The World Wide Web and Databases: Third International Workshop WebDB2000, Dallas, TX, USA, May 18-19, 2000. Selected Papers

With the development of the World—Wide Web, data management problems have branched out from the traditional framework in which tabular data is processed under the strict control of an application, and address today the rich variety of information that is found on the Web, considering a variety of flexible envir— ments under which such data can be searched, classi ed , and processed. Da— base systems are coming forward today in a new role as the primary backend for the information provided o...