WWW'16 Companion Table of Contents

WWW 2016 General Chairs' Welcome
Jacqueline Bourdeau (TELUQ)
Jim Hendler (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Roger Nkambou (Université du Québec à Montréal)

WWW 2016 PC Chairs' Welcome
Ian Horrocks (Oxford University)
Ben Y. Zhao (University of California, Santa Barbara)

WWW2016 Organization and Committees

WWW 2016 Sponsors and Supporters

Posters

WWW 2016 Poster Track Chairs Welcome & Organization (Page 1)
Gianluca Stringhini (University College London)
Jeff Z. Pan (University of Aberdeen)

Explainable Matrix Factorization for Collaborative Filtering (Page 5)
Behnoush Abdollahi (University of Louisville)
Olfa Nasraoui (University of Louisville)

For the DISTINCT Clause of SPARQL Queries (Page 7)
Medha Atre (Indian Institute of Technology)

PNCOIRank: Evaluating the Impact of Scholarly Articles with Positive and Negative Citations (Page 9)
Xiaomei Bai (Dalian University of Technology)
Jun Zhang (Dalian University of Technology)
Hai Cui (Dalian University of Technology)
Zhaolong Ning (Dalian University of Technology)
Feng Xia (Dalian University of Technology)

Look Before You Shame: A Study on Shaming Activities on Twitter (Page 11)
Rajesh Basak (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur)
Niloy Ganguly (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur)
Shamik Sural (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur)
Soumya K. Ghosh (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur)

Leveraging Crowdsourcing for the Thematic Annotation of the Qur'an (Page 13)
Amna Basharat (University of Georgia)
I. Budak Arpinar (University of Georgia)
Khaled Rasheed (University of Georgia)

Finding All Maximal Paths In Web User Sessions (Page 15)
Murat Ali Bayir (Microsoft)
Ismail Hakki Toroslu (Middle East Technical University)

SparkTrails: A MapReduce Implementation of HypTrails for Comparing Hypotheses About Human Trails (Page 17)
Martin Becker (University of Würzburg)
Hauke Mewes (University of Würzburg)
Andreas Hotho (University of Würzburg)
Dimitar Dimitrov (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences)
Florian Lemmerich (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences)
Markus Strohmaier (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences)

Importance of First Steps in a Community for Growth, Diversity, and Engagement (Page 19)
Atef Chaudhury (University of Waterloo)
Myunghwan Kim (LinkedIn Corporation)
Mitul Tiwari (LinkedIn Corporation)

HLBPR:A Hybrid Local Bayesian Personal Ranking Method (Page 21)
Xu Chen (Tsinghua University)
Pengfei Wang (Institute of Computing Technology Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Zheng Qin (Tsinghua University)
Yongfeng Zhang (Technology Tsinghua University)

Combining NLP and Semantics for Mining Software Technologies from Research Publications (Page 23)
Hélène de Ribaupierre (The Open University)
Francesco Osborne (The Open University)
Enrico Motta (The Open University)

It ROCS! The RASH Online Conversion Service (Page 25)
Angelo Di Iorio (University of Bologna)
Alejandra Gonzalez-Beltran (The Open University)
Francesco Osborne (The Open University)
Silvio Peroni (University of Bologna)
Francesco Poggi (University of Bologna)
Fabio Vitali (University of Bologna)

Visual Positions of Links and Clicks on Wikipedia (Page 27)
Dimitar Dimitrov (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences)
Philipp Singer (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences)
Florian Lemmerich (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences & University of Koblenz-Landau)
Markus Strohmaier (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences & University of Koblenz-Landau)

Aspect-Specific Sentimental Word Embedding for Sentiment Analysis of Online Reviews (Page 29)
Hui Du (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Xueke Xu (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Xueqi Cheng (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Dayong Wu (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Yue Liu (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Zhihua Yu (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Travel the World: Analyzing and Predicting Booking Behavior using E-mail Travel Receipts (Page 31)
Nemanja Duric (Yahoo Labs)
Mihajlo Grbovic (Yahoo Labs)
Vladan Radosavljevic (Yahoo Labs)
Jaikit Savla (Yahoo Inc.)
Varun Bhagwan (Yahoo Inc.)
Doug Sharp (Yahoo Inc.)

Modeling and Predicting Retweeting Dynamics via a Mixture Process (Page 33)
Jinhua Gao (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Huawei Shen (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Shenghua Liu (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Xueqi Cheng (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

THUMP: Semantic Analysis on Trajectory Traces to Explore Human Movement Pattern (Page 35)
Shreya Ghosh (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India)
Soumya K. Ghosh (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India)

Stweeler: A Framework for Twitter Bot Analysis (Page 37)
Zafar Gilani (University of Cambridge)
Liang Wang (University of Cambridge)
Jon Crowcroft (University of Cambridge)
Mario Almeida (Polytechnic University of Catalonia)
Reza Farahbakhsh (Institut Mines Telecom)

Toward G-OWL: A Graphical, Polymorphic And Typed Syntax For Building Formal OWL2 Ontologies (Page 39)
Michel Héon (Université du Québec à Montréal)
Roger Nkambou (Université du Québec à Montréal)
Christian Langheit (Institut de recherche du Québec)

PeARS: a Peer-to-peer Agent for Reciprocated Search (Page 41)
Aurélie Herbelot (University of Trento)

A Graph-Coarsening Approach for Tag Recommendation (Page 43)
Manel Hmimida (LIPN CNRS UMR 7030 - University Paris 13 - SPC)
Rushed Kanawati (LIPN CNRS UMR 7030 - University Paris 13 - SPC)

Concept Evolution Modeling Using Semantic Vectors (Page 45)
Tin Kam Ho (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
Luis A. Lastras (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
Oded Shmueli (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)

Cluster Hypothesis in Low-Cost IR Evaluation with Different Document Representations (Page 47)
Kai Hui (Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken Graduate School of Computer Science)
Klaus Berberich (Max Planck Institute for Informatics)

Author2Vec: Learning Author Representations by Combining Content and Link Information (Page 49)
Ganesh J (International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad)
Soumyajit Ganguly (International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad)
Manish Gupta (International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad and Microsoft)
Vasudeva Varma (International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad)
Vikram Pudi (International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad)

Visual Event Mining from the Twitter Stream (Page 51)
Takamu Kaneko (The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo)
Keiji Yanai (The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo)

Inferring Gender from Names on the Web: A Comparative Evaluation of Gender Detection Methods (Page 53)
Fariba Karimi (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences)
Claudia Wagner (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences)
Florian Lemmerich (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences)
Mohsen Jadidi (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences)
Markus Strohmaier (GESIS & University of Koblenz-Landau)

Time Series Analysis Using NOC (Page 55)
Noriaki Kawamae (The University of Tokyo)

Purchase Influence Mining: Identifying Top-k Items Attracting Purchase of Target Item (Page 57)
Sungchul Kim (Adobe Research)
Jinyoung Yeo (POSTECH)
Eunyee Koh (Adobe Research)
Nedim Lipka (Adobe Research)

Accurate Path-based Methods for Influence Maximization in Social Networks (Page 59)
Yun-Yong Ko (Hanyang University)
Dong-Kyu Chae (Hanyang University)
Sang-Wook Kim (Hanyang University)

Estimating Gender and Age of Web Page Visitors from the Way They Use Their Mouse (Page 61)
Peter Kratky (Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava)
Daniela Chuda (Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava)

Structure and Dynamics of Signed Citation Networks (Page 63)
Srijan Kumar (University of Maryland)

Incorporating Side Information in Tensor Completion (Page 65)
Hemank Lamba (Carnegie Mellon University)
Vaishnavh Nagarajan (Carnegie Mellon University)
Kijung Shin (Carnegie Mellon University)
Naji Shajarisales (Carnegie Mellon University)

Maximizing the Spread of Positive Influence by Deadline (Page 67)
Hemank Lamba (Carnegie Mellon University)
Jürgen Pfeffer (Carnegie Mellon University)

A Machine learning Filter for Relation Extraction (Page 69)
Kevin Lange Di Cesare (Polytechnique Montréal)
Michel Gagnon (Polytechnique Montréal)
Amal Zouaq (University of Ottawa)
Ludovic Jean-Louis (Netmail Inc.)

