The Internet Challenge: Technology and Applications Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop held at the TU Berlin, Germany, October 8th–9th, 2002

The International Workshop on "The Internet Challenge: Technology and Applications" is the fifth in a successful series of workshops that were established by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Technische Universitat Berlin. The goal of those workshops is to bring together researchers from both universities in order to exchange research results achieved in common projects of the two partner universities or to present interesting new work that might lead to new cooperation. The series of workshops started in 1990 with the "International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence" and was continued with the "International Workshop on Advanced Software Technology" in 1994. Both workshops have been hosted by Shanghai Jiao Tong University. In 1998 the third workshop took place in Berlin. This "International Workshop on Communication Based Systems" was essentially based on results from the Graduiertenkolleg on Communication Based systems that was funded by the German Research Society (DFG) from 1991 to 2000. The fourth "International Workshop on Robotics and its Applications" was held in Shanghai in 2000 supported by VDIIVDE-GMA and GI.

An Internet Based Multilingual Investment Information Extraction System.- An Intelligent Search Engine Using Improved Web Hyperlink Mining Algorithm.- Data Analysis Center based on E-Learning Platform.- Correcting Word Segmentation and Part-of-Speech Tagging Errors for Chinese Named Entity Recognition.- Implementation of Visible Signature.- Internet-Based Robotic Workcell Calibration and Maintenance.- Towards Multi-Modal Mobile Telepresence and Telemanipulation.- Haptic Internet-Telepresence.- A Simulation Framework for Supply Chain Management in an E-Business Environment.- Performance Comparison of 802.11b WLAN Transmission Modes.- Buffer Design in Delta Networks.- Architectures for Advance Reservations in the Internet.- Performance Prediction of Java Programs for Metacomputing.- A Coordination Model to Establish Electronic Commerce Policies.- Towards an Internet-Based Marketplace for Software Components.- M-SCTP: Design and Prototypical Implementation of an SCTP-Based, End-to-End Mobility Concept for IP Networks.- Graph Based Representation of Objects in Image Retrieval.- Spatial Inference and Constraint Solving.