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Cooperative computing is an important computing paradigm to enable different parties to work together towards a pre-defined non-trivial goal. It encompasses important technological areas like computer supported cooperative work, workflow, computer assisted design and concurrent programming. As technologies continue to advance and evolve, there is an increasing need to research and develop new classes of middlewares and applications to leverage on the combined benefits of Internet and web to provide users and programmers with highly interactive and robust cooperative computing environment. This book is a compilation of the papers that were presented at the International Workshop on Cooperative Internet Computing (CIC2002). The contributed papers address a broad spectrum on cooperative internet computing, ranging from the more fundamental modeling and specification issues of cooperative systems, to the more application-oriented issues on the popular XML-related system design and implementation.To help structure the book, we have organized these papers into four broad areas of interests: + Distributed Objects and Videos, + Web and E-commerce, + XML and Query Processing, + Modeling and Specification. Cooperative Internet Computing is designed to meet the needs of a professional audience composed of researchers and practitioners in industry. This book is also suitable as a reference text for graduate level students in Computer Science.

The Second International Workshop on Cooperative Internet Computing (CIC2002) has brought together researchers, academics, and industry practitioners who are involved and interested in the development of advanced and emerging cooperative computing technologies. Cooperative computing is an important computing paradigm to enable different parties to work together towards a pre­ defined non-trivial goal. It encompasses important technological areas like computer supported cooperative work, workflow, computer assisted design and concurrent programming. As technologies continue to advance and evolve, there is an increasing need to research and develop new classes of middlewares and applications to leverage on the combined benefits of Internet and web to provide users and programmers with highly interactive and robust cooperative computing environment. It is the aim of this forum to promote close interactions and exchange of ideas among researchers, academics and practitioners on the state-of-the­ art researches in all of these exciting areas. We have partnered with Kluwer Acedamic Press this year to bring to you a book compilation of the papers that were presented at the CIC2002 workshop. The importance of the research area is reflected both in the quality and quantity of the submitted papers, where each paper was reviewed by at least three PC members. As a result, we were able to only accept 14 papers for full presentation at the workshop, while having to reject several excellent papers due to the limitations of the program schedule.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management, WAIM 2006, held in Hong Kong, June 2006. The book presents 50 revised full papers, organized in topical sections on indexing, XML query processing, information retrieval, sensor networks and grid computing, peer-to-peer systems, Web services, Web searching, temporal database, clustering, clustering and classification, data mining, data stream processing, XML and semistructured data, and more.

On behalf of the organizing and program committees of ICWL 2002 we trust you found the conference a fruitful experience and hope you had an enjoyable stay in Hong Kong. August 2002 Ronnie Cheung,Weijia Jia,Reggie Kwan First International Conference on Web-Based Learning (ICWL 2002) August 17-19, 2002, Hong Kong, China ICWL 2002 Organizing Committee Honorable Chair: T. Y. Cheung,City University of Hong Kong Conference Chair: Joseph Fong,City University of Hong Kong Program Co-Chairs: Ronnie Cheung,Hong Kong Polytechnic University Weijia Jia,City University of Hong Kong Reggie Kwan,Open University of Hong Kong Organizing Chair: Keith Chan,Hong Kong Polytechnic University Organizing Vice-Chair: Irene Kwan,Lingnan University Industrial Stream: Anthony Fong,City University of Hong Kong Treasurer: Qing Li,City University of Hong Kong Publicity: Jimmy Chan,Open University of Hong Kong Publication: Philip Tsang,Open University of Hong Kong Webmaster: Hong Va Leong,Hong Kong Polytechnic University Tutorial: W.Lok Yeung,Lingnan University Local Arrangement: Margret Ng,Hong Kong Web Society Conference Secretary: Cherry Chan,Hong Kong Polytechnic University Program Committee Aberer,Karl GMD-IPSI,Germany Bressan,Stephane National University of Singapore,Singapore Busseler,Christoph Oracle Corporation,USA Cao,Jiannong Hong Kong Polytechnic University,Hong Kong Chan,Daniel SYSTEK Information Technology Ltd.

With the rapid development in wireless-network and portable computing and communication devices, mobile users are expected to have access to information from anywhere at anytime in the near future, in the form of ubiquitous c- puting, a term coined by the late Mark Weiser of Xerox, PARC. Indeed, the emerging mobile technology will probably bring us the next wave of information revolution and change our society as we move into the next millennium. Before this vision can be realized, a number of challenges have to be overcome. Tra- tionally, network-based information systems have been developed under wired assumptions about the connectivity and topology of the underlying networks. To eliminate these limitations from wireless and mobile environments, research e orts are needed in networks, architecture, software infrastructure, and app- cation levels, in order to provide mobile data access over hybrid wireless and wired networks, which is the central theme of this conference. Theseproceedingscollectthetechnicalpapersselectedforpresentationatthe First International Conference on Mobile Data Access (MDA'99), held in Hong Kong,followingits returnto China,on December 16{17,1999.Theconferenceis heldin conjunctionwith the InternationalComputer Science Conference,the - ternational Conference on Real-time Computing Systems and Applications, and the Paci c Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing, forming part of the International Computer Congress.