The rapid growth in Internet, WWW and Intranet systems demands an increased sophistication in established information services, engineeering techniques and methods to improve the development of information services in a World Wide Web environment. The book addresses key, state-of-the-art developments in IS, focusing on such topics as the impact of WWW on organization structures and strategies; techniques for developing new information services, information systems based on multimedia and hypermedia; information filtering, mobile information systems; Intranet applications; security of information systems; and other related areas.

The rapid growth in Internet, WWW and Intranet systems demands an increased sophistication in established information services, engineeering techniques and methods to improve the development of information services in a World Wide Web environment. The book addresses key, state-of-the-art developments in IS, focusing on such topics as the impact of WWW on organization structures and strategies; techniques for developing new information services, information systems based on multimedia and hypermedia; information filtering, mobile information systems; Intranet applications; security of information systems; and other related areas.