11th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'02)
News Conference Program Registration Organizing Committee Local Arrangements
Technical Program
Tuesday, November 5, 2002
8:30-9:00am Opening Remarks
9:00-10:00am
Keynote I: On Scalable Information Retrieval Systems
Dr. Ophir Frieder, Illinois Institute of Technology
Room: Auditorium
10:00-10:15am BREAK
10:15-noon
Research Session 1: Pattern Discovery and Forecasting
Chair: Arbee L. P. Chen (National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan) Room: Einstein Room
F4: Large-Scale Automated Forecasting using Fractals
Deepayan Chakrabarti and Christos Faloutsos (Carnegie Mellon University)
An Iterative Strategy for Pattern Discovery in Multi-dimensional Data Sets
Chun Tang and Aidong Zhang (University at Buffalo, The State University of New York)
Mining Sequential Pattterns with Constraints in Large Databases
Jian Pei (Simon Fraser University, Canada), Jiawei Han (Univeristy of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), and Wei Wang (Fudan University, China)
Research Session 2: Web Search I
Chair: Abdur Chowdhury (Illinois Institute of Technology) Room: Drew Room
Structuring Keywords for Querying Web Databases
Rodrigo Vieira, Pavel Calado, Aligran Silva, Alberto Laender, and Berthier Ribeiro-Neto (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)
Topic-Oriented Collaborative Crawling
Chiasen Chung, Charles Clarke (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Meta-recommendation Systems: User-controlled Integration of Diverse Recommendations
J. Ben Schafer (University of Northern Iowa), Joseph A. Konstan, and John Riedl (University of Minnesota)
A Likelihood-Based Approach to Data Selection for Collaborative Filtering
Kai Yu (Siemens AG and University of Munich, Germany), Xiaowei Xu (Siemens AG, Germany), Anton Schwaighofer (Siemens AG and TU Graz, Germany), and Hans-Peter Kriegel (University of Munich, Germany)
Research Session 3: Data Warehousing and OLAP
Chair: Il-Yeol Song (Drexel University)
Room: Curie Room
Analysis of Pre-computed Partition Top Method for Range Top-k Queries in OLAP Data Cubes
Zheng Xuan Loh, Tok Wang Ling, ChuanHeng Ang, and Sin Yueng Lee(National University of Singapore)
Batch Data Warehouse Maintenance in Dynamic Environment
Bin Liu, Songting Chen, and Elke A. Rundensteiner(Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
A Fast Filtering Scheme for Large Database Cleansing
Sam Y. Sung, Zhao Li, and Peng Sun (National University of Singapore)
Semantic-based Delivery of OLAP Summary Tables in Wireless Environments
Mohamed Sharaf and Panos Chrysanthis (University of Pittsburgh)

noon-1:15pm
Lunch
1:15-2:15pm
Keynote II: Future directions in Data Mining: Streams, Networks, self-similarity and power laws
Dr. Christos Faloutsos, Carnegie Mellon University
Room: Auditorium
2:15-2:30pm
BREAK
2:30-3:45pm
Research Session 4: Image Similarity Search and Systems
Chair: Anupam Joshi (University of Maryland Baltimore County)
Room: Einstein Room
Symbolic Photograph Content-Based Retrieval
Philippe Mulhem (IPAL - CNRS, Singapore) and Joo Hwee Lim (LIT, Singapore)
A Compact and Efficient Image Retrieval Approach Based on Border/Interior Pixel Classification
Renato Stehling (University of Campinas, Brazil), Mario Nascimento (University of Alberta, Canada), and Alexandre Falcao(University of Campinas, Brazil)
Vulnerabilities in Similarity Search Based Systems
Ali Saman Tosun and Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu (Ohio State University)
Research Session 5: XML Query Processing
Chair: Sajda Quereshi (University of Nebraska at Omaha)
Room: Drew Room
Efficient Evaluation of Multiple Queries on Streaming XML Data
Mong-Li Lee, Boon Chin Chua, WynneHsu,and Kian-Lee Tan (National UniversityofSingapore)
Query Processing of Streamed XML Data
Leonidas Fegaras, David Levine, Sujoe Bose, and Vamsi Chaluvadi (University of Texasat Arlington)
Multi-level Operator Combination in XML Query Processing
Shurug Al-Khalifa and H. V. Jagadish (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
Industry Session 1: Knowledge Management and Semantics
Chair: Len Seligman (MITRE Corporation)
Room: Curie Room
Thematic Mapping - from unstructured documents to taxonomies
C. Chung, R. Lieu, J. Liu, A. Luk, J. Mao, and P. Raghavan (Verity)
Voquette Enterprise Content Management
A. Sheth (University of Georgia & Voquette), and Y. Warke (Voquette)
Rule-based Data Quality
D. Loshin (Knowledge Integrity Inc.)