Less is More: Filtering Abnormal Dimensions in GloVe (Page 71)
Yang-Yin Lee (National Taiwan University)
Hao Ke (National Taiwan University)
Hen-Hsen Huang (National Taiwan University)
Hsin-Hsi Chen (National Taiwan University)

Combining Word Embedding and Lexical Database for Semantic Relatedness Measurement (Page 73)
Yang-Yin Lee (National Taiwan University)
Hao Ke (National Taiwan University)
Hen-Hsen Huang (National Taiwan University)
Hsin-Hsi Chen (National Taiwan University)

A Large Public Corpus of Web Tables containing Time and Context Metadata (Page 75)
Oliver Lehmberg (University of Mannheim)
Dominique Ritze (University of Mannheim)
Robert Meusel (University of Mannheim)
Christian Bizer (University of Mannheim)

Hierarchy-Based Link Prediction in Knowledge Graphs (Page 77)
Manling Li (Institute of Computing Technology, CAS)
Yantao Jia (Institute of Computing Technology, CAS)
Yuanzhuo Wang (Institute of Computing Technology, CAS)
Jingyuan Li (Institute of Computing Technology, CAS)
Xueqi Cheng (Institute of Computing Technology, CAS)

Power of Human Curation in Recommendation System (Page 79)
Yuchen Liu (Pinterest, Inc.)
Dmitry Chechik (Pinterest, Inc.)
Junghoo Cho (University of California, Los Angeles)

Can One Tamper with the Sample API? Toward Neutralizing Bias from Spam and Bot Content (Page 81)
Fred Morstatter (Arizona State University)
Harsh Dani (Arizona State University)
Justin Sampson (Arizona State University)
Huan Liu (Arizona State University)

Improving Document Ranking with Dual Word Embeddings (Page 83)
Eric Nalisnick (University of California)
Bhaskar Mitra (Microsoft)
Nick Craswell (Microsoft)
Rich Caruana (Microsoft)

Context-Aware Text Representation for Social Relation Aided Sentiment Analysis (Page 85)
Luan Minh Nguyen (Institute for Infocomm Research, A*, Singapore)

Article De-duplication Using Distributed Representations (Page 87)
Shumpei Okura (Yahoo Japan Corporation)
Yukihiro Tagami (Yahoo Japan Corporation)
Akira Tajima (Yahoo Japan Corporation)

TRecSo: Enhancing Top-k Recommendation With Social Information (Page 89)
Chanyoung Park (Pohang University of Science and Technology)
Donghyun Kim (Pohang University of Science and Technology)
Jinoh Oh (Pohang University of Science and Technology)
Hwanjo Yu (Pohang University of Science and Technology)

On the Discovery of Success Trajectories of Authors (Page 91)
Dinesh Pradhan (National Institute of Technology, Durgapur)
Tanmoy Chakraborty (University of Maryland, College Park)
Saswata Pandit (National Institute of Technology, Durgapur)
Subrata Nandi (National Institute of Technology, Durgapur)

Smartphone App Categorization for Interest Targeting in Advertising Marketplace (Page 93)
Vladan Radosavljevic (Yahoo Labs)
Mihajlo Grbovic (Yahoo Labs)
Nemanja Djuric (Yahoo Labs)
Narayan Bhamidipati (Yahoo Labs)
Daneo Zhang (Yahoo Inc.)
Jack Wang (Yahoo Inc.)
Jiankai Dang (Yahoo Inc.)
Haiying Huang (Yahoo Inc.)
Ananth Nagarajan (Yahoo Inc.)
Peiji Chen (Yahoo Inc.)

What Makes a Music Track Popular in Online Social Networks? (Page 95)
Jing Ren (Singapore Management University)
Jialie Shen (Singapore Management University)
Robert J. Kauffman (Singapore Management University)

Effect of Spam on Hashtag Recommendation for Tweets (Page 97)
Surendra Sedhai (Nanyang Technological University)
Aixin Sun (Nanyang Technological University)

The Language of Deceivers: Linguistic Features of Crowdfunding Scams (Page 99)
Wafa Shafqat (Sangmyung University)
Seunghun Lee (Sangmyung University)
Sehrish Malik (Sangmyung University)
Hyun-chul Kim (Sangmyung University)

Fact Checking in Heterogeneous Information Networks (Page 101)
Baoxu Shi (University of Notre Dame)
Tim Weninger (University of Notre Dame)

Selective Exploration of Commercial Documents in Web Search (Page 103)
Alexander Shishkin (Yandex LLC)
Ekaterina Gladkikh (Yandex LLC)
Aleksandr Vorobev (Yandex LLC)

Complex Patterns in Dynamic Attributed Graphs (Page 105)
Rina Singh (Tennessee Technological University)
Jeffrey A. Graves (Tennessee Technological University)
Douglas A. Talbert (Tennessee Technological University)

Fusing Social Media Cues: Personality Prediction from Twitter and Instagram (Page 107)
Marcin Skowron (Johannes Kepler University)
Marko Tkalcic (Free University of Bolzano)
Bruce Ferwerda (Johannes Kepler University)
Markus Schedl (Johannes Kepler University)

Generating Graph Snapshots from Streaming Edge Data (Page 109)
Sucheta Soundarajan (Syracuse University)
Acar Tamersoy (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Elias B. Khalil (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Tina Eliassi-Rad (Rutgers University)
Duen Horng Chau (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Brian Gallagher (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Kevin Roundy (Symantec, Inc.)

Mining Large Dense Subgraphs (Page 111)
Ajitesh Srivastava (University of Southern California)
Charalampos Chelmis (University of Southern California)
Viktor K. Prasanna (University of Southern California)

Information Diffusion and Provenance of Interactions in Twitter: Is it only about Retweets? (Page 113)
Io Taxidou (University of Freiburg)
Peter M. Fischer (University of Freiburg)
Tom De Nies (Ghent University)
Erik Mannens (Ghent University)
Rik Van de Walle (Ghent University)

More than an Edit: Using Transcendental Information Cascades to Capture Hidden Structure in Wikipedia (Page 115)
Ramine Tinati (University of Southampton)
Markus Luczak-Roesch (University Of Southampton)
Wendy Hall (University of Southampton)
Nigel Shadbolt (University of Oxford)

Real-time Tweet Classification in Disaster Situation (Page 117)
Fujio Toriumi (The University of Tokyo)
Seigo Baba (The University of Tokyo)

Persistent URIs Must Be Used To Be Persistent (Page 119)
Herbert Van de Sompel (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Martin Klein (University of California Los Angeles)
Shawn M. Jones (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Investigation of the Subjective Asymmetry of Social Interrelationship with Interactive Language (Page 121)
Bo Wang (Tianjin University)
Yanshu Yu (Tianjin University)
Peng Zhang (Tianjin University)

NERank: Ranking Named Entities in Document Collections (Page 123)
Chengyu Wang (East China Normal University)
Rong Zhang (East China Normal University)
Xiaofeng He (East China Normal University)
Aoying Zhou (East China Normal University)

Improving Music Recommendation Using Distributed Representation (Page 125)
Dongjing Wang (Zhejiang University)
Shuiguang Deng (Zhejiang University)
Songguo Liu (Hangzhou National E-commerce Product Quality Monitoring and Management Center)
Guandong Xu (University of Technology Sydney)

Explaining Reviews and Ratings with PACO: Poisson Additive Co-Clustering (Page 127)
Chao-Yuan Wu (University of Texas at Austin)
Alex Beutel (Carnegie Mellon University)
Amr Ahmed (Google)
Alexander J. Smola (Carnegie Mellon University)

Multimodal Content-Aware Image Thumbnailing (Page 129)
Kohei Yamamoto (The University of Tokyo)
Hayato Kobayashi (Yahoo Japan Corporation)
Yukihiro Tagami (Yahoo Japan Corporation)
Hideki Nakayama (The University of Tokyo)

Weighted Micro-Clustering: Application to Community Detection in Large-Scale Co-Purchasing Networks with User Attributes (Page 131)
Tomoya Yamazaki (Kyoto University)
Nobuyuki Shimizu (Yahoo Japan Corporation)
Hayato Kobayashi (Yahoo Japan Corporation)
Satoshi Yamauchi (Yahoo Japan Corporation)

