This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management, WAIM 2004, held in Dalian, China in July 2004. The 57 revised full papers and 23 revised short and industrial papers presented together with 3 invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 291 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on data stream processing, time series data processing, security, mobile computing, cache management, query evaluation, Web search engines, XML, Web services, classification, and data mining.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management, WAIM 2003, held in Chengdu, China in August 2003. The 30 revised full papers and 16 revised short papers presented together with 2 invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 258 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Web; XML; text management; data mining; bioinformatics; peer-to-peer systems; service networks; time series, similarity, and ontologies; information filtering; queries and optimization; multimedia and views; and systems demonstrations.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Web-Age Information Management, WAIM 2001, held in Xi'an, China, in July 2001. The 21 revised full papers and 12 short papers presented together with 4 research experience papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the proceedings. The papers are organized in topical sections on multimedia databases and high-dimensional indexing, information retrieval and text indexing, data mining, semistructured data management, data warehousing and federated databases, Web information management and e-commerce, spatio-temporal and high-dimensional information management, data mining and constraint management, data integration and filtering, and workflow and adaptive systems.

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.

Contains the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management, WAIM 2006. The papers are organized in topical sections on, indexing, XML query processing, information retrieval, sensor networks and grid computing, peer-to-peer systems, Web services, Web searching, caching and moving objects, clustering, and more. This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management, WAIM 2006, held in Hong Kong, China in June 2006. The 50 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 290 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on, indexing, XML query processing, information retrieval, sensor networks and grid computing, peer-to-peer systems, Web services, Web searching, caching and moving objects, temporal database, clustering, clustering and classification, data mining, data stream processing, XML and semistructured data, data distribution and query processing, and advanced applications

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Web-Age Information Management, WAIM 2002 held in Beijing, China in August 2002. The 40 papers presented together with two system demonstrations were carefully reviewed and selected from 169 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on XML; spatio-temporal databases; data mining and learning; XML and web; workflows and e-services; bio informatics, views, and OLAP; clustering and high-dimensional data; web search; optimization and updates; and transactions and multimedia.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of six workshops of the 14th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management, WAIM 2013, held in Beidaihe, China, June 2013. The 37 revised full papers are organized in topical sections on the six following workshops: The International Workshop on Big Data Management on Emerging Hardware (HardBD 2013), the Second International Workshop on Massive Data Storage and Processing (MDSP 2013), the First International Workshop on Emergency Management in Big Data Age (BigEM 2013), the International Workshop on Trajectory Mining in Social Networks (TMSN 2013), the First International Workshop on Location-based Query Processing in Mobile Environments (LQPM 2013), and the First International Workshop on Big Data Management and Service (BDMS 2013).