WWW-2012 Conference – Organization

Conference general co-chairs: Prof. Alain Mille (Université de Lyon, France) Dr. Fabien Gandon (INRIA, France) Jacques Misselis (HP, France)

Program committee chairs: Dr. Michael Rabinovich (Case Western Reserve University, USA) Dr. Steffen Staab (University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany)

Organization committee co-chairs: Laurent Flory (Université de Lyon, France) Luc Mariaux (Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France)

Organization committee members: Jean-Pierre Berthet (Ecole Centrale de Lyon) Maud Charaf (Université de Lyon) Edmund Hazlewood (Lyon Convention Bureau) Yves-Armel Martin (Head of IT mission, Département du Rhône) Christophe Mathieu (ECAM) Eszter Monnot-Pandi (Grand Lyon) Prof. Daniel Muller (Ecole Centrale de Lyon) Gilles Rech (Université Lyon-1) Alexandre Rey (Lyon Convention Center) Loïc Druette (Université de Lyon)

Workshops: Pierre-Antoine Champin (France) Pablo Cesar (Netherlands)

Tutorials: Jérôme David (France) Irwin King (Hong-Kong)

Posters: Lionel Medini (France) Yi Chang (USA)

Demonstrations: Daniel Muller (France) Antoine Isaac (Netherlands) Bebo White (USA)

Developers track: Raphaël Troncy (France) Richard Cyganiak (Ireland)

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PHD symposium: Sylvie Calabretto (France) Pierre-Edouard Portier (France) Mamhud U.Jalal (USA) Gabriella Pasi (Italy)

W3C track: Marie-Claire Forgue (France)

Panels: Alain Mille (France) Roberto Bayardo (Italy)

Industry track: Gregory Grefenstette (France) Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Spain)

European projects initiative: Marko Grobelnik (Slovenia) M T Carrasco Benitez (Luxembourg) Julien Masanes (France) Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Spain) Wolfgang Nejdl (Germany)

Web Science: Wendy Hall (England) Nigel Shadbolt (England) Jim Hendler (USA)

Accessibility: Benoit Encelle (France) Bruno Mascret (France) Klaus Misenberger (Austria) Simon Harper (England)

Proceedings: Elöd Egyed-Zsigmond (France) Yann Gripay (France) Cécile Favre (France) Christine Largeron (France)

Meta data: Antoine Zimmermann (France) Daniel Schwabe (Brazil)

Volunteers: John Miller (Australia) Romain Vuillemot (France)

Networking: Luc Mariaux (France) Gilles Rech (France)

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Scientific Topics Chairs and PC Members Additional reviewers are listed on the conference webpage (http://www2012.org)

Web Search: Wolfgang Nejdl (University of Hannover (Germany)) chair Edleno Silva De Moura (Univ. Federal do Amazonas (Brazil)) deputy chair Hang Li (Microsoft Research Asia (China)) deputy chair Anh, Vo Liu, Jiahui Arguello, Jaime Manasse, Mark Baeza-Yates, Ricardo Mitra, Prasenjit Balog, Krisztian Murdock, Vanessa Bennett, Paul Myaeng, Sung-Hyon Calado, Pável Najork, Marc Castillo, Carlos Nejdl, Wolfgang Chakrabarti, Soumen Nie, Jian-Yun Chang, Kevin Ounis, Iadh Chang, Yi Racz, Balazs Cheng, Xueqi Da Silva, Altigran S. Cristo, Marco Schenkel, Ralf Croft, Bruce Schmidt-Thieme, Lars De la Fuente, Pablo Schonfeld, Uri De Vries, Arjen Seung « na », Hoon Diaz, Fernando Shi, Shuming Dupret, Georges Shokouhi, Milad Gao, Bin Silva De Moura, Edleno Giles, C. Lee Silvestri, Fabrizio Gionis, Aristides Suel, Torsten Goncalves, Marcos Toyoda, Masashi Grefenstette, Gregory Veloso, Adriano Gurevich, Maxim Viglas, Stratis Hiemstra, Djoerd Vigna, Sebastiano Jones, Gareth Wang, Kuansan Kamps, Jaap Wen, Ji-Rong Kando, Noriko Xu, Jun Kotov, Alexander Zha, Hongyuan Lalmas, Mounia Zhang, Min Li, Hang Zhu, Shenghuo Li, Lihong Zhu, Xiaoyan Li, Tao Ziviani, Nivio Lin, Chin-Yew Zobel, Justin

