WIDM 1998: Bathesda, Maryland, USA
Fereidoon Sadri (Ed.): CIKM'98 First Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM'98), Bathesda, Maryland, USA, November 6, 1998. ACM 1998
Invited Talks
Alberto O. Mendelzon: The Web is not a Database.
Ashish Gupta: E-Commerce and the Web.
Paper Session I

Eric J. Glover, William P. Birmingham, Michael D. Gordon: Improving Web Search Using Utility Theory. 5-8
Hong Va Leong, Dennis McLeod, Antonio Si, Stanley M. T. Yau: Multi-resolution Transmission and Browsing in Mobile Web. 13-16
Anupam Joshi, C. K. Punyapu, P. Karnam: Personalization & Asynchronicity to Support Mobile Web Access. 17-20
Paper Session II
Maristella Agosti, Franco Crivellari, Massimo Melucci: Evaluation Methods to Improve Information Content Extraction from the Web. 25-28
Ulf Leser: Combining Heterogeneous Data Sources through Query Correspondence Assertions. 29-32
Thomas Lee, Stéphane Bressan, Stuart E. Madnick: Source Attribution for Querying Against Semi-structured Documents. 33-39
Paper Session III
Laura Bright, Louiqa Raschid, Maria-Esther Vidal: Optimization of Wrappers and Mediators for Web Accessible Data Sources (WebSources). 40-44
Dongwon Lee, Wesley W. Chu: Conjunctive Point Predicate-based Semantic Caching for Wrappers in Web Databases. 45-48
Kajal T. Claypool, Elke A. Rundensteiner, Li Chen, Bhupesh Kothari: Re-usable ODMG-based Templates for Web View Generation and Restructuring. 53-56