Browsing2purchase: Online Customer Model for Sales Forecasting in an E-Commerce Site (Page 133)
Jinyoung Yeo (Pohang University of Science and Technology)
Sungchul Kim (Adobe Research)
Eunyee Koh (Adobe Research)
Seung-won Hwang (Yonsei University)
Nedim Lipka (Adobe Research)

Label Aggregation with Instance Grouping Model (Page 135)
Li'ang Yin (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
Jianhua Han (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
Yong Yu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

PGRank: Personalized Geographical Ranking for Point-of-Interest Recommendation (Page 137)
Haochao Ying (Zhejiang University)
Liang Chen (RMIT University)
Yuwen Xiong (Zhejiang University)
Jian Wu (Zhejiang University)

Analytical Framework of Relations among Nations using News Articles (Page 139)
Takeru Yokoi (Tokyo Metropolitan College of Industrial Technology)
Masato Fukuchi (Tokyo Metropolitan College of Industrial Technology)
Michihiro Kobayakawa (Tokyo Metropolitan College of Industrial Technology)
Roliana Ibrahim (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia)
Ali Selamat (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia)

Attention Based Recurrent Neural Networks for Online Advertising (Page 141)
Shuangfei Zhai (Binghamton University)
Keng-hao Chang (Microsoft)
Ruofei Zhang (Microsoft)
Zhongfei Zhang (Binghamton University)

Design and Implementation: the End User Development Ecosystem for Cross-platform Mobile Applications (Page 143)
Zhongyi Zhai (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications)
Bo Cheng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications)
Zhaoning Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications)
Xuan Liu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications)
Meng Liu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications)
Junliang Chen (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications)

Sampling Bias in LinkedIn: A Case Study (Page 145)
Shanshan Zhang (Temple University)
Slobodan Vucetic (Temple University)

Predicting the Link Strength of "Newborn" Links (Page 147)
Matteo Zignani (Università degli Studi di Milano)
Sabrina Gaito (Università degli Studi di Milano)
Gian Paolo Rossi (Università degli Studi di Milano)

Demonstrations

WWW 2016 Demo Track Chairs Welcome (Page 149)
Alfredo Cuzzocrea (University of Trieste)
Abdulmotaleb El Saddik (University of Ottawa)

SoMap: Dynamic Clustering and Ranking of Geotagged Posts (Page 151)
Marie Al-Ghossein (LTCI CNRS, Télécom ParisTech, Université Paris Saclay)
Talel Abdessalem (LTCI CNRS, Télécom ParisTech, Université Paris Saclay)

Destiny - A Cognitive Mobile Guide for the Olympics (Page 155)
Ana Paula Appel (IBM Research)
Heloisa Candello (IBM Research)
Beatriz S. R. de Souza (IBM Research)
Bruna D. Andrade (IBM Reseach)

VERA: A Platform for Veracity Estimation over Web Data (Page 159)
Mouhamadou Lamine Ba (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa University)
Laure Berti-Equille (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa University)
Kushal Shah (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa University)
Hossam M. Hammady (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa University)

LODVader: An Interface to LOD Visualization, Analyticsand DiscovERy in Real-time (Page 163)
Ciro Baron Neto (AKSW/Universität Leipzig)
Kay Müller (AKSW/Universität Leipzig)
Martin Brümmer (AKSW/Universität Leipzig)
Dimitris Kontokostas (AKSW/Universität Leipzig)
Sebastian Hellmann (AKSW/Universität Leipzig)

"What Is The City but the People?" Exploring Urban Activity Using Social Web Traces (Page 167)
Emre Çelikten (Aalto University)
Géraud Le Falher (Inria,Univ. Lille)
Michael Mathioudakis (Aalto University)

FuhSen: A Platform for Federated, RDF-based Hybrid Search (Page 171)
Diego Collarana (University of Bonn)
Christoph Lange (University of Bonn / Fraunhofer IAIS)
Sören Auer (University of Bonn / Fraunhofer IAIS)

Predicting Drug-Drug Interactions Through Similarity-Based Link Prediction Over Web Data (Page 175)
Achille Fokoue (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
Oktie Hassanzadeh (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
Mohammad Sadoghi (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
Ping Zhang (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)

Watson Concept Insights: A Conceptual Association Framework (Page 179)
Michele M. Franceschini (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
Livio B. Soares (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
Luis A. Lastras Montaño (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)

The Liquid.js Framework for Migrating and Cloning Stateful Web Components across Multiple Devices (Page 183)
Andrea Gallidabino (Università della Svizzera italiana)
Cesare Pautasso (Università della Svizzera italiana)

Piglet - Interactive and Platform Transparent Analytics for RDF & Dynamic Data (Page 187)
Stefan Hagedorn (TU Ilmenau)
Kai-Uwe Sattler (TU Ilmenau)

DREAM in Action: A Distributed and Adaptive RDF System on the Cloud (Page 191)
Aisha Hasan (Caregie Mellon University in Qatar)
Mohammad Hammoud (Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar)
Reza Nouri (University of New South Wales)
Sherif Sakr (University of New South Wales)

Search by Ideal Candidates: Next Generation of Talent Search at LinkedIn (Page 195)
Viet Ha-Thuc (LinkedIn Corporation)
Ye Xu (LinkedIn Corporation)
Satya Pradeep Kanduri (LinkedIn Corporation)
Xianren Wu (LinkedIn Corporation)
Vijay Dialani (LinkedIn Corporation)
Yan Yan (LinkedIn Corporation)
Abhishek Gupta (LinkedIn Corporation)
Shakti Sinha (LinkedIn Corporation)

Fashionista: A Fashion-aware Graphical System for Exploring Visually Similar Items (Page 199)
Ruining He (University of California, San Diego)
Chunbin Lin (University of California, San Diego)
Julian McAuley (University of California, San Diego)

The Knowledge Awakens: Keeping Knowledge Bases Fresh with Emerging Entities (Page 203)
Johannes Hoffart (Max Planck Institute for Informatics)
Dragan Milchevski (Max Planck Institute for Informatics)
Gerhard Weikum (Max Planck Institute for Informatics)
Avishek Anand (L3S Research Center)
Jaspreet Singh (L3S Research Center)

Tempas: Temporal Archive Search Based on Tags (Page 207)
Helge Holzmann (L3S Research Center)
Avishek Anand (L3S Research Center)

D-ForenRIA: Distributed Reconstruction of User-Interactions for Rich Internet Applications (Page 211)
Salman Hooshmand (University of Ottawa)
Akib Mahmud (University of Ottawa)
Gregor V. Bochmann (University of Ottawa)
Muhammad Faheem (University of Ottawa)
Guy-Vincent Jourdan (University of Ottawa)
Russ Couturier (IBM Security)
Iosif-Viorel Onut (IBM Centre for Advanced Studies)

Incremental, Per-Query Ontology Matching with RepMine (Page 215)
Thomas Kowark (Hasso Plattner Institute / University of Potsdam)
Keven Richly (Hasso Plattner Institute / University of Potsdam)
Matthias Uflacker (Hasso Plattner Institute / University of Potsdam)
Hasso Plattner (Hasso Plattner Institute / University of Potsdam)

SEMO: Searching Majority Opinions on Movies using SNS QA Threads (Page 219)
Jukyoung Lee (Korea University)
Yonghwa Choi (Korea University)
Suhkyung Kim (Korea University)
Seongsoon Kim (Korea University)
Jaewoo Kang (Korea University)

A Demonstration of the Solid Platform for Social Web Applications (Page 223)
Essam Mansour (Qatar Computing Research Institute)
Andrei Vlad Sambra (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Sandro Hawke (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Maged Zereba (Qatar Computing Research Institute)
Sarven Capadisli (Massachusettss Institute of Technology)
Abdurrahman Ghanem (Qatar Computing Research Institute)
Ashraf Aboulnaga (Qatar Computing Research Institute)
Tim Berners-Lee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

GraPhys: Understanding Health Care Insurance Data through Graph Analytics. (Page 227)
Luis G. Moyano (IBM Reseach)
Ana Paula Appel (IBM Research)
Vagner de Santana (IBM Research)
Marcia Ito (IBM Reseach)
Thiago D. dos Santo (IBM Research)

