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Annotation Proceedings of the workshop held July, 1999. Sixteen contributions discuss various Internet-related topics, including: high performance common gateway interface invocation; end-to-end management of mixed applications across networks; a shopping assistant agent for web- shops; an intelligent interface agent for Web-based information retrieval; a case study in building Internet travel brokering services; lifetime behavior and its impact on web caching; coordinated placement and replacement for large-scale distributed caches; specification of order and reliability in SMIL documents; smart multimedia file objects; stochastic voting protocol to protect voters' privacy; an automated fault diagnosis system using hierarchical reasoning and alarm correlation; and others. Contains an author index only. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.