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Introduction One of the most often-repeated questions of recent years is 'Are you on the Web?' The growth ofthe World Wide Web (WWW or simply 'Web') has been phenomenal. It seems that everyone has a web site, or is at least planning have one, and everyone wants to get on-line with their products and services, accounts of their favourite hobbies, their resumes, or pictures of their loved ones. So that you too can join in the on-line revolution, this book will help you get onto the web: to make informed decisions about developing your own web site, how to plan and design the site, and then how to get the site on-line for the world to see. Essential HTML Fast 2 Why use the Web? There are many reasons why you would want to use the Web, and why the web is becoming an essential tool for business. Some of these are: • It is cross-platform: If you're reading this at work, you're probably painfully aware of some of the problems caused by being tied to a particular type of computer. You might have come across some software that would make your job easier, but then discover that the software is only available for a different computer running a different operating system. You may have been sent some documents by a client which you subsequently discover you can't read, as the disk seems to be of the wrong type.

HTML (Document markup language). --- HTML (Document markup language) --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Computer Science --- HTML (Langage de balisage) --- Computer programming. --- Application software. --- Programming languages (Electronic computers). --- Programming Techniques. --- Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet). --- Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters. --- Computer languages --- Computer program languages --- Computer programming languages --- Machine language --- Electronic data processing --- Languages, Artificial --- Application computer programs --- Application computer software --- Applications software --- Apps (Computer software) --- Computer software --- Computers --- Electronic computer programming --- Electronic digital computers --- Programming (Electronic computers) --- Coding theory --- Programming

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Telecommunication Services, IDMS'98, held in Oslo, Norway, in September 1998. The 23 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from a total of 68 submissions. Also included are seven position statements. The book is divided into topical sections on distributed multimedia applications; platforms for collaborative systems; MPEG; coding for WWW, wireless, and mobile environments; QoS and user aspects; flow control, congestion control, and multimedia streams; multimedia servers, documents, and authoring; and storage servers.

Interactive multimedia --- Telecommunication systems --- Congresses --- Computer science. --- Computer communication systems. --- Multimedia information systems. --- Computer Science. --- Computer Communication Networks. --- Multimedia Information Systems. --- Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet). --- Multimedia systems. --- Computer-based multimedia information systems --- Multimedia computing --- Multimedia information systems --- Multimedia knowledge systems --- Information storage and retrieval systems --- Application software. --- Application computer programs --- Application computer software --- Applications software --- Apps (Computer software) --- Computer software --- Communication systems, Computer --- Computer communication systems --- Data networks, Computer --- ECNs (Electronic communication networks) --- Electronic communication networks --- Networks, Computer --- Teleprocessing networks --- Data transmission systems --- Digital communications --- Electronic systems --- Information networks --- Telecommunication --- Cyberinfrastructure --- Electronic data processing --- Network computers --- Distributed processing --- Interactive multimedia - Congresses --- Telecommunication systems - Congresses

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1 Introduction Imagine a virtual world with digital creatures that looks like real life, sounds like real life, and even feels like real life. Imagine a virtual world not only with nice three dimensional graphics and animations, but also with realistic physical laws and forces. This virtual world could be familiar, reproducing some parts of our reality, or unfa miliar, with strange “physical” laws and artificial life forms. As a researcher interested in the sciences of complexity, the idea of a conference about virtual worlds emerged from frustration. In the last few years, there has been an increasing interest in the design of artificial environments using image synthesis and virtual reality. The emergence of industry standards such as VRML [1] is an illustra tion of this growing interest. At the same time, the field of Artificial Life has ad dressed and modeled complex phenomena such as self organization, reproduction, development, and evolution of artificial life like systems [2]. One of the most popular works in this field has been Tierra designed by Tom Ray: an environment producing synthetic organisms based on a computer metaphor of organic life in which CPU time is the “energy” resource and memory is the “material” resource [3]. Memory is or ganized into informational patterns that exploit CPU time for self replication. Muta tion generates new forms, and evolution proceeds by natural selection as different creatures compete for CPU time and memory space.

