Second International Workshop on
Cooperative Internet Computing
(CIC 2002)

CIC 2002 is in its second time running. This time round, the workshop is organized in conjunction with the VLDB 2002 conference to be held in Hong Kong, the heart of Asia. The workshop is organized with strong focus on applying and leveraging Internet and web technology to support cooperative computing. Cooperative computing is an important computing paradigm to enable different parties to work together towards a pre-defined non-trivial goal. It encompasses important technological areas like computer supported cooperative work, workflow, computer assisted design, databases, and concurrent programming. Recently, the Internet has brought about a revolutionary change in providing a unified transport infrastructure for cooperative networking. In particular, remote computers can now readily participate in a distributed computation, under the framework of Internet computing. With such a framework, users are able to seamlessly communicate and interact with each other across geographically separated locations. As technologies continue to advance and evolve, there is an increasing need to research and develop new classes of middleware and applications to leverage on the combined benefits of Internet and web to provide users and programmers with highly interactive and robust cooperative computing environment. We envision the Cooperative Internet Computing paradigm to become the de facto approach to cooperative computing in the years to come. We are therefore delighted to organize this workshop to bring together researchers in all the enabling technologies towards cooperative Internet computing. Through active collaboration and exchange of ideas, we anticipate participants to bring out new research elements, and seek their application towards this interesting and exciting area.