Advances in Web-Age Information Management: 6th International Conference, WAIM 2005, Hangzhou, China, October 11-13, 2005, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management, WAIM 2005, held in Hangzhou, China, in October 2005.

The 48 revised full papers, 50 revised short papers and 4 industrial papers presented together with 3 invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 486 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on XML, performance and query evaluation, data mining, semantic Web and Web ontology, data management, information systems, Web services and workflow, data grid and database languages, agent and mobile data, database application and transaction management, and 3 sections with industrial, short, and demonstration papers.