Fifth International World Wide Web Conference

May 6-10, 1996, Paris, France

Paper Sessions

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Tuesday 7 May

PS1: Caching (11:30-13:00)

Chair: Chris Adie - UNITED KINGDOM

P1: Main Memory Caching of Web Documents - [Paper] [Slides]
Evangelos P. Markatos - Institute of Computer Science (ICS) - Foundation for Research & Technology - GREECE

P2: Web Cache Coherence - [Paper] [Slides]
Adam Dingle - KSVI - Charles University - CZECH REPUBLIC
Tomas Partl - FJFI - Czech Technical University - CZECH REPUBLIC

P3: Introducing Application-level Replication and Naming into today's Web - [Paper] [Slides]
Michael Baentsch - Department of Computer Science - University of Kaiserslautern - GERMANY
Georg Molterh - Department of Computer Science - University of Kaiserslautern - GERMANY
Peter Sturmh - Department of Computer Science - University of Kaiserslautern - GERMANY

PS2: Distributed Applications (11:30-13:00)

Chair: Stavros Macrakis - USA

P4: WWW Access to legacy Client/Server Applications - [Paper] [Slides]
Stephen E. Dossick - Dept. of Computer Science - Columbia University - USA
Gail E.Kaiser - Dept. of Computer Science - Columbia University - USA

P5: PageSpace: an Architecture to Coordinate Distributed Applications on the Web - [Paper] [Slides]
Paolo Ciancarini - Dept. of Computer Science - Univ. of Bologna - ITALY
Andreas Knoche - Technische Universität Berlin - Projectgroup KIT - GERMANY
Robert Tolksdorf - Technische Universität Berlin - Projectgroup KIT - GERMANY
Fabio Vitali - Dept. of Mathematics - Univ. of Bologna - ITALY

P6: Lisp Web: a Specialized HTTP Server for Distributed AI Applications - [Paper] [Slides]
Alberto Riva - Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica - Universitā di Pavia - ITALY
Marco Ramoni - Knowledge Media Institute - The Open University - UNITED KINGDOM

PS3: Web Characteristics (14:30-16:00)

Chair: Jérôme Chailloux - FRANCE

P7: An Investigation of Documents from the WWW - [Paper] [Slides]
Allison Woodruff - Computer Science Division - University of California - USA
Paul M. Aoki - Computer Science Division - University of California - USA
Eric Brewer - Computer Science Division - University of California - USA
Paul Gauthier - Computer Science Division - University of California - USA
Lawrence A. Rowe - Computer Science Division - University of California - USA

P8: From User Access Patterns to Dynamic Hypertext Linking - [Paper] [Slides]
Tak Woon Yan - Hewlett-Packard Laboratories - Palo Alto - USA
Matthew Jacobsen - Department of Computer Science - Stanford - USA
Hector Garcia-Molina - Department of Computer Science - Stanford - USA
Umeshwar Dayal - Hewlett-Packard Laboratories - Palo Alto - USA

Award for meritorious research and lively presentation 

P9: Measuring the Web - [Paper] [Slides]
Tim Bray - Open Text Corporation - CANADA

PS4: Linking (14:30-16:00)

Chair: Jack Hart - USA

P10: Supporting the Web: a Distributed Hyperklink Database System - [Paper] [Slides]
R. Kipp Jones - Harbinger Net Services - Atlanta - USA
James E. Pitkow - College of Computing - Georgia Institute of Technology - USA

P11: Author-oriented Link Management - [Paper] [Slides]
Michael L. Creech - Hewlett-Packard Laboratories - Palo Alto - USA

P12: Open Information Services - [Paper] [Slides]
Leslie Carr - Department of Electronics and Computer Science - University of Southampton - UNITED KINGDOM
Garry Hill - Department of Electronics and Computer Science - University of Southampton - UNITED KINGDOM
David De Roure - Department of Electronics and Computer Science - University of Southampton - UNITED KINGDOM
Wendy Hall - Department of Electronics and Computer Science - University of Southampton - UNITED KINGDOM
Hugh Davis - Department of Electronics and Computer Science - University of Southampton - UNITED KINGDOM

PS5: Support for Cooperation (14:30-16:00)

Chair: Mark Pesce - USA

P13: Distributed Active Objects - [Paper] [Slides]
Mark A. Najork - DEC Systems Research Center - Palo Alto - USA
Marc H. Brown - DEC Systems Research Center - Palo Alto - USA

