1. WWCA 1997: Tsukuba, Japan
Takashi Masuda, Yoshifumi Masunaga, Michiharu Tsukamoto (Eds.): Worldwide Computing and Its Applications, International Conference, WWCA '97, Tsukuba, Japan, March 10-11, 1997, Proceedings. Springer 1997 Lecture Notes in Computer Science ISBN 3-540-63343-X
Keynotes
Ken Urquhart: Java and the Emerging Technology. 1-6
Theodor Holm Nelson: Transcopyright: A Simple Legal Arrangement for Sharing, Re-use, and Republication of Copyrighted Material on the Net. 7-14
Distributed Programming Languages/Systems
Kenneth P. Birman: Building Secure and Reliable Network Applications. 15-28
Hirano Satoshi: HORB: Distributed Execution of Java Programs. 29-42
Munehiro Fukuda, Lubomir Bic, Michael B. Dillencourt: Performance of the MESSENGERS Autonomous-Objects-Based System. 43-57
Distributed Objects Environments
Kurt C. Wallnau, Edwin J. Morris, Peter H. Feiler, Anthony N. Earl, Emile Litvak: Engineering Component-Based Systems with Distributed Object Technology. 58-73
Toshihiro Nishioka, Yoichi Hamazaki, Michiharu Tsukamoto: Local Class Name Space Facility for Worldwide Object-Oriented Distributed Systems Environment. 74-89
Lidia Fuentes, José M. Troya: A Component-Oriented Architecture to Design Multimedia Services on a Distributed Platform. 90-105
Cooperative Computation
Lawrence Cavedon, Anand S. Rao, Liz Sonenberg, Gil Tidhar: Teamwork via Team Plans in Intelligent Autonomous Agent Systems. 106-121
Hiromi Mizuno, Hideyuki Fukuoka: WISH: A Web Information Sharing System Accessible via the WWW. 122-132
Hideyuki Nakashima: Organic Programming for Cooperative Computation. 133-141
Collaboration Support Systems
Jonathan Grudin, Leysia Palen: Emerging Groupware Successes in Major Corporations: Studies of Adoption and Adaptation. 142-153
Toshihiko Yamakami: An Approach Toward Fits Evaluation Between Organizational Culture and Groupware. 154-165
Kunihiko Fujita, Susumu Kunifuji: A Realization of a Reflection of Personal Information Brainstorming Environment. 166-181
Collaborative Media
Wen-Syan Li, K. Selçuk Candan, Kyoji Hirata, Yoshinori Hara: A Hybrid Approach to Multimedia Database Systems through Integration of Semantics and Media-based Search. 182-197
Rudolf Bayer: The Universal B-Tree for Multidimensional Indexing: general Concepts. 198-209
Masaki Kamiura, Hiroaki Oiso, Keishi Tajima, Katsumi Tanaka: Spatial Views and LOD-Based Access Control in VRML-object Databases. 210-225
Novel Distributed Applications
Paul Messina: Metacomputing and Data-Intensive Applications. 226-236
Shojiro Nishio, Masahiko Tsukamoto: Architectural Issues of Database Systems in Advanced Computer Networks. 237-252
Danny B. Lange, Mitsuru Oshima, Günter Karjoth, Kazuya Kosaka: Aglets: Programming Mobile Agents in Java. 253-266
Internet and Protocols
Suguru Yamaguchi, Ken-ichi Chinen, Hiroyuki Inoue: WWW Cache Management and Its International Deployment: Challenges in the AI3 Project. 267-280
Glenn Mansfield, Elias Procópio Duarte Jr., Masako Kithashi, Shoichi Noguchi: VINES: Distributed Algorithms for a Web-Based Distributed Network Management System. 281-293
Pavlin Ivanovv Radoslavav, Takehiro Tokuda: An Algorithm for Cost-Delay Balanced Trees and Its Application to Wide Area Network Multicast. 294-308
Distributed System Platform
Bob Kummerfeld: Server Initiated Delivery of Multimedia Information. 309-317
Satoshi Moriai, Hideyuki Tokuda: Dynamic Loadable Object Support for Real-Time Mach Kernels. 318-333
Masaaki Iwasaki, Tadashi Takeuchi, Masahiko Nakahara, Shouji Nakamura, Takahiro Nakano, Kazuyoshi Serizawa, Shihoko Taguchi: A Micro-kernel for Isochronous Video-Data Transfer. 334-349
Mobile Computing
Eric G. Manning, Shahadat Khan, Rodger Lea, Gholamali C. Shoja, Michael M. J. Zastre: Metaspaces and Mobile Computing: Promises and Challenges. 350-362
Budiarto, Kaname Harumoto, Masahiko Tsukamoto, Shojiro Nishio: Position Locking: Handling Location Dependent Queries in Mobile Computing Environment. 363-378
Akihiro Hokimoto, Tatsuo Nakajima: Robust Hist Mobility Supports for Adaptive Mobile Applications. 379-393
Application Gateways
Masato Terada, Yuko Murayama, Glenn Mansfield: Access Control for Inter-Organizational Computer Network Environment. 394-409
Yasushi Shinjo: The World Wide Shell Based on the Object-Stacking Model. 410-425