CRATE: Writing Stories Together with our Browsers (Page 231)
Brice Nédelec (University of Nantes, LINA)
Pascal Molli (University of Nantes, LINA)
Achour Mostefaoui (University of Nantes, LINA)

RECAP: Building Relatedness Explanations on the Web (Page 235)
Giuseppe Pirrò (ICAR-CNR)
Alfredo Cuzzocrea (University of Trieste & ICAR-CNR)

How Powerful are You? gSPIN: Bringing Power Analysis to Your Finger Tips (Page 239)
Vinodkumar Prabhakaran (Stanford University)
MIchael Saltzman (Yahoo!)
Owen Rambow (Columbia University)

FindYou: A Personal Location Privacy Auditing Tool (Page 243)
Christopher Riederer (Columbia Univeristy)
Daniel Echickson (Columbia Univeristy)
Stephanie Huang (Columbia Univeristy)
Augustin Chaintreau (Columbia University)

Human Atlas: A Tool for Mapping Social Networks (Page 247)
Martin Saveski (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Eric Chu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Soroush Vosoughi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Deb Roy (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Instant Espresso: Interactive Analysis of Relationships in Knowledge Graphs (Page 251)
Stephan Seufert (Max Planck Institute for Informatics)
Patrick Ernst (Max Planck Institute for Informatics)
Srikanta J. Bedathur (IBM Research)
Sarath Kumar Kondreddi (Max Planck Institute for Informatics)
Klaus Berberich (Max Planck Institute for Informatics)
Gerhard Weikum (Max Planck Institute for Informatics)

PerSentiment: A Personalized Sentiment Classification System for Microblog Users (Page 255)
Kaisong Song (Northeastern University)
Ling Chen (University of Technology, Sydney)
Wei Gao (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa University)
Shi Feng (Northeastern University)
Daling Wang (Northeastern University)
Chengqi Zhang (University of Technology, Sydney)

HyLAR+: Improving Hybrid Location-Agnostic Reasoning with Incremental Rule-based Update (Page 259)
Mehdi Terdjimi (LIRIS - Université Lyon 1)
Lionel Médini (LIRIS - Université Lyon 1)
Michael Mrissa (LIRIS - Université Lyon 1)

Analyzing Global and Pairwise Collective Spatial Attention for Geo-social Event Detection in Microblogs (Page 263)
Shoko Wakamiya (Nara Institute of Science and Technology)
Adam Jatowt (Kyoto University)
Yukiko Kawai (Kyoto Sangyo University)
Toyokazu Akiyama (Kyoto Sangyo University)

KCF.js: A Javascript Library for Knowledge Cards Fusion (Page 267)
Haofen Wang (East China University of Science and Technology)
Zhijia Fang (East China University of Science and Technology)
Tong Ruan (East China University of Science and Technology)

Developers Track

DevDay 2016 Welcome Message: A forum for developers by developers (Page 271)
Oshani Seneviratne (Oracle)
Lalana Kagal (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Andrei Sambra (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

BotOrNot: A System to Evaluate Social Bots (Page 273)
Clayton A. Davis (Indiana University)
Onur Varol (Indiana University)
Emilio Ferrara (University of Southern California)
Alessandro Flammini (Indiana University)
Filippo Menczer (Indiana University)

skos-history: Exploiting Web Standards for Change Tracking in Knowledge Organization Systems (Page 275)
Joachim Neubert (ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics)

Context-based A/B Test Validation (Page 277)
Michael Nolting (Sevenval Technologies GmbH)
Jan Eike von Seggern (Sevenval Technologies GmbH)

A Payment Protocol of the Web, for the Web: Or, Finally Enabling Web Micropayments with the Interledger Protocol (Page 279)
Evan Schwartz (Ripple)

Interledger: Creating a Standard for Payments (Page 281)
Adrian Hope-Bailie (Ripple)
Stefan Thomas (Ripple)

Capturing and Annotating Processes using a Collaborative Platform (Page 283)
Tobias Weller (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))
Maria Maleshkova (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))

PhD Symposium

WWW2016 PhD Symposium Chairs' Welcome Message (Page 285)
Eyhab Al-Masri (University of Waterloo)
Tie-Yan Liu (Microsoft Research Asia)

Linked Data Profiling: Identifying the Domain of Datasets Based on Data Content and Metadata (Page 287)
Andrejs Abele (National University of Ireland)

Detecting and Mitigating the Effect of Manipulated Reputation on Online Social Networks (Page 293)
Anupama Aggarwal (IIIT Delhi)

Structural Properties in δ-Hyperbolic Networks: Algorithmic Analysis and Implications (Page 299)
Hend Alrasheed (Kent State University)

Discouraging Abusive Behavior in Privacy-Preserving Online Social Networking Applications (Page 305)
Álvaro García-Recuero (Inria Rennes - Bretagne Atlantique)

Web-scale Multimedia Search for Internet Video Content (Page 311)
Lu Jiang (School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University)

Knowledge Extraction in Web Media: At The Frontier of NLP, Machine Learning and Semantics (Page 317)
Julien Plu (EURECOM)

Monitoring Parkinson's Disease Progression Using Behavioural Inferences, Mobile Devices and Web Technologies (Page 323)
Julio Vega (University of Manchester)

AW4City?16

AW4City'16 Chairs' Welcome (Page 329)
Marijn Janssen (Delft University of Technology)
Leonidas Anthopoulos (Business School TEI of Thessaly, Greece)
Vishanth Weerakkody (Brunel University London Uxbridge)

Generative Mappings of New Data Publics (Page 331)
Beth A. Coleman (University of Waterloo)

Technological Ecosystems' Role in Preventing Neo-Feudalism in Smart-City Informatization (Page 333)
Alois Paulin (Vienna University of Technology)

Planning the Smart City in China: Key Policy Issues and the Case of Dream Town in the City of Hangzhou (Page 339)
Iraklis Argyriou (French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS))

Smart City Energy Planning: Integrating Data and Tools (Page 345)
João Pedro Gouveia (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa)
Júlia Seixas (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa)
George Giannakidis (Energy Systems Analysis Lab. Center for Renewable Energy Sources and Saving)

Smart City and Smart Government: Synonymous or Complementary? (Page 351)
Leonidas Anthopoulos (Business School TEI of Thessaly, Greece)
Christopher G. Reddick (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA)

Smart Service Portfolios: Do the Cities Follow Standards? (Page 357)
Leonidas Anthopoulos (Business School TEI of Thessaly)
Marijn Janssen (Delft University of Technology)
Vishanth Weerakkody (Brunel University London Uxbridge)

SMARTBUS: A Web Application for Smart Urban Mobility and Transportation (Page 363)
Sudha Ram (University of Arizona)
Yun Wang (University of Arizona)
Faiz Currim (University of Arizona)
Fan Dong (University of Arizona)
Ezequiel Dantas (Prefeitura Municipal de Fortaleza/University of Fortaleza)
Luiz Alberto Sabóia (Prefeitura Municipal de Fortaleza)

BigScholar'16

BigScholar 2016 Chairs' Welcome and Organization (Page 369)
Feng Xia (Dalian University of Technology)
Huan Liu (Arizona State University)
Irwin King (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Kuansan Wang (Microsoft Research)

Scholarly Big Data Knowledge and Semantics (Page 371)
C. Lee Giles (Pennsylvania State University)

AMiner: Mining Deep Knowledge from Big Scholar Data (Page 373)
Jie Tang (Tsinghua University)

Tracing and Predicting Collaboration for Junior Scholars (Page 375)
Chun-Hua Tsai (University of Pittsburgh)
Yu-Ru Lin (University of Pittsburgh)

Backward Chaining Ontology Reasoning Systems with Custom Rules (Page 381)
Hui Shi (University of Southern Indiana)
Kurt Maly (Old Dominion University)
Dazhi Chong (Old Dominion University)
Gongjun Yan (University of Southern Indiana)
Wu He (Old Dominion University)

Babel: A Platform for Facilitating Research in Scholarly Article Discovery (Page 389)
Ian Wesley-Smith (University of Washington)
Jevin D. West (University of Washington)

