Technologies for E-services

The2002VLDBworkshoponTechnologiesforE-Services(VLDB-TES02)is the third workshop in a series of annual workshops endorsed by the VLDB Conference. Itservesasaforumfortheexchangeofideas,resultsandexperience intheareaofe-commerceande-business. VLDB-TES02tookplaceinHongKong,China. Itfeaturedthepresentation of14regularpapers,focusedonmajoraspectsofe-businesssolutions. Inad- tion,theworkshopinvited?veindustrialspeakerstosharetheirvision,insight, andexperiencewiththeaudience. Theworkshopwouldnothavebeenasuccesswithouthelpfrommanyp- ple. SpecialthanksgotoFabioCasati,whorecruitedtheworld-classspeakers from various e-business ?elds, Ludger Fiege who served as the publicity and publicationchair,andEleanaKafeza,whoorganizedandplannedthelocal- rangements. We also thank the authors for submitting their papers and the membersoftheprogramcommitteeandexternalreviewersfortheirthorough work,whichgreatlycontributedtothequalityofthe?nalprogram.^ Wehopethattheparticipantsfoundtheworkshopinterestingandstimul- ing,andwethankthemforattendingandforcontributingtothediscussions. Juli2002 Ming-ChienShan Mei-ChunHsu AlejandroBuchmann Organization WorkshopO?cers GeneralChair Ming-ChienShan,Hewlett-Packard shan@hp