Internet Applications: 5th International Computer Science Conference, ICSC'99, Hong Kong, China, December 13-15, 1999 Proceedings: International . 5th (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Computer Science Conference, ICSC'99, held in Hong Kong, China, in December 1999.
The 30 revised full papers presented together with 30 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 80 submissions. The book is divided into sections on information filtering, data mining, Web databases, user interfaces, modeling, information retrieval, workflow, applications, active networks, mobility and distributed databases, protocols, distributed systems, information retrieval and filtering, Web technologies, and e-commerce.

Information Filtering.- A Study of Belief Revision in the Context of Adaptive Information Filtering.- Evaluating Performance Indicators for Adaptive Information Filtering.- Agent Active Networks I.- Optimizing Data-Mining Processes: A CBR Based Experience Factory for Data Mining.- Data Mining.- Analysing Warranty Claims of Automobiles.- An Adaptive Method of Numerical Attribute Merging for Quantitative Association Rule Mining.- Discovering Tendency Association between Objects with Relaxed Periodicity and Its Application in Seismology.- Web Databases.- Algebraic Operations on Bags in a Web Warehouse.- A Distributed Search System Based on Markov Decision Processes.- A Framework for Warehousing the Web Contents.- User Interface.- Dynamic Generation and Browsing of Virtual WWW Space Based on User Profiles.- SemiLog: A Logic-Based Query Language for Hierarchical Data in Web Documents.- Reduction of Object Overlap in Three-Dimensional Browsing Space for Internet Data.- Multimedia.- ScoopCast: Dynamic Video Production and Delivery from Indexed Live Video Stream.- About Tours in the OTHY Hypermedia Design.- Aspect-Oriented Design (AOD) Technique for Developing Distributed Object-Oriented Systems over the Internet.- Modeling.- Modeling Enterprise Objects in a Virtual Enterprise Integrating System: ViaScope.- Object-Oriented Design of an E-Commerce System for Retailing Business.- Extended Awareness Support for Cooperative Work in Non-WYSIWIS Condition.- Information Retrieval.- Query Length, Number of Classes and Routes through Clusters: Experiments with a Clustering Method for Information Retrieval.- Self-Organizing Neural Networks for Data Projection.- ROC Performance Evaluation of Web-Based Bibliographic Navigator Using Extended Association Rules.- Workflow.- Specifying and Reasoning about Workflows with Path Constraints.- Prototyping Web-Based SmartFlow Multi-Application System Using Smart Card Technology.- Temporally Constrained Workflows.- Applications.- A Simple MDCT-Based Speech Coder for Internet Applications.- Supporting Real-Time Faxing over the Internet.- Developing Quality of Service Capabilities for Distributed Imagery Dissemination Services.- Agent/Active Networks II.- A Unified Model of Internet Scale Alerting Services.- Supporting Internet Applications Beyond Browsing: Trigger Processing and Change Notification.- Mobility and Distributed Databases I.- Improving Computer Support for Cooperative Applications over Internet.- A Data Registry-Based Approach for Semantic Represention and Exchange of XML Documents.- Organization of Mobile Networks under Privacy Constraints.- Protocol I.- Mean Time Offset Protocol for Cluster of Auction Servers Over TCP/IP Network.- A Comparative Analysis of Transition Mechanisms for IPv6/IPv4 Routing Environment.- Scalable Protocols for the Internet to Reduce Service Time and Server Load.- Distributed Systems.- An Integrated Approach for Flexible Workflow Modeling.- Integrating Different Signature Purposes in Workflow Systems – A Case Study.- Management of Workflow over the Web Supporting Distributed Process Evolution.- Data Placement and Retrieval Policy for Serving Video Operations through Sequential Access in Video Server.- A Buffering/Caching Mechanism for Continuous Media Players.- Applications.- An Agent-Based Environment for Remote Diagnosis, Supervision and Control.- The Delivery of Effective Integrated Community Care with the Aid of Agents.- Applications of Aglet Technology.- An Internet-Integrated Manufacturing System Prototype.- Information Retrival and Filtering.- Example-Based Chinese Text Filtering Model.- Navigation-Dependent Web-Views: Defining and Controlling Semantic Unit of Web Pages.- An Efficient Chinese Word Segmentation Algorithm for Chinese Information Processing on the Internet.- Push-Based News Delivery with CORBA.- Web Technologies.- Mutual Synergy between Web Caches.- Architecture of Object Web.- JWeb: An Innovative Architecture for Web Applications.- XML Arouse the WEB Architecture Revolution.- E-Commerce.- Knowledge Beads – Approach for Knowledge Representation and Market Place Negotiations for Internet Agents.- AOM: An Agent Oriented Middleware Based on Java.- CORBA-based Open Authentication Support Service of Electronic Commerce.- A Publish/Subscribe Framework: Push Technology in Electronic Commerce.- Mobility and Distributed Databases II.- SemNet: A Semantic Network for Integration of Databases.- Reliable Communication Service for Mobile Agent Based on CORBA.- Protocol II.- Technology of Image Coding for Cell Losses in ATM Transmission.