CocaRank: A Collaboration Caliber-based Method for Finding Academic Rising Stars (Page 395)
Jun Zhang (Dalian University of Technology)
Feng Xia (Dalian University of Technology)
Wei Wang (Dalian University of Technology)
Xiaomei Bai (Dalian University of Technology)
Shuo Yu (Dalian University of Technology)
Teshome Megersa Bekele (Dalian University of Technology)
Zhong Peng (Dalian University of Technology)

A Query-oriented Approach for Relevance in Citation Networks (Page 401)
Luam C. Totti (Qatar Computing Research Institute)
Prasenjit Mitra (Qatar Computing Research Institute)
Mourad Ouzzani (Qatar Computing Research Institute)
Mohammed J. Zaki (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

H-index Sequences across Fields: A Comparative Analysis (Page 407)
Marlies Olensky (Academia Sinica, Institute of Information Science)
Tsung-Han Tsai (Academia Sinica, Institute of Information Science)
Kuan-Ta Chen (Academia Sinica, Institute of Information Science)

VizioMetrix: A Platform for Analyzing the Visual Information in Big Scholarly Data (Page 413)
Po-shen Lee (University of Washington)
Jevin D. West (University of Washington)
Bill Howe (University of Washington)

Citation Distance: Measuring Changes in Scientific Search Strategies (Page 419)
Ryan Whalen (Northwestern University)
Yun Huang (Northwestern University)
Craig Tanis (University of Tennessee Chatanooga)
Anup Sawant (Northwestern University)
Brian Uzzi (Northwestern University)
Noshir Contractor (Northwestern University)

Investigations on Rating Computer Sciences Conferences: An Experiment with the Microsoft Academic Graph Dataset (Page 425)
Suhendry Effendy (National University of Singapore)
Roland H. C. Yap (National University of Singapore)

Get To the Top and Stay There: A Study of Citation Rank Dynamics in Academia (Page 431)
Yan Wu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Srini Venkat (Virginia Tech)
Dah Ming Chiu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

AceMap: A Novel Approach towards Displaying Relationship among Academic Literatures (Page 437)
Zhaowei Tan (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
Changfeng Liu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
Yuning Mao (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
Yunqi Guo (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
Jiaming Shen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
Xinbing Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

Research Collaborations in Multidisciplinary Institutions -- a Case Study of iSchools (Page 443)
Zhiya Zuo (University of Iowa)
Xi Wang (University of Iowa)
David Eichmann (University of Iowa)
Kang Zhao (University of Iowa)

ERMIS'16

Empirical Research Methods in Information Security (Page 449)
Michae Huth (Imperial College)
Lotfi ben Othmane (Fraunhofer SIT)
Martin Gilje Jaatun (SINTEF)
Edgar Weippl (SBA Research)

Chains of Distrust: Towards Understanding Certificates Used for Signing Malicious Applications (Page 451)
Omar Alrawi (QCRI/HBKU)
Aziz Mohaisen (SUNY Buffalo)

Longitudinal Study of the Use of Client-side Security Mechanisms on the European Web (Page 457)
Ping Chen (KU Leuven)
Lieven Desmet (KU Leuven)
Christophe Huygens (KU Leuven)
Wouter Joosen (KU Leuven)

Ettu: Analyzing Query Intents in Corporate Databases (Page 463)
Gokhan Kul (State University of New York at Buffalo)
Duc Luong (State University of New York at Buffalo)
Ting Xie (State University of New York at Buffalo)
Patrick Coonan (State University of New York at Buffalo)
Varun Chandola (State University of New York at Buffalo)
Oliver Kennedy (State University of New York at Buffalo)
Shambhu Upadhyaya (State University of New York at Buffalo)

Empirical Malware Research through Observation of System Behaviour (Page 467)
Stefan Marschalek (St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences)
Manfred Kaiser (St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences)
Robert Luh (St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences)
Sebastian Schrittwieser (St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences)

TLScompare: Crowdsourcing Rules for HTTPS Everywhere (Page 471)
Wilfried Mayer (SBA Research)
Martin Schmiedecker (SBA Research)

A Work-Flow for Empirical Exploration of Security Events (Page 477)
Martin Pirker (St.Pölten University of Applied Sciences)
Andreas Nusser (St.Pölten University of Applied Sciences)

LILE'16

Linked Learning 2016 - Learning and Education with the Web of Data (Page 481)
Stefan Dietze (Leibniz University Hannover)
Mathieu d'Aquin
Eelco Herder (Leibniz University Hannover)
Dragan Gasevic (Edinburgh University)
Harald Sack (Hasso Plattner Institute)

Linking Online Identities and Content in Connectivist MOOCs across Multiple Social Media Platforms (Page 483)
Rafa Absar (University of British Columbia)
Anatoliy Gruzd (Ryerson University)
Caroline Haythornthwaite (University of British Columbia)
Drew Paulin (University of California, Berkeley)

Competency Based Learning in the Web of Learning Data (Page 489)
Guillaume Durand (National Research Council Canada)
Nabil Belacel (National Research Council Canada)
Cyril Goutte (National Research Council Canada)

Workload Study of a Media-Rich Educational Web Site (Page 495)
Yang Liu (University of Calgary)
Carey Williamson (University of Calgary)

Metadata Extraction from Open edX Online Courses Using Dynamic Mapping of NoSQL Queries (Page 501)
Dmitry Mouromtsev (ITMO University)
Aleksei Romanov (ITMO University)
Dmitry Volchek (ITMO University)
Fedor Kozlov (ITMO University)

Correlational Analysis Between School Performance and Municipal Indicators in Brazil Supported by Linked Open Data (Page 507)
Bruno Elias Penteado (University of São Paulo)

Towards Embedded Markup of Learning Resources on the Web: An Initial Quantitative Analysis of LRMI Terms Usage (Page 513)
Davide Taibi (National Research Council of Italy)
Stefan Dietze (L3S Research Center)

Prerequisite Concept Maps Extraction for AutomaticAssessment (Page 519)
Shuting Wang (The Pennsylvania State University)
Lei Liu (HP Labs)

LocWeb'16

LocWeb 2016 Chairs' Welcome (Page 527)
Dirk Ahlers (NTNU)
Erik Wilde (Siemens)
Bruno Martins (University of Lisbon, IST and INESC-ID)

The Sensorial Map of the City (Page 529)
Luca Maria Aiello (Yahoo Labs)

Context-Aware Friend Recommendation for Location Based Social Networks using Random Walk (Page 531)
Hakan Bagci (Middle East Technical University)
Pinar Karagoz (Middle East Technical University)

Discovering and Characterizing Mobility Patterns in Urban Spaces: A Study of Manhattan Taxi Data (Page 537)
Lisette Espín Noboa (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences)
Florian Lemmerich (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences)
Philipp Singer (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences)
Markus Strohmaier (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences & University of Koblenz-Landau)

Maps for HTML: A New Media Type and Prototype Client for Web Mapping (Page 543)
Peter Rushforth (Natural Resources Canada)

MSM'16

7th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media - Behavioral Analytics in Social Media, Big Data and the Web (MSM 2016) - Chairs' Welcome (Page 549)
Martin Atzmueller (University of Kassel)
Alvin Chin (BMW Group)
Christoph Trattner (Know-Center)

Who are We Modelling: Bots or Humans? (Page 551)
Anatoliy Gruzd (Ryerson University)

DASHTrails: An Approach for Modeling and Analysis of Distribution-Adapted Sequential Hypotheses and Trails (Page 553)
Martin Atzmueller (University of Kassel)
Andreas Schmidt (University of Kassel)
Mark Kibanov (University of Kassel)

Recommending Sellers to Buyers in Virtual Marketplaces Leveraging Social Information (Page 559)
Lukas Eberhard (Graz University of Technology, Austria)
Christoph Trattner (Know-Center, Austria)

Personality Traits and the Relationship with (Non-) Disclosure Behavior on Facebook (Page 565)
Bruce Ferwerda (Johannes Kepler University)
Markus Schedl (Johannes Kepler University)
Marko Tkalcic (Free University of Bolzano)

Geography of Emotion: Where in a City are People Happier? (Page 569)
Luciano Gallegos (University of Southern California)
Kristina Lerman (University of Southern California)
Arhur Huang (Tarlenton State University)
David Garcia (ETH Zurich)

Privacy Behaviour and Profile Configuration in Twitter (Page 575)
Taraneh Khazaei (University of Western Ontario)
Lu Xiao (University of Western Ontario)
Robert Mercer (University of Western Ontario)
Atif Khan (InfoTrellis Inc.)

