Description
The explosive growth of the World Wide
Web has amassed a huge number of information sources on the Internet with
unprecedented potential for information access. Information originating
from different sources needs to be integrated in order to gain full
advantage of having that information available. Information integration techniques enable
the interaction between users and data sources through a centralized access
point and uniform query interfaces that give users the ability to query a
single integrated system.
Along with the growth of the World Wide
Web, there has been phenomenal growth of the Internet as the medium to
deliver services. Services in this context span a wide range: business
processes (e.g., call center) of organizations being outsourced, to applications made available as per
Service Oriented Architecture that can be readily composed by a 3rd
party, to infrastructure services where IT resources are made available
on-demand (e.g., cloud computing). Services are driven by information and
increasingly are distributed. The data challenges in services that a
service provider faces stem from the fact that although service and
information needs of different customer engagements are broadly similar,
they are presently recorded and managed differently. The economies of scale
and reuse will come from organizing information in some uniform way, yet
there are customer sensitivities about data (e.g., privacy and regulation)
that must be tackled. The magnitude of data involved could also be
enormous. For the customers, the data challenges stem from their need to
bring efficiency to operations, yet control their differentiation from
their competition and meet all the regulatory requirements. We can clearly see the connections to
problems of interest to the IIWeb community.
This workshop, seventh in the IIWeb
series, is focused on making the research in information integration on
the web more relevant to the challenges in services. The workshop will
continue its traditional themes of interest, namely integration architectures,
information extraction, web object extraction, record linkage, named entity
extraction, source meta-data learning, query execution and optimization.
However, we will give special emphasis to how this can be applied to
services and service integration. After information is extracted and
integrated, how should it be organized? How can we build or exploit models.
taxonomies or ontologies; trust models for information on the web, service
specification in multi-model environment, searching for services, impact of
data changes on composition and runtime adaptation, scale-up of methods to
web levels.
The workshop will provide a platform to
discuss research directions and share experience and insights from both
academia and industry. The
anticipated outcome of the workshop is to assess the state of the art in
the area, as well as to identify critical next steps to pursue in this
topic. As information integration and services is interdisciplinary in
nature, its researchers have spanned the related areas of data mining,
machine learning, databases, information retrieval, semantic Web, Web
services, and others.
Workshop Notes (Click here for schedule)
Preface:
Invited Talk: “Matching
and clustering product descriptions using learned similarity metrics”,
by Prof.
William Cohen, CMU.
Full
Papers:
- Discovering and Learning
Semantic Models of Online Sources for Information Integration (slides);
Jos´e Luis Ambite, Bora Gazen, Craig A. Knoblock,
Kristina Lerman, Thomas Russ;
Contact: knoblock at
isi.edu
- Towards Scalable Information
Integration with Instance Coreferences (slides);
Abir Qasem, Dimitre
A. Dimitrov, Jeff Heflin;
Contact: abir.qasem
at gmail.com
- Unstructured information
integration through data-driven similarity discovery (slides);
Rema Ananthanarayanan,
Sreeram Balakrishnan, Berthold Reinwald, Yuen Yee;
Contact: arema at
in.ibm.com
- Combining Multiple Query
Interface Matchers Using Dempster-Shafer Theory of Evidence (slides);
Jun Hong, Zhongtian He and David A. Bell;
Contact: j.hong at qub.ac.uk
- Cross document person name
disambiguation using entity profiles (slides);
Harish Srinivasan,
John Chen, Rohini Srihari;
Contact: hsrinivasan at janyainc.com
- Challenges in Moving from
Documents to Information Web for Services (slides);
Rakesh Mohan, Biplav
Srivastava, Pietro Mazzoleni, Richard Goodwin;
Contact: sbiplav at
in.ibm.com
Short
Papers:
- A Flexible Machine Learning
Framework with User Interaction for Ontology Matching (slides);
Hoai-Viet To, Ryutaro
Ichise, and Hoai-Bac Le;
Contact: thviet at fit.hcmuns.edu.vn
- Flexible query formulation for
federated search (slides);
Matthew Michelson,
Sofus A. Macskassy, and Steven N. Minton;
Contact: mmichelson at fetch.com
- On Developing Service-Oriented Web
Applications (slides);
Sabah S. Al-Fedaghi;
Contact: sabah at alfedaghi.com
- Composition of Services that
Share an Infinite-State Blackboard (slides);
Fabio Patrizi and Giuseppe
De Giacomo;
Contact: fabio.patrizi at dis.uniroma1.it
The Organizers
Co-Chairs:
Biplav Srivastava
IBM T.J. Watson Research
Center, Hawthorne, USA
Email: sbiplav
at in.ibm.com
Ullas Nambiar
IBM India Research Lab, New
Delhi,
India,
Email: ubnambiar at in.ibm.com
Craig Knoblock
University of Southern California, USA.
