Papers from a May 2000 conference address topics including agent technology, collaborative research, digital library testbed systems, document models, economic issues, and human-computer interactions. Other subjects are intellectual property and security, knowledge representation, meta-information, publishing, semantic and systems interoperability, and telecommunications and networking. Some specific topics include using regular tree automata as XML schemas, morphing towards interoperable catalogues, and clustering and identifying temporal trends in document databases. Lacks a subject index. The editor is affiliated with Tilburg University.
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This volume constitutes the proceedings of the IEEE Advances in Digital Libraries 2000 conference. The papers cover: digital library systems; human computer interaction; knowledge representation and security; semantic and systems inoperability; document models; and statistical filtering.