A Joint Model for Who-to-Follow and What-to-View Recommendations on Behance (Page 581)
Maja R. Rudolph (Columbia University)
Matthew Hoffman (Adobe Systems)
Aaron Hertzmann (Adobe Systems)

Perceived Task Similarities for Task Recommendation in Crowdsourcing Systems (Page 585)
Steffen Schnitzer (Technische Universität Darmstadt)
Svenja Neitzel (Technische Universität Darmstadt)
Sebastian Schmidt (Technische Universität Darmstadt)
Christoph Rensing (Technische Universität Darmstadt)

Wikipedia and Stock Return: Wikipedia Usage Pattern Helps to Predict the Individual Stock Movement (Page 591)
Pengyu Wei (University of Oxford)
Ning Wang (University of Oxford)

NLPIT'16

NLPIT 2016 Chairs' Welcome (Page 595)
Mena Habib (University of Twente)
Florian Kunneman (Radboud University)
Maurice van Keulen (University of Twente)

Linking Entities for Enriching and Structuring Social Media Content (Page 597)
Raphaël Troncy (EURECOM)

Pattern-based Unsupervised Induction Of Yorùbá Morphology (Page 599)
Tunde Adegbola (African Languages Technology Initiative (Alt-i))

Lexical Normalization of Spanish Tweets (Page 605)
Jhon Adrián Cerón-Guzmán (Universidad Nacional de Colombia)
Elizabeth León-Guzmán (Universidad Nacional de Colombia)

Language Identification for Social Media: Short Messages and Transliteration (Page 611)
Pedro Miguel Dias Cardoso (Synthesio)
Anindya Roy (Synthesio)

A Test Suite for Evaluating POS Taggers across Varieties of English (Page 615)
Anna Jørgensen (University of Amsterdam)
Anders Søgaard (University of Copenhagen)

HDPauthor: A New Hybrid Author-Topic Model using Latent Dirichlet Allocation and Hierarchical Dirichlet Processes (Page 619)
Ming Yang (Kansas State University)
William H. Hsu (Kansas State University)

Topical Differences between Chinese Language Twitter and Sina Weibo (Page 625)
Qian Zhang (Northeastern University)
Bruno Goncalves (New York University)

OD4LS'16

OD4LS 2016 Chairs' Welcome (Page 629)
Eric Charton (Yellow Pages Group)
Nizar Ghoula (Yellow Pages Group)
Marie-Jean Meurs (University of Quebec in Montreal)

Semantic Enrichment for Local Search Engine using Linked Open Data (Page 631)
Mazen AlObaidi (Oakland University)
Khalid Mahmood (Oakland University)
Susan Sabra (Oakland University)

Improving Local Search with Open Geographic Data (Page 635)
Chuankai An (Dartmouth College)
Dan Rockmore (Dartmouth College)

Open Data for Local Search: Challenges and Perspectives (Page 641)
Eric Charton (Yellow Pages Group)
Nizar Ghoula (Yellow Pages Group)
Marie-Jean Meurs (University of Quebec in Montreal, UQAM)

Open Data Business Licence Usage to Improve Local Search Engine Content Ranking (Page 645)
Robert F. Lytle (rel8ed.to)

Lookupia: An Intelligent Real Estate Search Engine for Finding Houses Optimally Geolocated to Reach Points of Interest (Page 651)
Jonathan Milot (Universite du Quebec à Montreal (UQAM) & Lookupia)
Patrick Munroe (Universite du Quebec à Montreal (UQAM) & Lookupia)
Eric Beaudry (Universite du Quebec à Montreal (UQAM) & Lookupia)
Francois Grondin (Universite de Sherbrooke & Lookupia)
Guillaume Bourdeau (Lookupia)

Address Geocoding using Street Profiles for Local Search (Page 655)
Michael Peterman (Yellow Pages)
Omar Benomar (Yellow Pages)
Hacene Mechedou (Yellow Pages)
Felix-Herve Bachand (Yellow Pages)

A Simple Tags Categorization Framework Using Spatial Coverage to Discover Geospatial Semantics (Page 657)
Camille Tardy (University of Geneva)
Laurent Moccozet (University of Geneva)
Gilles Falquet (University of Geneva)

Q4APS'16

Workshop Q4APS 2016 Chairs' Welcome: 1st Workshop on Question Answering And Activity Analysis in Participatory Sites (Q4APS) associated with WWW 2016 (Page 661)
Philipp Cimiano (Bielefeld University)
Jean-Michel Dalle (UPMC)
Gandon L. Fabien (Inria)

Machine Learning for Q&A Sites: State of the Art and Research Directions (Page 665)
Xavier Amatriain (Quora, Inc.)

Online Knowledge Triage: Searching, Detecting, Labelling and Orienting User Generated Content: Project OCKTOPUS (Page 667)
Jean-Michel Dalle (UPMC / CRG)
Catherine Faron-Zucker (University Nice Sophia Antipolis)
Fabien Gandon (Inria)
Mathieu Lacage (Alcmeon)
Zide Meng (Inria)

Enriching Topic Modelling with Users' Histories for Improving Tag Prediction in Q&A Systems (Page 669)
Glenn Boudaer (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Johan Loeckx (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

Structural Normalisation Methods for Improving Best Answer Identification in Question Answering Communities (Page 673)
Grégoire Burel (The Open University)
Paul Mulholland (The Open University)
Harith Alani (The Open University)

Which Answer is Best?: Predicting Accepted Answers in MOOC Forums (Page 679)
Maximilian Jenders (Hasso Plattner Institute)
Ralf Krestel (Hasso Plattner Institute)
Felix Naumann (Hasso Plattner Institute)

Identifying User Issues and Request Types in Forum Question Posts Based on Discourse Analysis (Page 685)
Agnes Sandor (Xerox Research Centre Europe)
Nikolaos Lagos (Xerox Research Centre Europe)
Ngoc-Phuoc-An Vo (Xerox Research Centre Europe)
Caroline Brun (Xerox Research Centre Europe)

Question Answering on Linked Data: Challenges and Future Directions (Page 693)
Saeedeh Shekarpour (Knoesis Research Center)
Kemele M. Endris (University of Bonn)
Ashwini Jaya Kumar (Fraunhofer IAIS)
Denis Lukovnikov (University of Bonn)
Kuldeep Singh (Fraunhofer IAIS)
Harsh Thakkar (University of Bonn)
Christoph Lange (University of Bonn)

Using Semantics to Search Answers for Unanswered Questions in Q&A Forums (Page 699)
Priyanka Singh (University of Southampton)
Elena Simperl (University of Southampton)

SNOW'16

SNOW 2016 Chairs' Welcome (Page 713)
Gianmarco De Francisci Morales (Qatar Computing Research Institute)
Luca Maria Aiello (Yahoo Labs)
Symeon Papadopoulos (CERTH-ITI)
Haewoon Kwak (Qatar Computing Research Institute)

CommentIQ: Enhancing Journalistic Curation of Online News Comments (Page 715)
Nicholas Diakopoulos (University of Maryland)

The Spread of Misinformation in Social Media (Page 717)
Filippo Menczer (Indiana University)

Understanding the Competitive Landscape of News Providers on Social Media (Page 719)
Devipsita Bhattacharya (University of Arizona)
Sudha Ram (University of Arizona)

For Your Eyes Only: Consuming vs. Sharing Content (Page 725)
Ram Meshulam (Outbrain Inc.)
Roy Sasson (Outbrain Inc.)