Human-computer interaction --- Virtual reality --- Artificial intelligence --- Computer Science --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Congresses --- Computer science. --- Multimedia information systems. --- Artificial intelligence. --- Computer graphics. --- Computer Science. --- Computer Graphics. --- Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics). --- Multimedia Information Systems. --- Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet). --- Multimedia systems. --- Artificial Intelligence. --- Computer-based multimedia information systems --- Multimedia computing --- Multimedia information systems --- Multimedia knowledge systems --- Information storage and retrieval systems --- AI (Artificial intelligence) --- Artificial thinking --- Electronic brains --- Intellectronics --- Intelligence, Artificial --- Intelligent machines --- Machine intelligence --- Thinking, Artificial --- Bionics --- Cognitive science --- Digital computer simulation --- Electronic data processing --- Logic machines --- Machine theory --- Self-organizing systems --- Simulation methods --- Fifth generation computers --- Neural computers --- Automatic drafting --- Graphic data processing --- Graphics, Computer --- Computer art --- Graphic arts --- Engineering graphics --- Image processing --- Digital techniques --- Application software. --- Application computer programs --- Application computer software --- Applications software --- Apps (Computer software) --- Computer software

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second East European Symposium on Advances in Databases and Information systems, ADBIS '98, held in Poznan, Poland in September 1998. The 25 revised full papers presented were selected from a total of 90 submissions and six extended abstracts within a special section. "East meets West". The papers are organized in topical sections on query languges, optimization, collaborative systems, schema integration, storage and version management, object systems, knowledge discovery and the Web, and systems design.

Database management --- Information technology --- Computer Science --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Congresses --- Computer science. --- Data structures (Computer science). --- Database management. --- Information storage and retrieval. --- Multimedia information systems. --- Computer engineering. --- Computer Science. --- Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory. --- Computer Engineering. --- Database Management. --- Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet). --- Information Storage and Retrieval. --- Multimedia Information Systems. --- System design --- Data structures (Computer scienc. --- Information storage and retrieva. --- Multimedia systems. --- Data Structures and Information Theory. --- Data base management --- Data services (Database management) --- Database management services --- DBMS (Computer science) --- Generalized data management systems --- Services, Database management --- Systems, Database management --- Systems, Generalized database management --- Electronic data processing --- Computer-based multimedia information systems --- Multimedia computing --- Multimedia information systems --- Multimedia knowledge systems --- Information storage and retrieval systems --- Information storage and retrieval systems. --- Application software. --- Application computer programs --- Application computer software --- Applications software --- Apps (Computer software) --- Computer software --- Computers --- Information structures (Computer science) --- Structures, Data (Computer science) --- Structures, Information (Computer science) --- File organization (Computer science) --- Abstract data types (Computer science) --- Design and construction

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Trends in Electronic Commerce, TREC'98, held in Hamburg, Germany, in June 1998. The book presents 19 revised full papers selected from a total of 75 submissions. While focussing mainly on technological issues, the book also takes into account important social, administrative, regulatory, and legal aspects. The papers are organized in sections on business over the Internet, security and payment, middleware and brokerage, interorganisational workflow management, and agent technology.

Electronic commerce --- Internet advertising --- Electronic funds transfers --- Middleware --- Workflow --- Intelligent agents (Computer software) --- Congresses --- Management --- Workflow systems --- Computer science. --- Information technology. --- Business --- Computer communication systems. --- Data encryption (Computer science). --- Computers and civilization. --- Computer Science. --- Computer Communication Networks. --- IT in Business. --- Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet). --- Data Encryption. --- Computers and Society. --- Data processing. --- Cryptology. --- Data encoding (Computer science) --- Encryption of data (Computer science) --- Computer security --- Cryptography --- IT (Information technology) --- Technology --- Telematics --- Information superhighway --- Knowledge management --- Informatics --- Science --- Business—Data processing. --- Application software. --- Civilization and computers --- Civilization --- Application computer programs --- Application computer software --- Applications software --- Apps (Computer software) --- Computer software --- Communication systems, Computer --- Computer communication systems --- Data networks, Computer --- ECNs (Electronic communication networks) --- Electronic communication networks --- Networks, Computer --- Teleprocessing networks --- Data transmission systems --- Digital communications --- Electronic systems --- Information networks --- Telecommunication --- Cyberinfrastructure --- Electronic data processing --- Network computers --- Distributed processing --- Electronic commerce - Congresses --- Internet advertising - Congresses --- Electronic funds transfers - Congresses --- Middleware - Congresses --- Workflow - Management - Congresses --- Intelligent agents (Computer software) - Congresses