The rapid growth in Internet, WWW and Intranet systems demands an increased sophistication in established information services, engineeering techniques and methods to improve the development of information services in a World Wide Web environment. The book addresses key, state-of-the-art developments in IS, focusing on such topics as the impact of WWW on organization structures and strategies; techniques for developing new information services, information systems based on multimedia and hypermedia; information filtering, mobile information systems; Intranet applications; security of information systems; and other related areas.