P14: Exorcising Daemons: a modular and lightweight approach to deploying applications on the Web - [Paper] [Slides]
Jonatahn Trevor - German National Research Centre for Information Technology - GERMANY
Richard Bentley - German National Research Centre for Information Technology - GERMANY
Gerrit Wildgruber - German National Research Centre for Information Technology - GERMANY

P15: Pan-Browser Support for Annotations and Other Meta-Information on the WWW - [Paper] [Slides]
Mathew A.Schickler - OSF Research Institute - Cambridge - USA
Murray S. Mazer - OSF Research Institute - Cambridge - USA
Charles Brooks - OSF Research Institute - Cambridge - USA

PS6: Document Structures (16:30-18:00)

Chair: Thomas J. Greene - USA

P16: Interactively Restructuring HTML Documents - [Paper] [Slides]
Stéphane Bonhomme - Unité de Recherche INRIA Rhône-Alpes - FRANCE
Cécile Roisin - Unité de Recherche INRIA Rhône-Alpes - FRANCE

P17: HTML Generation and Semantic Markup for Telepathology - [Paper] [Slides]
Vincenzo Della Mea - Dept. of Anatomic Pathology - University of Udine - ITALY
Vito Roberto - Dept. of Informatics - University of Udine - ITALY
Davide Brunato - Dept. of Informatics - University of Udine - ITALY
Carlo Alberto Beltrami - Dept. of Anatomic Pathology - University of Udine - ITALY

P18: Extending the Web's Tag Set Using SGML: The Grif Symposia Authoring Tool - [Paper] [Slides]
Jean Paoli - GRIF S.A. - St Quentin en Yvelines - FRANCE

PS7: Servers (16:30-18:00)

Chair: Chris Lilley - UNITED KINGDOM

P19: Enhanced Graph Models in the Web Multi-client, Multi-head, Multi-tail Browsing - [Paper] [Slides]
Michael Capps - UNC-CH Computer Science Department - USA
Brian Ladd - UNC-CH Computer Science Department - USA
P. David Stotts - UNC-CH Computer Science Department - USA

P20: Design Considerations for the Apache Server API - [Paper] [Slides]
Robert Thau - MIT AI lab. - Cambridge - USA

P21: Borealis Image Server - [Paper] [Slides]
Eric A. Meyer - Library Information Technologies - Case Western Reserve University - USA
Peter Murray - Library Information Technologies - Case Western Reserve University - USA

PS8: Database / Web Gateways (16:30-18:00)

Chair: Keith Jeffery - UNITED KINGDOM

P22: A generic Framework for the Deployment of Structured Databases on the WWW - [Paper] [Slides]
Stathes Hadjiefthymiades - University of Athens - Dept. of Informatics - GREECE
Drakoulis Martakos - University of Athens - Dept. of Informatics - GREECE

P23: Distributed Database Access in a Corporate Environnement Using Java - [Paper] [Slides]
Nick N. Duan - Bell Atlantic - Internet Services Center of Excellence - USA

P24: Grassroots: a System Providing a Uniform Framework for Communicating, Structuring, Sharing Information, and Organizing People - [Paper] [Slides]
Kenichi Kamiya - Computer Science Department - Stanford University - USA
Martin Roscheisen - Computer Science Department - Stanford University - USA
Terry Winograd - Computer Science Department - Stanford University - USA

Wednesday 8 May

PS9: Commercial Use (9:00-10:30)

Chair: Philip Tsang - AUSTRALIA

P25: Integrating Electronic Information through a Corporate WEB - [Paper] [Slides]
Mike Crandall - The Boeing Company - Seattle - USA
Mark C. Swenson - The Boeing Company - Seattle - USA

P26: Deutsche Welle: on the air - [Paper] [Slides]
Manfred Bogen - German National Research Centre for Information Technology - GERMANY
Michael Lenz - German National Research Centre for Information Technology - GERMANY
Suzanne Zier - German National Research Centre for Information Technology - GERMANY

P27: GC Tech's Intermediation and Payment System - [Paper] [Slides]
Paul-André Pays - GC Tech - FRANCE
Fabrice de Comarmond - GC Tech - FRANCE

PS10: Courses and Tours: Creating Pathways (9:00-10:30)

