Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Web-Age Information Management, WAIM 2000, held in Shanghai, China, in June 2000. The 27 revised full papers and 14 short papers presented together with 2 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The book is organized in sections on XML: queries and DTD, object-orientation: modeling and implementation, association rules: mining and applications, enterprise information systems and e-commerce, the Web: document management and retrieval, spatial and temporal databases, data warehousing, information retrieval, semi-structured data, agents, rough sets, and learning.

Invited Talks -- Visual Data Mining for Business Intelligence Applications -- Parallel Data Mining on Large Scale PC Cluster -- XML: DTD and Queries -- XML Query Languages in Practice: An Evaluation -- A Two-Level Method for Clustering DTDs1 -- XML Queries via SQL -- Inferring DTD to Facilitate User-Oriented XML Documents Query -- O-O: Modeling and Implementation -- An Object Oriented Multidimensional Data Model for OLAP -- Applying Object-Oriented Conceptual Modeling Techniques to the Design of Multidimensional Databases and OLAP Applications -- An Optimal Locking Scheme in Object-Oriented Database Systems -- Association Rules: Mining and Application -- An Efficient Distributed Algorithm for Computing Association Rules -- Mining Association Rules with Negative Items Using Interest Measure -- Probabilistic Approach to Association Rules in Incomplete Databases -- Discovering Sequential Patterns from Non-uniform Databases -- An Effective Approach to Mining Exception Class Association Rules1 -- Enterprise Information Systems and E-Commerce -- Integrated Data Management and Enterprise Models -- A Virtual Private Network for Virtual Enterprise Information Systems -- Adaptive Online Retail Web Site Based on Hidden Markov Model -- A Protocol for Untraceable Electronic Cash -- The Web: Document Management and Retrieval -- Materializing Web Data for OLAP and DSS -- Hierarchically Classifying Chinese Web Documents without Dictionary Support and Segmentation Procedure1 -- Web Clustering and Association Rule Discovery for Web Broadcast -- A Non-Euclidean Model for Web Retrieval -- Advanced Replacement Policies for WWW Caching -- Spatial and Temporal Databases -- Extending Rectangle Join Algorithms for Rectilinear Polygons -- HMT: Modeling Temporal Aspects in Hypermedia Applications -- Hana Tree: A Dynamic and Robust Access Method for Spatial Data Handling -- MADGIS: A New Architecture for Distributed GIS under Internet Environment -- Data Warehousing -- Global View Maintenance by Using Inference Relationship among Views -- Maintaining Materialized Views for Data Warehouses with Multiple Remote Sources -- Using Loglinear Models to Compress Datacubes -- Materialized View Selection in a Data Warehouse -- Information Retrieval -- ExSight: Highly Accurate Object Based Image Retrieval System Enhanced by Redundant Object Extraction -- Applying Anaphora Resolution to Question Answering and Information Retrieval Systems -- MB+tree: A Dynamically Updatable Metric Index for Similarity Search -- An Information Store and Retrieval Facility on CORBA -- Retrieving Content Directly from Antique Book Images -- Semi-Structured Data -- Schema Based Data Storage and Query Optimization for Semi-structured Data1 -- Automatic Wrapper Generation for Web Search Engines -- Multi-level Schema Extraction for Heterogeneous Semi-structured Data -- Agent, Rough Set and Learning -- Rough Set Based WebCT Learning -- MultiAgent Systems for Coalition Support -- A Fast Globally Supervised Learning Algorithm for Gaussian Mixture Models -- Optimizing Classifiers by Genetic Algorithm.