3:45-4:00pm
BREAK
4:00-5:15pm
Research Session 6: XML Transactions and Applications
Chair: Sajda Quereshi (University of Nebraska at Omaha)
Room: Einstein Room
XMLTM: Efficient Transaction Management for XML Documents
Torsten Grabs (ETH Zurich, Switzerland), Klemens Bohm (Otto-von-Guericke-Universitat Magdeburg, Germany), and Hans-Jorg Schek (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Efficient Synchronization for Mobile XML Data
Franky Lam, Nicole Lam, and Raymond Wong (University of New South Wales, Australia)
An Object-Oriented Extension of XML for Autonomous Web Applications
Hasan M. Jamil and Giovanni A. Modica (Mississippi State University)
Research Session 7: Caching
Chair: R. Scott Cost (University of Maryland Baltimore County)
Room: Drew Room
Efficient Prediction of Web Accesseson a Proxy Server
Wenwu Lou and Hongjun Lu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
A Self-managing Data Cache for Edge-of-Network Web Applications
Khalil Amiri, Sanghyun Park, Renu Tewari, and Sriram Padmanabhan (IBM T. J. Watson ResearchCenter)
Cooperative Caching by Mobile Clients in Push-based Information Systems
Takahiro Hara (Osaka University, Japan)
Research Session 8: Information Extraction and Text Segmentation
Chair: Charles Clarke (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Room: Curie Room
Augeas (Authoritativness Grading, Estimationand Sorting)
Ayman Farahat, Geoff Nunberg, and Francine Chen(Palo Alto Rsearch Center)
Structural Extraction from Visual Layout of Documents
Ronen Feldman, Benjamin Rosenfeld, and Yonatan Aumann (ClearForest Corporation)
Topic-Based Document Segmentation with Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis
Thorsten Brants, Francine Chen (Palo Alto Research Center), and Ioannis Tsochantaridis (Brown University)

6:30-8:30pm
Reception and Poster Session
Chair: Tim Oates (University of Maryland Baltimore County)
Room: Einstein Room
A New Cache Replacement Algorithm for the Integration of Web Caching and Prefetching
Cheng-Yue Chang and Ming-Syan Chen (National Taiwan University)
A Syntactic Approach for Searching Similarities inside Sentences
Federica Mandreoli, Riccardo Martoglia, Paolo Tiberio (Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy)
A System for Knowledge Management in Bioinformatics
Sudeshna Adak, Vishal Batra, Deo Bhardwaj, Pasumatri Kamesam, Pankaj Kankar, Manish Kurhekar, and Biplav Srivastava (IBM India Research Lab)
An Agent-Based Approach to Knowledge Management
Bin Yu and Munindar P. Singh (North Carolina State University, Raleigh)
Characterizing Relevant and Non-Relevant Returns for Task-Oriented Questions
Vanessa Murdock, W. Bruce Croft (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), and Diane Kelly (Rutgers University, New Brunswick)
Data Fusion Models with Estimated Weights
Shengli Wu and Fabio Crestani (The University of Strathclyde, U.K.)
Discovering the Representative of a Search Engine
King-Lup Liu (DePaul University), Clement Yu (University of Illinois at Chicago), and Weiyi Meng (Binghamton University)
Ginga: A Self-Adaptive Query Processing System
Henrique Paques, Ling Liu, and Calton Pu (Georgia Institute of Technology)
High Performing and Scalable Feature Selection for Text Classification
Monica Rogati and Yiming Yang (Carnegie Mellon University)
Index Compression vs. Retrieval Time of Inverted Files for XML Documents
Norbert Fuhr and Norbert Govert (University of Dortmund)
Interactive Methods for Taxonomy Editing and Validation
Scott Spangler and Jeffrey Kreulen (IBM Almaden Research Center)
Knowledge Discovery from Texts: A Concept Frame Graph Approach
Rajaraman Kanagasabai and Ah-Hwee Tan(Laboratories for Information Technology,Singapore)
Knowledge Discovery in Patent Databases
Konstantinos Markellos, Penelope Markellou, George Mayritsakis, Katerina Perdikuri, Spiros Sirmakessis, and Athanasios Tsakalidis (Computer Technology Institute and University of Patras, Greece)
Making Digital Libraries from the Web
Pavel Calado (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil), Marcos Goncalves (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University), Berthier Ribeiro-Neto (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil), and Edward Fox (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)
Mining Coverage Statistics for Websource Selection in a Mediator
Zaiqing Nie, Ullas Nambiar, Sreelakshmi Vaddi, Subbarao Kambhampati (Arizona State University)
Mining Soft-Matching Association Rules
Un Nahm and Raymod Mooney (University of Texas at Austin)
Parallelizing the Buckshot Algorithm for Efficient Document Clustering
Steven Beitzel, Eric Jensen, and Angelo Pilotto (Illinois Institute of Technology)