Chair: Tom Baker - GERMANY

P28: Synchronous Navigation Control for Distance Learning on the Web - [Paper] [Slides]
Ping-Jer Yeh - Institute of Computer and Information Science - National Chiao Tung University - TAIWAN
Bih-Horng Chen - Institute of Computer and Information Science - National Chiao Tung University - TAIWAN
Ming-Ghih Lai - Institute of Computer and Information Science - National Chiao Tung University - TAIWAN
Shyan-Ming Yuan - Institute of Computer and Information Science - National Chiao Tung University - TAIWAN

P29: WWW - Course tool: An Environment for Building WWW-Based Courses - [Paper] [Slides]
Murray W. Goldberg - Department of Computer Science - University of British Columbia - CANADA
Sasan Salari - Department of Computer Science - University of British Columbia - CANADA
Paul Swoboda - Department of Computer Science - University of British Columbia - CANADA

P30: Supporting Hierarchical Guided Tours in the WWW - [Paper] [Slides]
Franz J. Hauck - Dept. of Math. and Computer Science - Vrije Universiteit - THE NETHERLANDS

PS11: Objects (9:00-10:30)

Chair: Frank Kappe - AUSTRIA

P31: An architecture for Integrating OODBs with WWW - [Paper] [Slides]
Jack Jingshuang Yang - Department of Computer Science - Columbia University - USA
Gail E. Kaiser - Department of Computer Science - Columbia University - USA

P32: Fixing the <<Broken-Link>> Problem: the W3Objects Approach - [Paper] [Slides]
David Ingham - Department of Computing Science - University of Newcastle upon Tyne - UNITED KINGDOM
Steve Caughey - Department of Computing Science - University of Newcastle upon Tyne - UNITED KINGDOM
Mark Little - Department of Computing Science - University of Newcastle upon Tyne - UNITED KINGDOM

P33: CorbaWeb: a Generic Object Navigator - [Paper] [Slides]
Philippe Merle - Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale - Université de Lille 1 - FRANCE
Christophe Gransart - Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale - Université de Lille 1 - FRANCE
Jean-Marc Geib - Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale - Université de Lille 1 - FRANCE

PS12: Authoring (14:30-16:00)

Chair: Larry Masinter - USA

P34: Weblint: Quality Assurance for the WWW - [Paper] [Slides]
Neil Bowers - Khoral Research, Inc. - Albuquerque - USA

P35: WebWriter: A Browser-based Editor for Constructing Web Applications - [Paper] [Slides]
Arturo Crespo - Computer Science Department - Stanford University - USA
Eric A. Bier - Xerox Palo Alto Research Center - USA

Award for innovative application of Web technology in education

P36: WebQuest: Substantiating Education in Edutainment through Interactive Learning Games - [Paper] [Slides]
Corrina Perrone - Center for LifeLong Learning and Design - University of Colorado - USA
David Clark - Boulder Valley Schools - Boulder - USA
Alexander Repenning - Center for LifeLong Learning and Design - University of Colorado - USA

PS13: Browsings Aids (14:30-16:00)

Chair: Brian Kelly - UNITED KINGDOM

P37: Automatically Organizing Bookmarks per Contents - [Paper] [Slides]
Yoelle S. Maarek - IBM Haifa Research Laboratory - ISRAEL
Israel Z. Ben Shaul - Technion - Israel Institute of Technology - ISRAEL

P38: WebGUIDE: Querying and Navigating Changes in Web Repositories - [Paper] [Slides]
Fred Douglis - AT&T Research - USA
Thomas Ball - Bell Laboratories - USA
Yih-Farn Chen - AT&T Research - USA
Eleftherios Koutsofios - AT&T Research - USA

P39: Nif-t-nav: A Hierarchical Navigator for WWW pages - [Paper] [Slides]
Kirsten Jones - Silicon Graphics, Inc. - Mountain View - USA

PS14: Mobile Code (16:30-18:00)

Chair: Hakon Lie - FRANCE

P40: Active Forms - [Paper] [Slides]
Steve Bal - PASTIME Project CRC-ACSys - Australian National University - AUSTRALIA
Paul Thistlewaite - PASTIME Project CRC-ACSys - Australian National University - AUSTRALIA

P41: A Web Navigator with applets in Caml - [Paper] [Slides]
François Rouaix - Projet Cristal - INRIA Rocquencourt - FRANCE

P42: A Network Programming Model for Efficient Information Access on the WWW - [Paper] [Slides]
Andrzej Duda - IMAG-LSR - FRANCE
Stéphane Perret - IMAG-LSR - FRANCE

