The First International Workshop on Searching and Integrating New Web Data Sources (VLDS 2011) will take place on September 2nd, as a satellite event of VLDB 2011 in Seattle, WA, USA. The goal of this workshop is to gather researchers and practitioners in the diverse fields related to data integration and search applications on the web at the purpose of discussing innovative strategies for combining search facilities with integration aspects for Web data sources. The workshop represents a unique venue for discussing all the aspects related to the implementation, publication, and orchestration of services over new Web data sources, the most suitable paradigms to improve the user experience in context, as well as the application scenarios which may better benefit of these new technologies, including enterprise applications, recommender systems, and social search.

1. V E R Y L A R G E D A T A S E A R C H First International Workshop on Searching and Integrating New Web Data Sources Colocated with VLDB 2011 September 2nd, Seattle, WA, USA Fabio Casati University of Trento casati@disi.unitn.itfabiocasati sphoebs Marco Brambilla Politecnico di Milano marco.brambilla@polimi.it marcobrambi marcobrambi Stefano Ceri Politecnico di Milano stefano.ceri@polimi.it stefanoceri searchcomputing

2. Welcome! 2 First edition of this workshop Aim: discussing innovative strategies for combining search facilities with integration aspects for Web data sources Papers and program available at: http://vlds2011.search-computing.org Twitter hashtag:#vlds2011

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4. Detailed Agenda - morning 8:30-9:30 Opening and Academic Keynote Hector Garcia-Molina (Stanford University): Information Seeking: Convergence of Search, Recommendations and Advertising 9:30-10:10 Personal and Social Search Sara Cohen(Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Benny Kimelfeld, Georgia Koutrika and Jan Vondrak (IBM Research – Almaden): On Principles of Egocentric Person Search in Social Networks AtsuyukiMorishima, Norihide Shinagawa and Shoji Mochizuki (University of Tsukuba):The Power of Integrated Abstraction for Data-Centric Human/Machine Computations Coffee Break 10:40-12:00 Data Extraction and Linking SilvanaCastano, Alfio Ferrara and Stefano Montanelli (UniversitàdegliStudidi Milano): Thematic Exploration of Linked Data VarishMulwad, Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi (University of Maryland): Generating Linked Data by Inferring the Semantics of Tables Lorenzo Blanco, ValterCrescenzi, Paolo Merialdo and Paolo Papotti (Universitàdi Roma 3): Contextual Data Extraction and Instance-Based Integration François Goasdoué, KonstantinosKaranasos, YannisKatsis, JulienLeblay, IoanaManolescu and StamatisZampetakis (INRIA Saclay and LRI, Université Paris-Sud): Growing Triples on Trees: an XML-RDF Hybrid Model for Annotated Documents Lunch 4

5. Detailed agenda - afternoon 13:30 – 14:10 Industrial Keynote Alon Halevy, Google:Towards an Eco-System of Structured Data on the Web 14:10 – 15:10: Using Ranking for Selection, Visualization, and Valorization Maria Christoforaki, IvieErunse and Cong Yu (New York University): Searching Social Updates for Topic-centric Entities Brent Wenerstrom and MehmedKantardzic (Duthie Center for Engineering, Lousville): Enhanced Visualization for Web-Based Summaries Laura ErnestaBonetti, Sofia Ceppi and Nicola Gatti (Politecnico di Milano): Designing a Revenue Mechanism for Federated Search Engines Coffee Break 15:30 – 16:30 New and News Applications Alessandro Bozzon, Luca Cioria, PieroFraternali and Maristella Matera (Politecnico di Milano): Dynamic Visualizations for Multi-Domain Search Results Alessandro Bozzon, ChiaraPasini, Luca Tettamanti, Salvatore Vadacca (Politecnico di Milano), Tim Furche and Giorgio Orsi (Oxford University): Search Computing Meets Data Extraction Annie Louis (University of Pennsylvania), Eric Crestan (Microsoft), YoussefBillawala, RaoShen, Fernando Diaz and Jean-Francois Crespo (Yahoo Lans): Use of Query Similarity for Improving Presentation of News Verticals 16:30- 17:00 Closing Discussion on Very Large Data Search (animated by the Workshop Organizers) 5

6. Program Committee 6 Boualem Benatallah, UNSW Sydney Paolo Boldi, Università Statale di Milano Tevfik Bultan, UC Santa Barbara Paolo Castagna, Talis Tiziana Catarci, Univ. La Sapienza di Roma Florian Daniel, Universitàdi Trento Arjen P. De Vries, CWI Amsterdam Marlon Dumas, University of Tartu SchahramDustdar, Vienna Univ. of Tech. Georg Gottlob, Oxford University VagelisHristidis, Florida Int. University Christian Konig, Microsoft Ioana Manolescu, INRIA Norman Paton, Manchester University Gabriella Pasi, Università Mi-Bicocca Fabian Suchanek, INRIA Gerhard Weikum, MPI Saarbruken

7. Stats 21 submissions Authors from 8 countries Bangladesh, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, UK, USA, Singapore, Spain, Taiwan 12 accepted papers (57%) 7

8. Logistics 8 20 minutes per paper 15 min talk, 5 min Q&A after every paper Open discussions at the end of the workshop trend and challenges Possible target: joint publication (position paper, SIGMOD record, ...) on the outcomes We collect presentations from the authors, will be available on the workshop web site

9. Vision for the Future 9 A community for large data integration and search for the Web A selection of papers to be published in upcoming Springer book collecting works from 5 related workshops Repeat the workshop next years Co-chairs (self)proposal welcome Suggestions on workshop and paper format welcome

10. First International Workshop on Searching and Integrating New Web Data Sources Thanks for joining Fabio Casati Politecnico di Milano casati@unitn.itfabiocasati Marco Brambilla Politecnico di Milano marco.brambilla@polimi.it marcobrambi marcobrambi Stefano Ceri Politecnico di Milano stefano.ceri@polimi.it stefanoceri searchcomputing