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,...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2003, held in Trento, Italy in December 2003.The 38 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 181 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on service description, service composition, quality of service models, service personalization, service semantics, business processes and transactions, business collaborations, service request and coordination, service security and reliability, infrastructure for service delivery, service...

The 2nd Workshop on Web Services, E-Business, and the Semantic Web (WES) was held during June 16-17, 2003 in conjunction with CAiSE 2003, the 15th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering. The Internet is changing the way businesses operate. Organizations are using the Web to deliver their goods and services, to find trading partners, and to link their existing (maybe legacy) applications to other applications. Web services are rapidly becoming the enabling technology of today's e-business and e-commerce systems, and will soon transform the Web as it is now into a...

This publication contains the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Object-Oriented Information Systems. The first three OOIS conferences were held in London UK (1994), Dublin Ireland (1995) and again in London in 1996. In response to the Call for Papers we received 91 submissions which were reviewed by members of the Program Committee. Each paper was refereed by at least three reviewers, and following discussion with PC members, 40 of the papers were accepted for presentation at the conference, and for publication in this volume. In addition to the contributions from authors,...

This volume contains papers presented during the science trace at the 4th International Conference of Business Information Systems, BIS 2000, held in Poznan, Poland, 12-13 April 2000, which discussed the development, implementation, applications and improvement of computer systems for business processes.
The papers deal with practical, industry experiences and validated prototype implementations, and cover areas such as integration of information systems, electronic transactions and banking, virtual organisations, network technologies, business information systems modelling and analysis.