P43: Filling HTML Forms simultaneously: CoWeb - Archictecture and Functionality - [Paper] [Slides]
Stephan Jacobs - Informatik V - RWTH Aachen - GERMANY
Michael Gebhardt - Informatik V - RWTH Aachen - GERMANY
Stefanie Kethers - Informatik V - RWTH Aachen - GERMANY
Wojtek Rzasa - Informatik V - RWTH Aachen - GERMANY

PS15: Caching Systems (16:30-18:00)

Chair: Rick Rodgers - USA

P44: Performance Engineering of the World Wide Web: Application to Dimensioning and Cache Design - [Paper] [Slides]
Jean-Chrysostome Bolot - INRIA Sophia-Antipolis - FRANCE
Philipp Hoschka - INRIA Sophia-Antipolis - FRANCE

P45: The UK National Web Cache - The State of the Art - [Paper] [Slides]
Neil Smith - Computing Laboratory - The University of Kent - ENGLAND

P46: The Harvest Object Cache in New Zealand - [Paper] [Slides]
Donald Neal - ITS - The University of Waikato - NEW ZEALAND

PS16: Optimizing WEB Use of Network Resources (16:30-18:00)

Chair: Tony Rutkowski - USA

P47: TeleWeb: Loosely Connected Access to the Word Wide Web - [Paper] [Slides]
Bill N. Schilit - AT&T Bell Laboratories - USA
Fred Douglis - AT&T Bell Laboratories - USA
David M. Kristol - AT&T Bell Laboratories - USA
Paul Krzyzanowski - AT&T Bell Laboratories - USA
James Sienicki - AT&T Bell Laboratories - USA
John A. Trotter - AT&T Bell Laboratories - USA

P48: Reducing WWW Latency and Bandwidth Requirements by Real-Time Distillation - [Paper] [Slides]
Armando Fox - University of California - Berkeley - USA
Eric A. Brewer - University of California - Berkeley - USA

P49: Real-Time Geographic Visualization of World Wide Web Traffic - [Paper] [Slides]
Daniel A. Reed - Department of Computer Science - University of Illinois - USA

Thursday 9 May

PS17: Marketing on the Web (11:30-13:00)

Chair: Caj Sodergard - FINLAND

P50: Enticing Online Shoppers to Buy - A Human Behavior Study - [Paper] [Slides]
Alice Richmond - ZAXOR Software - Gaithersburg - USA

P51: Business On the Web: Strategies and Economics - [Paper] [Slides]
Somendra Pant - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - USA
Dr. Cheng Hsu - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - USA

P52: Ubiquitous Advertising on the WWW:Merging Advertisement on the Browser - [Paper] [Slides]
Youji Kohda - Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. - Chiba - JAPAN
Susumu Endo - Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. - Chiba - JAPAN

PS18: Cooperation (11:30-13:00)

Chair: Dik Bentley - GERMANY

P53: Agent-based Workflow: TRP Support Environment (TSE) - [Paper] [Slides]
Jin W. Chang - Andersen Consulting - Northbrook - USA
Colin T. Scott - Andersen Consulting - Northbrook - USA

P54: Towards a World-Wide Data Base - [Paper] [Slides]
Erik Sandewall - Department of Computer and Information Science - Linköping University - SWEDEN

P55: Electronic Management of the Peer Review Process - [Paper] [Slides]
Jason Mathews - Goddard Space Flight Center - NASA - USA
Barry E. Jacobs - Goddard Space Flight Center - NASA - USA

PS19: Seamless Multimedia Integration (11:30-13:00)

Chair: Joseph Hardin - USA

P56: Virtual Sardinia: a Large-scale Hypermedia Regional Information System - [Paper] [Slides]
Andrea Leone - Centre for Advanced Studies - Research and Development in Sardinia - ITALY
Enrico Gobbetti - UMBC - CSEE Dept. - USA

P57: RAVE: Real-Time Services for the Web - [Paper] [Slides]
Paul England - Bellcore - Morristown - USA
Bob Allen - Bellcore - Morristown - USA
Ron Underwood - Bellcore - Morristown - USA

P58: Interactive Video on WWW: Beyond VCR-like Interfaces - [Paper] [Slides]
Arun Katkere - Visual Computing Laboratory - University of California - USA
Jennifer Schlenzig - Visual Computing Laboratory - University of California - USA
Amarnath Gupta - Visual Computing Laboratory - University of California - USA
Ramesh Jain - Visual Computing Laboratory - University of California - USA

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