This volume contains a thoroughly refereed collection of revised full papers selected from the presentations at the First East-West International Conference on

In the last few years we have observed an explosive growth of multimedia computing, communication and applications. This revolution is transforming the way peop

Covers the development, design, and utilization of virtual organizations and communities and the resulting impact of these venues.

Hypertext/hypermedia systems and user-model-based adaptive systems in the areas of learning and information retrieval have for a long time been considered as tw