Web Technologies and Applications : 5th Asia-Pacific Web Conference, APWeb 2003, Xian, China, April 2003, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2642).

Thepapersinthisvolumewerepresentedatthe5thAsiaPaci?cWebConference (APWeb 2003), which was held in Xi’an, China during 23–25 April 2003. The World Wide Web has dramatically changed our ways of working, le- ning,entertaininganddoingbusinessinthelast10years. TheAsiaPaci?cregion has emerged in recent years as the fastest growing region in the world in the use of Web technologies as well as in making signi?cant contributions to WWW research and development. APWeb this year received 136 submissions from 21 countries and regions, including Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, F- land, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Korea, Kuwait, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, UK, and USA. Each subm- sion was carefully reviewed by three members of the Program Committee. Only 39 regular papers and 16 short papers were accepted. While XML-related te- nologies continued to dominate at this year’s APWeb conference, this volume - vealssomeemergingtrends,suchastheformalfoundationsofWebdatamana- ment, architectures and methodologies in Web information systems engineering, Web-based work?ow management systems, and the applications of data mining and distributed data management techniques in the new context of the Web. Also included in this volume are two high-quality papers from leading research groups on the topic of web mining (organized by Wen-Ying Ma of Microsoft - searchAsia). OnehighlightofAPWeb2003wasitshigh-pro?lekeynotespeakers, Marek Rusinkiewicz (Telcordia Technologies, USA), Minoru Etoh (NTT DoCoMo USA Labs) and Beng Chin Ooi (National University of Singapore). Two keynote papers are included here. The conference received ?nancial support from Microsoft, Netec and a n- ber of Xi’an software industry and government agencies.

Keynote Papers.- Trends in Mobile Multimedia and Networks.- DB-Enabled Peers for Managing Distributed Data.- XML and Database Design.- Functional Dependencies for XML.- On Transformation to Redundancy Free XML Schema from Relational Database Schema.- Constraint Preserving XML Updating.- Efficient XML Data Management.- ENAXS: Efficient Native XML Storage System.- A Fast Index for XML Document Version Management.- A Commit Scheduler for XML Databases.- An Efficient Path Index for Querying Semi-structured Data.- Integrating Path Index with Value Index for XML Data.- Automatic Layout Generation with XML Wrapping.- XML Transformation.- Efficient Evaluation in XML to XML Transformations.- Formalizing Semantics of XSLT Using Object-Z.- An XML-Based Context-Aware Transformation Framework for Mobile Execution Environments.- FIXT: A Flexible Index for XML Transformation.- Formal Foundation of Web Navigation Stereotypes and Their Transformation into XML.- Web Mining.- Mining “Hidden Phrase” Definitions from the Web.- Extending a Web Browser with Client-Side Mining.- Real-Time Segmenting Time Series Data.- An Efficient Data Mining Algorithm for Discovering Web Access Patterns.- Applying Data Mining Techniques to Analyze Alert Data.- Web Clustering, Ranking and Profiling.- Web Page Clustering: A Hyperlink-Based Similarity and Matrix-Based Hierarchical Algorithms.- A Framework for Decentralized Ranking in Web Information Retrieval.- A Web User Profiling Approach.- A New Algorithm for Performing Ratings-Based Collaborative Filtering.- Payment and Security.- Architecture for a Component-Based, Plug-In Micro-payment System.- Verifying the Purchase Request in SET Protocol.- Self-organizing Coefficient for Semi-blind Watermarking.- Applying RBAC Providing Restricted Permission Inheritance to a Corporate Web Environment.- eSignature Verification on Web Using Statistical Mining Approach.- Web Application Architectures.- Deriving Architectures of Web-Based Applications.- A New Agent Framework with Behavior Delegation Using SOAP.- Improving the Web Presentation Layer Architecture.- An Event Based Approach to Web Service Design and Interaction.- Active Document Framework ADF: Concept and Method.- Advanced Applications.- Goal-Oriented Analysis and Agent-Based Design of Agile Supply Chain.- Methodologies and Mechanism Design in Group Awareness Support for Internet-Based Real-Time Distributed Collaboration.- Statistics Based Predictive Geo-spatial Data Mining: Forest Fire Hazardous Area Mapping Application.- Knowledge Representation, Ontologies, and the Semantic Web.- Web Wrapper Validation.- Web and Multimedia.- Web-Based Image Retrieval with a Case Study.- Extracting Content Structure for Web Pages Based on Visual Representation.- XML Data Integration and Distribution in a Web-Based Object Video Server System.- Network Protocols.- Genetic Algorithm-Based QoS Multicast Routing for Uncertainty in Network Parameters.- Tagged Fragment Marking Scheme with Distance-Weighted Sampling for a Fast IP Traceback.- An Ant Algorithm Based Dynamic Routing Strategy for Mobile Agents.- Integration of Mobile IP and NHRP over ATM Networks.- Workflow Management Systems.- e_SWDL : An XML Based Workflow Definition Language for Complicated Applications in Web Environments.- An Efficient User Task Handling Mechanism Based on Dynamic Load-Balance for Workflow Systems.- Exception Specification and Handling in Workflow Systems.- Key Issues and Experiences in Development of Distributed Workflow Management Systems.- Advanced Search.- Intelligent Search for Distributed Information Sources Using Heterogeneous Neural Networks.- A Localness-Filter for Searched Web Pages.- DEBIZ: A Decentralized Lookup Service for E-commerce.- Design of B+Tree-Based Predicate Index for Efficient Event Matching.- Data Allocation and Replication.- Data Replication at Web Proxies in Content Distribution Network.- A Hash-Based Collaborative Transcoding Proxy System.- Dynamic Materialized View Management Based on Predicates.- DPR: A Dynamic Partial Replication Protocol Based on Group Communication for a Web-Enable Database Cluster.