Wednesday, November 6, 2002
9:00-10:15am
Research Session 9: Sequence Similarity Search andAccess Methods
Chair: Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu (Ohio State University)
Room: Einstein Room
How to Improve the Pruning Ability of Dynamic Metric Access Methods
Caetano Traina Jr., Agma Traina, Roberto Santos Filho (University of Sao Paulo at Sao Carlos, Brazil), and Christos Faloutsos (Carnegie Mellon University)
On the Efficient Evaluation of Relaxed Queries in Biological Databases
Yangjun Chen (University of Winnipeg, Canada), Duren Che, and Karl Aberer (IPSI Institute, GMD GmbH, Germany)
Similarity based retrieval from Sequence Datausing Automata as Queries
A. Prasad Sistla, Tao Hu, and Vikas Chowdhary (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Research Session 10: Information Retrieval Models
Chair: Charles Clarke (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Room: Drew Room
Detecting Similar Documents Using Salient Terms
James W. Cooper, Anni R. Coden, and Eric W. Brown (IBM T J Watson Research Center)
The Role of Variance in Term Weighting for Probabilistic Information Retrieval
Warren R. Greiff, William T. Morgan, and Jay M. Ponte (The MITRE Corporation)
Inferring Query Models by Computing InformationFlow
Peter D. Bruza and Dawei Song (University of Queensland, Australia)
Research Session 11: XML Schemas: Integration andTranslation
Chair: Donald H. Kraft (Louisiana State University)
Room: Curie Room
Logical and Physical Support for Heterogeneous Data
Sihen Amer-Yahia, Mary Fernandez, Rick Greer, and Divesh Srivastava(AT&T Labs -Research)
NeT & CoT: Translating Relational Schemas to XML Schemas Using Semantic Constraints
Dongwon Lee (Penn State University), Murali Mani, Frank Chiu, and Wesley W.Chu (University of California Los Angeles)
XClust: Clustering XML Schemas for Effective Integration
Mong Li Lee, Wynne Hsu, LiangHuai Yang,and Xia Yang (National University of Singapore)

