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Proceedings of the 10th international conference on World Wide Web table of contents

Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Pages: 386 - 395

Year of Publication: 2001

ISBN:1-58113-348-0

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Zonghuan Wu	Department of Computer Science, SUNY at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY
Weiyi Meng	Department of Computer Science, SUNY at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY
Clement Yu	Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
Zhuogang Li	Department of Computer Science, SUNY at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY

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SIGWEB: ACM Special Interest Group on Hypertext, Hypermedia, and Web
SIGLINK: Hypertext, Hypermedia, and Web
IW3C2 : International World Wide Web Conference Committee

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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