Datamanagementsystemsforlargeapplicationsseekinfrastructuralsupport fromdatabasesystemsanddistributedcomputingsystems. Thesesystems- provewiththechangingrequirementsofapplications. Newresearche?ortsare
beingmadetosupportelectroniccommerce(EC)applications,andvoluminous datahandlingapplications. Atthesametime,supporttechniquesarebeingst- iedindataminingandknowledgediscovery,object-relationaldatabasemana-
mentsystems,andmobilecomputingsystems. Theinternationalworkshopon DatabasesinNetworkedInformationSystems(DNIS)2000hasbeenorganized toemphasizetheresearchactivityonsupportsystems.
DNIS2000isbeingheldon4-6December2000attheUniversityofAizuin Japan. Theworkshopprogramincludesresearchcontributionsandinvitedc- tributions. Aviewofresearchactivityinevolvingdatamanagementsystemsand
relatedresearchissueshasbeenprovidedbythesessiononthistopic. Theinvited contributionshavebeencontributedbyDr. QimingChen,Dr. UmeshwarDayal, andDr. MeichunHsu,andbyMasaruKitsuregawa,TakahikoShintani,Takeshi
Yoshizawa,andIkoPramudiono. Theworkshopsessionondatabasesystems- cludescontributedpapersbyDr. JayantR. HaritsaandbyProfessorDivyakant AgrawalandDr. AmrElAbbadi. Thesessiononnetworkedinformationsystems
includestheinvitedcontributionbyProfessorKrithiRamamritham,Pavan- olasee,AmolKatkar,AnkurPanchbudhe,andPrashantShenoy. Iwouldliketothankthemembersoftheprogramcommitteefortheirs-
portandallauthorswhoconsideredDNIS2000inmakingresearchcontributions. Thesponsoringorganizationsandtheorganizingcommitteedeservepraise forthesupporttheyprovided. Anumberofindividualshavecontributedtothe successoftheworkshop.
IthankProfessorP. C. P. Bhatt,ProfessorJ. Biskup, Dr. CarlW. Vilbrand,andProfessorM. Kitsuregawa,forprovidingcontinuous supportandencouragement. IhavereceivedinvaluablesupportfromtheUniversityofAizu. Professor
ShoichiNoguchi,President,providedencouragementandtookinterestinthe formationoftheplan. IthankProfessorShunjiMori,HeadofDepartmentof ComputerSoftware,formakingthesupportavailable. Iexpressmygratitudeto
themembersandchairmanoftheInternationalA?airsCommitteeforsuppo- ingtheworkshopproposal. Ialsothankallmycolleaguesattheuniversityfor theircooperationandsupport. September2000 SubhashBhalla VI Organization Organization
DNIS2000internationalworkshopisorganizedbytheDatabaseSystemsLa- ratory,UniversityofAizu,Aizu-WakamatsuCity,Fukushima,Japan. ExecutiveCommittee ProgramChair: S. Bhalla,UniversityofAizu,Japan OrganizingChair:
QunJin,UniversityofAizu,Japan ExecutiveChair: N. Bianchi-Berthouze,Universityof Aizu,Japan ProgramCommittee D. Agrawal,UniversityofCalifornia,USA F. Andres,NationalCenterforScienceInformationSystems,Japan A.
Basu,VanderbiltUniversity,USA S. Bhalla,UniversityofAizu,Japan P. C. P. Bhatt,KochiTechnicalUniversity,Japan J. Biskup,UniversityofDortmund,Germany U. Dayal,Hewlett-PackardLaboratories,USA S. Grumbach,INRIA,France O.
Hammami,UniversityofAizu,Japan J. R. Haritsa,IndianInstituteofScience,India S. Jajodia,GeorgeMasonUniversity,USA Q. Jin,UniversityofAizu,Japan M. Kitsuregawa,UniversityofTokyo,Japan A. Kumar,UniversityofColorado,USA J.
Li,UniversityofTsukuba,Japan S. K. Madria,PurdueUniversity,USA G. Mans?eld,TohokuUniversity,Japan P. K. Reddy,UniversityofTokyo,Japan M. V. Sreenivas,SylantroSystems,USA N. Terashima,WasedaUniversity,Japan AdditionalReviewers
LawrenceMutenda,InstituteofIndustrialSciences,UniversityofTokyo,Japan TadashiOhmori,UniversityofElectro-Communications,Chofu,Japan SponsoringInstitution InternationalA?airsCommittee,UniversityofAizu,
Aizu-WakamatsuCity,Fukushima
