"What's Cool And What's Uncool About TA?"

Prof. Gerhard Weikum
Max-Planck Institute for Informatics

(30 Minutes)
Practical Preference Relations for Large Data Sets
Kenneth Ross (Columbia University), Peter Stuckey (University of Melbourne), Amelie Marian (Rutgers University)

(30 Minutes)
Learning the Relative Importance of Features in Image Data
Aparna Varde (Virginia State University), Elke Rundensteiner (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), Giti Javidi (Virginia State University), Ehsan Sheybani (Virginia State University), Jianyu Liang (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)

(30 Minutes)
Self Managing Top-k (Summary, Keyword) Indexes in XML Retrieval
Mariano Consens, Xin Gu, Yaron Kanza, Flavio Rizzolo (University of Toronto)

(15 Minutes)
Integrating OLAP and Ranking: The Ranking-Cube Methodology
Dong Xin, Jiawei Han (UIUC)

(15 Minutes)
Ranking Issues for Information Integration
Sharma Chakravarthy, Roochi Mishra (U Texas Arligton)

(30 minutes)
Evaluating Different Ranking Functions for Context-Based Literature Search
Nattakarn Ratprasartporn, Sulieman Bani-Ahmad, Ali Cakmak, Jonathan Po, Gultekin Ozsoyoglu (Case Western Reserve University)

(30 minutes)
Ranking Query Results using Context-Aware Preferences
Arthur Van Bunningen (University of Twente), Maarten Fokkinga (University of Twente), Peter Apers (University of Twente), Ling Feng (Tsinghua University)

(15 minutes)
On the Adequacy of Partial Orders for Preference Composition
Kenneth Ross (Columbia University)

(15 Minutes)
Flexible Composition of Indexes and Similarity Measures in XML
Ismael Sanz (Universitat Jaume I), Rafael Berlanga (Universitat Jaume I), Marco Mesiti (Università degli Studi di Milano), Giovanna Guerrini (Università degli Studi di Genova)

(15 minutes)
Cost-Aware Skyline Queries in Structured Overlays
Marcel Karnstedt, Jessica Müller, Kai-Uwe Sattler (TU Ilmenau, Germany)