Employing Robot Journalists: Legal Implications, Considerations and Recommendations (Page 731)
Pieter-Jan Ombelet (KU Leuven Centre for IT & IP Law)
Aleksandra Kuczerawy (KU Leuven Centre for IT & IP Law)
Peggy Valcke (KU Leuven Centre for IT & IP Law)

Predicting News Popularity by Mining Online Discussions (Page 737)
Georgios Rizos (CERTH-ITI)
Symeon Papadopoulos (CERTH-ITI)
Yiannis Kompatsiaris (CERTH-ITI)

Technological Transformations of News: A Long Term Perspective (Page 743)
Stephen Schifferes (City University London)

Hoaxy: A Platform for Tracking Online Misinformation (Page 745)
Chengcheng Shao (National University of Defense Technology)
Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia (Indiana University)
Alessandro Flammini (Indiana University)
Filippo Menczer (Indiana University)

Veracity and Velocity of Social Media Content during Breaking News: Analysis of November 2015 Paris Shootings (Page 751)
Stefanie Wiegand (University of Southampton IT Innovation Centre)
Stuart E. Middleton (University of Southampton IT Innovation Centre)

SOCM'16

SOCM2016 Chairs' Welcome (Page 757)
Nigel Shadbolt
Elena Simperl (University of Southampton)
Thanassis Tiropanis (University of Southampton)

Understanding Smart Cities as Social Machines (Page 759)
Dirk Ahlers (NTNU -- Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Patrick Driscoll (NTNU -- Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Erica Löfström (NTNU -- Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
John Krogstie (NTNU -- Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Annemie Wyckmans (NTNU -- Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

Exploring Cooperation with Social Machines (Page 765)
Sally A. Applin (University of Kent)
Michael D. Fischer (University of Kent)

Using the SPENCE Model of Online/Offline Community to Analyse Sociality of Social Machines (Page 769)
Caroline A. Halcrow (University of Southampton)
Leslie Carr (University of Southampton)
Susan Halford (University of Southampton)

Observlets: Empowering Analytical Observations on Web Observatory (Page 775)
Aastha Madaan (IIIT- Bangalore)
Tiropanis Thanassis (University of Southampton)
Srinath Srinivasa (IIIT- Bangalore)
Wendy Hall (University of Southampton)

Going Meta: Norm Formation and Enactment on the Stack Exchange Network (Page 781)
Paul Matthews (UWE Bristol)

The Use of Trust in Social Machines (Page 787)
Arpit Merchant (International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT-H))
Tushant Jha (International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT-H))
Navjyoti Singh (International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT-H))

Towards a Ubiquitous Model of an Individual in Social Machines. (Page 793)
Shivani Poddar (International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT-H))
Sindhu Kiranmai Ernala (International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT-H))
Navjyoti Singh (International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT-H))
Rev. Ashin Samvara (International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT-H))

Privacy Languages: Are we there yet to enable user controls? (Page 799)
Jun Zhao (University of Oxford)
Reuben Binns (University of Oxford)
Max Van Kleek (University of Oxford)
Nigel Shadbolt (University of Oxford)

TeachWeb'16

Web Education / Digital Literacy Workshop 2016 Chairs' Welcome (Page 809)
Stéphane B. Bazan (Keeward)
Kristine Gloria (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Su White (University of Southampton)

Emerging a Web Science Curriculum (Page 811)
Elisabeth Coskun (University of Southampton)
Su White (University of Southampton)

Collaborative Social Learning: Rewards and Challenges in Mainstream Higher Education (Page 815)
Lisa J. Harris (University of Southampton)
Nicholas S. R. Fair (University of Southampton)
Sarah Hewitt (University of Southampton)

The Garden of Earthly Delights: Constructing and Revising a Web Development Textbook (Page 821)
Ricardo Hoar (Mount Royal University)
Randy Connolly (Mount Royal University)

Ubiquitous Learning and Digital Literacy Practices Connecting Teacher and Learner (Page 823)
Andreja Isteni? Star?i? (University of Primorska)
Žiga Turk (University of Ljubljana)

Experiences with Curricula for a BSc and MSc in Web Development: 2008-2016 (Page 829)
Brigitte Jellinek (Salzburg University of Applied Sciences)

Evaluating the use of a MOOC within Higher Education Professional Development Training (Page 831)
Kate Mori (Hartpury University Centre)
Lucy Ractliffe (Hartpury University Centre)

The Practice of Web Product Design and Development Course Design (Page 835)
Xiaoxuan Wang (Liaoning Vocational Technical College of Modern Service)
Jiale Gao (Liaoning Vocational Technical College of Modern Service)

TempWeb'16

TempWeb 2016 Chairs' Welcome Message (Page 837)
Marc Spaniol (Caen University)
Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Yahoo Labs)
Julien Masanès (Internet Memory Foundation)

Time to Ship: Some Examples from the Real-World (Page 839)
Omar Alonso (Microsoft Corporation)

Temponym Tagging: Temporal Scopes for Textual Phrases (Page 841)
Erdal Kuzey (Max Planck Institute for Informatics)
Jannik Strötgen (Max Planck Institute for Informatics)
Vinay Setty (Max Planck Institute for Informatics)
Gerhard Weikum (Max Planck Institute for Informatics)

Towards a Distributed Infrastructure for Evolving Graph Analytics (Page 843)
Vera Zaychik Moffitt (Drexel University)
Julia Stoyanovich (Drexel University)

A First Study on Temporal Dynamics of Topics on the Web (Page 849)
Aécio Santos (New York University)
Bruno Pasini (New York University)
Juliana Freire (New York University)

Predictive Analysis of Temporal and Overlapping Community Structures in Social Media (Page 855)
Mohsen Shahriari (RWTH Aachen University)
Stephen Gunashekar (RWTH Aachen University)
Marven von Domarus (RWTH Aachen University)
Ralf Klamma (RWTH Aachen University)

DynamoGraph: A Distributed System for Large-scale, Temporal Graph Processing, its Implementation and First Observations (Page 861)
Matthias Steinbauer (Johannes Kepler University)
Gabriele Anderst-Kotsis (Johannes Kepler University)

Temporal Analytics for Predictive Cyber Threat Intelligence (Page 867)
Staffan Truvé (Recorded Future)

USEWOD'16

USEWOD 2016 Chairs' Welcome (Page 869)
Bettina Berendt (KU Leuven)
Laura Hollink (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatika)
Markus Luczak-Roesch (University of Southampton)

Embedded Metadata and the Digital Lifecycle of Images: Methodological Challenges (Page 871)
Nathalie Casemajor (Université du Québec en Outaouais)

What Public Transit API Logs Tell Us about Travel Flows (Page 873)
Pieter Colpaert (Ghent University)
Alvin Chua (KU Leuven)
Ruben Verborgh (Ghent University)
Erik Mannens (Ghent University)
Rik Van de Walle (Ghent University)
Andrew Vande Moere (KU Leuven)

Modeling Complex Clickstream Data by Stochastic Models: Theory and Methods (Page 879)
Choudur Lakshminarayan (Hewlett-Packard Enterprises)
Ram Kosuru (Hewlett-Packard Enterprises)
Meichun Hsu (Hewlett-Packard Enterprises)

Current directions for Usage Analysis and the Web of Data: The diverse ecosystem of Web of Data access mechanisms: A Message from the USEWOD Chairs (Page 885)
Markus Luczak-Roesch (University of Southampton)
Laura Hollink (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatika)
Bettina Berendt (KU Leuven)

WEBED'16

Chairs' Welcome - WWW2016 Workshop on Web Science and Technology for Education (WebED2016) (Page 889)
Jacqueline Bourdeau (TELUQ)
Irwin King (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Bebo White (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

Web Science, Social Media and Education (Page 891)
Wendy Hall (University of Southampton)

Towards Qualitative Insights for Visualizing Student Engagement in Web-based Learning Environments (Page 893)
Rubiela Carrillo (Université de Lyon)
Elise Lavoué (Université de Lyon)
Yannick Prié (Université de Nantes)

Trust-aware Peer Assessment using Multi-armed Bandit Algorithms (Page 899)
Hou Pong Chan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Tong Zhao (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Irwin King (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Turning Down the Noise in Classrooms (Page 905)
Mariheida Córdova-Sánchez (Purdue University)
Pinar Yanardag (Purdue University)

A Quantitative Analysis of the Most Relevant Gamification Elements in an Online Learning Environment (Page 911)
Sivaldo J. de Santana (Federal University of Alagoas)
Hugo A. Souza (Federal University of Alagoas)
Victor A. F. Florentin (Federal University of Alagoas)
Ranilson Paiva (Federal University of Campina Grande)
Ig Ibert Bittencourt (Federal University of Alagoas)
Seiji Isotani (University of São Paulo)

