After presenting our Liquid Query paper at WWW 2010, we took some time to analyze the overall scientific and technical program, spotting some papers that relates a lot to some of the research problems addressed by SeCo.

Foundations

• Selecting Skyline Services for QoS-based Web Service Composition (Mohammad Alrifai, Dimitrios Skoutas, Thomas Risse – L3S)
• Hierarchical Feature Selection for Ranking – Hua, Zhang, Liu, Ma, Ru (Tsinghua University)
• Generalized Distances between Rankings – Ravi Kumar Sergei (Yahoo! Research)
• Classification-Enhanced Ranking – Paul N. Bennett, Krysta Svore, Susan T. Dumais (Microsoft Research)
• Ranking Specialization for Web Search: A Divide-and-Conquer Approach by Using Topical RankSVM – Jiang Bian (Georgia Institute of Technology), Xin Li, Fan Li, Zhaohui Zheng (Yahoo! Labs), Hongyuan Zha (Georgia Institute of Technology)
• Ad-hoc Object Retrieval in the Web of Data – Jeffrey Pound, David R. (Cheriton School of Computer Science), Peter Mika, Hugo Zaragoza (Yahoo Research)

Semantic Web and Linked Data

• Matrix “Bit”loaded: A Scalable Lightweight Join Query – Vineet Chaoji ( Yahoo! Labs, Bangalore), Medha Atre , Mohammed J. Zaki , and James A. Hendler (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA)
• Selectivity Estimation for SPARQL Graph Pattern – Hai Huang (Swinburne University of Technology), Chengfei Liu (Swinburne University of Technology)
• Data Summaries for On-Demand Queries over Linked Data – Andreas Harth (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Katja Hose (Max-Planck Institute for Informatics), Marcel Karnstedt, Axel Polleres, Jurgen Umbrich (DERI), Kai-Uwe Sattler (Ilmenau University of Technology)
• DSNotify: Handling Broken Links in the Web of Data – Niko P. Popitsch, Bernhard Haslhofer (University of Vienna)
• Linking Content in Unstructured Sources – Marie-Francine Moens (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)

User Interactions and Interfaces

• A Comparison of Visual and Textual Page Previews in Judging the Helpfulness of Web Pages – Anne Aula, Rehan M. Khan, Zhiwei Guan, Paul Fontes, Peter Hong (Google)
• Malicious Interface Design: Exploiting the User - Gregory Conti, Edward Sobiesk (United States Military Academy)
• What You See Is What You Search: Adaptive Visual Search Framework for the Web – Jae-wook Ahn, Peter Brusilovsky (University of Pittsburgh)
• visKWQL, a Visual Renderer for a Semantic Web Query Language – Andreas Hartl, Klara Weiand, François Bry (University of Munich)
• Facetedpedia: Dynamic Generation of Query-Dependent Faceted Interfaces for Wikipedia – Chengkai Li, Ning Yan, Senjuti B. Roy, Lekhendro Lisham, Gautam Das (University of Texas at Arlington)
• A Characterization of Online Browsing Behavior – Ravi Kumar (Yahoo! Research), Andrew Tomkins (Google)
• What are the Most Eye-catching and Ear-catching Features in the Video? Implications for Video Summarization – Yaxiao Song, Gary Marchionini, Chi Young Oh  (University of North Carolina)

Result Diversification

• Diversifying Web Search Results – Davood Rafiei (University of Alberta), Krishna Bharat, Anand Shukla (Google)
• Exploiting Query Reformulations for Web Search Result Diversification – Rodrygo L. T. Santos, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis (University of Glasgow)

Web Technologies

• Sync Kit: A Persistent Client-Side Database Caching Toolkit for Data Intensive Websites – Edward Benson, Adam Marcus, David Karger, Samuel Madden (MIT CSAI)
• Automated Object Persistence for JavaScript – Brett Cannon, Eric Wohlstadter (University of British Columbia)
• A Refreshing Perspective of Search Engine Caching – B. Barla Cambazoglu, Flavio P. Junqueira, Scott Banachowski, Baoqiu Cui, Swee Lim (YAHOO Research), Vassilis Plachouras (Dept. of Informatics, AUEB), Bill Bridge (Oracle)