Ever since its inception, the Web has changed the landscape of human experiences on how we interact with one another and data through service infrastructures via various computing devices. This interweaving environment is now becoming ever more embedded into devices and systems that integrate seamlessly on how we live, both in our working or leisure time.
For this volume, King and Baeza-Yates selected some pioneering and cutting-edge research work that is pointing to the future of the Web. Based on the Workshop Track of the 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008) in Beijing, they selected the top contributions and asked the authors to resubmit their work with a minimum of one third of additional material from their original workshop manuscripts to be considered for this volume. After a second-round of reviews and selection, 16 contributions were finally accepted.
The work within this volume represents the tip of an iceberg of the many exciting advancements on the WWW. It covers topics like semantic web services, location-based and mobile applications, personalized and context-dependent user interfaces, social networks, and folksonomies. The presentations aim at researchers in academia and industry by showcasing latest research findings. Overall they deliver an excellent picture of the current state-of-the-art, and will also serve as the basis for ongoing research discussions and point to new directions.
Author(s): Greg Buehrer, Jack W. Stokes, Kumar Chellapilla, John C. Platt (auth.), Irwin King, Ricardo Baeza-Yates (eds.)
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 358
City: Dordrecht; London
Tags: Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Information Storage and Retrieval
Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Classification of Automated Search Traffic....Pages 3-26
Semantic Services for Wikipedia....Pages 27-47
Context-based Semantic Mediation in Web Service Communities....Pages 49-66
An Effective Aggregation Policy for RSS Services....Pages 67-84
Evolution of the Mobile Web....Pages 85-97
Personalized Service Creation and Provision for the Mobile Web....Pages 99-121
Selecting the Best Mobile Information Service with Natural Language User Input....Pages 123-146
Location Concepts for the Web....Pages 147-168
Ad Hoc Determination of Geographic Regions for Concept@Location Queries....Pages 169-194
Acquisition of Vernacular Place Names from Web Sources....Pages 195-214
Front Matter....Pages 215-215
Social Web and Knowledge Management....Pages 217-227
Setting Access Permission through Transitive Relationship in Web-based Social Networks....Pages 229-253
Multiple Interests of Users in Collaborative Tagging Systems....Pages 255-274
On the Effect of Group Structures on Ranking Strategies in Folksonomies....Pages 275-300
Resolving Person Names in Web People Search....Pages 301-323
Studies on Editing Patterns in Large-scale Wikis....Pages 325-349
Back Matter....Pages 1-8
