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.