Email: knoblock at
isi.edu
Steering
Committee:
·
Subbarao
Kambhampati, Arizona State
University, USA
·
Rakesh Mohan,
IBM Research, USA
Program
Committee:
·
Avigdor Gal, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
·
Biplav Srivastava, IBM Watson
Research Lab
·
Chen Li, University of California, Irvine
·
Craig Knoblock, Univ of
Southern California
·
Eran Toch, Carnegie-Mellon
University
·
Felix Naumann, Hasso Plattner Institut, Potsdam
·
Gautam Das, University of Texas,Arlington
·
Kevin Chang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
·
L Venkat Subramaniam, IBM India Research Lab
·
Lise Getoor, University of
Maryland, College Park
·
Louiqa Raschid, University of Maryland, College Park
·
Michael Sheng, Univ of Adelaide, Australia
·
Mong Li Lee, National University of Singapore
·
Prasan Roy, Aster Data Systems
·
Prashant Doshi, University of Georgia
·
Rakesh Mohan, IBM Watson
Research Lab
·
Richard Goodwin, IBM Watson
Research Lab
·
Subbarao Kambhampati, Arizona State University
·
Thomas Lee, The Wharton School, Univ of Pennsylvania
·
Ullas Nambiar, IBM India
Research Lab
·
Vikram Pudi, IIIT Hyderabad
·
Weiyi Meng, Binghamton University, NY
·
Yuan Chi Chang, IBM Watson Research Lab
·
Zaiqing Nie, Microsoft Research Asia, China
History
of the Workshop
IIWeb-09
will follow the tradition established by the following six workshops, each
having a different focus theme each time and held at premier venues across related
communities.
·
AI and
Information Integration, held at AAAI
1998 Co-chairs: Craig Knoblock and Alon Levy
URL: http://www.aaai.org/Library/Workshops/ws98-14.php
·
Intelligent
Information Integration (III 99),
held at IJCAI 1999 Co-chairs:
D. Fensel, C.A. Knoblock, N. Kushmerick and M.C. Rousset
URL: http://www.sigmod.org/dblp/db/conf/ijcai/ijcai99iii.html
·
IIWeb 2003, held at IJCAI
2003, received 40 submissions (33 accepted), attracted 45 attendees. Co-chairs: Craig Knoblock and
Subbarao Kambhampati,
URL: http://www.isi.edu/info-agents/workshops/ijcai03/iiweb.html
·
IIWeb 2004, held at VLDB
2004, received 45 submissions (25 accepted), attracted 45
attendees. Co-chairs: Hasan Davulcu and Nick Kushmerick.
URL:
http://cips.eas.asu.edu/iiweb.htm
·
IIWeb 2006, held at WWW 2006. Co-chairs: Kevin Chang and Avigdor Gal
URL: http://iiweb2006.cs.uiuc.edu/
·
IIWeb 2007, held at AAAI 2007, received 24 submissions, (12 accepted), attracted 30 attendees.
Co-chairs: Ullas Nambiar and Zaiqing Nie
URL: http://research.microsoft.com/users/znie/IIWeb07/
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