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Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen University of Dortmund, Germany Madhu Sudan Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Moshe Y. Vardi Rice University, Houston, TX, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany

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Jeffrey Xu Yu Masaru Kitsuregawa Hong Va Leong (Eds.)

Advances in Web-Age Information Management 7th International Conference, WAIM 2006 Hong Kong, China, June 17-19, 2006 Proceedings

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Volume Editors Jeffrey Xu Yu Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong, China E-mail: [email protected] Masaru Kitsuregawa University of Tokyo, Institute of Industrial Science 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-Ku, Tokyo 153-8505, Japan E-mail: [email protected] Hong Va Leong Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Department of Computing Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China E-mail: [email protected]

Library of Congress Control Number: 2006927069 CR Subject Classification (1998): H.2, H.3, H.4, I.2, H.5, C.2, J.1 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 3 – Information Systems and Application, incl. Internet/Web and HCI ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13

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Preface

The rapid prevalence of Web applications requires new technologies for the design, implementation and management of Web-based information systems. WAIM 2006, following the past tradition of WAIM conferences, was an international forum for researchers, practitioners, developers and users to share and exchange cutting-edge ideas, res