6. LA-WEB 2008: Vila Velha, Espírito Santo, Brasile

Keynote Papers

• Mariano P. Consens:
  Managing Linked Data on the Web: The LinkedMDB Showcase. 1-2
  
• Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones, Manas Tungare, Pardha S. Pyla, Steve R. Harrison:
  Personal Information Ecosystems: Design Concerns for Net-Enabled Devices. 3-11
  
• Fabrizio Silvestri, Ranieri Baraglia, Claudio Lucchese, Salvatore Orlando, Raffaele Perego:
  (Query) History Teaches Everything, Including the Future. 12-22
  

Full Papers

• István Bíró, András A. Benczúr, Jácint Szabó, Ana Gabriela Maguitman:
  A Comparative Analysis of Latent Variable Models for Web Page Classification. 23-28
  
• Gianluca Demartini, Claudiu S. Firan, Tereza Iofciu, Ralf Krestel, Wolfgang Nejdl:
  A Model for Ranking Entities and Its Application to Wikipedia. 29-38
  
• Esteban Feuerstein, Pablo Ariel Heiber, Marcelo Mydlarz:
  Truthful Stochastic and Deterministic Auctions for Sponsored Search. 39-48
  
• Julien Gaugaz, Stefania Costache, Paul-Alexandru Chirita, Claudiu S. Firan, Wolfgang Nejdl:
  Activity Based Links as a Ranking Factor in Semantic Desktop Search. 49-57
  
• Daniela Godoy, Analía Amandi:
  Hybrid Content and Tag-based Profiles for Recommendation in Collaborative Tagging Systems. 58-65
  
• Marcelo Mendoza, Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates:
  A Web Search Analysis Considering the Intention behind Queries. 66-74
  
• Fernando Molina, Jesús Pardillo, Cristina Cachero, José Ambrosio Toval Álvarez:
  Towards a Requirements-Aware Common Web Engineering Metamodel. 75-82
  
• Caroline Queiroz Santos, Ana Maria Pereira Cardoso:
  Web Interactivity in the Perspective of Young Users. 83-90
  
• Marcela Vegetti, Luis Larrateguy, Silvio Gonnet, Horacio P. Leone:
  A Semantic Web-Based Architecture to Support Product Data Management Systems. 91-100
  

Short Papers

• Cristina N. González-Caro, Mari-Carmen Marcos, Liliana Calderón-Benavides, Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates:
  Human or Automatic Answers? A User's Based Study. 101-107
  
• Eduardo Graells, Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates:
  Evolution of the Chilean Web: A Larger Study. 108-114
  
• Guzmán Llambías, Regina Motz, Alvaro Rettich, Marco Scalone:
  Multidimensional Semantic Web Services Matching. 115-120
  
• Emanuel V. Valle, Humberto T. Marques Neto, Wagner Meira Jr., Virgílio A. F. Almeida:
  Characterizing On/Off Pattern of Broadband Internet Users. 121-128
  
• Roverli Pereira Ziwich, Egon Hilgenstieler, Emerson Fabiano Fontana Carara, Elias Procópio Duarte Jr., Luis Carlos Erpen De Bona:
  Using Distributed Diagnosis to Deploy Highly-Available Web Servers. 129-134
  

Web Research in Latin America

• Claudio Gutierrez, Mauricio Marín:
  An Overview of Web Research in Chile. 135-143
  
• Alberto H. F. Laender, Altigran Soares da Silva:
  Cooperative Research on Web Data Management at UFMG and UFAM - A Brief Report. 144-150
  
• Gustavo Rossi:
  A Survey of Web Research in Argentina. 151-155
  
• J. Alfredo Sánchez, Edgar Chávez, Manuel Montes-y-Gómez:
  Information Extraction, Search, Interaction and Collaboration on the Web in Mexico. 156-164
  
• Nivio Ziviani, Edleno Silva de Moura:
  Research Developments in Web Information Retrieval from Two Brazilian Universities. 165-170