Advances in Web-Age Information Management: 4th International Conference, WAIM 2003, Chengdu, China, August 17-19, 2003, Proceedings

With advances in the Internet and technologies around the World—Wide Web, research on design, implementation, and management of Internet— and W— based information systems has become increasingly important. As more and more information of diverse type becomes available on the Internet and Web, query and retrieval as well as the management of information over the Internet become more complex and extremely difficult. Novel approaches to develop and manage Internet and Web information systems a...