Information and Knowledge Management: Dilemmas and Directions -- Similarity-Based Queries for Time Series Databases -- Constraints-Based Query Translation across Heterogeneous Sources for Distributed Information Retrieval -- Video Matching Methods Using Spatial Characteristics in MSP Search System -- Replica Management in Object-Based Systems -- Intelligence in Information Society -- The Internet Group Tour via a Shared Web Browser -- Computer-Supported Online Proofreading in Collaborative Writing -- Design of Satellite-Based Multimedia Content Distribution Systems and Metrics for Systems Evaluation -- Incremental Document Clustering for Web Page Classification -- Integration of Multiple Tailoring Interfaces in Compositional Web Applications -- A Petri Nets Approach to Behavior Testing of SET Payment -- Electronic Commerce Transactions in a Mobile Computing Environment -- Control of Golf Swing Robot by Learning - Generation of Optimal Trajectory for Real System- -- A Novel Obstacle Avoidance Control Scheme for Hyper-Redundant Manipulators -- Estimation of Mass and Center of Mass of Unknown Curved-Surface Object Using Passing-C.M. Lines -- Sound and Visual Tracking by Active Audition -- Speech Enhancement and Segregation Based on Human Auditory Mechanisms -- Integration of Spatial Localization Cues - Auditory Processing for a Hearing Robot - -- Muilticountry Modelling for the Japan Sea Rim Economic Relations -- State-Owned Enterprises and Their Contract with Government in China: An Econometric Analysis -- Evolution of Cooperation in a Situation with a Risk: a Closed Society versus an Open Society -- Effect on Spectral Properties by the Splitting Correction Preconditioning for Linear Systems that Arise from Periodic Boundary Problems -- Statistical Disclosure Control Based on Random Uncertainty Intervals -- Knowledge Management System for Information System Design and Implementation Education -- Learning Strategies for Information Systems Students -- Do-It-Yourself Electronic Lectures in Microsoft Powerpoint -- An Overview of an Interactive and Personalized Multimedia Tele-Education Environment over a Gigabit Network -- "Interactive Multimedia Education at a Distance- Linear Algebra (IMED-LA)": Its Present Status and Special Features of Its Content -- Distributed Multimedia Presentation with Floor Control Mechanisms in a Distance Learning System -- Modelling Distant Learning Activities by Agent Task Coalitions -- Tightly Coupled Multiprocessing: The Super Processor Architecture -- A Mathematical Theory of NMR Quantum Computations -- Quantum Computa Using Artificial Molecules -- Agent-SE: A Methodology for Agent Oriented Software Engineering -- Promoting Wearable Computing.