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Web Mining: Evgeniy Gabrilovich (Yahoo! (USA)) chair Charles Clarke (University of Waterloo (Canada)) deputy chair

Agarwal, Deepak Koutrika, Georgia Anagnostopoulos, Aris Kurland, Oren Ashkan, Azin König, Arnd Christian Au Yeung, Ching Man Lempel, Ronny Balog, Krisztian Lim, Ee-Peng Bao, Shenghua Liu, Huan Bendersky, Michael Liu, Bing Bennett, Paul Losada, David Bilenko, Mikhail Ma, Hao Cafarella, Michael Mei, Qiaozhu Cai, Rui Metzler, Donald Cao, Yunbo Mladenic, Dunja Carmel, David Mobasher, Bamshad Castillo, Carlos Nastase, Vivi Chang, Kevin Ng, Hwee-Tou Cheng, Hong Nie, Zaiqing Choi, Yejin Ntoulas, Alexandros Clarke, Charles Ozertem, Umut Collins-Thompson, Kevyn Pasca, Marius Davison, Brian Pechyony, Dmitry Deng, Hongbo Pei, Jian Donato, Debora Peng, Fuchun Downey, Doug Ponzetto, Simone Paolo Dupret, Georges Poon, Hoifung Elsas, Jonathan Radinsky, Kira Fan, Wei Raghavan, Hema Fang, Hui Rueger, Stefan Fetterly, Dennis Siersdorfer, Stefan Gabrilovich, Evgeniy Smola, Alex Godbole, Shantanu Sokolova, Marina Goel, Sharad Song, Ruihua Grefenstette, Gregory Strube, Michael Gurevych, Iryna Svore, Krysta M. Hoi, Steven C.H. Tang, Jie Hsu, Paul Tomkins, Andrew Hua, Ming Wang, Jianyong Huang, Xuanjing Weld, Daniel Huang, Jimmy Yan, Xifeng Ipeirotis, Panagiotis Yilmaz, Emine Jiang, Daxin Yom-Tov, Elad Josifovski, Vanja Zha, Hongyuan Kanoulas, Evangelos Zhai, Chengxiang Koren, Yehuda Zhang, Dell Koudas, Nick

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Information Extraction and Natural Language Processing: Roberto Navigli (Sapienza University Rome (Italy)) chair Hinrich Schütze (University of Stuttgart (Germany)) deputy chair

Agirre, Eneko Moschitti, Alessandro Alfonseca, Enrique Navigli, Roberto Baldwin, Tim Ng, Vincent Biemann, Chris Okumura, Manabu Chakrabarti, Soumen Osborne, Miles Chen, Zheng Pado, Sebastian Chiticariu, Laura Pang, Bo Cimiano, Philipp Pasi, Gabriella Clark, Stephen Ponzetto, Simone Paolo Daelemans, Walter Rosso, Paolo De Melo, Gerard Schütze, Hinrich Eisenstein, Jacob Soderland, Stephen Hu, Yunhua Soroa, Aitor Jiang, Jing Stein, Benno Kim, Su Nam Subramaniam, L Venkata Kozareva, Zornitsa Suchanek, Fabian Kurohashi, Sadao Szpakowicz, Stan Mann, Gideon Van Durme, Benjamin Manning, Chris Veale, Tony Maosong, Sun Velardi, Paola Matsumoto, Yuji Weikum, Gerhard Mccarthy, Diana Weld, Daniel Mihalcea, Rada Zhang, Yan

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Behavioral Analysis and Personalization: Andrei Broder (Yahoo (USA)) chair Pearl Pu (EPFL (Switzerland)) deputy chair

Ahmed, Amr Lefevre, Kristen Angelova, Ralitsa Leskovec, Jure Bar-Ilan, Judit Liu, Tie-Yan Becker, Hila Liu, Chao Broder, Andrei Mobasher, Bamshad Brusilovsky, Peter Neville, Jennifer Buscher, Georg Paepcke, Andreas Cao, Yunbo Pandey, Sandeep Castillo, Carlos Piwowarski, Benjamin Chakrabarti, Deepayan Pu, Pearl Chen, Chen Richardson, Matthew Chi, Yun Shokouhi, Milad Djeraba, Chaabane Slivkins, Aleksandrs Dupret, Georges Spink, Amanda Faloutas, Christos Tong, Hanghang Fan, Wei Torrens, Marc Fang, Hui Viappiani, Paolo Gollapudi, Sreenivas Wang, Xuanhui Gulli, Antonio Weber, Ingmar Han, Jiawei White, Ryen Hay, Michael Wolff, Ran Jäschke, Robert Wu, Dan Kenthapadi, Krishnaram Wu, Su-Lin Kifer, Dan Yue, Yisong Kou, Zhenzhen Zhai, Chengxiang Koudas, Nick Zhang, Dell Laxman, Srivatsan

