Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems [electronic resource] : 5th International Workshop, NGITS 2002, Caesarea, Israel, June 24-25, 2002. Proceedings /

The Fifth Workshop on Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems (NGITS’2002) -- Enabling Design-Centric eBusiness Applications -- Select-Project Queries over XML Documents -- Answering Cooperative Recursive Queries in Web Federated Databases -- Strongly Typed Server Pages -- A New Privacy Model for Web Surfing -- Design and Implementation of a Distributed Crawler and Filtering Processor -- Moving Objects Information Management: The Database Challenge -- Specifying Local Ontologies in Support of Semantic Interoperability of Distributed Inter-organizational Applications -- FOOM and OPM Methodologies - Experimental Comparison of User Comprehension -- The Natural Language Modeling Procedure -- Conversation about Software Requirements with Prototypes and Scenarios -- The Situation Manager Component of Amit — Active Middleware Technology.

NGITS2002 was the ?fth workshop of its kind, promoting papers that discuss new technologies in information systems. Following the success of the four p- vious workshops (1993, 1995, 1997, and 1999), the ?fth NGITS Workshop took place on June 24–25, 2002, in the ancient city of Caesarea. In response to the Call for Papers, 22 papers were submitted. Each paper was evaluated by three Program Committee members. We accepted 11 papers from 3 continents and 5 countries, Israel (5 papers), US (3 papers), Germany, Cyprus, and The Netherlands (1 paper from each). The workshop program consisted of ?ve paper sessions, two keynote lectures, and one panel discussion. The topics of the paper sessions are: Advanced Query Processing, Web Applications, Moving Objects, Advanced Information Models, and Advanced Software Engineering. We would like to thank all the authors who submitted papers, the program committee members, the presenters, and everybody who assisted in making NGITS2002 a reality.