Final Programme --- Day 1, Wednesday (11 December 2002)

(Main Conference)
Tutorial 1 (T1)
Venue	Camellia 3
2pm - 5:30pm	Chair: Xiaofang Zhou (University of Queensland) "Web Mining : A Bird's Eyeview", Sanjay Kumar Madria (Department of Computer Science, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA)

(Workshop 1: W2GIS)
Session 1 (W1S1)
Venue	Magnolia 1
9am - 10:30am	Chair: Christophe Claramunt (The French Naval Academy, France) Keynote talk: Fast Updates and Efficient Retrieval: an Oxymoron for Moving Object Indexes? Beng Chin Ooi, Kian-Lee Tan, and Cui Yu (National University of Singapore, Singapore) G-Snake Double Transformation (GDT) Model for Semi-Automatic Registration of Internet Maps Fiona Lee and Stéphane Bressan (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Integration of GIS and GPS for Navigation and Tracking George Taylor (University of Glamorgan, UK)
Session 2 (W1S2)
Venue	Magnolia 1
11am - 12:30pm	Chair: Zhiyong Huang (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Target3D: Interactive Visualization over the World Wide Web Rémy Thibaud, Flavien Brugiere, Philippe Clad, and Peter Guth (Naval Academy Research Institute, France and United States Naval Academy) Participatory Decision-Making for Ecological Planning --with a Case Study of Forest Fire Behavior Simulation Yibin Zhao and Hui Lin (Chinese University of Hong-Kong, Hong Kong) VGE: A New Communication Platform for the General Public Hui Lin, Jianhua Gong, Jinyeu Tsou, Yibin Zhao, Zongyu Zhang, and Feibin Zhan (Chinese University of Hong-Kong, China and Southwest Texas State University, USA)
Session 3 (W1S3)
Venue	Magnolia 1
2pm - 3:30pm	Chair: George Taylor (University of Glamorgan, UK) Web Locality Based Ranking Utilizing Location Names and Link Structure Yohsuke Inouey, Ryong Leey, Hiroki Takakura and Yahiko Kambayashi (Kyoto University, Japan) Bus Catcher: a Context Sensitive Prototype System for Public Transportation Users Michela Bertolotto, Gregory O’Hare, Robin Strahan, Ailish Brophy, Alan Martin, and Eoin McLoughlin (University College Dublin, Ireland) Classification of Web Pages with Geographic Scope and Level of Details for Mobile Cache Management Naoharu Yamaday, Ryong Leey, Hiroki Takakura, and Yahiko Kambayashi (Kyoto University, Japan)
Session 4 (W1S4)
Venue	Magnolia 1
4pm - 6pm	Chair: Weng-Tat Chan (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Design and Implementation of a WAP GIS Framework Yue Li, Zhong Xie, and Zhiyong Huang (National University of Singapore and China University of Sciences) The Share-Loc Project: a WAP-based Maritime Location System Guilhem Desvignes, Gaetan Lucas de Couville, Evtim Peytchev, Thomas Devogele, Sebastien Fournier, and Christophe Claramunt (Naval Academy Research Institute, France) Design and Implementation of Map Visualization Objects in Component-based WebGIS Yingwei Luo, Xiaolin Wang and Zhuoqun Xu Department of Computer Science and Technology Peking University Spatio-Temporal Information Integration in XML Shanzhen Yi, Bo Huang, and Weng Tat Chan (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

(Workshop 2: DASWIS 2002)
Session 1 (W2S1)
Venue	Magnolia 2
9:00am - 10:30am	Chair: B Chandra (IIT Delhi, India) A Formal Verification Strategy for Crash Recovery in Web-Database Applications Muhammad Younas(School of Mathematics and Information Sciences, Conventry University, UK), Barry Eaglestone(Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield, UK) Efficiency and Performance of Web Cache Reporting Strategies John Chuang, Steve Kafka, Kim Norlen (UC Berkely, USA) Ranking of Web Data in a Web Warehouse Sanjay K Madria(Dept of Computer Science, University of Missouri-Rolla, Rolla, USA), Sourav S Bhowmick(School of Computer Engineering, NTU,Singapore), K Passi(Dept of Math & CS, Laurentian Univ, Sudbury, Canada)
Session 2 (W2S2)
Venue	Magnolia 2
11am - 12:30pm	Chair: S K Gupta (IIT Delhi, India) Taxonomies in Operation, Design, and Meta-Design Claudia Niederee, Claudio Muscogiuri, Matthias Hemmje (Fraunhofer-IPSI, Darmstadt, Germany) Information Concepts for Content Management M Grossniklaus, M C Norrie (Institute for Information systems, ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Elegant Decision Tree algorithm for Classification in Data Mining B Chandra (Dept Of Mathematics, IIT Delhi, India), Sati Mazumdar, Vincent Arena (Univ of Pittsburgh, USA), N Parimi (NSIT, New Delhi, India)
Session 3 (W2S3)
Venue	Magnolia 2
4pm - 5:30pm	Chair: Mong Li Lee (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Conceptual Modeling for Semistructured Data Antonio Badia(Comp Engg & Comp Sci Dept, Univ of Louisville, Louisville, KY) Ontology based Web Annotation Framework for Hyperlink structures Myo-Myo Naing, Ee-Peng Lim(Centre for Advanced Information Systems , School of Comp Engg, NTU, Singapore) A XML Specification Language to Support a Virtual Marketplace of Data Mining E-Services S Krishnaswamy(School of Network Computing, Monash Univ, Frankston, Australia), S E Pin, J H Ho, W Gunawan School of Comp Sci & Software Engg, Monash Univ, Caulfield East, Australia)

(Workshop 3: MEWS '02)
Session 1 (W3S1)	Web Mining Algorithms
Venue	Camellia 3
9am - 10:30am	Chair: Qing Li (City University of Hong Kong, China) A Matrix Approach for Hierarchical Web Page Clustering Based on Hyperlinks Jingyu Hou and Yanchun Zhang (University of Southern Queensland, Australia) Evaluating Web Access Log Mining Algorithms: A Cognitive Approach Yew-Kwong Woon, Wee-Keong Ng and Ee-Peng Lim (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Two Odds-Radio-Based Text Classification Algorithms Zhi-Hong Deng, Shi-Wei Tang, Dong-Qing Yang, Ming Zhang, Xiao-Bin Wu and Meng Yang (Peking University, China)
Session 2 (W3S2)	Log Mining
Venue	Camellia 3
11am - 12:30pm	Chair: Qing Li (City University of Hong Kong, China) Mining Web Logs for Personalized Site Maps Fergus Toolan and Nicholas Kushmerick (University College Dublin) Log Mining to Improve the Performance of Site Search Gui-Rong Xue, Hua-Jun Zeng, Zheng Chen, Wei-Ying Ma and Chao-Jun Lu (Microsoft Research Asia, China) On the Enhancing Searching for Information in an Information Portal by Tracking Users’ Activities N. Stojanovic, L. Stojanovic, J. Gonzalez (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
Session 3 (W3S3)	Intelligent Web Search
Venue	Magnolia 2
2pm - 3pm	Chair: Yanchun Zhang (University of Southern Queensland, Australia) Search for Flash(tm) Movies on the Web Jun Yang, Qing Li, Liu Wenyin and Yueting Zhuang (City University of Hong Kong) Extracting Relevant Information for a Domain-specific search Service using Knowledge-based Mining Techniques Ilvio Bruder and Christian Dethloff (University of Rostock, Germany)