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These suggested paper, project and/or presentation topics are listed in arbitrary order and are not intended to be exhaustive. (This list was adapted from the WWW2009 Conference call for papers.)

Important Note: Some of these topics, e.g., "availability", could be applied to almost anything, such as "availability of free drinks". The topic must be refined to be specific to Web information management technology.

Performance, Scalability and Availability

	Availability
	Caching and replication
	Capacity planning and resource provisioning
	Characterization of user experience and behavior on the Web
	Cloud computing and Software as a Service (SaaS)
	Content and service delivery
	Edge services
	Improving the performance, scalability and availability of real-world Web systems
	Internet streaming and multimedia
	Load balancing and resource allocation
	Monitoring and management of Web-based services
	Overlay networks and content-aware routing
	Performance modeling
	Performance of peer-to-peer systems and services (e.g., TV, voice)
	Quality of service and service level agreements (SLAs)
	Workload characterization

Rich Media

	Indexing and retrieval of Web rich-media content
	Tagging of rich-media data
	Context-capture of rich-media data
	Scalable machine learning and data mining techniques for media data analysis
	Applications of Web rich media: biomedicine, education, entertainment, animation, art, cultural studies, Enterprise communications, customer service, etc.
	User interfaces, multi-modal interaction, virtual environments
	Rich media systems: capture, recording, protocols, content delivery, integration, convergence (across media), interoperability (of contextual data) correlation (across media types), synchronization, wireless, authoring, capture, recording, etc.
	Storage, retrieval of multimedia interactions vs. content
	Rich Media Semantic Computing

	Search engine infrastructure: crawling, indexing, and query processing
	Generic search platforms such as Map-Reduce
	Matching and relevance ranking of web documents
	Search advertising and contextual advertising: serving infrastructure, matching, relevance ranking, etc.
	Vertical search: multimedia, blogs, news, research papers, e-commerce, etc.
	Search engine evaluation and measurements
	Search user interfaces: natural language interfaces, summarization, suggestions, etc.
	Personalized search
	Negative content filtering: spam, porn, viruses, etc.
	Multiple collections: metasearch, rank aggregation, different media
	Query log analysis
	Semantic search: entity retrieval, geo/temporal search, sub/super-documents, etc.
	Query and search user modeling
	Multifaceted search
	Distributed and peer-to-peer search
	Enterprise and desktop search
	Security and privacy in web search
	Search and standards: RSS/ATOM, OpenSearch
	Novel search paradigms
	Search as an enabler of higher-level applications: implicit search, mashups, etc.

Security and Privacy

	Authentication, authorization, and auditing on the web
	Availability and reliability of Web servers and services
	Browser security issues, including attacks, defenses, and policy models
	Privacy-enhancing technologies, including anonymity, pseudonymity and identity management, specifically for the web
	User interfaces and usability as they relate to use of cryptography in the web and online scams such as phishing and pharming
	Applications of cryptography to the web, including PKI and supporting concepts like digital signatures, certification, etc.
	Electronic commerce, particularly security mechanisms for e-cash, auctions, payment, and fraud detection
	Secure and robust management of server farms
	Dealing with client-side risks
	Security for new web services (blogs, web feed, wikis, social networks, etc.)
	Content protection and abuse on the web (DRM, web/blog spam, etc.)

Web Engineering

	Processes and methods for Web application development
	Conceptual modeling of Web applications
	Model-driven Web application development
	Domain-specific languages and approaches for Web application development
	Object-oriented and component-based Web application development
	Web application architectures and frameworks
	Patterns for Web application development and pattern mining
	Web content management and data-intensive Web applications
	Web service engineering
	Semantic Web services
	Web service-based architectures and applications
	Quality of service and its metrics for Web applications
	Web usability and accessibility
	Testing and evaluation of Web applications
	Deployment and usage analysis of Web applications
	Adaptive and personalized Web applications
	Web-based workflows and collaborative Web applications
	Federated and inter-organizational Web applications

XML and Web Data

	XML query processing and data management
	Models and query languages for Web data
	Hidden Web resource discovery, retrieval and integration
	Data management support for Web crawling
	Approximate and trustworthy query answering
	Data stream management systems
	Exploration and visualization of Web data
	Integration of text into XML and relational databases
	XML Data and schema integration
	Warehousing Web data
	Data management in Peer-to-Peer systems
	Privacy and security of XML data
	Provenance of Web data
	Large-scale web information integration
	Web wrappers
	Information extraction
	Managing uncertainty in Web-based data
	Evaluation of XML querying and retrieval systems
	Exploiting XML structure in access and retrieval