Worldwide Computing and Its Applications — WWCA'98 [electronic resource] : Second International Conference Tsukuba, Japan, March 4–5, 1998 Proceedings / edited by Yoshifumi Masunaga, Takuya Katayama, Michiharu Tsukamoto.

WWC and the hyper information age -- Global high performance research network: An Asia-Pacific perspective -- Java applications and implementations -- Back to home: Where computers and networking should go -- ObjectSpace voyager — The agent ORB for Java -- Worldwide component scripting with the Planet mobile object system -- Scalability in object-oriented distributed systems environment OZ -- Rapide: A language and toolset for causal event modelling of distributed system architectures -- An architecture of software commerce broker over the internet -- Distributed process management system based on object-centered process modeling -- Systems software for multimedia computing -- Environment server: A system support for adaptive distributed applications -- Compiler-generated protection domains and a light weight runtime protection technique -- Complete computing -- Compact and flexible resolution of CBT multicast key-distribution -- Integrating resource reservation with rate-based transport protocols in AMInet -- Experiences with a mobile testbed -- Design and implementation of mobile IP system with security consideration -- A network architecture for continuous mobility -- Towards internationalized Web creation -- ISCM information system conceptual model oriented to security problems and a tool implementing it -- Design of EDI security MIB based on SNMP protocol -- The block-world data model for a collaborative virtual environment -- CyPhone — mobile multimodal personal augmented reality -- On business intelligence systems -- Supporting collaboration through teleproximity -- A home office system based on a virtual shared room: An environment corresponding to degree of concentration -- Electronic binder system: Promotion of an ISO9001-based quality system using the WWW and experience from its application -- Update monitoring: The CQ project -- dLIMIT — A middleware framework for loosely-coupled database federations -- Autonomic buffer control of web proxy server -- Getting users' attributes without violating anonymity -- Bayanihan: Web-based volunteer computing using Java -- Architecture of a user interface module for structured internet messages.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Worldwide Computing and Its Applications, WWCA'98, held in Tsukuba, Japan, in March 1998. This volume presents 14 invited and survey papers together with 20 papers selected by the conference committee. The volume is divided into topical sections on distributed objects, distributed componentware, distributed systems platforms, Internet technology, mobile computing, interculture technology, collaborative media, collaborative support, information discovery and retrieval, novel network applications.