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 selected from numerous submissions. The book is organized in sections on: XML - queries and DTD; object-orientation - modelling 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;...