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Social Networks: Bernardo Huberman (HPLabs (USA)) chair Filippo Menczer (Indiana University (USA)) deputy chair

Adamic, Lada Leskovec, Jure Aggarwal, Charu Liben-Nowell, David Ahn, Yong-Yeol Lin, Yu-Ru Aiello, Luca Maria Liu, Huan Alani, Harith Matsuo, Yutaka Asur, Sitaram Mcglohon, Mary Barrat, Alain Meiss, Mark Bagrow James Menczer, Filippo Benevenuto Fabricio Metaxas, Takis Boldi, Paolo Mislove, Alan Bonchi, Francesco Moreno Yamir Castillo, Carlos Mustafaraj, Eni Cattuto, Ciro Oestreicher- Singer, Gal Caverlee James Pei, Jian Chi, Ed H. Perra, Nicola Chierichetti, Flavio Punera, Kunal Clauset, Aaron Quercia Daniele Conover Michael Romero, Daniel Crandall, David Ruffo, Giancarlo De Choudhury, Munmun Sarlos, Tamas Ding, Ying Scellato Salvatore Eliassi-Rad, Tina Schifanella, Rossano Flammini, Alessandro Shalizi, Cosma Fortunato, Santo Sheth, Amit Galstyan Aram Shi, Xiaolin Golder, Scott Spiliopoulou, Myra Goncalves, Bruno Strohmaier, Markus Hofman, Jake Stumme, Gerd Hotho, Andreas Suri, Siddharth Huberman, Bernardo Tang, Jie Jensen, David Tang, Lei John, Ajita Terveen Loren Kolari, Pranam Terzi, Evimaria Koutrika, Georgia Tsaparas, Panayiotis Lambiotte, Renaud Vigna, Sebastiano Latapy, Matthieu Vojnovic, Milan Lattanzi, Silvio Wasserman, Stanley Lehmann Sune Zhao Ben Lerman, Kristina

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Data and Content Management: Serge Abiteboul (INRIA (France)) chair Alon Halevy (Google (USA)) deputy chair

Abiteboul, Serge Marian, Amélie Cui, Bin Mattoso, Marta Dalvi, Nilesh Moro, Mirella M. Das Sarma, Anish Rigaux, Philippe Deutch, Daniel Rousset, Marie-Christine Deutsch, Alin Sahuguet, Arnaud Doulkeridis, Christos Stoyanovich, Julia Fontoura, Marcus Su, Jianwen Fundulaki, Irini Wang, Haixun Halevy, Alon Weng, Jianshu Kemper, Alfons Yu, Jeffrey Loo, Boon Thau Zhou, Xiaofang

Semantic Web: Axel Polleres (National University, Galway (Ireland)) chair Sören Auer (University of Leipzig (Germany)) deputy chair

Alani, Harith Kager, David Auer, Sören Krötzsch, Markus Bouquet, Paolo Lehmann, Jens Bizer, Christian Mika, Peter Casanova, Marco Antonio Motik, Boris Cimiano, Philipp Ngonga Ngomo, Axel-Cyrille Consens, Mariano Parsia, Bijan Cudré-Mauroux, Philippe Patel-Schneider, Peter D’Amato, Claudia Polleres, Axel De Virgilio, Roberto Sack, Harald Ding, Li Schaffert, Sebastian Euzenat, Jérôme Sheth, Amit Gandon, Fabien Schreiber, Guus Handschuh, Siegfried Schwabe, Daniel Harth, Andreas Stuckenschmidt, Heiner Hartig, Olaf Studer, Rudi Hauswirth, Manfred Tummarello, Giovanni Heath, Tom Wang, Haofen Hepp, Martin Zhang , Lei Hitzler, Pascal Kagal, Lalana

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Security, Privacy, Trust, and Abuse: Yan Chen (Northwestern University (USA)) chair Collin Jackson (Carnegie Mellon University (USA)) deputy chair

