manageable Node Based on Network Processor.- Building a Scalable P2P Network with Small Routing Delay.- ERASP: An Efficient and Robust Adaptive Superpeer Overlay Network.- Traceable P2P Record Exchange Based on Database Technologies.- Ontology, Semantic Web and Web Applications.- ACORN: Towards Automating Domain Specific Ontology Construction Process.- Ontological Knowledge Management Through Hybrid Unsupervised Clustering Techniques.- Semantic-Enabled Organization of Web Services.- Rule Mining for Automatic Ontology Based Data Cleaning.- Towards Automatic Verification of Web-Based SOA Applications.- A Novel and Effective Method for Web System Tuning Based on Feature Selection.- Effective Data Distribution and Reallocation Strategies for Fast Query Response in Distributed Query-Intensive Data Environments.- Data Streams, Time Series Analysis and Data Mining.- A Novel Chi2 Algorithm for Discretization of Continuous Attributes.- Mining Multiple Time Series Co-movements.- Effective Spatio-temporal Analysis of Remote Sensing Data.- Supporting Top-K Aggregate Queries over Unequal Synopsis on Internet Traffic Streams.- Web Mining and Web Search.- ONOMATOPEDIA: Onomatopoeia Online Example Dictionary System Extracted from Data on the Web.- Connectivity of the Thai Web Graph.- On the Trustworthiness and Transparency of a Web Search Site Examined Using Gender-equal as a Search Keyword.- SemSearch: A Scalable Semantic Searching Algorithm for Unstructured P2P Network.- Web Image Annotation Based on Automatically Obtained Noisy Training Set.- An Effective Query Relaxation Solution for the Deep Web.- Workflow and Middleware.- A Framework for Query Capabilities and Interface Design of Mediators on the Gulf of Mexico Data Sources.- Process Mediation Based on Triple Space Computing.- An Efficient Approach for Supporting Dynamic Evolutionary Change of Adaptive Workflow."Publisher Marketing: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th Asia-Pacific Web Conference, APWeb 2008, held in Shenyang, China, in April 2008. The 48 revised full papers and 15 revised short papers presented together with 4 invited/keynote papers and 2 tutorial papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 169 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on data mining and knowledge discovery, wireless, sensor networks and grid, XML and query processing and optimization, privacy and security, information extraction, presentation and retrieval, P2P, agent systems, ontology, semantic Web and Web applications, data streams, time series analysis and data mining, Web mining and Web search, as well as workflow and middleware.

Contributor Bio:  Zhang, Yanchun Dr. Yanchun Zhang is Associate Professsor and the Head of Computing Discipline in the Department of Mathematics and Computing at the University of Southern Queensland. He obtained PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of Queensland in 1991. His research areas cover databases, electronic commerce, internet/web information systems, web data management, web search and web services. He has published over 100 research papers on these topics in international journals and conference proceedings, and edited over 10 books/proceedings and journal special issues. He is a co-founder and Co-Editor-In-Chief of World Wide Web: Internet and Web Information Systems and Co-Chairman of International Web Information Systems Engineering Society. Dr. Jeffrey Xu Yu received his B. E., M. E. and Ph. D. in computer science, from the University of Tsukuba, Japan, in 1985, 1987 and 1990, respectively. Jeffrey Xu Yu was a faculty member in the Institute of Information Sciences and Electronics, University of Tsukuba, Japan, and was a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science, The Australian National University. Currently, he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research areas cover databases, data warehouse and data mining. He has published over 100 research papers on these topics in international journals and conference proceedings. Jeffrey Xu Yu is a member of ACM, and a society affiliate of IEEE Computer Society. Dr Jingyu Hou received his BSc in Computational Mathematics from Shanghai University of Science and Technology (1985) and his PhD in Computational Mathematics from ShanghaiUniversity (1995). He is now a Lecturer in the School of Information Technology at Deakin University, Australia. He has also completed a PhD in Computer Science in the Department of Mathematics and Computing at The University of Southern Queensland, Australia. His research interests include Web-Based Data Management and Information Retrieval, Web Databases, Internet Computing and Electronic Commerce, and Semi-Structured Data Models. He has extensively published in the areas of Web information retrieval and Web Communities. Contributor Bio:  Bertino, Elisa Purdue University