10:15-10:30am
BREAK
10:30-11:45am
Research Session 12: Peer-to-Peer and Database Systems
Chair: Sajda Quereshi (University of Nebraska at Omaha)
Room: Einstein Room
A Local Search Mechanism for Peer-to-Peer Mechanism
Vana Kalogeraki (Hewlett-Packard Labs), Dimitrios Gunopulos, and Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yiatzi (University of California, Riverside)
Efficient Knowledge Discovery in Peer-to-Peer File Sharing
Yugyung Lee, Changgyu Oh, and E.K. Park (University of Missouri, Kansas City)
Partial Rollback in Object-Oriented/Object-Relational Database Management Systems
Kim Won-Young, Whang Kyu-Young (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), Lee Byung Suk (University of Vermont), Lee Young-Koo, and Chang Ji-Woong (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Research Session 13: Information Retrieval I
Chair: Clement Yu (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Room: Drew Room
Query Association for Effective Retrieval
Falk Scholer and Hugh E. Williams (RMIT University, Australia)
Pruning Long Documents for Distributed Information Retrieval
Jie Lu and Jamie Callan (Carnegie Mellon University)
On Arabic Search: Improving the Retrieval Effectiveness via a Light Stemming Approach
Mohammed Aljlayl and Ophir Frieder (Illinois Institute of Technology)
Research Session 14: Classification
Chair: Eric Brown (IBM)
Room: Curie Room
Boosting to Correct the Inductive Bias for Text Classification
Yan Liu, Yiming Yang, and Jaime Carbonell(Carnegie Mellon University)
Using Conjunction of Attribute Values for Classification
Mukund Deshpande and George Karypis (University of Minnesota)
Categorizing Information Objects from User Access Patterns
Mao Chen, Andrea LaPaugh, and Jaswinder Pal Singh(Princeton University)

11:45-1:00pm
Lunch
1:00-2:00pm
Keynote III: Knowledge and Information Management: Is it possible to do interesting and important research, get funded, be useful and appreciated?
Dr. Maria Zemankova, National Science Foundation
Room: Auditorium
2:00-2:15pm
BREAK
2:15-3:30pm
Research Session 15: Language Models for Information Retrieval
Chair: Warren R. Greiff (MITRE Corporation)
Room: Einstein Room
Passage Retrieval Based on Language Models
Xiaoyong Liu and W. Bruce Croft (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Capturing Term Dependencies Using a Sentence Tree Language Model
Ramesh Nallapati and James Allan(University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Language Modeling Framework for Resource Selection and Results Merging
Luo Si, Rong Jin, Jamie Callan, and Paul Ogilvie (Carnegie Mellon University)
Research Session 16: Spatial Search and Moving Objects
Chair: Prasad Sistla (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Room: Drew Room
An Efficient and Effective Algorithm for Density Biased Sampling
Alexandros Nanopoulos (Aristotle University, Greece), Yannis Theodoridis (Computer Technology Institute, Greece), and Yannis Manolopoulos (Aristotle University, Greece)
"GeoPlot": Spatial Data Mining on Video Libraries
Jia-Yu Pan and Christos Faloutsos (Carnegie Mellon University)
Trajectory Queries and Octagons in Moving Object Databases
Hongjun Zhu, Jianwen Su, and Oscar H. Ibarra(University of California, Santa Barbara)
Industry Session 2: Data Mining and Federated Systems
Chair: Victor Perez-Nunez (MITRE Corporation)
Room: Curie Room
Comparison of Interestingness Functions for Learning Web Usage Patterns
Xiangji Huang (University of Waterloo), Aijun An (York University), Nick Cercone (University of Waterloo), and Gary Promhouse (Open Text Corp.)
The Verity Federated Infrastructure
Kiam Choo, Rajat Mukherjee, Rami Smair, and Wei Zhang (Verity)
Automatically Classifying Database Workloads
S. Elnaffar and P. Martin (Queen's University) and and R. Horman (IBM Toronto)

3:30-3:45pm
BREAK
3:45-5:00pm
Research Session 17: Music Information Retrieval
Chair: Maria Zemankova (NSF)
Room: Einstein Room
The Effectiveness Study of Various Music Information Retrieval Approaches
Jia-Lien Hsu (Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan), Arbee L.P. Chen, and Hung-Chen Chen (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
Harmonic Models for Polyphonic Music Retrieval
Jeremy Pickens (University of Massachusetts Amherst) and Tim Crawford (Kings College London, United Kingdom)
A Singer Identification Technique for Content-Based Classification of MP3 Music Objects
Chih-Chin Liu and Chuan-Sung Huang (Chung Hua University, Taiwan)
Research Session 18: XML Constraints and the SemanticWeb
Chair: Yugyung Lee (University of Missouri-Kansas City)
Room: Drew Room
XKvalidator: A constraint validator for XML
Yi Chen, Susan Davidson, and Yifeng Zheng (University of Pennsylvania)
Discovering Approximate Keys in XML Data
Gosta Grahne and Jianfei Zhu (Concordia University, Canada)
Information Retrieval on the Semantic Web
Urvi Shah, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi,R. Scott Cost (University of Maryland Baltimore County) and James Mayfield (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory)