Adida, Ben Li, Ninghui Balfanz, Dirk Li, Zhichun Barth, Adam Livshits, Benjamin Bertino, Elisa Moshchuk, Alexander Chen, Hao Reis, Charles Chen, Yan Roessler, Thomas Chen, Shuo Stamm, Sid Jackson, Collin Venkatakrishnan, Venkat Jakobsson, Markus Wang, Xiaofeng Jiang, Xuxian Wang, Haining Johns, Martin Xia, Yong Klein, Amit Yegneswaran, Vinod Koved, Larry Zhuge, Jianwei

Internet Monetization and Incentives: Gui-Rong Xue (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ. (China)) chair Ying Li (Microsoft Corporation (USA)) deputy chair

Aperjis, Christina Lahaie, Sebastien Athey, Susan Li, Hua Basu, Sugato Li, Ying Bilenko, Mikhail Mackie-Mason, Jeffrey Chen, Yiling Markakis, Evangelos Chen, Xiaoguang Munagala, Kamesh Corbo, Jacomo Nadav, Uri Cox, Ingemar Nikolova, Evdokia Edelman, Ben Schapira, Michael Engel, Yagil Shen, Dou Ghosh, Arpita Sun, Jian-Tao Gonen, Rica Sun, Gordon Gradwohl, Ronen Sundaresan, Neel Guo, Zhen Surendran, Arun C. Ha, Vu Wang, Haifeng Han, Dingyi Wang, Xuanhui Johari, Ramesh Xue, Gui-Rong Jordan, Patrick Yan, Jun Jurca, Radu

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Web Engineering: Schahram Dustdar (TU Wien (Austria)) chair Martin Gaedke (TU Chemnitz (Germany)) deputy chair

Abrahao, Silvia Meliá, Santiago Bieliková, Mária Mendes, Emilia Brambilla, Marco Olsina, Luis Cabot, Jordi Pastor Lopez, Oscar Casati, Fabio Pautasso, Cesare Cuzzocrea, Alfredo Pedrinaci, Carlos Daniel, Florian Rossi, Gustavo Dantzig, Paul Schill, A. Diaz, Oscar Schwabe, Daniel Dolog, Peter Sheng, Michael Dustdar, Schahram Shi, Weisong Frasincar, Flavius Tai, Stefan Gaedke, Martin Tokuda, Takehiro Grossniklaus, Michael White, Bebo Hausenblas, Michael Wilde, Erik Houben, Geert-Jan Winkler, Marco Kappel, Gerti Xu, Bin Ko, In-Young Leymann, Frank Matera, Maristella Meinecke, Johannes

Performance, Scaleability, and Availability: Giovanni Pacifici (IBM Research (USA)) chair Bhuvan Urgaonkar (Penn State University (USA)) deputy chair

Almeida, Virgilio Kelly, Terence Carrera, David Kulkarni, Purushottam Chandra, Abhishek Pacifici, Giovanni Colajanni, Michele Stadler, Rolf Enck, William Steinder, Malgorzata Figueiredo, Daniel Ratton Urgaonkar, Bhuvan Hellerstein, Joseph Wierman, Adam

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User Interfaces, Interaction, and Human Factors: Mor Naaman (Rutgers University (USA)) chair Björn Hartmann (Univ. of California – Berkeley (USA)) deputy chair

Boll, Susanne Huffaker, David Chalmers, Matthew Kamvar, Sepandar Cherubini, Mauro Karahalios, Karrie G. Chi, Ed H. Morris, Meredith Cosley, Dan Naaman, Mor Diakopoulos, Nicholas Rader, Emilee Dix, Alan Shami, N. Sadat Dontcheva, Mira Shamma, David A. Drucker, Steven Stutzman, Fred Evers, Vanessa Sun, Chengzheng Gatica-Perez, Daniel Tungare, Manas Hartmann, Björn Wilson, Max Hearst, Marti Yardi, Sarita Huang, Elaine

Smart Devices and the Web: Matthias Wagner (Docomo Labs (Germany)) chair Ora Lassila (Nokia (USA)) deputy chair

Alt, Florian Mannermaa, Mika Aroyo, Lora Mulder, Ingrid Celino, Irene Picault, Jérôme Della Valle, Emanuele Provost, David Floréen, Patrik Ribière, Myriam Fukazawa, Yusuke Rukzio, Enrico Hjelm, Johan Steglich, Stephan Holleis, Paul Steinbach, Eckehard Jordan, Katrin Tennant, Simon Khusraj, Deepali Wagner, Matthias Lassila, Ora

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