Dear Author: Congratulations on the acceptance of your paper for publication in the post-proceedings of the First International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE'00), scheduled to be held June 19-20, 2000, in Hong Kong. More information about the conference may be found through: http://www.cs.cityu.edu.hk/~wise2000/ Please send your paper as a postscript or pdf file via ftp to the following ftp site: ftp://ftp.computer.org pub/ incoming/ proceedings/ wise00/ When transferring files to the FTP site, if you have a choice between ASCII and binary modes, use binary. Although ASCII mode works well most of the time, binary mode incurs fewer problems. Please prepare your U.S. Letter-size(8.5" x 11") paper as plain ASCII PostScript only, with NO encoding, condensing, or encapsulation. Please use TrueType 1 fonts wherever possible. Fonts MUST be from Latin 1 Fontset. Our PostScript printers will not recognize any other fonts. Do not use bitmapped versions of fonts such as Computer Modern if you can avoid it. Guidelines for generating and submitting PostScript files are available on our Internet site at: http://computer.org/author/psguide.htm IMPORTANT NOTE: YOUR PAPER DUE DATE IS JUNE 9, 2000 (9:00am PST). THIS IS THE CORRECT DATE. YOUR PAPER PAGE LIMIT IS FIVE (5) PAGES. You may purchase a maximum of one (1) extra page. Please make inquiries to the conference for details. IMPORTANT NOTE: Please use the paper number assigned to you by the conference when naming and sending your file to the conference web site, followed by your last name, as for example, the filename for paper 22 would be <22_smith.ps> IMPORTANT NOTE: Please do not use any of the Ryumin, Nimbus, or BBB-Gothic fonts in your paper. These fonts must not be used in your text, figures, tables, graphs, etc. We do not have these fonts, and, error messages will result if these fonts are present in your paper. Consequently, your paper will not print. This may cause your paper not to be published if these fonts are used. Thank you. Fax your signed IEEE Copyright Release form to: Bob Werner, WISE'00, +1-714-761-1784. The copyright release form is appended below, in text or pdf; please use whichever is convenient for you. WE CANNOT PUBLISH YOUR PAPER WITHOUT THIS SIGNED FORM. Attached to this message is a set of electronic instructions for formatting your paper. PLEASE READ AND FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY! If attached files become unusable during transmission for any reason, you may also access uncustomized copies of them at our FTP site. Available at: ftp://ftp.computer.org/pub/outgoing/cspress/proceedings/ ELECTRONIC ABSTRACT of your paper - Only e-mailed abstracts will be accepted. Send your abstract to: wise00-abs@computer.org. Note: as it takes some time to set up this account, please do not send the abstract before the paper due date. Allow at least 2 weeks after the paper due date to send your abstract. REPRINTS - Print out the electronic form in the attachment and use it if you wish to order reprints. Thank you, Bob Werner IEEE Computer Society 10662 Los Vaqueros Circle Los Alamitos, CA 90720 USA Ph: +1-714-821-8380 Fax: +1-714-761-1784 Are you a member of the IEEE Computer Society? For membership information, visit http://computer.org/join