7:00-10:00pm
Banquet and Cruise
Thursday, November 7, 2002
9:00-10:40am
Research Session 19: Data Streams and Time-series
Chair: Arbee L. P. Chen (National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan)
Room: Einstein Room
RHist: Adaptive Summarization over Continuous Data Streams
Lin Qiao, Divy Agrawal, and Amr ElAbbadi (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Efficient Query Monitoring Using Adaptive Multiple Key Hashing
Kun-Lung Wu and Philip Yu (IBM, T. J. Watson Research Center)
Evaluating Continuous Nearest Neighbor Queriesfor Streaming Time Series via Pre-fetching
Like Gao, Zhengrong Yao, and X.Sean Wang (George Mason University)
Mining Temporal Classes from Time Series Data
Takao Miura, Masahiro Motoyoshi, Kohei Watanabe (Hosei University, Japan), and IsamuShioya (SANNO University, Japan)
Research Session 20: Web Clustering
Chair: Jamie Callan (Carnegie Mellon University)
Room: Drew Room
Evaluating Contents-Link Coupled Web Page Clusteringfor Web Search Results
Yitong Wang and Masaru Kitsuregawa (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Inferring Hierarchical Descriptions
Eric J. Glover, David M. Pennock, Steve Lawrence, and Robert Krovetz (NEC Research Institute)
Evaluations of Algorithms for Obtaining Hierarchical Clustering Solutions
Ying Zhao and George Karypis (University of Minnesota)
Improved Categorization for Web Hierarchies
Wahyu Wibowo and Hugh E. Williams (RMIT University, Australia)
Industry Session 3: Database Performance and Interfaces
Chair: George Kasper (Virginia Commonwealth University)
Room: Curie Room
A Mapping Mechanism to Support Bitmap Index and other Auxiliary Structures on Tables Stored as Primary B+-trees
E. Chong, J. Srinivasan, S. Das, C. Freiwald, A. Yalamanchi, M. Jagannath, A. Tran, R. Krishnan, and R. Jiang (Oracle)
Using Specification-Driven Concepts for Distributed Data Management and Dissemination
M. Brian Blake (MITRE & Georgetown U.)


10:40-11:00am
BREAK
11:00-12:15pm
Research Session 21: Information Retrieval II
Chair: Eric Brown (IBM)
Room: Einstein Room
Knowledge-Based Extraction ofNamed Entities
Jamie Callan and Teruko Mitamura(Carnegie MellonUniversity)
Condorcet Fusion for Improved Retrieval
Mark Montague and Javed A. Aslam (Dartmouth College)
I/O-Efficient Techniques for Computing Pagerank
Yen-Yu Chen, Qingqing Gan, and TorstenSuel (Polytechnic University)
Research Session 22: Web Search II
Chair: Warren R. Greiff (MITRE Corpporation)
Room: Drew Room
Personalized Web Search by Mapping User Queries to Categories
Fang Liu, Clement Yu (University of Illinois at Chicago), and Weiyi Meng (SUNY at Binghamton)
Using Micro Information Units for Internet Search
Xiaoli Li, Bing Liu, Tong-Heng Phang,and Minqing Hu (National University ofSingapore)
Entropy-Based Link Analysis for Mining Web Informative Structures
Hung-Yu Kao (National Taiwan University), Shian-Hua Lin, Jan-Ming Ho (Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan), and Ming-Syan Chen (National Taiwan University)
Research Session 23: Clustering Algorithms
Chair: Walid G. Aref (Purdue University)
Room: Curie Room
COOLCAT: An Entropy-Based Algorithm for Categorical Clustering
Daniel Barbara, Julia Couto, and Yi Li (George Mason University)
FREM: Fast and Robust EM Clustering for Large Data Sets
Carlos Ordonez (Teradata, a division of NCR) and Edward Omiecinski (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Alternatives to the k-means Algorithm that Find Better Clusterings
Greg Hamerly and Charles Elkan (University of California, San Diego)

12:15-1:15pm
Lunch and Steering Committee Meeting
1:15-5:30pm
Birds-of-a-Feather Meetings
End of CIKM 2002