Emerging Technologies Track

The goal of this track is to provide a forum for discussing the development, implementation, and application of emerging technologies. This year the track consists of four minitracks that explore special features of a number of emerging and timely fields.The minitrack on E-Government deals with a variety of key issues in the relations between government and citizens or business and between different national governments and international organizations. The minitrack on Standardization of Information Technology provides a forum that brings greater awareness of the problems and issues surrounding standardization and suggests solutions. Two minitracks address issues related to Human Computer Interaction (HCI). The minitrack Waiting for the Web tries to answer the question: How can system designers ensure that WWW resources are configured and managed to meet users needs? The minitrack Non-traditional Computer Support for User Evaluation addresses the need for additional and non-traditional measures of performance for evaluating the anticipated progress people make as they use interactive computer systems.We wish to express our thanks and appreciation to all the people who have worked so hard to make this part of the conference a success and this compendium of formal papers a part of the literature. The minitrack chairs must exercise creativity, reliability, and dogged perseverance to bring all the loose ends together at the right time. What results from this process are papers that describe established research projects as well as new developments in the field. On the following pages, the chairs of each minitrack provide a brief summary and overview of the papers in their introduction to the minitrack. We would like to extend our special thanks to the many reviewers who provided valuable insight and comments.