Abstract :
The following topics were dealt with: database and expert systems applications, parallel and distributed databases, workflow systems, query optimization, parallelization, query processing, mobile data access, similarity searching, multimedia, new data types, metric space searching, web navigation, user interfaces, requirements engineering, European projects, temporal databases, document modelling, image analysis, document classification, infrastructure and services, WWW-based data management, network systems, algorithms and protocols, XML, Web data management, Web site management, agent technology, legal information systems, electronic commerce and security
Keywords :
information retrieval; information science; Internet; WWW; agent; distributed database; document modelling; electronic commerce; expert system; information retrieval; legal information system; metric space searching; mobile data access; multimedia; parallel database; query optimization; query processing; requirements engineering; search strategy; searching; security; similarity; user interface; web navigation; workflow system;