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Editors and Affiliations
School of ITEE, The University of Queensland, Australia
Xiaofang Zhou
Database Systems Research and Development Center, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
Stanley Su
INFOLAB, Dept. of Information Systems and Management, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Mike P. Papazoglou
Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Faculty of IT, Warsaw, Poland
Maria Elzbieta Orlowska
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Science and Technology Facilities Council, Didcot, UK
Keith Jeffery
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Web Information Systems -- WISE 2004
Book Subtitle: 5th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, Brisbane, Australia, November 22-24, 2004, Proceedings
Editors: Xiaofang Zhou, Stanley Su, Mike P. Papazoglou, Maria Elzbieta Orlowska, Keith Jeffery