Scalable Monitoring of Student Interaction Indicators in Exploratory Learning Environments (Page 917)
Sergio Gutierrez-Santos (Birkbeck, University of London)
Stefano Capuzzi (Birkbeck, University of London)
Ken Kahn (UCL Institute of Education)
Sokratis Karkalas (Birkbeck, University of London)
Alexandra Poulovassilis (Birkbeck, University of London)

STI-DICO : a Web-Based System for Intelligent Tutoring of Dictionary Skills (Page 923)
Alexandra Luccioni (Université du Québec à Montréal)
Roger Nkambou (Université du Québec à Montréal)
Jean Massardi (Université du Québec à Montréal)
Jacqueline Bourdeau (Télé-Université)
Claude Coulombe (Télé-Université)

BBookX: Design of an Automated Web-based Recommender System for the Creation of Open Learning Content (Page 929)
Bart Pursel (The Pennsylvania State University)
Chen Liang (The Pennsylvania State University)
Shuting Wang (The Pennsylvania State University)
Zhaohui Wu (The Pennsylvania State University)
Kyle Williams (The Pennsylvania State University)
Benjamin Brautigam (The Pennsylvania State University)
Sherwyn Saul (The Pennsylvania State University)
Hannah Williams (The Pennsylvania State University)
Kyle Bowen (The Pennsylvania State University)
C. Lee Giles (The Pennsylvania State University)

WI&C'16

WI&C'16 Chairs' Welcome: WI&C'16 (Page 935)
Pierre Maret (Université Jean Monnet)
Rajendra Akerkar (Western Norway Research Institute)
Laurent Vercouter (LITIS Laboratory)

Distributed Wikis and Social Networks: a Good Fit (Page 937)
Babak Esfandiari (Carleton University)
Alan Davoust (Carleton University)

Enriching How-to Guides by Linking Actionable Phrases (Page 939)
Alexandr Chernov (University of Tübingen)
Nikolaos Lagos (Xerox Research Centre Europe)
Matthias Gallé (Xerox Research Centre Europe)
Ágnes Sándor (Xerox Research Centre Europe)

Web Communities in Big Data Era. Editorial (Page 945)
Pierre Maret (Université Jean Monnet)
Rajendra Akerkar (Western Norway Research Institute)
Laurent Vercouter (LITIS Laboratory)

Ontological Networks: Mapping Ontological Knowledge Bases into Graphs (Page 949)
Lucas Fonseca Navarro (Federal University of Sao Carlos)
Estevam Rafael Hruschka Jr (Federal University of Sao Carlos)
Ana Paula Appel (IBM Research)

Detection of Multiple Identity Manipulation in Collaborative Projects (Page 955)
Zaher Yamak (LITIS lab, INSA de Rouen)
Julien Saunier (LITIS lab, INSA de Rouen)
Laurent Vercouter (LITIS lab, INSA de Rouen)

StarrySky: A Practical System to Track Millions of High-Precision Query Intents (Page 961)
Qi Ye (Sogou Inc.)
Feng Wang (Sogou Inc.)
Bo Li (Sogou Inc.)

Wiki Workshop'16

Wiki Workshop 2016 Chairs' Welcome (Page 967)
Robert West (Stanford University)
Leila Zia (Wikimedia Foundation)
Dario Taraborelli (Wikimedia Foundation)
Jure Leskovec (Stanford University)

Cleansing Wikipedia Categories using Centrality (Page 969)
Paolo Boldi (Università degli Studi di Milano)
Corrado Monti (Università degli Studi di Milano)

Applying a Multi-Level Modeling Theory to Assess Taxonomic Hierarchies in Wikidata (Page 975)
Freddy Brasileiro (Federal University of Espírito Santo)
João Paulo A. Almeida (Federal University of Espírito Santo)
Victorio A. Carvalho (Federal University of Espírito Santo)
Giancarlo Guizzardi (Federal University of Espírito Santo)

Automatic Discovery of Emerging Trends using Cluster Name Synthesis on User Consumption Data: Extended Abstract (Page 981)
T. Chattopadhyay (Tata Consultancy Services Limited)
Santa Maiti (Tata Consultancy Services Limited)
Arindam Pal (Tata Consultancy Services Limited)
Avik Ghose (Tata Consultancy Services Limited)
Arpan Pal (Tata Consultancy Services Limited)
Shanky Viswanathan (Tata Consultancy Services Limited)
Narendran Sivakumar (Tata Consultancy Services Limited)

With a Little Help from my Neighbors: Person Name Linking Using the Wikipedia Social Network (Page 985)
Johanna Geiß (Heidelberg University)
Michael Gertz (Heidelberg University)

On the Retrieval of Wikipedia Articles Containing Claims on Controversial Topics (Page 991)
Haggai Roitman (IBM Research - Haifa)
Shay Hummel (IBM Research - Haifa)
Ella Rabinovich (IBM Research - Haifa)
Benjamin Sznajder (IBM Research - Haifa)
Noam Slonim (IBM Research - Haifa)
Ehud Aharoni (IBM Research - Haifa)

Wikipedia Tools for Google Spreadsheets (Page 997)
Thomas Steiner (Google Germany GmbH)

Assessing the Quality of Wikipedia Editors through Crowdsourcing (Page 1001)
Yu Suzuki (Nara Institute of Science and Technology)
Satoshi Nakamura (Nara Institute of Science and Technology)

Finding Structure in Wikipedia Edit Activity: An Information Cascade Approach (Page 1007)
Ramine Tinati (University of Southampton)
Markus Luczak-Roesch (University of Southampton)
Wendy Hall (University of Southampton)

Learning Web Queries for Retrieval of Relevant Information about an Entity in a Wikipedia Category (Page 1013)
Vikrant Yadav (Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee)
Sandeep Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee)

Tutorials

WWW 2016 Tutorial Chairs' Welcome (Page 1015)
Thanassis Tiropanis (University of Southampton)
Matthew Weber (Rutgers University)

Centrality Measures on Big Graphs: Exact, Approximated, and Distributed Algorithms (Page 1017)
Francesco Bonchi (ISI Foundation)
Gianmarco De Francisci Morales (Qatar Computing Research Institute)
Matteo Riondato (Two Sigma Investments)

Cryptographic Currencies Crash Course (C4): Tutorial (Page 1021)
Aljosha Judmayer (SBA Research)
Edgar Weippl (SBA Research)

Automatic Entity Recognition and Typing in Massive Text Corpora (Page 1025)
Xiang Ren (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Ahmed El-Kishky (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Chi Wang (Microsoft Research)
Jiawei Han (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Mining Big Time-series Data on the Web (Page 1029)
Yasushi Sakurai (Kumamoto University)
Yasuko Matsubara (Kumamoto University)
Christos Faloutsos (Carnegie Mellon University)

Building Decentralized Applications for the Social Web (Page 1033)
Andrei Sambra (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Amy Guy (University of Edinburgh)
Sarven Capadisli (University of Bonn)
Nicola Greco (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Analyzing Sequential User Behavior on the Web (Page 1035)
Philipp Singer (University of Koblenz-Landau)
Florian Lemmerich (University of Koblenz-Landau)

Computational Social Science for the World Wide Web (CSSW3) (Page 1037)
Ingmar Weber (Qatar Computing Research Institute)
Claudia Wagner (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences)
Markus Strohmaier (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences)
Luca Maria Aiello (Yahoo Labs)

Workshop Summaries

LDOW2016: 9th Workshop on Linked Data on the Web (Page 1039)
Sören Auer (University of Bonn)
Tom Heath (Open Data Institute)
Christian Bizer (University of Mannheim)
Tim Berners-Lee (Massachusetts Institiute of Technology)

#Microposts2016 -- 6th Workshop on Making Sense of Microposts: Big things come in small packages (Page 1041)
Amparo E. Cano (Aston University)
Daniel Preotiuc-Pietro (University of Pennsylvania)
Danica Radovanovic (University of Novi Sad)
Katrin Weller (GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences)
Aba-Sah Dadzie (KMi, The Open University)

SAVE-SD 2016 - Second Workshop on Semantics, Analytics and Visualisation: Enhancing Scholarly Data (Page 1043)
Alejandra Gonzalez-Beltran (University of Oxford)
Francesco Osborne (The Open University)
Silvio Peroni (University of Bologna)