Advances in Information Systems

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Advances in Information Systems, ADVIS 2004, held in Izmir, Turkey in October 2004.The 61 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 203 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on databases and datawarehouses, data mining and knowledge discovery, Web information systems development, information systems development and management, information retrieval, parallel and distributed data processing, multimedia information systems, information privacy and security, evolutionary and knowledge-based systems, software engineering and business process modeling, and network management.