Dominik Flejter's Master's thesis entitled "Automatic Topical Segmentation of Documents in Text Collections" one first prize in NTIE's annual contest for best Master's thesis defended in previous year. Dominik Flejter was officially awarded the prize yesterday at the ceremonial dinner during the first day of annual meeting of NTIE members.

Dominik Flejter presented idea of his PhD thesis entitled "Multilocators for Robust Addressing of Dynamic Web Content" at the doctoral consortium during the second day of annual NTIE meeting. The talk, which was the first public presentation of the thesis idea, covered informal definition of Web content addesssing problem, presented main research assumptions, analysed major problems in content addressing (including granularity problems, Deep Web and several levels of Web dynamics) and described preliminaries of proposed solution introducing planned Web representation method, ideas of multilocators and verifiers and multilocator generalization algorithms.

Paper authored by Dominik Flejter, Tomasz Kaczmarek and Witold Abramowicz titled "FST-Based Deep Web Records Monitoring" was submitted for the 9th ACM International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management.

Abstract of the paper is as follows:

"The Web is one of the most valuable but also one of the most dynamic sources of information in human history. To minimize the effect of information overload and allow effective usage of new information when it is published, several Web monitoring approaches were previously proposed. In this paper we focus on challenges and solutions for monitoring largly unexplored but highly valuable part of the Web called Deep Web. In constrast with many previous monitoring solutions we propose data-level monitoring rather than observation of whole pages (HTML documents). Our frist constribution is a formalism of Deep Web site description based on nite state transducers and XPath 2.0 enabling Deep Web navigation and data extraction. Our second contribution consists in adaptation of this formalism to the Deep Web scenarions: monitoring specific places (locations), specific data (resources) or looking for new content."

PDF versions of several pepers authored by Integror members were posted on-line. Papaers can be downloaded at the publications section of this Web site.

A microseminar related to open source CMS applications available at the market will take place on Friday, July 13^th at 12.00 at the room 1813. The topic will be presented by Integror member Adam Walczak. Anyone interested in this topics is encouraged to come.